Sport in Mexico Olympic sport. The 400-meter event became popular when Ana Guevara became world champion in 2003. "Italic" text indicates upcoming events hosted by Mexico. Mexican professional wrestling, which is known as lucha libre, has been a popular spectacle in Mexico since 1933, when promoter Salvador Lutteroth Gonzales founded Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre. Like other forms of professional wrestling, it is not strictly a sport, but rather a form of sports entertainment, as matches usually have predetermined outcomes. Lucha libre is characterized by rapid sequences of holds and moves, as well as spectacular high-flying moves, many of which have been adopted
Flying A Productions was broadcast from 1951 to 1953; it starred Jock Mahoney and former child actor Dick Jones. In 1955, Jones obtained his second Flying A series which ran for forty-two episodes, "Buffalo Bill, Jr.", with Harry Cheshire and Nancy Gilbert, a fictional portrayal of a youthful Texas marshal and his younger sister, both named for but unrelated to William Frederick Cody and Calamity Jane. Another Flying A Productions, "Annie Oakley", which aired from 1954 to 1957, starred Gail Davis as the western sharpshooter Annie Oakley, with Brad Johnson and Jimmy Hawkins also in the cast. In 1955, "The Billboard" declared "Annie