5 Reasons you should watch Lucha Underground
Lucha Underground isn’t just one of the best wrestling shows on television; it’s one of the best shows period. Started in 2014 by Mark Burnett & Robert Rodriguez, this one hour weekly on the then little-known El Rey Network, began by featuring the best of Mexico’s AAA promotion, as well as many from the American independent circuit.
Ex-WWE star Johnny Mundo was arguably the biggest star upon inception and since the beginning, wrestling greats such as Rey Mysterio and Alberto Del Patron, have made this show home.
The action in The Temple in Boyle Heights is imaginative and daring; braving to be vastly different from any other wrestling promotion of the current era. An expanding universe has unfolded featuring characters; whose histories tangle back for what is, in some cases, mythical amounts of time.
This world of underground fighting is most definitely not intended for the entire family, a direction few promotions are trying to go anymore.
Many of these topics, as well as a couple of the standout characters, will be featured in this article highlighting several of the reasons wrestling fans need to watch this show every week. By no means is this list exhaustive, it’s merely a short collection of highlights from a show that deserves unending kudos.
#5 Looks unlike other wrestling shows
Professional wrestling has always been a predictable genre, as far as how the action is presented on screen. This predictability is apparent whenever a wrestler engages in a backstage promo.
Conversations between Superstars and authority figures always require those involved to line up, like they're on a stage, facing the camera. It's very unnatural.
Lucha Underground went in a completely non-wrestling direction, in regards to the out of the ring portion of their stories, opting instead to shoot these moments more in the style of a television drama. The wrestlers are now free to face each other directly, which is as innovative, as it is gripping.
The backstage interactions also allow the storytelling to take a more supernatural turn when needed because, sometimes, Mil Muertes has to extract the soul of a former Disciple of Death. Lucha Underground tells stories in a very different way, and the promos have become a notably unique deviation from the norm. It's refreshing.