Triplemanía XXX was a three-day professional wrestlingpay-per-view (PPV) event promoted and produced by the Mexican professional wrestling promotionLucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA or Triple A). The event was held on April 30, June 18, and October 15, 2022. The April 30 event took place at Mobil Super Stadiim in Monterrey, the June 18 event took place at Club Tijuana Stadium in Tijuana and the October 15 event took place at Mexico City Arena in Mexico City. It marked the 30th year in a row that AAA has held a Triplemanía show and comprised the 37th, 38th, and 39th overall shows held under the Triplemanía banner since 1993. The annual Triplemanía show is AAA's biggest event of the year, serving as the culmination of major storylines in what has been described as AAA's version of WrestleMania or their Super Bowl event. Held as part of AAA's 30th Anniversary Tour, Triplemanía XXX was the first Triplemanía event since 1996 to be held across three days. The event aired on PPV via the FITE TVservice.
The event was themed around the Ruleta de la Muerte tournament, in which eight luchadoresenmascarados wrestled in a series of matches where the losers advanced to a Lucha de Apuestas Mask vs. Mask match on the third day of the event. In the finals, Pentagón Jr. defeated Villano IV to successfully defend his mask and win the mask of Villano.
Production
Background
2022 marked the 30th year that the Mexican professional wrestling companyLucha Libre AAA Worldwide (Triple A or AAA) has held their annual flagship Triplemanía show. Triplemanía XXX comprised three shows – the 37th, 38th, and 39th overall Triplemanía shows promoted by AAA (AAA promoted more than one Triplemanía event from 1994 to 1997 and from 2019 onward). Since the 2012 event, Triplemanía has taken place at the Arena Ciudad de México (Mexico City Arena), an indoor arena in Azcapotzalco, Mexico City, Mexico that has a maximum capacity of 22,300 spectators.[1][2][3][4] On January 25, 2022, AAA announced that Triplemanía XXX would be held across three days in three cities.[5] In addition to Arena Ciudad de México, Triplemanía XXX was held in Estadio de Béisbol Monterrey and Estadio Caliente Xoloitzcuintles.[5] Triplemanía XXX was the second Triplemanía event held outside of Arena Ciudad de México during the 2020s and the third outside Mexico City since 2007.
Triplemanía XXX featured 25 professional wrestling matches across the three nights, with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed 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 engaged in a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match.[6][7]
Team El Leyenda Americana (El Leyenda Americana, Estrella Cósmica, Engañoso, Gran Mazo, and Aracno) defeated Team Terror Púrpura (Terror Púrpura, Picadura Letal, Venenoide, El Furioso, and Simbosis Mortal) by pinfall
Three-way trios match for the AAA World Trios Championship[18] The incumbent champion,Nueva Generación Dinamita, must be pinned or submitted in order for the title to change hands. Laredo Kid, not a member of the incumbent champion, was pinned, hence Nueva Generación Dinamita retained their titles
As the tournament ends with loser of the final being unmasked, at each round of the Ruleta de la Muerte tournament, the losers are relegated to the next round. In the finals, Pentagón Jr. defeated Villano IV; because of his defeat, Villano IV had to unmask.
^La Parka Negra wrestled the majority of the match in place of Sammy Guevara, but Guevara and Tay Conti were acknowledged as the participants and winners of the match.
^Madigan, Dan (2007). "El nacimient de un sueño (the birth of a dream)". Mondo Lucha A Go-Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperCollins Publisher. pp. 41–50. ISBN978-0-06-085583-3.
