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Triplemanía II-A was a major ''
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event
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) that took place at the
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baseball stadium on April 26, 1994. The show was the first of three Triplemanía II shows held in 1994 with two subsequent shows held in May. 1994 was the first year AAA held multiple Triplemanía shows in a year, a tradition they would continue through 1997, after which Triplemanía became a single annual event. The annual Triplemanía show(s) are AAA's biggest show of the year, serving as the culmination of major storylines and feature wrestlers from all over the world competing in what has been described as AAA's version of WrestleMania or their
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event. In the main event of the first Triplemanía II show was a ''
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'', or bet match, where both Heavy Metal and
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"bet" their hair on the outcome of the match. The main event originally ended in a disqualification loss for Heavy Metal, which seemed like he was going to be shaved bald. Moments later AAA owner and booker
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came to ringside and restarted the match, with Heavy Metal winning the match and the hair of Jerry Estrada. On the under-card the team known as ''
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'' (Spanish for "The Clowns"; Coco Rojo, Coco Verde and Coco Amarillo) defeated '' Los Hermanos Dinamita'' (
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,
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and
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) to win the
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. The show featured six additional matches with AAA wrestlers as well as the Japanese Tiger Mask III from
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.


Production


Background

AAA founder
Antonio Peña 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 popularit ...
had originally envisioned the
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series as three shows held over the summer, but for the first year AAA only held 1 show,
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. In 1994 AAA announced that they would hold three Triplemanía shows, building the storylines into its climax at the third and final Triplemanía II show. The first Triplemanía II show would take place in the outdoor baseball stadium in
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on April 26, the second show, '' Triplemanía II-B'', would be at the
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in
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on May 15 and the third and final Triplemanía II show,
Triplemanía II-C Triplemanía II-C was a major ''lucha libre'', or professional wrestling event Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) that took place at the '' El Toreo'' bullfighting arena in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico on May 27, 1994. The show was t ...
, would happen at the El Toro
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arena in
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,
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on May 27, 1994. Peña decided that
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and
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, who were slated to main event Triplemanía II-C would not face off at Triplemanía II-A, making it more special when they actually fought on the later Triplemanía shows.


Storylines

The Triplemanía show featured eight
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with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing
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feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either heels (referred to as ''rudos'' in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") or
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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 fifth match of the night cameras showed wrestlers Miguel Pérez, Jr. and Chicano Power in the crowd, holding up a Puerto Rican flag while heckling Konnan. At one point during the match Konnan's partner
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had to prevent him from jumping into the crowd to go after the two heckling wrestlers.


Aftermath

AAA's main storyline post Triplemanía II-A and for more or less the entire year that followed was ''Los Gringos Locos'' and their storyline war with all of AAA. The next chapter came at Triplemanía II-B where Black Cat was unmasked after losing a ''Lucha de Apuestas'' to
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. The main event of Triplemanía II-B saw Miguel Pérez Jr. debut as part of ''Los Gringos Locos'', following up on his appearance in the crowd during Triplemanía II-A. Pérez, Roberts and Love Machine would lose to Konnan, Aguayo and Cien Caras. That match served as a preview to Triplemanía II-C's main event between Konnan and Jake Roberts where Konnan finally ended the storyline with Roberts that had started a year earlier. The ''Los Gringos Locos'' storyline carried AAA into their subsequent major shows "Night of Champions" and later on their first ever
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that was driven by the feud between ''a Pareja del Terror'' (
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and Love Machine) facing off against El Hijo del Santo and Octagón in a ''Luchas de Apuestas'' match where Guerrero and Love Machine ended up losing their hair. 19 days afterwards Love Machine, real name Art Barr, dies of unknown causes. The popularity of Konnan in the wake of his victory over Jake Robers made his turn to the ''rudo'' side months later ever more shocking, with Konnan attacking his longtime friend Perro Aguayo during a match and joining ''Los Gringos Locos'' instead. As When Worlds Collide Aguayo defeated Konnan in a
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. ''Los Payasos'' winning the Mexican National Trios Championship would be one of the last victories in the trios' "Undefeated Streak"The wrestlers who played ''Los Payasos'' had lost several times in their previous identities, but AAA had booked them to win every single match they had up until this point. ''Los Payasos'' lost the Mexican National Trios Championship to the team of
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, El Hijo del Santo and
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on May 22, 1994. ''Los Payasos'' and ''Los Hermanos Dinamita'' in what became a non-title rematch at Triplemanía II-C which tool place inside a steel cage match. At the show ''Los Hermanos Dinamita'' were able to hand ''Los Payasos'' their second loss ever. NJPW representative Tiger Mask III also competed at the next Triplemanía II show, teaming with fellow NJPW representative
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and AAA representatives El Hijo del Santo and Octagón, defeating the team of
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,
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, Blue Panther, and Eddy Guerrero at Triplemanía II-B Afterwards Tiger Mask II and Jushin Thunder Liger returned to Japan but AAA and NJPW would work together repeatedly over the years until NJPW began partnering with
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(CMLL) in Mexico. At that point AAA began working with Pro Wrestling Noah and has toured Japan on more than one occasion.


Reception

John Molinario, who writes about wrestling for the
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, wrote that the main event ''Lucha de Apuestas'' match was considered the best match on the show and stated that "Fans and critics were blown away by the show, thinking that there was no way the remaining two shows could possibly match its quality".


Results


Footnotes


References

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