On Saturday night (Aug. 16) in Mexico City, AAA ran their version of WrestleMania for the first time since WWE’s purchase of the lucha libre promotion. Triplemania XXXIII streamed free on YouTube (and on three different channels: WWE’s, WWE Espanol’s, and AAA’s), and featured several WWE talents on the card — with more making surprise appearances during the event.
As they are wont to do even when they’re not in “wrestling war” mode, WWE sent out a press release the Monday after the show making much
of Triplemania’s impressive performance on several key business metrics.
There’s a word for that… it somehow escapes me right now. Extol? Acclaim?
Gosh, I was way off. Daniel Bryan Danielson must be ashamed of me. Here’s the presser, presented by Tout:
Triplemania XXXIII shatters records for viewership, gate, merchandise and social engagement
August 18, 2025 – TripleManía XXXIII, Mexican lucha libre promotion AAA’s largest annual event, became the most-viewed and highest-grossing TripleManía in event history.
Streamed globally on WWE and AAA’s YouTube channels in Spanish and English, the broadcast has been watched by more than 4.3 million viewers in the first 24 hours and hit a peak live concurrent audience of 614,000.
With a crowd of 19,691 at the Arena CDMX in Mexico City this past Saturday, TripleManía marked the highest attendance for any Mexican lucha libre show this year and set AAA’s all-time gate record. Additionally, the event broke records for the highest-ever merchandise sales in AAA history.
On X, #Triplemania was the No.1 trending topic in the United States and Mexico on Saturday, and a record 208 million views were generated across official AAA and WWE social platforms.
The record-breaking event was highlighted by El Hijo del Vikingo defeating Dragon Lee, Dominik Mysterio and El Grande Americano to retain the AAA Mega Championship, Pagano & Psycho Clown defeating Angel & Berto to win the AAA Tag Team Championship, El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. defeating El Mesias to win the Latin American Championship, and more.
WWE has acquired leading Mexican lucha libre promotion AAA in partnership with Mexico-based sports and entertainment holding company, Fillip.
Now go forth and Tout about it, if you so choose.
