Author: Emmanuel Figueroa Rosado

One of Mexico’s main deathmatch promotions, Destrucción Total Ultraviolenta (DTU) postponed its newest show, “Cantina Extrema”. Amid the Covid-19 crisis, many Mexican promotions are reinventing themselves to provide Lucha Libre once again. Mexico City is still paralyzed, with many promotions now, doing some trials with empty arenas. AAA and Vanguardia Lucha Libre have tried to do auto shows, the latter being canceled. For DTU, the live streaming of a show in a bar in Mexico was a new idea – Cantina Extrema. Stars like Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre’s (CMLL) Ultimo Guerrero were set to appear. ? CONFIRMED ? ???????‼…

A few months ago, in conversation with a person involved in the wrestling business, he told me that the reason why the World Wrestling Council has been so bad since the Colón brothers left, was the fault of Carlos Colón himself. This individual assured me: “There, Jovica will always be fine … but Carlos, he does not know how to run anything in the business.” This reiterated to me that Colón has spent everything he could contribute to WWC, especially on the economic side. In a recent interview, Hector Moody Jack Melendez proved that statement right. For many Puerto Rican…

We reported yesterday about the canceling of the Vanguardia Lucha Libre Autoshow. Because of the current Covid-19 pandemic, Vanguardia decided to take their shows to a private barn with fans sitting in their cars. This same idea has announced by AAA in a press conference. It was rumored that Destrucción Total Ultraviolenta (DTU) and Crazy Boy was responsible for the canceling of the show. Both Mexican companies specialize in Deathmatches. Ciclope, who is a former DTU talent decided to found Vanguardia Lucha Libre after exiting the former company. Ciclope reacted in Facebook to the canceling of his Vanguardia Lucha Libre…

The Lucha Libre school and development company, Espiritu Pro Wrestling Dojo, will return during 2020 with a closed-door event in Puerto Rico. As has been reported in the country, the pandemic has weakened the possibilities for a Lucha Libre company to return with fans at medium capacity. Many of the large companies on the island depend on the fans that come to them and the money they make at the door. However, Mike Mendoza’s school is not that case. Although they do tend to charge at their events, much of their design is around developing new talent and exposing them.…

Hector Moody Jack Melendez is arguably one of the best wrestling minds in Lucha Libre. Moody Jack Melendez was originally a booker for International Wrestling Association (IWA-PR). But, he started to impress many in the wrestling industry with his creation of new stars alongside Dutch Mantell and Savio Vega. He booked for Jeff Jarrett’s Total Non-Stop Action (TNA) and later was contracted by AAA. In a recent interview with Anthony Piñeiro of Super Luchas, Moody Jack Melendez talked about his wrestling, especially his experience with the AAA of Joaquin Roldan. Moody recalled that he was afraid, at first, of Mexico. He…

As we have reported, Mexico City has been paralyzed during the Covid-19 pandemic. But, that did not stop a clandestine arena in San Louis Postosí to run a show at full capacity. This violated the law and the local Lucha Libre commission. But, as Lucha Blog reported, the commission did not have any power against the outer state clandestine Arena. The show featured at least 45 wrestlers and over 400 fans in the same building, which was a danger to the health of everyone present. Here’s a report by R de Rudo: Four hundred and fifty people attended the forty-first…

Mini luchador for Consejo Mundial Lucha Libre (CMLL), Microman, is rumor to have Covid-19. The company has been talking to many of the Box y Lucha commission to return. They wanted to have shows with the distance between fans. CMLL has been denied to return during the Mexico City pandemic crisis. But, regular wrestlers, like Microman, having Covid-19, is a problem for such return. Here’s Lucha Blog’s report on the issue: The story, reported Saturday, goes like this: Julio Cesar Rivera passed along gossip to various luchadors that there are currently four luchadors in the promotion who have the illness. Planchitas…

Last week, we reported that one of the directors of Consejo Mundia de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Salvador Lutteroth would make a public appearance. Last year, a family coup was orchestrated in the company. Sofia Alonso Lutteroth was toppled by other family members of the Lutteroth clan. Sofia was the heir of the CMLL dynasty, but now, one of the grandsons, Salvador Lutteroth, is running the show. For many, Sofia was rumored to do some modernization to CMLL, while many of the old guards of the Lutteroth clan wanted to keep as it is. Here’s the report by Lucha Blog: The…

Last week we published an article by Deathmatch star Ciclope. He’s a former start of Destrucción Total Ultraviolenta (DTU) and founded Vanguardia Lucha Libre. He said about the company: One day of living with Miedo and Draztick we wanted to do just one show, but Miedo said that if we were going to do things we had to do them well (…) This is how we decided to leave DTU to create something of our own. There is no reason bad for which we left DTU, only that we could not do anything else there and that we wanted to…

El Hijo del Santo has been putting interesting match-ups for a future mask vs. mask match. The son on the silver legend wanted to have a match with Atlantis. Later on, Santo proposed a tag team match between him and Atlantis versus Octagon and Fuerza Guerrera. The loser would have to up the mask on the line against his former partner. Also, Blue Demon Jr. showed interest in a Lucha de Apuestas against Santo. This didn’t fall well with Santo who said: “Who invited him to the party? It is rude to go where you are not invited!” Recently El Hijo…