Triplemanía X was the tenth

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show promoted by

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. The show took place on July 5, 2002, in Madero, Mexico. The Main event featured a ''

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'' match where each wrestler defended the hair of a referee. The participants in this match were Heavy Metal,

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, Electroshock, May Flowers and

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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 forced 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

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event, similar to the

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's WrestleMania being the biggest show of the year. The 2002 Triplemanía was the 10th year in a row AAA held a Triplemanía show and the fifteenth overall show under the Triplemanía banner.

Storylines

The Triplemanía show featured eight

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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

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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

;Wagers in match 2 *Heavy Metal represented Pepe Casas *Sangre Chicana represented El Tirantes *Oriental represented El Hijo del Tirantes *Electroshock represented Raul Copetes Salazar *May Flowers represented Piero *El Brazo represented El Fresero.

References

External links

Triplemanía X at LuchaLibreAAA.com
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