lunes, 8 de septiembre de 2014

(Women's Lucha Libre) and there was that time...



There was that time that women's lucha libre was banned in Mexico City.

It's actually a weird and sad history in Mexican wrestling. Around 1952 the television company Televicentro had its own lucha libre show in which the audience was able to watch women's wrestling, considering the year, that wasn't a very common thing back then. Everything was going great for female wrestlers in Mexico, until 1957 when Televicentro went bankrupt, this is where the story gets a bit strange, because of the company filing bankruptcy Mexico City's lucha libre commission decided to ban any type of lucha libre match in which women were involved.  

Despite of being prohibited to wrestle in Mexico City, Mexican female wrestlers were allowed to wrestle in other cities of the country, that wasn't bad, but most of the attention in the lucha scene was focused on what was happening in Mexico City. This meant that some female wrestlers went unnoticed in most part of their careers until UWA came along in 1975 and gave women a huge boost in popularity.

Finally the ban was retired in 1986, allowing luchadoras to fight again in Mexico City. But being honest, it was kind of late for that, because important luchadoras like Estela Molina (first Mexican female wrestler to win a world championship) and Irma González were close to retirement and luchadoras that in the 90's would become major stars in lucha libre were just starting their path.

It's been almost 30 years since the ban was lifted and sadly women's lucha libre still doesn't get the space that they deserve in the major companies.

Really the in between years for some of those new female stars weren't that bad, and I have a match to prove that, in which Martha Villalobos, La Pantera Sureña and María del Ángel faced La Sirenita, Lola González and Lady Apache. Sadly the channel doesn't allowed to embed those videos, but you can watch this  two part match HERE and HERE.  Hope You enjoy it, see you all next week.

Francisco Arreola
@fcoarreola

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