WWE Legend Named “Booker Of The Year” Over Triple H
Wrestling veteran says The Undertaker is doing a far better job than Triple H.
Hunter is the Chief Creative Officer of WWE, while The Dead Man is a writer and executive producer for WWE’s sister promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA).
While speaking on the 100th episode of his YouTube podcast, Steve Richards, along with his co-host James Romero, discussed how differently the creatives at WWE and AAA are working and its obvious impact on their respective products.
Richards and Romero broke down the mask vs. mask match between The Original El Grande Americano (Chad Gable) and El Grande Americano (Ludwig Kaiser), which Kaiser won at AAA Noche de Los Grandes on May 30 at Arena Monterrey in Mexico.
Romero praised the match as “probably the best match of 2026.” But stated that the Clash in Italy PLE on the same weekend failed to match the AAA show despite more resources.
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Richards added that the match happened because there was a meaningful story behind it. The storyline came first and naturally built toward a match, which is how he believes wrestling should work. He feels WWE often decides on matches first and then creates a storyline afterward to justify why the match is happening.
“It wasn’t a match looking for a storyline, it was a storyline that led up to a match. WWE does it all backwards. This is proof of how WWE has it all incredibly backwards in the wrong way. You should be able to do this every single week on WWE TV.”
Richards added that The Undertaker’s ideas and involvement in the El Grande Americano storyline have been so good that he deserves recognition as the best wrestling booker of the year. He also praised AAA’s on-screen manager, Rey Mysterio, for his contributions.
“He might be Booker of the Year if this continues. Maybe not according to somebody who votes for Booker of the Year, but I would give him Booker of the Year at this point… Rey Mysterio has better business sense than TKO. He can read the world and the audience better than they can.”