Triplemanía IX was the ninth

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show promoted by

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. The show took place on May 26, 2001 in Mexico City, Mexico. The Main event featured a Dog collar match ''

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'' match where the last man remaining in the match would have his hair shaved off. The participants were

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, El Cobarde and Sangre Chicana.

Production

Background

In early 1992

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was working as a booker and storyline writer for

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(CMLL), Mexico's largest and the world's oldest wrestling promotion, and was frustrated by CMLL's very conservative approach to ''

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''. He joined forces 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

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, later known simply as "AAA" or Triple A. After making a deal with the ''Televisa'' television network AAA held their first show in April 1992. The following year Peña and AAA held their first

event, building it into an annual event that would become AAA's Super Bowl event, similar to the

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being the biggest show of the year. The 2001 Triplemanía was the ninth year in a row AAA held a Triplemanía show and the sixteenth overall show under the Triplemanía banner.

Storylines

The Triplemanía IX show featured five

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with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either

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(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 a wrestling match or series of matches.

Results

References

External links

Triplemanía IX at LuchaLibreAAA.com
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