National Wrestling and the Professional Wrestler Day in Mexico

The person who should be thanked for the fact that the sport is one of the most popular in Mexico, in addition to the fact that today it is considered Intangible Cultural Heritage of Mexico City and that it was contemplated to give it a day of celebration in the calendar, is Salvador Lutteroth González, because thanks to the vision that the Mexican businessman had, today is celebrated the National Day of Wrestling and the Professional Wrestler in Mexico.

In 2016 the proposal was presented to the Senate to recognize the sport of costalazos at the national level, however, it was not until 2019 that with 341 votes in favor, the decree was officially signed.

Today Lutteroth Gonzalez is known as "The father of wrestling", but in the 30's he worked as a tax inspector, and thanks to a work trip he made to Ciudad Juarez, he was invited to see a show in El Paso, Texas, where he had the vision to bring this sport to Mexico, an adventurous bet because in the national territory there was almost no knowledge of this activity.

The first professional wrestling show was on September 21, 1933, in the Arena Modelo, a space that Mr. Salvador rented, later bought and renamed as Arena Mexico and although it was in the same place where today is the Cathedral of Wrestling, the show was a few meters from where now is the parking lot of the venue, There, with a capacity for 4,500 people and a line-up that featured Yaqui Joe, the only Mexican, Bobby Sampson, Leong Tin Kit and Ciclón Mackey, the show took place and left the public amazed, since it was a different entertainment to those that already existed at that time. The cost to see these gladiators was $1.00 in the general area and $1. 50 in the general ring.