This previous weekend, WWE and AAA had their first joint Premium Dwell Occasion, Worlds Collide, in an effort to bridge the hole between each promotions’ fan bases and get stars from either side over on the opposite finish. Whereas followers conversant in each merchandise have been positive there could be some breakout stars, no one anticipated how a lot former AAA World Combined Tag Crew Champion, Mr. Iguana, would recover from with followers.
In line with a report from Fightful Choose, there was a number of buzz backstage in WWE about Mr. Iguana following the response he received at Worlds Collide, pushing these on the prime to really feel like they wanted to get him on display screen in the course of the Cash within the Financial institution PLE. Fightful Choose says the response “did not disappoint.” Iguana’s efficiency reportedly translated properly to social media, and one NXT supply instructed Fightful that Iguana was being pushed to be featured on WWE programming.
Sapp additional reported that the WWE roster was additionally very keen on Mr. Iguana, and that many backstage personnel posed for footage with the Mexican star, whereas WWE higher-ups described him as a “pleasure” to work with and likewise praised his promotional work main into the occasion, as he had what was described as a “busy schedule” on Saturday. Moreover, Sapp claimed that whereas Ron Killings’s new merch offered like loopy, following Killings’s surprising return in the principle occasion of Cash In The Financial institution, Mr. Iguana’s merch additionally carried out exceptionally properly, and there are actually talks to develop his merch even additional.