Verano de Escándalo (2015) (Spanish for "Summer of Scandal") was a

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pay-per-view event produced by the Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA)

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, which took place on June 14, 2015 in "Arena Monterrey" in Monterrey, Nuevo León,

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. The event has been a regular summer event for AAA since 1997, only skipping the event in 2012 and 2013, 2015 marked the 17th time AAA has held such an event.

Production

Background

First held during the summer of 1997 the Mexican

, company Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA, or Triple A) began holding a major wrestling show during the summer, most often in September, called Verano de Escándalo ("Summer of Scandal"). The Verano de Escándalo show was an annual event from 1997 until 2011, then AAA did not hold a show in 2012 and 2013 before bringing the show back in 2014, but this time in June, putting it at the time AAA previously held their Triplemanía show. In 2012 and 2013

Triplemanía XX Triplemanía XX was a professional wrestling event scripted and produced by the AAA promotion, which took place on August 5, 2012, at Arena Ciudad de México in Mexico City, Mexico. The event was the twentieth annual Triplemanía, which is AAA's ...

and

Triplemanía XXI Triplemanía XXI was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) produced by the AAA promotion, which took place on June 16, 2013, at Arena Ciudad de México in Mexico City, Mexico. The event was the 21st year that AAA held a Triplemanía and i ...

was held in August instead of the early summer. The show often features championship matches or ''

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'' or bet matches where the competitors risked their

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or hair on the outcome of the match. In '' Lucha Libre'' the ''Lucha de Apuetas'' match is considered more prestigious than a championship match and a lot of the major shows feature one or more ''Apuesta'' matches. The 2015 Verano de Escándalo show was the 17th show in the series.

Storylines

The Verano de Escándalo show featured six

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with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing, scripted 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

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