Triplemanía XX
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Promotional poster featuring El Hijo del Perro Aguayo, El Mesías, Máscara Año 2000 Jr. and Dr. Wagner Jr.
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| Tagline(s) | El Día Ha Llegado ("The Day Has Come") |
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| Promotion | Asistencia Asesoría y Administración | |||
| Date | August 5, 2012 | |||
| Attendance | 21,000 | |||
| Venue | Arena Ciudad de México | |||
| City | Mexico City, Mexico | |||
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Triplemanía XX was a professional wrestling event produced by the Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) promotion, which took place on August 5, 2012, at Arena Ciudad de México in Mexico City, Mexico. The event was the twentieth annual Triplemanía, which is AAA's biggest show of the year, and marked AAA's debut in the new Arena Ciudad de México. The event was headlined by a match between Dr. Wagner Jr. and Máscara Año 2000 Jr., where the loser was forced to unmask himself. In the semi-main event, El Mesías defended the AAA Mega Championship against the 2012 Rey de Reyes, El Hijo del Perro Aguayo. The event also featured Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) performer Kurt Angle's AAA debut and an induction into the AAA Hall of Fame. This event marked the first time in four years that a Triplemanía was not broadcast live on pay-per-view. Instead, the event would be broadcast in three parts on AAA's official website, starting August 19. The event was attended by 21,000 people, the largest crowd for a professional wrestling event in Mexico in almost five years.
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 recognition they deserved and decided to split from CMLL to create Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA, or Triple A; Spanish for "Assistance, Consulting, and Administration"). 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 2012 Triplemanía was the 20th year in a row AAA held a Triplemanía show and the 25th overall show under the Triplemanía banner.
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