Per Lucha Blog, Mexican Lucha Libre promotion, AAA, will have a big announcement on Monday. The company, as we have reported, is expected to decide on what to do with the TripleMania event, which usually airs in August. As with CMLL, AAA has not had any shows since the Covid-19 pandemic.
There’s a high probability of seeing a close doors AAA show, as Kaoz Lucha Libre and DTU have done in these past months. Here’s the report by Lucha Blog:
AAA, through Azteca, announced they’ll have a press conference Monday to announce their plans for the next few months. The article does not list a time for the press conference and AAA hasn’t announced it themselves. TripleMania is scheduled for August 22nd, but it looks like it’ll be impossible to run anything like a normal show in Mexico City a month from now. AAA may choose to push it back a few months or move the event to another location. I think there’s a slim possibility they simply announce there will be nothing along the lines of a normal TripleMania this year; it’s the least likely of all things to be announced tomorrow but might still be the end result. I’ve to no inside information on the decision and I suspect we’ll all find out when it streams on Monday.
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter brings up an AAA hope to run TripleMania outdoors in Monterrey in October, essentially rebranding the TripleMania Regia show as this year’s TripleMania. I’ve written about that as a possible solution here. I’m less certain of it being viable now than I was weeks ago; Nuevo Leon was doing better than Mexico City and the surrounding area at first, but medical experts suggested coronavirus was just going to reach that region of Mexico a little bit later. They appear to be correct; they’re running low on available hospital beds at the moment. Hopefully that’ll be better in October, but it’s just as much a question mark as anywhere else.
What we’ve seen elsewhere in the world is the decision of where a wrestling promotion will run isn’t directly correlated to the health situation in that state. The most important factor is the local government giving them AAA (or any other wrestling company) the freedom to do what they want, no matter what the situation may look around them. Nuevo Leon has seemingly permitted Kaoz and Lucha Time to run (empty arena) shows, and perhaps they’d be willing to let AAA go outside as well.
Local promoters long ago announced September 12 (Morelia) and October 10 (Torreon) TV tapings. AAA’s never confirmed those, and maybe we’ll find out if those will actually happen on Monday. It’s possible another round of empty arena studio tapings will take place, and AAA could announce those on Monday.
