Triplemanía VI was the sixth
Triplemanía
Triplemanía is the biggest annual professional wrestling event promoted by the Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) promotion and is traditionally held in August each year. A majority of the shows have been presented as pay-per-view events, with som ...
professional wrestling show promoted by
AAA. 1998 was the first year since 1993 to only feature one Triplemanía event. The show took place on June 7, 1998 at
Gymnasio Manual Bernardo Aguirre in
Chihuahua, Chihuahua
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...
, Mexico. The annual Triplemanía show is AAA's biggest show of the year, serving as the culmination of major storylines and feature wrestlers from all over the world competing in what has been described as AAA's version of
WrestleMania or their
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the annual final playoff game of the National Football League (NFL) to determine the league champion. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966, replacing the NFL Championship Game. Since 2022, the game ...
event.
The Main event featured a
singles match between Kick Boxer and
Heavy Metal where each man represented an AAA referee who put his hair on the line. Heavy Metal represented his father
Pepe Casas while Kick Boxer represented referee El Tirantes. The show also featured a match for the
Mexican National Tag Team Championship as champions
Juventud Guerrera
Eduardo Aníbal González Hernández (born November 23, 1974) is a Mexican professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Juventud "Juvi" Guerrera.
Guerrera is best known for his appearances with the Mexican professional wrestling promot ...
and
Mosco de la Merced defended the championship against the father/son team of
Perro Aguayo and
Perro Aguayo Jr. The show featured three additional matches.
Production
Background
In early 1992
Antonio Peña was working as a booker and storyline writer for
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Co., Ltd. (CMLL; , "World Wrestling Council") is a ''lucha libre'' professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico City. The promotion was previously known as ''Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre'' (''EMLL'') (''Mexi ...
(CMLL), Mexico's largest and the world's oldest wrestling promotion, and was frustrated by CMLL's very conservative approach to ''
lucha libre
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''. 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, 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
Triplemanía
Triplemanía is the biggest annual professional wrestling event promoted by the Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) promotion and is traditionally held in August each year. A majority of the shows have been presented as pay-per-view events, with som ...
event, building it into an annual event that would become AAA's
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the annual final playoff game of the National Football League (NFL) to determine the league champion. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966, replacing the NFL Championship Game. Since 2022, the game ...
event, similar to the
WWE's
WrestleMania being the biggest show of the year.
1998 marked the first year since 1993 where AAA decided to just hold one Triplemanía show instead of the series of shows they had held over the summers of 1994 to 1997 and from that point on has only held one Triplemanía show per year. The Triplemanía VI show was the 13th overall show held under the Triplemanía banner. The event would take place at the ''
Gymnasio Manual Bernardo Aguirre'' arena in
Chihuahua City,
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Places
*Chihuahua (state), a Mexican state
**Chihuahua (dog), a breed of dog named after the state
**Chihuahua cheese, a type of cheese originating in the state
**Chihuahua City, the capital city of the state
**Chihuahua Mun ...
, Mexico, an indoor sports arena with a capacity of 7.904 people for basketball games, more when the floor section also features seating arrangements. A total of five matches were booked for the show, which outside of
Triplemanía IV-A
Triplemanía IV-A was a major '' lucha libre'', or professional wrestling, show promoted by the Mexican-based AAA and was the first of three Triplemanía IV shows held in 1996. The event took place on May 11, 1996 at the International Amphitheatre ...
, which had four matches,
is the lowest number of matches at a Triplemanía show tied with Triplemanía VIII which also only featured five matches.
Storylines
The Triplemanía VI show featured five
professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing
scripted feuds,
plots and
storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either
heels
The heel is the prominence at the posterior end of the foot. It is based on the projection of one bone, the calcaneus or heel bone, behind the articulation of the bones of the lower leg.
Structure
To distribute the compressive forces exerte ...
(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
References
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1998 in professional wrestling
Triplemanía
June 1998 events in Mexico