In pictures: Mexico's women wrestlers


Life as a luchadora can be tough. All the professional trainers are men and they expect the women to fight like the male stars.

There is also a lot of travelling, spending hours in buses, planes and hotel rooms. Sexy Star spent nine hours coming back from a bout in Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, for this training session in Mexico City.

"There is sometimes little time for family life or relationships," says Francisco Cellis, of AAA, one of the big fight promotion agencies.

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