AAA Mega Championship

AAA Mega Championship
El Texano Jr. and Blue Demon Jr. holding the AAA Mega Championship belt in a wrestling ring
El Texano Jr. (right) and Blue Demon Jr. with the championship belt at the Rey de Reyes (2013)
Details
Promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA)
Date established September 16, 2007[1]
Current champion(s) Fénix[2]
Date won August 25, 2018[2]
Other name(s)
AAA World Heavyweight Championship[3]
Mexican Heavyweight Championship (TNA)[4]

The AAA Mega Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in the Mexican Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) promotion. Known officially in Spanish as the Mega Campeonato AAA, it is sometimes referred to in the English-language press as the "AAA World Heavyweight Championship".[10] The title is the top championship of the AAA promotion. The championship is generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than in direct competition.[11]

The title was established in 2007 via a single elimination tournament billed as the "Torneo Campeón de Campeones", or Champion of Champions Tournament, which effectively unified the International Wrestling Council (IWC) World Heavyweight Championship, the Grand Prix Championship Wrestling (GPCW) SUPER-X Monster Championship, the Mexican National Heavyweight Championship, and the Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) World Light Heavyweight Championship. The tournament field included the four reigning champions of the aforementioned titles as well as the number one contender to each championship. El Mesías, who entered the tournament as the IWC World Heavyweight Champion, became the inaugural AAA Mega Champion upon defeating the UWA World Light Heavyweight Champion entrant Chessman in the final round.[12]

El Texano Jr.'s first reign is the longest in history at 735 days. The shortest reigning champion was Electroshock, who held the title for 86 days. El Mesías has held the title the most, with four reigns. Overall, there have been 16 reigns shared among 9 wrestlers, with two vacancies.

Inaugural Championship Tournament bracket

First round Semifinals Final
         
El Mesías W
La Parka [13]
El Mesías W
Charly Manson [13]
Kenzo Suzuki [13]
Charly Manson W
El Mesías W
Chessman [13]
Cibernético W
Mr. Niebla [13]
Cibernético [13]
Chessman W
Chessman W
El Zorro [13]

Reigns

Overall, there have been 17 AAA Mega Championship reigns and 10 total champions. The title has been vacated only once. The inaugural champion was El Mesías, who defeated Chessman in the final of an eight-man tournament at the Verano de Escándalo event on September 16, 2007, to become champion. El Texano Jr. has the longest reign as champion with his first reign, from December 2, 2012, to December 7, 2014, lasting 735 days and gave the title World status when he defended it in the UK. Jeff Jarrett currently has the shortest reign at 83 days. El Mesías holds the record for the most reigns, with fourth.

In 2011, the then-AAA Mega Champion and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) founder Jeff Jarrett appeared with a redesigned version of the title belt on TNA programming. TNA used the Mega Championship belt on their programming, but due to Spike TV, then TNA's broadcaster, not allowing TNA to refer to AAA by name, a silver hexagonal plate was used to cover the AAA faceplate.[4] While Jarrett appeared in TNA, the title was referred to as the "Mexican Heavyweight Championship".[14] On April 21, 2013, the title was defended outside AAA for the first time at Puerto Rico's World Wrestling League (WWL).[15] In March 2015, the AAA Mega Champion El Patrón Alberto defended the championship in Lucha Underground, made possible through AAA's joint ownership of Lucha Underground.[16][17]

Fénix is the current champion in his first reign. He defeated Jeff Jarrett, Brian Cage and Rich Swann in a fatal 4-way match at Triplemanía XXVI on August 25, 2018, in México City, Mexico.

Title history

Key
No. Overall reign number
Reign Reign number for the specific champion
Days Number of days held
Defenses Number of successful defenses
+ Current reign is changing daily
No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref.
Date Event Location Reign DaysDefenses
 1  El Mesias  September 16, 2007  Verano de Escándalo (2007) Guadalajara, Jalisco  1  1821[18] El Mesías defeated Chessman in the final of an eight-man tournament to become the inaugural champion. This event aired on tape delay on October 7, 2007. [1][19]
 2  Cibernético  March 16, 2008  Rey de Reyes (2008) Monterrey, Nuevo León  1  2223[18] This event aired on tape delay on March 30, 2008. [20]
— Vacated  October 24, 2008 — — — —— Cibernético quit the company because Konnan took over AAA at the Antonio Peña Memorial Show. This event aired on tape delay on November 2, 2008. [21]
 3  El Mesias  December 6, 2008  Guerra de Titanes (2008) Orizaba, Veracruz  2  1891[18] El Mesías defeated El Zorro in a ladder match to win the vacant title. This event aired on tape delay on December 21, 2008. [20]
 4  Dr. Wagner Jr.  June 13, 2009  Triplemanía XVII Mexico City  1  1813[18]   [22]
 5  El Mesias  December 11, 2009  Guerra de Titanes (2009) Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas  3  910[18] This event aired on tape delay on December 27, 2009. [23]
 6  Electroshock  March 12, 2010  Rey de Reyes (2010) Querétaro, Querétaro  1  860[18] Electroshock defeated El Mesías and Mr. Anderson in a three-way match to win the title. This event aired on tape delay on March 21, 2010. [24]
 7  Dr. Wagner Jr.  June 6, 2010  Triplemania XVIII Mexico City  2  1822[18]   [8]
 8  El Zorro  December 5, 2010  Guerra de Titanes (2010) Zapopan, Jalisco  1  1951[18] This event aired on tape delay on December 12, 2010. [25]
 9  Jeff Jarrett  June 18, 2011  Triplemanía XIX Mexico City  1  2741[18] Jarrett also appeared on Total Nonstop Action Wrestling television with the title, referring to it as the "Mexican Heavyweight Championship". [26]
 10  El Mesias  March 18, 2012  Rey de Reyes (2012) Zapopan, Jalisco  4  2591[18] This event aired on tape delay on April 1, 2012. [27]
 11  El Texano Jr.  December 2, 2012  Guerra de Titanes (2012) Zapopan, Jalisco  1  7359[18] This event aired on tape delay on December 15, 2012. [6]
 12  El Patrón Alberto  December 7, 2014  Guerra de Titanes (2014) Zapopan, Jalisco  1  3372[18] [28]
— Vacated  November 9, 2015 — — — —— Title vacated due to El Patrón Alberto leaving AAA for WWE. [29]
 13  El Texano Jr.  March 23, 2016  Rey de Reyes (2016) San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí  2  3612[18] El Texano Jr. defeated El Mesías to win the vacant title. [30]
 14  Johnny Mundo  March 19, 2017  Rey de Reyes (2017) Monterrey, Nuevo León  1  3134[18] Defeated El Texano Jr. and El Hijo del Fantasma in a Winner Take All three-way match, that was also contested for the AAA Latin American and AAA World Cruiserweight Championships. [31]
 15  Rey Wagner  January 26, 2018  Guerra de Titanes (2018) Mexico City  3  1283[18] Vampiro was the Special Guest Referee. Rey Wagner was formerly known as Dr. Wagner Jr.
 16  Jeff Jarrett  June 3, 2018  Verano de Escándalo (2018) Monterrey, Nuevo León  2  830[18] Jarrett defeated Rey Wagner and Rey Mysterio Jr. in a three-way match to win the title. [32]
 17  Fénix  August 25, 2018  Triplemanía XXVI Mexico City  1  48+0[18] Fénix defeated Jarrett, Brian Cage and Rich Swann in a fatal four way to win the title. [2]

Combined reigns

† Indicates the current champion(s)
Rank Wrestler No. of reigns Combined
defenses		 Combined days
1 El Texano Jr. 2 11 1,096
2 El Mesias 4 3 721
3 Dr. Wagner Jr./Rey Wagner 3 8 491
4 Jeff Jarrett 2 1 357
5 El Patrón Alberto 1 2 337
6 Johnny Mundo 1 4 313
7 Cibernético 1 3 222
8 El Zorro 1 1 195
9 Electroshock 1 0 86
10 Fénix † 1 0 48+

References

General

  • "Mega Campeonato AAA". Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide. Archived from the original on September 30, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  • "Asistencia Asesoria y Administracion World Heavyweight Title". Wrestling Titles.com. Retrieved September 7, 2015.

Specific

  1. 1 2 "Verano de Escandalo Megacampeonato de AAA". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). September 24, 2007. pp. 2–6. issue 231.
  2. 1 2 3 Valdés, Apolo (August 26, 2018). "Fénix regresso el centro a Mexico se corono Megacampeon AAA". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). MSN. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  3. ↑ "AAA World Heavyweight Championship". cagematch.net. Retrieved March 25, 2017.
  4. 1 2 Ocampo, Jorge (August 5, 2011). "Video: Jeff Jarrett presume el título obtenido en México al roster TNA (es el cinturón AAA pero "modificado")". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved September 6, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Rudos - El Texano Jr" (in Spanish). Fuego en el ring. Archived from the original on October 8, 2011. Retrieved October 17, 2009.
  6. 1 2 Mexicool, Rey (December 2, 2012). "Guerra de Titanes 2012: Texano Jr., nuevo Megacampeón AAA" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Lucha Libre: Conoce la historia de las leyendas de cuadrilátero". Dr. Wagner Jr. (1965) (in Spanish). Mexico. 2008. p. 20. Grandes Figuras de la Lucha Libre.
  8. 1 2 "Triplemania 18 (Cobertura y resultados 6 junio 2010)" (in Spanish). SúperLuchas. June 6, 2010. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  9. ↑ "PWI Official Ratings". The Pro Wrestling Illustrated. London Publishing. February 2009. p. 145. Vol 30, Nr. 2 2009.
  10. ↑ "Mega Campeonato AAA". Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (in Spanish). Archived from the original on September 30, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  11. ↑ Grabianowski, Ed. "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks, Inc. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 18, 2013. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
  12. ↑ "AAA Title tournaments: AAA Heavyweight Title Tournament 2007". Pro Wrestling History.com. Archived from the original on September 22, 2007. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "2007 Lo Mejor de la Lucha Mexicana". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). December 26, 2007. issue 244. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
  14. ↑ TNA (July 14, 2011). Exclusive: The Jarretts celebrate winning Mexico's Heavyweight Title (Videotape). Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Retrieved September 7, 2015. Watch exclusive footage of The Jarretts celebrating after Jeff Jarrett won Mexico's Heavyweight Championship at a recent AAA event in Mexico City
  15. ↑ Anthony Piñeiro (February 25, 2013). "WWL: ¡Última Hora el Mega Campeonato a defenderse en Puerto Rico!" (in Spanish). Súper Luchas. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  16. ↑ Peebles, Jeremy (March 25, 2015). "Lucha Underground TV Report 3-25-15: Alberto El Patron vs. Texano, Prince Puma vs. Cage in title matches". Figure Four Wrestling Observer Online. Archived from the original on August 6, 2015. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  17. ↑ de Moraes, Lisa. "TCA: Mark Burnett To Launch Lucha Libre AAA League In U.S. With El Rey Network; 'From Dusk Till Dawn' To Premiere In March". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "Mega Campeonato AAA" (in Spanish). Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide. Archived from the original on September 30, 2015. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
  19. ↑ "Verano de Escándalo 2007: El Primer Verano con Domo" (in Spanish). Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide. September 16, 2007. Archived from the original on November 26, 2015. Retrieved September 6, 2015.
  20. 1 2 "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana 2008". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 6, 2009. 296. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
  21. ↑ "El Cibernético renuncia al campeonato" (in Spanish). SúperLuchas. October 27, 2008.
  22. ↑ "Triplemania 17 (Resultados y cobertura 13 Junio 2009)" (in Spanish). SúperLuchas. June 13, 2009.
  23. ↑ "Lo Mejor de la Lucha Libre Mexicana 2009". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). January 8, 2010. 348.
  24. ↑ Rivera, Luis Manuel (March 15, 2010). "LA Park aparece en AAA". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). pp. 18&ndash, 21. issue 355. Retrieved March 20, 2010.
  25. ↑ Beltrán, William (December 5, 2010). "AAA Guerra de Titanes 2010 (Cobertura y resultados 05 de Diciembre de 2010) – Charly Manson aparece y se une a Los Bizzaros – El Zorro NUEVO Megacampeón AAA" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas. Archived from the original on July 3, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2010.
  26. ↑ "AAA TripleManía XIX (Cobertura y resultados 18 de junio de 2011)" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas. June 17, 2011.
  27. ↑ Cano Vela, Eduardo (March 18, 2012). "AAA Rey de Reyes (Cobetura y Resultados 18 de marzo de 2012) – ¿Quien ganara el torneo Rey de Reyes 2012?" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas. Retrieved March 18, 2012.
  28. ↑ Hernandez, Kennedy (December 7, 2014). "El Patrón es el nuevo Megacampeón de AAA". SuperLuchas (in Spanish). Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  29. ↑ "Habrá nuevo Megacampeón AAA en Guerra de Titanes". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). November 9, 2015. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
  30. ↑ Valdés, Apolo (March 24, 2016). "Texano Jr. retomó el Megacampeoanto". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  31. ↑ Rosales, Jorge (March 19, 2017). "Johnny Mundo se convirtió en tricampeón de AAA". MedioTiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved March 20, 2017.
  32. ↑ Ocampo, Ernesto (June 7, 2018). "AAA: Explosivo y sorpresivo "Verano de Escándalo"" (in Spanish). SuperLuchas. Retrieved June 7, 2018.

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