Los Luchadores

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Los Luchadores
Created byShawn Williamson
Developed byBrad Markowitz
StarringMaximo Morrone
Levi James
Sarah Carter
Arthur Burghardt
Voices ofGary Lam
Theme music composer Paul Gordon
Ron Kenan
Shuki Levy
Kussa Mahchi
Country of originCanada
United States
Original languagesEnglish
French
Spanish
No. of episodes16
Production
Executive producersBrad Markowitz
Lance H. Robbins
James Shavick
Abbie Charette
Running time22 mins
Production companies Fox Family Worldwide
Saban Entertainment
Shavick Entertainment
Rainmaker Digital Pictures (Special Effects)
Original release
Network YTV (Canada)
Fox Kids (United States)
ReleaseFebruary 1 (2001-02-01) 
July 1, 2001 (2001-07-01)

Los Luchadores is a live-action children's television series that aired on Fox Kids in 2001 produced by Saban Entertainment and Shavick Entertainment. Ownership of the series passed to Disney in 2001 when Disney acquired Fox Kids Worldwide, which also includes Saban Entertainment. [1] [2] [3]

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Plot

The series is about a group of lucha libre-style masked wrestlers led by Lobo Fuerte who, along with Turbine, Maria Valentine, and Laurent, operate as vigilantes; fighting to protect Union City from a slew of different enemies led by the Whelp and the bumbling antics of Mayor Potts. The series title is translated as "The Wrestlers" or "The Fighters" from Spanish.

Characters

Main

Villains

Other characters

Episodes

Ay, Chihuahua:

 Series pilot. Douglas Slade (played by Alex Zahara), the former assistant of a scientist named Jacob Mueller (played by Russell Roberts), escapes from prison. With the aid of his henchman Hard Case, he abducts Mueller and some security guards in his building. Slade forces Mueller to turn him into a hybrid monstrosity that involves the injection of cheetah and lizard DNA as a way to make him whole again. After some other injections and becoming Freakshow, he transforms the captive security guards into half-animal hybrids like himself and plans to induct Lobo Fuerte into his entourage so that they can have a warrior's spirit among them.

Bad to the Bone:

Following Los Luchadores' fight with Freakshow that transferred some of his evil into him, The Whelp makes himself known to Lobo and Turbine when he plans to resurrect a long dead pirate, Louie Andre LaFeet, who was said to have aligned himself with dark forces.

Confrontation in the Constellation:

Lobo is captured by aliens (played by Andrew Jackson, Scott McNeil, Rick Faraci, and Alex Doduk) to fight in an intergalactic wrestling tournament.

The Pyramid of Doom:

The trio must save campers from becoming meals for aliens. They find an ally in a deaf girl that was immune to their sonic device.

Anxiety Attacks:

When a group of dwarves pull pranks on the city, trying to cause fear, Turbine is frozen in place, leaving Lobo to fight the dwarves alone to stop them from causing a chaos storm. Things are further complicated when Sophia, a foreign princess (played by Natassia Malthe; credited as Lina Teal) arrives in the city for a business deal with the mayor and avoiding the company of her overprotective bodyguard (played by Christopher Gaze). Thankfully, Maria Valentine is able to look out for her.

The Whelp Strikes Back:

As Maria goes on a date with Dirk Layden (played by G. Patrick Currie), she learns that he is working for the Whelp who sends a robotic double to infiltrate Lobo Tower and prepare it for the Whelp's plan to unleash his shrinking cannon.

Along Came A Spider:

Doris Crabowski (played by Jeanette Sousa), assistant to Dr. Shax (played by Linden Banks), is a devoted fan of Lobo Fuerte who has often had credit for her work taken by her superiors. Due to the negligence of her boss, she ends up unknowingly ingesting an experimental spider venom which turns her into a half-mutant spider. Taking the name of Spiderella, the new personal assumes control and desires to claim Lobo as a mate in order to start a new reign of arachnids in Union City.

Lobo Limbo:

It’s Maria’s Birthday and everyone is ready to celebrate meanwhile, Lobo and Turbine must stop a firing tiki god and save the descendants of the tiki god including Maria.

The Mask of Diablo Azul:

A thief (played by John DeSantis) steals a cursed mask that was worn by the ancient necromancer Diablo Azul which compels him to raise the dead. After Lobo and Turbine manage to defeat him, Turbine becomes possessed by the spirit instead. It becomes a race against time for Lobo to free his friend and stop the dead rising with the aid of the mask's former guardian (played by Marcus Hondro).

The Brain Drain:

Lobo Fuerte's old friend Dr. Maxine Harris (played by Rebecca Reichert) has invented the Ion Particle Stabilizer, which would become a destabilizer if it overheats. The invention would help in stabilizing the ozone. Unfortunately, the Ion Particle Stabilizer attracts the attention of the Whelp who uses an invention to switch minds with Lobo Fuerte so that he can use his body to get past the security system guarding the stabilizer.

It's a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World:

A scientist (played by Robin Mossley) accidentally creates a mutant mud monster that intends to flood the city.

Here Comes the Sludge:

 Mud Man returns and attacks Alfred Shrub (played by Zook Matthews), an environmental activist, but Lobo and Turbine find out that (this time) Mud Man is on the side of good when Shrub reveals himself to be an ecoterrorist who intends to turn Union City into a forest, and ingests a tree growth hormone.

A Good Whelp is Hard to Find

Puppy Love:

Union City is opening its new water treatment plant. The Whelp has developed a chemical that causes anyone exposed to it into mutant Bone Warriors, having tested it on cheating tag-team wrestlers Motley and Gnarly, as well as the wrestler Hog (played by Eric Alex Gelinas). With the Whelp's plan to infect the water treatment plant with it, Lobo Fuerte must thwart him before Mayor Potts activates the plant.

World Without Lobo

The Champ

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