Any pro wrestling fan who tuned into “Monday Night Raw” during the peak of the war between WWE (then the WWF) and World Championship Wrestling would likely see The Headbangers wreaking havoc on the tag team division.
Mosh and Thrasher were, surprisingly, only one-time tag team champions during their careers with the company. Since leaving WWE, Mosh has transformed into an entrepreneur outside the ring and created a premium lifestyle brand that not only reflects his wrestling career but his life as a whole.
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If you tell Chaz Warrington (Mosh) that he’s “lucky” to have been given the opportunities he’s had in his life, he will stop you in your tracks. He’s not “lucky,” he’s “fortunate.” The Live Fortunate brand he created carries a significance that goes beyond just a simple T-shirt slogan. It’s a mantra and a way of life he’s cultivated throughout his life.
“So, Live Fortunate is based around if you’ve ever worked hard for something in your life and someone’s told you you’re lucky, this brand’s for you,” he told OutKick Dropkick in a recent interview. “I’m very fortunate in my life with my past with wrestling, and I work a lot with nonprofits here in South Florida and because I have my wrestling background and because of the nonprofits I work with, a lot of opportunities have popped up for me as far as going to black-tie events and being able to make an impact on the community.
“And then with wrestling, different interviews come up. I’m fortunate enough to where WWE calls me and I can go up to their Performance Center in Orlando (Florida) and work with the NXT kids. So, I look at all of that as things that I’ve worked for, that have become opportunities because I’ve worked hard and I’ve done the work. I’ve put the time in. I’ve done the grind of working early in the morning. With my sales job that I have, I cold-called in 100-degree weather in a suit, walking up and down the street, which all of that has cultivated into different opportunities I’ve been given and I’ve earned.”
Warrington said he thought of it while at his camp. When one member of his group told him he was “lucky,” he immediately said “luck has nothing to do with it,” despite the T-shirt he was wearing at the time was a Lucky Brand clothing item.
He told the person he would be wearing a different T-shirt when he saw them next. He said he was creating the T-shirt when he realized that being fortunate meant more to him than just a word on some cloth.
“The more I started getting into it and I thought about it, I’m like, this isn’t just a T-shirt. It signifies something,” he recalled. “For instance, I have another shirt that has a rhinoceros on it and it says ‘Live Fortunate’ on it. And then there’s all the different words of gratitude, opportunities, and earning things — it’s all like within there.
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“So, that’s kind of the message behind the brand. If you’ve worked hard for anything and someone’s told you you’re lucky, you’re not ‘really lucky,’ you’re fortunate because you’ve earned that opportunity. It’s a clothing line. More of a premium lifestyle brand that I’m looking at. It’s basically the message of getting that across. That’s kind of what the basis is behind it.”
Warrington said he has been fortunate to be able to give back to his community as well through the Junior Achievement of South Florida, teaching kids about financial literacy and sharing his life experiences with the younger generation.
There’s another reason for Warrington to feel fortunate, too.
He’s a cancer survivor.
Warrington was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2017.
He told OutKick Dropkick that he wasn’t one to worry about something unless there was something to worry about and keeping that even-keeled mindset helped push any negative thoughts out of his head to stay focused on the task at hand.
“I think that mindset for me kind of helped. That with the fact that I was like, I’m young. I have a family I still need to take care of. I need to be here, and I just look at things from a positive side. I always try to find a silver lining in something. I don’t look at something as my glass is half empty or half full – it’s always three-quarters full, and I can always fill it back up. So, I think that that’s the part that really helped me pull through that.
“And it’s funny because there’s a lot of times I don’t think of myself as a survivor. I am, but I don’t really look at it that way because, for me, what I went through in my mind was relatively easy. Again, there was a problem, there was a fix, we moved on. There are so many other people out there, their cancer was a lot worse or who are going through a lot worse things than me. So, if I could get the opportunity to talk to them about just trying to stay in a positive mindset, to find the silver lining – the glass is always three-quarters full and you still have an opportunity to refill it. I think that’s kind of what got me through that and the message that, when I do talk to people, I try to get across.”
Warrington said he learned the mind truly is a powerful thing and may be something that doesn’t get enough credit.
He is now focused on helping others realize how fortunate they are in their own lives and maximize the mindset through that message.
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