AAA Rey de Reyes 2026 Part 3 – Review

By Niz on 29 March 2026

In case you missed the first two parts of Rey de Reyes 2026, here they are: Part One | Part Two

Tonight’s 29th annual Rey de Reyes comes to Youtube from the Auditorio GNP Seguros in Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico. The American announcing team are Corey Graves, Rey Mysterio and JBL. This is the finale of the big show, so let’s watch some lucha libre!

Then, Now, Together….FOREVER

There’s a long video package highlighting tonight’s card to open the show. Graves welcomes us to the event and runs down the card which includes a four-way for the Cruiserweight title, a grudge match between Abismo Negro and El Fiscal, and El Hijo Del Vikingo calling out Penta.

AAA World Cruiserweight Championship: Laredo Kid (C) vs Jack Cartwheel vs TJ Perkins vs Dragon Lee

There’s a huge rush at the beginning and Lee and Cartwheel hit dropkicks on Laredo and Perkins on the floor. Perkins sends Carthweel into the steps and Laredo hits a tope to the outside on Perkins. Cartwheel hits a moonsault on Laredo and Perkins, and then Lee’s attempt at a tope is cut off by Perkins. Cartwheel hits a top rope dropkick on Perkins and slips a Lee charge before popping him with a double kick. Laredo smashes Cartwheel in a corner, but turns into an immediate Lee superkick. Cartwheel hits a neckbreaker on Lee but turns and gets walloped with a Laredo Michinoku Driver. Laredo hits a second rope torneo moonsault and covers Cartwheel but Lee breaks the cover up with a double stomp at one. Lee covers Laredo and gets two.

Lee and Laredo start slugging it out and Lee snaps off a German that gets two. Perkins breaks that up and stomps away at Lee and Laredo. Perkins snatches Lee and Laredo into a double submission hold so Cartwheel calmly wades in and smashes Perkins with a right to break it up. Perkins rakes Cartwheel’s eyes to cut off his flurry and then flips Cartwheel over onto Lee and Laredo. Perkins bullies Cartwheel in a corner and then crushes him with a running knee strike. Cartwheel rises and smashes a charging Perkins with a kick and then hoists a charging Laredo for a Death Valley Driver onto the prone Perkins. Lee dumps Cartwheel to the apron where he lands feet-first on Perkins, but Cartwheel trips up Lee before walloping him with a capoeira kick and a springboard splash. Laredo pops a charging Cartwheel with a right and then sticks him with a destroyer-style DDT. Perkins comes back in to dump Laredo with a side suplex but he runs right into a Lee sit-out powerbomb that gets two.

All four are down as we reset. Laredo boots Perkins to the floor before getting dumped himself by Lee. Cartwheel avoids the same fate and waffles Lee with a dropkick that sends him to the floor. Cartwheel hits a handspring tope con hilo on the other three competitors before sending Lee back in. Cartwheel ascends but Perkins drops him before he can do anything further. Perkins gets dumped by Laredo who then punches Cartwheel a bunch of times. Lee sneaks in and he and Perkins combine to hit a top rope powerbomb on Laredo. Perkins grabs a cover that gets two but Lee breaks it up with a double stomp on Perkins back. Lee and Perkins go nose-to-nose and Lee ends their standoff with a leaping knee strike. Perkins hits a detonation kick on Lee but eats an immediate Cartwheel moonsault. Lee catches Cartwheel and pulls him into a Styles Clash that lands on a prone Perkins. Lee’s cover is broken up at two by a charging Laredo.

Lee and Laredo start fighting it out and Laredo ends up walloping Lee with the Destroyer DDT. Lee basically no-sells it and mashes Laredo with a running knee strike. Lee kicks Laredo a couple of times and then ascends but Laredo catches him with a kaman giri. Laredo goes up but gets snatched off by Cartwheel for a second rope springboard powerbomb. Lee prevents a top rope Cartwheel move and then mashes Cartwheel with a double stomp from the top. Lee hits Operation Dragon on Cartwheel and gets two but his cover is broken up by a Perkins splash and Perkins covers the prone Cartwheel for two. Laredo breaks that up and we reset again.

Perkins and Laredo slug it out and Perkins gets sent to the floor by stereo superkicks from Laredo and Lee. Lee hits a double stomp on Laredo after a sunset flip attempt. Lee yanks off his elbow pad and nails Cartwheel with a big running elbow strike. Lee hits a snap German on a charging Laredo and then mashes Cartwheel with a huge tope con hilo while appearing to injure his knee. Perkins tries a belt strike on Laredo but misses, so he calmly rolls Laredo up while grabbing the ropes and that gets two. Laredo snaps off a poison rana on Perkins. Laredo wallops Perkins with a running forearm and then yanks Perkins into a Ninja stomp that gets three.

Lucha cruiserweight action hits differently. Now, to be clear, no one really sells until they need to reset things and then suddenly everyone is exhausted. This is fine because it allows the crowd to breathe for a minute before they resume the spots – the difference between this and the current American scene is that our companies tend to never take those reset moments. Laredo is a game champion and everyone worked really hard here. Mysterio and JBL were very complimentary of Cartwheel and you can see that he has a major future with his athleticism. Lee is a pro’s pro but cannot seem to win the big one anymore. Perkins is an old hand and takes bumps like a champ. This was fun, maybe a bit long, but everyone got their stuff in and the crowd loved it. 4*

Winner and STILL AAA Cruiserweight Champion – Laredo Kid (Ninja stomp on Perkins)

Post-match sees Rey Fenix enter to hold up Laredo’s hand. Laredo seems to not like that and they go nose-to-nose as Mysterio claims that Fenix is calling “next”.

Las Toxicas are in their dressing room and La Hiedra hypes up Flammer for being the longest reigning Reina de Reinas champion in AAA history. They run down the list of folks that Flammer has beaten and she will have a celebration April 11th.

Here’s a highlights package that shows the long history between El Fiscal and Abismo Negro. Fiscal is the son of the original Abismo Negro, and this Abismo was granted the name by the original. Fiscal disputes that and thinks this Abismo, as part of Los Vipers, stinks on ice. Let’s start fighting!

Abismo Negro vs El Fiscal

Fiscal attacks Negro in the aisle before the bell, and then we go into the ring as the bell sounds. Fiscal hits a tope suicida and then slugs away. Fiscal hits some running lariats and some right hands. Fiscal hits a reverse thrust kick and a clothesline before slugging away. Fiscal hits a reverse elbow and Abismo finally gets some offense with a dropkick. Abismo covers and gets two. Abismo goes to ground and pound before yanking Fiscal up. Abismo chops away but Fiscal hits a kick and a dropkick before running into an Abismo clothesline. Abismo pulls at the mask while clubbering away at Fiscal’s chest. Abismo puts on a sleeper of sorts but Fiscal rises and starts firing off elbows. Abismo clubbers away some more and then mounts Fiscal in a corner for some disrespectful slaps. Abismo misses a charge and eats a Fiscal chop, and then Fiscal fires up and bullies Abismo into a corner. Fiscal slugs Abismo in the head and then hoists him up, but Abismo slips off and rams Fiscal into a corner. Absimo yanks up Fiscal but Fiscal reverses to a roll up and gets three!

So this did NOT go at the pace of the cruiser match and was pretty much just a clubbering war of attrition. Fiscal is on a revenge tour and finally seemed to get one over on Abismo, but then the post-match stuff seemed to indicate that we’re definitely not done seeing these two go to war. Not as much heat to this as I was expecting but perhaps they’re building things up for another apuestas type situation. We’ll see what unfolds. 2.5*

Winner – El Fiscal (Roll up)

Post-match sees Abismo clobber the victorious Fiscal with a rear clothesline before dumping him to the floor. Abismo runs Fiscal into the ring steps before clearing off the announce table. Abismo yanks up Fiscal for some more clubbering blows, and then pulls Fiscal up for a tombstone piledriver on the announce table. Fiscal leaves on a backboard as Abismo celebrates in the ring.

Graves runs down next week’s card that will see El Mesias return to action and a title defense for Flammer.

El Ojo make their way to ringside lead by El Hijo Del Vikingo. Dorian Roldan and Omos flank Vikingo who looks as grumpy as ever. Roldan grabs a mic and asks for the crowd to shut up and let him talk. Roldan says he didn’t expect much from the crowd today and Puebla has not given the respect due to Vikingo. Roldan says Vikingo has been betrayed by everyone and Vikingo is still the best pound-for-pound wrestler in the world. Vikingo takes the mic and addresses Mini-Vikingo telling him he has no idea what he’s done. Vikingo tells Mini-Vikingo that he should buy his mom a lot of tissues because this time he’s not sending MV to the hospital, he’s sending him to the morgue. Vikingo calls the crowd ignorant and says he’s going to leave to go to Wrestlemania. Vikingo is going after the Intercontinental title and wants Penta to come out right now. Here’s WWE Men’s Intercontinental Champion Penta out to a huge ovation. Penta barks at Omos before grabbing a microphone. Penta puts the stink-mouth on Roldan and says that Vikingo needs to learn how to pronounce the word Intercontinental first. Penta tells Vikingo that everyone in Puebla hates Vikingo and Vikingo needs to learn some respect. Penta says when he left AAA Vikingo was fighting for a spot and now he thinks he’s big time. Penta promises to bust Vikingo open and says he can have the title match. Vikingo wants the match for April 11th in Mexico City and Penta agrees. Penta does the Zero Fear walk and pushes Vikingo away, and then holds the IC title in front of Omos’s face.

Graves announces that the match is official, Penta continues yelling as El Ojo leave, the credits roll and we’re out.

What a fun show Rey de Reyes was in it’s entirety. Tonight’s show had a wonderful Cruiserweight title match and a solid brawl between Abismo and Fiscal. I thought that the Vikingo-Penta match was happening at Wrestlemania but apparently they will have it in Mexico City on the 11th – so perhaps a rematch at WM? Penta doesn’t really have a program right now in WWE with Dom Mysterio dealing with Finn Balor, so I guess we’ll see how all of this intrigue around the IC title unfolds. Thumbs up as usual for this gem of a show.

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