Working conditions and the level of respect have improved dramatically since then in the Mexican professional wrestling league, the World Lucha Libre Council (CMLL), says Catalina Gaspar, an activist for little people's rights. Microman is the son of Kemonito, who was also a midget wrestler but had a very different career.įor 30 years, Kemonito was a "mascota" for full-size wrestlers, a laughable sidekick who provided comic relief until the real action started.
KEMONITO Y MICROMAN PLUS
Microman, le plus petit des catcheurs mexicains, saute sur son adversaire pendant un combat à l'arena de Mexico, le 7 septembre 2018 Microman was fighting in the second match of the night - four bouts down from the top of the fight card.īut just having his name on the billing shows the progress he and other little wrestlers have made since his father's time. "Microman is a wrestler who gives everything he's got for the crowd," he said, referring to himself in the third person. Microman, 19, takes it all in with an attitude befitting lucha libre's biggest little star. "He's really tiny, but look how he fights!" said another, 30-year-old Felipe Escorza. "Did you see how he held that headstand on top of the ropes? He does it really well," said one impressed fan, 28-year-old construction worker Juan Carlos Elizalde. The audience went wild in Arena Mexico, the high cathedral of lucha libre. He then flattened another with an acrobatic headstand kick known as the "Zero Gravity" move. Source: AFPīut Microman silenced them when he climbed onto the top rope - more than three times his height - to execute a high-flying leap straight into the neck of his also small, but larger, rival.