Rich Walton witnessed the Lucha Libre explosion while making a documentary about the sport, "Life Behind the Mask." He recently invited all his masked friends to a red carpet premier in Long Beach.

AS a teen growing up in Idaho, director Jared Hess watched “El Santo” movies on Spanish-language TV and was already a fan of lucha libre by the time he heard the story of a small-town M… ...

LUCHADORES ARE MUY TOUGH! Jack Black grapples with Mexico's colorful masked wrestlers in the comedy 'Nacho Libre.' By ROBERT DOMINGUEZ Long before Hulk Hogan cracked his first folding chair over ...

Lucha libre legend and trainer Black Terry, best known for his work in the UWA, CMLL, and IWRG, passed away this past weekend at the age of 72 ...

Back home in Mexico, Antonio (L.A. Park) Tapia is a villain, but cheers erupt but when he emerges from behind a black curtain and ambles toward the ring at Variety Village to start the main event ...

This legendary match still reverberates in lucha libre legend today, where losing your mask is the ultimate humiliation. Santo won the match and unmasked the Black Shadow.

Romeo in his law office at Torales Quintero y Asociados wearing his Lucha libre mask to hide his identity in Tijuana, Mexico on August 26, 2021. For The San Diego Union-Tribune Romeo at X-Gym in ...

Lace shrouds on both sneakers fully animate the sports reference with each resembling half of a Lucha Libre mask. Completed when each Air Force 1 is put side-by-side, the patent leather mask ...

Lucha libre, Mexican professional wrestling, divides its contestants along very specific lines: either you’re a Heel, or rudo—a tough guy, meant to be booed by fans—or a Face, or técnico ...

Ten professional wrestlers from yesteryear are being honored in Juárez, where the treasured history of Mexico's iconic lucha libre dates back to seeds planted in the Borderland over 90 years ago.

According to legend — and by legend, I mean a few articles I found on the Internet — the tradition of lucha libre (Spanish for "free fighting") dates back to 1933, when Salvador Lutteroth ...