AAA Reina de Reinas Championship

The AAA Reina de Reinas Championship is the women’s singles championship of Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA). AAA introduced the title on February 19, 1999, through its Reina de Reinas tournament, a women’s counterpart to Rey de Reyes. The championship has kept the same official lineage since its creation.

The inaugural tournament took place at Gimnasio Miguel Hidalgo in Puebla and featured 16 wrestlers. AAA divided the field into four four-way opening matches, with one wrestler advancing from each to a four-way final later that night. 

Xóchitl Hamada, Miss Janeth, Rossy Moreno, and Esther Moreno won their respective qualifiers, and Hamada defeated the other three finalists to become the first AAA Reina de Reinas Champion.

For much of the championship’s first decade, AAA used Reina de Reinas to determine the champion but changed the tournament format from year to year. Different editions used cibernéticos, battle royals, multi-wrestler qualifying matches, and elimination finals to narrow the field.

The 2008 edition was the last annual tournament tied to the title, with Faby Apache defeating Mari Apache and Ayako Hamada in a three-way final after each had advanced from a five-way qualifying match.

By 2011, the championship was being defended independently of an annual Reina de Reinas tournament. Pimpinela Escarlata won the title that July in an eight-way elimination match at Verano de Escándalo, becoming the first male exótico wrestler to hold the championship.

Reina de Reinas returned as a tournament for an AAA event with Pro Wrestling WAVE at Korakuen Hall in Japan on November 27, 2012. Sexy Star entered as the reigning champion and advanced through the tournament before defeating Kaguya in the final. Because she already held the championship, AAA counted the tournament victory as a successful title defense rather than a new reign.

In 2017, Taya Valkyrie’s reign ended without a title match. She regained the championship from Ayako Hamada in April, but AAA stripped her of the title in July. Vampiro publicly cited an illegal chokehold used during the match, while contemporary reports also described a backstage dispute involving the physical championship belt. Taya disputed AAA’s decision and left the promotion.

AAA’s relationship with Impact Wrestling later brought the championship onto co-promoted and Impact events. Tessa Blanchard won the title at Triplemanía XXVII in August 2019, and Taya Valkyrie defeated her the following month at Invading NY, a co-promoted event in New York City.

That relationship continued in 2021 when Deonna Purrazzo, then the Impact Knockouts Champion, faced Faby Apache at Triplemanía XXIX with both championships at stake. 

Purrazzo retained the Knockouts Championship and won the Reina de Reinas Championship, with both titles continuing separately afterward. Taya Valkyrie later defeated Purrazzo for the Reina de Reinas Championship at Impact’s Rebellion event on April 23, 2022.