Full Blooded Italians
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| Full Blooded Italians | |
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| File:FBI WWE.jpg | |
| Stable | |
| Members | See various sections |
| Name(s) | Full Blooded Italians F.B.I. |
| Debut | 1996 |
The Full Blooded Italians (or F.B.I.) was a professional wrestling stable that previously wrestled in World Wrestling Entertainment's ECW brand. The original F.B.I. was created in the Extreme Championship Wrestling promotion that ran in the '90s.
Extreme Championship Wrestling
The original Full Blooded Italians began in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in 1996 as a comedy stable that put black wrestler J.T. Smith with obese Italian wrestler "Big" Val Puccio, eventually adding two wrestlers from the Southern United States (Tracy Smothers and Tommy Rich) and one more Italian (Little Guido), Guido being involved in every ECW and/or WWE incarnation of the F.B.I. The running gag of the stable was that most of the wrestlers were obviously not of Italian decent, but often claimed to be and acted in stereotypical Italian-American ways, including none-too-subtle Mafia references and constant hand gestures from all involved.
- Members
- Championships
- ECW World Tag Team Championship (2 times)
- Little Guido Maritato and Tracy Smothers (1), Little Guido Maritato and Tony Mamaluke (1)
World Wrestling Entertainment
After a beating at the hands of Rikishi, Little Guido, known as Nunzio at the time, threatened to bring in his "family" to gain revenge. The next week, Chuck Palumbo and Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli joined with Nunzio to reform the Full Blooded Italians and attack Rikishi. They initially gained little success, but went on to have brief feuds with a number of wrestlers and teams, including Los Guerreros (Eddie and Chavo), Chris Benoit, Rhyno, and the Acolytes Protection Agency (Faarooq and Bradshaw). When the group turned face they grew in popularity, however just as they were getting over they were disbanded, with Palumbo being sent to the RAW brand and in November 2004 both Palumbo and Stamboli were released.
Although never an official member, The Brooklyn Brawler aided FBI in an attack on the APA in July 2003, prior to the Vengeance pay per view.
Although it seemed FBI's time in WWE was no more, when Vito LoGrasso made his WWE debut on the August 6th, 2005 episode of Velocity he did so by handing Nunzio a blackjack to help him win the WWE Cruiserweight Championship. Soon after, a profile of Vito in SmackDown! Magazine "officially" referred to the new pairing as "The F.B.I." and they continued to appear in the tag team division of Friday Night SmackDown! until they split in mid-2006. The duo had previously teamed together in Ohio Valley Wrestling as The Andretti Express.
- Members
- Championships
- WWE Cruiserweight Championship (2 times) - Nunzio
Nu-Wrestling Evolution
After their release from WWE Johnny Stamboli and Chuck Palumbo formed a tag team version of the FBI in the Italy-based Nu-Wrestling Evolution, using the gimmick to make themselves top faces in the company.
- Members
- Chuck Palumbo
- Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli
ECW brand
The F.B.I. reunited briefly at the 2005 One Night Stand reunion show when Little Guido, Tracy Smothers, Tony Mamaluke, Big Guido and J.T. Smith appeared together. The next year, when World Wrestling Entertainment launched the ECW brand, Nunzio (once again using the name Little Guido) left the SmackDown! brand and reformed the F.B.I. with Tony Mamaluke, Big Guido, and new member Trinity. After the 2006 One Night Stand and the first ECW event, Big Guido left the company and Tony Mamaluke was released on January 18, 2007. Since then, Trinity has been released as well, thus meaning the stable has come to an end.
- Members
- Little Guido Maritato
- Trinity
- Big Guido
- Tony Mamaluke
In wrestling
- Signature team moves
- Double Team
- Kiss Of Death (Diving legdrop, backbreaker combination with Palumbo holding the opponent as Stamboli hits the legdrop)
- Paisan Elbow Drop (Double elbow drop with Tracy Smothers and Little Guido joining hands before dropping the elbows)
- Triple Team
- Kiss Of Death (Diving stomp, catching hip toss combination with Nunzio performing the stomp)
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- an instrumental variation of the Beastie Boys' No Sleep Till Brooklyn