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Promotion | AAA | ||
Date | February 21, 1997 [1] | ||
City | Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, Mexico [1] | ||
Venue | Convention Center | ||
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The Rey de Reyes 1997 (Spanish for "King of Kings") was the first annual Rey de Reyes professional wrestling tournament and major wrestling show, produced by the Mexican wrestling promotion AAA. The event took place on February 21, 1997 in the Convention Center in Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The Rey de Reyes tournament consisted of a semi-final round of four four-man elimination matches and a final match with the winners of each of the semi-finals facing off in an elimination match until only one man remained. The show also featured a Mini-Estrella Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match between the teams of Mini Goldust, Mini Mankind and Mini Vader going against La Parkita, Mini Nova and Super Muñequito. The final match of the tournament pitted Latin Lover, Heavy Metal, Héctor Garza and Octagón against each other.
Starting in 1997 and every year since then the Mexican Lucha Libre , or professional wrestling, company AAA, or Triple A, has held a Rey de Reyes (Spanish for "King of Kings') show in the spring. The 1997 version was held in February, [1] while all subsequent Rey de Reyes shows were held in March. As part of their annual Rey de Reyes event AAA holds the eponymious Rey de Reyes tournament to determine that specific year's Rey. [2] Most years the show hosts both the qualifying round and the final match, but on occasion the qualifying matches have been held prior to the event as part of AAA's weekly television shows. [3] The traditional format consists of four preliminary rounds, each a Four-man elimination match with each of the four winners face off in the tournament finals, again under elimination rules. [1] There have been years where AAA has employed a different format to determine a winner. [3] The winner of the Rey de Reyes tournament is given a large ornamental sword to symbolize their victory, but is normally not guaranteed any other rewards for winning the tournament, although some years becoming the Rey de Reyes has earned the winner a match for the AAA Mega Championship. From 1999 through 2009 AAA also held an annual Reina de Reinas ("Queen of Queens") tournament, but later turned that into an actual championship that could be defended at any point during the year, abandoning the annual tournament concept. [4] [5] [6] The 1997 show was the first Rey de Reyes show in the series.
The Rey de Reyes show featured six professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing, scripted feuds, plots, and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either heels (referred to as rudos in Mexico, those that portray the "bad guys") or faces (técnicos in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
No. | Results [7] [2] | Stipulations |
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1 | Venum, Ludxor, Discovery and Super Nova defeated Histeria, Mosco de la Merced, Mach-1 and Picudo | Eight-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match |
2 | Latin Lover defeated Mascara Sagrada Jr., Jerry Estrada and Killer | Rey de Reyes 1997 Semi-final elimination match. [1] |
3 | Heavy Metal defeated Blue Demon, Jr., Maniaco and May Flowers | Rey de Reyes 1997 Semi-final elimination match. [1] |
4 | Héctor Garza defeated Perro Aguayo Jr., Abismo Negro and La Parka, Jr. | Rey de Reyes 1997 Semi-final elimination match. [1] |
5 | Octagón defeated El Pantera, Fuerza Guerrera and Pentagón | Rey de Reyes 1997 Semi-final elimination match. [1] |
6 | Mini Goldust, Mini Mankind and Mini Vader defeated La Parkita, Mini Nova and Super Muñequito | Six-man "Lucha Libre rules" tag team match |
7 | Latin Lover defeated Heavy Metal, Héctor Garza and Octagón | Rey de Reyes 1997 Final [1] |
The Rey de Reyes 1998 was the second annual Rey de Reyes professional wrestling tournament and show, produced by the Mexican wrestling promotion AAA. The event took place on March 1, 1998 in the Toreo de Cuatro Caminos arena in Naucalpan, Mexico State, Mexico. The Rey de Reyes tournament consisted of a semi-final round of four four-man elimination matches and a final match with the winners of each of the semi-finals facing off in an elimination match until only one man remained. The final of the 1998 Rey de Reyes tournament pitted Perro Aguayo, Latin Lover, Cibernético and Octagón against each other. Besides the five tournament matches the show also featured a Mini-Estrella match, an Eight-man "Atómicos" tag team match and a steel cage match.
The Rey de Reyes 1999 was the third annual Rey de Reyes professional wrestling tournament and show, produced by the Mexican wrestling promotion AAA. The event took place on March 7, 1999 in the Toreo de Cuatro Caminos arena in Naucalpan, Mexico State, Mexico. The Rey de Reyes tournament consisted of a semi-final round of four four-man elimination matches and a final match with the winners of each of the semi-finals facing off in an elimination match until one man remained. The final of the 1999 Rey de Reyes tournament pitted Cibernético, Octagón, Latin Lover and Electroshock against each other. Besides the five tournament matches the show featured an additional four matches including a match for the Mexican National Atómicos Championship between Los Vatos Locos and Los Vipers and a Lucha de Apuesta match between three men who all risked their hair, Perro Aguayo, Sangre Chicana and El Cobarde.
The Rey de Reyes 2000 was the fourth annual Rey de Reyes professional wrestling tournament and show, produced by the Mexican wrestling promotion AAA. The event took place on March 5, 2000, in the Toreo de Cuatro Caminos arena in Naucalpan, Mexico State, Mexico. The Rey de Reyes tournament consisted of a semi-final round of four four-man elimination matches and a final match with the winners of each of the semi-finals facing off in an elimination match until only one man remained. The final of the 2000 Rey de Reyes tournament pitted Abismo Negro, El Alebrije, Charly Manson, and Cibernético against each other. Besides the five tournament matches the show featured an additional four matches including two Lucha de Apuestas matches, one where the hair of the wrestler's seconds were on the line. The other Apuesta match, which was also the main event match saw both La Parka, Jr. and Gigante Drako put their masks on the line.
The Rey de Reyes 2001 was the fifth annual Rey de Reyes professional wrestling tournament and show, produced by the Mexican wrestling promotion AAA. The event took place on March 30, 2001 in the Convention Center in Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The Rey de Reyes tournament consisted of a semi-final round of four four-man elimination matches and a final match with the winners of each of the semi-finals facing off in an elimination match until only one man remained. The final of the 2001 Rey de Reyes tournament pitted La Parka, Jr., Latin Lover, Abismo Negro and Heavy Metal against each other. The show featured two additional matches beyond the five Rey de Reyes tournament matches.
The Rey de Reyes 2002 was the sixth annual Rey de Reyes professional wrestling tournament and show, produced by the Mexican wrestling promotion AAA. The event took place on March 17, 2002, in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico. The tournament consisted of a semi-final round of four four-man elimination matches and a final match with the winners of each of the semi-finals facing off in an elimination match until only one man remained. The final of the 2002 tournament pitted Canek, Pirata Morgan, Cibernético and Octagón against each other. The show featured two additional matches beyond the five tournament matches.
The Rey de Reyes 2003 was the seventh annual Rey de Reyes professional wrestling tournament and show, produced by the Mexican wrestling promotion AAA. The event took place on March 16, 2003 in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico. In a break from tradition that year's Rey de Reyes tournament featured six former Rey de Reyes winners wrestling each other to determine 2003's Rey de Reyes. The final match saw La Parka, Jr. compete against Abismo Negro.
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The Rey de Reyes 2005 was the ninth annual Rey de Reyes professional wrestling tournament and show, produced by the Mexican wrestling promotion AAA. The event took place on March 11, 2005 in the Convention Center in Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The main focus of the 2005 Rey de Reyes show was the ninth annual Rey de Reyes tournament, which featured an elimination match with six men competing for the Rey de Reyes title. As in the previous year, TNA representatives competed in the finals. The finalists did not have to qualify but were announced in the weeks leading up to the events. The finalists were: La Parka, Latin Lover, Abismo Negro, Chessman, Jeff Jarrett, Konnan and Cibernético. The undercard included a Kick Boxing match between Humberto Galanez Gabuz and Ty Landez. In the semi-main event Octagoncito faced Mini Psicosis in a Lucha de Apuestas where both men put their masks on the line.
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