Mexican Masked Wrestling + Burlesque + Comedy = Lucha VaVOOM

Lucha VaVOOM is a non-stop, action-packed scream-a-thon, where Mexican Masked wrestlers flip and fly, performing breathtaking acrobatic feats. It’s good vs. evil played out in a one fall, Lucha Libre exhibition-style match for maximum enjoyment.

LuchaVaVoom is scheduled for Sunday at the Showbox, but will the show go on?

Last year Washington State Department of Licensing successfully shut down a local fight cabaret troupe, formerly known as Seattle SemiPro Wrestling. There was a lot of press around the issue at the time, but ultimately the performance troupe, which had been entertaining Seattle for over 5 years with their tongue in cheek parody of mainstream “professional wrestling”, ran out of money for lawyers and number of appeals available to them. This Sunday, Lucha Va Voom is scheduled to play at Showbox SODO and the DOL is at it again, trying to classify this show as “sports entertainment” and forcing them to jump through all the same hoops as the Mariners have to to play. This classification is incorrect and causes show stopping ramifications… [continued]