The Rey de Reyes 2008 (
Spanish
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for "King of Kings") was the 12th annual
Rey de Reyes professional wrestling
Professional wrestling, often shortened to either pro wrestling or wrestling,The term "wrestling" is most often widely used to specifically refer to modern scripted professional wrestling, though it is also used to refer to Real life, real- ...
tournament and show, produced by the Mexican
wrestling promotion 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 ...
(AAA). The event took place on March 18, 2007 in the Plaza de Toros Lorenzo Garza arena in
Monterrey
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,
Nuevo León
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,
Mexico
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. The main focus of the 2008 Rey de Reyes show was the twelfth annual Rey de Reyes tournament and a match between the top ''technico''
Cibernético
Octavio López Arreola (born April 12, 1975), better known by the ring name Cibernético, is a Mexican professional wrestler, currently working for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA).
During AAA's short partnership with the World Wrestling Federat ...
and the top ''rudo''
El Mesias 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 ...
which El Mesias held going into the event. The undercard included four qualifying matches for the Rey de Reyes leading to the traditional four man
elimination match
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that led to the crowning of that year's Rey de Reyes. The undercard also saw the continuing feud between
Konnan
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’s ''
La Legión Extranjera'' (Foreign Legion) and their altercations with wrestlers defending AAA. For this event La Legión Extranjera brought in two
American wrestlers,
Sabu and
Scott Steiner
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Steiner is perhaps best known for his time in World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and has also wrestled for Jim Crockett ...
, to strengthen their side. The other undercard storyline was that of ''
Los Psycho Circus'' (a trio of Rudo wrestlers dressed up as
clown
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s) competing with
The Black Family
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.
Production
Background
Starting in 1997 and every year since then the Mexican ''
Lucha Libre
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'', or
professional wrestling
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,
company
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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 ...
(AAA, or Triple A; Spanish for "Assistance, Consulting, and Administration") has held a
Rey de Reyes (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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Eponyms are commonly used for time periods, places, innovati ...
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 2008 show was the 12th Rey de Reyes show in the series.
Storylines
The Rey de Reyes show featured ten 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.
Event
During the event Eddie Guerrero
Eduardo Gory Guerrero Llanes (October 9, 1967 – November 13, 2005) was an American professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He was best known for his tenures in WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and World Championship Wrestling ...
was inducted into the AAA Hall of Fame
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, honoring Guerrero for the contributions he had made to AAA during the early part of his career.
Results
References
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