AAA Guerra de Titanes 2025
December 20, 2025
Arena Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
Watch: YouTube
AAA traditionally ends the year with the Guerra de Titanes show, and that is one tradition the new WWE ownership continues this year. Recent editions have been no more than special TV episodes. This 2025 edition is more of a PPV event, with WWE big names coming back to AAA for the first time in years. This show looks like a good one on paper, with a couple of matches that could be outstanding. It’s also going to be a WWE show, and your tolerance for that style of presentation will entirely decide how much you want to watch this show.
The 2025 Guerra de Titanes takes place on Saturday at 8 pm Mexico time. The show will stream in Spanish on AAA’s YouTube. It seems to be airing in English on WWE’s YouTube channel; the poster’s logo indicates it will, but WWE hasn’t otherwise promoted that. It may or may not air on TV. AAA’s deal with FOX Latin America doesn’t kick in until the next show, the first taping of January. This show is probably still airing on Space and HBO Max in Mexico, but AAA has disavowed any knowledge of the old TV deal since the new one was announced.
It’s been eight months since WWE announced they’d be buying majority control of AAA, and about four months since they’ve officially started running it. It’s still hard to get a feel for what they’re presenting now: is it the complete WWE vision of AAA, or are they still holding back until that Fox deal starts or whatever US deal they’re going to get begins? Everything seems to be moving slowly and a little bit aimlessly, which may just be the WWE’s booking style.
This has been an entirely successful 2025 for AAA’s business.
They continued the recovery started in 2024. Alberto’s reign as the central focus of the promotion went as well as everyone expected it to be in the short term. They were selling out every taping with him on top. The big question was what would AAA do when they’d run out of people for Alberto to destroy, and the WWE sale was an unexpected but helpful answer. WWE & AAA did a poor job handling the transition away from Alberto, and he still haunts them through crowd chants. It hasn’t affected the business at all. They keep on selling out those Mexico City shows, and they’re aiming bigger elsewhere than before. This Guerra de Titanes show has typically been run at a 6,000-seat venue. AAA’s running it at 3x the size of the building. It may be sold out by the time you read it. Business has been good outside the ring. The Fox Latin America deal is a clear upgrade over the dying Canal Space. AAA’s merchandising, aside from the missing stuffed iguana issues, is stronger with the WWE involved. 2025 AAA has also been an intriguing promotion, for all the obvious questions and the absolute lack of concrete answers. They’ve been so tight-lipped about details that I can’t even reliably tell you whether the AAA Fox Latin America show airs every Saturday or is live every week. There’s a lot of space in the WWE/AAA arrangement to speculate and investigate, which is great business if you run a thrice-weekly updated blog.
This entirely successful 2025 AAA is also the least amount I’ve liked an AAA in recent memory.
These previews are never kind to Lucha Libre AAA, but I always try to hold some hope for them. The Alberto story was a bit of complete nonsense when it started, and the promotion built around him wasn’t great to watch unless you were already infatuated with him. That era was always going to end at some point, and I was holding on to the belief that, through luck or design, it’d get better on the other side of him. The other side is certain that AAA will never return to what it once was and will instead become a watered-down WWE. I chose to stop watching WWE many years ago, and WWE has seemingly decided that I’m not allowed to make that choice. I either don’t care for or care about most of the imported WWE wrestlers. The AAA wrestlers have either been injured or shoved offstage by the new regime. I can understand why it has become additional viewing for current WWE fans. I can totally get why Mexican fans are excited to see WWE people in AAA, the same as they were to see ex-AAA people in AEW. None of this works for me, and neither have most of the matches. I feel an obligation to continue coming to the AAA because WWE’s handling will greatly affect the future of Mexican wrestling. That story is impossible to ignore, even if I don’t like the actual content. That story is also being completely ignored outside of these occasional shows; there are fewer reporting eyes regularly on AAA than ever, despite the WWE purchase. The coverage that does happen is also ways from a WWE perspective – what do our WWE sources tell us about [X] – with very little context to AAA or Mexican wrestling in general. I’m watching AAA out of obligation in a way where I’d do for almost no other wrestling promotion, I’m sure I’d be happier doing anything else, and it’s hard not to let that seep into my thoughts.
AAA was destined to become “WWE Mexico” upon WWE’s takeover. The real question was if that meant it’d be “A Mexican version of WWE” or “WWE in Mexico.” It’s been much more the second option. AAA is holding spot for WWE C- and D-level talent (with one notable exception), a way for WWE to justify paying people they don’t actually want to use on their main TV shows. Those wrestlers, by virtue of having the WWE logo sewn onto their souls, are treated as bigger stars than the AAA carryover by both the booking department and management. AAA turning this year’s Copa Triplemania into a showcase for Omos – someone who hasn’t appeared in AAA again and hasn’t appeared on a WWE televised match since – was really just explaining what the new status quo would be. The most recent Mexico City taping featured a surprise Apollo Crews/Lince Dorada match. The match went over ten minutes, not because there were some immediate plans for Crews (he’s not on this card). It just seemed like a way to get rusty wrestler ring time. Flammer holds the women’s title, but all the publicity pushes Lola Vice as the division’s star. And this show, the big AAA year-end, is built around two teams of WWE main roster wrestlers facing off against each other. You barely need a second hand to count the leftover AAA people who are getting a real push – Vikingo, Wagner, Psycho, Pagano (improbably), Iguana, and Parka. Everyone else is there to make up the numbers, and the AAA shows don’t let you forget that. It’s hard to blame AAA or WWE for these choices – the crowd reactions are great! They’re going to sell so many tickets! – but it’s dispiriting to watch if you’re not in love with it. The Alberto run was about taking out everyone else you might like in the context of fake wrestling matches. The WWE has been about taking them out with the creative choices before the matches take place.
There are seven matches announced for this show. The card order is not especially clear; announcing full lineups and match order is a tradition WWE is not keeping.
Bravo Americano & Rayo Americano vs. Mr. Iguana & Niño Hamburguesa vs. La Parka & Octagón Jr. vs. Cruz del Toro & Joaquín Wilde
This is more typical of AAA. They ran out of ideas to finish out a card, so they put all the available good wrestlers in a multiman match. It should be entertaining, though it doesn’t seem to matter much. The LWO team has had many AAA matches with no real direction. This version of AAA wants La Parka to win every match and then dance with a child afterwards, so that’s the expected outcome here.
The Americanos haven’t appeared in AAA outside of run-ins to help their leader. Grande Americano has embraced memes and irony to get over. I’m unsure if that’ll carry over to his underlings. I’m more struck by the presence of Rayo Americano – the former Pete Dunne – in AAA. Dunne was famously a proponent of WWE’s incursion into European wrestling. That scene is now a shell of what it was – not all due to WWE, but they didn’t help. Dunne’s WWE career has been equally disappointing: great optimism at first, but not the results anyone hoped for back when he and Tyler Bate (Bravo) were having five-star matches for the WWE UK title. Dunne’s greatest use to WWE, at the prime age of 32, appears to be to repeat the work he did on the European scene and serve as someone who can enforce the WWE style both in front of and behind the camera. If it works out as they hope, he’ll have a hand in irretrievably changing a second wrestling scene. Not many people will have those achievements on their tombstone.
Faby Apache, Lola Vice, Natalya vs Flammer, La Hiedra, Maravilla
It’s not a great idea to draw attention to a luchadora’s look, so I hope you’ll forgive me in the service of a larger point. Please check out La Hiedra in January. Compare that to how she looks recently. Latin Lover got in trouble last year for taking a shot at the fitness of AAA’s women, which seemed to be a specific shot at La Hiedra’s conditioning. Latin was the only one foolish enough to make that comment in public, but there’s no doubt Hiedra heard similar from others – it wasn’t simply the added weight, it was her lack of dedication that was showing through in that way and others. None of them comments seemed to move Hiedra, and fairly so: Hiedra was over enough with fans that she was going into the same midcard women’s match until she got too old for the role and AAA switched to a younger, less troublesome model. Such was the era of women’s wrestling in AAA. Hiedra’s only possible reward for getting in better shape would be to stop hearing about it. She might have been rewarded with a Reina de Reina reign for trying harder, but AAA wasn’t going to give any woman on the roster a better push or more money regardless. And then WWE brought the company in, Iguana got over with the WWE fans, La Hiedra realised the opportunity she suddenly had as his tag partner, and La Hiedra immediately started taking things much more professionally. She’s still got bad habits from years of not caring, but you can tell she’s making an effort unlike before. People like Latin Lover and Konnan are big deals in this small world of Mexican wrestling. They’re nothing compared to the persuasive ability of US money and fame.
I don’t know if La Hiedra will get the WWE deal she’s working for—the Stephanie Vaquer issue still looms—but WWE’s presence seems to have motivated her to improve. Maybe that drive will spread to Maravilla when she returns here. Maravilla was set to lead the AAA women’s division in 2020, but has slowly slipped down the cards since. Her out-of-the-ring issues have led AAA to limit her role. She’s been off TV for months at a time, appearing only when they need a third Toxica. WWE could’ve just as easily stuck an NXT woman or another unused AAA luchadora in the spot. They may next time if she doesn’t do well here. Everyone here, though, seems like they’re marking time until WWE feels safe going with Lola Vice. It was audacious for WWE to make Vice the only person featured on the WWE art, and it suggests they’re no longer worried about appearances or blowback for not including any Mexican woman. Vice’s on-screen relationship with Iguana has endeared her to the AAA audience. This match should propel her towards the title belt, maybe even on that first Fox show.
Je’von Evans vs Laredo Kid © vs. Jack Cartwheel for the AAA Cruiserweight Championship
Stop me if you’ve heard this bit before. Laredo Kid’s 2019-2022 run as cruiserweight champion was the best thing going in Mexico during that time. It was just a series of outstanding matches, one after another, that made his opponents as much as it benefited Laredo. He put Hijo del Vikingo on the mat, he gave Arez his best TV match, he gave Latigo his best match ever, and on and on. This being AAA, they screwed up an easy thing. There was the bizarre bit where Laredo lost the title to Lio Rush in MLW, only for AAA to seemingly change their mind about counting it after it aired. MLW had to come up with a weird non-explanation of why it didn’t count. (That was about the end of MLW’s relationship with AAA.) The end of the reign came in a five-way match where Laredo was not involved in the finish. AAA’s big idea was that Fenix winning the title would make his Megachampionship match with Vikingo even bigger. It did not, and then Fenix would decide returning to AAA to do another job wasn’t really worth his time. (This is his first show back in AAA in Mexico.) The Laredo title run was one of the good things AAA had going, and they traded it for a bag of beans. It’s AAA. What are you going to do?
This 2025 Laredo Kid reign appears to be a belated attempt to recapture that magic. It didn’t start off well, but it picked up toward the end of Roldan’s ownership. The mini-tournament leading up to this has also been great matches for the sake of adding some great matches on these mostly blah AAA shows. The three-way Evans won was an all-action match, as was the one Jack Cartwheel won in Puebla. Another reason for that five-way match where Laredo lost the title the last time was an attempt to get a match with a lot of stars in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. This three-way serves the same purpose. Laredo Kid is fully capable of giving WWE the match they want. They just don’t seem to want much else from him. Laredo’s been dropped from one the faces of the promotion to the background upon WWE taking over, relegated to filler trios matches and doing commentary on these lead-up matches. It’s enough to assume he’ll be losing the belt again here. Not a lock, though. Evans already seems to be on a rocketship that’ll take him far beyond appearing on AAA. Old friend Cartwheel is still only a WWE ID guy, so he may be too low on the totem pole to win a belt. Either way, it just doesn’t feel like this version of AAA is that interested in what Laredo has to offer, and they’re not going to do a lot with him with or without this belt. My feeling for years has been that Laredo Kid just needed the right match in front of the right people on the right day, and he’s finally get his break through. This is the formula for that, but there’s little reason to believe it’s still possible. WWE’s already shown Laredo is just one of many people that WWE sees as steady enough to put on TV but not interesting enough to do anything with. He may keep the title. It will not matter.
Psycho Clown (Dave The Clown, Murder Clown, Pagano, Psycho Clown) maybe? vs Wyatt6 (Dexter Lumis, Erick Rowan, Joe Gacy, Uncle Howdy) maybe?, where the WWE Tag Team Championships may or may not be on the line?
[Give me a moment to cover my mouth with my hands and scream.]
There was a certain logic to the original match, if slow and not all that interesting. The Wyatt6 sent out promos saying they were coming to face the AAA Tag Team champs, Psycho Clown and Pagano, then showed up, beat them up, and posed with the titles. And then they did it again. And then they sent in more videos. Psycho and Pagano recruited Murder Clown and Dave the Clown to be a four-man team against the four male wrestlers of the Wyatt6, and they agreed to a match for this show. It’s not the tag team title match they’d been teasing, but at least they were finally fighting. It’s a “Carnival of Carnage” match. There’s no explanation of what that actually means, though the reality means they’ve figured out the clowns have to wrestle in no disqualification matches to get the most out of them. WWE hardcore matches are still not quite it for these two guys, yet it’s still a much better idea than expecting them to obey normal tag rules. Thursday, WWE sent out a social media post promoting the match as Psycho Clown & Pagano versus “the Wyatt 6” for the WWE Tag Team Championship. Does that mean it’s a 2v2 match now? I have no idea. Why were the WWE titles on the line instead of the AAA ones that this whole feud has been about? I have no idea. Do the AAA wrestlers have much of a chance at winning the WWE tag team titles? I had a pretty good idea about that one – and that was before WWE sent out a second tweet still presenting this as a 2v2 match, but no longer for any titles. It may change again by the time you read this, and there will never be much of an explanation for any of it.
All of this information is coming from WWE’s social media account. There’s no indication that anything is going on over on AAA’s own pages. That’s part of the problem here; the gimmick is we’re supposed to believe AAA exists separately, but WWE can’t even be bothered to keep kayfabe to promote it. The other problem is that almost nothing is coming out about AAA since WWE took over. No one’s stepped forward to voice a plan or a direction. It’s a promotion that exists only in a quasi-monthly live show on YouTube, in scarce press releases, and in match graphics. It sure is cute to put Levesque, Michaels and Undertaker on the poster announcing the TV deal, but none of them are stepping forward to communicate a coherent vision for this promotion. It also gives the sense of a promotion that’s no one’s priority, that no one spends much time thinking about until about right before they have to produce another taping. It’s been commonplace for matches to be added, changed or disappear at the last minute with no acknowledgement. It is tough to care much about a piece of content when the lack of care in it is so evident.
(Pagano is also now a part of Psycho Circus. There was no bit where they explained it or acknowledged that something had changed. I think the people in charge just made the logical assumption that all the clowns would be in one group, not knowing that the original reason Pagano was in AAA was to feud with the Psycho Circus, and it should have been a big moment for him to join. There’s no room for history here.)
Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. © vs Ethan Page for the AAA Latin American Championship
How’s it going for the third Wagner? The first half of this year was him losing to Mesias repeatedly. He finally got the big win at TripleMania Mexico City, where his father was the real star. The second half of the year has been getting beaten by Ethan Page repeatedly. It’s an odd choice to make Wagner a guy who loses a lot, when he got over elsewhere pretty much the opposite. Page’s AAA involvement has been mixed tag comedy and spots in four-way matches. These two previously wrestled at NXT Halloween Havoc, which received good reviews. The same should be expected here.
Dragón Lee vs Hijo del Vikingo
Hijo del Vikingo lost to Alberto for the Mega title in March. That seemed like the end of this iteration of Vikingo: he hadn’t drawn as a top guy, and AAA’s booking intentionally killed him off as a top guy to fuel Alberto’s fire. The idea of Vikingo as “new Rey Mysterio as the ace of the promotion” didn’t work out, and he was never going to get back to the top as the same guy. Vikngo was either going to have to work somewhere else, settle for being a fun upper midcarder, or undergo some sort of character change. He’s ended up with that character change, though only after some terrible booking forced it.
Vikingo as rudo has given him new life. He’s shown instant comfort in his promos and in his matches, showing that bitter, arrogant personality. There’s enough that’s gone wrong in the last two years that his anger towards the audience comes across as authentic. The issue is that Vikingo cut way back on what he’s doing in the ring. Vikigno rose as a davedevil who would try, and very often succeed, at doing incredible things. Switching all the way to a methodical heel who can pick his spots costs a lot of what made Vikingo exciting in the first place. His rudo act is good, just not nearly good enough to make up for it. It’s still early on. There are plenty of examples of people figuring out the rudo flyer role in time. (Volador Jr. in the 2010s remains the Mexican ideal.) Dragon Lee is someone who can go with Vikingo if he really wants to go; he’s shown that willingness in his AAA matches so far. This is the test to find out how much of that old Vikingo is still going to show up in the new one.
Dragon Lee and Hijo del Vikingo can have a great match, but, as mentioned once or twice, WWE is about the moments and not the matches. AAA’s been teasing new rudo Hijo del Vikingo, ending up with Dorian Roldan as his manager. The booking idea seems to make sure the fans understand Vikingo is a rudo; the real idea seems to make sure Dorian Roldan keeps a prominent position on TV. (This is one of those AAA traditions that WWE is upholding.) Dorian Roldan had mysterious people beat up his now ex-charges in El Ojo, so expect some folks to show up here to help Vikingo win. Maybe it’s the return of Omos. Maybe it’s the Garzas, last seen losing and staring at a mystery shirt months ago.
Rey Fenix & Rey Mysterio vs Dominik Mysterio & Grande Americano
This was Penta and Fenix, returning to AAA as a team for the first time in four years. Penta got hurt on Raw, and Rey Mysterio is stepping in for the first time in seven years. Mysterio’s been advertised for this show all along and he’s got the ongoing story with Dominik. He’s Rey Mysterio, it’s a more than adequate substitution.
Grande Americano is the shining example for all the WWE C/D level wrestlers sent here. This gimmick has already reached its expiration date on the main WWE programming, but he’s over huge on these shows. The ‘smart’ Mexican wrestling audience, especially those who follow AAA, has become a more ironic and meme-pilled group, closer to what the US indies saw in the early 2020s. A wrestler playing at being a Mexican legend of yesterday returning to Mexico matches up perfectly, and he’s cannily leaned into every internet joke and catchphrase suggested to him. This is an audience that wants to be in on the joke, and the Grande Americano character gives them that. (It’s the sincerity level that separates AAA and CMLL the most at the moment. CMLL is a place for people who think Mistico’s the coolest because he wins his wrestling matches all the time. AAA is the place for the people who want to post about their grandmothers having seen Grande Americano wrestle in El Toreo in the 1970s.) That irony formula doesn’t exactly fit for the Natalyas and Apolo Crews, but it certainly gives AAA reason to believe that any unpushed WWE wrestler is worth a try in AAA, just to see if something clicks.
Dominik Mysterio is not a C/D tier guy. He’s been featured fairly consistently since turning heel to join Judgement Day, and he’s been pushed stronger more recently. While not a top guy, Mysterio’s push has had some over-the-top elements that would’ve been considered too much if presented in a fan faction. He’s the son of one WWE legend and claims to be the true successor to the most sainted figure in modern professional wrestling. Dominik does just enough Eddy stuff, and fans have just a little enough memory of what Eddy was, that he’s able to pass as the same guy for a new generation. Mysterio has the woman after woman feuding with him, from Ripley feuding with Morgnan to the teased Morgan feuding with Perez. (The Mexican fans have nicknamed him El Ginecólogo del Ring.) He’s a heel; he’s occasionally thwarted, but little of it sticks with him. He’s a young-feeling wrestler in a promotion with an older roster. He even beat John Cena in John Cena’s last PPV. It’s a much better run than all the other WWE wrestlers being sent here as regulars. All of these bookings are also still not enough to put Dominik on the top level. He’s certainly not a Punk or Rhodes-level star; he’s topping out as a guy who might challenge them on a single PPV. It’s always tougher to keep moving up the closer you get to the top. Mysterio may get there in WWE, but he’s stuck waiting for a spot to open or some break to come. The surest way to get booked as a top guy is to be booked as a top guy somewhere else. Dominik getting booked as the top guy here – he’s definitely what AAA orbits around at this point – and being put in main events on these big shows is a great way to build momentum. It’s still just very strange that it’s Dominik Mysterio in the role. Not because it hasn’t worked, because it absolutely has turned him into a bigger star and has helped AAA. It just really doesn’t fit the ethos of sending unpushed WWE talents to fill out these AAA shows. Santos Escobar, who seemed to be lined up for a similar role, would fit much better. (He was instead sidelined for months, a free agent for a day, and then WWE rushed to re-sign him despite seemingly not having a plan to actually use him.) It also doesn’t make any sense that WWE thought Dominik would be a heel in AAA. The first time a genuine WWE star showed up was going to be a big deal, and Dominik’s backstory meant he’d be cheered even if he was the twentieth guy to show up. The WWE people said they were paying close attention to AAA before taking over, but somehow whiffed on how the crowd felt about Vikingo and how they would feel about Mysterio. I’ve spent the last few months thinking that the AAA creative trust was dummies, and I’ve lately started to change my mind on that. Or at least some of the people in the room. The best move for Dominik’s career was for him to get this spot, and for Escobar to stay out of the picture. The best move for Dominik’s career was for WWE to run with Vikingo as champion, knowing it would fail miserably and push him aside from that top spot for now. The best move for Dominik’s career was for Alberto to be sent off to a farm, for Psycho Clown to be demoted to tag team duty, and for any other piece that might even slight challenge Dominik for the center of the promotion to be kept off the table. Dominik’s godfather is not the lead creative voice in AAA anymore, but Konnan will always be the loudest voice in any room he’in. 2025 AAA could not have played out better for Dominik Mysterio. They’ve accelerated his timeline towards a top spot in WWE, and the booking choices in AAA have all been to his benefit. Maybe it’s just a creative team caught off guard in their first few months, maybe it was some subtle work by a few, but it’s worked out for Mysterio all the same.
AAA is a Dominik Mysterio promotion, as long as WWE and Mysterio need it to be. That means this finish will be whatever best serves his stories. The Mysterio/Mysterio match seems inevitable for 2026, and so this is all about what’s the best way to keep that story going. Rey wins if they’re doing it to kick off the new TV deal. Dominik wins if they’re stretching it out all the way to WrestleMania.
Final Thoughts
Guerra de Titanes will feature some good-to-great matches. It’s also just sort of an extra WWE PPV, with Mexican names making up most of the work. It doesn’t seem to be a particularly meaningful show. The big matches are generally the middle parts of bigger stories. It’s still going to be a big show in front of a very big crowd, and should provide a good atmosphere. If you’re up for more WWE Mexico, they’ll give you plenty of it here.
