Ranking the 4 Storylines Feeding Into AAA’s Road to Triplemanía, From Hottest to Coldest

Los Perros Del Mal recruitment wars, a masked mystery attacker, and Dominik Mysterio’s WWE crossover — here’s what’s actually carrying AAA’s biggest show.

AAA’s build to Triplemanía is doing something a lot of promotions forget how to do: telling several stories at once and letting them bump into each other. Faction recruitment, whodunit mysteries, and a full-blown WWE crossover are all pointing at Roman Reigns and a marquee card. But not every thread is pulling the same weight. Here’s how the road to Triplemanía stacks up right now, ranked from the angle carrying the show to the one still finding its feet.

1. The Los Perros Del Mal recruitment war for Penta

This is the smartest thing AAA is running, full stop. Daga openly courting Penta to stack Los Perros Del Mal ahead of the No. 1 Contender’s Tournament is old-school lucha faction politics done right — and then AAA gave it teeth by making Penta actually fight Bronco Nima to prove he’s worthy of the group. That’s the difference between a promo and a story. Penta is one of the most over acts in the entire industry, so every promotion on earth wants a piece of his allegiance, and AAA is treating that alignment like the valuable currency it is. Whether Penta bites, betrays, or turns the offer against Daga, the branches all lead somewhere good. That’s what a lead story is supposed to do.

2. Daga’s tournament run to reach Roman Reigns

Second because it’s the spine everything else hangs on. Daga’s whole recruitment pitch is framed around winning the No. 1 Contender’s Tournament and challenging Roman Reigns, which gives the Perros drama a clear finish line and gives the tournament stakes beyond a bracket. The reason it sits below the recruitment angle rather than above it: Daga-as-schemer is a great engine, but he’s the means, not the destination. The tournament is the frame; the faction war is the picture inside it. Still, credit AAA for giving a mid-card heel a concrete goal that ties into the promotion’s biggest available opponent. Too many companies run tournaments with no story attached. This one has three.

3. The mystery assailant and Psycho Clown

Now we’re into pure vibes-based booking, and honestly? I’m fine with it — for now. A masked attacker taking out Psycho Clown to hand La Parka a tournament advantage is exactly the kind of whodunit lucha thrives on. The mask-and-mystery tradition in Mexico is decades deep, and Psycho Clown is a big enough babyface star that fans genuinely care who cost him. The catch is that mystery angles live and die on the reveal. Get it wrong and you’ve burned weeks of intrigue on a shrug. Get it right and you’ve got a Triplemanía moment. It ranks here because the payoff hasn’t landed yet — the setup is strong, but potential energy isn’t the same as points on the board.

4. El Grande Americano vs. Dominik Mysterio

The WWE crossover is the flashiest name on the list and the one I trust least to deliver. Don’t misread that — a backstage brawl between El Grande Americano and Dominik Mysterio ahead of a Triplemanía title match is a huge get for AAA and a sign of just how deep the working relationship runs. Dom is one of the best heels going and the crowds in Mexico are electric for him. But cross-promotional storylines almost always serve the visiting brand more than the home one, and there’s a real risk this eats spotlight the Perros and tournament arcs earned organically. It’s a spectacle, and spectacle sells Triplemanía tickets. It just isn’t storytelling in the way the top of this list is, and a brawl is a long way from a fully built feud. Great for the marquee. Least essential to the show’s actual narrative.

The bottom line

What makes this build work is that AAA isn’t leaning on the WWE names to carry it. The heart of the road to Triplemanía is homegrown — Penta’s loyalty, Daga’s ambition, a masked mystery — with Dom Mysterio as garnish rather than the meal. That’s the correct order of operations, and it’s why this feels like a card being built on wrestling instead of on borrowed heat.

Got a different read on the pecking order? Think Dom-Americano should be higher, or that the mystery attacker is a bust waiting to happen? Drop your rankings in the comments.