Triplemanía XVI
Triplemanía XVI was the sixteenth Triplemanía wrestling show promoted by Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA). The show took place on June 13, 2008 in Mexico City, Mexico. The Main event featured a Singles match for the AAA Mega Championship. Champion Cibernético defended against El Zorro.
Production
Background
In early 1992 Antonio Peña was working as a booker and storyline writer for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Mexico's largest and the world's oldest wrestling promotion, and was frustrated by CMLL's very conservative approach to lucha libre. He joined forced with a number of younger, very talented wrestlers who felt like CMLL was not giving them recognition they deserved and decided to split from CMLL to create Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA, or Triple A; Spanish for "Assistance, Consulting, and Administration"). After making a deal with the Televisa television network AAA held their first show in April, 1992.[2] The following year Peña and AAA held their first Triplemanía event, building it into an annual event that would become AAA's Super Bowl event, similar to the WWE's WrestleMania being the biggest show of the year.[3] The 2009 Triplemanía was the 16th year in a row AAA held a Triplemanía show and the 21st overall show under the Triplemanía banner.
Storylines
The Triplemanía XVI show featured seven professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either heels (referred to as rudos in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") or faces (técnicos in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Results
| No. |
Results[1][4][5] |
Stipulations |
|---|
| 1 |
The Black Family (Dark Cuervo, Dark Escoria, Dark Ozz, and Dark Espíritu defeated Real Fuerza Aérea (Aero Star, El Ángel, and Super Fly) |
Four on three Person "Lucha Libre rules" handicap tag team match |
| 2 |
Alan Stone, Octagón, and Brazo de Plata defeated Los Vipers Revolution (Black Abyss, Psicosis, and Histeria) |
Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match[1][4] |
| 3 |
The Mexican Powers (Crazy Boy, Último Gladiador and Ricky Marvin) defeated La Legión Extranjera (Bryan Danielson, Jack Evans and Teddy Hart) and La Familia de Tijuana (Extreme Tiger, Halloween and T.J. Xtreme)
- Teddy Hart pinned Halloween to eliminate La Familia de Tijuana
- Crazy Boy pinned Jack Evans to eliminate La Legión Extranjera
|
Three way tag team elimination match[1][4] |
| 4 |
Faby Apache defeated Mari Apache
As a result Mari Apache was supposed to have her hair shaved off but their father Gran Apache pleaded with them to shave his hair instead. |
Best two out of three falls Lucha de Apuestas "Hair vs. Hair" match |
| 5 |
Vampiro wrestled to a draw with El Mesías when neither wrestler was deemed able to continue |
Hardcore Match[1][4] |
| 6 |
La Legión Extranjera (Bobby Lashley, Electroshock and Kenzo Suzuki) defeated Chessman, La Parka and Silver King - (Kenzo Suzuki pinned Silver King) |
Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match[1][4] |
| 7 |
Cibernético (c) defeated El Zorro |
Singles match for the AAA Mega Championship[1][4][6] |
- (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
|
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Asistencia Asesoría y Administración TripleManía". ProWrestlingHistory.com. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
- ↑ Ocampo, Ernesto (October 7, 2006). "El fin de una era" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved October 14, 2009.
- ↑ Madigan, Dan (2007). "A family affair". Mondo Lucha Libre: the bizarre and honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperColins Publisher. pp. 128–132. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Centinela, Teddy (June 13, 2015). "En un día como hoy… 2008: Heavy Metal, rapado en Infierno en el Ring… AAA celebra Triplemanía XVI" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas Magazine. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
- ↑ "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana 2008". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 6, 2009. 296. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
- ↑ Ruiz, Alex G (May 29, 2009). "Los grandes ganadores de Triplemania". SuperLuchas Magazine (in Spanish). Retrieved July 11, 2015.
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