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CHOICE ARTISTS, WRITERS and
CREATIVE TYPES:
Author of HOODTOWN and the first femme fatale of Hard Case
Rafael Navarro’s masked wrestler gumshoe comic
The creators of ¡MUCHA LUCHA! and Los Campeones de la Lucha Libre
Jorge Gutierrez – creator of Nickelodeon’s El Tigre
A great studio chock-full of enmascarado projects
Masked surf rock extraordinaire, don’t miss the Tour Dates
A great luchadore photo book by Malcolm Venville
Amazing art and design
Loads of what we call “Violence in Vinyl”
LUCHA COMIX, CARTOONS
and ART:
Our pal Jesse Justice
Home of “Masked Wrestler Zero”
Will it ever see light as a TV series???
Comic book heroes from around the globe, with a healthy section on Mexican
wrestlers
List and data heavy survey of seven decades of Mexi-pulp
GREAT English resource for this important Japanese series
Great artsy sight for the cutting-edge comic series
Meet Padre Hypnos
One of the country’s best illustrators, dig through the site to find some great lucha-inspired
stuff
See how the mask is invading international art scenes
MEXI-LUCHA-CINEMA INFO:
The end-all resource on Santo flicks!
Adjunct to Mirek Lipinski’s upcoming film book
And we all know where there’s Mexi-Monsters, there are Mexi-maskedmen to fight them...
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Creepy Classic’s Mexi-party
Driven by Roberto Cotter of “Santo Scene”
Tons of info on K. Gordon Murray, the man we have to thank for “Samson”
NEW Mil flicks made in the USA
A FANTASTIC docutmentary on 3 generation of SoCal lucha
LUCHA LIBRE SHOPPING:
Masks and Ring Gear
The first Mexico City mask vendor, still going 7 decades later
Masks, figures, masks, belts, masks, books, masks, DVDs, masks, and masks. They
have some masks, too
Japanese how-to site
Beltworld has all sorts, and galleries of sexy girls in the ring wearing them
Custom masks made in the USA, both old-school and lucha style
All-wrestling store in Orange County, CA – like an old-west trading post of lucha masks
Another old-school style mask vendor, with cool illustrations to boot
Great Japanese-style custom hoods
Vintage Collectibles
Brian Moran’s superb resource for lucha paper
Great MidWest dealer and horror con promoter
DVDs
Mexi-lucha-cinema mart, TONS of great DVDs
Criterion-quality Mexi-horror DVDs
Plenty of Mexi-horror DVD goodness here, too
Art, Pop Culture and Kitsch
Damon Robinson’s lucha goodies at Praise-the-Lowered
Vinyl boutique figures of the “Luchadores 5”
MASKED PERSONALITIES:
Archives of the Intelligent Sensational Destroyer - King of Masked Wrestlers
Official site of one of our fave vintage villains, The Spoiler
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The original Assassin
...and check out the history of Georgia rasslin’ while yer at it!
Bill Eadie, aka Demolition Axe, too
Tour dates, media links, merch and more
Keeping the family colors alive and well
LIVE SHOWS:
Sponge-suit giant monsters wrestle in a cage, what more do you need?
Boston’s own League of Lady Masked Wrestlers
Big name luchadores and burlesque strippers collide!
Probably the best indie local we’ve ever seen, like a SoCal Michinoku Pro
Pennsylvania-based lucha-style indie
IN-RING INFO:
‘Cubsfan’ brings you indispensable info on CMLL and AAA TV
An all-lucha libre wiki, a great online resource!
GREAT site full of streaming wrestling clips featuring worldwide indie talent
Info board on the Southern California indie wrestling and lucha libre scene
Chronicles the worst gimmicks in wrestling history, plenty of amazingly lame
masks, SO GOOD!
Dave Meltzer’s ring news, arguably the best insider resource out there
Thorough Canadian ring sports coverage
Mexico’s oldest lucha mag!
World’s oldest ring promotion, 70 years of lucha tradition
See the post-Pena era unfold
A good gateway to Mexican ring action
Japanese pro wrestling, tons of bios
Warning, lots of blood, barbed wire, skulls and flames!
Great guide courtesy of WrestlingClothesline.com
Often updated, plenty of pics
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