updated AAA TV taping schedule

AAA’s posted about the new plans.

Here’s the lineup, and it’s a busy stretch of four tapings in two weeks.

05/18 Leon
05/21 Aguascalientes – rescheduled from 04/30, but new (unknown) lineup
05/25 Tlaxcala
05/30 Acapulco

and then TripleMania. Before the swine flu, there was a taping in Hidalgo after Acapulco, and I’m not sure if that’s been rescheduled or just omitted. By replacing Hidalgo with Aguascalintes, TripleMania’s air date is not pushed back (starting 06/28 in Mexico and 07/18 in the US), though Tlaxcala and Acapulco fall back a week. Not that it matters, since we don’t know what’s meant to be on them.

Edit: I’ve lost track somewhere along the lines, but if I add it up correctly, TripleMania starts 06/21 and 07/17, a week earlier than I had them previously. Unless plans change again.

No word if the Lucha Libre Expo show is still planned to be taped, but we’ve got a couple weeks to figure that one out.

AAA also updated the cruiserweight tournament, which is being compressed due to the cancellations. The Leon taping will feature all three semifinals: Alex vs Nicho, Alan vs Laredo and Jack and Extreme Tiger having a rematch to settle the tie. The winners meet for the title on 05/21.

The winner of Jack & Tiger is the clear favorite. If that winner wasn’t seen as necessary for the final (at least at the moment), they would just eliminate both of them and move on with one less match to worry about. It’s also clear that those in the final are already penciled in other (more important) matches for TripleMania and even the weeks leading up to it, or there’d be no need to rush it.