Botched!: Special TripleMania Edition

Hi, hello & welcome to a very special edition of Botched! It isn’t often that I’ll dedicate an edition of this column to one show, but AAA’s TripleMania event brought me so much material that I had to call it a day afterwards. Maybe there was some funny stuff on Raw & SmackDown & Impact and whoever else, but nobody was going to top TripleMania for sheer hilarity.

1. Vampiro’s Greatest Moment : One of the kind souls at offtheteam.com deemed this the highlight of Vampiro’s career. I’m not so sure, I loved his Cero Miedo match with Pentagon Jr. at the first Ultima Lucha.

VAMPIRO FARTING SO LOUD YOU CAN HEAR IT THROUGH HIS HEAD-SET pic.twitter.com/I1XdvL2LfW

— forever botchamania (@Maffewgregg) August 27, 2018

I don’t know how we arrived at the conclusion that it had to be Vampiro’s fart instead of Matt Striker’s. OK, it’s because he said: “Something’s gonna happen”. We can’t accuse him of false advertising.

2. Vampiro wasn’t done.: No no. For whatever reason, we need Vampiro involved in angles in 2018, with Konnan of course because that’s what we do in AAA. That might be a botch in and of itself, but we’re focusing on the wonderful leadup to Vampiro addressing Konnan. This is NSFW by the way.

Vampiro yelling at the production people to play his music before he interferes while Striker furiously comes up with reasons why this is happening = MOTY 2018 pic.twitter.com/j9rTHvKrNA

— forever botchamania (@Maffewgregg) August 27, 2018

I always wondered why we need entrance music before run-ins. Like on Monday’s episode of Raw. I felt like Dean Ambrose & Seth Rollins would have done a better job of assisting Roman Reigns if they didn’t need their indivividual music before coming out. But apparently it’s a thing with today’s pro wrestler, and we have grizzled veterans like Vampiro to thank. I do actually have to give Striker credit for his ridiculous explanation.

But seriously, why do you need music when you’re entering from the announce booth?

3. There were some physical ones too.: Poor Drago got his arm landed on by Bandido.
https://twitter.com/BulletClubItal/status/1033543833626337281
He had one working arm at that point, and that got reduced to zero. Can’t win many matches with zero working arms.

4. Springboard fun: This is Shane Strickland trying to do a springboard move.

only thing better than Shane Strickland's reaction here is Vampiro replying to messages insulting him while this is happening

''you're asking if I'm going to last the whole night? what do you think? NO I'M NOT PISSED'' pic.twitter.com/2gCj5ARn8l

— forever botchamania (@Maffewgregg) August 27, 2018

I can tell that Australian Suicide & Sammy Guevara are involved. I’m not sure which one is which because white people all look the same.

5. Fenix dives onto Antonio Pena’s sister: The new AAA Mega Champion is Fenix, which is an outstanding choice because he’s an outstanding talent and you want him on your shows. His only issue is that sometimes he gets a little too excited.

HOLY SHIT, Fenix lands with a tope onto Marisela Peña #TriplemaniaXXVI #LuchaLibreAAA pic.twitter.com/dzUwhvpLwk

— Roy ⛧ (@narukiroy) August 26, 2018

His dive onto Jeff Jarrett wound up going into the first row and ended on top of Marisela Pena, the sister of the late AAA founder Antonio Pena. Jarrett really did nothing to help out here. Sometimes wrestlers try to catch divers. Jarrett had no part of that, which is part of the old school mentality. You missed? Well, you missed. That happened. Now we go another direction. The downside was that somebody important got wiped out.

Thanks for reading! If you see (or hear) anything wrong in the world of wrestling, let me know via Twitter or e-mail at [email protected]. Have a good weekend!