Lucha VaVoom Announce Additional Cinco de Mayo Show Saturday, May 6 In Riverside, CA

DATE: APRIL 3, 2017

FROM: MIKE GOWEN/MITCH SCHNEIDER, MSO PR

LUCHA VAVOOM

ANNOUNCE ADDITIONAL

CINCO DE MAYO SHOW

AS PART OF THEIR 15^TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR

SATURDAY, MAY 6

AT RIVERSIDE MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM IN RIVERSIDE, CA,

MARKING THE VERY FIRST TIME THAT LUCHA VAVOOM HAS INVADED

THE INLAND EMPIRE

FEATURING LIVE MEXICAN WRESTLING, BURLESQUE, LOWRIDERS, COMEDY AND MORE

TICKETS FOR THE 18+ SHOW AVAILABLE NOW

Who better than LUCHA VAVOOM to celebrate freedom, independence and diversity with this coming Cinco de Mayo?

LUCHA VaVOOM–now in its 15^th anniversary year of delivering arguably the most electrifying shows on earth at The Mayan Theater in Downtown L.A and other U.S. cities plus festivals worldwide–is coming for the very first time to the Inland Empire. See this historic outing at a special one-night-only “Cinco de Mayo Spectacular” 18+ show Saturday, May 6 at 8pm at Riverside Municipal Auditorium in Riverside, CA.

LUCHA VAVOOM, celebrated for their mind-blowing mix of Mexican masked wrestling, burlesque and comedy, will amp up the intensity to a new level. Tickets are on sale now (ages 18+) and can be purchased here via TicketWeb. Doors at 7pm and show begins at 8pm. Click here to watch a recap of February’s “Twisted Valentine” show.

Founded in Los Angeles by Rita D’Albert and Liz Fairbairn—two fearless pop culture visionaries who’ve been pivotal to the downtown Los Angeles renaissance–2017 marks a big milestone for LUCHA VaVOOM as they celebrate their 15^th year. BurlesqueMag.com last year rated Lucha VaVOOM as the #1 burlesque show in the U.S. raving, “Lucha VaVOOM is a non-stop, action-packed scream-a-thon, where Mexican Masked wrestlers flip and fly…in-between matches, the finest, handpicked burlesque acts from around the world astound.” (11/18/2016)

The margarita madness of this year’s Cinco de Mayo show is set to feature matches with Luchador favorites: Rey Escorpion, Rey Horus, Extreme Tiger and Magno in addition to Crazy Chickens, Mariachi Loco, and Li’l Cholo, among others. Also, bringing the VaVOOM is burlesque beauty Jessabelle Thunder, L.A. Roller Girls, Hula Hoop master, Marawa The Amazing and much, much more!

Photo credit: Timothy Norris

About Lucha VaVOOM:

Founded in Los Angeles in 2002 by Rita D’Albert and Liz Fairbairn, LUCHA VaVOOM–the acclaimed and mind-blowing Mexican masked wrestling/burlesque/comedy ensemble voted Los Angeles’ “Best Burlesque Show” by LA Weekly for 2012 and 2013–is good vs. evil played out in quick, exhibition-style, one-fall Lucha Libre matches for maximum enjoyment and action. Arguably more rock than rock and more punk than punk, LUCHAVaVOOM has created a Los Angeles tradition: from the low-rider car parade escorting the performers as the crowd enters the iconic Mayan Theater, to the local luminaries they attract (Drew Carey and Jack Black have sat in), to burlesque (which was revived right here in Los Angeles), to Lucha Libre, where masked heroic wrestlers, in character-driven style, flip, fly and amaze. It all comes together to make one fun, surreal, glam-bam spectacle of raucous entertainment. You could say it’s a wrestling show for people that don’t like wrestling (and those that do). The Los Angeles Times said, “Far-out flamboyance always prevails at Lucha VaVOOM, a spectacle of Mexican freestyle wrestling with an L.A. twist (7/09/06).”

At LUCHA VaVOOM, they like a little sexo with their violencia. In between matches, the finest handpicked burlesque acts from around the world wow the crowds with their unique striptease skills, including raucous aerial acts, pogo-stick peelers and hula-hoop hotties. The Los Angeles-based performance troupe has regularly sold out 1,000-seat venues across the globe (Amsterdam, Calgary, Toronto, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Portland and Philadelphia, among many other cities), performed at Fuji Rock Festival in Japan and Big Day Out Festival in Australia since its birth in 2002 and call Los Angeles’ Mayan Theater–an elaborately appointed, 1927-built former motion-picture palace–home when not on the road. A sizzle reel featuring LUCHA VaVOOM highlights (high-octane Mexican-style lucha libre wrestling, traditional burlesque and blow-by-blow comedic commentary) can be viewed here: http://tinyurl.com/nswes3x. Click here for LUCHA VaVOOM‘s EPK.

“There’s no show that’s funnier, sillier or more entertaining than this one.”
—Eric Idle (Monty Python)

“…no one that puts on a better lucha libre show than the folks at Lucha VaVOOM. Far wackier and wilder than most professional wrestling…Lucha VaVOOM lets its freak flag fly…”

“Lucha VaVOOM is an underground celebration of all things perfect in this world…Lucha VaVOOM is what will pass for primetime entertainment when the polar ice caps finally melt and there’s not a single drop of oil left to be squeezed from the planet. In the post-apocalyptic future Lucha VaVOOM’s mix of “sexo y violencia” will replace the Super Bowl, the Internet, and daytime television as humanity’s primary form of entertainment.”

“The over-the-top-wrestling-orgy of sexy ladies, masked men, and overall debauchery known as Lucha VaVOOM has long been a you’ve-either-seen-it-or-what-the-F-is-wrong-with-you proposition.”

Tickets are available at ticketweb.com and these outlets:
Wacko, 4633 Hollywood Blvd – (323) 663-0122
BRAT, 1938 14th St, Santa Monica – (310) 452-2480

For more information on Lucha VaVOOM, visit:

Click here for past Lucha VaVOOM press releases and assets