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Lucha Libre Coronavirus Face Masks
Lucha Libre Coronavirus Face Masks By Mexican Wrestlers.
Mexican Lucha Libre wrestler, El Hijo del Soberano makes face masks yesterday in Torreon, MexicoArmando Marin/Jam Media/Getty Images
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With fight organizations cancelling events left and right, coronavirus lockdown has dealt a veritable knockout blow to the combat sport industry.
Fortunately, enterprising Mexican wrestlers have devised a unique way to both stay busy and tackle the coronavirus during this downtime: sewing face masks inspired by Lucha Libre, the local pastime where competitors don colorful getups and engage in fake tussles in a ring.
El Hijo del Soberano, who lost his wrestling gig due to lockdown, tells ESPN he was inspired to act after his wife asked him: “Why don’t we make face masks?”
So like a defunct kitchenware factory making munitions during World War II, the inventive luchador MacGyvered some anti-COVID couture from the excess “fabrics that are used in the wrestling suit makings.”
Now, the colorful pieces, which are inspired by legendary local luchadors, are being bought up by COVID-conscious wrestling fanatics across the country.
