JBL Announces He Will Be Joining Corey Graves On English Commentary For AAA Triplemania XXXIII

As noted before, WWE NXT commentator Corey Graves will be the lead commentator for the English broadcast of Lucha Libre AAA’s Tripelmania XXXIII event on August 16th in Mexico City, Mexico.

A recent episode of the Something To Wrestle with Bruce Prichard podcast featured WWE Hall of Famer John Bradshaw Layfield as the guest. One of the topics discussed included JBL announcing that he will be joining Graves for the English commentary team for AAA’s upcoming Triplemania XXXIII event.

“And I’m proud to announce that I’m going down to Mexico City this weekend and I will be doing commentary with Corey Graves for the entire Triplemanía. I may not be your favorite commentator, but, this is the first announcement, this is groundbreaking news. I am going to Mexico City. I just got the deal from WWE — not a deal. They asked me to come out and do commentary. Some of you call that a deal or not. It’s an engagement, it’s an appearance, whatever you want to call it but, I’m very excited to go be a part of Triplemanía.

I didn’t either (JBL responded when Conrad Thompson said he did not know JBL was back in the commentary game). I got a call and I don’t know who all I can say names about so I don’t want to say names without permission. But I got a call from people down there… text with Jeremy Borash this morning and he said, ‘Go ahead and announce it. It’s fine.’ I got a call last week, said, ‘Would you come down and do commentary?’ And I said, ‘I would absolutely love to,’ and I love Corey. Corey, I think is just fantastic, and moving in the play-by-play chair, he’s done a great job at what he’s done. Konnan, of course, legend of lucha — he’s a wrestling legend. It’s gonna be a lot of fun down there… I’ve been going down there ever since the early 90s. That’s where I first met Konnan right after the first Triplemanía which he headlined by the way. I think it was the biggest crowd in AAA history down there… I’ve been going down there ever since and so I’ve been working some with AAA. I love Dorian Roldán down there. I mean, it’s the Antonio Peña, the whole legacy of everything that is AAA, and then, didn’t know if I was coming back, you know, because of the WWE buying AAA, and then they give me a call last week saying, ‘Hey, would you come do commentary for the show?’ And I said — that doesn’t take but a nanosecond. ‘Yes! Yes! Absolutely, I’d love to.’ I can’t wait to be down there.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com