Lucha World Cup

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Trophy awarded to winner team of tournament.

The Lucha World Cup, officially known as Lucha Libre Victoria World Cup for sponsorship reasons, is an annual professional wrestling trios tournament produced by Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA) since 2015. It's featured by wrestlers from promotions by all around the world.

Format

The format of Lucha World Cup, for the first two years, is a single-elimination tournament structured by quarterfinals, semifinals, third place match and the final. Matches have a 15-minute time limit. If a match finished without a winner, teams enters in a sudden death in order to get a winner. Every team must select one of their members, and the two picked wrestlers must face off in a 5-minute match looking for get the win for it's team. There will be as many sudden deaths as necessary to determine a winner.

The format was changed for the 2017 edition. Teams were two people each, the time limit was reduced to 10 minutes and the overtime period was reduced to three minutes. No third place match was held.

Summary Of Winners

Edition Date Winners Runner-ups
2015 May 24, 2015 Dream Team
(El Patrón Alberto, Myzteziz & Rey Mysterio Jr.)
Team TNA/Lucha Underground
(Johnny Mundo, Matt Hardy & Mr. Anderson)
2016 June 5, 2016 Team Lucha Underground
(Brian Cage, Chavo Guerrero Jr. & Johnny Mundo)
Team AAA
(Pentagón Jr., Psycho Clown & Texano Jr.)
2017 October 10, 2017 Team AAA
(Pagano & Psycho Clown)
Team NOAH
(Hi69 & Taiji Ishimori)

Gallery Of Champions

Dream Team, 2015 winners
Team Lucha Underground, 2016 winners
Team AAA, 2017 winners
V AAA/PAP Championships E
AAA: Cruiser (Matt Riddle) • Mega (El Patrón Alberto) • Latin American (Q.T. Marshall)
Minis (Dinastia) • Mixed Tag (Abismo Negro Jr. & Flammer) • Reina de Reinas (Flammer)
Tag (Arez) & (Komander) • Trios (Los Vipers (Abismo Negro Jr.,Psicosis & Toxin))
Tournaments: Rey de Reyes (Sam Adonis) • Copa Antonio Peña (Pimpinela Escarlata) • Copa TripleManía (Laredo Kid)
Defunct: Americas HeavyAmericas TriosCampeón de CampeonesIWC Heavy
IWC MiddleIWC MinisIWC TagSecond/MascotaGPCW SUPER-X MonsterLucha Libre PremierFusionLucha World Cup
Unofficial: AAA Northern Tag (Kuas Extrem & Snaiper) • AAA Northern Middle: (The Tiger) • AAA Northern Light Heavy (Lemus Jr.)