AAA Reina de Reinas Championship | 24 October 2026 | Gimnasio Olímpico Juan de la Barrera, Mexico City
There was a moment during the AAA Reina de Reinas Championship match at Héroes Inmortales XVIII when Flammer appeared to have regained the title she had held for an extraordinary 1,128 days. La Catalina was down, Flammer had delivered a particularly unpleasant double-footed kick, and the former champion was covering her for what looked like a certain three-count.
Then La Hiedra dragged her off.
Not because Catalina had kicked out. Not because the referee had spotted an infringement. Simply because La Hiedra fancied winning the championship herself.
Three years of friendship, reduced to a disagreement over who was entitled to pin somebody.
It was the moment this match had been building towards, although I couldn’t help feeling that the eventual breakdown between Las Tóxicas deserved a little more time to develop.
Still, for just under eight minutes, La Catalina, Flammer and La Hiedra delivered an entertaining Triple Threat that mixed some genuinely good wrestling with the increasingly familiar problem of friends discovering they both want the same thing.
AAA Wrestling’s New Presentation Makes the Story Matter
One thing I’ve particularly enjoyed about AAA since WWE took control is the improvement in its presentation, especially the pre-match video packages.
WWE understands that not everybody watching a pay-per-view has religiously followed every weekly programme, backstage confrontation and increasingly convoluted personal grievance leading up to it.
Some people just want to watch a wrestling match.
I’m one of them, at least when it comes to AAA. I’ll watch the major events and individual matches that interest me, but I’m not necessarily following every development between shows.
The extensive recap before this match was therefore genuinely useful.
I’d already seen Flammer and La Hiedra experiencing problems during Worlds Collide, but the video package explained how their relationship had deteriorated since then, and particularly how La Catalina had encouraged the disagreement.
After defeating Flammer at Triplemanía 34 to end her remarkable 1,128-day championship reign, Catalina had found a rather effective way of getting under the skin of Las Tóxicas.
She pointed out that Flammer had held the Reina de Reinas Championship for more than three years without once giving her supposed friend La Hiedra an opportunity to challenge for it.
Not once.
Which raises a reasonable question about the legitimacy of their friendship.
It’s a wonderful bit of psychological warfare because Catalina didn’t need to invent anything. She simply highlighted a fairly obvious injustice that La Hiedra had apparently been happy to ignore.
It was the wrestling equivalent of somebody pointing out that your best friend has been borrowing money for three years without ever buying you a pint.
Suddenly, you’re reconsidering the entire relationship.
The resulting disagreements eventually brought both women into contention for the championship, leading to this Triple Threat at Héroes Inmortales XVIII.
Las Tóxicas Arrive Together, Although Nobody Looks Particularly Happy
Flammer and La Hiedra made their entrance together, but there was something noticeably frosty about the whole affair.
They were still teammates, technically. They still belonged to Las Tóxicas. Yet their body language suggested two colleagues who’d been told by management to put aside their differences for an important presentation.
The tension continued as the match began, with some initial arguing between the challengers.
Then, almost surprisingly, they remembered they had a common enemy.
La Catalina.
Rather than immediately turn on each other, Flammer and La Hiedra began working together to isolate the champion, using their numerical advantage to keep her under pressure.
One particularly unpleasant spot involved both women grabbing one of Catalina’s legs and dragging her towards the corner, forcing her crotch into the ring post.
It’s a fairly rudimentary manoeuvre, but effective in the way that most wrestling moves involving somebody’s sensitive areas tend to be.
Catalina briefly recovered with a lovely headscissors that somehow managed to ground both opponents, before delivering a neat suplex to La Hiedra.
She then climbed towards the turnbuckle, preparing for a diving attack, only for Flammer to return from outside the ring and shove her off.
Just like that, Las Tóxicas were back in control.
And, crucially, they were still cooperating.
Lime Green, Tiger Print and an Electric Chair Crossbody
Before getting too far into the wrestling, it’s worth acknowledging how good everybody looked.
La Hiedra’s luminous lime-green wrestling gear was particularly striking, contrasting beautifully with La Catalina’s black-and-pink attire.
Flammer, meanwhile, arrived wearing tiger print and golden boots, which is precisely the sort of visual commitment I appreciate from professional wrestlers.
There’s something wonderfully excessive about lucha libre presentation. Everybody looks as though they’ve been designed for their own action figure, and nobody seems particularly embarrassed about it.
The colourful presentation complemented some excellent teamwork from Las Tóxicas.
One of the match’s standout sequences saw La Hiedra lift Catalina onto her shoulders in an electric chair position while Flammer climbed to the top rope.
Flammer then launched herself into a crossbody, connecting with Catalina while Hiedra held her in place.
A lovely double-team move.
It also seemed like the perfect opportunity for their alliance to collapse.
After all, if two wrestlers simultaneously incapacitate the champion, which one gets to cover her?
You could almost imagine the argument beginning before Catalina had even landed.
But no. Not yet.
Instead, Las Tóxicas continued working together, dragging Catalina into the corner and unloading with some genuinely hard strikes.
Every time the champion managed to produce a little offence, one of her opponents was available to neutralise it.
The match was doing an effective job of establishing that Flammer and La Hiedra remained dangerous together, despite the obvious problems in their relationship.
La Catalina Finds Some Momentum, and Rey Mysterio Finds His Commentary Voice
As the match progressed, the first small mistakes began appearing.
Both members of Las Tóxicas attempted rushing attacks into the corner, only for Catalina to avoid them.
Nothing particularly disastrous, but enough to suggest their coordination wasn’t quite as flawless as it had initially appeared.
Catalina started finding more opportunities to fight back, forcing the challengers to react rather than simply dictate proceedings.
Meanwhile, I found myself increasingly impressed by Rey Mysterio on commentary.
He has a properly cool voice for the role, offering useful observations without sounding like somebody desperately trying to prove they understand professional wrestling.
Some wrestlers struggle when handed a headset. They either spend the entire match repeating what’s happening in front of us or become so preoccupied with their own catchphrases that they forget they’re supposed to be providing insight.
Mysterio doesn’t have that problem.
He sounds comfortable, knowledgeable and genuinely interested in what’s happening.
Admittedly, spending more than three decades in professional wrestling probably helps.
Alongside JBL, he provided an entertaining soundtrack to the match, particularly as the action became more physical.
La Hiedra was eventually sent outside, leaving Catalina and Flammer to continue their increasingly aggressive exchange.
Flammer managed to position Catalina against the bottom rope.
Then came the double-footed kick.
Ouch.
It looked absolutely wicked, with Flammer driving both feet into the champion while she was vulnerable against the ropes.
JBL responded with an emphatic “Good grief!” while Mysterio offered a slightly more instinctive “Oh my God!”
Both seemed appropriate.
And then Flammer went for the cover.
La Hiedra Costs Flammer the Reina de Reinas Championship
This should have been it.
Flammer had delivered a brutal attack, Catalina was down, and the former champion looked ready to reclaim her championship.
Then La Hiedra intervened.
She dragged Flammer away from the cover and attempted to pin Catalina herself.
It was wonderfully selfish.
Flammer, understandably unimpressed, returned the favour and interrupted Hiedra’s attempted pin.
The two women then found themselves arguing outside the ring.
Finally, the rivalry that had been bubbling beneath the surface was threatening to become something more substantial.
And I wanted more of it.
Up to this point, the match had been built around the idea that Las Tóxicas’ friendship was deteriorating. We’d seen them cooperate, we’d seen minor mistakes, and now we’d witnessed both women actively prevent the other from winning.
It felt like the perfect moment for them to properly throw down.
A shove. A slap. Perhaps a full-blown fight between two people who’ve spent years pretending they’re perfectly happy with their arrangement.
Instead, the disagreement was relatively brief.
Flammer returned to the ring, and the match moved towards its conclusion.
I appreciate that wrestling storylines need somewhere to go, and AAA presumably has further plans for the faction, but this was the moment I’d been waiting for.
The actual wrestling was good. The storytelling was sensible.
I just wanted the argument to become a little nastier.
Lady Maravilla’s Championship Belt Plan Goes Wrong
With Catalina still fighting to retain her title, the third member of Las Tóxicas, Lady Maravilla, decided to intervene.
She grabbed the Reina de Reinas Championship belt and handed it to La Hiedra, apparently intending for her to use it as a weapon against Catalina.
A straightforward enough plan, although perhaps not the wisest decision when the two challengers were already struggling to distinguish between teamwork and personal ambition.
Hiedra prepared to strike Catalina with the championship.
Catalina moved.
And suddenly Flammer was standing directly in the path of the belt.
The two members of Las Tóxicas stopped just before the collision, narrowly avoiding the sort of accidental attack that would have made their friendship considerably more difficult to repair.
Catalina took advantage of the confusion.
She knocked her opponents down, isolated Flammer and delivered the decisive kick to secure the pinfall.
La Catalina retained the AAA Reina de Reinas Championship.
And that was that.
I found the finish a little rushed, particularly after the match had spent so much time carefully establishing the tension between Flammer and La Hiedra.
The attempted belt attack was a perfectly reasonable way to bring the contest towards its conclusion, but the final sequence didn’t quite have the impact I wanted.
After all the teasing, the disagreements and the repeated suggestions that Las Tóxicas were about to implode, the ending felt relatively straightforward.
Not bad.
Just a little underwhelming.
AAA Wrestling Match Card and Result: Héroes Inmortales XVIII
Is La Catalina in WWE?
La Catalina competed within WWE’s developmental system, including NXT, as well as still making regular appearances in AAA.
She subsequently established herself in Mexican wrestling and became AAA Reina de Reinas Champion after defeating Flammer at Triplemanía 34 in 2026.
Where Is La Catalina From?
La Catalina is from Chile and is one of the country’s internationally recognised female professional wrestlers.
Her career has taken her through WWE’s developmental system and Mexican lucha libre, where she has become a prominent figure in AAA’s women’s division.
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La Catalina Retains, but Las Tóxicas Still Have Some Unfinished Business
The wrestling was good, particularly the double-team offence from Las Tóxicas, Catalina’s counters and that wicked double-footed kick from Flammer.
I also appreciated how the match built on the rivalry established in the pre-match video package. Flammer and La Hiedra were still capable of cooperating, but their personal ambitions were beginning to interfere with their collective success.
That’s a believable story, even in a sport where people regularly settle workplace disagreements by hitting each other with furniture.
My biggest criticism is that I wanted more of the breakdown between Flammer and La Hiedra.
They teased it effectively, especially when both interrupted the other’s pinfall attempt, but I never felt we got the full confrontation the storyline seemed to promise.
Perhaps that’s deliberate. Perhaps AAA is saving their proper falling-out for another show.
The finish also came a little too quickly for my liking, with Catalina’s winning sequence lacking some of the impact of the earlier exchanges.
Nevertheless, this was an entertaining championship defence that gave Catalina another credible victory while keeping the problems within Las Tóxicas unresolved.
Flammer has now failed to regain the title she held for 1,128 days, La Hiedra has been reminded that her friend doesn’t particularly enjoy sharing, and Catalina can continue watching the two argue from the comfort of the championship throne.
Which is a perfectly reasonable outcome for everyone except Las Tóxicas.
