Lucha libre — the decades-old form of free fighting — has been rooted in Mexican popular culture since the 1930s. Today, in heavily Hispanic American cities, some parents are choosing these wrestling matches as a way to gain some quality time. "Children were not allowed into arenas (in Mexico City) until the mid-1980s," said Heather Levi, assistant professor of anthropology at Temple. Now in the Southwest, it seems that people are seeing lucha libre as a cultural thing, "really embracing it as something Mexican they take their kids to."