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AAA TripleMania XXXIII (August 18) Preview

AAA TripleMania XXXIII
AAA TripleMania XXXIII

AAA
TripleMania XXXIII
August 18, 2025
Arena Ciudad de Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico

Watch: YouTube

A new era of AAA kicks off on Saturday with TripleMania in Mexico City.

WWE will produce its first AAA show in Mexico, which will be the biggest AAA show of the year. It’s a lineup unlike the past, featuring a bunch of WWE people to add star power and compensate for the lack of any long-term payoff. This year’s TripleMania is instead an origin story, WWE’s chance to communicate its vision for this acquired promotion. Worlds Collide gave fans an impression of what AAA might be with WWE calling the shots. TripleMania is the first chance to show what it will be.

TripleMania airs live from Mexico City at 7 pm local time, which is 9 pm US Eastern time. It’ll air in both English and Spanish on WWE’s YouTube channels, where it will live forever as a VOD after the completion of the event. Corey Graves, Konnan, and JBL will be the English announcers. JBL has appeared in AAA occasionally over the last year, cutting xenophobic and lariating tecnicos, who don’t appear to be allowed to do anything for him. There didn’t seem to be any plan or payoff to this concept, so it’ll be just as fine if it’s suddenly dropped as he becomes an AAA commentator. WWE has announced the Spanish announcers; I presume it’ll be the same combination of Roberto Figueroa, Jose Manuel Guillen, and Marcelo Rodriguez as at Worlds Collide.

As best I can figure it, and I’m probably figuring something wrong, this is how we got here: The AAA business wasn’t great in the 2023-2024 season, the Luchatitlan moonshot hope failed, and AAA’s finally getting TV on Unimas didn’t end up helping much. AAA was far from dying, but they weren’t growing either, making it a struggle to maintain their current level. Dorian Roldan had previously had conversations with Fillip’s Alberto Fasja about different options to infuse AAA with money to try to grow the company. Ownership told people around the promotion it was an investment deal with the current management retaining control, and Roldan’s public comments indicated that was one possibility. The deal eventually became Roldan and Marisela Pena outright agreeing to sell the company to Fillip. Filip and AAA had already discussed the best ways to achieve that growth and decided that a working agreement with TKO would raise their profile in the US to get the big money media deal they wanted. Fasja and Roldan went to WWE to talk about an alliance. WWE counter-proposed that they lend all their expertise and wrestlers for a controlling interest in AAA. Roldan has always expressed a lot of respect for WWE; he may not have had the power to stop WWE from getting involved, but I assume he didn’t have any objection. Fillip sees TKO as a King Midas, turning anything they touch into gold, and they’ll surely raise the value of AAA to guarantee a massive return on the investment. It was probably a quick conversation once WWE wanted to get on board. The TKO takeover of AAA is or should finally be official at any moment. Ernesto Ocampo of Superluchas reported it happened on August 1st, TKO’s Nick Khan seemed to suggest there were a few sign-offs still coming around their recent investor call. It could be a bit of stageplay to mark Saturday as the official start date. Regardless of the legal status, everyone is treating TKO as if they are running the promotion. Expect Triple H, Nick Khan, and similar names to be at this show to celebrate that change.

That means this TripleMania will be the first entirely run WWE show, and so the end of Promociones Antonio Pena.

AAA has told those who like AAA that nothing is changing, so they’ve got nothing to be concerned about. (Things are changing, but that’s another paragraph.) Mexican wrestling fans who dislike AAA are relieved it won’t be the same, and the people in charge will no longer be in charge. I know some people who worked for AAA feel the same way. AAA has been a risk-taking, innovative promotion that gave the world great matches and great characters that no one else would’ve ever done. They’ve also been seemingly successful despite themselves for years, have lost working relationships seemingly due to disorganization, and have left behind stories of treating wrestlers terribly. AAA is the messiest promotion to last as long as it has on a major league level. It has become more comfortable being a mess in recent years, a “everyone thinks we’re terrible, so we’re free to be terrible” attitude. The people who ran AAA are not getting snapped away, and the people coming in from WWE aren’t perfect. Still, just the idea that those particular people will have a lot less say in what wrestling looks like is a victory.

Neither AAA nor WWE has made any formal announcement that TripleMania is the first WWE show. It’s not super obvious that something is changing, and that is the point. Everyone involved on the Mexican side has sold this takeover to the public as “the same old AAA, now with the power of WWE behind it.” There have been some changes. The harm camera no longer shooting into the giant screen has been a welcome move. The creative seems to have been slowly taken over by WWE, putting the wheels in motion for the big matches they wanted for this show. 2025 AAA still looks and feels a lot closer to recent AAA than World’s Collide. There’s no heavier hand than WWE, no one who believes more that doing it their way is the right way and the only way, and so it feels like more changes are coming on this show. It’s just an uncertain question of how far they’ll go.

There’s now a ticking time clock on AAA in a way there’s never been before. The Roldan/Pena hope was to eventually get significant revenue from the US and then spend that to grow the promotion. With WWE involved, AAA can expect more resources than ever before, but TKO has no legacy incentive to keep spending money on AAA forever if they can’t get the media deal to pay for it. TKO has been pretty successful at getting their big money deals in the last couple of weeks, so it’ll probably work out for AAA before TKO runs out of patience. It’s just switched from being a hopeful outcome to a required outcome for long-term survival. That big money deal has to come from the US. Mexico isn’t paying big money for anything that’s not futbol. There’s a lot more money in the US. AAA needs to garner interest from US fans to persuade US sponsors and media providers to support the project. To achieve this, subtle changes are being made to the presentation to make it more appealing to the US audience. The Mexican fans have not caught on to it yet, and the difference between US and Mexican Hispanic fans is not so significant. It’s worth keeping an eye on how Mexican fans react when they realize this promotion isn’t as much for them as it used to be. The WWE bet is that the Mexican fans will be so thrilled to get WWE stars on their shows that few of them will mind anything else that might go on. The early reactions suggest that’s a good bet. 

AAA has announced six matches for this show at press time. That’s down from a normal TripleMania and closer to a WWE-style PLE. Which it is now.



There are a couple of non-matches to get to first:

Konnan will be added to the AAA Hall of Fame.

The AAA Hall of Fame is, like many AAA things over the last 30 years, a pale imitation of the WWE one. Konnan belongs in the AAA Hall of Fame, but it’s also a Hall of Fame that has Cassandro in it as a tie-in to the movie about his life. There are sincere inclusions, but there are no particular criteria for getting in. It also has no physical presence. AAA does make plaques for the inductees – I’ve seen some up close – but they mostly have just been standing around AAA’s (not open to the public) office. AAA’s website has no mention of their Hall of Fame; you had to look up a Wikipedia page to find the past members when WWE announced Konnan as the newest inclusion. That’s a thing WWE could improve on quickly.

Konnan was instrumental in the founding of AAA, one of the biggest stars of the first era of the promotion, and has been among the most influential people in Mexican wrestling for the two decades since he returned to AAA. (You can get into long and not exactly pleasant arguments about how positive that influence has always been.) It’s natural to tie in to the WWE world by having Rey Mysterio Jr. induct him the same way Konnan inducted Mysterio into the WWE Hall of Fame. This first show of the WWE era is both a testament to his legacy and also maybe a bittersweet moment. AAA is finally striking out into the US, and he won’t get to be the one making the calls. Konnan’s expected to be part of AAA’s creative team still, but he just won’t be leading it. Konnan always pushed the idea of AAA going to the US because it was good for business, though it was also a personal ambition. He is a man confident in his abilities, certain that he could be the lead book for a successful US promotion if given a real opportunity, and get the credit he feels he deserves for doing so. AAA might have been his last best chance to do so, and WWE taking over means that it will be an unrealized dream.  

Alberto el Patron will probably appear at some point

The worst part about covering lucha libre this year is having to explain Alberto’s deal constantly. It puts me in a position of defending a person I do not like – not on a personal level, not on a professional level. I think his defenders overrate him. People diving into AAA discussions also want to dumb the story down to “bad people cheering for a bad guy.” I also hate explaining it because it feels like nothing I say will get the points to sink in, but I have little choice but to keep hammering away.

AAA’s shift from teasing Alberto’s turn at TripleMania Monterrey to turning on him and kicking him out of the promotion is light speed by AAA standards. It also doesn’t fit AAA’s patterns of saving the big moments for TripleMania. AAA decided they had to get Alberto to leave town before they did. It was a reasonable assumption that TKO had some ethical objection to Alberto, and so didn’t want him to be part of AAA once they took over. It was clear watching the TV that it was all meant to be a storyline. It’s hard to believe TKO has an ethical objection to much of anyone, given recent events. TKO may have objections to problem people who do not generate revenue. There was no money in the Alberto that TKO last saw, and they might have assumed there was still no money in Alberto when explaining AAA the first time. They probably figured it out by the reaction to the Vikingo title win. AAA’s spent the last twelve months with the sole focus of making Alberto seem like the biggest deal possible, and it’s worked a lot better than most AAA plans.

I believe Alberto is more over right now than at any other point in his career. It’s not hard to find fans who believe Alberto is the most valuable wrestler in the world, because AAA has been pounding that message on their TV, even during the period when AAA positioned him as a villain. Alberto’s done his part in promos. His work in the ring is nothing special, but AAA’s big matches are just a parade of run-ins anyway. It’s a little unfair to judge him by matches that will never be good. 2025 Alberto el Patron is exactly the top guy character WWE dreamed of him becoming when they introduced him as Alberto del Rio. He appears to be a legitimate draw to Hispanic fans at a time when TKO wants to market this entire brand to media partners and needs an appealing face to front it. I tried to explain to people that Alberto won very big on the day he lost the AAA Mega Championship. I expect I will no longer need to explain that after this show.

Copa Baradhl

It’s a new start, but there are still some old obligations. The car oil sponsor gets its contractually stipulated match as always. That also means WWE’s stuck with the yellow mat for this one. Likewise, this show will air in Mexico on Canal Space, HBO Max, and (delayed and edited) on the over-the-air network TV Azteca. All those deals and likely many more are still to be renegotiated or escaped. WWE is buying the IP of AAA, but also all those outstanding AAA commitments

Those commitments also include AAA luchadors, many of which aren’t on the lineup for this show. AAA has listed nine AAA (existing) luchadors for this show. Dozens more wrestlers have seen TV time in the previous AAA, and may be waiting around to find out if they’re part of the new one. I suspect – I kinda just hope – that the likes of Laredo Kid and Octagon Jr. will find their way into this match. This match itself won’t be much, it never is, yet finding out which AAA people WWE sees enough to squeeze them onto a show like this will be vastly useful information. Pimpinela Escarlata is the name to watch. Pimpi has been incredibly limited as a wrestler for a long time, but Pimpi is one of many older luchadors who know how to get strong reactions out of doing the same four spots in every match. Pimpinela Escarlata is also the most famous exotico on the AAA roster; none of the nine names are exoticos, and WWE’s history packages on AAA innovations have skipped over the mention of exoticos. These matches usually go around a dozen people deep, some of those spots will likely go to surprise names, and that still won’t leave room for many existing AAA names..

Faby Apache vs Flammer vs Natalya for the Reina de Reinas Championship

In previous previews, I wondered how WWE would handle the not exactly stellar AAA women’s division. They have decided to handle it by shoving it aside. Flammer is the only full-time luchadora making this show. Lola Vice is in as a new full-time roster member, and Natalya is here to add star power. Natalya seems to have come with a request to wrestle Faby Apache; it is unclear if she or WWE were aware that Faby Apache was not actually in AAA at that point. Apache quietly disappeared from AAA after losing to Flammer for this same title at last year’s TripleMania, and then made a surprise return one taping before Nattie made her debut. The two met in a three-way tag match, where Natalya wrestled Faby a lot and barely touched the other four women. It was a fairly stark change for the Flammer/Dalys/Shani three-way feud of just a few months ago. 

Flammer seems like the best choice to keep a prominent role in the new makeup of this decision. No one here is having great matches, but Flammer’s shown moments of being a useful wrestler. She’s more consistent and professional than her two Toxica teammates, Maravilla and Hiedra, while also still keeping with some of their personalities. The usual WWE practice is to have Natalya and Faby Apache fight, and then Flammer steals a pin on one of them to keep the title. The vibes feel like WWE’s in the process of a hard reset, and that points more towards Natalya winning this title if she’s going to be around for a while.

Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. versus El Mesías © for AAA Latin American championship

This Wagner/Mesias match is the most traditional AAA build. Tecnico Wagner failed, failed, failed to get the best of Mesias. He secured this title match by beating the underling Mecha Wolf, but only because Mesias’ interference backfired. The override strategy of old AAA management is to keep the heels as strong as possible, figuring that the TripleMania victory will be the one part the fans will remember, regardless. It hasn’t worked out that way in recent years, and Wagner’s the latest victim. He seemed like a potential top guy when he appeared infrequently, especially after AAA introduced him as a new signing. The booking has turned him into another Octagon Jr. or Laredo Kid, a good working foil and not a top guy. A win here should help, but he’s a guy who seemed like he could’ve done more for AAA than win a mid-level title.

I’m not as sure Wagner is going to win this one anymore. This feud started before WWE began its creative collaboration with AAA. Mesias was the second-in-command heel, the guy who’d lose only to set up big matches for Alberto. WWE toppling over the domino to make Vikingo champion has led to Mesias being the top heel in the group, and someone Alberto eventually needs to get revenge on. Mesias shouldn’t be losing right now, even though Wagner needs to win just as much. This match is a messy situation complicated by special expectations. Sixteen years ago, Dr. Wagner Jr. (this man’s father) defeated Mesias to retain the AAA Mega Championship in one of the best matches in TripleMania history. That match still sticks in AAA fans’ memories long after, and seeing a Wagner and Mesias match-up again has them hoping for the same sort of outcome. Time has taken its toll on Mesias. Wagner hasn’t looked like a super worker in his time in AAA. They may need to do something goofy to get out of this finish. The expectations are still the expectations.

Pagano & Psycho Clown versus Ángel Garza & Berto for the AAA World Tag Team Championship

Something like this tag match was probably in the cards for TripleMania XXXIII all along. Pagano and Psycho Clown came close to beating the tag team champions early in the year, gave themselves a team name (“Circus Maxima”), and circling back to the titles seemed to fit everyone’s TripleMania plans. The significant change is that the clowns were chasing NGD (Sanson & Forastero) initially. AAA slotted Los Garzas into the spot by winning the titles at TripleMania Monterrey. Everyone has wondered if Sanson and Forastero will be part of going AAA after the WWE sale because of the (still ongoing) Cuatrero/Stephanie Vaquer case. Moving them out of a TripleMania program seems like a message, though there’s still plenty of other ways they could find their way onto this show. 

A midcard tag title match feels a bit like Psycho Clown slipping down the pecking order. A 2024 where Psycho wasn’t around AAA much, followed by a 2025 kept out of the main AAA stories, is not ace behavior. My hunch is that AAA didn’t mean to sidetrack him to this degree. AAA seemed to position Psycho for a title program, only to drop it to do the Vikingo title change. The AAA/WWE crossover appearances have featured Psycho, but Mr. Iguana’s success at Worlds Collide vaulted him as the fun AAA representative for the new fanbase. Psycho is still highly thought of enough to get a match on SmackDown, but that match got bumpy near the end when Psycho appeared to forget to make a tag on live TV. (This being a street fight plays into both Psycho and Pagano’s strengths, and it also makes sure that the tag issue won’t happen again.)

Psycho Clown has earned a lot of AAA status from his rise to that position and from headlining big TripleManias in years past. He could disappear for a few months or get downshifted into a midcard feud, yet the AAA fans and staff know he can quickly be heated back up to the main event because they’ve grown accustomed to seeing him there. All that washes away with new ownership. WWE has told their fans that Psycho Clown is a top AAA person, but they haven’t seen it or experienced it themselves, and so it doesn’t have nearly as much traction. Psycho Clown, more than anyone else on this show, needs a memorable performance to ensure the new people in charge see in him the same qualities that the previous ones did.

Angel Garza has been good in his in-ring work and excellent in his character bits. He’s very talented, totally underutilized, and would be an ideal candidate to be the #1 heel in AAA in the future. I do not doubt that he would nail that role. I doubt that he’d want to do it. Being a top guy in AAA after not getting much of a chance in WWE might cause those writers to take a second look at him. It might also lead those in charge to view him as someone who can only succeed in AAA; it pays a lot better to be a guy who can succeed on the main roster. The heavy presence of WWE wrestlers in AAA means there’s going to be chances for those who aren’t going anywhere on the main roster to get hot elsewhere. There’s also the risk of being deemed a “AAA” player – both in the wrestling and baseball terms – and of being too closely tied to AAA if it doesn’t work out. Some will prefer hanging around RAW and SmackDown doing nothing, because they’ll still be visible and accessible to those creative teams. No one wants to be out of mind, and an AAA that’s taped separately from the rest of WWE shows might quickly become that.

(* – Negro Casas lost to Alberto as part of the incomplete Alberto/Psycho feud, appeared in the crowd at Worlds Collide, and hasn’t wrestled since. Negro Casas is one of many luchadors who wanted to keep wrestling until his body wouldn’t let him anymore. Negro Casas suddenly stopping wrestling is of some concern.)



Lola Vice, Mr. Iguana, Niño Hamburguesa vs Finn Balor, JD McDonagh, Raquel Rodriguez

WWE bills this match as a Mixed Tag. In WWE, mixed tag means the men can not fight the women. In AAA, mixed tag means the men can fight the women (and will do so to get heat). In WWE’s AAA, we’re going to find out together what mixed tag means.

In 2021, Mr. Iguana was in the TripleMania Mexico City “get everyone on the show” battle royal

In 2022, Mr. Iguana was in the TripleMania Mexico City “get everyone on the show” battle royal

In 2023, Mr. Iguana was in the TripleMania Mexico City “get everyone on the show” battle royal. 

In 2024, Mr. Iguana was in the TripleMania Mexico City “get everyone on the show” battle royal. 

In 2025, Mr. Iguana is wrestling the WWE tag team champions and may be the top face in the promotion.

Iguana’s got better over the years, though that’s not what happened here. Iguana was the guy most prepared to have a match that’d stand out to a new audience and pulled the match off well when he needed to do it. (Lince Dorado still doesn’t get enough credit for being a willing participant.) Iguana’s success in WWE has led to being treated as a bigger deal by both crowd and promoters in Mexico. He’s getting a marquee match on a show where he’s usually not a factor. Mr. Iguana benefited from being a comedy character in front of an audience that latches onto comedy characters, but AAA has heavily gimmicked comic characters up and down their roster. Iguana is the one who got himself in position and made something of it.

Nino Hamburguesa gets one chance to go along for the ride as Iguana’s usual partner. Hamburguesa is more fiery, a large babyface nowadays, and less the kid who was eating hamburgers before his top rope splash. He’s also the guy who’s had his ample chest twisted and pulled around by various rudos for comic effect this year; he’s not a completely serious individual. AAA had been telling a story of Lola Vice potentially stealing Mr. Iguana away from La Hiedra, who never really cared all that much for Iguana until they won the mixed tag team titles. Vice being in this match instead of Hiedra might suggest they’re jumping ahead in that story. Hiedra is exactly like NGD: she probably would be on this card under past ownership, WWE people have been put in her spot this year, there are still ways to squeeze her onto the show if that’s what WWE wants to do, and it’s going to be telling if she’s entirely left off. 

This Judgement Day has no particular purpose in this match. There’s the idea that they’re on TripleMania to help Dominik, but they didn’t need to wrestle Nino Hamburguesa to interfere in another match. That’s the AAA context, and I shouldn’t be so delusional as to believe matches are here solely for how they work for AAA. Judgment Day is here because their fans are waiting for Liv Morgan to show up and the chaos that will result. WWE hopes that fans will talk themselves into sitting through an entire AAA show, looking for the big news to happen there. I have no idea if that’ll happen, but I can see the logic in immediately establishing AAA as required viewing for the WWE diehards. They need to get as many people caring about AAA as possible, and they need the WWE fans to understand that AAA is required viewing for WWE fans, too.

Hijo Del Vikingo © vs Dragón Lee vs Dominik Mysterio vs Grande Americano for the AAA Megachampionship

The pop Dominik Mysterio got in Gimnasio Juan de la Barrera was the first time since the WWE purchase that I’ve been genuinely concerned about the future of Mexican wrestling. The Garzas and the Joe Hendrys have been helpful to AAA, not game changers. The nuclear reaction Mysterio got after unmasking himself was a stark reminder of how much force WWE could apply to Mexican wrestling should they decide to turn the power up to full blast. Mysterio’s not even full blast, though he’s a guy who ticks all the boxes this era of AAA fan wants to cheer: he’s a young cool heel who’s wins a lot, he’s a championship-winning WWE star, he is in a non-stop cycle of WWE women throwing themselves at him, and he’s got an AAA legacy. The 2025 AAA crowd is a heel supporting group who wants to cheer successful people with an edge. Mysterio is their guy.

Hijo del Vikingo is everything that AAA fans don’t watch.

He’s a local promotion star. (Their local promotion.)

He hasn’t beaten anyone important. (The Kenny Omega and Fenix matches didn’t happen.)

He doesn’t defend the title enough. (He’s not the booker.)

He shouldn’t have beaten Alberto. (He’s not the booker.)

He loses all the time, especially to Alberto. (He’s not the booker.)

The promotion picked him. (The promotion picks everyone, that’s what promotions do.)

Vikingo and his father got destroyed – again! – by Alberto and friends in their last encounter. Alberto beat Papa Vikingo so severely that he got sent to the hospital. Vikingo won’t get revenge because Alberto is now a face and theoretically out of the company. Instead, Vikingo turned heel off-screen, doing a training school heel promo, riffing off the fans’ dislike of him to set up this four-way match. Vikingo has transitioned incredibly fast from the apparent face of AAA to a new audience to someone who needs a long-term image rehab (or a trip elsewhere). No one would benefit from a change of scenery more, and he’s instead locked in this situation for years to come. There’s no chance the old AAA would be able to fix this situation; Vikingo would just be a rudo that’s not good at being rudo for a year or two before he’d leave, or AAA would switch him back. Maybe the new AAA will be better; they broke him, they should fix him.

It was no surprise that the AAA fans cheered Grande Americano in his debut. Not even to the AAA/WWE people booking him in his debut. He was nominally the heel against Octagon Jr., but AAA designed the match to give Americano moments before and after the match. He was over well before the match started, and Chad Gable would’ve been over as a hero as well. While people were understandably upset with the “Gulf of America” bits in the character’s introductory vignettes, the photos representing Grande Americano as a historical luchador landed very positively with the Mexican fans. Grande Americano is a meme luchador, a semi-parody of wrestlers of the past, and there’s nothing this era of AAA fans love more than a meme. AAA is a promotion that’s impossible to take entirely seriously, so those who’ve embraced it do so with a bit of cynicism and humor, and not entirely serious characters fit the bill. I’m not sure Mexican fans take the standard xenophobic American heel seriously today – they play along with booing because that’s the role they’re supposed to play, while also knowing it’s a bit – and that heel packaged as a riff on luchadors who still believe it is 1986 is something to laugh along with. I don’t think AAA can go all the way with him as a champion, and I think they’re in danger of running the bit in the ground by adding more and more of the characters. They’re going to have a lot of ironic Grande Americano fans if they just keep him as is.

Dragon Lee got to the wrong major US promotion for doing Dragon Lee-like things, and then Dragon Lee got sent back to AAA at the wrong time to do Dragon Lee things there. There’s probably an outstanding Dragon Lee/Hijo del Vikingo match we missed out on around 2023. There’s no chance that kind of match is happening today; they’re both different guys, and this is a very different AAA. Dragon Lee winning the title here would advance his WWE story, but it doesn’t seem to be the goal. That appears to be more killing time before Rey Mysterio Jr. can return to be a hero. 

Dominik Mysterio should win the AAA Mega Championship if Dominik Mysterio is going to be available to work more AAA tapings. I can’t tell you what that schedule entails, whether it involves long travel and conflicting dates, or if everything will happen in a warehouse. AAA has announced no tapings past TripleMania. They’ve got about four episodes of filler they can use, so there’s no urgency for AAA to decide anything soon. I suspect the places that usually have shows in the fall and draw very well – Guadalajara and Juarez – will still get their tapings this year, but no one’s talking. It feels like everything else is on the table. Perhaps they continue to record TV in Mexico City’s Gimnasio Juan de La Barrera every month. Maybe AAA takes the place of the Speed tapings before RAW and SmackDown. All the WWE Latino wrestlers were required to promote the upcoming Canelo/Crawford TKO boxing match on September 13th, and an AAA show in association with it might make sense. WWE has all the freedom to imagine AAA however they want.  

TripleManias used to have one or two killer matches. That’s not what this is; maybe a couple of matches will get there, but that’s not the point. TripleManias usually have the conclusions of long stories. That’s not what this one is, at least as far as stories in the ring. The outcomes, and the show itself, are much more about beginnings than endings. It is a must-card to see which parts of the AAA WWE feels like keeping and celebrating, and which parts WWE will discard. It will serve as a mission statement for AAA, outlining its future direction and implications for the rest of the wrestling scene. 2025 has already seen a few landmark shows in Mexico City, and TripleMania XXXIII seems to be the most important of all of them.

This one is hard to miss.