Lucha Libre in Arena México

After a day of looking at fine and contemporary artwork in the highly refined museums of the historic centre, we decided to immediately forget everything we'd seen and go watch some wrestling!! 💪😎 Lucha Libre is the second most popular sport in Mexico (after football obv) so its a huge deal here. It's also kind of a big deal for me and my family, all because of a highly underrated B-movie starring Jack Black called 'Nacho Libre'. So needless to say we were both pretty excited! We started by meeting a group of other tourists and heading to a bar where the locals gather to drink and dance before watching the Luchadors. We were given literal bucketloads of a traditional drink derived from tequila (which was absolutely rank unless diluted with gallons of fruit juice) but no amount of alcohol would be enough to get me to go up and start dancing salsa 😂
Afterwards we all got to pick our Luchador masks from a bag. We picked out some questionable ones but you pretty much get what you're given! Once inside there were already some warm up matches going on. Even though it was a Tuesday night there were still loads of people and a really good atmosphere. The arena itself is amazing and they created quite the spectacle. Not to mention the incredible Luchadors! In Mexico you have to go to Lucha Libre university for 4 years before you can compete professionally 😯 so the stunts were awesome. There's good guys and bad guys but we just ended up cheering for anyone pulling some sweet moves! We had a great time being part of something that not only is hilarious and fun to watch, but an integral part of Mexican culture... We also got to experience real life Nacho Libre which was pretty cool! 😆Read more