Rey de Reyes (2016)

Rey de Reyes (2016) (Spanish for "King of Kings") was a professional wrestling event produced by the Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA) promotion. The event was originally announced for March 11, 2016 in Tampico, Tamaulipas, but was later rescheduled to March 23, 2016 in San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí with no official explanation given for the move. The show was the 20th event held under the Rey de Reyes name and also the 20th time that the eponymous Rey de Reyes tournament was held. At the 2016 Guerra de Titanes El Texano Jr. and El Mesías earned the rights to wrestle for the vacant AAA Mega Championship.

Rey de Reyes (2016)
Official Rey de Reyes poster featuring (from left to right) Psycho Clown, El Mesías, El Texano Jr. and Dr. Wagner Jr.
Promotion	Lucha Libre AAA World Wide
Date	March 23, 2016
City	San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
Venue	Plaza de Toros Monumental El Paseo
Event chronology
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Rey de Reyes chronology
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Production

Background

Starting in 1997 and every year since then the Mexican Lucha Libre, or professional wrestling, company AAA 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 2016 show will be the 20th Rey de Reyes show in the series.

Storylines

The 2016 Rey de Reyes show will featured an undisclosed number of 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.

Pentagón Jr., the 2016 Rey de Reyes

Qualifier				Rey de Reyes
Blue Demon Jr.	Win
Taurus
Dr. Wagner Jr.
Garza Jr.
Villano IV	Win
Electroshock
Chessman
Jack Evans				Blue Demon Jr.[Note 1]
				Villano IV
				La Parka
La Parka	Win			Pentagón Jr.	Win
El Zorro
Psycho Clown
Averno
Fénix
El Hijo del Fantasma
Pentagon Jr.	Win
Octagón Jr.

Results

No.	Results	Stipulations
1	Octagón Jr,, Faby Apache, Mascarita Sagrada and Pimpinela Escarlata defeated Mamba, Mini Psycho Clown, Taurus and Taya	Relevos Atómicos de Locura match[7]
2	Dark Cuervo, Dark Scoria and El Zorro (c) defeated Aero Star, Drago and Fénix	Trios match for the AAA World Trios Championship
3	Los Hell Brothers (Averno and Chessman) (c) defeated Los Perros del Mal (Daga and Joe Líder) and Australian Suicide and Argenis	Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match for the AAA World Tag Team Championship
4	Pentagon Jr. defeated Villano IV and La Parka	2016 Rey de Reyes tournament finals[8][9][9]
5	Dr. Wagner Jr. defeated Psycho Clown	Singles match
6	El Texano Jr. defeated El Mesías	Single match for the vacant AAA Mega Championship[10]
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

Footnotes

1. Blue Demon Jr. did not show up for the show, no explanation was given.

References

1. "Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion Rey de Reyes". ProWrestlingHistory.com. February 21, 1997. Retrieved February 19, 2009.
2. "1997 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 7, 1998. pp. 2–28. issue 2332.
3. "Número Especial - Lo mejor de la lucha libre mexicana durante el 2004". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 24, 2005. Issue 91.
4. Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "Mexico: AAA Reina de Reinas". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 400. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
5. SuperLuchas staff (January 6, 2008). "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana 2008". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). issue 296. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
6. Marquina, Alva (September 26, 2009). "AAA- Héroes Inmortales III- (Resultados en vivo 26 septiembre 2009) – Cibernético gana el Trofeo Antonio Peña – Electroshock sustituye a Charly Manson contra Chessman – El luchador sorpresa fue Konan Big" (in Spanish). Super Luchas. Retrieved September 27, 2009.
7. "Listo Rey de Reyes, será en San Luis Potosí". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. February 25, 2016. Retrieved February 27, 2016.
8. "Blue Demon Jr. buscará el Rey de Reyes". MedipTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. February 7, 2016. Retrieved February 21, 2016.
9. "La Parka y Villano IV, finalistas de 'Rey de Reyes'". MedipTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. February 20, 2016. Retrieved February 21, 2016.
10. Valdés, Apolo (January 23, 2016). "El Mesías y Texano Jr., por el Megacampeonato". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. Retrieved January 26, 2016.