Triplemanía V-A was the first part of the fifth
Triplemanía
Triplemanía is an annual Lucha Libre (professional wrestling) event promoted by the Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) promotion that is traditionally held in August each year. The name is a combination of how "AAA" is pronounced in Spanish, ''"Tri ...
professional wrestling
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show promoted by
AAA. 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
Perro Aguayo,
Tinieblas Jr. and
Canek and
Jake Roberts
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, Killer, and
Gorgeous George III.
Production
Background
In early 1992
Antonio Peña
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was working as a booker and storyline writer for
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
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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 ''
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 the recognition they deserved and decided to split from CMLL to create
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración
Promociones Antonio Peña, S.A. de C.V. doing business as, d/b/a Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (commonly referred to as simply AAA, pronounced "Triple A" – an abbreviation of its original name Asistencia, Asesoría y Administración de Espectáculos ...
, 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 an annual Lucha Libre (professional wrestling) event promoted by the Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) promotion that is traditionally held in August each year. The name is a combination of how "AAA" is pronounced in Spanish, ''"Tri ...
event, building it into an annual event that would become AAA's
Super Bowl
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event, similar to the
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's
WrestleMania 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
professional wrestling matches
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with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing
scripted feuds,
plots and
storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either
heels (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
External links
Triplemanía V at LuchaLibreAAA.com
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1997 in professional wrestling
Triplemanía
June 1997 in Mexico