AAA TripleMania Regia 2025
June 15, 2025
Arena Monterrey
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
AAA has run a lot of “extra” TripleMania shows this decade. Many of them have been odd for one reason or another.
AAA has an especially odd edition of TripleMania Regia this Sunday.
The top matches on this card came together unusually late and have little to do with the big stories AAA has been telling this year. This TripleMania seemed bolted onto the schedule after the WWE sale and exists in the wake of a positively received World Collide show. It is also the first TripleMania in about a decade without a plan to air internationally. The main event is a logical match that will antagonize either AAA’s newly-won US admirers or annoy their pre-existing Mexican fans. None of the matches are must-see; the lineup doesn’t feel like a TripleMania card, yet I’m still intrigued to figure out what exactly is going on here.
TripleMania Regia will take place Sunday at 6 pm local time in Monterrey. The show will take indoors at Arena Monterrey, not the baseball stadium of past Monterrey TripleMania cards. The show will also not air on Triller. It will be available in Mexico on Space and Max, starting around 7:15 pm, with only the last three matches scheduled to air. (The first three matches simply won’t air until next Saturday’s regular AAA TV show.) A TripleMania not airing internationally is weird. An AAA show not airing immediately after WWE released a press release boasting about the Worlds Collide viewership is weirder. I have a theory that TripleMania Regia will stream internationally with a delay this coming Wednesday, opposing Grand Slam Mexico. Neither WWE nor AAA has promoted that so far, so it is only a theory. Piracy and VPNs are your only options to watch the show live.
There’s no hair match or mask match on this TripleMania. Fiscal and Abismo Negro, feuding all year, are strangely shuffled into different matches. The main event is a rematch of the Vikingo/Alberto title match, something that didn’t appear to be part of AAA’s original plans. The card is supplemented by TNA and WWE talent, aiming to compensate for the lack of stakes by promoting it as a dream international show. I don’t think the creative team gets dream matchups because they ended up with ones that look like they’d take place in front of a half-full building during Forbidden Door Zero Hour. The match quality looks generally good, better than most AAA shows, if not as strong as Worlds Collide. However, there’s nothing must-see, and a fair bit of filler is present here.
Fiscal, Mr. Iguana, Niño Hamburguesa versus Kento, Nobu San, Takuma
There was a story behind this match, but it is probably no longer. AAA seemed to be (very, very slowly) building to a Mr. Iguana heel turn. I’m pretty sure that one won’t be happening anymore. The story here about the Tokyo Bad Boys repeatedly kidnapping Yesca may also be a thing of the past, with WWE resetting Iguana to his normal status quo. This match might be the WWE fans’ first look at Hamburgeusa, and I have no idea what they’ll take away from him. Hamburguesa originally got over as an overweight underdog (who liked hamburgers), and now he’s a guy who does a lot of bits that are over in part because fans have seen them for a long time. Hamburguesa’s coming through on promos this year, but his strongest point is his history, and that doesn’t help with new viewers.
The Tokyo Bad Boys are another big question mark: what interest does a WWE-owned AAA have in unmasked non-Mexican wrestlers? I thought Kento, Takuma, and Nobu did very well in La Parka’s debut match, setting him up to look like a star. This match will now be the same, only for Mr. Iguana, and they work even better with him. The Tokyo Bad Boys probably won’t be working with Mr. Iguana all that much if Iguana gets pulled to the US, which sets up the other question: how much interest do these guys have in working in AAA if AAA becomes fewer Mexican dates and more US ones?
Flammer © versus Dalys versus Lady Shani for the AAA Reina de Reinas championships
All Reina de Reinas matches on big shows have tons of interference, trusting the crowd to care about that and not believing the women in the match can get the same reaction on their own. I had believed the plan was for Dalys to win this title this year, and that part I’m no longer sure about. She was predictably bad on Worlds Collide, and the power dynamics have changed. WWE isn’t going to be as concerned about keeping Psycho Clown and Negro Casas happy or honoring the promises that others made. We now know that WWE will choose based on what is best for WWE; the question is whether WWE cares enough to weigh in. This three-way feud appeared to be setting up as the token women’s match for TripleMania Mexico City, and moving it up a couple of months clears the way for the change of direction to take place on that show. (Reina de Reinas champion Lola Vice?) Of these three, Flammer’s the best bet to have a good match with an outsider, so maybe that’s the reason enough for her to retain.
La Parka, Laredo Kid, Octagón Jr. versus Abismo Negro, Histeria, Taurus
This Histeria is the fourth Histeria. He debuted two weeks ago. He’s not Super Crazy, who played the character in parts of 1996 and 1997. He’s not the Histeria who would later go to CMLL as Morphosis and whose sons (or “sons”) wrestle around Mexico City as Histeria Jr. and Histeriosis. He’s not the third Histeria, who confusingly renamed himself “Histeria 2.0” after bouncing out of AAA in less than a year – that one passed away in 2022, so it’s not him. This Histeria is the former Bengala, not the Ricky Marvin Bengala, the Super Nova Bengala, or the Arkangel Divino Bengala. Or the CMLL Bengala, whose injury at the hands of one of the Dr. Karontes (but not the one who was Mini Murder Clown) may have effectively ended his career. This Bengala turned Histeria is the former Legendario, but not the Legendario who is now Dragon Legendario in CMLL or the Legendario who was around in the 90s, but instead, the Legendario who used to team with Dick Angelo 3G, the new Taurus who is not the Taurus who is now the Beast Mortos and not the Taurus is now Gran Guerrero. The match should be good.
Angel & Berto versus Forastero & Sansón © versus Pagano & Psycho Clown versus Nic Nemeth & Ryan Nemeth for the AAA World Tag Team Championship
There was a time when wrestling in AAA would back up claims of being blackballed from the wrestling industry. Times are changing.
One question I’d like to solve is, “What did AAA tell Jeff Jarrett?”
Satnam Singh and Raj Dhesi won these AAA World Tag Team titles back in last year’s TripleMania. In March, AAA declared the titles vacant and told people that it was due to one of them having a visa issue. Singh, according to his own Instagram, underwent surgery around that time. It is now fairly obvious AAA declared those tag titles vacant because they had agreed to sell the company, and everything was a distraction. AAA knew AEW wrestlers were about to be off limits and had to find an excuse to get the titles off an AEW wrestler immediately without giving the game away. Jarrett seemed to get himself into the decision match as a make-good for Singh not appearing. Did AAA inform AEW employee Jeff Jarrett that they were about to sell the company to his competition, and Jarrett then came to Mexico to work for them anyway, keeping the sale news quiet? Did AAA spin a story to longtime friend Jeff Jarrett, out working an all-time worker? That seems like a fascinating topic for a podcast.
Angel, then Hijo del Ninja, was something of a local TV star in the 2010s. The major local TV network also owned Arena Coliseo Monterrey, which meant that TV celebrities occasionally wrestled, and luchadors often appeared on variety shows. Hijo del Ninja did better than most; he started in a “reality” dating show, built around his unmasking in the final episode. The unmasking seems to have worked out for him, yet it received a lot of negative attention at the time. The stunt turned him into a celebrity, though it did not endear him to older wrestlers and wrestling fans. The WWE runs haven’t been kind to Angel and Berto, but the expectation is that they’ll be big returning stars on this show.
Forastero and Sansón were name-checked on Worlds Collide, so they must not be seen as radioactive as Alberto. Their motivation levels remain inconsistent, which stands out more than ever in a moment when the rest of the AAA is working as if their careers depend on it. Pagano looked exactly as everyone expected Pagano to look at Worlds Collide and may have lost his spot as a weirdo charisma guy to the much better-working Mr. Iguana. The Nic Nemeth as Megachampionship run last year was neither over nor good, just mostly hidden behind Alberto being worse. The status quo of NGD keeping the titles seems like a safe bet, but I can’t shake the idea of Angel & Berto walking around as AAA champs to build toward Santos coming for the big belt in August.
El Mesías versus Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. versus Joe Hendry versus Moose © for the TNA X Division championship
It is supposed to be a big deal to have a championship from another promotion defended on an AAA show. They’re just doing it with the X Division title, which has no particular history in AAA. They’re doing it with Moose, who’s been in AAA a few times over the years without making much of an impression. Joe Hendry has been here too, though far before he became “viral star Joe Hendry.” There doesn’t seem to be any story between Joe Hendry and Moose. There is an AAA story about Wagner going after Mesias and the AAA Latin American championship, but that wouldn’t fit the international theme. It is a group of large people fighting among themselves. Mesias’ throwing small people around has led to his recent resurgence, and there are none of those small people here. This setup doesn’t seem like the best star vehicle for Hendry either, who should still be a significant novelty in his first Mexico appearance since his departure.
There isn’t a lot to write about this one, as there isn’t a lot to write about most of these matches. Wagner’s loss on Worlds Collide was no surprise because Wagner seems to lose in almost every AAA match of consequence. All the losing is AAA’s idea of a push: the tecnico keeps getting screwed over and losing time after time until finally getting his win on TripleMania Mexico City. It just takes a long time to get to those high magnitude shows when AAA treats one show a year as truly important, and Wagner’s cooled off in the meantime. AAA also hasn’t seen Wagner as some international world champion or the great new version of an important name. He’s instead positioned as a midcard guy they’re trying to introduce to a new fanbase. Perhaps WWE will view him differently, but this run hasn’t helped him so far. Maybe he’ll shock the world and pick up the X Division title – it doesn’t seem like Moose has much a direction – to get going again. I wouldn’t wager on it.
El Hijo del Vikingo © versus Alberto el Patrón in a cage match for the AAA Mega Championship
El Hijo del Vikingo saw Latin Lover fight off all the members of el Ojo, and Vikingo’s father (King Vikingo) smashed a guitar over Alberto’s head to set up Hijo del Vikingo, landing the 630 for the win. Alberto and evil (soon-to-be-former) owner Dorian Roldan argued that the rematch in Monterrey should be a cage match to keep King Vikingo out. That would make a lot of sense if the entire purpose of the El Ojo faction were to interfere in Alberto’s matches to help him win. Those guys and Vikingo’s guys will still be involved. It’s a modern cage match, where the cage serves as a perch for stunts rather than an obstacle to keep people out. Perhaps WWE requested a video of Vikingo jumping from a high place for a video package, and AAA decided to build their main event around a five-second clip. It wouldn’t be the first time.
You must learn to love chaos if you’re going to survive watching AAA for an extended period. There is no more chaotic finish possible than Alberto winning this title back two weeks after losing it. I think it would be a terrible idea, and I also want to see it as it’s sometimes, it’s fun to see the world burn. (Please don’t report me to the authorities.) That is not happening. Vikingo is holding this championship at least until the next TripleMania. His future is set. I’m more uncertain about Alberto’s future. A guy who never takes losses suddenly taking two of them in quick succession is a signal. Alberto’s old vanity promotion, Nacion Lucha Libre, suddenly deciding to restart their social media accounts is a huge signal. Alberto’s booked past this show for AAA, so this doesn’t seem like a complete write-off. Still, being a Mexico-only luchador in WWE-owned AAA is not a bright future. It doesn’t appear that WWE is interested in anything more than that with Alberto, by the way he’s being set up here. I’m wondering if they’re even interested in him fulfilling the originally promoted TripleMania Mexico City, which hasn’t been mentioned much since the sale announcement. The Alberto fans won’t want to see their guy lose again, but that’s no longer a consideration. Perhaps this is the real start of everyone moving their separate ways.
Final Thoughts
I don’t think casual fans will get the same enjoyment from this show as Worlds Collide: Mexico. AAA doesn’t have the same vibes and lacks the talent depth of a combined AAA/WWE show. It’s certainly not worth jumping through hoops to watch live on Sunday, and it may not be worth more than a glance to the non-AAA viewer if it does turn up later. There is a lot more intrigue for AAA watchers and others curious about how this promotion will change under WWE control, but this is just another step in that process and not the final product. There’s a chance WWE tries to sell this show to a broad audience, and I don’t think that audience will find what they’re looking for on this show. Maybe check in again in August.
