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Impact and AAA Partnership Details, Talent Trade, Thursday's Live Show

Posted: Apr 18th, '17, 15:12
by cero2k
Source: f4wonline.com

-- At a press conference in Mexico today, officials from both Impact Wrestling and AAA detailed how the promotions plan to collaborate in the future.

It was announced that they would be exchanging talent, with wrestlers from AAA working Impact's Slammiversary pay-per-view on July 2nd and wrestlers from Impact working Triplemania XXV on August 26th.

Bobby Lashley, Eddie Edwards, Davey Richards, and Moose have been confirmed for Triplemania. Jeff Jarrett said at the press conference that the AAA wrestlers appearing at Slammiversary haven't been decided on yet.

One of Impact's titles will also be defended at Triplemania.

The promotions revealed in a press release that they plan to run "co-branded live tours" in the fall as well.

Impact and AAA officially announced their working agreement at Rey de Reyes in Monterrey last month. Since Anthem Sports & Entertainment took over the company, Impact has struck a deal to partner with ITV on the World of Sport revival in the UK, announced an alliance with Pro Wrestling NOAH in Japan, and also began a working relationship with The Crash (which is a rival promotion to AAA) in Mexico.

-- Thursday's Impact is the return to the Impact Zone for a new set of tapings, all starting with a live Impact episode on Thursday. Impact released this hype video:

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Re: Impact and AAA Partnership Details, Talent Trade, Thursday's Live Show

Posted: Apr 18th, '17, 20:16
by Big Red Machine
Meh. This is like ROH and CMLL. They can talk it up all they want but it won't mean sh*t, even in the short run. So you get some outside talent for a show. Fine. But if you don't have a match-up for them that people want to see and if you don't do anything with them storyline-wise other than "There are some wrestlers from our partners across the border" then you're better off not doing it and using the time to put more focus on your own guys.

Re: Impact and AAA Partnership Details, Talent Trade, Thursday's Live Show

Posted: Apr 19th, '17, 12:23
by cero2k
there is something that i find interesting here. AAA is gonna have guys in both Impact and LU at the same time. I do wonder if AAA ignores LU's contracts and brings in the LU guys to Impact instead of just using different dudes