JBL Announces He’ll Be Joining Corey Graves On Commentary For English Broadcast Of AAA Triplemanía XXXIII

JBL and Corey Graves to call the action.

It was first reported by PWInsider that Corey Graves was assigned as the lead commentator for the English broadcast of AAA Triplemanía XXXIII on August 16th.

That has since been confirmed as JBL took to the latest Something To Wrestle podcast and stated that he’ll be joining Graves at the booth. He shared that WWE asked him to do it and it was relayed to him by Jeremy Borash that he could announce the news.

Layfield had been involved with AAA prior to WWE’s acquisition of the company. He did not know if he would get the chance to go back.

“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.

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. 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.”

Triplemanía XXXIII will stream live on WWE’s YouTube channel in English and Spanish. The show will be headlined by a four-way for the AAA Mega Championship. It’ll feature Dominik Mysterio, El Grande Americano, Dragon Lee and the Mega Champion, El Hijo del Vikingo.

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