Announce Team Revealed for AAA TripleManía XXXIII in Mexico City

AAA’s Triplemanía XXXIII will be going down on August 16th and the card’s more or less finalized now. That’s not all, as the commentary team for the upcoming event has been confirmed as well.

While speaking on the Something To Wrestle podcast, JBL revealed that he will be doing commentary with Corey Graves for Triplemanía in Mexico City this weekend. WWE asked him to do it, and Jeremy Borash told him he could share the news.

JBL used to work with AAA before WWE bought the company and didn’t know if he would ever go back. Last week, he got the call asking if he wanted to do commentary, and he said yes right away. He’s excited to work with Graves, who he thinks does a great job, and to see lucha legend Konnan.

“And I’m proud to announce that I’m going down to Mexico City this weekend and I will be doing commentary with Corey Graves for the entire Triplemanía. I may not be your favorite commentator, but, this is the first announcement, this is groundbreaking news. I am going to Mexico City. I just got the deal from WWE — not a deal. They asked me to come out and do commentary. Some of you call that a deal or not. It’s an engagement, it’s an appearance, whatever you want to call it but, I’m very excited to go be a part of Triplemanía.

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I didn’t either (JBL responded when Conrad Thompson said he did not know JBL was back in the commentary game). I got a call and I don’t know who all I can say names about so I don’t want to say names without permission. But I got a call from people down there… text with Jeremy Borash this morning and he said, ‘Go ahead and announce it. It’s fine.’ I got a call last week, said, ‘Would you come down and do commentary?’

And I said, ‘I would absolutely love to,’ and I love Corey. Corey, I think is just fantastic, and moving in the play-by-play chair, he’s done a great job at what he’s done.”

JBL talked about his history with AAA, starting in the early 1990s when he first met Konnan after the first Triplemanía, which had one of the biggest crowds in AAA’s history. He said he respects AAA leaders like Dorian Roldán and the legacy of Antonio Peña. He’s looking forward to going back and said it was an easy choice to accept the invitation.

“Konnan, of course, legend of lucha — he’s a wrestling legend. It’s gonna be a lot of fun down there… I’ve been going down there ever since the early 90s. That’s where I first met Konnan right after the first Triplemanía which he headlined by the way. I think it was the biggest crowd in AAA history down there… I’ve been going down there ever since and so I’ve been working some with AAA.

I love Dorian Roldán down there. I mean, it’s the Antonio Peña, the whole legacy of everything that is AAA, and then, didn’t know if I was coming back, you know, because of the WWE buying AAA, and then they give me a call last week saying, ‘Hey, would you come do commentary for the show?’ And I said — that doesn’t take but a nanosecond. ‘Yes! Yes! Absolutely, I’d love to.’ I can’t wait to be down there.”

This comes after we previously reported that Corey Graves was going to be the lead commentator for the English broadcast of AAA Triplemanía XXXIII on August 16th. Therefore, we’ll have to wait and see how Corey Graves and JBL will perform as the commentary team at the upcoming event, since it’s the first time they’ll be working together in a while.

Are you excited to hear JBL and Corey Graves call the action at Triplemanía, and do you think their chemistry will click right away? Sound off in the comments.