Triplemanía VIII

Triplemanía VIII
The TV logo used when the show was broadcast on television with both the Mexican and the Japanese flag shown
Information
Promotion	AAA
Date	July 5, 2000
Attendance	1,700
Venue	Korakuen Hall
City	Tokyo, Japan
Pay-per-view chronology
Rey de Reyes (2000) Triplemanía VIII Verano de Escándalo (2000)
Triplemanía chronology
Triplemanía VII Triplemanía VIII Triplemanía IX

Triplemanía VIII was the eighth Triplemanía wrestling show promoted by AAA. The show took place on July 5, 2000 in Tokyo, Japan. It was only the second show to take place outside Mexico and the first show to take place in Japan. The Main event featured an Eight-man "Atómicos" tag team match which saw AAA regulars team up with various Japanese wrestlers. The team of Octagón, Jushin Thunder Liger, Latin Lover, and El Alebrije took on Cibernético, Shiima Nobunaga, Abismo Negro, and Electroshock.

In early 1992 Antonio Peña was working as a booker and storyline writer for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Mexico's largest and the world's oldest wrestling promotion, and was frustrated by CMLL's very conservative approach to lucha libre. 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 Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, later simply known 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 Triplemanía event, building it into an annual event that would become AAA's Super Bowl event, similar to the WWE's WrestleMania being the biggest show of the year. The 2000 Triplemanía was the eight year in a row AAA held a Triplemanía show and the fifteenth overall show under the Triplemanía banner.