In a perfect world, the Lucha Libre Gourmet Taco Shop would have already been awarded a Nobel Prize. Here they are in an appearance on the local news in San Diego:

Here’s the video of last night’s fight between Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller and Kala Hose in the main event of a KINGDOM MMA show in Hawaii. First clip is the ring entrances, second clip the fight and postfight interviews. Hose tries to get theatrical with his entrance, but ‘Mayhem’ tops him wearing a Mil [...]

Big feature story on Lucha Libre in today’s Los Angeles Times:
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t spit into the wind and you don’t — under any circumstances — pull the mask off Blue Demon Jr.
In a flash, Demon vaults off the top of the turnbuckle, scissoring one foe with his powerful legs and [...]

We’ve posted some videos from Fog City Wrestling before and here’s the latest for their 2/28 show at the DNA Lounge in San Fran. What part of “Todd ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ Bridges’ indy wrestling debut’ don’t you people understand??

The good news is that you can watch a live feed of the event via the DNA [...]

We haven’t posted any Mexican Surf music in awhile, and that’s completely our bad–here’s Mascara del Mar and his Dragon Surfers performing “La Espanola Coma”:

Here’s a clip from the first of many films starring the “Man of 1000 Masks” Mil Mascaras. Lucha Libre stars have been featured in Mexican action films for decades, dating back to El Santo and the Blue Demon. In this 1960 film, entitled simply “Mil Mascaras” our hero rolls up on a gang [...]

One of our favorite Mexican Lucha Libre/surf bands–Los Santisimos Snorkels–have just updated their MySpace profile with this cool new logo:

Check out their MySpace profile:
Los Santisimos Snorkels @ MySpace

Jordan Breen @ Sherdog has an excellent crackback on the surprising number of people who had issue with Brock Lesnar’s “roping the imaginary bullrope” move after his wall to wall teabagging of Heath Herring at UFC 87. Best line was some crank who responded that he should take some lessons from the two fighters [...]

And speaking of Daddy-O Grande from ‘Los Straitjackets’ (as we were in an earlier post) here’s the bad man himself:

Here’s something we swiped from the From Parts Unknown blog–the incomparable Cyd Charisse doing a boxing themed production number to a song called “Baby You Knock Me Out” from a film called “It’s Always Fair Weather”. All of the dancers from that era–Charisse, Frank Sinatra’s short time fiance Juliet Prowse and even Shirley Maclaine [...]