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Well, it's a very broad question, this has really been a historic event and will affect mexican lucha in many ways forever. To be very brief, I can tell you that AAA was so in the shit that mexicans in general see the purchase of WWE as a solution and an opportunity for AAA to offer something of quality again. As you say, the improvements in production and technical aspects are noticeable and were necessary. AAA couldn't fix rookie mistakes (and wasn't interested in doing so) over so many years. The public expects to see a more polished and better quality audiovisual product, something that WWE has of course shown it knows how to do. On the other hand, the entire history and legacy of AAA is obviously going to be lost. What the Roldán family (who inherited the company after Antonio Peña's death) did doesn't really matter much, but Antonio Peña's AAA was gold, and that will become just a memory since there's no official library. In the last AAA events under the Roldáns, people who were WWE fans would go to support WWE wrestlers and boo the AAA wrestlers for no reason. This means that AAA was already too weak, lacked stars, and that the audience now attending shows is actually WWE's audience, not AAA's. Therefore, AAA really has no clear direction other than what WWE believes AAA was (they really don't know what they bought).

The public is eager to see what might happen, but everything is very uncertain. Where it will really have a big impact is in the independent lucha/wrestling sector, but this is a broad topic to explain and it is not our concern at this time.