La Amapola - Lucha Women

Guadalupe Ramona Olvera is better known to Lucha Libre fans as La Amapola ("The Poppy").
This five foot three, 130 pound luchadora was born on  September 9th, 1976 in Mexico City, Mexico.

She was trained by luchadors Satánico, Insolito, Franco Colombo, Memo Diaz and Jose Luis Feliciano.
La Amapola made her pro wrestling debut in December of 1998, and at age 38, she is still going strong.

Although she has worked for other wrestling promotions like International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG), she is a mainstay of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).
In CMLL, she has held the CMLL World Women's Championship for 1,442 days making her the longest reigning women's champion there ever.
Marcela is the only one close at 1,303 days, and that was three separate reigns.

Besides the CMLL World Women's Championship, she has also held the CMLL-Reina International Championship (twice) and the IWRG Intercontinental Women's Championship.

The Lack of Luchadoras

Despite Sarita (Dark Angel, Sarah Stock) having a really good time in TNA (she and Taylor Wilde are the TNA Knockout Tag Team Champions) it doesn't look like the luchadoras in Mexico are getting much of a push.
I was really hoping that Sarita would stir a little more interest in the female wrestlers of Lucha Libre.
But looking back at the major Mexican promotions so far this year, that doesn't to have seemed to happened.

Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA), held their Rey de Reyes (King of Kings) tournament back on March 15, 2009.
The AAA Reina de Reinas (Queen of Queens) tournament is usually held around the same time, but so far, they haven't had one yet.
The last one was on May 28, 2008 and was won by Faby Apache.

At AAA's Triplemania XVII, there were no luchadoras matches, although Billy Boy, Sexy Star, Polvo de Estrellas, and Mini Abismo Negro took on El Elegido, Faby Apache, Pimpinela Escarlata, and Octagoncito in an Eight Person "Atómicos" Tag Team match and won.

At Verano de Escandalo on August 21, 2009, again there was no luchadora match, but Fabi Apache, Sexy Star, Billy Boy and Aero Star were all involved in a Luchas de Apuestas, Steel Cage "hair/mask" match which Billy Boy lost.

At Heroes Inmortales III, Faby Apache will defend her Reina de Reinas Championship against Sexy Star in a "Bull Terrier" match.

Over at Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) the luchadoras didn't fair much better.

At Homenaje a Dos Leyendas on March 20, 2009, there were no luchadoras.

Infierno en del Ring 2009 on July 31, 2009 no luchadoras.

BUT, at the CMLL 76th Anniversary Show held on September 18, 2009 in Arena Mexico, Mexico City, amazingly Dark Angel herself showed up and teamed with Lady Apache to take on and defeat La Amapola and Hiroka in a tag team match.


The Lack of Luchadoras, posted to http://luchawomen.blogspot.com/ on Sept 24th, 2009.

La Nazi, La Amapola and La Medusa

Three famous CMLL rudas, La Nazi, La Amapola and La Medusa.

More of Dark Angel Wrestling in Mexico

More of Dark Angel Wrestling on Mexico

Some more photos of Dark Angel ( Sarah Stock) wrestling La Amapola.

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