Comments on: Lucha Libre on Reforma

By: garydenness

garydenness — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:27:33 +0000

Lucha Libre has just got to be more interesting to watch than sumo wrestling! Although to be honest I’d have kinda liked to have seen a sumo bout there!

By: garydenness

garydenness — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:26:34 +0000

Well spotted! See, this is my problem. I whizz by everything on my bike, pausing only to snap and shoot, never to ask!

By: Catherine

Catherine — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:15:41 +0000

there was a total mix of Japanese and Mexican cultural stuff because the festival celebrated 400 years of friendship between mexico and japan…

By: Vato Loco

Vato Loco — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:17:33 +0000

Lucha libre is getting popular in japan. Form time to time they have international competitions with mexican, japanese and wrestlers from the united states.

If i remember correctly. last time the japanese won, beaten the mexicans in mexico.

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Coliseo, AAA taping schedule, LA Park « luchablog — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:42:56 +0000

[...] Fire sighting! Note, he’s wearing his mask. Apparently, a lucha libre match was part of Japanese [...]

By: garydenness

garydenness — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:22:23 +0000

Steve, I’m not 100% sure what you meant, but are you suggesting that masked wrestling from the US has influenced (for good or bad) Mexican culture? I just ask because Lucha Libre is the original….masked wrestling is a Mexican phenomenon that was exported to the US.

I could have got you wrong of course. But I still know what you mean. Mexicans take many foreign elements and add them to their culture with a very Mexican twist all the time. Wal Mart excepted.

Of course, that’s been happening for hundreds of years. Ever since the Spanish came at least.

By: Steve Cotton

Steve Cotton — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:16:25 +0000

I often hear expatriates bemoaning the fact that outside influences are ruining Mexican culture. My experience is that Mexican culture can easily digest anything and meld it into the culture in a distinctly Mexican way. I recently had strawberry rollup pancakes in Puerto Vallarta marketed as “French crepes.” They came with chili powder and lime juice spread on top. And they were good.