Triplemanía VIII was the eighth
Triplemanía professional wrestling show promoted by
AAA. The show took place on July 5, 2000 in
Tokyo, Japan. It was only the second show to take place outside Mexico and the first show to take place in Japan. The Main event featured an
Eight-man "Atómicos" tag team match which saw AAA regulars team up with various Japanese wrestlers. The team of
Octagón,
Jushin Thunder Liger,
Latin Lover, and
El Alebrije
El Alebrije (born July 12, 1972) is a Mexican ''Luchador'' '' enmascarado'', or masked professional wrestler, currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) under the ring name Kraneo. He best known for his work in Asistencia Asesor� ...
took on
Cibernético
Octavio López Arreola (born April 12, 1975) is a Mexican professional wrestler who is best known under the ring name Cibernético and for working for the Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA) promotion in Mexico. During AAA's short partnership with t ...
,
Shiima Nobunaga
(born November 15, 1977), better known by his ring name Cima ( ) (most often stylized as CIMA), is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently works for Gleat. He had previously worked for Oriental Wrestling Entertainment (OWE), where he had ...
,
Abismo Negro, and
Electroshock.
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
Lucha libre (, meaning "freestyle wrestling" or literally translated as "free fight") is the term used in Latin America for professional wrestling. Since its introduction to Mexico in the early 20th century, it has developed into a unique form ...
''. 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
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, later simply known 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 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. The 2000 Triplemanía was the eight year in a row AAA held a Triplemanía show and the fifteenth overall show under the Triplemanía banner.
Storylines
The Triplemanía VIII show featured six
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.
Reception
John F. Molinaro from the Canoe.ca website wrote that the Triplemanía show that kicked off the tour was well received by the crowd.
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]
Aftermath
The rest of the AAA tour of Japan drew very low attendance figures, drawing only 409 in Nagoya and 507 in Kobe
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for the next two stops of the tour as AAA failed to gain the interest of the Japanese fans even by bringing in several well known Japanese wrestlers.[ AAA only made brief tours of Japan since then, teaming up with a Japanese promotion for the tours.]
Results
References
External links
Triplemanía VIII at LuchaLibreAAA.com
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