La Catalina Opens Up About CMLL Departure & Joining AAA
La Catalina speaks about her arrival at AAA.
After spending the last several years of her career with CMLL, La Catalina departed the company and joined Lucha Libre AAA, which is under the WWE umbrella.
It marks Catalina’s return to WWE. She was with the company from 2019 to 2021 until she was let go. She wrestled as ‘Katrina Cortez.’
Catalina partook in a media junket (via @LaRazon_mx) and opened up about her exit from CMLL and joining AAA. She stated that she did not expect the reaction that came with her arrival to the promotion.
Translation via Fightful’s Luis Pulido:
“I’m so grateful for all of that—thank you so much for the opportunity and everything I’ve experienced—but now I’m in a different phase of my life and I wanted something more. You’re always going to want more and strive to better yourself. I think this was a huge risk—I swear I spent months thinking about what would happen. I was as professional for as possible on the other side; I worked until the last day of the month, April passed, and my new journey began. My new chapter is now about improving myself, getting different things done, and continuing to grow, and I believe that, these days, AAA offers that. It has a platform for the international wrestler. What I mean is that I made my debut, and it wasn’t just a big deal in Mexico. It made a huge splash all over the world. I checked Twitter—in Japan, in China, and in my own country (Chile)—and there were so many people talking about it. All across Latin America, people knew that La Catalina had made a change. That’s what we’re looking for as professionals; every wrestler wants to make a name for themselves through that. Everything in this world changes—entertainment, music, movies, artificial intelligence—everything can be done with that, and the wrestler has grown too. It’s no longer just about getting in the ring and putting on a good show; you have to offer the audience something memorable so they’ll take that memory with them. Catalina learned what she needed to learn, she improved a lot, she took some well-deserved and awesome ass-whoopings, but now comes the challenge of becoming a character who stays in people’s memories. To be someone who will be remembered for a period of time—maybe even a lifetime—remember who is La Catalina: that’s the work I want to do now, and that’s what I see with AAA. My debut was crazy; even I didn’t expect the impact it would have. I thought it would be cool—people would cheer along and all that—but it caused a huge buzz, something I didn’t even expect. Everything that comes next is going to be super incredible, super new, and we’re going to be the talk of the town.”
▶️ #VIDEO | La Catalina (@LaCatalinagar) habla de la proyección que AAA y WWE le dieron desde el primer día, de su pasado en el CMLL y de lo maravilloso que ve su futuro.
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— La Razón de México (@LaRazon_mx) April 30, 2026
Catalina has not made her in-ring debut for AAA as of this writing. In her first appearance, she confronted the current Reina de Reinas Champion, Flammer.
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