More On AAA - El Rey Project: Former WWE Stars Involved, Former WWE Writer's Role, Set Photos

As noted earlier, El Rey Network and AAA are filming the new Lucha Underground series in L.A. this weekend. We first reported this afternoon that Matt Striker will be the lead play-by-play man for the series, while Vampiro will be joining him on commentary.

Former WWE writer Chris DeJoseph is serving as the executive producer and head writer of the series. He is running the project on a daily basis and is considered by most to be one of the bosses. Dorian Roldan has not had much of a presence in dealing with the production crew or talent. The 27 year old is a minority investor in the project.

DeJoseph is high on Chavo Guerrero and several other former WWE superstars for the project. He believes the familiarity of faces such as Ezekiel Jackson, Chavo Guerrero and John Morrison will help bring viewers to the series, despite their lack of lucha background. In fact, while Guerrero has worked Texas area indies before being signed by WCW in the 1990s, he has never worked traditional lucha libre matches.

AAA will use about 10 wrestlers and personalities from their Mexican company for the series. Ricochet is said to be pushed as one of the top stars. Ricochet and several other stars originally balked at signing on for the project, but Lucha Underground softened their stance on their contracts after a hardline approach. They are still hopeful of bringing in AR Fox, Uhaa Nation and many others on a per night deal. If this happens, there is a concern over how it will go over with the locker room because of the deals they were forced to sign.

You can check out some photos from the set of the tapings below: