Chi Chi Cruz

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Chi Chi Cruz vs Gary Williams in a ladder in a cage matchpart 1 and 2
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I am Chi Chi Cruz. Here is my story..........I had my first match 20 years ago on Sept 25th against Mark Charles in Redvers, SK. We went 2 out of 3 falls to a 30 minute draw. We did every move known to man at the time. I remember being confident before I walked out of the dressing room. When I saw a couple hundred people in the crowd as I left the dressing room and I nearly crapped in my pants! All eyes were on me for the first time in my life. I didn't know what to do. So I started yelling at people and they yelled back. I became somebody else. I wasn't shy because I wasn't me. I felt like I was somebody important. I suddenly had an attitude. Where it came from, I have no idea. But I went with it. I didn't have a clue at the time but the raw energy and belief in myself that came from it is still there. Thank God.I remember the ride home after that first match. I was on top of the world. I was somebody. I still get that feeling after a good match. It's the best feeling possible. It's undescribable.Wrestling is something I don't take lightly. Sure, I've seen matches and wrestlers that shouldn't be allowed in public, none-the-less a ring, but I know that I am at a level above those wannabees. I knew it when I felt the people respond to me in 1985. 20 years have passed. It doesn't feel that long ago. I was only 16 years old. 5 days before my 17th Birthday. I was just a kid at the time, but that day, part of me became a man. Wrestling has been my whole life ever since.I didn't have too many matches until 1989. I finally got off my ass a little over 3 years later, in January 1989. I left everything behind to chase my dream. I went to Vancouver, BC. I wrestled as CC Quinn. My first match there was with a man who would be known as Earthquake in WWF within the year. John Tenta was a HUGE man. He beat me with his 450 pounds in an effort to discourage me. To make me go home. That was how it was done back then. Al Tomko was the promoter and he put me in the ring with his champion and told him to see if I had what it takes. I took the beating and said thanks.I shared an apartment with Dirty Dan Denton and The Mongolian Mauler. It was my formative years. These were big tough guys in my eyes and I wanted to be like them, to impress them. I tried hard and was always ribbed but I never gave up or got depressed. Diamond Timothy Flowers took me under his wing, he was incredible. I listened and learned. I went through what is known as 'hazing' or 'initiation'. Another way to see if I had what it takes. I took it and bought the beer.I became "Chi Chi Cruz" while I was ribbed to death, my first while on the road. It was a road trip to the States (Washington, Idaho, Montana) and every night I would be announced with a different name. The first night I was called Howard the Duck, the next 2 nights I was called Chi Chi Chong and the fourth night the announcer called me Chi Chi Cruz. It came up as a rib but everybody loved it. The crowd responded, the guys liked it and I thought it had a ring to it. Thereafter on TV for All-Star wrestling I was supposed to be an indian whose name was Chee Chee Cruise. I adapted it to be a street tough kid from east L.A. called Chi Chi Cruz. It stuck.I got booked with Tony Condello in June 1989 as a tag team with al Tomko's son Terry (The Frog). We were "The Untouchables". We were good. We were put over strong. It was on TV in Manitoba where I grew up. I was a star at home now.Along came "Bulldog Bob Brown". He took a liking to me. I learned so much from him. I wrestled him constantly and learned. (I remember my dad taking me to see Bulldog against Bruiser Brody in 1986 in Brandon) He helped me get booked for Emile Dupree out in the Maritimes in 1990. I learned from Rip Rogers, Leo Burke, The Beast, Bobby Bass and so many other established wrestlers. What an incredible summer.Got booked on WWF TV in 1991. Had matches with Jaques Rougeau, The Berserker, IRS, The Beverly Brothers, and Steve Lombardi (Brooklyn Brawler)Terry Tomko ran a promotion in 1991 in Manitoba that I had alot of fun with. Everybody recognized me from Tony's TV, the WFWA TV program. I wrestled more often for that promotion than I would for Condello. But I wasn't feeling like I was learning any more. There were no established stars there.I jumped back to WFWA in 1992. I was given my first meaningful Championship. The WFWA Canadian Heavyweight Title. I was 23 years old. From then on I was wrestling Jerry Morrow, Bullodog Bob Brown and Kerry Brown. I kept learning. But I had to have knee surgery in December 1992 from a ACL tear. I was back in the ring in April 1993, 6 months before expected. My knee was still healing but I could move, therefore I could wrestle. Stabbed in the shoulder in November 1993, only out for 3 weeks! 4 inches to the left would have got me right in the neck.1994 - Boat accident on the Red River cuts through 65% of my left arm at the elbow. Doctors want to amputate. I refuse. They say it's hopeless. I say watch me. I also have a dislocated shoulder (un-noticed for 3 weeks), dislocated ribs, and a gash along my left temple. I am back in the ring after 9 months when doctors said I'd never wrestle again.1995- South Africa This was my first overseas tour and it was so much fun! Wrestling in Stadiums and Arenas in Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg.1996-97 - USWA in Memphis, TN I originally went down south working for ICW in Detroit, IWA in Louisville, KY and SSW in TN. I got to wrestle guys like Buddy Landell, Tracey Smothers, The Headbangers, and Bull Pain. Within a month I was hired on with USWA. I learned so very much travelling and working with guys like Jerry Lawler, Brian Christopher, Bill Dundee. TV was done live at 10am on Saturday in Memphis. I ended up living in West Memphis, Arkansas after awhile.1998-99 - I return to the Maritimes for Emile Dupree. Had some of my greatest matches with Joe Legend.1999 Wrestled in Hannover,Germany for Catch as Catch CanOnce again found myself overseas and in constant contact with Terry Taylor, who was WWF agent at the time and had me booked for a tryout that I couldn't attend due to the fact that I was in Germany. I learned an amazing amount of mat wrestling and worked with guys that had different styles. I found that it really improved my wrestling.2000 - WWF camp doesn't go as I thought it would and depression starts to kick in. Bruce Pritchard booked me for a tryout on short notice in January. I hadn't trained hard enough because I didn't expect it so quick from Bruce. I had sent the tape a week before he called me to say they were flying me to Stamford, CT in 5 days. (when I returned from Germany 2 months earlier, Taylor was not with WWF anymore) I had very little money, I only ate once in 2 days because a burger and fries at the hotel they put me in was $38 Canadian and all I left the country with was $50. I tried my heart out but I was saddled with a green guy from Texas(I believe). He was the epitome of terrible. Guererro, Benoit, Malenko, and Saturn jumped from WCW between the time I was called and the time I got thewre. I was told there was no chance of a contract before I even got in the ring. I returned home very depressed, it felt like my dream fell to pieces.2001 - 2004- very depressed, working locally and Maritimes, not giving a real effort when I wasn't on the road with Real Action Wrestling.2004 - Japan I was really trying to kick out of my depression and the problems it brought .. getting to Japan. I didn't get to Japan in the shape I should have, I was too small at 225lbs. While in Japan, I had an awesome time and really felt happy again. The match was my low point over there.I knew I had to make drastic changes in my life.I returned from Japan happy but got depressed again quickly. I knew what had to be done but it was a matter of having faith in myself again. I had lost that. I wasn't living a wrestling lifestyle in Winnipeg either.In 2005 I moved to Edmonton and got my life back together.................................................... ..........UPDATED2007 - I am now developing a TV comedy based on the wrestling/rock n' roll business. I think it has great potential and is a fresh idea. I am ready with a six episode outline and 2 scripts written to acquire funding for this project.I have retired from wrestling after moving home to Winnipeg, MB. ............................................................ .............................................