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Damn, AAA reminding us Santos Escobar main evented Triplemania in a mask match with LA Park.

The history packages for each person in the mask tournament are pretty nice so far. Villiano IV coming out with the funky Pink Panther theme remix.

Sammy pulls a SWERVE and hits everyone with the crutch, switches out with Parka Negra, and win the mixed tag titles for him and Tay. So basically Negra worked the match for him and Sammy just came in for the finish.

Tay picking up the slack for her boo and doing a flip from the top rope to the floor

....or not, Sammy came out with a crutch and announced Parka Negra as his replacement.

Ultimo Dragon beat Penta in the opener, match was fine, probably gonna be the best DEATH ROULETTE match we get tonight. Mixed tag title match is next, Sammy got hurt on Dynamite but he's here and apparently the plan is for him to do the match.

That's probably going to be the case (and Psycho putting his mask on the line was a big draw for AAA before), but the ace of the company losing to a barely mobile almost 70 year old in the first round is going to be a weird look even if it's a legend.

The Briscoes are off the GCW and PWG shows this weekend due to Mark's wife having to be rushed to the hospital due to pregnancy complications. So far both her and the baby are stable and hopefully everything goes well for them.

Reminds me of those stories from back in the day where Vince would encourage people to buy houses so they would have mortgages to pay and have financial reasons to stay with the WWF.

I don't get why they keep putting Ronda in makeup that makes her look like she has pink eye.

Yep, he's basically Goldberg but a better worker who doesn't nearly kill the folks he works with.

What gets me is how they keep slapping the NXT staff in the face by releasing people who were in storylines with no heads up. It's not Hunter's play toy anymore it's supposed to be actual developmental to help people get ready for the main roster (I know I know), and they're still fucking with them like they were Corny trying to book OVW.

Honestly surprised he lasted as long as he did. Always seemed he was a panic hire because he appeared in Nick Aldis's corner at All In and WWE never seemed to know what to do with him.

I wonder if there's any correlation between the women who got released and the ones who had a problem with the "show your buttcheeks more" meeting.

Man, Tony better already be on the phone with Bivens the second the news broke.

The famous story of JR having to explain to Vince that Asian porn is a thing should have forever answered the question of "what does Vince find most important when it comes to women wrestlers".

Considering the AEW fan/video game nerd crossover is so large, and they brought in one of the designers of the No Mercy engine wrestling fans have been begging to be brought back since the N64 days, I would think this game is going to sell gangbusters.

Yeah in lucha, mask/hair tournaments are losers advance. Villiano IV seems like the obvious one getting unmasked unless Marisela opened up the checkbook to pay one of the bigger names

Fightful just posted an update on their Patreon pretty much confirming that there were meetings solely around telling the women to dress sexier and several refused to attend.

I mean pretty much every woman on the roster is sporting booty shorts with the cheeks peeking out (unless there's a gimmick reason not to like Wendy Choo), and while certainly some always did, it wasn't across the board like it seems to be now. Plus it's WWE we're talking about, there's zero reason to give them any benefit of the doubt since it seems in most cases what goes on behind the scenes involving their women ends up being worse than what trickles out.

Sure seems interesting that Stephanie McMahon's WWE That Created Feminism is having two hour "wear booty shorts" meetings with the women.

It was pointed out that there's a possibility that the Chance part of the name is a portmanteau of her good pal Chasyn Rance's name.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Triplemania, AAA is doing three shows this year with the Triplemania name with the first one being this Saturday. As part of that, they are doing a DEATH ROULETTE tournament where legends of lucha are putting their masks on the line. A lot of this will be old dudes wrestling each other, but it will likely be a huge draw since there will be a ton of famous names involved. There will be the usual Marvel inspired matches and the Copa Triplemania match, but I don't think either of those will be shown on the PPV. They will likely show up on AAA's YouTube channel a few weeks later. The Lineup: Main Event Fenix/El Hijo del Vikingo vs The Young Bucks - Vikingo has been banged up but said he's good to go and we just saw Fenix return tonight on Dynamite. This will be a crazy match with gravity defying flips and will probably be in all the GIFs you see on Twitter. The Undercard Canek vs Psycho Clown (mask tournament round 1) - Canek is 69 years old, but should be able to do a passible brawl type match with Psycho. It also has a good chance of being Bowling Shoe Ugly as well. Feel free to place your bets now! Pagano/Bandidio/Taya vs Cibernetico/Andrade El Idolo/Deonna Purazzo - Andrade and Bandido will be asked to carry the load for the men, and Taya/Deonna have been feuding for the women's title (which Taya just won back on the Impact PPV) so it should be a fun if possibly messy brawl. Rayo de Jalisco Jr vs Blue Demon Jr (mask tournament round 1) - both dudes are in their 50's/60s but Demon has been fairly active and is still able to go fairly decently for an old dude, Rayo has not been active and from what he's shown the last time he appeared he's not going to be able to bring much to the table. Faccion Ingobernables (Dragon Lee/Dralistic) vs Taurus/Johnny Superstar (John Morrison) vs Laredo Kid/TBA (was scheduled to be Alberto but in a rare moment of clarity AAA realized that would be a bad idea) - . Should be another bonkers match, the mystery guy probably won't turn out to be anyone new. LA Park vs Villano IV (mask tournament round 1) - this is like the lucha equivalent of those matches on Rampage which are fun but's clear who's going to be winning here. Maravilla/Latigo vs Sexy Star (not that one, someone new is playing the character)/Octagon Jr vs Sammy Guevara/Tay Conti - this match is almost certainly going to change, since Sammy and Tay doing Twitter promos about not wanting to do the match unless the AAA Mixed Tag Titles are on the line. Problem with is the current champs are Arez and Chik Tormenta and Arez has a booking earlier that day. AAA is implying the champs will be there so either 1: Arez is catching a red eye from NYC to Monterrey 2: Arez is no showing his NYC booking 3: AAA is lying out their ass here. Any of those options could theoretically happen. Ultimo Dragon vs Pentagon Jr (mask tournament round 1) - This should probably be the best match of the mask tournament in terms of actual quality.

Also seeing Fenix returning makes me way more likely to buy Triplemania now since Fenix/Vikingo vs Bucks is gonna be balls out crazy.

I think it's fine if only one belt gets hot potatoed, when it gets to like late 90s WWF where every belt changes hands weekly is when it gets silly. Plus I can't shake the feeling that the stuff with Sammy and Cody swapping the belt was some kind of attempt to get Cody to stay that didn't pan out.