It’s a history-making night in Edinburg, Texas! AAA and NXT share the day for a double-event in the same building today with AAA taking the lead. Penta, Rey Fenix and Dragon Lee team up to take on Los Perros del Mal in a 6-man tag match! Los Americanos are the #1 contenders for the AAA Tag Team Titles held by The War Raiders! There will be a gauntlet match for the luchadoras to determine a #1 contender for Flammer’s AAA Reina de Reinas Title at Triplemanía 34! We will crown a new champion for the vacant AAA Latin American Championship in a fatal 4-way match! Also, El Grande Americano and the AAA Mega Champion “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio will have a contract signing ahead of their title match at Triplemanía 34. Join us for the live recap of AAA Ola de Calor as the show is streamed live on Sunday, August 30th at 12 PM ET/9 AM PT on WWE’s YouTube channel and on Fox in Mexico and Latin America. Hit F5 or refresh as often as you like for the latest updates!
The show opens with a video package to hype up the show taking place in Edinburg, Texas for AAA’s version of Heatwave called Ola de Calor! We get shots of superstar arrivals for Rey Fenix, Dragon Lee, Penta, El Grande Americano, and the AAA Mega Champion “Dirty” Dominik Mysterio. Dorian Roldan tells Dominik that he will speak to AAA General Manager Rey Mysterio and tells him to not say anything. Dom gets on his phone to tell someone on the other line to “go with Plan B.” Corey Graves, JBL and Rey Mysterio are on the English commentary, and we start off with an 8-man tag team match! Gary Wilson will be the referee.
* Cruz Del Toro, Joaquin Wilde, Mini Abismo & Lince Dorado vs. Axiom, Mascarita Sangrada, Noisy Boy & Mr. Iguana
Wilde and Axiom will start the match for their teams. Axiom counters an arm wrench, Wilde gets a 1-count, Axiom with a middle rope diving armdrag followed by a dropklick, but Del Toro kicks him in the back and Wilde clotheslines him. Del Toro tags in, Axiom lands on his feet, side-steps Wilde, Noisy Boy tags in, superkicks Del Toro, hits a springboard headscissors, and a handspring fake-out. Del Toro dropkicks him in the back from a distraction and the crowd boos him. Lince Dorado tags in, Noisy Boy avoids him, and tags out. Mascarita Sangrada is not afraid of Lince, kicks him low after a military press, and crawls to tag out. Mr. Iguana takes out Lince with a springboard armdrag and gets a big applause, but he gets attacked by his opponents. Mini Abismo dives onto the whole team, Wilde with a plancha out to them as well, Del Toro gets in a tope suicida, and Lince hits an Asai loonsault!
Lince throws Iguana back into the ring, stomps on him, rakes his back, Wilde tags in, clotheslines him in the corner, Del Toro tags in for a gamengiri, Wilde tags back in for a double running vertical suplex, and covers for a 2-count. Mini tags in, hits a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker, tosses him up for a faceplant, Lince tags in, knocks Sangrada off the apron, hits Iguana with a legdrop, Iguana comes back with an armdrag, and Lince clotheslines him for 2. Lince hits a backstabber, drags him into position, goes up top, Iguana avoids the shooting star press, Del Toro tags in, pulls him away, and Iguana hits an enzuigiri to break free.
Sangrada gets the hot tag, dropkicks Del Toro, enzuigiri, ducks a diving Wilde, and delivers a vertical suplex! Sangrada hits Dorado with a springboard headbutt, shoulder block to Mini Abismo, but Sangrada counters with a headscissors crucifix. Axiom guts Wilde with a suicide dive, Lince catches Noisy Boy, but he counters into a poison ‘rana, then hits a corkscrew moonsault onto LWO on the floor! Sangrada hits Mini Abismo with a diving tijeras, goes around the world with a revolution headscissors, goes up top and hits a diving cannonball! Del Toro hits a springboard dropkick to Iguana, missing the phoenix splash to an empty ring but he rolls through, Iguana side-steps him, smacks him with La Yesca, hits Pongase Verde, and covers for 3!! WINNER: TEAM MR. IGUANA!!
We get a promo video for WWE/NXT/AAA Worlds Collide taking place in Chicago on Saturday, September 26th. CM Punk is in the video putting on his Straight Edge Society mask! We also get a promo video for WWE Survivor Series taking place in Houston on Saturday, November 21st.
AAA Reina de Reinas Champion Flammer heads out to sit at ringside for the next match, where she will learn who her #1 contender will be for AAA Triplemanía 34. Felix Fernandez is the referee for this match. Rey Mysterio has stepped out of commentary to handle GM business.
* #1 Contender’s Gauntlet Match for Reina de Reina’s Title
The first entrant for the gauntlet match is Adelicious, followed by the second entrant Lady Shani. Both women do some chain wrestling to start out, Shani hits a shoulder block, gator roll, Adelicious with a Matrix bend into a head scissors, kips up, Shani with a head scissors schoolgirl roll-up for 2, Shani side-steps her, and kicks her in the back. Adelicious ducks a head kick, kips up, Shani hits the backstabber, kicks her down in a corner, hits the running facewash, and covers for 1. Adelicious reverses the Irish whip into a corner, clotheslines her, does a triple flip into a shoulder thrust, and a cartwheel dropkick into the ribs. Adelicious goes up top, Shani avoids the 450 splash, Adelicious flips through the landing, Shani counters a sunset flip, rolls her around the ring like a tumbleweed, and gets the 3-count! (Adelicious is eliminated.)
NXT’s Thea Hail is the next entrant out! Thea with an armdrag, Shani sends her onto the apron, Thea kicks her in the head, dropkicks her, covers for 1, Thea with an arm wringer, works over the left shoulder, and gets a 2-count. Thea does a head scissors, hits a low-rope suicide dive, throws her back in, covers for 2, Shani trips her, hits a basement dropkick, and gets a near-fall. Shani blocks a headscissors, drops her for a 2-count, then puts her in the Boston crab and grabs the arms for a swinging submission. Shani goes for the cross armbreaker, Thea escapes, gets to her feet with Shani on her back, backs her into a corner, gets on the top, Shani cuts her off, Thea blocks the Iconoclasm, and locks in the armbar over the ropes releasing at 4. Shani catches her with the sunset flip, rolls through to the tumbleweed again, but Thea counters the cover for 3! (Lady Shani is eliminated.)
La Catalina is the next entrant to the ring. Catalina kicks Thea in the head, goes up top, hits the missile dropkick, hits a hip attack into the bottom turnbuckle, delivers the fisherman’s suplex, drops her on the middle rope, Thea avoids the hit attack, kicks her in the back, and a kneedrop onto the left arm. Thea works over the arm, covers for 2, Irish whip to the corner, Thea with a corner splash, superkicks her hand trapped in the turnbuckle pad, covers for 2, then puts her in the armbar and continues to work over the arm. Thea hammerlocks the arm sending her into the turnbuckles, but Catalina battles back, hits a diving crossbody from the middle ropes, hits the knee strike to the back, Thea counters the electric chair, attacks the arm again, Catalina counters the Kimura Lock by backing her into a corner. Thea pops back on for the Kimura Lock, Catalina counters with the jackknife pin, and gets the 3-count!
BUT WAIT – the match isn’t over, La Hiedra is on her way out to compete! Flammer gets up out of her seat as her Las Toxicas stablemate heads out to try to be her #1 contender! Hiedra tosses aside her AAA Mixed Tag Team Championship, dropkicks Catalina, drops her on the ropes, mounted punches, hits a shoulder tackle, and covers for 2. Hiedra attacks Catalina’s arm, sends her down in a corner, and Flammer is still wondering what’s going on. La Hiedra continues the attack at a slower pace, Catalina fights back, hits a running dropkick, diving crossbody from the middle ropes to the floor, tosses her back into the ring, hotshot on the top rope, goes up to the top rope, but Hiedra cuts her off and pulls her down. Catalina counters with a victory roll, Hiedra kicks her, hits a double-chickenwing facebuster, and covers for 2. Hiedra grabs her championship, referee Felix grabs it from her, Catalina with a rollup for 2, Flammer gets in the ring behind the ref’s back, but Catalina ducks and Flammer accidentally hits Hiedra in the head with her Reina de Reinas Championship! Catalina tosses Flammer out the ring, hits Hiedra with the hip attack in the ropes, connects with the running single knee strike, and gets the 3-count!! WINNER and #1 Contender: LA CATALINA!
La Cataina just earned the opportunity to challenge Flammer for her Reina de Reinas Title at AAA Triplemanía 34!! Was La Hiedra being in the match just a ploy to stop La Catalina, or was she really trying to go for her friend’s championship? Either way, her plan failed.
It’s time for the first title match of the afternoon! Derek Sanders is the ref assigned to the match.
* AAA World Tag Team Championship: Los Americanos vs. The War Raiders {C}
Rayo and Erik will start the match for their respective teams. Rayo gets a side headlock, Erik hits a shoulder tackle, Rayo leapfrogs over him, hits a dropkick, Bravo tags in, they both headbutt Erik, and they hit the Spin Cycle. Bravo covers for a 1-count, Erik drives him to his corner, Ivar tags in with some punches, Erik tags back in for a body blow, Bravo jabs with the left, uppercuts with the right, Erik tosses him over the ropes, Rayo tagged himself in, and they pull him into the ringpost spread eagle. Ivar causes a distraction, Erik takes advantage, Ivar tags in, the champs beat him down, Rayo tries to fight back but Ivar overpowers him. Ivar clubs him on the chest over the ropes, Rayo chops him, shoulder to the midsection, sunset flip blocked, he avoids being sat on, Erik tags in, and the knock Bravo off the apron, Rayo starts swinging but he’s outnumbered, Erik hits a big knee to the jaw, and covers for 2. Bravo is back on the apron, Erik puts him in a chinlock, Rayo breaks out, fights off both men, Erik catches him, Rayo lands on his feet, knocks Ivar down, ducks Erik and makes the hot tag!
Bravo with rights and lefts to Erik, hits a flying clothesline, springboard dropkick to Ivar, carries Erik for a swinging body slam, kicks Ivar from the apron, and hits Erik with a diving crossbody! Ivar tags in, Bravo cuts him off on the ropes, climbs up for a hurricanrana off the top, dives onto Erik on the outside as Rayo tags in, goes up top, and hits a swanton bomb for a near-fall. Bravo gets the tag again, Ivar hits Rayo with a short-arm clothesline, Bravo leaps over him, Ivar hits the spinning leg lariat, Erik tags in with a full nelson slam onto his knee to Rayo, Ivar splashes Bravo in a corner, then Erik lifts Ivar to the hip attack and covers for 2! Ivar tags back in, Bravo counters Ragnarok, Rayo does a blind-tag, and Bravo gives Ivar a tornado DDT. Rayo hits the Joint Manipulation to Erik’s fingers, Bravo hits Bop & Bang, rebound lariat, Rayo superkicks Ivar, and they hit the double-team legsweep/springboard headbutt combo! Rayo covers, Erik breaks up the count with a knee strike, and all four men are down!
