[2] He spent his early years in Triunfo de la Cruz, Honduras.

[3] At age 13, he moved to Tegucigalpa from Triunfo de la Cruz, to train as a wrestler, following in the footsteps of one of his brothers.

[2] He joined the High Performance Centre run by the Honduran Olympic Committee (Comité Olímpico Hondureño, COH) and by 2011 won a bronze medal in the cadet category at the World Junior Wrestling Championships in Hungary.

[4][5] Later that year, he competed at the World Junior Championships and won a bronze medal in the 96 kg category.

[9][10][11] He won the gold medal at the 2021 Pan American Wrestling Championships, becoming the first-ever Honduran to do so.