Various: MJF Retains AEW American Title at 8/2 CMLL Event, Gail Kim on WWE & TNA Talent Crossover Partnership, Updated Card for AAA Triplemania XXXII: Mexico City

Aug 3, 2024

MJF Retains AEW American Title at Friday’s CMLL Event

Friday’s Super Viernes event for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico featured MJF defeating Templario to retain his AEW American Championship.

MJF was accompanied to the ring by Rocky Romero while Templario was accompanied to the ring by KeMalito.

MJF retained his title after hitting a Sheer Drop Brainbuster and after the match, attacked both Templario and KeMalito with his belt.

Following the show, MJF reflected on Twitter about his successful title defense and his upcoming match against Kyle Fletcher at next week’s AEW Dynamite show.

Headed home after victory.

Beat Templario in a match that is being heralded as better than El Santos entire Lucha catalog combined.

You’re next you koala eating,
12 year old girl haircut having, DORK.

I hope Will can live with himself after Wednesday.
Bloods on his hands. pic.twitter.com/KllOmSlQs8
— Maxwell Jacob Friedman™️ (@The_MJF) August 3, 2024

This was MJF’s first defense of his newly renamed AEW International title and also his official debut match in CMLL.

Gail Kim Comments on WWE & TNA’s Talent Crossover Partnership

A recent episode of the Battleground Podcast featured Gail Kim as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Kim’s thoughts about TNA Wrestling’s current talent crossover partnership being good for wrestling.

“I honestly feel like it’s great for wrestling in general, not just WWE and TNA. I just think because it’s such a polarizing time right now, social media, a lot of people have their opinions and wrestling is a little bit exposed more so people feel like they know it or they know how wrestling works so they’re trying to predict it. I love how you never know what’s gonna happen, you never know who we’re gonna work with, never know what kind of dream matches you’re going to get out of it. Ever since the collaboration, all I see from fans is, ‘I wanna see this person wrestle this person.’ They’re just excited for wrestling in general, it’s not this tribalism, it’s, ‘I’m a wrestling fan’, and I love to see that.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

AAA Announces Updated Card for Triplemania XXXII: Mexico City

Lucha Libre AAA announced two newly updated matches for the card of their Triplemania XXXII: Mexico City event, which takes place on August 17th at the Arena CDMX in Mexico, City Mexico.

The first newly updated match was the AAA Reina de Reinas Championship match of Faby Apache vs. Flamer (c).

This match was setup following Apache defeating Flammer in a #1 Contender match at Friday’s Verano de Escandalo event.

The second new match announced was the Domo De La Muerte Mask vs. Hair Cage match of Cibernético vs. Dark Cuervo vs. Dark Ozz vs. El Fiscal vs. Abismo Negro Jr. vs. Psicosis vs. Murder Clown vs. Dave The Clown vs. Panic Clown vs. TBA.

Psycho Circus (Murder Clown, Dave The Clown & Panic Clown) was added to this match following their defeat to Los Apostoles del Mesias (El Mesias, Dark Scoria, & Dark Spiritu) and NGD (Sanson & Forastero) & Fresero Jr in a Triple Threat Cage match at Friday’s event.

Updated card for AAA Triplemania XXXII: Mexico City:

Copa Bardahl Mexico City – TBA vs. TBA(s)
AAA Reina de Reinas Championship – Faby Apache vs. Flamer (c)
Laredo Kid vs. Matt Riddle
AAA World Tag Team Championship Three-way match – La Dinastía Wagner (Dr. Wagner Jr. & Galeno del Mal) vs. Team India (Raj Dhesi & Satnam Singh) vs. La Dinastía Casas-Alvarado (Negro Casas & Psycho Clown) (c)
Casket match – Vampiro vs. mystery opponent
AAA Mega Championship – Albert El Patron vs. Nic Nemeth (c)
Domo De La Muerte Mask vs. Hair Cage match – Cibernético vs. Dark Cuervo vs. Dark Ozz vs. El Fiscal vs. Abismo Negro Jr. vs. Psicosis vs. Murder Clown vs. Dave The Clown vs. Panic Clown vs. TBA