Rey de Reyes (2020)

Rey de Reyes (2020) (Spanish for "King of Kings (2020)") is an upcoming professional wrestling supercard event produced by the Mexican Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) promotion. The event was originally scheduled to be held at the Poliforum Zamna in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico on March 21, 2020. On March 13, Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide announced that they were cancelling the 2020 Rey de Reyes show due to precautions around the COVID-19 pandemic. They will announce a new date for the event in the future.[1] The 2020 event will be the 24th year in a row that AAA has held a Rey de Reyes show and tournament. Wrestlers from the American promotions All Elite Wrestling and Impact Wrestling - with which AAA has partnerships - are scheduled to appear on the card.

Rey de Reyes (2020)
Promotional poster featuring various AAA luchadors
Promotion	Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
Date	TBA[1]
City	TBA[1]
Venue	TBA[1]
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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,[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] 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.[2] There have been years where AAA has employed a different format to determine a winner.[4] 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.[5][6][7] The 2020 show will be the 24th Rey de Reyes show in the series.

Storylines

Rey de Reyes will feature an undetermined number of professional wrestling matches scripted by AAA featuring wrestlers involved in scripted feuds. The wrestlers will portray either heels (referred to as rudos in Mexico, those that play the part of the "bad guys") or faces (técnicos in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they perform.[8]

Matches

No.	Matches*	Stipulations
1	Drago and Drago Kid vs. La Parka Negra and La Parkita Negra	Tag team match[9]
2	Pagano and La Familia Real (El Hijo de L.A. Park, and L.A. Park Jr.) vs. Los OGTs (Averno, Chessman, and Super Fly) vs. El Poder del Norte (Tito Santana, Carta Brava Jr., and Mocho Cota Jr.)	Three-way trios match[9]
3	Jinetes del Aire (El Hijo del Vikingo, Octagón Jr., and Myzteziz Jr.) (c) vs. Los Mercenarios (Texano Jr., Rey Escorpión, and La Hiedra)	Trios match for the AAA World Trios Championship[9]
4	Los Lucha Brothers (Pentagón Jr. and Fénix) (c) vs. The Rascalz (Dezmond Xavier and Zachary Wentz)	Tag team match for the AAA World Tag Team Championship[9]
5	Kenny Omega (c) vs. Laredo Kid	Singles match for the AAA Mega Championship[9]
6	Blue Demon Jr. vs. Aero Star vs. Michael Nakazawa vs. Mascarita Dorada vs. Mr. Iguana vs. Niño Hamburguesa vs. Dave The Clown vs. Arez vs. Dinastía vs. Villano III Jr.	Ten-man Rey de Reyes match[9]
7	Los Psycho Circus (Psycho Clown, Monster Clown, and Murder Clown) vs. La Facción Ingobernable (Rush El Toro Blanco, L.A. Park, and La Bestia del Ring)	Trios match[9]
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match *Card subject to change

See also

• 2020 in professional wrestling

References

1. Acosta, Carlos (March 13, 2020). "AAA: Se cancela "Rey de Reyes 2020" por Coronavirus" [AAA: Cancelling "Rey de Reyes 2020" because of the Coronavirus]. Súper Luchas (in Spanish). Retrieved March 14, 2020.
2. "Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion Rey de Reyes". ProWrestlingHistory.com. February 21, 1997. Archived from the original on July 6, 2018. Retrieved February 19, 2009.
3. "1997 Especial!". Box y Lucha Magazine (in Spanish). January 7, 1998. pp. 2–28. issue 2332.
4. "Número Especial – Lo mejor de la lucha libre mexicana durante el 2004". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 24, 2005. Issue 91.
5. Royal Duncan and Gary Will (2000). "Mexico: AAA Reina de Reinas". Wrestling Title Histories. Archeus Communications. p. 400. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
6. SuperLuchas staff (January 6, 2008). "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana 2008". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). issue 296. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
7. 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.
8. Madigan, Dan (2007). ""Okay... what is Lucha Libre?"". Mondo Lucha a Go Go: the bizarre & honorable world of wild Mexican wrestling. New York, New York: HarperColins Publisher. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-06-085583-3. featuring clearly distinguished good guys and bad guys, or técnicos and rudos
9. "El primer Evento Magno de la gira #NacemosParaLuchar: #ReyDeReyes @luchalibreaaa Sábado 21 de marzo, Poliforum Zamná de Mérida, Yucatán Transmisión EN VIVO por @TwitchES @Twitch". Marisela Peña on Twitter. February 18, 2020. Retrieved February 18, 2020.