Medium: Animation
Title: Viva Lucha
Bio: A once decorated champion luchador, El Rey has since moved on from the squared circle to the tiny confines of an office cubicle. Faced with his greatest rival yet, a malfunctioning copier.
Signature Move: Processing TPS reports.
Tag: Web Video
World Wide Wrestling Web: Wrestling is Real
This video is brought to you by the hilarious Matt McCarthy (No. 2 on the Comedians Who Are Legit Wrestling Fans list), who is also the co-host of the We Watch Wrestling podcast. In it, he plays a bar patron who is a defender of all things pro wrestling. But he doesn’t have to sell how real pro wrestling is because Dolph Ziggler shows up to superkick some sense into some jaybrone who claims it’s fake. And you get to see Dolph wax philosophical about Bishop George Berkeley, writer Samuel Johnson, and subjective idealism. Yeah, they went there! Also, “I refute it thus!” should be Damien Sandow’s new catchphrase.
World Wide Wrestling Web: Viva Lucha
Here’s an animated short film from a group of art students from the School of Visual Arts/ Computer Art department. It’s a pretty cool reminder that more animated CGI films (both short and feature-length) should be made about luchadores.
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