Masks have been around in professional wrestling since the 19th century, and have been an integral part of some grappling cultures around the world. In Japan, famous manga characters like Tiger Mask ...

It is widely believed that wrestling masks got their start in 1865, when a French circus performer named Theobaud Bauer donned a face covering and became "The Masked Wrestler." Fast forward a few ...

In her innovative career, she found her ultimate subject in lucha libre wrestling: men and women who, to her, were members of an unexplored subculture. By Richard Sandomir Lourdes Grobet, whose father ...

Lourdes Grobet, whose father would not let her attend professional wrestling matches in Mexico because she was a girl, but who later became a photographer best known for her images of the ...