From the Independent Producer Project on KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is unfictional.

Unfictional is a program of personal stories, unforgettable characters, and radio movies.

And later on in the program, a story about a man known as the Liberace of Lucchelebray, but first, a poem. The mask of the Mexican wrestler, the Luccador, nowadays is a well-known

image around the world. But in Mexico it's a lot more than that wrestling is a part of the national identity In the neighborhood there is a daredevil a, a madman who fancies himself a fighter,

wrestlers who are treasured cultural heroes.

With a blue demon masked, he goes through the crowds from star to stop between bacchukos and

cholos, unafraid to fight all. The blue demon is one of the most famous wrestlers ever as career

spanned decades beginning in the early 1950s.

Driven mad by Saturday fights, the AAA, villains versus heroes,

Rudos with technicus, masked versus unmasked, and the madman went crazy.

He began as a r a heel a bad guy

He was delusional when the Lidios

He'd go out and fight against anyone who stood in his way

The mask gave him powers. He'd pick up

little old ladies and vanquished. As for the police, he bit their scouts. And And the rest he conquered with technical maneuvers.

Contechnicas, Vensia.

They say the psyche of the Mexican people

is reflected by Lucillebray, good guys good guys fighting bad guys or corrupt officials.

They were feuds and rivalries, and the Blue Demon had his own nemesis and frenemy,

El Santo.

He wore a white mask, a symbol of justice.

One day the people got together and sent him to the madhouse,

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