In the late 1990's, he worked for both World Championship Wrestling (as Julio Sanchez) and the World Wrestling Federation (as Sanchez or Julio Fantastico). He was a jobber in both promotions, wrestling dark matches and on b-shows such as WCW Thunder and Sunday Night Heat.
In late 1999, he joined Extreme Championship Wrestling, where he formed a tag team with EZ Money known as Hot Commodity. Fantastico was renamed Julio Dinero and given the character of a gigolo. He made his ECW pay-per-view debut on November 5, 2000 at November to Remember 2000. Dinero remained with ECW until the promotion went bankrupt in March 2001.
On May 2, 2008, he appeared as a jobber on an episode of WWE SmackDown in a match against Finlay under his Julio Dinero ring name.