AAA reveals opponent for El Grande Americano debut
El Grande Americano now has an opponent for his Lucha Libre AAA debut.
AAA has announced that Americano vs. Octagon Jr. will take place at the promotion’s event in Mexico City on Friday, July 25. The show is being held at Juan de la Barrera Olympic Gymnasium and is a taping for future episodes of AAA television that will be broadcast in Mexico.
Though the Americano character was originally introduced by WWE as another persona for Chad Gable, it is now Ludwig Kaiser who is performing under the mask. The switch was made after Gable suffered a shoulder injury and needed to undergo surgery. Kaiser has wrestled one match as Americano, defeating Dragon Lee on the July 7 episode of Raw.
Octagon Jr. wrestled at WWE & AAA’s Worlds Collide event last month and then made his official WWE debut at Money in the Bank later that night, losing to Intercontinental Champion Dominik Mysterio.
WWE’s acquisition of AAA is in the process of being finalized with the deal expected to be completed at some point between now and the end of September.
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