The Rey de Reyes 2005 (
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for "King of Kings") was the ninth annual
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 the Ring tournament. For the first six tournaments the format consisted of four-way elimination matches with f ...
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tournament and show, produced by the Mexican
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. The event took place on March 11, 2005 in the Convention Center in
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. The main focus of the 2005 Rey de Reyes show was the ninth annual Rey de Reyes tournament, which featured an elimination match with six men competing for the Rey de Reyes title. As in the previous year,
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representatives competed in the finals. The finalists did not have to qualify but were announced in the weeks leading up to the events. The finalists were:
La Parka
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,
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Abismo Negro
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,
Chessman,
Jeff Jarrett
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,
Konnan
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and
Cibernético
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. The undercard included a
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match between Humberto Galanez Gabuz and Ty Landez. In the semi-main event
Octagoncito
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faced
Mini Psicosis
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in a ''
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'' where both men put their masks on the line.
Production
Background
Starting in 1997 and every year since then the Mexican ''
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'', or
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has held a
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 the Ring tournament. For the first six tournaments the format consisted of four-way elimination matches with f ...
(Spanish for "King of Kings') show in the spring. The 1997 version was held in February,
while all subsequent Rey de Reyes shows were held in March. As part of their annual Rey de Reyes event AAA holds the
eponym
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ious Rey de Reyes tournament to determine that specific year's ''Rey''.
Most years the show hosts both the qualifying round and the final match, but on occasion the qualifying matches have been held prior to the event as part of AAA's weekly television shows.
The traditional format consists of four preliminary rounds, each a
Four-man elimination match with each of the four winners face off in the tournament finals, again under elimination rules.
There have been years where AAA has employed a different format to determine a winner.
[ The winner of the Rey de Reyes tournament is given a large ornamental sword to symbolize their victory, but is normally not guaranteed any other rewards for winning the tournament, although some years becoming the Rey de Reyes has earned the winner a match for the ]AAA Mega Championship
The AAA Mega Championship (often referred to as the AAA World Heavyweight Championship in English and known as the Mega Campeonato AAA in Spanish) is a men's professional wrestling world heavyweight championship promoted by Mexican promotion Luc ...
. From 1999 through 2009 AAA also held an annual '' Reina de Reinas'' ("Queen of Queens") tournament, but later turned that into an actual championship that could be defended at any point during the year, abandoning the annual tournament concept. The 2005 show was the ninth Rey de Reyes show in the series.
Storylines
The Rey de Reyes show featured six professional wrestling matches
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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
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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
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