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Updated · Yahoo Sports · May 28
El Grande Feud Draws Millions of Views and AAA Box-Office Gold
Updated
Updated · Yahoo Sports · May 28

El Grande Feud Draws Millions of Views and AAA Box-Office Gold

1 articles · Updated · Yahoo Sports · May 28
  • AAA turned WWE’s once-mocked El Grande angle into one of wrestling’s hottest feuds, with Chad Gable and Ludwig Kaiser now heading into a high-interest mask-vs.-mask showdown at Noche de Los Grandes.
  • Millions of views on clips of their face-offs and intense crowd reactions in Mexico helped push the storyline from a ridiculed 2025 debut into a viral draw that is also attracting U.S. curiosity.
  • WWE’s extended-universe strategy gets some validation because moving the feud to AAA gave two mid-carders room to become stars outside the constraints of Raw and SmackDown.
  • Live WWE crowds have still given the El Grande characters muted reactions on Raw, raising doubts about whether AAA momentum can translate back to WWE’s main roster.
  • That gap also tempers credit for WWE creative: the success is framed more as AAA, Gable and Kaiser capitalizing on an unlikely setup than as proof WWE has fixed its own storyline problems.
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