Stevie Richards used the 100th episode of his show to crown AAA's El Grande Americano mask vs mask match the best of 2026 and to tear into WWE's creative direction.
Co-host James Romero called it "probably the best match of 2026" and said AAA pulled it off on a smaller budget, yet "it's just so much better in every single respect."
Richards said the match worked because "it wasn't a match looking for a storyline, it was a storyline that led up to a match," adding, "WWE does it all backwards. You should be able to do this every single week on WWE TV."
He credited AAA's reported booker, The Undertaker, saying, "I would give him Booker of the Year at this point." On WWE under TKO, Richards said the product is "soulless," called it "an advertising system with some creative control," and said the company is "creatively bankrupt and have been for a long time."
Both praised Chad Gable and Ludwig Kaiser, with Romero calling Gable "the best wrestler in the world" and Richards arguing Gable "...
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