Full Transcript Cha-Cha Charlie Introduction 0:07 Here we go. 0:10 Hey, hey. 0:14 Oh, now Cha-Cha Charlie is in the building. 0:22 There you go, let me see, there we Meet Cha Cha Charlie, a dynamic Dominican professional wrestler. 0:42 He's a talented athlete bringing lots of passion and energy to the ring. 0:46 Stay tuned as he shares his journey and stories on today's episode. 0:50 When you first got that opportunity, how old were you? 0:52 I was 30. 30, which that's not, like, early in life. 0:54 No, that was late. 0:55 That's actually late, but the hat is everything. 0:57 If I hit you with the mongoose flash with a hat on, there's no kicking out. 1:00 One, two, three, game over. 1:02 And for the listeners who don't know what mongoo is, explain to them what it is. 1:06 What does the nutritional plan look like for Cha-Cha Charlie? 1:09 Well, I try to eat good, But at the end of the day I can't tell my mom I'm not gonna eat her food. 1:14 She'll hit me with chancleta. 1:16 For real. 1:17 The Rock's dad, Rocky Johnson, was one of my trainers as well. 1:20 Where did the name Cha Cha Charlie come from? 1:22 Slow. 1:29 Welcome to another episode of a Healthy Point of View podcast. 1:33 Today, we have a new guest, man. 1:36 This is a little bit different. 1:38 this is not one of our PhDs or MDs. 1:40 He comes with an expertise in a whole different other area. 1:44 And I think a lot of people are gonna relate to this because he's made some adjustments in his life and just switched it up to be able to fulfill some 1:52 of his dreams. 1:53 and today, who we've have, We have Byron, right? 1:56 Byran, He doesn't go by Byron. 2:00 What he goes by is Cha-Cha-Charlie. 2:04 Welcome, Cha Cha Charlie. 2:06 Thank you, thank you for having me. 2:07 But yeah, you call me Byran. 2:10 Byrron, hold on. 2:12 It doesn' feel right. 2:13 And as a matter of fact, we gotta have a better entrance in this, man. 2:16 Yeah, yeah. 2:16 We gotta do a full introduction, because right now I don't have my signature hat on, but we're gonna go ahead and do it. 2:23 Let's do. 2:25 And let's get the right introduction. 2:27 Here we go. 2:30 Hey, hey. 2:34 Oh, now Cha-Cha Charlie is in the building. 2:43 Let me see it. 2:43 There we It's Cha Cha time, baby. 2:48 It was official. 2:49 Hey, I love it.
Getting Into Wrestling at 30 2:51 I loved it and for those of you guys who don't know, this is uno de lo mio. 2:58 So he's Dominican and Cha-Cha Charlie, he is doing a lot of great stuff for the people, for kids, right, doing professional wrestling. 3:08 And I've never had a professional wrestler here on the podcast, but I feel honored, man, thank you. 3:13 Dude, there's a lot that you guys go through as professional wrestlers that people have to understand. 3:18 There's very important part for health and wellness, right? 3:22 Mindset and everything else. 3:24 And you've done certain things, and I came across your page. 3:27 I saw that video that went viral and saw you were Dominican and you're here in the Miami area. 3:33 Man, I gotta reach out to them. 3:34 We gotta bring them on the podcast. 3:36 So let's talk about it, Yeah, you reached out to me. 3:40 We made this happen. 3:41 I'm happy to be here. 3:42 Thank you for having me and yeah, I have a big passion for wrestling. 3:49 Wrestling is in my blood. 3:51 My uncle was a wrestler in the Dominican Republic. 3:53 He used to wrestle against Jack Veneno. 3:56 And my uncle's name was La Momia de Santiago. 3:59 That's I think where it comes from. 4:01 It's a part of my Blood. 4:07 I've been wrestling for 10 years now. 4:09 If I would have done it younger, I, would've done, it, But the opportunity presented itself right time. 4:17 It came late, but the time is here and now I'm running within and doing everything possible. 4:22 So let's talk about that opportunity, man. 4:25 When you first got that opportunities, how old were you? 4:28 I was 30. 30, which that's not like early in life. 4:31 No, that was late. 4:31 That's actually late and you're already working your full time job, doing the insurance game, right? 4:37 Selling life insurance, selling property insurance. 4:40 All kinds of stuff. 4:41 with the family, and then all of a sudden, this opportunity came. 4:45 How did this opportunities come about? 4:49 So I love wrestling. 4:50 One of my friends, I don't know, like independent wrestling was a real thing. 4:54 And then my friend Jack, Jack Humvington, um ace mayhem uh he uh i saw him doing the independent wrestling and i was like wow man that's awesome man how 5:05 could i get involved what could I do? 5:08 I went to school for film production so um you know i went up to the owner the at the time Pablo Marquez and Dan Ackerman um i offered them my service 5:19 i'm like let me do your videos um and uh And that's how it started. 5:24 When I was in the ring, I filming Carlito, Caribbean Cool, filming all these cool guys that I grew up watching. 5:31 And I wish I could be there. 5:33 I think I can do the same thing they're doing. 5:37 And then I asked Pablo and Dan to teach me how to wrestle and we could work it out. 5:43 And the magic just happened, cha-cha Charlie happened. 5:48 The fans resonated with my character and it was magic. 5:54 Now you're here. 5:56 That's amazing. 5:58 You said your uncle was wrestling, a pro wrestler in Dominican Republic. 6:01 So you grew up watching him. 6:03 Yeah, yeah. 6:04 So I grew up watching my uncle, he passed away. 6:06 But when I was a little kid, you know, I watching him wrestling in the Dominican Republic. 6:13 He came out here, started wrestling, in New York City, and the Bronx. 6:17 And yeah, Jack Veneno is the number one Dominican wrestler. 6:22 The Dominican legend. 6:24 he's our Hulk Hogan, our John Cena. 6:28 Hopefully I can carry the torch to be the next big Dominican wrestler out there.
Training, Promotions, and AEW Experience 6:31 I love it I don't think there's that many out. 6:34 No, no, there are not many. 6:35 There's a lot of Dominican wrestlers out but none of them are doing it like me right now. 6:44 What leagues are you in? 6:45 Who are wrestling for? 6:47 What events have you done? 6:48 Just so the listeners and viewers can kind of understand what you've been doing. 6:52 So I started with Coastal Championship Wrestling, CCW. 6:54 That's like my home turf. 6:57 There's a school out here in Fort Lauderdale if you want to become a wrestler. 7:00 CC W is where to go. 7:01 Uh, that's my main promotion, but I'm an independent contractor right now. 7:06 So, I wrestle for many promotion. 7:08 You know, right deal, the right time. 7:10 I am going to do it. 7:12 BRCW Boca Raton Championship wrestling is another one. 7:17 Coastal Colossal Championship Wrestling in New York City. 7:20 There's a whole bunch. 7:23 Some of the big stuff that I've done, I worked for AEW. 7:27 You know, when they came out here in Fort Lauderdale, they went to where the Panthers play. 7:31 Okay. 7:32 And the funny story on this one, I was just a guy that was supposed to get beat up. 7:39 I come out during commercial break, go to the ring, and then the crowd just starts noticing me. 7:46 They're like, oh, that's Cha-Cha. 7:50 By the time I hit the ring, the whole stadium is saying my name. 7:52 That was not supposed to happen. 7:55 The limelight was on the other guys. 7:56 It was Dustin Rhodes and Keith Lee, which they're super popular guys But yeah, I'm in the ring, the crowd starts chanting. 8:08 The referee goes, oh my God, you're over. 8:11 Meaning that I am popular. 8:12 I was like, this is my hometown. 8:14 It's not a big deal. 8:16 And then the referee says, aren't you supposed to be a bad guy? 8:20 The announcer goes aren' you suppose to a be bad? 8:22 I said, what do you want me to do? 8:24 You want to tell them to go to hell? 8:30 But then yeah. 8:32 When it was my turn to wrestle, I get the tag and then when I got the tags, you know I was going to go up against Keith Lee at that moment. 8:42 And then the crowd just starts chanting my name even more on national TV. 8:48 That was one of the best experiences I ever had, because I was not expecting that pop. 8:51 That's the motivation factor. 8:53 You feel it. 8:54 The energy is going crazy in that stadium. 8:56 Getting a pop, meaning the crowd is cheering for me, when technically that was never supposed to happen. 9:04 So let me ask you this about the rest of them because I don't understand how wrestling works now other fight fighting You know boxing and stuff. 9:11 There's certain contracts that are produced before you go out Is there a contract like when you're saying? 9:17 Oh, I'm the guy who's supposed to get beat up Is they're like a contact initially where it's like hey, you come in here to fight to beat it up Yeah, 9:24 it's a show at the end of the day. 9:25 It's quarter graph wrestling. 9:26 You know, the term that I hate the most is when people say it is fake. 9:30 There's nothing fake about this. 9:32 Um, you know you're putting your life on the line. 9:35 Your body's getting thrown around and that ring is not soft like everyone thinks. 9:39 Is not a trampoline. 9:41 Its like a boxing ring. 9:43 Uh, there's its wood, one foam piece and a mattress at then of day to get thrown around for 15 or 20 minutes, you're taking a toll on your body that day. 9:54 It's a beating. 9:55 And imagine doing it almost every day, doing every weekend, three to four times a week, it does take a tolling on you body at the end of the day So you 10:04 saying when you see guys up there bleeding, that's real blood? 10:06 Yeah, the blood is real. 10:08 The blood it real, again it's choreographed, its a show, but at end day we are beating each other up, trying to hit each other as hard as possible to show 10:19 the crowd that, you know, it's a fight at the end of the day. 10:24 And we're gonna put our body on the line to entertain everyone's watching. 10:28 Wow, wow. 10:30 So, okay, putting your body in the light. 10:33 This takes some training. 10:35 There's training component, there's recovery component. 10:39 In what I was watching your documentary that's online that everybody needs to watch this because it is a fantastic video about yourself. 10:45 I saw some videos of you at a younger age fighting on the street. 10:50 Yeah. 10:50 Right. 10:51 So what was that all about? 10:52 Because that's not wrestling. 10:53 That was boxing. 10:55 No, no. 10:55 I love fighting. 10:56 And I loved everything. 10:57 UFC, MMA, boxing... 10:59 You've trained in all of those? 11:00 I did a little bit of training on and every little of everything But you know the videos that they were talking about back in the days, 11:07 New York City. 11:08 I was a teen I Was you? 11:10 Know it was rough neighborhood Washington Heights, you you, know de la meal you have to solve it That's where all the Dominicans are at my grandmother 11:18 lived off of a hundred and eighty-seven. 11:20 Yeah, there you go years I grew up on 191st Street St. 11:22 Nicholas So at that time, I always wanted to be on the limelight. 11:31 I was always wanting to do stuff to entertain people. 11:35 So I started my own public access show. 11:39 And then what I would do is me and my friends, we would... 11:43 we will get a crowd going and then we would just box each other in the streets and just entertain everybody and put it on TV the next day. 11:53 And yeah, since I was the one doing it, I said I'm going to be involved too.
Street Fighting Roots and Wrestling Reality 11:57 I want to fight. 11:58 The entertainment was nonstop. 11:59 It reminds me of like Hornhead Masvidal, Kimbo Slice, all these guys down here in Miami. 12:05 They used to do the backyard fighting. 12:07 Similar. 12:08 So yeah I did the same thing. 12:11 But in New York City, and this is before YouTube, before the big social medias, again, we had public access at that time, 12:19 so we were doing it and putting it on the local networks in NYC at the time. 12:23 Nice, that's amazing. 12:24 So the training component of it, of what you do now, because obviously you got a family. 12:31 You got a regular job as well, right? 12:35 How is that training and how do you allocate the time? 12:37 Because there's gotta be a work-life balance here with everything that you got going on. 12:41 Yeah, no, it's not easy. 12:44 You know, I gotta pay the bills. 12:45 I got to take care of my son. 12:46 My son has autism. 12:49 The reason I'm doing all this. 12:51 Then I've got a train. 12:53 Train at the school. 12:56 Make sure I am doing everything good when it comes to wrestling. 12:59 Besides that I have to work out. 13:01 Gotta work constantly to be in ring shape. 13:05 to have the body to look like a wrestler. 13:08 And also for my body, to take the pain and everything that's going on, you have to train. 13:17 You're not training. 13:18 you get weak and you don't want to get week out there. 13:21 That's gonna cause injuries and stuff if you're too weak. 13:23 So that training, when you go to the school and train, what does that train consist of? 13:28 Are you actually going in there with other people? 13:30 Okay. 13:31 So it's a school. 13:32 Um, again, coastal championship wrestling is the main training facility. 13:37 Uh, so if you want to be a wrestler, that's the pace to go. 13:39 They have classes there Monday through Thursdays, um, with a lead head trainer, uh, gangrel who's, a WWE legend. 13:50 Yeah. 13:50 You could, you have to train, You have the train. 13:54 Is that training a little bit like, Like a little bit of acting and also fighting. 13:59 They teach you everything. 14:01 Everything. 14:01 So even like when you got to grab the chair and smack somebody with a chair. 14:05 That's part of the training. 14:07 If you just want to be a commentator, if you want be referee, you have to go through everything to know what's actually happening in the ring. 14:15 Uh, so even the referees, uh, they have to go through the training. 14:18 Um, like actually get in there, fight, also fight for, for they could understand what, what we're going through. 14:25 And cause you know that the referee is there to, to be the ref free, but they're also our guide. 14:30 They're there watching, making sure that we were on time, you, know what they were making there. 14:35 There are part of the, there are, part, of, the whole segment that they we doing. 14:38 Right. 14:39 How long you train for when you go to the school? 14:41 It's three hours maybe. 14:42 Three hours, non-stop. 14:44 So you get exhausted after that. 14:45 Yeah, yeah. 14:47 Now that I've been there for a long time, I'm smarter on the way I train because me, consistently now wrestling every weekend, 14:57 Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. 14:58 You just got to be smart and know what you're doing. 15:04 Again, you don't wanna get injured on something stupid, like in training, doing something that you're not supposed to be doing. 15:12 Because at the end of the day you got the big show coming and that's where it's at. 15:18 You gotta make sure you are good for that. 15:20 Yeah, exactly. 15:20 So what does the nutritional plan look like for Cha Cha Charlie? 15:26 Don't tell me mango and chimichurri, you know? 15:29 It's hard to let that go, with my mom being Dominican, she cooks like a Dominican. 15:34 The mango, arroz con huitzuela, salame, los tres golpes, all that good stuff. 15:43 I don't eat it too like heavy. 15:47 I try to eat good. 15:49 But at the end of the day, I can't tell my mom I'm not gonna eat her food. 15:54 She'll hit me with the chancleta. 15:56 For real. 15:58 So okay, so you got your regiments in place. 16:02 And when you decided to make this transition, to actually fulfill this goal, this dream of yours at age 30, What was going through your mind at that point 16:15 in time when this opportunity presented itself? 16:17 Did you question it or were you just like, I'm gonna do it? 16:23 I saw what it was and I was instantly in love with it. 16:28 My son was just born as well. 16:31 So he was like my motivation. 16:33 When he born, he my was motivation, you know, so what he going though and just wanted to give him something to have his dad proud of. 16:41 And, you know, that was always the main thing. 16:45 But yeah, no, I wanted to do it. 16:48 I saw I had something with Cha Cha Charlie. 16:51 The fans were just, they loved it, They resonated with me instantly.
Family, Recovery, and Nutrition 16:58 They were on my side and I was like, have something here. 17:03 Let me run with it and let me see where it goes. 17:05 And it just kept on growing, growing and growing. 17:07 and now I'm here, Yeah, yeah man. 17:11 So as a serial entrepreneur, I know one of the most important things in building up yourself is building the brand, right? 17:21 Which you obviously have created this persona. 17:26 Where did the name Cha-Cha Charlie come from? 17:29 So, me being Dominican, at practice, I would always dance merengue while I was practicing, doing the bachata. 17:39 I wanted to incorporate my culture, my heritage into my wrestling. 17:45 The Rock's dad, Rocky Johnson, was one of my trainers as well. 17:49 The first name I wanted to go with was El Chaly Bronson. 17:53 Charles Branson, for like the Spanish version. 17:57 So I was like, El chaly bronsong. 17:59 And then The rock's Dad, he shut that down right away. 18:02 He was, like that's stupid. 18:03 I hate it. 18:04 Uh, I don't like it and then I, uh, oh, Oh, it was sad. 18:08 You know, put my head down. 18:10 Like I really liked that name, but then, um, I kept on doing my thing, just training and dancing. 18:17 And then one of the boys, one my coworkers, they were like, why don't you put Cha-Cha in front of it? 18:25 Cha Cha Charlie. 18:25 I'm like Cha, Cha. 18:27 Charlie, I love it. 18:29 It's something that you can't forget that is going to stick in your mind right after the show is over. 18:35 You're going be saying Cha cha Charlie if you like my name or not, you're gonna remember that name. 18:41 I ran with it, it sticks. 18:44 It's something that you can't forget. 18:46 And Cha-Cha Charlie is here now. 18:48 Yeah, yeah. 18:49 No, no, I love it. 18:51 So your son, does he go to every single one of your places? 18:54 No. 18:54 He goes to some whenever I have my mom or my family watching him. 19:01 But he doesn't go through everything. 19:02 Anything that's local, i'll try to take him, but yeah, right now, since I'm traveling a lot, Anything he could go to, I'll try to take him. 19:13 You traveling a lot? 19:15 Traveling a lots right now, man. 19:17 Are you traveling more for the fights or also for some media stuff? 19:20 A little bit of both, but mostly for the fights. 19:22 Yeah, I have a few shows coming up right now. 19:26 New York City, March 8th. 19:28 Queens at the Elks Lodge. 19:30 Nice. 19:32 March 22nd in New Jersey. 19:36 That's going to be at Ridge Park, New jersey. 19:39 I got Austin, no, it's Austin Texas. 19:44 Texas, for Forth Rope, that's gonna be a big one. 19:48 For Thrope is the company that I went viral with. 19:52 Westside Gun, Smoke Dizza, shout out to them. 19:56 With their platform and with what they're doing with me, it's putting me on the limelight right now. 20:01 That's going to be exciting, man. 20:02 You're going have to give me a list of, I'm going end up going on one, right? 20:05 Yeah, yeah, definitely. 20:05 Yeah that'll be good. 20:06 I'll bring some of the team members and stuff. 20:09 Whenever you guys are ready, bring the whole team. 20:12 So this shift, man, I'm gonna go back to that because at age 30, that's not an easy thing to do, right? 20:22 You decide to commit to it, but now you got the work-life balance. 20:25 You got a certain thing. 20:26 Your child was just born, so there's a mindset component. 20:31 How did you deal with juggling all of this stuff? 20:36 Trial and tribulations. 20:39 I dealt with a lot of ups, a lotta downs. 20:44 There was times that I wanted to quit, there was many times I that wanted quit. 20:50 It's not easy, especially at my age, with my child being autistic, dealing with his situation, I was going through a divorce.
Building the Cha-Cha Charlie Persona 21:01 Just a lot of stuff was happening that wasn't on my side or my favor. 21:08 But when I was wrestling, that was like my free space. 21:12 That's where I felt more comfortable. 21:14 that's when i forgot about everything. 21:16 I just was always in a happy place anytime I'm in the ring. 21:23 Right before the current, I always get nervous. 21:26 It's always nerve wracking. 21:27 But once you hit the stage and you see the crowd cheering you, it's like the best feeling in the world. 21:32 You get that energy, man. 21:32 The high frequency is coming in. 21:34 Yeah, that high energy. 21:46 That that's what motivated me to to continue I have a lot of people that that are looking up to me right now, you know, my my son looks up To me, 21:54 but there's a lotta kids a Lot of kids they they're big fans of cha-cha charlie and uh, You know Seeing them smile seeing them happy That's that. 22:05 That what what makes me do all this afterwards. 22:07 So so I want to talk about that because you, know some people They have a lot of kids that follow them, you know, celebrities, 22:15 athletes, and you have the ability to make different choices, right? 22:20 Good choices. 22:21 Bad choices you got the the, ability make a choice of leading people in the right direction. 22:28 What do you wanna do with having that opportunity where all these kids are looking up to you? 22:33 Because you got celebrities out there, man. 22:36 They know they got tons of kids watching them. 22:38 And then all of a sudden, they're doing things that it's just like not good for the kid's mindset and whatnot. 22:46 Where do see yourself leading these children in a positive way? 22:51 I want them to see me as a role model. 22:56 If they have a dream, becoming a wrestler or whatever they want to be when they're growing up, I wanna be that guy that says, 23:05 it doesn't matter what time, doesn' matter when you start, if you focus, you put your mind to it, You put in the work, the dedication. 23:12 I wanted to that be guy, that they say, hey if Cha Cha Charlie did it I could do it too. 23:19 And again, making them smile, make them happy. 23:23 I want to be that guy that the crowd looks up to. 23:28 That's amazing. 23:28 Who was your favorite wrestler growing up? 23:30 I was always one of the good guys. 23:42 Then when Hulk Hogan turned into a bad guy, I cried for that one day, but I instantly became a member of the NWO. 23:51 Yeah, yeah. 23:53 That's my era. 23:55 Those are the guys that I used to watch every day when I use to wake up. 24:00 and those are my guys right there. 24:02 And I tell you man, when we're talking about being a positive light to the children, man I'll tell ya, in my opinion, The Rock has nailed it. 24:11 He was always just, even til today, he's just like, his outgoing personality, charisma, all of that stuff. 24:20 Yeah, you got to have all that. 24:22 You got have charisma. 24:24 you gotta be likable. 24:25 If you're a bad guy, You gotta play the role of a bag guy.You gotta make him hate you. 24:31 But yeah, no, that's what it takes. 24:34 The rock is a perfect example of how big he's gotten because of the world of wrestling. 24:39 Yeah. 24:39 All right. 24:40 Here goes the next one, man. 24:41 Favorite female wrestler growing up? 24:44 Growing up. 24:46 Ugh, that's a tough one. 24:47 I want to say Medusa, because she was the champion for a long time. 24:55 Medusa is who I grew up watching. 24:57 So yeah, I'll pick her. 24:59 I remember Chyna. 25:00 Chynna was cool. 25:02 Yeah, she changed the game. 25:06 She was a different flavor. 25:08 Um, She came here. 25:10 she was beating up everybody. 25:11 Girls, guys. 25:13 China was the real factor when it came to wrestling. 25:17 I wasn't too crazy big a wrestler, but my brother, who's two years older than me, man, he was all in it.
Motivation, Role Model Mindset, and Community Work 25:22 I mean, my parents would take him and everything. 25:24 So, you know, I was just like, by default, always exposed to it, He used to be like dressed like the rock and every thing, 25:30 the little eyebrow thing and whatnot. 25:32 Yeah, wrestling is around everybody. 25:35 You might not like it but the person right next to you loves it growing up in New York City, growing in Washington Heights is not the best neighborhood 25:43 in the world at that time. 25:46 My friends didn't like wrestling, but guess what? 25:49 I will put them on a sharpshooter. 25:51 I would rock bottom them in the bed or outside. 25:54 Even when I was getting into street fights, I put people on wrestling moves. 25:59 So yeah, that was in a different level. 26:01 Yeah, yeah. 26:02 That's amazing, bro. 26:05 What does Cha-Cha Charlie do to give back to the community? 26:09 Oh, do a lot. 26:10 Again, since my My son is autistic. 26:14 I'm involved with, you know, with autism. 26:16 My, I go to hospitals. 26:17 Uh, visit kids. 26:19 Um, sometimes I do speeches. 26:22 Now, when you go, and you'd go like Charlie, Charlie man, the hat is everything. 26:27 The hat, it's the gimmick. 26:29 uh, won't wrestle if the head is not there. 26:31 And you wear it. 26:34 Yeah, that's part of my finish move. 26:37 At the end, if I hit you with the mongoose splash. 26:40 The mongoo splash is is a modified frog splash, it's my version. 26:45 It's with a hat. 26:46 If I if i hit it with them and go splash with that hat on, there's no kicking out one, two, three game over. 26:52 And for the listeners who don't know what mungu is, explain to them what Mungoo. 26:57 So it is it a plantain, a squashed plantaine. 27:01 It's almost like a potato, like smashed potato. 27:06 But it's the plantain version. 27:07 It is a Dominican dish where you eat it with onions, salami, queso frito. 27:17 You could do the eggs, fried eggs. 27:20 Give me a napkin, I'll start a salad. 27:22 I'm drooling over here. 27:23 Hit you with the golden fist right there, right quick. 27:26 So if you're Dominican, you grow up eating this. 27:28 Yeah, yeah. 27:31 So yeah, my goo. 27:32 So basically, um, My opponent becomes a squash plantain after I hit him with it. 27:38 I love it I Love it So what are the next big things for cha-cha charlie? 27:43 You know, the the goal is is always to get signed by a major company like wwe awtna Um, that's always the go. 27:53 Um But again, I'm in that stage right now where I am 40, 40 years old. 28:02 It's now or never for me. 28:04 So I gotta do it. 28:05 I could keep up with the best of them. 28:07 If I can keep with all the young kids. 28:10 Am as good as them or even better. 28:14 And right know, sky's the limit. 28:17 Im running with what I got. 28:21 Signed or not, imma keep doing what im doing and ima try to make it my way no matter what. 28:25 I love that. 28:27 Backstage you were telling me about how you get a lot of support from the people around you. 28:33 In making a commitment that you have at your age, having the full-time job, the family and everything else, you need people in your circle to support what 28:43 you're doing. 28:44 You were talking about your job. 28:48 you traveling and whatnot. 28:50 So I want the listeners to hear you talk about how they can make it happen. 28:56 Because there's somebody out there who's listening to the podcast that wants to fulfill that dream for their life. 29:02 That they might be 30 years old, they may be 35 years. 29:06 Let's talk your circle and how the support you. 29:09 Yeah, it's about balance. 29:12 Balancing your career, balancing your life, and focusing on what you want and what really want to do. 29:22 Because if you wanna be anything, you just gotta work hard and push to your goal. 29:30 The team around me, they're supportive. 29:32 My mom is there for me. 29:38 Even my boss. 29:39 So, you know, Monday through Friday, I have a regular job. 29:42 I sell insurance, commercial auto business, homeowners, auto insurance. 29:50 Injury insurance? 29:51 In injury insurance you have every policy for yourself? 29:54 I got everything for myself. 29:56 You have to. 29:57 The a flat? 29:57 Yeah. 29:59 Yeah, that you had to have it all. 30:01 Um, From nine to five, I'm selling insurance for Booker Bay Insurance. 30:08 My boss understands my main career, my goal. 30:14 He's with me, he understands. 30:16 So he gives me a lot of leeway on focusing on my wrestling because he sees something in me. 30:23 Thanks to him, you know, am able to manage my regular job and then my, wrestling job. 30:31 And then you have positivity also, positive energy. 30:37 Positivity is the key to success. 30:39 A lot of negative things are going to come your way, but you just got to eliminate that some way somehow and just roll with the punches, 30:49 go. 30:51 Be positive. 30:53 Being positive helped me a lot and that's why I think I'm here where I am at right now. 30:59 Keep on pressing forward, man. 31:01 Do you ever see yourself fighting in the Dominican Republic? 31:04 Yeah, yeah, it's going to happen actually. 31:06 It's gonna happen pretty soon. 31:08 What are the big leagues out there? 31:10 The main promotion is DWE, which is Dominican Wrestling Entertainment. 31:16 They're the one that's on TV over there. 31:19 We're working something out right now as we speak. 31:21 Oh, you are? 31:21 Okay. 31:22 Yeah, yeah. 31:22 Where are they based out of? 31:23 What city over here? 31:24 I think it's the capital, Santo Domingo.
Future Goals and Social Media 31:27 Not too sure, don't quote me on that, but that that is what I'd think. 31:30 But they're there the brand that on T.V. 31:35 They bring a lot of big names all the time. 31:36 They've brought Carlito, Caribbean Cool, the Colones. 31:43 And now, you know, with having the Dominican people behind my back, I think it's only right to bring me there soon. 31:52 Yeah, of course. 31:52 You're doing it not just for yourself, but for the country, too. 31:56 For the culture. 32:00 With the video that went viral, the comments were going nuts. 32:04 There's a lot of people who are like, he doesn't even look Dominican, looks Mexican because of the hat, because the way I dance. 32:12 I'm doing it my way. 32:15 When I started the Dominican... 32:17 Because wrestling is not really big in the Dominican Republic. 32:22 But it's big in Latin America. 32:24 It's with the Puerto Rican culture. 32:25 Big with Mexican culture and I wanted everyone to relate to me. 32:32 I want everyone like me not just the Spanish culture, Americans, Europeans, everyone. 32:40 My goal was to become relatable and have everyone to support me. 32:46 But now that the Dominican culture is having my back, it's a major plus. 32:52 Oh yeah, yeah. 32:53 That's amazing, man. 32:55 When you're able to do that for your own people. 32:58 You know, growing up, it just clicked, man. 33:01 My dad was really big into wrestling, but from the DR. 33:06 And I guess the person that he used to watch, and the reason why I know this is, as we were already older, I was probably like 14 and I'm the youngest 33:15 out of four kids, my dad started ordering online these masks of a wrestler and he would explain to me, he's like, oh, this was my favorite wrestler growing 33:25 and it was El Santo. 33:26 You familiar with El Santo? 33:29 And my dad, till today, he has the real mask. 33:32 He spent a lot of money on it. 33:34 This is spectacular. 33:38 And I couldn't understand it, but until I actually started researching it... 33:43 I get why he was so in love with El Santo. 33:46 It was really big for him. 33:48 But that was my dad's favorite wrestler growing up, in the D.R. 33:51 That was a really, big thing. 33:54 Lo Bronco, Broncos numero uno, broncos número dos, those are Dominican legends there. 33:59 And then of course, Jack Venano was the big, he was to John Cena. 34:04 He was The Hulk Hogan. 34:06 So if you mentioned him, Jack Vanano, I'm sure right away he's going to jump off the seat. 34:10 Yeah, there's actually a movie on him that dropped. 34:13 or four years ago or something like that before he passed away. 34:16 Yeah, my dad was always big into martial arts, man. 34:20 He was a black belt kung fu in the DR. 34:24 So think about it. 34:24 They're not gonna have a lot of kung-fu people in there. 34:27 And we grew up doing martial art and everything. 34:30 My dad one of the senseis that would help and teach and whatnot. 34:35 Like the mask, My goal is for people to see me but with my hat. 34:39 You know, they wanna get the hat, the cha-cha hat And the same way your dad, you know, the mask is big. 34:46 The boy have the cha-cha hat. 34:47 So do you have like custom apparel and stuff that you do? 34:49 Yeah. 34:50 Yeah, so the Cha-Cha hats, hit me up on Instagram, on my social media or at the events. 34:57 I bring them at events, I'll sign them for you. 34:59 We take pictures and then we'll be dancing and celebrating all night long. 35:04 I love it, I loved it. 35:05 So Cha Cha Charlie, man, as we wrap up here, if there's one person out there that's listening that can resonate with your story, 35:14 right, and they wanna do something big in life the way that you've done and you're gonna keep on doing it what's that one thing that your gonna leave them 35:22 off with? 35:22 Focus, focus, Don't ever stop, don't stop. 35:35 There's gonna be many reasons that you're gonna wanna stop but if there's something that really wanna do in life, sky's the limit, 35:44 push forward. 35:47 It takes a lot of hard work and dedication. 35:49 The grinding is what was gonna help you achieve your goals at the end of the day. 35:53 So always keep pushing. 35:55 Stay positive. 35:57 It's all a mental thing and just push as hard as you can. 36:02 You never know how big or how far you could go. 36:05 Guys, you guys are hearing it from the guy who has done it himself. 36:08 The proof is in the pudding. 36:10 He's doing it. 36:11 he's doin' it big. 36:13 you're seeing him all over the place. 36:14 Where can people find you? 36:16 You can find me on Instagram. 36:17 It's Cha Cha Time. 36:19 My Twitter with X, it's cha cha time. 36:23 YouTube ChaChaCharlieTV. 36:25 Cha cha Charlie. 36:28 TikTok is Cha Cha Time, Facebook, ChaChaCharlie. 36:32 I'm easy to find, cha cha Charlie this, chacha Charlie that. 36:36 And once you hit me up, let me know what's good and there's gonna be one big party and we will be celebrating and dancing all night long. 36:46 It's Cha cha time. 36:49 I appreciate you coming up. 36:51 Yeah, absolutely. 36:52 And all those links and stuff, they're going to be down below. 36:54 Everybody's going be able to see it. 36:55 So, brother, I'd appreciate it you. 36:56 Thank you, thank you for having me. 36:58 It's an honor.
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