It wasn’t enough that the gringos were driving up the prices of real estate and basic necessities in Mexico City, now they were taking over lucha libre too . . . or at least that’s what some folks were bemoaning last year.
Weeks after people took to the streets to protest the gentrification of various neighborhoods in CDMX, the topic became the go-to argument to explain the many changes occurring in the city, including within lucha libre.
“Wrestling, along with the neighborhoods themselves, is being gentrified and the fight against it is on,” wrote Verónica M. Garrido in El País last year.