AAA used its Saturday night show in Mexico City to make a major change behind the scenes and set up more business in the ring. During the card aired May 23, 2026, Marisela Peña announced that Rey Mysterio jr would take over as the promotion’s new general manager, then watched as Laredo Kid kept the AAA World Cruiserweight Championship by defeating Rey Fenix.
The show aired on Fox in Latin America and streamed on YouTube and Facebook worldwide from Mexico City, landing one week before Noche de los Grandes. The timing gave AAA a live stage to plant several key matches for the coming stretch, including the cruiserweight rematch and a card that also featured The Creed Brothers against Los Americanos.
The biggest in-ring result came when Laredo Kid turned back Fenix to retain the title. Afterward, Rey Mysterio went to Laredo Kid and told him he was disappointed in him, a blunt exchange that gave the title win a sharper edge than the result alone suggested. Laredo Kid answered that a win is a win, brushing off the criticism even as the new general manager made it clear Fenix would get another shot at Noche De Los Grandes.
That matters because AAA is heading into a two-week Noche De Los Grandes run starting next week, and this episode was built to do more than fill a Saturday slot. It was also used to lay groundwork for a Six Woman Tag Match, War Raiders against Pagano and Psycho Clown for the AAA Tag Team Championships, and Real El Grande Americano against OG El Grande Americano in a mask-vs-mask match. AAA did not wait for the bigger event to start pulling its threads together; it put them on the screen in front of the live audience in Mexico City and let the next stretch begin there.
The friction point is that Mysterio’s arrival as general manager came wrapped around a title defense that should have been a celebration for Laredo Kid. Instead, the post-match exchange hinted at a more complicated path ahead. Laredo left with the championship, but not with approval, and Fenix still has a second chance waiting at Noche De Los Grandes. If AAA wanted a clean handoff into its next major run, it did not quite get one.
