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88-528: In early 1992 Antonio Peña was working as a booker and storyline writer for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Mexico's largest and the world's oldest wrestling promotion, and was frustrated by CMLL's very conservative approach to lucha libre . 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 , later known simply as "AAA" or Triple A. After making

176-453: A low blow in a six-man tag team match. On December 5 at Guerra de Titanes , L.A. Park and El Mesías faced each other in a match, which turned into a brawl, during which both were covered in blood and Park's trademark mask was torn apart, completely revealing his blood covered face. In the end, Park managed to pick up the win after another low blow, multiple shots with a steel chair and an illegal Martinete . However, Park's hopes of receiving

264-409: A Mask vs. Mask match against L.A. Park at Triplemanía XX , while also suggesting that now was the time for AAA to invade TNA. Meanwhile, Jarrett stated that Triplemanía XIX was only the beginning of TNA's invasion of AAA. TNA acknowledged Jarrett's win on the front page of their official website, calling him the "Heavyweight Champion of Mexico", not mentioning any of the other matches or even the name of

352-524: 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. After witnessing this turn of events, Marisela Peña Roldan finally decided that his son had gone too far and fired him from AAA, which led to Dorian proclaiming that with TNA he would revolutionize lucha libre and eventually

440-570: 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 event, building it into an annual event that would become AAA's Super Bowl event, similar to the WWE 's WrestleMania being the biggest show of the year. The 2011 Triplemanía was the 19th year in a row AAA held a Triplemanía show and the 24th overall show under

528-524: A decade, El Zorro finally managed to win the AAA Mega Championship for the first time on December 5, 2010, at Guerra de Titanes by defeating Dr. Wagner Jr. with help from his La Sociedad stablemates. Meanwhile, El Zorro's La Sociedad stablemate L.A. Park had earned himself a shot at the AAA Mega Championship, but Konnan, wanting to avoid dissension within his group, denied him his shot and instead named El Zorro's longtime rival Charly Manson

616-406: A double pin on their opponents to win the match. In the third match, Cibernético, Billy el Malo, Charly Manson and Escoria of Los Bizarros faced La Parka, Dark Ozz and Drago of El Inframundo , who teamed with newly inducted Hall of Famer Octagón. At the end of the brawl, masked Los Bizarros member Taboo appeared at the top of the entrance ramp holding La Parka's ten-year-old son, who revealed on

704-853: A full year. The event usually also features additional matches not related to the Rey de Reyes tournament. The first Rey de Reyes event was held on February 21, 1997 at the Convention Center in Ciudad Madero , Tamaulipas , Mexico . Since then all Rey de Reyes events have been held in March each year. The 13 events have hosted 13 finals, with only one wrestler, La Parka, winning the tournament more than once, in 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2007. Ciudad Madero , Tamaulipas and Naucalpan , Mexico State are tied for most events hosted with five each. Beyond that, only Zapopan , Jalisco has repeated as host of

792-636: A grudge match for the AAA World Trios Championship at Triplemanía XIX. During the early stages of the war between AAA and La Sociedad , Cibernético was one of the top técnicos fighting for AAA. On October 1, 2010, at Héroes Inmortales IV , he was scheduled to team up Heavy Metal , La Parka and Octagón against a team of La Sociedad representatives, but prior to the match Konnan announced that Cibernético had decided to turn his back on AAA and join his team instead. AAA bought Konnan's claim and replaced Cibernético and Octagón, who

880-462: A hold of El Zorro's kendo stick , hit him with it and then put it across his throat and performed his finishing maneuver The Stroke to become the new AAA Mega Champion and the first ever American to hold the title. Jarrett left the ring as fans in attendance started to fill it with bottles. The Mask vs. Hair match between L.A. Park and El Mesías, which had been billed as the top match of the event, took place next, with L.A. Park being accompanied to

968-480: A low blow and dropped him with a top rope Death Valley driver through a table for the win. With their win, Los Perros del Mal were crowned the first ever AAA World Trios Champions. In the first semi–main event of the evening, La Sociedad member Jeff Jarrett challenged El Zorro for the AAA Mega Championship. Like the other matches involving TNA workers, the match was refereed by La Sociedad' s own referee, Hijo del Tirantes, who showed bias towards Jarrett throughout

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1056-532: A new white plate with a Mexican flag on it. After threatening to quit the promotion over his suspension, Nicho el Millonario returned to AAA on July 16, turning rudo and attacking Joe Líder, after he tried to calm him down as he was berating Joaquín Roldán. Grita Radio analyst Jonathan Sánchez was highly critical of the performances of the TNA wrestlers, outside of Rob Van Dam, claiming that they did not show any quality and once again proved that American wrestling lacks

1144-576: A short period of time, giving the gimmick to his cousin in 1986. Peña tried working as "Dalia Negra" but his body could not take the strain, forcing Peña to retire in 1986. Peña would briefly wrestle as "the Rose" in 1994 but only worked a handful of matches. Peña's final match at the 2001 Guerra de Titans where he wrestled, and lost to Cibernético . Peña had been active backstage for years before his retirement, always offering suggestions of wrestling gimmicks, storylines and booking, so when he retired Peña

1232-569: A shot at the AAA Mega Championship were delayed, when at the same event El Zorro defeated Dr. Wagner Jr. to become the new champion. Konnan's decision to hand the next title shot to El Zorro's blood rival Charly Manson instead of Park, caused dissension within La Sociedad , just what Konnan wanted to avoid by not having the stablemates wrestle each other. Park then stated that after he won the Rey de Reyes tournament, Konnan would be forced to give him

1320-477: A title shot or face the consequences. On February 19, 2011, Park reiterated his point by assaulting and bloodying El Mesías backstage, after he had qualified for the finals of Rey de Reyes. On February 28, Park himself entered the tournament and defeated Dr. Wagner Jr., Halloween and Nicho el Millonario in his semifinal match. The finals of the tournament, a four-way match between Park, El Mesías, Carlito Caribbean Cool and Extreme Tiger took place on March 18 at

1408-482: A totally original character of his own called Kahoz (sometimes spelled Kahos or Khaoz), a sinister masked rudo character who invoked various dark spirits as part of his pre-match ritual. Many have likened the Kahoz character to one of Lucha Libre original showmen, Murciélago Velázquez . Kahoz would often carry a bag of live pigeons to the ring with him, releasing them at his opponent and then making it seem like he ripped

1496-439: A tournament with the finals being held at Triplemanía XIX. Los Psycho Circus advanced to the finals by defeating La Maniarquía ( Chessman , Silver King and Último Gladiador ) and The Black Family ( Dark Cuervo , Dark Espíritu and Dark Ozz ), while Los Perros del Mal advanced by defeating Real Fuerza Aérea ( Aero Star , Argenis and Laredo Kid ) and Los Bizarros (Charly Manson, Cibernético and Escoria ) to set up

1584-604: A tribute show to Antonio Peña each year around the anniversary of his death as part of the Antonio Peña Memorial Shows AAA holds the Copa Antonio Peña , a tournament in honor of Peña. From 2009 onwards the annual event has been known as Héroes Inmortales ("Immortal Heroes"). Rey de Reyes The Rey de Reyes (English: "King of Kings") is an annual tournament held by Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) comparable to WWE ’s King of

1672-578: A wrestling match or series of matches. The year between Triplemanía XVIII and Triplemanía XIX consisted of the ongoing storyline war between the técnicos representing the promotion itself and the rudos of the stable La Sociedad ("The Society"), which was formed in the summer of 2010, when La Legión Extranjera ("The Foreign Legion") formed an alliance with Los Perros del Mal ("The Evil Dogs"), Los Maniacos ("The Maniacs") and La Milicia ("The Militia"). The AAA side, often called Legado AAA ("The AAA Legacy") or Ejército AAA ("The AAA Army"),

1760-573: The AAA World Tag Team Championship in a steel cage match . Since their formation in December 2007, Los Psycho Circus ( Monster Clown , Murder Clown and Psycho Clown ) had not lost a single match, with AAA claiming that their win streak had reached over 600 victories. During the fall of 2010, Los Psycho Circus were engulfed in a war with the many variations of Los Perros del Mal , with Damián 666 , Halloween and

1848-404: The Rey de Reyes pay-per-view . Park and El Mesías were both eliminated from the match after brawling with each other to a double countout, leading to a win for AAA representative Extreme Tiger. After weeks of more hostilities between the two, including Park performing a Martinete on Mesías on the entrance stage, Mesías powerbombing Park through a table for a win in a six-man tag team match and

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1936-496: The United States , to find out that the group's leader Konnan had chosen his longtime La Legión Extranjera stablemate El Zorro as the next challenger for Dr. Wagner Jr. 's AAA Mega Championship . Trying to appease Park, Konnan promised him the next shot at the title, provided that he took out one of AAA's top técnicos , El Mesías . Later that night Park first bloodied El Mesías with a steel chair and then pinned him with

2024-461: The rudos attacking the técnicos , isolating Moreno from her partners and quickly taking advantage in the match. Eventually Moreno, Mari Apache and Lolita all dove out of the ring onto Love, Sexy and Sky, leaving James and Faby Apache in the ring. In the end, James pinned Apache for the win with the Mickie–DT , after startling her with a kiss. After the match, the two teams brawled backstage. After

2112-553: The November 18 event in Naucalpan he 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 , turning him técnico in the process. When Heavy Metal returned from his injury on February 4, 2011, he and Electroshock entered a Best of Five series, with the loser having his hair shaved off. During the series, King and Gladiador tried to recruit Heavy Metal as

2200-465: The Ring tournament. For the first six tournaments the format consisted of four-way elimination matches with four qualifiers and a final, but in later tournaments the format changed. The winner is usually either currently one of the top faces or heels of the promotion or a wrestler that AAA is hoping to push to the main event position. The winner is presented with a sword, which some have carried with them for

2288-553: The Triplemanía banner. The Triplemanía XIX show featured eight professional wrestling matches 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

2376-613: The addition of Billy el Malo , who jumped to Los Bizarros from La Sociedad . Cibernético and La Parka continued their heated rivalry the following months during which it was implied that Cibernético had assaulted and hospitalized Parka's three-year-old son, his own godson, with a broken leg and even provided X-rays, which he used to taunt Parka with. At March's Rey de Reyes, Los Bizarros , represented by Cibernético, Billy el Malo, Escoria and Nygma defeated La Parka, Jack Evans, Joe Líder and Nicho el Millonario, after which Cibernético threatened to light Parka on fire, before being driven out of

2464-467: The age of 18. Peña began his wrestling career as the enmascarado (masked) character El Genio ( Spanish for "The Genius") on April 8, 1974. After wrestling as El Genio for a couple of months Peña got his uncle's blessing to adopt the Espectro name and began wrestling as Espectro Jr. Peña wore the "venom green" mask and trunks like Espectro, but unlike the original he wrestled barefoot most of

2552-409: The bag he had entered the cage with and emptied its contents, thumbtacks , on the mat. Abyss attempted to chokeslam Evans off the ropes, but Evans escaped the hold by biting his fingers and then powerbombed him onto the tacks. Evans climbed to the top of the cage, but, instead of escaping, dove back into the ring onto Abyss with a crossbody . Immediately afterwards, Evans climbed back up and escaped

2640-535: The cage to successfully defend the AAA World Tag Team Championship. In the fifth match Los Psycho Circus faced Los Perros del Mal in a tournament final to determine the first ever AAA World Trios Champions. In the match Los Perros del Mal was represented by Damián 666, Halloween and X-Fly, the same team that wrestled in the tournament's first round. In the semifinals of the tournament, El Hijo del Perro Aguayo had replaced X-Fly and he

2728-495: The cage, when someone wearing a Monster Clown mask ran out, climbed up the cage and prevented Murder Clown from escaping the cage, dropping him down to the mat and allowing Halloween to escape the cage, handing Los Psycho Circus their first ever loss. After the match, the man unmasked himself to reveal El Hijo del Perro Aguayo, who had been sidelined in October with a knee injury with reports stating that he would have to stay out of

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2816-413: The center of the ring and re-applied the hold. Park feigned submission by lightly tapping El Mesías on the back, which led to him releasing the hold as he believed he had won the match. El Mesías climbed to the top rope to celebrate his "win" and when referee Piero tried to explain that Park had not in fact submitted, El Mesías swung his leg back and accidentally kicked him in the head. Park took advantage of

2904-586: The days following Peña's death several wrestling promotions in Japan that AAA had worked with over the years paid tribute to the promoter. Peña's death left a void in AAA, he had always been the man in charge and always had the final word. In the years up to his death, Peña had brought in his brother-in-law Joaquin Roldan and Roldan's son Dorian Roldan and taught them the business of running a wrestling promotion. AAA holds

2992-411: The distraction, hit El Mesías with brass knuckles , made the pin and scored a three count to win the match. After the match, El Mesías had his hair shaved off with L.A. Park mocking Marisela Peña Roldan, who was seated in the front row. At this point the event had lasted over three and a half hours, which led to many in attendance leaving the arena after the match, not sticking around for the main event of

3080-694: The early 1990s prior to the 1994 downturn of the Mexican economy , but continues to operate. Peña's AAA is the promotion largely responsible for bringing the lucha libre style to the United States, with AAA wrestlers such as Rey Misterio Jr. , Psicosis , La Parka , Konnan and others eventually competing for American promotions. Peña began his involvement in professional wrestling as an in-ring wrestler, or luchador , working under various masks as El Genio, Espectro Jr., Kahoz, Espectro de Ultratumba, and Dalia Negra before retiring in 1986 to work in

3168-466: The end CMLL owner Paco Alonso decided to go with Herrera's booking style. After Paco Alonso chose to ignore Peña's booking ideas Peña began negotiations with Televisa television channel to fund a new wrestling promotion that would provide Televisa with weekly wrestling shows. In 1992 Peña started a booking agency, providing wrestlers and matches for the Televisa owned Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) promotion. While Peña technically owned

3256-437: The end, Argos managed to pick up the win for his team by pinning Dark Dragon following a double knee backbreaker . Triplemanía XIX opened with an in-ring segment, where Konnan first introduced announcer Arturo Rivera, who made his return after recently spending 20 days in coma as a result of a lung infection, and then proclaimed that the night would prove the superiority of American wrestling to Mexican lucha libre , before he

3344-547: The evening. In the main event of the show, Dr. Wagner Jr. faced TNA worker Rob Van Dam to determine the first ever AAA Latin American Champion. Wagner, like L.A. Park, was accompanied to the ring by his son, independent worker Dr. Wagner III , with both him and Van Dam carrying the flags of their native countries. Van Dam used a steel chair on several occasions in the match, including kicking it in Wagner's face from

3432-520: The event, Octagón would also become the fifth inductee into the AAA Hall of Fame, following in the footsteps of Antonio Peña , Rey Mysterio Jr. , Eddie Guerrero and Pepe Casas. In September 2010, Silver King and Último Gladiador, two thirds of the stable Los Maniacos , announced they were joining La Sociedad , and although their stablemate Electroshock made no official announcement on whether or not he would be following them, he agreed to represent

3520-415: The event. As is tradition with recent major AAA shows, the wrestlers compete inside a hexagonal wrestling ring and not the four sided ring the promotion uses for regular television events and House shows . As of 2011 Rey de Reyes has seen six Luchas de Apuesta , or bet fights. A wrestler has been unmasked once, and five times a wrestler or wrestlers have had their hair shaved off as a result of losing

3608-421: The former rivals together to fight a common enemy. Just two days later, Los Maniacos surprisingly lost the AAA World Tag Team Championship to Extreme Tiger and Jack Evans, after which Silver King and Último Gladiador were seemingly about to break up, but were brought back together by La Legión Extranjera member Chessman, with whom they would re–form Los Maniacos under the new name La Maniarquía . La Maniaquía

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3696-421: The founder of American promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), Jeff Jarrett , to bring wrestlers from his promotion to AAA to help him take over the promotion from his father Joaquín Roldán and mother Marisela Peña Roldan. Konnan, however, was against the idea of his former employer coming to AAA and believed that Roldán had made a mistake. Jarrett and fellow TNA worker Abyss arrived to AAA on May 18 for

3784-414: The gimmicks to two AAA wrestlers. Psicosis now wrestles as "Nicho el Millonario" in Mexico, while the man that took over the gimmick, Psicosis II now works on the independent circuit . The original La Parka now wrestles as L.A. Park while AAA had their own La Parka for years, until an in-ring accident at an independent show in 2019 would lead to his death in the following year. Peña also tried to prevent

3872-406: The group at Héroes Inmortales IV in order to get his hands on longtime rival Heavy Metal, who would represent AAA in the steel cage match between the two groups. After the event, during which Heavy Metal suffered an injury, which would sideline him for four months, Electroshock officially announced that he was not part of La Sociedad and urged Silver King and Último Gladiador to leave the group. At

3960-436: The group's leader El Hijo del Perro Aguayo being the most prominent Perros during the feud. After several matches between the two groups went to either a no contest or a countout, they were booked to face each other on December 5 at Guerra de Titanes in a steel cage weapons match , where Los Perros del Mal was represented by Damián 666, Halloween and X-Fly . In the end of the match, Halloween and Murder Clown were left in

4048-429: The group's status as tweeners . He also tried to recruit his friend El Mesías to join the group, but he decided to stay out of the war of words between his two friends. On November 22, the feud between Cibernético and La Parka turned physical, when Los Bizarros ran out to save El Mesías from a beatdown at the hands of La Sociedad , without making the save for La Parka and Jack Evans. When Parka confronted Cibernético, he

4136-552: The groups feuded over the IWRG Intercontinental Trios Championship , which Los Psycho Circus successfully defended against Los Perros , while in PdM, the two groups faced each other in a Masks vs. Hairs steel cage match, which ended with Super Crazy having his hair head shaved off. In May 2011, AAA announced that the promotion was going to crown their first ever World Trios Champions and started

4224-419: The head of one of the pigeons and smeared the fake blood all over himself or his opponent. To Peña the Kahoz character was not about winning championships, but about the psychology of the character and actually scaring the audience, so while he did not win any titles as Kahoz it was considered a huge success and he main evented shows all over Mexico. While Peña had the mind for wrestling his body could not handle

4312-400: The heavy main event schedule that he wrestled as Kahoz and by 1985 he gave up the gimmick to work as Espectro de Ultratumba ("The Ghost from Beyond the grave"), giving the Kahoz gimmick to Astro Rey instead. Astro Rey's Kahoz was nowhere nearly as important nor as successful as Peña as Astro Rey lacked the charisma and theatrics of the original. Peña only worked as Espectro de Ultratumba for

4400-600: The letters AAA would be replaced by TNA. As part of the TNA invasion, it was announced that at Triplemanía XIX TNA Knockouts Angelina Love , Mickie James and Velvet Sky would team with La Sociedad' s Sexy Star in an eight-woman tag team match against Cynthia Moreno , Faby Apache , AAA Reina de Reinas Champion Mari Apache and Lolita, Rob Van Dam would face Dr. Wagner Jr. for the newly created AAA Latin American Championship and Abyss and Mr. Anderson would challenge Extreme Tiger and Jack Evans for

4488-573: The main event by claiming that he had gotten injured during the match, but promised him a rematch with Wagner Jr. as soon as he had recovered. He also challenged Mari Apache to put her AAA Reina de Reinas Championship on the line against Mickie James. Mickie James returned to AAA on July 9, this time defeating Mari Apache with a kiss and a Mickie–DT , before challenging her to a match for the Reina de Reinas Championship at Verano de Escándalo . After Wagner Jr. continued making challenges towards Jarrett, he

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4576-422: The man who had attacked Octagón prior to Héroes Inmortales IV, he was in fact the one who had orchestrated the attack, meaning that Parka had been right about him all along. He then introduced the returning Charly Manson, who had most recently worked for rival promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), as the newest member of Los Bizarros . The group's lineup would be finalized a couple of months later with

4664-597: The masterminds of EMLL's rebranding as Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) when EMLL withdrew from the National Wrestling Alliance . Peña was the creative force behind CMLL's Mini-Estrella division and wanted to feature more non-heavyweight wrestlers in the main events. Herrera wanted to maintain the old style of booking with heavyweights such as Atlantis , El Dandy and El Satánico , while Peña wanted to feature younger, faster moving wrestlers such as Konnan , Octagón or Máscara Sagráda . In

4752-422: The match by Chessman, which led to Roldán coming out with security and having them remove Nicho from the arena. Soon afterwards, Heavy Metal returned to the match and threw Último Gladiador from the top rope through a cello , given to him by Montana, while Electroshock superbombed Chessman through a table. Heavy Metal followed up by performing a diving elbow drop on Gladiador, after which the técnico duo scored

4840-435: The match early, but eventually Extreme Tiger was able to get away from Abyss and escape the cage. In a two–on–one advantage the TNA team was even more dominant and after more double–teaming, Mr. Anderson eventually climbed out of the cage. Left in the cage with Abyss, Evans managed to dodge his attack, use his speed to take him down and hit him with a 450° splash . Evans attempted to escape the cage, but Abyss stopped him, opened

4928-418: The match. On several occasions Jarrett attempted to get El Zorro to submit with an ankle lock , the signature hold of his TNA rival Kurt Angle , but when he realized he was not going to succeed in his attempt, he took advantage of a distraction from his wife Karen and smashed El Zorro with his signature guitar, but to his surprise, only managed to get a two count out of the following pinfall. Jarrett then took

5016-553: The microphone that Taboo was his uncle and thus La Parka's brother, the luchador formerly known as Lasser Boy. Meanwhile, in the ring, Cibernético took advantage of the distraction, hit Parka with a Garra Cibernetica and pinned him for the win. After the match, Cibernético revealed that Taboo had been the one who had helped him invade Parka's home and provided him with the X-rays of his godson's broken leg back in January. Taboo ended

5104-461: The newest member of Los Maniacos and even interfered in several of the matches, but Heavy Metal made clear that he did not want to join them. The fifth match, a best two-out-of-three falls Bull Terrier match , took place on March 18 at Rey de Reyes, where Heavy Metal was victorious after a guitar shot, forcing Electroshock to have his hair shaved off. After the match both Electroshock and Heavy Metal were attacked by members of La Sociedad , bringing

5192-515: The number one contender at Rey de Reyes. After successfully defending the title against Manson, El Zorro, having caught wind of Park's intention of going for his title, seemingly started interfering in Park's matches under his old mask, costing him back–to–back multi–man tag team matches at the April 27 and 30 TV tapings. It would later be revealed that the attacker had actually been Charly Manson, who had been sent by Cibernético to cause dissension within

5280-524: The opening match, Joaquin Roldán inducted Octagón into the AAA Hall of Fame. In the second match of the pay-per-view , Electroshock, Heavy Metal and Joe Líder faced La Maniarquía , consisting of Chessman, Último Gladiador and Silver King, who in Mexico City is forced to wrestle under the ring name Silver Cain as a way of being able to wear his mask, in a Tables, Ladders and Chairs match. La Maniarquía

5368-468: The original Máscara Sagráda from using the name and outfit, but in the end Sagráda won the court case and the rights to the name. Peña often "recycled" the ring personas, giving the mask and outfit to a new wrestler if the previous one left AAA, for instance when Super Crazy left AAA Peña gave the Histeria outfit to another wrestler. Peña died on October 5, 2006, due to a massive heart attack . In

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5456-470: The promotion Televisa owns the rights to the AAA name. In 1995 during a financial crisis Televisa sold all rights to AAA to Peña who formed Promociones Antonio Peña. S.A. (PAPSA) . Peña's promotion featured many of the young wrestlers that Peña wanted CMLL to push as they chose to leave CMLL to join AAA. AAA's pinnacle came in 1993 when they drew the largest wrestling crowd in Mexico ever as they staged Triplemanía I in front of 48.000 paying fans. Over

5544-484: The promotion. In the days following the event, Joaquin Roldán reaffirmed that Nicho el Millonario had been suspended indefinitely for interfering in the Tables, Ladders and Chairs match. Konnan, meanwhile, gloated that, despite Abyss' and Anderson's failure to capture the AAA World Tag Team Championship, the TNA wrestlers as a whole had proven their superiority, just like he had promised. Konnan explained Van Dam's defeat in

5632-567: The promotional side of wrestling. Prior to founding AAA, Peña was the head booker of Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre , the world's oldest professional wrestling promotion. Antonio Peña grew up in a wrestling family in Mexico City, Mexico. His father wrestled as the luchador Ponzoña and his uncle was the famous original Espectro , a big star in the 1950s and 1960s. Peña was trained by Rojas, Isias Rodríguez, Toño Hernández and his uncle before making his professional wrestling debut in 1974 at

5720-400: The ranks of La Sociedad . El Zorro, who is known as "El Profeta de la Lucha Libre" ("The Prophet of Wrestling") and as part of his character has made many accurate prophecies throughout the years, caused even more headache for Konnan by beginning to prophesize of the fall of a dictator, which he interpreted as meaning himself. Meanwhile, La Sociedad co–leader Dorian Roldán struck deal with

5808-459: The ring by Nicho. In May, La Parka formed his own group El Inframundo ("The Underworld") with Dark Ozz, Dark Cuervo, Dark Espíritu and the recently debuted Drago to counteract Los Bizarros . On May 13, La Parka challenged Cibernético to a battle of the groups at Triplemanía XIX, which he accepted. It was later revealed that for the event Parka's team would be joined by Octagón, looking for revenge for what happened to him nine months earlier. During

5896-405: The ring by his son El Hijo de L.A. Park and the wheelchair-bound Pierroth , neither of whom were working for AAA. Just like in their previous bout at December's Guerra de Titanes , both wrestlers were bloodied and L.A. Park's mask was torn to pieces during the brawl around the arena. With the match in his control following a Skull Bomb and a topé suicida , Park pulled out a table from under

5984-540: The ring for the rest of the year. The feud between the two groups continued at March's Rey de Reyes, where Los Perros del Mal , represented by Aguayo, Damián 666, Halloween and Super Crazy , was once again victorious in a match against Los Psycho Circus and Dr. Wagner Jr., the alliance known as Potencia Mundial ("World Power"). The feud also spread out to independent promotions International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) and Perros del Mal Producciones (PdM); in IWRG,

6072-471: The ring to celebrate Wagner's and AAA's win over TNA and La Sociedad . At the press conference following the event, new AAA Latin American Champion Dr. Wagner Jr. put over his opponent for the night, Rob Van Dam, as a tough and unique opponent and stated that he was grateful for the opportunity to wrestle him. He also teased a possible match with Jeff Jarrett for the AAA Mega Championship and

6160-426: The ring, set it up inside the ring and climbed on top of it for his signature dance, but was then surprised by a diving spear through the table from El Mesías, which was however only good for a two count. El Mesías followed up with a double knee backbreaker and a Mesías Splash for another two count, before locking Park in a sharpshooter . Eventually, Park managed to reach the ropes, but El Mesías pulled him back to

6248-399: The segment by declaring Los Bizarros his new family. The fourth match of Triplemanía XIX saw Extreme Tiger and Jack Evans defending the AAA World Tag Team Championship in a steel cage match against TNA X Division Champion Abyss and TNA World Heavyweight Champion Mr. Anderson. The team whose both members managed to escape the cage would be declared the winner. Abyss and Anderson dominated

6336-441: The spark of Mexican lucha libre and Japanese puroresu , going as far as calling the match between El Zorro and Jeff Jarrett "terrible", claiming it was uncreative and bored the audience. He named the match between L.A. Park and El Mesías "by far the best so far this year", but claimed that the event as a whole fell short of expectations due to the lack of domestic competition in Mexico. Súper Luchas magazine's Eduardo Cano Vela

6424-605: The time. As Espectro Jr., Peña blended a good solid wrestling foundation with various psychological antics to create a character, while being a hated rudo ( Heel or "bad guy") character drew the crowd's attention and soon he found himself challenging the top wrestlers of the 1970s for both the Mexican National Welterweight Championship and the Mexican National Middleweight Championship , two of

6512-607: The top championships in Mexico at the time. While a gifted performer in the ring backstage he was described as more of a quiet, thoughtful person who would often talk about how he would change Lucha Libre and add more character and showmanship to it. In 1980 Peña decided to change wrestling personas, giving the Espectro Jr. outfit and name to his cousin Jose Elías Pinceno, who has wrestled as Espectro Jr. since then. Instead of working as Espectro Jr., Peña came up with

6600-584: The top rope. Eventually Wagner started a comeback with a top rope head-and-arm suplex suplex , before signaling for his finishing maneuver, the Wagner Driver . Wagner managed to hit the move, but Van Dam kicked out of the following pinfall. Wagner followed up with a rope hung DDT onto a steel chair, which was good enough for a three count. With the win Dr. Wagner Jr. became the first ever AAA Latin American Champion. The show ended with AAA's técnicos entering

6688-418: The two brawling to a no contest due to neither being able to continue the match, on May 18, El Mesías made a challenge, which Park accepted, for a Lucha de Apuestas , or "bet match", at Triplemanía XIX, where the loser would either lose his mask or have his hair shaved off. Park later added to the stakes of the match by announcing that he would retire, should he lose his mask. After working for AAA for over

6776-562: The years Peña managed to establish AAA as a viable alternative to CMLL, making CMLL and AAA "the Big Two" in Lucha Libre. Peña was occasionally criticized with trademarking gimmicks and not allowing the original performers of the gimmicks to use the name elsewhere. Wrestlers such as Psicosis and La Parka were both forced to change their ring names when Peña took legal action to bar both of them from using those names in Mexico and gave

6864-531: Was accompanied to the ring by their mascot Maniaquito and their La Sociedad stablemate, AAA World Mixed Tag Team Champion Jennifer Blake , while Heavy Metal was accompanied by his valet Nanyzh Rock, midget companion Lokillo and musician Charly Montana. While every one of them followed the earlier agreement between Joaquin Roldán and Konnan and did not interfere in the match, Joe Líder's partner Nicho el Millonario, seeking revenge on La Maniarquía , ran in and tried to replace Heavy Metal, who had been taken out of

6952-569: Was booked to settle their grudge with Electroshock and Heavy Metal at Triplemanía XIX in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match , for which the técnicos recruited a veteran of hardcore wrestling , Joe Líder, whose partner, Nicho el Millonario, La Maniarquía had injured, as the third member of their team. The event at Palacio de los Deportes opened with an eight-man tag team dark match , where La Milicia Extrema ( Dark Dragon , Decnnis , Tigre Cota and Tito Santana ) faced Fénix , Sugi San and Real Fuerza Aeréa members Aero Star and Argos . In

7040-470: Was given a match for the AAA Mega Championship at Verano de Escándalo , but Konnan included L.A. Park in the match to make sure that the title stayed in La Sociedad . In late June and early July, Jack Evans became the first AAA contracted worker to work for TNA, when he made appearances on both their primary television show, Impact Wrestling , and at the Destination X pay-per-view, but once again AAA

7128-426: Was hired by Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL), Mexico's oldest professional wrestling promotion, to work in their public relations department. Over the next couple of years Peña began booking shows for EMLL and started writing storylines for the company. Peña and head booker Juan Herrera worked together to capitalize on the 1980s television boom, making EMLL the top promotion in its time. Peña and Herrera were also

7216-551: Was injured in a backstage assault by someone resembling Cibernético, in the match with Dark Ozz and Dark Cuervo. However, in the end Cibernético interfered in the match and helped AAA pick up the win. Afterwards, Cibernético, upset with AAA and in particular his friend La Parka for believing he had turned on the company, decided to re–form his old group Los Bizarros with Amadeus , Escoria, Nygma and Taboo. Cibernético made clear that even though Los Bizarros were no longer with AAA, they were not part of La Sociedad either, solidifying

7304-433: Was interrupted by Joaquin Roldán. At the conclusion of the segment, the two agreed that anyone who interfered in the evening's matches would be immediately suspended from AAA. The opening match of Triplemanía XIX saw Sexy Star teaming with Angelina Love, Velvet Sky and TNA Women's Knockout Champion Mickie James against Cynthia Moreno, Faby Apache, Lolita and AAA Reina de Reinas Champion, Mari Apache. The match started with

7392-486: Was laid out with a stunner , after which Los Bizarros beat him down and Cibernético ripped his mask off his face. The first major battle between Cibernético and La Parka took place on December 5, 2010, at Guerra de Titanes , where Parka teamed up with Dark Espíritu, Extreme Tiger and Jack Evans to defeat Cibernético, Escoria, Nygma and Taboo. After the match, Los Bizarros once again beat down La Parka, after which Cibernético admitted that while Super Fly had been outed as

7480-492: Was led by the promotion's president Joaquín Roldán, while his son Dorian Roldán was in charge of La Sociedad along with Konnan , the leader of La Legión Extranjera . In October 2010, Cibernético left Legado AAA , after feeling betrayed by his friends and re–formed his old group Los Bizarros as a third outside group, which was neither part of AAA nor La Sociedad . On November 22, 2010, La Sociedad member L.A. Park returned to AAA, after spending several weeks wrestling in

7568-588: Was more positive in his review, taking his hat off for Triplemanía XIX, claiming that AAA had showed how to put together a major event. Antonio Pe%C3%B1a Mid 20th Century 1970s and 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s and 2020s 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 popularity in

7656-435: Was never mentioned by name and it was simply announced that he had been working in Mexico the past years. Meanwhile, TNA workers Abyss, Samoa Joe and Scott Steiner made appearances in AAA, representing TNA and La Sociedad . Jarrett returned to Impact Wrestling on July 14, carrying the "Mexican Heavyweight Championship" belt, the AAA Mega Championship belt with the main plate, including the AAA letters, covered completely by

7744-632: Was supposed to do the same at Triplemanía XIX, but was forced to pull out of the event as a result of his body's adverse reaction to the medication given to him as part of his recent tumor treatment. Los Psycho Circus was accompanied to the match by their debuting mascot, Mini Clown. Just prior to the start of the match, the two teams agreed to make it an " Extreme match ", which meant that much like their many previous matches against each other, this also featured various weapons used by both Los Psycho Circus and Los Perros del Mal . Eventually, Halloween stopped Psycho Clown's top rope hurricanrana attempt with

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