{"id":318141,"date":"2026-04-13T19:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=318141"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:12:21","slug":"report-major-aaa-wwe-botch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/report-major-aaa-wwe-botch\/","title":{"rendered":"Report &#8211; Major AAA-WWE Botch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_106\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Octag\u00f3n Jr. was unmasked during Saturday night\u2019s AAA On Fox broadcast, but a brand new report suggests the controversial finish wasn\u2019t purported to play out that way.<\/p>\n<p>Within the match, Original El Grande Americano defeated Octag\u00f3n Jr. in under five and a half minutes. The finish saw Americano rip off Octag\u00f3n\u2019s mask before forcing him to submit with an ankle lock.<\/p>\n<p>Under traditional AAA rules, removing an opponent\u2019s mask typically ends in a right away disqualification. In response to a report from BodySlam+, sources inside each AAA and WWE indicated that a DQ was indeed the planned end result. Nevertheless, a miscommunication occurred, and the referee never called for it. As an alternative, Octag\u00f3n tapped out moments after being unmasked, which drew heavy backlash from the group.<\/p>\n<p>The confusion wasn\u2019t limited to fans, as each the English and Spanish commentary teams were reportedly caught off guard by how the match ended.<\/p>\n<p>Following the bout, OG Americano was confronted by El Grande Americano II, resulting in a brawl between the 2. Americano II then issued a challenge for a mask vs. mask match, which is reportedly being lined up for AAA Noche de Los Grandes on May 30. AAA has not yet officially confirmed the event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> If you&#8217;ve got any news suggestions or podcast recaps that you simply\u2019d wish to send in for us to post (full credit will likely be given to you), please email me at <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"db8998b7baa9b08b8c889b82bab3b4b4f5b8b4b6\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Octag\u00f3n Jr. was unmasked during Saturday night\u2019s AAA On Fox broadcast, but a brand new report suggests the controversial finish wasn\u2019t purported to play out that way. Within the match, Original El Grande Americano defeated Octag\u00f3n Jr. in under five and a half minutes. The finish saw Americano rip off Octag\u00f3n\u2019s mask before forcing him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[50576,32397,944,2185],"class_list":["post-318141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-aaawwe","tag-botch","tag-major","tag-report"],"aioseo_notices":[{"message":"The permalink for this post just changed! This could result in 404 errors for your site visitors.","status":"warning","options":{"id":"0a2ae5f84bc2c0423042ed7ec22d2e40","isDismissible":true,"actions":[{"url":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/wp-admin\/admin.php?page=aioseo-redirects","label":"Add Redirect to improve SEO","class":"aioseo-redirects-slug-changed"}]},"allowedContexts":["posts"]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318144,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318141\/revisions\/318144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}