{"id":163748,"date":"2026-06-29T19:08:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=163748"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:09:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:09:26","slug":"wwe-and-aaa-crossover-to-expand-more-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/06\/29\/wwe-and-aaa-crossover-to-expand-more-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE and AAA Crossover to Expand More This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is looking like Lucha Libre AAA and the three WWE brands are expected to have many crossovers this summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Things kicked off on this past Saturday\u2019s edition of Lucha Libre AAA, where Lola Vice would successfully defend her NXT Women\u2019s Championship against La Hiedra. But it seems that this was only the beginning of more to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>AAA\/WWE Crossover in Full Swing<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As announced at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/06\/27\/wwe-nxt-preview-6-28-26-the-great-american-bash\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">WWE NXT: The Great American Bash<\/a>, there will be two AAA vs. NXT matches on this Tuesday\u2019s episode of NXT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first will be Brad Baylor and Ricky Smokes of the Vanity Project putting their NXT Tag Team Championships on the line against AAA\u2019s El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. and his brother, Galeno del Mal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second AAA vs. NXT match announced for this Tuesday\u2019s episode is AAA\u2019s El Hijo del Vikingo defending his AAA Latin American Championship against EK Prosper. This title defense will be Vikingo\u2019s first defense of the title since he won the belt against El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. at AAA Noche de Los Grandes last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_163319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163319\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/06\/11-25.webp\" alt=\"Official Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide logo.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"747\" class=\"size-full wp-image-163319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/06\/11-25.webp 1200w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/06\/11-25-768x478.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-163319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The official Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide Logo. (Photo Credit: WWE\/AAA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with these two match announcements, it was also announced that on Sunday, August 30th, there will be a double taping of Lucha Libre AAA and the NXT Heatwave PLE at the Bert Ogden Arena in Edinburg, Texas. With AAA and NXT being held in the same arena on that day, it would not be surprising if Heatwave were to feature a lot of crossover with the AAA wrestlers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/shows\/aaa\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AAA<\/a> General Manager Rey Mysterio announced two weeks ago, AAA plans to ramp up partnerships with Monday Night Raw, Friday Night SmackDown, and NXT and increase collaboration with those brands, with wrestlers crossing over between the four shows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The stronger relationship between AAA and the Friday Night SmackDown brand was also shown on this past week\u2019s edition of Friday Night SmackDown, as Rey Fenix successfully defended his AAA World Cruiserweight Championship against Nathan Frazer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While there has been some crossover between AAA and WWE in the last year, it seems that WWE will be going all in with them, as they attempt to expand the growth and popularity of the Lucha Libre AAA subsidiary in the United States over the summer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will be interesting to see how WWE incorporates the Lucha Libre AAA subsidiary more with the rest of the WWE world over the summer, as things also continue to build and ramp up for AAA\u2019s two-night Triplemania, which will be coming up on Friday, September 11th, in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Sunday, September 13th, in Mexico City, Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While it has been announced that the AAA Mega Championship match will be exclusive to Night Two of Triplemania 34 in Mexico City, Night One of the event in Las Vegas might take advantage of the huge crossovers. It could build to be another exciting Worlds Collide-type of event, much like WWE and AAA had last year, with both of those events in June and September.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"j9jMI3U0xY\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/06\/23\/how-to-watch-wwe\/\" target=\"_self\">How to Watch WWE In Every Country It&#8217;s Available (UPDATED &#8211; June 27, 2026)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;How to Watch WWE In Every Country It&#8217;s Available (UPDATED &#8211; June 27, 2026)&#8221; &#8212; Last Word On Pro Wrestling\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2026\/06\/23\/how-to-watch-wwe\/embed\/#?secret=jVA9dEpMKJ#?secret=j9jMI3U0xY\" data-secret=\"j9jMI3U0xY\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lucha Libre and American wrestling crossovers over the last year between WWE and AAA, as well as the partnership between AEW and CMLL, have been shown to be really successful. It is not surprising to see that there will be more emphasis on expanding the popularity of a style that is as legendary as the wrestling style of lucha libre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With many big events, such as Saturday Night\u2019s Main Event in Madison Square Garden, Verano de Escandalo, and SummerSlam coming up, it would not be surprising to see the crossovers increase to build up each of these big shows over the next month, as well as on Raw, SmackDown, and NXT.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_163320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163320\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/06\/22-9.webp\" alt=\"Official AAA Lucha Libre Worldwide logo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-163320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/06\/22-9.webp 800w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/06\/22-9-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-163320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The official AAA Lucha Libre Worldwide Logo. 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