Charles Ashenoff

Charles Ashenoff born Carlos Santiago Espada Moises better known by his ring name Konnan is a Cuban professional wrestling personality manager and former professional wrestler He is currently signed to Major League Wrestling MLW and Impact Wrestling In Impact he was formerly the manager of The Latin American Xchange LAX and currently serves as a member of the creative team During a career spanning almost three decades he has wrestled for independent and national promotions in the United States and Mexico and held fifteen title belts in nine promotions He has also worked as a manager color commentator booker and creative consultant primarily for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide AAA Outside of wrestling Konnan is also an occasional rapper He is best known to United States audiences for his run in World Championship Wrestling as part of the nWo stable and as part of The Filthy Animals He also created The 3Live Kru for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling TNA in the early 2000s and later the Latin American Xchange LAX stable there as well In Mexico Konnan was the firstever CMLL World Heavyweight Champion and was the leader of the Foreign Legion in AAA when they were the top stable At one point he was referred to as The Mexican Hulk Hogan for breaking attendance records across the country and Konnan still holds the alltime attendance record in Mexico City as well as cities including Tijuana Guadalajara Acapulco Torreon Hermosillo and Nuevo Laredo Konnan also broke the pro wrestling attendance record in Los Angeles when he headlined AAAs first Los Angeles event and the company had a sellout turnaway crowd at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena He was also involved in the creation of Lucha Underground where he was supposed to serve as a writer and producer but ended up in an oncamera role as manager to Prince Puma throughout the first season Konnan is known to be outspoken and in the last decade he has been openly critical of promotions that he feels have mistreated either him personally or the talent in general He has been particularly outspoken against what he sees as racism against Latino wrestlers in United States promotions he butted heads with TNA over treatment of himself and Ron The Truth Killings and WWE over issues regarding Latino wrestlers Alberto Del Rio and Rey Mysterio but he has also come into conflict with AAA over what he alleged was nonpayment of talent