Women wrestling in Bolivia

While there are the Olympic Games, set records and win medals, and medals REKOD spite, I'll tell you about the most paradoxical form of sport - the women's wrestling in Bolivia. Senseless and merciless fun where they dressed in national costumes and aunt luptsuyut clobber each other.
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The town of El Alto is located on a high plateau near the Bolivian capital of La Paz, at an altitude of 13,000 feet.



The battle is about to begin. Going crowd of fans, some of them in traditional attire, the same in which cholitas (female-female wrestlers) appear on the combat.



Devoted fans crave touch "Juan Beloved" ("La Juanita Karinosa") while she goes from behind the curtain to the ring. Female wrestlers-cholitas considered the epitome of strength and stamina, because they still have to fight bigotry and sexism.



Every Sunday, hundreds of people crowd into a sports hall in El Alto to posmotrt Titans on the ring. Tickets for the show, which originally involved only men (Lucha Libre), accounting for 1, $ 50 for locals and a few dollars more for the curious foreigners (who are usually located in the best places in the front row). Ticket sales have jumped up since 2001 organizer Juan Mamani allowed to take part in the battles of female wrestlers.



Juanita-favorite (right) vs. Alicia Flores. Lace skirt did not soften the blow Juanita, which aptly beat his opponent.



Picudo, muscular man-fighter "strangling" Marina de La Paz. That pretty convincing grimaces.



Fans of fighting get special pleasure from the victories over wrestlers-cholitas male wrestlers.



Seventeen Alicia Flores falls out of the ring by hitting a chair, her forehead bleeding (the real you?). Women female wrestlers whose ages variruestsya from adolescence to forty, practicing for hours before going to the ring, and convince the public that everything that happens in the ring - really.



Maria Poma de Rodriguez (right, in headscarf) sick on fighting the Titans of the Ring so often that it has earned the nickname of «la madrina» (godmother).



Gloria Esperanza learns to jump with a rope of the ring so as not to hurt not myself, not my enemy.



Calm before the storm: The wrestlers in the locker room waiting for the start of the match.



Patricia Kaly Tito (right), who fights under the name Alicia Flores, lives in one room with her older sister, 18-year-old Marisol. Marisol, too, wants to become cholitoy and has recently started to train.



In this room lived wrestler Yenny Wilma Maraz Herrera and her two daughters. On Sunday morning, Jenny Vilma prepares her outfit to match. Cholity get in one fight from 20 to 30 dollars. In addition, Jenny Vilma is engaged in manufacturing and sale of traditional clothes and handicrafts.



Two cholity posing in full gear, which includes a hat - the bowler, beloved by many local women. "Carmen Rosa" (left), whose real name is - Polonia Ana Choque Silvestre, a group headed by the Goddess of the Ring, a group of female fighters who broke away from the Titans of the Ring. Yolanda-favorite (right) - a member of both groups. Every week, she fights with the Titans, but also helps in the work of the new group.



Training in the ring on a dirty backyard, Carmen Rosa (center, in yellow) easily meets Yolanda-favorite in the training battle.



Darkness envelops La Paz and Yolanda-favorite (real name Veraluz Cortés) returns home. Unlike other cholitas, she proudly wears the traditional dress in everyday life. Lucha Libre wrestler's daughter, she lives only for appearances in the ring, "We are fighters, we bear a kind of fire that nothing can extinguish.»



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