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Triplemanía XV was the fifteenth
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 ...
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show promoted by
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. The show took place on July 15, 2007 in Naucalpan, Mexico like the previous year’s event. The Main event featured a ''Domo De La Muerte'' cage match (also known as a "Thundercage" match) where the last person in the cage would have his hair shaved off. The match featured the teams of Los Hell Brothers (
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, Chessman, and
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) and '' La Legión Extranjera'' ( El Mesías,
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, and
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).


Production


Background

In early 1992,
Antonio Peña Antonio Hipolito Peña Herrada (June 13, 1951 – October 5, 2006) was a Mexican professional wrestling promoter who founded the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) promotion in 1992. Peña's promotion reached its height of popularit ...
was working as a booker and storyline writer for
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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
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
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event, similar to the
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's WrestleMania being the biggest show of the year. The 2007 Triplemanía was the 15th year in a row AAA held a Triplemanía show and the 20th overall show under the Triplemanía banner.


Storylines

The Triplemanía XV show featured eight
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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
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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


External links


Triplemanía XV at LuchaLibreAAA.com
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