Alianzas Puebla 2025: Vikingo Comes Home; Puebla Chooses El Grande Americano

The opener is nine minutes of three wrestlers using a contender's match as an excuse to demonstrate that ordinary human movement is optional. Carter supplies the cleanest connective offense, LeFleur brings a less-familiar European high-flying style, and Cartwheel does exactly what the name on the poster promises. The match cycles through triple standoffs, springboard counters and dives without becoming shapeless because the title opportunity remains visible in the background.

The closing stretch is where it earns the grade. LeFleur's avalanche dragon suplex creates a real near fall, Carter lands the superkick sequence, and Cartwheel strings together the Doomsday-style Canadian Destroyer, standing Spanish Fly and top-rope finish. Laredo Kid's immediate staredown gives the spectacle a destination.

Hall gives it B, while Cagematch currently has it at 7.86 from 98 votes and displays a 4.25-star Observer rating. WrestleFile goes A- / 8.9 because it is compact, spectacular and consequential. It stays below full A because several sequences are built more around shared athletic timing than sustained selling.

The women's tag is competent feud maintenance positioned between two much louder parts of the broadcast. Lola Vice supplies the early movement and crowd interaction, Faby Apache gives the match its veteran structure, and Las Toxicas spend most of their control segment turning the two-on-two match into the numbers game their faction identity promises.

Vice's running hip attacks and Apache's late comeback give the match enough energy to avoid becoming a pure rest stop, but the finish is familiar. Outside involvement removes Vice from the equation, Flammer uses the tights on Apache, and the heels steal the pin. The story advances without changing substantially.

Hall gives it C and Cagematch currently sits at 5.48 from 26 votes. WrestleFile lands at C+ / 6.5 because the match is professionally executed, gets in and out in under eight minutes, and keeps the feud moving. Nothing is actively bad. Very little demands a replay.

This is the portion of the evening where AAA reminds international viewers that its definition of match psychology can include a hamburger. Galeno del Mal provides the size, Cruz Del Toro and Joaquin Wilde provide the clean speed, while La Parka, Mr. Iguana and Nino Hamburguesa are over because they behave like three separate wrestling promotions accidentally sharing a corner.

The match works through contrast rather than progression. Wilde launches off Galeno into a dive, Parka answers with the rope-walk moonsault, Hamburguesa cannonballs through people, and Iguana gets the decisive sequence on Del Toro with La Yesca involved before the springboard attack and La Mistica-style finish. The crowd treats the chaos as a feature, not a defect.

Hall gives it B-minus and Cagematch currently has it at 5.66 from 31 votes. WrestleFile also lands at B- / 7.2 because the match accomplishes its crowd-service assignment efficiently. It is trying to make Puebla happy for seven minutes before Vikingo arrives to make Puebla angry.

Vikingo versus El Grande Americano is a match about crowd alignment disguised as a lucha main event. They begin deliberately with holds and standoffs before the audience's preference becomes impossible to ignore. Puebla cheers Americano. Vikingo hears it. From there, Vikingo's offense grows meaner and more theatrical: the steps, the double stomp, the 630, the taunting and eventually the attempt to remove Americano's mask all feel connected to a wrestler furious that his own people have selected the wrong hero.

Americano's comeback works because the crowd has already completed half the selling for him. The modified camel clutch produces the unseen submission during a referee bump, Vikingo answers with the horn and later goes for the mask, and the Americanos create the opening for the loaded running headbutt. It is heavily booked, but the booking follows the emotional story rather than replacing it.

Hall gives it A-minus and calls it one of the most entertaining matches he had seen in some time. Cagematch currently sits at 8.44 from 116 votes and displays a 4.5-star Observer rating. WrestleFile goes A / 9.4 because the match has excellent crowd interaction, escalation and consequence. It stops below the 9.6-plus tier because the referee bump and loaded-mask apparatus are doing meaningful work in a match already strong enough to survive without quite so much machinery.