Here in a soft and subdued corner of the hectic parade of bravado and one-up-manship, we hear the announcement speaker shouting Viva Las Luchadoras! as the indigenous Aymara heroines perform locks, scissors, breakers, karate kicks , and flying kicks!

“The virtue of all-in wrestling is that it is the spectacle of excess. Here we find a grandiloquence which must have been that of ancient theaters. And in fact wrestling is an open-air spectacle. There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not a sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of Suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.”

– Roland Barthes

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