Triplemanía XI was the eleventh

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show promoted by AAA. The show took place on June 15, 2003, in Naucalpan, Mexico. The Main event featured an Eight-man "Atómicos" tag team match where the team of Lizmark, La Parka, Octagón and Super Caló faced the team of

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, Cibernético and The Headhunters.

Production

Background

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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 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

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

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event, similar to the

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's WrestleMania being the biggest show of the year. The 2003 Triplemanía was the 11th year in a row AAA held a Triplemanía show and the 16th overall show under the Triplemanía banner.

Storylines

The Triplemanía XI show featured six

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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 XI at LuchaLibreAAA.com
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