In early 2019 he was appointed president of the boxing and professional wrestling commission in Cuernavaca.
By 1980 Valaguez became a regular for Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre (EMLL), Mexico's largest and oldest professional wrestling promotion.
Valaguez vacated the Lightweight title when he moved up to the Welterweight division,[1] which in Mexico is between 70 kg (150 lb) and 78 kg (172 lb)[2] On August 4, 1983, Valaquez defeated Mocho Cota to win the Mexican National Welterweight Championship, a title he held for 357 days in total.
[3] Valaguez defended the title on numerous occasions over the following year, until vacating it on July 26, 1984, when he won the NWA World Welterweight Championship from Mocho Cota.
In recent years Valaguez' two sons have begun wrestling; one of his sons initially wrestled as "Chamaco Valaguez, Jr." but in 2007 he changed his ring character to the enmascarado Nosferatu and is now a part of Los Infernales.