page_title: Triplemanía XVI
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Triplemanía XVI / Production / Background
caption_attribution_description: Español: Foto tomada durante la gira de la Triple A, en el Palenque Promocasa del FEX
context_page_description: Triplemanía XVI was the sixteenth Triplemanía professional wrestling show scripted and produced by Asistencia Asesoría y Administración. The show took place on June 13, 2008 in Mexico City, Mexico. The show was available on pay-per-view in Mexico, the first Triplemanía show to be offered on PPV. The main event featured a singles match for the AAA Mega Championship. Champion Cibernético defended against El Zorro.
  The show also featured the surprise return of Silver King, who teamed up with Chessman and La Parka, only to lose to La Legión Extranjera in the semi-main event of the show. The show also included a hardcore match between Vampiro and El Mesías, as well as a Lucha de Apuestas, or "bet match", where sisters Faby Apache and Mari Apache both put their hair on the line for the match. The show include four additional matches.
context_section_description: In early 1992 Antonio Peña was working as a booker and storyline writer for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Mexico's largest and the world's oldest wrestling promotion, and was frustrated by CMLL's very conservative approach to lucha libre. He joined forced with a number of younger, very talented wrestlers who felt like CMLL was not giving them recognition they deserved and decided to split from CMLL to create Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA, or Triple A; Spanish for "Assistance, Assessment, and Administration"). After making a deal with the Televisa television network AAA held their first show in April, 1992. The following year Peña and AAA held their first Triplemanía event, building it into an annual event that would become AAA's Super Bowl event, similar to the WWE's WrestleMania being the biggest show of the year. The 2009 Triplemanía was the 16th year in a row AAA held a Triplemanía show and the 21st overall show under the Triplemanía banner.
  Up until Triplemanía XVI, the Triplemanía shows were taped for television broadcast, televised weeks after the show as part of AAA's regular television series. Triplemanía XVI was the first AAA show to also be offered as a pay-per-view (PPV) service on Mexican PPV channels. While PPV broadcasts of major events was common in the United States, going back to the mid-1980s, Mexican wrestling promotions only intermittently offered PPV options for their major shows prior to 2008. In subsequent years Triplemanía shows would be offered on PPV in Mexico and, for some events, outside of Mexico via internet or US PPV options.
  The 2008 Triplemanía show ran live against Mexican rival promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's (CMLL) Infierno en el Ring ("Inferno in the ring") major event. Both Triplemanía and Infierno en el Ring were held in Mexico City, Triplemanía at the approximately 20,000 seat Palacio de los Deportes arena while Infierno en el Ring was held at the 16,500 seat Arena México. The special entrance set, complete with large video walls and decorations, constructed specifically for Triplemanía XVI and the PPV production set up reportedly cost three million pesos ($290,000) and took 150 workers to prepare.
  Tickets for the event ranged from 150 pesos ($14.50) to 950 pesos ($92.02) for ringside seats. El Economista reported that 406 police officers, spread out over 52 units, provided security for the event.
caption: Cibernético reigning AAA Mega Champion going into the event.
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