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83-406: On March 12, 2010, at Lucha Libre AAA World Wide 's (AAA) Rey de Reyes event, La Legión Extranjera 's leader Konnan faced Cibernético in a grudge match, four months in the making. The rest of La Legión tried to interfere in the match, but were taken out by Los Psycho Circus , after which Cibernético scored a clean pinfall victory to seemingly end his feud with Konnan. However, after

166-491: A Mask vs. Hair match . At Triplemanía XIX, Nicho el Millonario interfered in a six-man tag team match, where his tag team partner Joe Líder, Electroshock and Heavy Metal faced Los Maniacos and was, as a result, suspended for three months by AAA following the event in accordance to a deal made between Konnan and Joaquín Roldán. Prior to the start of his suspension, Nicho appeared at the June 30 tapings, voicing his displeasure over

249-469: A car . On September 24, AAA announced that it would return to its first performances in early October after the announced project. In December 2020, FactoryMade Ventures , one of the co-producers of Lucha Underground , filed a lawsuit with AAA; claiming to have exclusive rights to distribute AAA events and merchandise outside of Mexico. On February 2, 2021, the company signed an alliance with SECTUR to promote Mexico's tourist destinations. Bearing

332-504: A técnico , forming a partnership with former rival Cibernético, which led to Los Perros del Mal turning on him. It was also suggested that Konnan, whom Aguayo considered his brother, would join him as a técnico . At Guerra de Titanes , Aguayo turned on Cibernético, El Mesías and La Parka following a main event eight-man tag team match, attacking the three along with El Consejo and Los Perros del Mal . This led to El Zorro, who had recently returned to AAA, running out, but instead of saving

415-619: A Masks vs. Hairs steel cage match and were all shaved bald. At the same event, Abyss and Chessman defeated Extreme Tiger and Jack Evans to bring the AAA World Tag Team Championship back to La Sociedad , while El Hijo del Perro Aguayo failed to capture the AAA Latin American Championship from Dr. Wagner Jr. After the match between Wagner and Aguayo, Octagón shocked AAA by turning on the promotion and attacking Wagner. La Parka then entered

498-632: A court declared that AAA owned the rights to the character . L.A. Park then aligned himself with Konnan, noting his history with him from their days back in World Championship Wrestling , and Dorian Roldán, who was threatening to take over the company from his father, AAA president Joaquín Roldán, before having a heated confrontation with the second incarnation of the La Parka character , whom he dubbed an "impostor Parka". The two Parkas were set to face each other on June 6, 2010, in

581-479: A match between him and the new Mega Champion, his La Sociedad partner El Zorro, the next title shot was awarded to Los Bizarros member Charly Manson to set up a grudge match for the title between him and El Zorro, causing dissension between Park and Konnan. On February 28 Park entered the 2011 Rey de Reyes tournament in order to solidify his spot as the number one contender, defeating Dr. Wagner Jr., Halloween and Nicho el Millonario in his semifinal match. During

664-400: A mistake. Jarrett and fellow TNA worker Abyss arrived to AAA on May 18 for a confrontation with Konnan and La Sociedad . In the end, Konnan and Jarrett revealed that they were in fact on the same page with each other and turned on El Zorro, along with L.A. Park, with Konnan announcing that Jarrett would be challenging for his AAA Mega Championship at Triplemanía XIX. It was later revealed that

747-674: A number of luchadores for the Royal Rumble event and its namesake match. In April 2014, TNA founder Jeff Jarrett , who was credited for AAA & TNA relationship, had left the company. He announced that his new Global Force Wrestling (GFW) promotion would begin working with the AAA. TNA and AAA would continue to work with each other, including on such events as the Lucha Libre World Cup on May 24, 2015. When Jarrett returned to TNA (then known as Impact Wrestling) in 2017, it

830-534: A number of signature events and tournaments: some shown as pay-per-view events and others presented as TV Azteca television specials. The annual shows and tournaments, shown in order of occurrence during each year, include: AAA has few restrictions on the number of championships it promotes, often allowing wrestlers to defend titles from other promotions; such as the Universal Wrestling Association . Such titles are defended on AAA shows as

913-477: A result of creative problems, and stars such as Fuerza Guerrera and Blue Panther soon left too when the Mexican economy began to slow down (which resulted in the company's inability to offer as much work). Talent such as Rey Misterio, Jr. , Psicosis , La Parka , and Juventud Guerrera , would also depart to WCW in 1996, as well as Konnan's short-lived Promo Azteca promotion. In early 1997, AAA established

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996-609: A result of the COVID-19 pandemic . The following April, a tournament called Lucha Fighters was created consisting of 12 luchadores and 8 luchadoras . During the indefinite recess due to health contingency due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico , on July 20, 2020, AAA announced its project called " AutoLuchas " which consists of a events in Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez where fans could see through from

1079-598: A show for the American El Rey Network in the second half of the year. The one-hour weekly program would be accompanied by monthly and quarterly specials as well as live pay-per-views. The show, titled Lucha Underground , premiered on October 29, 2014. The series ran for four seasons, and received generally positive reviews. Beginning in March 2015, the company announced that it would be known as Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide from that point on, although it

1162-550: A three count, declaring Park the victor. After the match wrestlers from Los Perros del Mal , led by the promotion's founder and owner, El Hijo del Perro Aguayo , filled the ring, before declaring a war on AAA. On June 10 AAA announced that it would respect Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission's decision to throw out the match due to outside interference and as a result both L.A. Park and La Parka kept their names. After initially teasing joining forces with AAA to fight Los Perros del Mal , La Legión Extranjera joined forces with

1245-501: A way to promote their talents. This long-standing practice ended in December 2008, after the promotion announced it will no longer recognize or promote any non-AAA title. This list only includes AAA championships and does not include titles from other promotions. As of November 28, 2024. Hardcore wrestling Mid 20th Century 1970s and 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s and 2020s Hardcore wrestling

1328-748: A working agreement with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), with several luchadores appearing in the 1997 Royal Rumble . In the mid-1990s the name of the company was changed to simply be AAA (pronounced as Triple A ), as the company bought out Televisa and became independent. On October 6, 2006, founder Antonio Peña died of a heart attack. Following Peña's death, his sister Marisela Peña manages AAA financially; while Peña's brother-in-law Joaquín Roldán and his son, Dorian Roldán Peña serve as operational managers. In 2008, Lucha Libre USA presented AAA's second U.S. pay-per-view, Legendary Battles of Triplemania . In 2009, AAA announced

1411-480: Is a Mexican Lucha Libre ( professional wrestling ) promotion based in Mexico City , Mexico. It was founded in 1992, when Antonio Peña broke away from Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) to set up his own promotion to have more creative freedom . AAA has a developed a reputation for its outlandish gimmicks and characters, and more extreme match styles. In addition to the conventional "squared circle",

1494-450: Is a form of professional wrestling where disqualifications, count-outs, and all other different rules do not apply. Taking place in usual or unusual environments, hardcore wrestling matches allow the use of numerous items, including ladders, tables, chairs, thumbtacks, barbed wire, light tubes, shovels, glass, baseball bats (sometimes wrapped in barbed wire) and other improvised weapons used as foreign objects . Although hardcore wrestling

1577-720: Is a staple of most wrestling promotions, where they are often used at the climaxes of feuds , some promotions (such as Big Japan Pro Wrestling , International Wrestling Syndicate , IWA-MS , Game Changer Wrestling , Combat Zone Wrestling ) specialize in hardcore wrestling, with many matches performed in this manner. Hardcore wrestling was first acknowledged as a major wrestling style in Japan with promotions such as Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling and W*ING . It then became successful in America with Extreme Championship Wrestling . The World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment capitalized on

1660-427: Is often separated into distinct "levels" based on the graphic nature of the match: Hardcore matches tend to emphasize the use of certain weapons, the brutality of the attacks, moderate brawling techniques, and the extreme physical toll on the wrestlers, and thus many euphemisms for these matches are employed. The almost kayfabe -breaking accessibility of some of these weapons—often under the ring—to wrestlers has led to

1743-503: Is still referred to mainly as AAA or "Triple A". On April 8, 2017, AAA General Manager Joaquín Roldán died. On 14 June, AAA began airing on FrontRunnerTV in the UK. In April and May 2018, some Liga Elite talent Teddy Hart, Juventud Guerrera and Taurus made their return to AAA wearing their Elite League jerseys. On June 4, at Verano de Escándalo , Jeff Jarrett returned after 3 years to defeat Rey Wagner and Rey Mysterio Jr. and win

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1826-814: The When Worlds Collide pay-per-view event with World Championship Wrestling (WCW). The event was critically-acclaimed and is credited for popularizing lucha libre in the United States. Weeks after the show, Art Barr (a key member of Los Gringos Locos ) died while visiting his family. AAA subsequentally vacated the AAA Tag Team Championships, which led to the departure of fellow stable-mates (in Los Gringos Locos) Eddie Guerrero and Madonna's Boyfriend . El Hijo del Santo also departed as

1909-522: The AAA Mega Championship . In the main event of the evening Damián 666, Halloween and X-Fly of Los Perros del Mal faced Los Psycho Circus ( Monster Clown , Murder Clown and Psycho Clown ), a trio, who hadn't lost a single match since their debut in December 2007, in an elimination steel cage weapons match . In the end of the match, someone wearing a Monster Clown mask climbed up the cage and prevented Murder Clown from escaping. After

1992-618: The AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship . Later that same night, Lizmark Jr. made his AAA return after a sixteen-year absence and joined Los Perros del Mal , while Billy Boy turned on La Sociedad and joined Los Bizarros . In late 2010 L.A. Park began asking Konnan for a shot at the AAA Mega Championship and was promised his shot if he managed to defeat El Mesías at Guerra de Titanes . Park did just that, but instead of putting together

2075-938: The America's X-Cup Tournament as a contingent known as Team Mexico . Team Mexico dominated the America's X-Cup Tournament, defeating Team USA in the first round before retaining the Cup against both Team Canada and Team Britain . They eventually lost at the World X-Cup , which saw Team USA defeat Team Canada and Team Mexico in the Ultimate X finals to win the Cup. TNA and AAA's working relationship would end in late 2004. TNA continued utilizing luchadores, but opted to contract them individually. In 2006, AAA and TNA would again team up for an event in Toreo de Cuatro Caminos , utilizing some of TNA's talent and stage (which includes

2158-892: The Rey de Reyes tournament, Park came back during the main event and cost Jarrett the AAA Mega Championship in his match against El Mesías. On August 5 at Triplemanía XX , Jarrett and the debuting Kurt Angle represented Dorian Roldán in a match, where they faced Park and Electroshock, representing Joaquín Roldán, with the Roldáns' hairs on the line. Electroshock won the match for his team by pinning Angle, but Joaquín announced that he did not want his son shaved after he had agreed to disband La Sociedad . However, Dorian ended up once again betraying his father by attacking him and shaving him instead. The event also featured Psicosis defeating longtime rival Joe Líder in another Hair vs. Hair match and El Hijo del Perro Aguayo unsuccessfully challenging El Mesías for

2241-438: The técnicos , he also turned on them, joining the rudos . La Nueva Sociedad was completed by Sexy Star, who returned from her maternity leave during the event, saving Karen Jarrett from Faby Apache, before the new group was formally introduced by Roldán. In February 2015, Los Hell Brothers ( Averno , Chessman and Cibernético) joined La Sociedad . In May, longtime rival of La Sociedad , El Mesías, turned rudo and also joined

2324-571: The 2011 Rey de Reyes, Extreme Tiger . Following the loss, Silver King and Último Gladiador began showing signs of dissension, but were brought back together by La Legión Extranjera member Chessman , who joined Los Maniacos to form La Maniarquía . Meanwhile, the AAA Mega Champion El Zorro, having caught wind of L.A. Park's intention of challenging for his title, seemingly started interfering in his matches under his old mask, costing him back–to–back multi–man tag team matches at

2407-525: The AAA Mega Championship. Jarrett was assisted by Konnan, who also returned to AAA after 2 years. On February 1, 2019, AAA announced the end of their relationship with Televisa after 27 years, with the promotion's programming moving to the Multimedios television station. On February 3, after Super Bowl LIII , AAA reached an agreement with TV Azteca to broadcast their show on Azteca 7 . On April 4, 2019, AAA announced its first event to be held in

2490-586: The AAA Mega Championship. The following November, El Consejo joined La Sociedad . On December 2 at Guerra de Titanes , El Consejo member El Texano Jr. defeated El Mesías to bring the AAA Mega Championship back to La Sociedad . During a television taping on February 3, 2013, Dorian Roldán and Konnan went on a rampage, firing Atomic Boy , La Jarochita and Pepe Casas from AAA, before being interrupted by Joaquín Roldán, who instead fired both Dorian and Konnan. He then also threatened to fire any member of La Sociedad that did not help eject Dorian and Konnan from

2573-438: The AAA World Tag Team Championship, La Hermandad 187 faced Konnan, Damián 666 and Halloween in a three–on–two handicap hardcore match at Héroes Inmortales IV , in which Nicho and Líder avenged the past couple of months by bloodying Konnan before pinning him for the win. On November 14, 2010, Electroshock officially announced that he was not part of La Sociedad and urged his stablemates Silver King and Último Gladiador to leave

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2656-596: The AAA World Trios Championship to Los Psycho Circus . The following day, the three announced that they had quit Los Perros del Mal . On March 18 at Rey de Reyes , the short-lived alliance between La Sociedad and La Parka came to an end, when Octagón and La Milicia turned on him, after he had lost his rivalry against Los Bizarros . Rey de Reyes also continued the rivalry between La Sociedad stablemates, Jeff Jarrett and L.A. Park. After Jarrett's interference caused Park to get eliminated from

2739-593: The April 27 and 30 TV tapings, escalating the dissension within La Sociedad in the process. In early May, Jeff Jarrett , the founder of American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , announced his and TNA's alignment with Dorian Roldán and La Sociedad and their participation in Triplemanía XIX . Konnan, however, was against the idea of his former employer coming to AAA and believed that Roldán had made

2822-816: The Hardcore-style matches that emphasize the spirit of JCW. Other euphemisms, such as the Good Housekeeping match and Full Metal Mayhem, emphasize the use of certain foreign objects as being legal (the former with kitchen implements and the latter with metallic objects). In a Fans Bring the Weapons match, wrestlers fight with "weapons" that members of the audience bring to the venue (most often brought are standard kitchen household appliances, like frying pans, toasters, or rolling pins, although its not unusual that fans occasionally bring in items that are far more improbable, like an artificial leg or LEGO); this

2905-576: The Japanese promotions. A new gimmick , breaking wooden tables , was introduced to ECW through Sabu , nephew of The Sheik. Sabu had developed a gimmick of throwing himself through a propped-up table in Japan in order to entertain the crowd and get his character over as a wild and possibly insane man. He then started to put opponents through tables, a relatively safe spot which looked and sounded devastating. He brought it with him to ECW, where it became

2988-556: The NWA, the company changed its name to Extreme Championship Wrestling, and became the leading independent hardcore wrestling federation in North America. ECW coined the term "hardcore wrestling", but its usage there was slightly different from how it is used today. In ECW, 'hardcore' referred to a strong work ethic , high levels of effort, dedication to the fans, and lack of fluff or filler. Their level of violence rarely equaled that of

3071-720: The November 14 tapings, Héctor Garza jumped from Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) to AAA, aligning himself with Los Perros del Mal . On December 16 at Guerra de Titanes , L.A. Park defeated Dr. Wagner Jr. for the AAA Latin American Championship. Following the match, a new group named El Consejo ("The Council"), consisting of former CMLL workers El Texano Jr. , Toscano and Máscara Año 2000 Jr. , made its debut, declaring war on both AAA and La Sociedad . On March 11, 2012, La Sociedad' s title domination ended, when Damián 666, Halloween and X-Fly lost

3154-447: The United States and Japan. The promotion broadcasts shows regularly on Gala TV in Mexico, and Univision TDN in Mexico and parts of the United States. Mid 20th Century 1970s and 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s and 2020s Between April and May of 1992, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) booker Antonio Peña broke with the company in favor of establishing his own group, along with Konnan , and much of

3237-579: The United States, Invading NY , would take place at Madison Square Garden on September 15, 2019. The promotion also announced that would hold a second event in the US titled Invading Los Angeles , at The Forum in Inglewood, California on October 13, 2019. On August 16, 2019, it was reported by Pro Wrestling Insider that Invading NY was moved to Hulu Theater due to poor ticket sales. AAA would cancel and postpone its televised events in mid-March 2020 as

3320-527: The United States, two independent promotions had brief but significant runs, serving as prototypes for Extreme Championship Wrestling. The Philadelphia-based Tri-State Wrestling Alliance held occasional supercards that featured big name stars among their own local talent, and showcased wild bloody main event brawls with Abdullah the Butcher, The Sheik, Jesse James Sr. and others. The National Wrestling Federation (formerly known as Continental Wrestling Alliance)

3403-589: The World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment, ladder matches , which had become more common, were now combined with tables and weapons matches to create Tables, Ladders, and Chairs matches . ECW influenced wrestling organizations such as Xtreme Pro Wrestling , International Wrestling Syndicate , IWA Mid-South , Combat Zone Wrestling , and Juggalo Championship Wrestling , which carried on ECW's violent style after it went defunct. Hardcore wrestling has fallen out of favor in

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3486-433: The alliance known as Potencia Mundial , in an eight-man tag team match. Meanwhile, El Zorro was successful in his first title defense by defeating Charly Manson. At the following television taping on March 21, Konnan, disappointed with the performance of La Milicia , demoted Decnnis and named Super Fly the sub–group's new leader. Later that same night, Los Maniacos lost the AAA World Tag Team Championship to Jack Evans and

3569-469: The bloody brawling style which caught on in Japan and the American South. New match types were devised that resembled street fighting , such as matches which were held in a cage , Texas Deathmatches which incorporated weapons, and Lights Out matches which were 'unsanctioned' and took place after the rest of the scheduled card, once the house lights had briefly been turned off to signify the end of

3652-529: The building, leading to the rudos turning on their former leaders, effectively ending La Sociedad . A second incarnation of La Sociedad , La Nueva Sociedad ("The New Society"), was formed on December 8, 2013, at the end of Guerra de Titanes by the returning Dorian Roldán and Konnan, Daga , El Hijo del Fantasma , El Hijo del Perro Aguayo , Jeff Jarrett, Karen Jarrett , Psicosis, Sexy Star , Silver King, El Texano Jr. and El Zorro. Prior to Guerra de Titanes , El Hijo del Perro Aguayo had effectively become

3735-483: The empty arena match and fighting among the crowd into the concession stands , improvising attacks with whatever appliances could be found. More specialties such as ladder matches , scaffold matches and Dog Collar matches were introduced. The NWA eventually instituted a World Brass Knuckles Championship , which was active in the Tennessee territory from 1978 to 1980. In 1989, Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW)

3818-471: The end Cibernético interfered in the match and helped Legado AAA pick up the win, but refused to celebrate with the victors, due to being upset with them believing he had turned on the company. Cibernético then went on to re–form his old stable Los Bizarros with Amadeus, Escoria , Nygma and Taboo, vowing to show AAA how to really battle La Sociedad . During the stable warfare between La Sociedad and AAA, Perros del Mal' s leader El Hijo del Perro Aguyao

3901-749: The event. The National Wrestling Alliance had brass knuckles championships in the Texas and Florida territories, dating from the 1950s. (The Texas title was taken by World Class Championship Wrestling when it split away). Brawling continued to evolve and grow in popularity in America through the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The Detroit territory was home to The Sheik , Abdullah the Butcher and Bobo Brazil , and featured long, bloody brawls. The Puerto Rico territory featured Carlos Colón , The Invader and Abdullah, and introduced fire as an element of violence. The Memphis territory featured Jerry Lawler , Terry Funk , Eddie Gilbert and Bill Dundee and introduced

3984-620: The focus of a feud involving multiple teams. The table spot became a staple of ECW events, and has become so commonplace that it is now incorporated into otherwise non-hardcore matches in almost every promotion. In Japan, hardcore promotions sprang up around the country, including Wrestling International New Generations W*ING , the International Wrestling Association of Japan and Big Japan Pro Wrestling . New elements included fluorescent light tubes, scattered thumb tacks , flaming ropes and live piranhas . In

4067-644: The group. At the November 18 event in Naucalpan Electroshock once again turned down an offer to join La Sociedad and was as a result beaten down by Silver King, Último Gladiador and La Milicia . On November 28 the man who had attacked Octagón prior to Héroes Inmortales IV was revealed as Super Fly , when he attacked Octagón and his fellow Real Fuerza Aérea co–leader Aero Star and beat them down with help from La Milicia . On December 5 at Guerra de Titanes El Zorro defeated Dr. Wagner Jr. , with help from his La Sociedad stable mates, to win

4150-442: The group. On September 16, Konnan rewarded Chessman by moving him back to La Legión Extrangera and naming him the group's new general, taking over the spot formerly held by El Zorro. In the process, Decnnis was also moved from La Milicia to Los Maniacos . Los Perros del Mal and Los Psycho Circus ended their year-long rivalry on October 9 at Héroes Inmortales , where Damián 666, Halloween and Nicho el Millonario were defeated in

4233-409: The group. The members of La Milicia are low–carders , situated clearly below the rest of the group. When working for independent hardcore wrestling promotion Desastre Total Ultraviolento (DTU), the group is referred to as La Milicia Extrema . Los Perros del Mal , La Legión Extranjera and La Milicia then came together to form La Sociedad , under the leadership of Dorian Roldán. In September

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4316-573: The invaders on June 20 at an event in Zapopan, Jalisco . The following month Decnnis started a new sub–group named La Milicia within La Legión , consisting of himself, Billy Boy , Black Abyss , Chris Stone , Psicosis III and Tigre Cota . Black Abyss and Psicosis III have since left the promotion, while Chris Stone's brother Alan , who turned on El Elegido , and Tigre Cota's AAA Northern Tag Team Championship partner Tito Santana have joined

4399-404: The leader of Los Maniacos , had made no official announcement on whether he was joining La Sociedad or not, but agreed to take part in the match in order to get his hands on Heavy Metal, with whom he had been feuding the past weeks. Prior to the match AAA, buying Konnan and Dorian's claim of Cibernético's turn, replaced him and the injured Octagón in the match with Dark Ozz and Dark Cuervo . In

4482-429: The main event of AAA's biggest event of the year, Triplemanía XVIII , in a match, where the winner would earn the rights to the name "La Parka". At Triplemanía XVIII, L.A. Park used an illegal Martinete on La Parka and then went to use a steel chair on him, which led to Joaquín Roldán entering the ring and pleading him to stop the assault. Park then teased using the chair on Joaquín instead, which led to Dorian entering

4565-689: The major American promotions; the last major hardcore title was the WWE Hardcore Championship , which merged into the Intercontinental Title in 2002. However, WWE still features a yearly pay per view event based around hardcore wrestling called WWE Extreme Rules . In 2006, the MTV -affiliated promotion/show Wrestling Society X featured hardcore wrestling, but was cancelled after one season. The main rule behind hardcore can have various connotations. Thus, hardcore wrestling

4648-405: The man had dropped Murder Clown back into the cage, Halloween climbed out of the cage to win the match and end Los Psycho Circus' long undefeated streak. Afterwards, the man who had interfered in the match was revealed as El Hijo del Perro Aguayo, who had suffered a knee injury after his match with El Mesías and was supposed to be out of action for the rest of the year. On January 15, 2011, during

4731-472: The man who had attacked Park under El Zorro's mask was actually Charly Manson, who had been sent by Cibernético to cause dissension within the ranks of La Sociedad . On June 18 at Triplemanía XIX, Damián 666, Halloween and X-Fly defeated Los Psycho Circus in a tournament final to become the first ever AAA World Trios Champions , while Jeff Jarrett defeated El Zorro to become the new AAA Mega Champion and L.A. Park ended his feud with El Mesías by defeating him in

4814-400: The match Legión members Alex Koslov and Hernandez attacked Cibernético, which led to El Mesías running out to make the save. He, however, was taken out by a hooded man swinging a chair, who then removed his hood to reveal himself as L.A. Park , who had wrestled for AAA from 1992 to 1996 under the ring name La Parka and had been forced to rename himself after leaving the promotion, when

4897-588: The match Park was attacked by La Sociedad member Damián 666, who was seemingly trying to prevent him from advancing in the tournament, but instead the interference distracted Wagner Jr. and cost him the match. On March 18 at the Rey de Reyes pay-per-view , Park was eliminated from the finals of the tournament, after brawling with rival El Mesías to a double countout. At the same event Los Perros del Mal , represented by El Hijo del Perro Aguayo, Damián 666, Halloween and Super Crazy , continued their win streak over Los Psycho Circus , by defeating them and Dr. Wagner Jr.,

4980-714: The mid-1990s, FMW eventually held female hardcore matches at the suggestion of Megumi Kudo . The first one was held between Megumi Kudo and Combat Toyoda as a deathmatch where the ring ropes were replaced with electrified barbed-wire with explosives. After the match, many female wrestlers had various brutal and bloody deathmatches in FMW with barbed-wire ropes, barbed-wire barricades, exploding barbed-wire barricades, electrified/exploding barbed-wire ropes, broken glass, or mixtures of any and all these. These matches often included various dangerous weapons such as barbed-wire wrapped chains, flaming barbed-wire baseball bats, and sickles . Most of

5063-544: The name of the tour as " Lucha por la Identidad Nacional ", this included shows such as Rey de Reyes and Verano de Escándalo . On August 14, Triplemanía XXIX was held at the Arena Ciudad de México. It was the first event since the pandemic began to have a limited number of fans in attendance for biosecurity reasons. Héroes Inmortales XIV would also have a limited audience present. In 1997, AAA partnered with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) to bring in

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5146-928: The noun "plunder" in reference to them. For example, Street Fights and Bunkhouse Brawls are hardcore-style matches which emphasize that wrestlers need not be in typical wrestling gear when they are battling, while the No Holds Barred match emphasizes the no-disqualification rule, the "HardKore X-Treme matches are the version of hardcore rules match except weapons include flaming tables, flaming chairs, flaming weapons, razor wire, sheets of glass, and weapons that are covered in barbed wire, and Deathmatches that emphasize fluorescent light tubes, panes of glass, barbed wire, fire, thumbtacks, razor blades, gusset plates, syringes, needles, explosives, bed of nails, staple guns, concrete blocks, alive piranhas and all other foreign objects to provoke extreme and heavy bleeding. In WWE , Extreme Rules matches are hardcore-style matches that emphasize

5229-428: The official release of a video game originally entitled AAA El Videojuego . The game was later retitled Lucha Libre AAA: Héroes del Ring , was released on October 12, 2010. AAA developed a working relationship with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) in 2004. Through the relationship, AAA sent the luchadores Juventud Guerrera , Héctor Garza , Abismo Negro , Heavy Metal , and Mr. Águila to TNA to compete in

5312-460: The promotion and join La Sociedad instead. This was followed by La Parka finding Octagón bloodied and someone resembling Cibernético driving away on a motorcycle. The two teams were scheduled to face each other on October 1 at Héroes Inmortales IV with La Sociedad being represented by Electroshock , El Zorro , Hernandez and L.A. Park, while Legado AAA was scheduled to consist of Cibernético, Heavy Metal , La Parka and Octagón. Electroshock,

5395-400: The promotion occasionally uses a hexagonal wrestling ring . The promotion has had working relationships with other Mexican promotions, as well as several American promotions; such as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), Major League Wrestling (MLW), and All Elite Wrestling (AEW). AAA primarily hosts pay-per-views (PPV) events in Mexico, and has also promoted international events in

5478-504: The ring to protest. Park then pushed Dorian down, before hitting Joaquín with the chair, which caused Dorian to turn on him, beating him down with a steel chair. Suddenly, Damián 666 and Halloween from the Perros del Mal wrestling promotion, for which Park had worked for during his time away from AAA, entered the ring, chased Dorian away and dragged Park on top of Parka, after which La Legión Extranjera' s referee El Hijo del Tirantes made

5561-432: The ring to seemingly confront his longtime partner, before also turning on Wagner and attacking him along with Octagón, Aguayo, Konan Big and Silver King. On November 5, Konnan named Octagón the new leader of La Milicia , replacing Super Fly. Octagón then showed that he had not forgotten what Super Fly had done to him fourteen months earlier by ordering the rest of the group to attack him, kicking him out of La Milicia . At

5644-483: The spirit of its former competitor, Extreme Championship Wrestling . Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) dubs the Hardcore match as " Ultraviolent Rules " match, the hardcore-style matches that could involve and emphasize ladders, tables, chairs, thumbtacks, barbed wire, light tubes, glass boards, fire, staple guns, and the spirits of Combat Zone Wrestling . In Juggalo Championship Wrestling (JCW), " Juggalo Rules " match,

5727-838: The stable. On September 20, Konnan stepped down as the leader of La Sociedad with El Hijo del Fantasma announced as his replacement. Meanwhile, Johnny Mundo became the newest member of the stable. The group disbanded in 2016. The first incarnation of La Sociedad was led by Dorian Roldán and consisted of members of La Legión Extranjera , Los Perros del Mal , La Milicia , Los Maniacos / La Maniarquia and El Consejo . Lucha Libre AAA World Wide Promociones Antonio Peña, S.A. de C.V. 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 , lit.   ' Assistance, Advisory, and Administration of Spectacles ' )

5810-595: The success and introduced the WWF Hardcore Championship in the 1990s. The WWF soon began to turn the matches into comedy skits, illustrating the ridiculousness they involved. Hardcore contrasts with traditional mat-based wrestling, where solid technical skills are preferred over hardcore's stuntworks, blood, sweat, gore, and severe shock value . As professional wrestling entered the mid 20th century, promoters and performers looked for ways to heighten audience excitement. Blood , while initially taboo ,

5893-468: The suspension, claiming that he had been there for the company from the beginning even though they had given his name (Psicosis) to another performer "not even close to his level", before noting that he had a son and that if he was suspended without pay, he would have to find work from another promotion. Nicho returned to AAA on July 16, threatening Roldan, which led to Joe Líder trying to calm his partner down. This in turn led to Nicho declaring that if Líder

5976-534: The three groups were joined by the AAA World Tag Team Champions Silver King and Último Gladiador , known collectively as Los Maniacos , to complete La Sociedad . La Sociedad then waged a war on AAA, but prior to their scheduled four–on–four elimination steel cage match against the promotion, Dorian Roldán and Konnan announced that one of AAA's most popular técnicos (good guys), Cibernético, had decided to abandon

6059-481: The tunnel and lasers). This partnership would end after Konnan left TNA in June 2007 and filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against TNA; The lawsuit was later dismissed. TNA would later start a relationship with CMLL from 2007 to 2009 , and would begin another working relationship with AAA in February 2010. On January 12, 2014, it was announced that, with the backing of Mark Burnett , AAA would co-produce

6142-569: The wrestlers who competed in these deathmatches, including some non-FMW rosters such as Shinobu Kandori , Lioness Asuka , and Mayumi Ozaki , were sent to the hospital afterwards. ECW's popularity led to the major American promotions of the 1990s, World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Federation , creating divisions devoted exclusively to "hardcore" wrestling (which mostly amounted to no-disqualification weapons matches). The divisions were at first largely centered around ECW alumni such as Mick Foley , Terry Funk, Raven and Sandman . In

6225-409: The year's first television tapings, Damián 666's son Bestia 666 made his AAA debut and joined La Sociedad in a match, where he, his father and Halloween were defeated by Los Psycho Circus . After the match El Hijo del Perro Aguayo made another appearance and unmasked the members of Los Psycho Circus . On March 13 Alan Stone and Jennifer Blake defeated Faby Apache and Pimpinela Escarlata to win

6308-663: The young talent from CMLL. AAA would look for talent from other markets, as they found and signed Tijuana natives Rey Mysterio, Jr. and Psicosis . The promotion became known for signing top talent, such as El Hijo del Santo , Octagón , Blue Panther , the Casas brothers ( Negro Casas and Heavy Metal ), Los Gringos Locos , Cien Caras , Konnan , and Perro Aguayo . The rising popularity of AAA caused rival promotion Universal Wrestling Association to go out of business. Peña would quickly sign up top draws , including El Canek , Dos Caras and Los Villanos. In 1994, AAA co-promoted

6391-572: Was announced that both promotions would continue to be work together. In July 2015, Canadian-based International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS) announced a talent partnership with AAA. In June 2018, AAA partnered with Lucha Libre Elite . In August 2018, AAA started a working agreement with the American-based Major League Wrestling (MLW). In February 2019, it was announced that AAA would be partnering with All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Each year AAA promotes

6474-471: Was based in New York state. Both TWA and NWF featured Larry Winters and D. C. Drake , who engaged in a long blood feud. The two promotions ended about the same time, and National Wrestling Alliance Eastern Championship Wrestling took their place, with many of the same wrestlers and venues. Eddie Gilbert was the initial booker, and was replaced a few months later by Paul Heyman . After splitting off from

6557-611: Was engaged in his own feud with El Mesías, who had returned from an injury to help AAA fight Los Perros del Mal . On August 14, 2010, at Verano de Escandalo , Aguayo pinned Mesías in a six man tag team match between Los Perros and AAA, after hitting him with a chair. At Héroes Inmortales IV El Mesías gained a measure of revenge on Aguayo by defeating him in a singles match. La Legión Extranjera' s leader Konnan had been feuding with La Hermandad 187 ( Nicho el Millonario and Joe Líder ), since turning on them in April 2010. After La Legión Extranjera injured Nicho and cost him and Líder

6640-422: Was found to be a significant draw, and the advent of the now common "no holds barred" match marked the beginning of what is now known as hardcore wrestling. Methods were devised for wrestlers to make themselves bleed purposefully as part of their performance. During the 1950s and 1960s wrestlers such as "Wild Bull" Curry , "Classy" Freddie Blassie , Dory Funk, Sr. and Giant Baba were among those who introduced

6723-564: Was founded in Japan, the first promotion dedicated largely to the wild brawling style. In the early 1990s, the Puerto Rican promoter Víctor Quiñones arrived in Japan, being invited to FMW as the special manager. FMW escalated the violence to legitimately dangerous new levels, with barbed wire ropes, timed C4 explosives , exploding wire ropes, and " land mines ", known as "deathmatch". The federation featured many future North American stars, and became very popular worldwide. Soon after, in

6806-534: Was popularized in the United States by ECW and is now a specialty in CZW. Below is a list of some common weapons. In promotions where Hardcore wrestling is present, a Hardcore title may come into existence. This form of title is defended under hardcore rules, and title changes are frequent. Some hardcore titles may have their own unique rules. For example, the WWE Hardcore Championship was defended under 24/7 rules, meaning it could be defended and won at any time, provided

6889-470: Was with Roldan, they were no longer friends. Later in the event, Nicho interfered in Líder's match and turned on him, effectively ending La Hermandad 187 . After another attack at Verano de Escándalo , Nicho attacked Líder for the third time on August 19, before putting on a Perros del Mal shirt, which led to El Hijo del Perro Aguayo, making his first AAA appearance in two months, officially welcoming him to

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