The owner and president of AEW y ROHTony Khan, has surprised to remember one of the worst moments in his history as a struggle programmer. The betrayal of the then Mexican wrestling company, AAA. This was revealed in a recent interview with the video podcast Q101.
And, remember, on Wednesday, December 28, 2022, during the AAA PPV called AAA Double Anniversary XXX – Night of Champions, a very interesting fight was made, where Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood, representing AEW, lost the championship AAA World Cup before the Lee brothers, Dragon Lee and Dralistic.
► Tony Khan Remember the betrayal of AAA a AEW And how he began to suspect the purchase of WWE
However, the really interesting came just after, as Dragon Lee announced to the public that he had signed a contract with WWE And he left soon. WWE published the video in all his social networks and went viral, not only for the news, but because Dragon Lee had the AAA World Couples Championship that still had the representative plates of FTR, so everyone saw him as a victory of a fighter Already under WWE contract before two fighters with a contract with AEW.
In this recent interview, Khan explained that things were done very controversially that day, then, originally, Rush was going to fight, and not Dragon Lee. But, he analyzed and knew that this “treacherous movement” of AAA was because there was something cooking with WWE, which turned out to be the purchase of the Mexican company by Tko. These were his words when asked what he thinks about the purchase from AAA by WWE/TKO and its relationship with the CMLL:
«It's great, it's really great. We started working with CMLL in 2023, and things have improved a lot for us. I have an excellent relationship with Salvador, and frankly, that does not surprise me. In fact, I had been waiting for it from the way Dragon Lee's signature was announced on December 30, 2022.
«Since then I thought: 'Ok, I think it is very likely that this will go like this', because that was a big surprise for me. It wasn't like that, you know, FTr were there and they saw WWE's cameras and said: 'Ok, something happens.' Actually, I had not approved that.
«Well, what we had agreed was that FTR would go to fight Rush and Dralistic, and then, during the day, something happened and Dragon Lee ended up involved. I was in Denver doing a show that day, I remember that I was with Samoa Joe, Samoa Joe had a fight that night. It was December 30, 2022, I spoke with FTR and they told me: 'Something weird here is happening.'
«And just after Aew Dynamite ended, that fight ended in Mexico and announced that Dragon Lee signed with WWE and still had the name of FTR in the championship. So they crossed me, they betrayed me, and that is something that would never happen today. Those things don't happen anymore.
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«Salvador Lutteroth Lomelí and I are like brothers. I have a very close relationship with him. I don't think he would betray me that way, and I would never betray him. If we wanted to do something in a show, we would talk to us. We would not be making substitutions, or changing things at the last minute, or changing the side in the middle of the event ».
