Why WWE Really Spoiled Title Match In Another Promotion

WWE has spoiled an upcoming major title match outside of their company as they promote an upcoming match featuring one of their stars.

WWE announced the purchase of AAA at WrestleMania 41, and despite that not being finalised yet, it seems the sports entertainment giant is already throwing its weight around.

On the May 26 edition of Raw, WWE announced Vikingo would face Chad Gable at the upcoming Worlds Collide show on June 7. What was notable about that announcement was that the match was said to be for the AAA Mega Championship despite neither man holding that title.

The current AAA Mega Champion is Alberto Del Rio, who is set to defend that gold against Vikingo at an upcoming AAA TV taping. This means fans were quick to notice that WWE’s announcement spoiled the result of that bout. So why did they do it?

WWE Didn’t Advertise A Title Match In Mexico

Speaking about the situation on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer explained WWE’s mentality in spoiling AAA’s upcoming main event despite putting out a different advert for the match in Mexico:

The mentality here is, I guess they just wanted the announcement out because it’s a couple of weeks away and they want to sell tickets and everything. So what they did, they put it on Raw, the graphic was there with AAA Mega Championship so they actually announced a match for the title. But on the Mexican version of Netflix, they put up a different graphic and they didn’t mention it was for the title because in Mexico, in theory, the people would know Alberto was the champion but in the United States, they wouldn’t know.

That was the mentality in doing this and they thought that it was ok. For whatever reason, the mentality was if it’s only announced in the United States then the people in Mexico aren’t going to know, not realising that everyone knew instantly. So it gives away the main event.

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