Konnan comments on WWE trying to buy AAA

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Don't know where to put this exactly.

- AAA booker Konnan spoke with former WWE creative executive Court Bauer on this week's episode of MLW Radio and talked about WWE attempting to buy Mexico's AAA promotion back in 2007. Bauer talked about WWE's plans for international expansion in 2007: "They went in there [Mexico] with big, big ambitious plans a few years ago. They wanted to do a lot of business down in Mexico and then obviously those plans scaled back and they haven't run in two or so years down there." Konnan, AAA's matchmaker, offered an inside perspective on what took place during the negotiations between WWE and AAA: "I know exactly what happened because we had to live through it. We had a meeting. I've never talked about this. We had somebody from WWE actually come and having a meeting with me and Dorian, who is the son of the owner. We had a meeting with somebody from WWE and they came and offered to buy AAA. He was really cool. He was like, 'We want to buy AAA.' Dorian was like, 'We're not really for sale, but we'll listen.'" "They wanted to buy 51% of the company. I was like, 'Dude, do not do that because these [guys], the minute they don't like something, they're going to get rid of us.' I said why doesn't Vince just buy 50% or 49%? They said Vince doesn't like to go into partnership with anybody and doesn't want to be asking for permission for anything. I asked what would happen to us. They said, 'As you can see, we're having trouble running WWE as it is and we're trying to expand into Europe. We don't really know what we're doing in Mexico, so you guys would stay in power.'" "We excused ourselves to go to the bathroom and I said that's BS. The minute we do something they don't like, they're going to change it and there's nothing we can do about it. We can't give them this type of power, which he understood. He told them we wouldn't sell that much of the company." The new episode of MLW Radio is available for free at www.MLW.com and on iTunes (search: MLW Radio), along with episodes featuring Chris Jericho, The Ultimate Warrior, Mick Foley, Billy Corgan, MVP, former WWE writers and many others. New episodes of MLW Radio are released each and every Sunday night on MLW.com.

I took the translation from NoDQ.com, but this info I have seen it in many wrestling related pages in Spanish. So as with everything regarding Konnan one must take this lightly. But then again, I would like to have your opinion on this matter.
 

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I dunno, Vince doesn't strike me as someone who'd only want 51%. He's an all or nothing type of guy.
 

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51% gives him final say over all operations though, so it technically counts as all of the company, minus 49% of the shareholder profits. Regardless, I don't think I believe Konnan here, much like I don't believe Konnan anywhere else. :lol:
 

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51% gives him final say over all operations though, so it technically counts as all of the company, minus 49% of the shareholder profits. Regardless, I don't think I believe Konnan here, much like I don't believe Konnan anywhere else. :lol:

Whatever Konnan says... must be taken lightly. I don't believe what he's saying and also... Why would Vince want to own AAA (unless of course it gives WWE something like NXT for hispanic wrestlers, which could be nice in order to help them transition)
 

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I wouldn't mind buying AAA. Can I get it for the same rate it takes to change my flat?
 

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