AAA commentator Hugo Savinovich has made it clear that he’s no fan of WWE’s current Spanish commentary team, nor the efforts coming from AEW.
Recently, AEW President Tony Khan cited the Lucha Blog outlet as an influence on his booking, leading to a response from Savinovich on the “K100” podcast. He said,
“This is so ridiculous. For an aficionado, Lucha Blog, it’s okay, it’s like English 101, Spanish 101. But what upsets me, that’s why you have WWE and AEW having the worst Spanish broadcasting. I can say it, not just because I work for AAA… So when Tony Khan says that he learned — I don’t care whoever said it — just having a man who owns an NFL team, owns AEW, and has a team in England of soccer, it scares me that he would take Lucha Blog as a source of understanding first, the culture.
“I’m Spanish, but it took me two years and listening to Konnan because he was the star there and then he did the transition into a creative mind. He’s done wrestling all over the world, English, Spanish, you have to learn it. I’m still learning the culture of lucha and I will keep learning because that’s the way you have to do business. That’s why WWE and AEW have such a sh***y Spanish industry because they don’t know what the heck they’re doing. They think if you can speak Spanish, you can go on a headset and talk. But it’s an insult.”
Speaking about working with Khan for AEW’s two first pay-per-views, Savinovich said the AEW President was nice, but business-wise, he shouldn’t be relying on Lucha Blog.
