Mexican Wrestling Is the Most Fun You'll Ever Have Wearing Tights Paula Froelich - Yahoo! Travel
go to original January 13, 2015

Lucha libre, Mexican wrestling, has long been a fascination of mine. Those masks! That hair! The overacting! The flamboyant dancers! It’s like the WWE on steroids. In fact, American wrestling was spawned by lucha libre, and, as a kid in Cincinnati, Ohio, I grew up obsessed with Hulk Hogan (pre-reality show), Ric Flair, Jimmy “Superfly” Snooka, and Jake “the Snake” Roberts. So when lucha libre superstar Dragón Rojo Jr. offered to meet me in the ring, I jumped at the chance.

I arrived at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City on a Tuesday night before the big weekly luchadores matches (think a south-of-the-border version of a weekly smackdown) and … got put in a headlock, spun around, and body-slammed. Not kidding. Watch the video. I don’t think I’ve ever been happier in my entire life.

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