Author: Emmanuel Figueroa Rosado

In March of 2020, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) was schedule to present Homenaje a Dos Leyendas. The show features a big main event and a homage to the founder of CMLL, Salvador Lutteroth and a Lucha Libre legend. This year, Homenaje of Dos Leyendas was scheduled to honor Sangre Chicana. The Lucha Libre legend was part of the glory years in the 1970s of CMLL. He feuded with icons like El Canek and Fishman. With the latter, Sangre Chicana lost his famous golden mask. In CMLL, Sangre Chicana won the World Trios Championship with Bestia Salvage & Emilio…

It was reported in various outlets that Lucha Libre could come back to its capital in Mexico City. This came when one of the mayors of the Mexico City municipalities told the public that the government would be paying for a show of Lucha Libre this Saturday. Victor Hugo Romo was with members of the Lucha Libre and Boxing Commission, which included Mascara 2000 and Fantasma. The announcement took everybody by surprise, especially Fantasma. Romo alongside members of the government was distributing food to the public when he made the announcement. “The mayor’s office has a system of sports and…

We previously published a brief profile of All Elite Wrestling’s newest star, Serpentico. The man behind the mask, Jon Cruz, impressed everybody with his highflying arsenal and great match-pace against Scorpio Sky. Meanwhile, Serpentico is not the only wrestler that AEW should sign, they could have, Jay Rios aka Oraculo. Oraculo is the current The Crash Lucha Libre Cruiserweight Champion in Tijuana. He is of Puerto Rican descent, wrestling all over Mexico, Florida, and California. Rios was previously a masked wrestler, but in the past years, lost his mask in a Lucha de Apuestas in The Crash. Rios has been…

Development wrestling promotion, Espíritu Pro Wrestling Dojo finally released their matches for their event, Exhibición de Fuerza. Due to the pandemic, the promotion decided to record a private event in its facilities and present it on social networks (with a low payment to access this event). The first two matches of the event feature the new Blood of EspírituPro Wrestling Dojo. First, Android 787 is going up against Yaide. Android is a project in development, quite crude, but with immense agility in its arsenal. Meanwhile, Yaide has become one of the young promises of women’s wrestling on the island. The…

Mexico is home for many strange masked characters. Recently, a new wrestler picked a strange and curious name in a Generación XXI match, Coronavirus. He wrestled with the company in an extreme match where the Covid-19 Cup – he was the winner. Super Luchas published the curious story of a wrestler the goes by the name of the famous virus and that, in his daily work, is a nurse. Coronavirus is not a stranger to the wrestling scene, he wrestled over many years; trained by professor Atómico. On the day, Coronavirus is part of the many health workers in Mexico…

We reported yesterday about a Mexican Arena in San Luis Postosí that’s been having shows without the proper regulations. The Arena Margarita featured at least 450 fans and over 45 wrestlers. Now, another Mexican Arena, this time with wider space, faces criticism for breaking the Covid-19 regulations in the country. The Coalcaco Arena in San Franciso is getting a lot of public press for their wrestling without any physical separation or sanitization measures. Lucha Blog reports on the situation: This is only slightly different than the Arena Margarita shows in San Luis Potosi before in that they’re outdoor shows, but…

Per Lucha Blog, the state of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) is a limbo. As we reported today, CMLL had some exhibitions matches behind-closed-doors. The problem right now, is, that Mexico City is still on orange light. La Razón CDMX (Reason Mexico City Magazine) reported that things are getting worse, from orange to red. Mexico City has 68,000 cases, with at least 8,000 deaths. In Mexico, in general, 465,000 cases have been reported; deaths are 46,000 deaths. (Today at least 639 new deaths.) Here’s a preliminary report by Lucha Blog: The official story on the return of lucha libre…

Expo Todo de Lucha features Mexican legends, current luchadors, and legendary merchandise of Lucha Libre. Here’s Atlantis talking about the Expo in 2018: “It is a sport that has already become part of the culture of Mexico. I will be signing autographs this Friday and on Saturday in the stellar fight alongside Mil Máscaras and Dos Caras against Negro Casas, Último Guerrero, and Scorpio Jr.” Even though Mexico is currently in orange light, with a rising tide of Covid-19 cases, Expo Todo de Lucha will happen. Here’s the report by Super Luchas: The coronavirus pandemic has hit the entire world…

Per Lucha Central, Golden Globe Winner, Gael Garcia will play Exotico Cassandro on the Big Screen. Here’s the report by Lucha Central: Mexican actor and Golden Globe winner Gael García Bernal will play the luchador Cassandro el Exotico in an independent feature film by the Oscar-winning and two-time Emmy-nominated filmmaker Roger Ross Williams, according to exclusive information of Deadline web page. Cassandro tells the true story of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur luchador from El Paso, Texas, who rises to international stardom after he creates the exotico character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre,” and in the process upends not…

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) is trying to return to the Lucha Libre scene. The company was trying some exhibition matches last night in Arena Mexico. The video was retweeted by Lucha Blog (see below here): https://twitter.com/ANTONIETO1889/status/1288967411614380032?s=20 Lucha Blog wrote about the prospect of CMLL: LRT: CMLL appears to be taping matches in an empty Arena Mexico. You can hear the announcers in that clip. [T]hat appears to be Guerrero Maya & Stuka versus Okumura & Vangellys. Everyone is wearing facemasks. Fantasma has been pretty consistent about not allowing CMLL to run empty arena matches so this is…