![]() “That makes you nervous, because you never know what will happen, whether people will like it,” said Microman. Increasingly, that includes the league’s prized weekend fight nights. They do not earn a regular salary, but they get medical care, health insurance and a guarantee of at least two events per month, according to the CMLL. The Micro Stars started out with abbreviated bouts, but now fight full-length matches just like their bigger peers. I think it was my happiest day in wrestling,” he said. ![]() “I didn’t know people would react like that, that they would back me so much without even knowing me. ![]() Microman himself said he did not know just what to expect that day. Everybody in the crowd was going crazy,” he said. “It was Children’s Day, and it was awesome. Their coach, wrestling legend The Last Warrior, remembers it as a revelation. The eight Micro Stars debuted in April 2017 as the third weight category in the CMLL. “But now they are seen as idols, not mascots or buffoons.”īut Gaspar, who is herself just over one meter tall, said there is still a long way to go: social security benefits, pension plans and other support for “life after wrestling.” Kemonito’s generation had no health insurance or benefits, but put up with the job for lack of other options, she said. ![]() Twenty years ago, they threw them in the ring with wrestlers who were two meters (more than 6’6“) tall, and they got injured a lot,” Gaspar said. 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. 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. He and his fellow “Micro Stars” were met with a smattering of jeers when they got in the ring.īut 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. Microman wowed a skeptical crowd at one recent bout in Mexico City, where he and two co-stars, El Gallito and Guapito, took on another team of small-sized wrestlers. Mexico’s “lucha libre,” a wildly popular mix of sport and entertainment, long featured midgets and dwarves in a deeply demeaning role: they were “mascotas” - a word that can mean both “mascot” and “pet” - for full-size wrestlers.īut a new generation of little people are now rising lucha libre stars in their own right, and dream of one day headlining the main events on their fight cards. Our Micro Athletes have been featured in Jack Black’s Hit Movie Nacho Libre,MTV, Spike TV, Conan O’Brien, Jerry Springer, WWE, Impact Wrestling, as well as many other TV shows and movies.MEXICO CITY: He is just 90 centimeters (less than three feet) tall, but he packs muscles, power and swagger in a little frame: meet Microman, the smallest star in Mexican professional wrestling. If you want to be the talk of the town and see your sales skyrocket MicroMania Tour is for you. Our show consists of a 90 minute action packed show featuring 2 Micro matches, a Bombshells match, and a Main Event Battle Royal featuring Micro Athletes & the Battling Bombshells. MicroMania Tour sells out on a consistent basis Whether your venue holds 100, 500, or 5000 MicroMania Tour will fill it. These micro athletes may be short in stature but are giants in the world of entertainment where they will keep you on your feet screaming from the opening bell through the Main Event! MicroMania Tour is the only Midget Wrestling company based in California and also feature the widely popular available upon request.īeing Based in California we can perform for your venue multiple times a year. MicroMania Tour is a high powered, explosive, athletic Pro Wrestling show with just the right touch of comedy thrown in to make for a unforgettable BIG event not necessarily BIG people!!
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