Meanings
- uncountableA style of professional wrestling originating in Mexico, often featuring costumed fighters.
My mother has the exact same opinion as Lalo, an opinion she’s already made abundantly clear to me. She is NOT a fan of lucha libre. She calls it a barbaric and ridiculous sport.
2011, Xavier Garza, Maximilian & the Mystery of the Guardian Angel, →ISBN, page 222 more examples
What exactly is Lucha Libre? Some liken it to professional wrestling in the United States. Indeed, Lucha Libre does share some similarities with America’s World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
2009, Laura Barberena, “Lucha Libre”, in Barry Brummett, editor, Sporting Rhetoric: Performance, Games, and Politics, page 157When the Young Bucks wrestled Pentagón and Fénix in a thrilling “Escalera De La Muerte” match on AEW’s “All Out” pay-per-view in August, the encounter was less a match and more an exclamation point on a revolution, the result of lucha libre’s impact in the United States.
2019 September 17, Justin Barrasso, “Mexico’s Superheroes: How Lucha Libre Came to Grip the United States”, in Sports Illustrated, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2019
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Spanishlucha libre
- Spanishlucha libre
- Englishlucha libre
Borrowed from Spanish lucha libre.
More words from Spanish
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lucha libre. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lucha%20libre
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