Lucha World Cup
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 |
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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) |
2023 | March 19, 2023 | Team Mexico (men's) (Taurus, Pentagón Jr., Laredo Kid) Team USA (women's) (Kamille, Deonna Purrazzo, Jordynne Grace) |
Team USA (men's) (Johnny Caballero, Sam Adonis, Christopher Daniels) Team Mexico (women's) (Flammer, La Hiedra, Sexy Star II) |
Gallery Of Champions
V | AAA/PAP Championships | E |
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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 Heavy • Americas Trios • Campeón de Campeones • IWC Heavy • IWC Middle • IWC Minis • IWC Tag • Second/Mascota • GPCW SUPER-X Monster • Lucha Libre Premier • Fusion • Lucha World Cup | ||
Unofficial: AAA Northern Tag (Kuas Extrem & Snaiper) • AAA Northern Middle: (The Tiger) • AAA Northern Light Heavy (Lemus Jr.) |