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​AAA’s Executive Vice President Reacts To Alberto Del Rio’s Return To WWE, His AAA Departure, More

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In an interview with Sam Roberts’ Wrestling Podcast, AAA’s Executive Vice President of Business Development and Lucha Underground Founder, Dorian Roldan Peña, spoke about Alberto Del Rio leaving AAA for the WWE. Here are highlights:

On Del Rio’s departure from AAA: “[Del Rio] was our champion and we were in negotiations and after that WWE arrives to the table and you cannot compete with a company like WWE when you’re talking about that amount of money. We were closing his [new] deal in Mexico and he was just finishing his deal in Lucha Underground, so the timing for him was perfect [for him] to do whatever he wants. And he had this offer from WWE. [It] was a really good offer. I think he [made] a smart decision.”

On Del Rio wanting to finish the year with AAA: “We were trying to figure out with Alberto if we can have [him] for the next two shows. We asked Alberto if he can work with us until the end of the year, for two or three more shows that we have on television, and he was like, ‘I think, yes. Let me ask the WWE.’ And the answer was, ‘no, I can’t.’”

On making adjustments to avoid this situation in the future: “I think that there are two expenses that you cannot cut in your company, and [it is] even more [true] in a [professional] wrestling company: [accountants] and the lawyers. [They are] the two most important things in a wrestling company. Right now, for example, with the legal department that we have in Mexico and that we have in the United States, of course, we are trying to protect all of our talent and I think we are not the only ones. If you are going to invest in your talent and young talent, the thing you want to do is to be really protective. And, of course, if they have a better opportunity, they are [free] to take it, so I think the only thing you want is in soccer or another sport, if you want to take one of our talent, come and tell us.”

On the death of Perro Aguayo: “I don’t like to throw out bad answers about things, but, for example, the thing about Perro Aguayo, it was an accident. It happened in an indy show. It was the only show in Mexico that wasn’t promoted by AAA with Rey Mysterio. It was the first show, so when Perro called us to tell us that he wants to have this fight with Rey Mysterio because he was the first fight of Rey Mysterio in Mexico, we were like, ‘you can do it!’ We weren’t expecting to have an accident like that. It’s something really tragic and something that you don’t know how to handle. We had this conversation with his family and his family understands really well that there are accidents in this business and it [was] a really sad moment. It’s one of the saddest weeks in AAA [history], in all this 23 years.”

On which WWE talent he’d like to have in AAA: “Prince Devitt. I think so.”

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