Triplemanía V-A was the first part of the fifth

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show promoted by

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. 1997 was fourth year to feature the "Triplemanía Series" of shows with two, referred to as V-A and V-B, where this was the first of the series. The show took place on June 13, 1997 in Tijuana, Mexico. The Main event featured a Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match between the teams of

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and Canek and

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, Killer, and

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Production

Background

In early 1992

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was working as a booker and storyline writer for

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(CMLL), Mexico's largest and the world's oldest wrestling promotion, and was frustrated by CMLL's very conservative approach to ''

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''. He joined forced with a number of younger, very talented wrestlers who felt like CMLL was not giving them the recognition they deserved and decided to split from CMLL to create

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, later known simply as "AAA" or Triple A. After making a deal with the ''Televisa'' television network AAA held their first show in April, 1992. The following year Peña and AAA held their first

event, building it into an annual event that would become AAA's

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event, similar to the

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being the biggest show of the year. The 1997 Triplemanía was the fifth year in a row AAA held a Triplemanía show and the eleventh overall show under the Triplemanía banner.

Storylines

The Triplemanía V-A show featured eight

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with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing

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feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either

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(referred to as ''rudos'' in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") or

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(''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

References

External links

Triplemanía V at LuchaLibreAAA.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Triplemania 05a 1997 in professional wrestling Triplemanía June 1997 events in Mexico