Over the weekend the frisbee guys brought us to watch Lucha Libre. Lucha Libre is basically the Mexican form of wrestling-much like WWF (or issit WWE now?)  Some differences are that costumes are more... amusing and there are specified "Good guys" and "Bad guys". There are also good and bad referees....and everyone plays up their roles to make the match more entertaining than anything else (it's not SO much about the violence... althought that is still a big part of the event)
Furthermore, the Mask is not just part of the costume.... it encompasses the wrestler's whole identity. In the past, the best wrestlers didn't even reveal their identity till they retired. Read the wikipedia article-it's REALLY quite interesting. (e.g. masked wrestler vs wrestler w/o mask. if masked one loses, he's unmasked. if other loses, he shaves his head. etc) Anyway, this was more in the past than now. **on our way to guadalajara, we met a lucha libre wrestler on our flight. he was wearing a suit and his mask! took a pic with him.... but as ya'll know... my cam got stolen. :'( supposedly, he's a really famous wrestler. haiz. The current champion: Conan Big An example of Lucha Libre as entertainment- the FUNNIEST fight ever!
A "gay" donkey (seen in pink) called Burrico, an old hag dressed in lingerie* and a supposed hunk*
*cant remember the names
v.s.
El Burro(the donkey), Mini Burro (mini donkey) and Dulce Poly (Sweet Polly)
Also interesting to see that it's a co-ed fight!
More pics of us with the guys, the ring, the guys playing in the ring b4 the event started...and us in the masks. I was Mistico and Ansen was Huracan Ramirez.
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