El Hijo Del Vikingo is due to make his third defense of the AAA Mega Championship against three challengers at TripleManía, with WWE’s Dragon Lee, Dominik Mysterio, and one of the El Grande Americanos challenging in a four-way. Vikingo became the champion in the lead-in to Worlds Collide, dethroning Alberto El Patron and defending the title on the event against Chad Gable. He has since defended the title once more over El Patron in a steel cage match, but then became the target of Mysterio’s bid for another singles title when he attacked him during July’s AAA Alianzas show, posing with both the AAA Mega and WWE Intercontinental titles and putting the wheels in motion for some to visualize him as the eventual holder of the belt. 

Of course, the addition of two new competitors creates the scope for slips, spills, and an entirely different champion. But that hasn’t done much to dissuade the Wrestling Inc. staff from backing El Hijo Del Mysterio to walk away with the title his father never had a chance to hold. 

55% of the vote went the way of Mysterio, 27% backed Vikingo to retain the title, and a respective 9% had either Lee or El Grande Americano to claim the belt on the night. In the latter case, that would make for an interesting situation, considering four different wrestlers have donned the Americano mask since the character debuted, and the one due to compete at TripleManía is not the original iteration but rather a stand-in (Ludwig Kaiser). There’s been speculation for some time now that Mysterio could become AAA Mega Champion, and while the fact that he’s still WWE Intercontinental Champion might make it less likely, a narrow majority of the WINC staff still sees Dirty Dom becoming the face of AAA.

Written by Max Everett