Lucha World Cup, 2017
The Lucha World Cup 2017, is a professional wrestling trios tournament produced by Lucha Libre AAA World Wide (AAA). It was the third annual edition of the tournament. All matches will take place outside of Mexico for the first time. It will also be a 2v2 tag team tournament, instead of the usual trios format.
All matches will take place on October 10th, at Tokyo's Korakuen Hall. There is now women's division tournament was implemented this year; AAA explained they were unable to get enough participants.
The match format was changed to a one ten minute round. Should there not be a winner in that time, there will be a three minute time limit. If there is still not a decision, a group of five judges would decide the winner.
Participant Promotions
| Promotion | Country |
|---|---|
| Lucha Libre AAA World Wide | Mexico |
| Pro Wrestling NOAH | Japan |
| Inoki Genome Federation | Japan |
| Impact Wrestling | United States |
| Lucha Underground | United States |
IGF had stopped promoting events six months prior to the tournament.
Confirmed Teams
All teams were announced at a press conference.
| Team | Members | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Team AAA (Mexico) | Pagano | First participation |
| Psycho Clown | Third participation | |
| Team NOAH (Japan) | Taiji Ishimori | Third participation |
| Hi69 | First participation | |
| Team IGF (Japan) | Nosawa | First participation |
| Kendo Kashin | First participation | |
| Team Impact (USA) | DJZ | First participation |
| Andrew Everett | First participation | |
| Team Lucha Underground (USA) | Marty Martinez | First participation |
| Son of Havoc | First participation | |
| Team Lucha Underground (Mexico) | Aerostar | First participation |
| Drago | First participation | |
| Team Lucha Underground (Rest of the World) | Mil Muertes | Second participation[1] |
| Vampiro | First participation |
Results
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | |||||||||||
| 1 | Team AAA/Mexico | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Team NOAH/USA | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Team LU/ROTW | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Team IGF/Japan | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Team NOAH/Japan | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Team LU/USA | ||||||||||||
| Third place | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Team Impact/USA | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Team LU/Mexico | ||||||||||||
Judging Panel
A judging panel was composed by Dorian Roldan, Gran Hamada, Tatsumi Fujinami, Tsutomu Shimizu and Scott D'Amore. The panel would decide any match which reached the time limit.
References
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