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22 unusual facts about Lucha libre


100% De Dhana Dhan

100% De Dhana Dhan is a hybrid of reality television and wrestling based on 100% Lucha libre, and sees wrestlers from India facing wrestlers from South Africa in faction warfare.

Adorable Rubí

Rubi Rubalcaba (born December 31, 1931) is a retired Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler who is best known under the ring name Adorable Rubí.

Águila Solitaria

Águila Solitaria (born August 31, 1954) is a Mexican Luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler.

Alberto Muñoz

Alberto Muñoz (date of birth unknown) is a retired Mexican Luchador or professional wrestler who was active from at least the 1960s until the 1980s.

Américo Rocca

Javier Hernández Padilla (born September 22, 1952) is a semi-retired Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler best known under the ring name Américo Rocca.

Cachorro Mendoza

Pedro Jacobo Contreras (born October 10, 1955) is a semi-retired Mexican Luchador or professional wrestler best known under the ring name Cachorro Mendoza.

César Curiel

César Curiel (born October 12, 1949) is a retired Mexican Luchador or professional wrestler who was active in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

Dark Cuervo

Jaime Ignacio Tirado Correa (born January 4, 1974) is a Mexican Luchador (wrestler) who is best known as Cuervo or Dark Cuervo.

Dark Ozz

Marcos Tinajero (born January 30, 1975) is a Mexican Luchador (wrestler) who is most well known under the name Ozz / Dark Ozz, a Face character (referred to as a "Tecnico" in Lucha Libre) that works for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA).

El Torero

Jose Isias Cancio Allon (born July 6, 1959) is a retired Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler best known under the ring name El Torero, a Bullfighter ring persona.

Escoria

Jose Ibarra is a Mexican Luchador (wrestler) who is best known as Escoria / Dark Escoria (Spanish for "Dreg"), a face character that works for Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA).

Franco Columbo

Javier Descalza Coronado (born August 11, 1953) is a Mexican retired Luchador, or professional wrestler, currently working as a match maker for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).

Johan Wanloo

Felix is the playboy genius while Fjongo is a wrestler who always wears a Lucha libre-style mask.

Karloff Lagarde, Jr.

César Baltazar de Lucio Valencia (born October 21, 1970) is a semi-retired Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler best known under the ring name Karloff Lagarde, Jr.

Luc Poirier

In the early 1980s, he joined the Montreal-based International Wrestling Association as the hooded "Masked Marvel".

Máscara Año 2000

Jesús Reyes González (born March 10, 1958) is a Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler, best known under the ring name Máscara Año 2000 or Máscara Año Dos Mil.

Mocho Cota

Manuel Cota Soto (born June 5, 1954) is a semi-retired Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler best known under the ring name Mocho Cota.

Mosco de la Merced

Mosco de la Merced (Juan Valdez Valentino) is a Mexican Luchador or professional wrestler, best known for his time in Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) where he was a part of Los Vipers for many years.

Rafael Herbert Reyes

Rafael Herbert Reyes (born November 7, 1967) is a Dominican born professional wrestler, who has worked most of his career as a Luchador in Mexico.

Raúl Mata

Raúl Mata (date of birth unknown) is a retired Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler who was mostly active from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Tigre Blanco

Sergio Guzmán Silva (date of birth unknown) is a Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler, who has worked for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) for most of his professional career.

Último Gladiador

Gerardo Campos Poza (born March 28, 1978), better known under his ring name Último Gladiador (Spanish for "Last Gladiator") is a Mexican Luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler.


CMLL 60th Anniversary Show

The show consisted of four matches, with the main event being a Lucha de Apuestas, mask vs. mask match, between Atlantis defeated Mano Negra where the loser would be forced to unmask.

El Signo

Antonio Sánchez Rendón (both September 4, 1954 in Ocotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, Mexico), is a retired Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler best known under the ring name El Signo (Spanish for "The Sign").

International Wrestling Revolution Group

International Wrestling Revolution Group (Grupo Internacional Revolución in Spanish) is a Lucha Libre promotion based in Naucalpan, State of Mexico, Mexico.

Los Luchadores

The series was about a group of lucha libre wrestlers led by Lobo Fuerte (Maximo Morrone) who, along with Turbine (Levi James) and Maria Valentine (Sarah Carter), fought villains such as the Whelp (voiced by Gary Lam), the pet Chihuahua of a mad scientist who eventually becomes an evil genius through a freak accident.

Pantha

Pantha joined the team of Beast Boy, Más, Herald and Jericho to launch an assault on the Brotherhood of Evil's main headquarters, and then took part in the final battle against the various supervillains assembled by the Brotherhood of Evil; in said battle, she defeats a rival Mexican super-powered wrestler in league with the Brotherhood and claims his mask as per the code of Lucha Libre.

Promociones Gutiérrez 1st Anniversary Show

The focal point of the event was a Ruleta de la Muerte (Spanish for "Roulette of Death") tournament, in which five teams of Parejas Incredibles (teams of enemies) participate in an elimination match to see which team would have to face off in a Lucha de Apuesta, mask vs. mask match.

Que viva la lucha

¡Que viva la lucha! is a 2007 film directed and produced by Gustavo Vazquez about Lucha libre in Tijuana, Mexico, considered to be a form of extreme lucha libre.

Vin Gerard

After training in Chikara's Wrestle Factory school, Durling made his debut on May 20, 2005, as the fan favorite masked wrestler Equinox, a student of Mexican masked wrestler and Chikara alumnus Skayde.