LAS VEGAS – By definition, a luchador is Spanish for a masked professional wrestler. But to Erik Perez, the first 100 percent Mexican fighter in the UFC, it is so much more. It's why he was crushed ...

11:29 a.m. April 1, 2023: An earlier version of this article referred to wrestling promoter Mike LeBell as Mike LaBelle. If you want to understand how embedded lucha libre is to Mexican American ...

Roger Ross Williams’s inspiring biopic Cassandro is a window on the world of Saúl Armendáriz, an amateur wrestler from Texas who made it big on Mexico’s luchador scene. Played with tenderness and ...

Out of the wrestling ring and into the sewing room. With sports on hold amid the coronavirus pandemic, Mexico’s colorfully decked-out lucha libre wrestlers known as Luchadores are channeling their ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — Lycra-clad wrestlers’ bodies slam thunderously onto a plywood floor ring, drowning out dozens of screaming fans who had packed into a Logan Heights brewery on a recent Saturday.

Isaac Tapia paints the side of El Luchador, a new Mexican restaurant in Gardner. Jenna Thompson [email protected] A muralist’s hand swoops downward, a fuzz of orange paint outlining the emerging ...

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Alcon Television Group has acquired the rights to Diego Gutierrez’s (From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, Without a Trace) Mexican wrestling drama Luchador. Written ...

Luchadores during a kermes at Buena Vista Horace Mann last year. Photo courtesy of Jenny Pritchett. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find ...