That night, Ignacio sends a message to Encarnación, explaining his plan and confessing his love to her. The next morning, Steven comes to tell him that Silencio has been injured and cannot fight, and that as the second-place finisher, Ignacio now has the right to fight Ramses Ignacio and Steven agree to team up again. Ignacio is banished from the monastery, and he goes to live in the nearby wilderness. During the match, wrestler Silencio ultimately emerges the victor after defeating Ignacio, who comes in second place. He declares that he intends to fight at a battle royale for the right to take on Ramses for a cash prize, which he will use to buy a bus for the orphans. Ignacio's secret is revealed to the entire monastery when his robe catches fire during mass, exposing his wrestling costume and forcing him to admit that he is a luchador. Attending the party causes Ignacio to fall behind on his responsibilities to the orphans, for which he angrily blames Steven, who retaliates by declaring he hates all orphans they acrimoniously end their partnership. Ignacio gets in by disguising himself as a band member playing for the party, but does not know their material and improvises Ramses finds Ignacio’s performance annoying and ousts him.
Steven climbs over a wall to get inside, where he discovers that in order to be considered a professional, one must be the last luchador standing in the ring at an upcoming free-for-all match. Undeterred, the duo infiltrate a party Ramses’s manager holds for the best wrestlers. He then seeks advice from champion luchador Ramses, who arrogantly rebuffs his attempts at conversation. Ignacio tries everything he can think of, including a folk remedy to acquire the powers of an eagle, but success still eludes the two. They continue to wrestle every week, with Ignacio using the money to acquire better food for the orphans but becoming frustrated that the duo can never achieve victory in the ring.
They lose their first match but still get paid nicely, as wrestlers are entitled to a portion of the total revenue. Ignacio fights with the moniker "Nacho" to keep his identity secret, while Steven adopts the name "Esqueleto". He convinces Steven to join him by promising to share the prize money if they win, and the two join a local competition as tag partners. Having had enough, Ignacio decides to disregard the monastery's rules and become a luchador to make money. One night, while collecting a bag of tortilla chips for the orphans, Ignacio gets mugged for the chips by a street thief named Steven. He also struggles with his feelings for Sister Encarnación, a nun who has just arrived to teach at the orphanage.
Though Ignacio cares deeply for the orphans, he is unable to provide decent meals for them due to a lack of funds. Now a cook for the Oaxaca monastery orphanage where he was raised, Ignacio dreams of becoming a luchador, but wrestling is strictly forbidden by the monastery as it is considered a sin of vanity.
Ignacio's parents, a Scandinavian Lutheran missionary and a Mexican deacon, both died while he was still a baby. Despite the initial mixed reaction from critics, it has since earned a cult following. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $99.3 million at the worldwide box office against its $35 million production budget. The film was released on June 16, 2006, by Paramount Pictures. The film was produced by Black, White, David Klawans and Julia Pistor. Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez), a real-life Mexican Catholic priest who had a 23-year career as a masked luchador and competed in order to support the orphanage he directed. The film is loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta ("Friar Storm", a.k.a. He finds his ascetic, celibate lifestyle challenged even further when he falls in love with a nun who has just arrived to live in the monastery. It stars Jack Black as Ignacio, a Catholic monk and lucha libre fan who secretly moonlights as a luchador to earn money for the orphanage where he works by day as a cook, knowing his fellow monks would look down upon his career and expel him if they discover it. Nacho Libre is a 2006 sports comedy-drama film directed by Jared Hess and written by Jared and Jerusha Hess and Mike White.
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