“It’s a one-of-a-kind spectacle because you don’t just get an audience from the wrestlers, you get an audience from the burlesque dancers and other performers. So many people have never seen lucha libre live, but they enjoy it and they start following it.”

“We thought that if we drew the audience to see the burlesque, they would see the wrestling, too, and love it. And they did.”

“In lucha libre, you regularly find people spanking each other or falling on their nuts on the rope, where sometimes American wrestlers are too prideful for things like that.”

“If we’re going to talk about wrestling, it has to be in Spanish.”

“His opponents tonight are The Crazy Chickens. Unfortunately, they proved impossible to interview, emitting barely a cluck when questioned, and nothing that resembled either English or Spanish.”

“Lucha has influenced so much of the style happening in the States. You even watch TV shows and Marvel movies and they’re doing lucha moves and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, did they just do a Canadian destroyer?’”

“On stage, audience favorite Dirty Sanchez is screaming into the microphone, promising an action-packed night. ‘I’m going to hurt people,’ he shouts.”

“Go.”