AAA went live from Mexico City on Saturday, May 23, 2026, and at 10 p.m. Eastern the promotion announced Rey Mysterio Jr. as its new general manager, a move unveiled on the same card where Laredo Kid retained the AAA World Cruiserweight Championship.
The cruiserweight main event saw Laredo Kid defeat Rey Fenix to keep the belt Fenix had previously vacated in 2023. After the match Laredo Kid shrugged off criticism with the line, "a win is a win," while Rey Mysterio — newly installed in the promotion's leadership — told Laredo Kid that Fenix would get another shot at the title at Noche De Los Grandes.
The show also featured the Creed Brothers against Los Americanos and served as AAA's go-home program for the next big attraction: Noche De Los Grandes, which AAA announced will run as a two-week event beginning the following week. The scheduling and the rematch promise tightened the immediate stakes for the cruiserweight division and for the promotion's upcoming programming.
Marisela Peña, AAA's president, introduced Mysterio as general manager during the broadcast and said she had interviewed several candidates for the position, including Chessman, Texano Jr., and Cibernetico, before settling on Mysterio. The announcement placed a global wrestling star into a position that will shape match cards and storylines for at least the next fortnight of televised events.
The appointment landed amid a whiff of backstage maneuvering: Dorian Roldán had earlier planted the idea in Peña’s mind, according to the promotion's internal timeline, in a bid to position himself for a power play. That history gives the hire an edge beyond storyline — it reads as a personnel decision with clear political overtones inside the company.
That political edge became storyline friction on the same night. Mysterio opened a public split with Laredo Kid, saying, "I was disappointed in Laredo," even as Laredo left the ring with the belt and the practical assessment that, as he said, "a win is a win." The contradiction — a manager chastising a champion while promising the next contender a rematch — is the evening's central tension: the new GM is simultaneously arbiter and participant in the competitive picture he must oversee.
The rematch pledge for Rey Fenix, who vacated the title in 2023, ensures the cruiserweight title will headline at least some portion of Noche De Los Grandes' two-week run. For fans and wrestlers alike, that turns Mysterio's first weeks as general manager into a test of how he balances storyline credibility with the real-world perception of favoritism that follows a high-profile appointment.
Plainly stated, AAA has handed a matchmaker's megaphone to a man who has a direct storyline stake in the matches to come. That will sharpen the narrative for the coming weeks: will Mysterio run the promotion as a neutral executive, or will his decisions reflect the old power plays that put him in office? The answer will define Noche De Los Grandes.
