Guerra de Titanes 2025: WWE Bought AAA; Guadalajara Made Sure It Still Felt Like AAA

The opener has almost no interest in pretending four-way tag-team rules can impose order on this many people, which is probably the correct philosophical choice. The match cycles through quick tags, comedy and dives until the legal-person structure becomes less a rule than a rumor. Mr. Iguana gets the expected Yesca-assisted reactions, Nino Hamburguesa turns a cheeseburger into offense, LWO supply clean tandem work, and La Parka and Octagon Jr. repeatedly escalate the aerial spectacle. The sequence of simultaneous dives announces what kind of show this will be before La Parka ultimately pins Cruz Del Toro with the twisting finish.

Hall gives it B and calls the nonstop pace a success. POST Wrestling calls it a great opener and specifically praises the Guadalajara crowd. Meltzer's reproduced rating is four stars. WrestleFile lands at A- / 8.7 because the match is chaotic by design rather than by accident. It is not deep psychology, but it is excellent event-opening psychology: show the audience everybody, move fast, make the promotion feel distinct and leave before exhaustion becomes the gimmick.

There is a perfectly good ten-minute feud match trapped inside roughly six minutes of television. Page immediately behaves like the correct kind of visiting heel, ripping at Wagner's mask, taking shortcuts and eventually hiding a wrench while using the championship belt as a distraction. The referee counts the apparent title change, Mr. Iguana arrives to expose the weapon, the referee searches Page, finds the wrench and restarts the match. Wagner then wins almost immediately with the Wagner Driver.

The issue is not the story; the issue is compression. POST Wrestling calls the match underwhelming and says it has too little time to make anything of the false finish. Hall is somewhat kinder at C-plus, while Meltzer's reproduced rating is 3.5 stars. WrestleFile settles at B- / 7.0 because Page's character work is effective and the audience understands the injustice instantly. But a fake championship change should feel like a crisis. Here it feels like the show accidentally clicked 'undo.'

The Carnival of Carnage works once it accepts that subtlety has missed the bus. The Wyatt Sicks are invited backstage into a carnival environment, Psycho Clown emerges from a bounce house, Mascarita Sagrada attacks with a kendo stick, Pimpinela Escarlata appears, people are thrown through structures and eventually everybody remembers there are thirteen thousand people in the arena waiting to see them. When the match reaches the ring, the crowd takes over. Murder Clown squaring off with Erick Rowan gets a monster reaction, Pagano returns from his earlier destruction, tables enter the finish and Psycho Clown drives Dexter Lumis through one for the pin.

Hall gives it B and praises the themed chaos. PWTorch calls it a chaotic trainwreck in complimentary terms. POST is more critical of the backstage opening because the live crowd is forced to watch part of the attraction on screens. Meltzer's reproduced rating is 3.75 stars. WrestleFile goes B+ / 8.4 because the concept has identity. It is silly, violent and specific. The weakness is that the first half is a better television idea than live-event idea.

The Cruiserweight Championship match is twelve and a half minutes of three wrestlers repeatedly asking whether the previous impossible thing can be made slightly more impossible. Cartwheel's springboard offense, Evans' no-hands dive and absurd cutter timing, and Laredo Kid's champion-level control keep the match from becoming three disconnected highlight reels. The centerpiece is Evans catching Cartwheel out of the air with the OG Cutter during a high-risk aerial attempt, a spot so clean that POST Wrestling immediately argues it should have been the finish. Laredo then reminds everybody whose championship this is, stacking challengers, hitting a 450 and ultimately finishing Cartwheel with the top-rope inverted DDT/Spanish-Fly-style variation.

Hall gives it B-plus and calls the athleticism must-see. POST simply calls it great. Meltzer's reproduced rating is 4.75 stars. WrestleFile stops at A+ / 9.6 because the match occasionally treats spectacular moves as transitions when lesser matches would build an entire finish around them. That is also the complaint one makes when a match has too many diamonds.

This is the card's designated reset match, and it succeeds because nobody mistakes 'reset' for 'stop trying.' Lola Vice takes the early isolation, Las Toxicas use numbers and ringside shortcuts to control her, and Natalya's hot tag gives the match the recognizable structural turn it needs. Faby Apache is the emotional center in Mexico and gets the finish with the bridging dragon suplex after the match breaks down into strikes and short bursts of offense.

Hall lands at C-plus and calls it solid but the weakest match to that point. POST similarly says there is not a lot to it. Meltzer's reproduced rating is 3.25 stars, which is still an unusually healthy floor for the fifth match on a seven-match card. WrestleFile gives it B / 7.8 because the match is concise, clean and useful. It never threatens the upper tier of the card, but an event this good benefits from one match that understands the audience does not need another attempt to reinvent gravity immediately.

Vikingo versus Dragon Lee is the best conventional singles wrestling on the show and then an angle arrives to remind everyone that 'conventional' has limited jurisdiction in AAA. The match begins aggressively rather than as an aerial exhibition. Lee attacks during the introductions, Vikingo responds with physical heel offense, and both men gradually escalate toward the spectacular material instead of dumping it into the opening minute. The inverted 450 counter into a Styles Clash is the signature sequence because it turns something impossibly athletic into actual defensive logic. Lee's dive later wipes out the referee, Operation Dragon has no count, Vikingo goes low, and Omos appears to powerbomb Lee before Vikingo finishes him.

Hall gives it B while acknowledging the excellent action and storyline-heavy finish. PWTorch calls it very good and praises Vikingo's heel development. POST highlights the counter sequences and the crowd's hostility toward Vikingo. Meltzer's reproduced rating is 4.75 stars. WrestleFile gives it A+ / 9.5 because nearly everything before the interference is elite. It misses 9.7-plus territory because Omos does not enhance the match so much as abruptly change which television program we are watching.

The main event is not the night's most athletic match, which is convenient because competing with the previous two would require a permit. Instead it is the best crowd match. Fenix handles the extended work, selling for Dominik and Americano until Rey Mysterio can enter as the hottest possible tag. Every tease of Rey versus Dominik creates an immediate spike in noise, and Dominik repeatedly delays giving the audience what it wants because he understands that refusing to wrestle can be more effective heel work than wrestling.

The finishing stretch layers family history and lucha tropes together. Dominik tries to unmask Rey, Americano prepares the loaded mask, Penta arrives to neutralize the weapon, Fenix takes Americano out and Rey lands the 619 and follow-up for the pin on his son. POST Wrestling says the building went nuclear for Rey-Dominik and recommends the match. PWTorch calls it spectacular and a great ending to a great show. Hall gives it B, while Meltzer's reproduced rating is 4.5 stars. WrestleFile goes A / 9.4 because this is professional wrestling using crowd anticipation as a move. The Penta interference costs it a few tenths, but not the memory of Guadalajara trying to boo Dominik into another postal code.