AAA TripleMania XXXII: Tijuana
June 15, 2024
Estadio Chevron
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Watch: TrillerTV
This Saturday, AAA has a present that’s going down in an enormous stadium, will air as a PPV, and makes use of the monicker “TripleMania.” That’s about all it has in widespread with TripleManias of the previous. As a substitute, it’s some half-baked matches to gas an area rivalry and different matches which will (or might not) arrange the actual TripleMania in Mexico Metropolis. AAA has booked nothing that appears important on a present, and so they’re asking individuals to pay $25. It’s barely a significant TV occasion, a lot much less a PPV.
You will have seen some patterns in case you’ve learn these lucha libre previews for some time. Paragraph two is the place I inform you pay to observe the present. I’m not going to do it this time! Don’t hyperlink to the Triller broadcast on this paragraph, Mr. Editor! (I linked it above, too dangerous, cubs! -Ed.) There are solely two varieties of individuals anybody must be watching this present:
- You’re somebody who purchased the TripleMania three-pack earlier than the Monterrey present. You don’t need assistance discovering out watch the present. You want private reflection on the alternatives that led you to such a darkish place.
- You’re somebody with some endurance.
AAA put “The Better of TripleMania Monterey” up on YouTube three days after the present. (A video of “One of the best of TripleMania Monterrey” ought to run about three minutes; this one goes two and a half hours for some motive.) AAA additionally put all the PPV up without spending a dime per week later. It’s AAA; there’s not numerous consistency to something they do, however there’s no motive to present somebody 25 USD for a not-good and not-important present that can be free to the world per week later. I can’t even endorse piracy, not due to the illegality, however as a result of there can be some bad-bad stuff together with the funny-bad stuff. It’s June; you’ve received to have higher choices for a Saturday evening. Wait till you may skip round; don’t make investments 4 hours on this.
To be honest, TripleMania XXXII Tijuana is a greater in-ring high quality present than Monterrey. There’s nothing at risk of being a match of the yr. I’d be shocked if there was a match of the yr, however the dumb/enjoyable appetizer matches surrounding TripleMania primary occasion have no less than returned. There’s simply no primary course round it. Nic Nemeth isn’t right here, and it’d be a shock if AAA followers noticed him within the ring once more earlier than it was time to drop his title (most likely to Alberto.) There’s additionally no hair, masks, title, or singles match. There’s a promotion versus promotion rivalry however with none stakes. It’s an all-star present with out the dream match-ups. It’s a purposeful inconsequential present, a tricky promote for 25 USD.
As so typically, the most important AAA in AAA is outdoors the ring. Latin Lover begins as AAA’s Director of Expertise with this present. Konnan stays the Director of Inventive. They’re each imagined to work collectively. This power-sharing is each an onscreen storyline and additionally the actual scenario AAA is coping with. Konnan has constantly acknowledged that he continues to have full management of the AAA artistic. Latin Lover has repeatedly talked to the press about artistic modifications he desires to see and seemingly will make. Everybody watching this case expects Latin Lover to check the bounds of his energy, Konnan to bristle at being messed with, and each Latin and Konnan nudging the Roldans to select one or the opposite. Konnan’s current document may very well be higher – his storytelling is as logical as a dream, and his means to rope in large international stars is waning – however AAA at all times appears to facet with him. It’s an amazing failing on my half to not begin a betting pool guessing the date when Latin Lover quits AAA and rips them to the press. Wagering on AAA drama is the most secure wager in wrestling.
AAA did get some excellent news and resolve one endless storyline: they’re again on US TV. AAA begins on Unimas at 3 p.m. ET, the identical Saturday as TripleMania XXXII Tijuana. It’ll be episodes taped earlier and never the stay TripleMania.
(Additionally, the thriller “eye” factor continues to be happening. Do you keep in mind this? Nobody remembers this. It’s not been a lot of a thriller as a result of there’s been nothing to it, and nothing ever modifications, however there appears to be an compulsory point out as soon as each large present, in order that’ll occur once more)
The Crash (Anubis, Keyra, Mamba, Toto) vs. AAA (Faby Apache, Pimpienla Escarlata, Mr. Iguana, Niño Hamburguesa (w/Microman))
Half the TripleMania Tijuana is predicated round a promotion versus promotion rivalry with The Crash, an area Tijuana promotion. AAA has switched between The Crash and rival EMW Promotions as their official Baja California so many occasions that everybody’s misplaced monitor. It’s been Konnan’s private purpose to get the Tijuana teams to work collectively, and so they’re no less than doing so for this one present. The Crash has little identify worth outdoors of Tijuana. The common AAA has no motive to know a lot of the Tijuana-only wrestlers.
That lack of understanding is much less of an issue with the opener. TripleMania-only viewers may be stunned that Mamba left AAA as a result of the exotico is again to have the identical matches with Pimpinela as ever. Mamba and Keyra each left AAA again in 2022. Microman left AAA in 2023 and works for The Crash now, however he’s again on the AAA facet to revive his transient unit with Iguana and Hamburguesa. Toto is a Mexico Metropolis excessive flyer/hardcore wrestler, and Anubis is an area rookie. Pimpinela matches are at all times about Pimpinela, and this can be no totally different.
Las Toxicas (Flammer, La Hiedra, Maravilla) vs. TNA (Havok, Rosemary, Tasha Steelz)
Las Toxicas by no means lose, and that’s not altering right here. This match may be somewhat bit higher effort than ordinary. Reina Dorada getting that AEW TV spot appears to have aggravated/annoyed numerous different luchadoras in Mexico, and possibly it’ll inspire them to show one thing. That’s not the most important story on this one.
Rosemary’s final match in AAA was in 2017, as a TNA (nicely, GFW, but it surely’s not vital), a four-way match with the unique Attractive Star, Girl Shani, and Ayako Hamada. Girl Shani – and seemingly all the AAA girls’s roster – have been very indignant with Attractive Star for quite a few angle causes. Shani determined to hit Star very laborious to ship a message. Star appeared to understand she’d haven’t any probability preventing Shani and wouldn’t dare to mess with Hamada, so her measure of “revenge” was attempting to injure Rosemary’s arm within the match, ending submission. AAA sincerely apologized to Rosemary in regards to the scenario, but it surely’s additionally one which AAA set into movement. It might be totally comprehensible if she by no means wished to work right here once more. It stunned me that TNA or AAA would even dare to ask her to return to the scene of an sad second for a match that means nothing. (AAA’s talked about this match as soon as on TV, and hasn’t executed something to construct it up, it’s been handled as filler.) Working the second match on TripleMania XXXII Tijuana will not be life-changing cash, however possibly it’s only a scenario of taking what work you could find. Perhaps it’s simply attempting to maneuver on by returning to it. Rosemary’s RT-ed AAA posts talked about her on the present however has stored her emotions about her return quiet.
AAA (Komander, Laredo Child, Octagón Jr.) vs. Remainder of the World (CIMA, Willie Mack, and “Nick Wayne” however most likely not) vs. The Crash (D Luxe, Future, Noisy Boy) in Copa TripleMania
The reviled Copa TripleMania royal rumble format has been scrapped, no less than for one present. The thought is the rest could be higher. This match ought to certainly be higher. One benefit the Copa TripleManias had for AAA is that they didn’t normally announce anybody concerned. Saying individuals has been a problem:
- Could ninth: please stay up for the Kyle Fletcher, CIMA, and Nick Wayne workforce!
- Could nineteenth: uh, Blake Christian is on the graphic in Fletcher’s spot, and now it’s a threeway tag match
- Could twenty eighth: Right here’s the complete lineup. Please overlook that Willie Mack is taking Blake Christian’s spot now.
- June ninth: Maybe AEW immediately has Nick Wayne booked for Collision the identical evening as TripleMania, however AAA will not be updating this lineup once more—possibly they don’t need to, or possibly they do not know what’s happening.
Fletcher and Christian appeared to have pulled out of deference to NJPW, who frowns on their wrestlers working with CMLL’s rival. It’s attainable each males took bookings for this present by The Crash and didn’t understand The Crash was again working with AAA, and so they had signed as much as work at TripleMania. (It might be dumb for them to not determine it out, however it’s attainable.) AAA completely ought to’ve identified these guys would’ve been pressured to not work an AAA present, and it’s totally goofy for them to have booked them within the first place. The one factor I can determine is AAA has a delusional perception within the significance of “TripleMania” to international wrestlers. AAA sees this as a world-class present everybody can’t work with; international wrestlers deal with it as an additional reserving to select up in the event that they merely can’t discover something higher to do. A part of the reason being this match; why mess with different relationships to work a meaningless threeway trios match? I don’t know if Kyle Fletcher decides to stay round if he will get a singles rematch with ROH foe Komander, however AAA put collectively a straightforward match to go on.
There’s additionally no actual must undergo all this bother for a Group Remainder of the World anyway. The common AAA fan has no thought who Kyle Fletcher, Blake Christian, or Nick Wayne are, and AAA won’t ever do something to introduce them. The thought of seeing these guys in a wild however irrelevant threeway trios match additionally isn’t going to get anybody to pay $25 for a PPV – there’s nothing particular taking place with them in a 3 trios match. They have been our bodies to be on a card with no objective or route apart from so AAA may say they booked these guys later. AAA additionally books these TripleManias as in the event that they don’t imagine good Mexican wrestlers versus different good Mexican wrestlers in a normal match can recover from on their very own to an even bigger viewers; there at all times needs to be a gimmick or a foreigner wrestler who “actually is aware of work.”
CIMA is aware of work and has a objective; AAA and GLEAT are engaged on a promotional settlement. We will solely hope it means greater than the AAA/TNA one. This’ll be match with 1,000,000 issues taking place and a two minute Willie Mack dance break. Noisy Boy is an efficient prospect who’s been a core man in IWRG for the final yr. Future and D Luxe ought to get the eye; the thought appears to be getting them over as the following technology of Tijuana stars.
(If AEW did pull Nick Wayne off a TripleMania simply to face behind a Christian Cage speaking section, Konnan would possibly erupt like Mount St. Helens on the following new version of his podcast. He’d have some justification. Wayne’s signed with AEW, each he and AAA knew AEW dates first, however AEW pulling him off a significant present on the final second will not be an amazing look. It might additionally make clear to extra folks that AEW sees AAA as no vital than a random US indie, and positively not as some international companion.)
Secta Cibernetica (Cibernético, Darkish Cuervo, Darkish Ozz) vs Secta del Mesias (Darkish Scoria, Darkish Espíritu, El Mesías)
The large angle from TripleMania Monterrey was La Secta fracturing into two. Scoria and Espíritu left Cibernetico and the others behind to affix with Mesias. It didn’t work; it was complicated to determine what was taking place, and it wasn’t very intriguing when it did get cleared up. AAA appears to imagine Cibernetico and Mesias are washed at this level and engineered this feud with the concept Cuervo, Ozz, Scoria, and Espiritu could be the identical dependable OK wrestlers they’d been up to now. As a substitute, these guys appeared nearly as washed in Monterrey. This match can’t probably be as dangerous because the Monterrey primary occasion, however there’s little probability it’ll be pretty much as good. It’s a superb time to take a break or to skip previous in case you’re watching later. This trios might be supposed to construct in direction of one thing extra important in Mexico Metropolis, however forgetting about it will be an amazing choice.
Rey Horus vs. Bestia 666 vs. Mecha Wolf
Right here’s the story: Bestia 666 walked out on AAA and his workforce with Mecha Wolf final fall to work with The Crash. Mecha Wolf began wrestling as a tecnico on his personal. Bestia received again to his previous rivalry with Rey Horus. The Crash was a shock on TripleMania Monterrey, with Bestia representing them. Mecha Wolf confronted Bestia for his betrayal, and that led to this threeway match. Rey Horus and Mecha Wolf are tecnicos and don’t have a problem with one another, however just one can get their fingers on Bestia.
Right here’s the issue: This story hasn’t been informed on AAA TV. The Spanish language announcers tried to dump months of tales into seconds as Mecha Wolf and Bestia fought, however there was no construct to it earlier than or after. AAA did the factor that each one Mexican wrestling promotions are inclined to do – Bestia left AAA immediately, and everybody pretended he by no means existed. There was no onscreen breakup; simply Mecha Wolf not directly talked about how he’s now alone. The one AAA follow-up from their TripleMania Monterrey battle was a vignette the place Mecha Wolf clocked Bestia from behind, making Mecha Wolf come off because the rudo. This threeway is also a repeat match for The Crash followers who may be following it – these similar three guys did a cage match there and now are having a normal match as a rematch.
I like Rey Horus, however he shouldn’t be on this match. Bestia 666 versus Mecha Wolf is the large match to make. I feel AAA and The Crash know that too, and they also’ve determined to avoid wasting that for one more present, and this present will get a lesser match. It matches with this TripleMania, which is only a waypoint in service of different reveals. Horus, Bestia, and Mecha are all stable sufficient wrestlers, have good chemistry with one another, and are acquainted to this Tijuana viewers. This match ought to nonetheless recover from and do nicely, as a result of these are guys the Tijuana viewers is aware of very nicely. AAA’s storytelling to get right here has been abysmal.
Group Casas (Brazo De Oro Jr., Negro Casas, Psycho Clown) vs Group Wagner (Dr. Wagner Jr., Galeno del Mal, Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr.)
The elder Wagner and Negro Casas met in a shock companions trios match in Monterrey. Followers have been hoping/anticipating to be a household match on that present, and AAA booked probably the most random individuals they may discover. They’ve received it proper this time. Casas is teaming up along with his son-in-law, Psycho Clown, and Psycho’s nephew, Brazo de Oro Jr. Wagner, along with his two massive sons. Wagner2 initially mentioned Wagner3 was too busy in Japan to make this date, however then the previous GHC champion was introduced because the workforce’s final man anyway. It’s curious.
AAA’s additionally received Wagner3 in for his or her TV taping subsequent Saturday, the place he faces Matt Riddle in the primary occasion. It’s been years since Wagner3 was a daily, and that can be Riddle’s first match with the PPV. AAA is eternally bizarre, however sustaining a TV taping with two individuals who don’t frequently work for the promotion and haven’t any private points with one another is bizarre for them. I need to make sense of it – possibly AAA’s snared Wagner3 to be a daily, and that is some plan to construct him in direction of a title match – however AAA’s not that logical. Wagner3’s NOAH success hasn’t gotten a lot consideration in Mexico – it’s a promotion not on their radar – however he has appeared so a lot better in Mexico than earlier than he began working there.
Alberto el Patrón, Dave The Clown, Homicide Clown, Vampiro vs Group USA (Parker Boudreaux, QT Marshall, Sam Adonis, Satnam Singh, w/Jeff Jarrett)
“The international heels versus the Mexicans” was the very best match in Monterrey. The issue is that being the very best match on a horrible present doesn’t say a lot, and the first motive that match was the very best was that Laredo and Octagon Jr. pinballed off Satnam Singh. There are not any pinballs right here, simply anvils. It’s fairly dire when the very best hope for a primary occasion is Dave The Clown. Perhaps it goes the opposite means, with Adonis & Marshall getting knocked round for everybody’s offense, however that doesn’t depart Singh and Boudreaux a lot to do. (I’m unsure what match format may have a use for Bourdeaux, who did little in Monterrey and was horrible at that.)
Vampiro’s retirement tour is the connector between this yr’s TripleMania in a a lot much less dramatic means than the earlier tournaments. This present can be AAA’s ninth TV taping of the yr and the fifth to finish with a tearful Vampiro retirement speech. There’s no less than yet one more to go at TripleMania Mexico Metropolis, and he’ll obtain a match with it. Vampiro shot a podcast angle for a Lucha Underground rematch with Pentagon as that farewell; Penta politely agreed in the course of the dialog and later revealed he has no plans to work for AAA in 2024. TripleMania Mexico Metropolis will stay all about Vampiro, so it figures one thing vital has to return out of this match. A Vampiro/Jeff Jarret match would enchantment to the sickest amongst us, however I don’t suppose we’re fortunate sufficient to get that freak present. Maybe Group USA wins once more, and Vampiro recruits previous good friend Mesias and his companions for one final atomicos match. That’ll even be fairly dangerous, but it surely received’t stick out a lot.
The TripleMania simply doesn’t matter a lot. Matches three, 5, and 6 have cheap pictures at being good. AAA weighed down the present with too many matches, no actual shot at being good, and harm others with poorly informed tales. This TripleMania is absurd as a PPV ask, and it’s barely price trying out without spending a dime afterward. Perhaps AAA will make an trustworthy effort for the actual TripleMania in Mexico Metropolis as a result of it certain hasn’t for the remainder of this yr. Getting again on US TV is a superb probability to get individuals to take a brand new have a look at AAA, however AAA’s an excessive amount of of a large number to make the most of it. Take a go on this.