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Against the express wishes of his grandma (Sara García), Luis (Jorge
Rivero) follows his calling, goes to Mexico City and becomes a wrestler.
At first, everything works out perfectly, he wins match after match, is
loved by the audience, and is invited to participate in the world
wrestling championship - and he finds a beautiful girlfriend, Betty
(Yolanda Lievana). But wrestling, or rather betting on wrestling matches,
is a multi million Dollar industry, so it comes as no surprise that the
Cosa Nostra wants its cut of it and sends their topman, the secretive John
Palermo, whose identity is known to noone, to Mexico to fix some matches
to the Cosa Nostra's advantage. At first, Palermo approaches wrestler
Hercules and tries to persuade him to throw a match - against proper
payment of course -, but Hercules is much to ambitious a wrestler to use
out of his own free will ... and thus he is assassinated soon after the
match. Next, Luis and Betty are kidnapped by the mafia, and Luis gives
into Palermo's demands only after Palermo almost has Betty thrown
overboard. However, just like Hercules, Luis is much too proud a wrestler
to just thow a match, but he thinks he is cleverer than Hercules because
he has planned an escape route for himself and Betty. Brilliant idea of
course - if it wasn't for the fact that Betty was one of Palermo's gang,
and she drugs Luis to then have him killed by one of Palermo's men ... What
nobody, not Luis's friend, not Betty, not John Palermo, knew is of course
that Luis actually had a twin brothre, Mario (also played by Jorge
Rivero), who not only is Luis's splitting image but the two also shared a
telepathic link. And now Mario comes to Mexico City, collects Luis's best
friends, and swears revenge on whoever has killed his brother, and then
... the film ends. To be continued in Los Leones del Ring vs la Cosa
Nostra. Of course, you don't expect virtual masterpieces
from lucha libre films (= Mexican wrestling movies), but even within the
genre, this is one of the weaker efforts, basically because it shows so
little ambition to be anything more than a wrestling drama, and tells a
story that has been told quite a few too many times. And that Jorge Rivero
is rather bland in the lead doesn't help either. To put it bluntly: Pretty
boring!
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