Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez is making the transition into the pro wrestling business.

On Tuesday at the AAA TripleMania XXVII press conference, Cain made an appearance alongside representatives of TV Azteca, Lucha Libre AAA. This is where it was announced that he would make his pro wrestling debut at this show that goes down on August 3, 2019, at Arena Ciudad in Mexico City.

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Velasquez said at the press conference that he had two or three more fights left on his UFC contract. He was asked if he thinks Lucha Libre was fake, which he responded by stating that the blows are real and that WWE was fake. He thinks Lucha Libre is much tougher and much more real.

This proceeded to him being interrupted by Texano Jr, Psycho Clown and, Pentagón Jr, with Pentagón offering Velasquez the option of a tag team match if he did not want a one-on-one match like the previous offers. This led to them doing a face-off with Cain and the other wrestlers mentioned above.

Thus, this led to speculation that the UFC star could wrestle a singles match against one of them or a multiple-person match at this show. It turns out that Velasquez has confirmed that he’ll be an in-ring performer but didn’t clarify when that would take place.

”I will be an in-ring performer for sure,” said Velasquez in a statement to MMA Fighting. “With more time learning this beautiful sport, great things will happen.”

Dave Meltzer reported in the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that “AAA attempted to sign Velasquez to a two-show contract but the second event, scheduled for the fall, was scheduled too close to a UFC event that Velasquez is expecting to right on, so at this point it is believed to be a one-show deal.”