Chuck was born in Providence, Rhode Island. Chuck's first bike was a Sears and Roebuck rigid mini bike that he was riding at the age of 4. A year later Chuck and his father pulled out the 3.5 horsepower motor and replaced it with a 5 horse Tecumseh. What a death trap. His first hot rod, that explains alot. BMX bikes came next. "I started with a 20" Mongoose, I would take it completely apart and reassemble it weekly". I still have a Redline 24" that I ride once in a while". Chuck raced and wrenched on BMX bikes until he was old enough to drive, then came cars and motorcycles.
At 15 Chuck bought an old Olds Cutlass and started working after school and summers in an autobody shop fixing it up. Soon Chuck was painting, welding and doing plasticwork. "I picked up body and paintwork quick, I was always restoring something. I still do alot of the paint and bodywork on my bikes and cars". Around that time Chuck traded an old Ford pick up for an 81' Kawi KZ 1100 with a big bore kit. "It had a Kerker header, 36mm Kiehen carbs, and drag bars, another death trap."
Chuck also excelled in sports in highschool going on to make the all-state team in basketball as a senior. "I tried going to college after I graduated highschool but is wasn't for me". Chuck found himself homeless, living in his truck at the age of 19. "My brother had just left for the Navy and kinda sold me on it. I was tired of living on Mountain Dew Big Gulps and Marlboros, so I figured what do I have to lose"? Chuck went on to become an aviation mechanic in the Navy, working on the flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson in the Persian Gulf. "When I wasn't out on the ship I was working at Naval Station Miramar in San Diego. Growing up in the North East, San Diego was like paradise, I couldn't belive it."
After a 4 year stint in the Navy Chuck decided to go back to school and play basketball again. Chuck was a Junior College All-American as a freshman and went on to earn a full scholarship to Central Missouri State University. Chuck also became a proud father of a beautiful baby girl that same year.
During college Chuck started watching Pro Wrestling on TV and almost instantly decided this is what he wanted to do. Chuck saw the ad for the WCW Powerplant (WCW's training camp) during an episode of WCW Monday Nitro. I saw a guy in the audience holding up a sign that said: want to wrestle? and had a telephone number so I called it. "Chuck sold all his belongings, and drove across country to Atlanta, Georgia with his 1 year old daughter Charli and girlfriend Shannon. He trained for about 2 years without pay while paying to attend the training camp. He would train 9am-5pm monday thru friday while his girlfriend would watch their daughter. He would get home and his girlfriend would hand the baby off to him and go to work as a waitress. "Shannon would work 7 days a week, double shifts on the weekends to help make ends meet so I could train to wrestle". I would never had made it if it without her."
Chuck finally recieved his first TV contract with WCW in 1999 and has been going strong ever since. Chuck lives in San Diego, CA and has wrestled for companies all over the world including WCW, New Japan, WWF, WWE, All Japan, AAA and CMLL of Mexico, Italy and is currently a WWE Superstar on Monday Night RAW. When Chucks not traveling the world wrestling, he's in the shop, building bike's. "I get to wrestle and build choppers, what could be better than that."