Lucha Libre

Lucha Libre (Spanish for freestyle battle ) is a form of professional wrestling that was developed in Mexico. Lucha Libre goes back to the early 1930s when Salvador Lutteroth U.S. wrestlers who he had seen in his time in Texas, brought to Mexico. A person who operates Lucha Libre Luchador (plural Luchadores ) is called. Because most of the wrestlers in Mexico are smaller than their counterparts in North America, the emphasis is not so much on power moves as in the U.S. or Canada. Mexican wrestling is characterized both by rapid sequences of handles and maneuvers as well as by spektakukläre high-flying moves, many of which have also been adopted north of the border.

Regulate

The rules are similar to the American Wrestling. Matches you can win when you hold your opponent on the mat while the referee counts to 3 (pin ), forcing him to give up, the opponent is counted out of the ring ( referee counts to 10) or by disqualification. Task is signaled mostly verbally or by waving hands. The Tapout ( rapping ), which is popular in Japan, has little significance in Mexico. To use the ropes for leverage, is not allowed. Once a Luchador touches the ropes, his opponent must give up all handles and can not pinning him. Disqualifications there when the opponent unauthorized handhold or unauthorized maneuver applies, meet someone in the groin, uses interference from the outside, the referee or attacking the opponent pulls down the mask completely. The most matches go over 3 winning rounds, who has attained the first two pins is the winner. If the rest period between two rounds is not observed, the referee can make the decision on the last lap reversed by calling rudisimo excesivo ( excessive violence).

Tag Team Rules

The predominant Matchart in Lucha Libre is a 6 - man tag team match, the Relevos Australianos ( Australian Day Match) is called, even though they are usually referred to outside of Mexico as trios matches. The matches usually have two referee and each of the teams has a captain. To win, you must either a captain pinning of the other or any two members of a team must be pinned. If the legal (allowed in the ring) man leaves the ring, another team member can replace it without having to be loaded. The referee may also call any two wrestlers as legitimate participants. In traditional day matches with two - man teams both members of a team must be pinned.

Masks

Masks are used since the mid 1930s and go on wrestlers like El Enmascarado ( the masked ), the Irish Ciclón McKey and La Maravilla Enmascarada back ( the masked wonder ). The first masks were kept very simple in basic colors to distinguish the Luchadores. In modern lucha libre masks are colorfully designed to evoke images of animals, gods, ancient heroes or other fantasy figures, whose identity the luchador slips during the fight. Virtually all wrestlers in Mexico start their career in masks, but almost all will be unmasked at some point during their careers once. Sometimes a wrestler for a withdrawal is provided unmasked in his last bout or at the beginning of his last tour, bringing the figure shown to lose its identity. Luchadores are during her career in the public often seen with her ​​mask. In principle, the mask with the Luchador is equated. El Santo, a very popular luchador, wearing his mask even after his resignation and revealed his true identity only in old age, and was even buried with his mask. The figure was omnipresent.

Some famous matches based on the premise Lucha de Apuestas ( fights with bet ). The match with the highest cult status is máscara contra máscara ( mask against mask), where two masked luchadores bet their masks and the loser is unmasked by the winner and his real name is officially revealed. The older a Luchador is without being unmasked, and the more often he successfully defended his mask, the higher its status. Another known type of fight is máscara contra Cabellera ( mask against hair ), where a masked and an unmasked wrestlers compete against each other (usually has the unmasked his mask lost to the masked wrestler in a previous fight ); if the masked luchador wins, the unmasked must let his hair shaved, which is another sign of humiliation. Beat the unmasked, he keeps his hair and the loser is unmasked. For two unmasked wrestlers, there are still Cabellera contra Cabellera ( hair against hair). Many wrestlers lose those battles at the end of her career, because it represents their final defeat and the promoter a wrestler often is a large amount of money for the loss of his mask / his hair.

Promotions

In Mexico:

  • Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA)
  • Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre ( CMLL )
  • ENESMA
  • International Wrestling Revolution Group ( IWRG )
  • World Wrestling Association ( Promociones Mora )
  • Xtreme Latin American Wrestling
  • Comision de Box y Lucha Libre de Mexico DF ( Mexico City Boxing / Wrestling Commission) is the umbrella organization for all national Mexican title of each promotion.

In Japan:

  • Michinoku Pro Wrestling
  • Osaka Pro Wrestling
  • Pro Wrestling Kageki
  • Toryumon / Dragon Gate

In the United States (USA):

  • Chikara Pro
  • Lucha Va Voom
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