With the arrival of WrestleMania 42 later this week comes the one year anniversary of WWE announcing the purchase of lucha libre promotion, Lucha Libre AAA. And while AAA itself seems poised to have little to no presence at WrestleMania weekend, that doesn’t mean WWE doesn’t have big plans for the promotion in the coming months. That includes, arguably, the biggest match AAA has run since the WWE purchase being set up for next month.

Taking to X on Tuesday morning, AAA executive producer and WWE legend The Undertaker announced a mask vs. mask match between Rey de Reyes winner El Grande Americano and “The Original” El Grande Americano. The match will headline AAA’s Noche De Los Grandes event on May 30, taking place in Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Circle the date on your calendars!

Mask vs. Mask will take place at #AAANocheDeLosGrandes on May 30th at Arena Monterrey. This will be intense!

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— Undertaker (@undertaker) April 14, 2026

The clash of Americanos has been almost a year in the making since the original Americano went down with an injury, prompting the emergence of the second Americano and his Los Americanos stablemates, Bravo and Rayo Americano. The feud began properly when Original Americano returned at the 2026 Royal Rumble, with the two squaring off both in an AAA and WWE ring since. The lone singles match between the Americanos took place on the March 16 episode of “WWE Raw,” with the second Americano defeating the original.

The mask vs. mask match will represent the first time in either Americano’s career that they will compete in a Lucha de Apuesta match. It will also be the first major Apuesta match in AAA since WWE purchased the promotion, with WWE having previously focused on building up matches for the AAA Mega Championship as the marquee match on AAA PLE’s.

“The Original Tribal Chief” Roman Reigns is eying another championship reign at WrestleMania 42 when he takes on CM Punk. Despite a history of leukemia and the potential of a Hollywood transition, Reigns claims he has many more plans before retirement, making a new world title reign very much a possibility.

During an interview with Nico Leonard, Reigns addressed the idea that he’s done everything there is to do in WWE. “There’s still a little more juice to squeeze,” he said of his career. “Almost there, but not quite.”

The “OTC” noted that he doesn’t believe he’s achieved everything in WWE yet, and simply feels like he isn’t ready for retirement.

“I’m very happy with what I’ve done over the past few years, and I could hang my hat on that, but I know I still have more to offer,” he said. “There’s not any accolade that I can win in wrestling now, but I can take a championship and then showcase what happens to a championship when you put it on a megastar.”

Reigns further proclaimed that he doesn’t consider any other promotion to be true competition to WWE, and suggested he plans to show fans another layer of being a top guy. Reigns also pointed out that sport science has evolved greatly, allowing careers to be extended, and he’s also in “a different ballpark as far as finances.”

“Creatively, there’s so much left for me to do, and there’s still a great deal of earning for me to take advantage of,” he said.

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ESPN broadcaster and former WWE Commentator Pat McAfee recently made his return to the promotion, inserting himself in Randy Orton’s feud with Cody Rhodes by aligning himself with “The Viper.” As it turns out, McAfee’s fellow ESPN broadcaster, Stephen A. Smith, was also under discussion for an on-screen WWE appearance.

During an interview with Joe Tessitore on ESPN’s “First Take,” Smith praised McAfee’s return, comparing him to famed heel managers like Bobby “The Brain” Heenan and revealing he was in talks for that kind of role.

“I actually wanted to do that, your man Nick Khan talked to me about that!” he claimed. “See the difference is, I’m not as courageous as Pat McAfee; I ain’t trying to get hit by one of them big boys at all! I dont want no parts of it. But I love that stuff, because I think the sport needs it.

Tessitore later predicted who Smith would have managed in WWE if he went along with the offer, and expressed that he believes he should have been paired with “The Ring General,” GUNTHER.

“With somebody with the mic skill of Stephen A., somebody who can take over a room, somebody who changes the air in an arena when he steps into it and steps into the ring; I want to put him with somebody who doesn’t care about that at all!” Tessitoe expressed. 

However, Smith had other plans.

“It wouldn’t be GUNTHER,” he said. “I mean, I look at me as somebody with a Roman Reigns … because he talks just enough, but he knows how to be deferential when need be.”

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We’re almost at the end of the “Road to WrestleMania”, but there’s one more pitstop along the way. The road has been anything but smooth, especially with the giant pothole that is Pat McAfee being involved with Randy Orton. McAfee has been involved in two poorly received promo segments. After the first promo on “SmackDown”, CM Punk had a verbal receipt in the form of a pipe bomb for him on the following “Raw”.

During an interview on “No-Contest Wrestling”, Je’Von Evans weighed in on McAfee’s promos and Punk’s response. “I feel like there’s certain things that people that aren’t familiar or don’t come from the wrestling business don’t understand. They tend to express that in a certain way.” Evans says wrestling isn’t like a regular sport and points out that they are putting their bodies and lives on the line and this is how some people put food on the table for their families.

He continues that some people express their opinions publicly and wonders “why can’t we just have fun and make money? But you can’t be talking crazy and not expect nobody to talk crazy back. You cannot not expect receipts, especially from the OGs that have been doing it for a long time, that’s been through a lot to get to where they’re at and now you’re dissing them.”

Evan is competing at WrestleMania 42 Night Two in a six-man ladder match for the Men’s Intercontinental Championship. 

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