“Every drop of blood is worth it,” says Fly Star, El Diablo, with a bloody face, under a worn and battered ring in Zona 23 Lucha Extrema, where the popular locks and keys of wrestling are replaced by blood. , barbed wires and pyromania, in a junkyard in Tlalnepantla, State of Mexico.
On the stage in the Ciudad Labor neighborhood, on López Portillo Avenue, from Monday to Saturday, auto parts and spare parts for cars and motorcycles are sold, but on Sundays when there is a billboard, it becomes a coliseum where the gladiators leave sweat, soul and, literally, the skin on the ring.
“Every fucking drop of blood is worth a shitload. People ask me why I do this if I get hurt and yes, I have had serious injuries here, but extreme fighting, what you see, is my life,” says El Diablo, wrestler and law graduate.
Every weekend the euphoria of the public overflows in the improvised ring, where extreme fighters give everything to see them happy. Photo: Alberto González | The universal
From the cabin or on the awning of old trailers, extreme wrestling fans of all ages, for whom traditional fights no longer satisfy them, anxiously await the departure of their idols.
Some drink beer, others cover themselves from the sun, there are children who eat fried foods or ham cakes in brown brown paper bags while, very attentive, they wait on piles of scrapped car bodies for the moment when the local sound announces the first fight.
“I love violence. I come to see blood and destruction. I love it when they get on the trucks and go crazy, once a [luchador] Black Terry opened his neck and he didn’t want them to stop the fight, that’s how it is,” said Melissa Castelán, a fan of this sport.
When that moment arrived, Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA played over the loudspeakers, while the DJ presented the international contest. “In one corner” to Phoenix Kid, an American fighter who would face the Mexican X-Dragón, who “in the other corner” organized a cheer with the fans who frantically chanted: “extreme fight, extreme fight!”
The folding chairs, those seen at popular XV years parties, close to the ring and delimited by a yellow plastic cord with black letters that bore the word “danger,” began to become vacant, as the protagonists of the fight left the ring. after a couple of keys and pirouettes thrown from the third rope, and they went down to look for tubes, chairs, glass bottles and even a windshield that served to cause physical damage to their respective rival; Meanwhile, the fans who were careful not to take a hit, documented with their cell phones the fight in which the local team was the winner.
This is how the Sunday day passed, with fights in which the gladiators used burning boards, tires, broken beer bottles and even windshields to inflict damage on their rivals.
“This environment is unmatched, people might think that it is a bad environment because they do not know it, but it is a good environment, regardless of the fight, we respect each other and we enjoy wrestling that gives us good camaraderie,” said Mrs. Blanca. Estela Camacho, a fan for 50 years, and known in “the wrestling environment” as Mama Lucha.
In each contest, the euphoria of the public and the athletes stood out who, at the end of the Sunday day in which they were filled with emotions, forgot their problems for a few hours. Some tired, many others tired and drunk, hoarse or happy, but all with the feeling that, at least until the next date of extreme fight in the Zone 23 scrapyard, they will have to try not to forget that afternoon and thus cling to the sad reality of common life.
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2023-09-25 11:31:02
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