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 …
Great blog from the publisher of “From Parts Unknown” called, cleverly enough, the “From Parts Unknown Blog“. Their tagline is “Mexican masked wrestling stuff for gringos, greenhorns and geeks”. Pretty much the entire SavSci staff would fall under the ‘gringo’ and ‘geek’ category when it comes to Lucha Libre. We were going …
We wrote about the brilliant dining concept that is the Lucha Libre Taco Shop in San Diego awhile ago, and this Sunday , July 19th if you’re in the area you’ve got a chance to meet a bigtime luchadore: Hijo Del Sicodelico will be at the shop from 1 to 3 Pacific signing autographs. …
Long before Vince McMahon got the idea to produce movies featuring WWE stars, the practice was very common in Mexico where action films staring Lucha Libre competitors have been ubiquitous for decades. Perhaps the biggest Lucha “crossover” star was the legendary El Santo, and this clip features a montage of fight scenes from his …
Lucha legend Dos Caras, Sr.
Pro Wrestling.com, quoting an article by fight journalism god Dave Meltzer at The Wrestling Observer, reports that Dos Caras, Jr. is possibly headed to the WWE. The report identifies Dos Caras Jr. as a ‘former PRIDE fighter’ which is something of a stretch. With all due respect to Caras, …
With something of a slow news cycle in the MMA world its a good opportunity to bring you another excellent Lucha mask wearing surf music band. Los Kanibales hail from Santiago, Chile and work the same old school Dick Dale/Ventures/Agent Orange inspired surf guitar sound as another favorite band here at SAVSCI, Los Santisimos …
So these guys aren’t *technically* wearing Lucha masks…skeleton masks are still pretty cool. Straight outta Boston, Mass we present our Lucha mask wearing surf music band for today–THE NEBULAS:
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