Chaz Warrington, known to wrestling fans as Mosh of the tag team The Headbangers, has built a clothing brand called Live Fortunate around a simple correction he makes whenever someone calls him lucky.
“Luck has nothing to do with it,” Warrington says. He insists the word people should be using is “fortunate” — because everything he has, from his wrestling career to his current work with charities and with WWE’s NXT program, came from grinding, not chance.
Warrington and his tag team partner Thrasher tore through the tag division during the height of the war between WWE and World Championship Wrestling in the 1990s, though the pair only held the tag titles once during their run. Since leaving the ring, Warrington has built a business outside it.
“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,” Warrington told OutKick Dropkick in a recent interview. He said his wrestling background opened doors to black-tie charity events across South Florida, and that WWE still calls on him to work with young talent at its Performance Center in Orlando.
“I’m fortunate enough to where WWE calls me and I can go up to their Performance Center in Orlando and work with the NXT kids,” Warrington said. “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.”
He said the idea for the brand crystallized at a wrestling camp, when someone told him he was lucky while he happened to be wearing a Lucky Brand T-shirt. He told the man he’d show up in a different shirt next time — and that shirt became the seed of Live Fortunate.
“This isn’t just a T-shirt. It signifies something,” Warrington said. “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.”
A Cancer Survivor’s Mindset
Warrington was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2017. He credits an even-keeled approach — refusing to worry unless there was something concrete to worry about — with getting him through treatment.
“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,” he said. “That’s the part that really helped me pull through that.”
Warrington doesn’t dwell much on the survivor label. “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,” he said. “If I could get the opportunity to talk to them about just trying to stay in a positive mindset — I think that’s kind of what got me through that.”
Beyond the brand, Warrington teaches financial literacy through Junior Achievement of South Florida, working with kids and sharing his life experience. He said the mind is more powerful than people give it credit for, and he now wants to help others recognize just how much of what they call luck they actually earned.
