‘Lucha Underground’ captures diverse L.A. in a wrestling ring, with tights and melodrama

*Cool read. “Latino culture is very pop culture now,” it says. It’s about time, I say. VL By Jeffrey Flaishman, The Los Angeles Times Across the Los Angeles River, in […]

By Paul Feine & Alex Manning, Reason.com The professional wrestlers squaring off in Watsonville, California are unlike any you’d find on a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) bill. In one corner, there’s “el Patron […]

By EFE/La Prensa Mexico City, Sep 15 (EFE).- Professional wrestling, considered entertainment by some and a national sport by others, continues to fill arenas eight decades after arriving in Mexico, […]

By Kevin Gordon, New York Times A year ago, I stumbled across a Pro Wrestling Revolution show in the Mission District of San Francisco and soon found myself standing up […]

By Hispanically Speaking News This graphics segment is featured in “Tales of Masked Men,” a new PBS documentary about Lucha Libre. The film was directed and produced by Carlos Avila. This […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco The folks at Lucha Libre USA may be on to something. Actually, that’s an understatement, they’ve been on to something for years. All you need to do […]

The words Mexican wrestling conjure up images of masked burly men, performing acrobatic-like stunts, taking down their opponents in the most theatrical of styles while unabashedly flaunting their masculinity. Take […]

In a feel good story by The Washington Post, we learn that lucha libre wrestlers in the Washington, D.C. area have purposefully left out narcocultura from their repertoire. The story […]

This is what happens when they don’t get it. Seattlepi.com posted a story about lucha libre that was done in Phoenix by the Associated Press. None of it is unusual. […]