AAA Fusión Championship
Professional wrestling championship
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The AAA Fusión Championship ("Campeonato AAA Fusión" in Spanish) was a professional wrestling championship promoted by the AAA promotion in Mexico.[3] The first champion was crowned on March 17, 2013, when Fénix won a tournament for the title. On August 17, 2014, the title was unified with the AAA Cruiserweight Championship.
| AAA Fusión Championship Campeonato AAA Fusión | |||||||||||||||||
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Fénix, the inaugural AAA Fusión Champion posing with the title belt | |||||||||||||||||
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| Promotion | AAA | ||||||||||||||||
| Date established | November 3, 2012[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date retired | August 17, 2014[2] | ||||||||||||||||
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The championship was generally contested in professional wrestling matches, in which participants execute scripted finishes rather than contend in direct competition.
History
In late 2012, AAA introduced a new television program, titled AAA Fusión, which would start airing alongside the promotion's primary television program, Sin Límite. The first show was taped on September 30, 2012.[4] The following November, AAA started a tournament to determine the inaugural AAA Fusión Champion.[1] On April 23, 2013, AAA split its entire roster into two brands; AAA Evolución and AAA Fusión, with the AAA Fusión Championship becoming exclusive to the latter.[5][6] On June 27, 2014, AAA announced that the AAA Fusión Championship and the AAA Cruiserweight Championship would be unified on August 17 at Triplemanía XXII.[7] El Hijo del Fantasma won the ten-way elimination match to unify the two titles into the new "AAA World Cruiserweight Championship".[2][8]
Inaugural championship tournament
This single-elimination tournament was for the inaugural [AAA Fusión Champion. The tournament began on the November 14, 2012 episode of Fusion (taped on November 3, 2012) and culminated at Fusion: Rey de Reyes on March 17, 2013 (aired on April 4). The tournament featured 16 participants and two rounds. Each round consisted of four-way elimination matches. The tournament winner and inaugural champion was Fénix.
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Title history
| No. | Overall reign number |
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| Reign | Reign number for the specific champion |
| Days | Number of days held |
| <1 | Reign lasted less than a day |
| No. | Champion | Championship change | Reign statistics | Notes | Ref. | |||||
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| Date | Event | Location | Reign | Days | ||||||
| Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) | ||||||||||
| 1 | Fénix | March 17, 2013 | Rey de Reyes (2013) | Monterrey, Nuevo León | 1 | 518 | Fénix defeated Crazy Boy, Daga and Juventud Guerrera in a four-way elimination tournament final to become the inaugural champion. This episode aired on tape delay on April 4, 2013. | [12] | ||
| 2 | El Hijo del Fantasma | August 17, 2014 | Triplemanía XXII | Mexico City | 1 | <1 | This was a ten-way elimination match, also contested for the AAA Cruiserweight Championship and involving Angélico, Australian Suicide, Bengala, Daga, Drago, Jack Evans, Joe Líder and Pentagón Jr. | [13] | ||
| — | Deactivated | August 17, 2014 | Triplemanía XXII | Mexico City | — | — | Title unified with the AAA Cruiserweight Championship to create the "AAA World Cruiserweight Championship". | [2] | ||