On Raw last night (Sept. 15), WWE’s story of mysterious luchador El Grande Americano either reached a crescendo or jumped the shark.
I’m honestly not sure which the recreation of the Spider-Man pointing meme counts as…
Time will tell, I suppose. But as WWE continues building toward Americanos trios matches and intra-Americanos feuds, we’ll tell you that we just recently got some unofficial
confirmation about a leading American suspect’s side job as a producer in WWE’s new lucha libre promotion, AAA.
Pete Dunne, who many believe is the Mediano Americano in a white mask to our right in the above GIF (with Ludwig Kaiser in the singlet playing the second Grande, and Tyler Bate as Pequeno Americano in the blue mask), has reportedly been working as a producer for a while. There was a rumor Dunne was working on Speed in the early days of that X-exclusive show, and more recently a report he was one of the “key producers” in AAA.
In a video compilation of his whirlwind trip to Las Vegas last weekend, NXT head honcho Shawn Michaels shared a quick bit of footage that showed he & the Bruiserweight talking over what we’d guess was a match spot.
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The 31-year-old Englishman was one of the biggest stars of the 2010s “BritWres” bomb, and was the centerpiece of WWE NXT’s pre-COVID expansion efforts in the United Kingdom. Since being moved to the main roster in 2022, Dunne been on television fairly consistently (mostly as Sheamus’ angry sidekick “Butch”). But there’s been little sign he’d come anywhere near the main event as a singles wrester on Raw or SmackDown. He and Bate were positioned as a tag team last year before Tyler tore his pec. Now WWE has them playing Americanos.
We’ll leave it you to judge whether that’s good or bad. Just wanted to let you know that Dunne’s working in another role and not just playing one in a set of (kinda) matching luchadors.
