AAA Noche de Campeones explained

Noche de Campeones
Promotion:Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
Date:December 28, 2022
Venue:Arena GNP Seguros
City:Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
Tagline:Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide Gira Aniversario XXX Cierre de la Gira(Spanish for: Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide 30th Anniversary Tour Close)
Lastevent:Super Series
Nextevent:Rey de Reyes

Noche de Campeones (Spanish for "Night of Champions") was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event that was scripted and produced by the Mexican Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) promotion on December 28, 2022, in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico at Arena GNP Seguros.

The event was themed around championship matches, with all but one of the matches being contested for a championship. In the main event match, Hijo del Vikingo defeated Bandido to retain the AAA Mega Championship. In other prominent matches, Arez defeated Taurus and Villano III Jr. in a three-way match to win the inaugural La Leyenda Azul Blue Demon Championship, Abismo Negro Jr. and Flammer defeated Komander and Sexy Star II and Octagón Jr. and Lady Shani in a three-way mixed tag team match to win the vacant AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship, and Los Hermanos Lee (Dragon Lee and Dralístico) defeated FTR (Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler) to win the AAA World Tag Team Championship, immediately after the match Los Hermanos Lee vacated the championship and Dragon Lee announced he had signed with WWE.

Production

Background

Noche de Campeones is themed around championship matches, with all but one of the announced matches on the card being contested for a championship.[1]

The event aired on pay-per-view via the FITE TV service.[1]

Storylines

Noche de Campeones featured seven professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed 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 wrestling matches.[2] [3]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: AAA Lucha Libre Noche de Campeones. FITE TV. December 4, 2022.
  2. Book: Madigan, Dan. Mondo Lucha A Go-Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. HarperCollins Publishers. 2007. El nacimient de un sueño (the birth of a dream). 41–50. 978-0-06-085583-3.
  3. Web site: How Pro Wrestling Works. Grabianowski. Ed. HowStuffWorks. Discovery Communications. March 5, 2012. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20131129050844/http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/pro-wrestling.htm. November 29, 2013.