Background In early 1992
Antonio Peña was working as a booker and storyline writer for
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Mexico's largest and the world's oldest wrestling promotion, and was frustrated by CMLL's very conservative approach to
lucha libre. He joined forced with a number of younger, very talented wrestlers who felt like CMLL was not giving them the recognition they deserved and decided to split from CMLL to create
Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, later known simply as "AAA" or Triple A. After making a deal with the
Televisa television network AAA held their first show in April 1992. The following year Peña and AAA held their first
Triplemanía event, building it into an annual event that would become AAA's
Super Bowl event, similar to the
WWE's
WrestleMania being the biggest show of the year. The 2002 Triplemanía was the 10th year in a row AAA held a Triplemanía show and the fifteenth overall show under the Triplemanía banner.
Storylines The Triplemanía show featured eight
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. ==Results==