John “Bradshaw” Layfield has been one of the loudest voices singing AAA’s praises lately, and in a new interview with Fox News Digital, he took that endorsement to another level entirely — putting the promotion’s recent Mask vs. Mask bout in the same conversation as Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania 25, widely regarded as one of the greatest matches in wrestling history.
Layfield’s enthusiasm for AAA has been building over a stretch of recent public appearances, with the WWE Hall of Famer specifically calling out the contributions of Chad Gable, Jeremy Borash, The Undertaker, and El Grande Americano in connection with the lucha libre promotion’s recent momentum. The Fox News Digital interview marks his most emphatic statement yet, effectively placing Mask vs. Mask in the upper tier of what professional wrestling can produce.
The Undertaker-HBK WrestleMania 25 benchmark is not one thrown around casually. That 2009 Houston classic is a perennial candidate for the greatest singles match in WrestleMania history, and invoking it as a point of comparison is a significant endorsement — not just of the in-ring action, but of AAA’s ability to deliver a major-event atmosphere.
With veterans like The Undertaker now connected to the AAA product and prominent industry voices like JBL amplifying its work, the promotion appears to be enjoying a notable surge in mainstream attention. Whether that translates into sustained crossover interest remains to be seen, but the praise keeps coming.
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