Lucha libre

With sports contests being frequently canceled due to the pandemic, many spectators have cherished the chance to watch lucha libre from their cars.

‘You get fired up’: Mexico City fans savor lucha libre wrestling at drive-in venues

Sports

A company that organizes the colorful, larger-than-life bouts has set up fights to be enjoyed from the socially distant comfort of spectators’ own cars.

two Bolivian women square off in a wrestling ring

How Indigenous women revolutionized Bolivian wrestling

Sports
Luchador Perro Aguayo Jr. lays motionless on the mat during the match in which he died.

‘They didn’t just see a wrestler die, they watched a superhero die’

Sports
Chicken Wilson competing in Peru's "Lucha Libro" - writing a story story in five minutes.

Peru makes book writing into a spectator sport and invites aspiring writers into combat

Arts, Culture & Media