Big Vito
| Vito LoGrasso | |
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Lo Grasso, aka Big Vito, making his entrance at a show in March 2013
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| Birth name | Vito Joseph LoGrasso |
| Born |
June 18, 1964 Brooklyn, New York |
| Spouse(s) | Noel Harlow (m. 2014) |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Skull Von Krush Von Krus Vito Krus Vito LoGrasso Big Vito Vito |
| Billed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Billed weight | 249 lb (113 kg) |
| Billed from |
Little Italy, Manhattan, New York, Staten Island, New York |
| Trained by | Johnny Rodz |
| Debut | 1990 |
Little Italy, Manhattan, New York,
Vito Joseph LoGrasso (born June 18, 1964) is an American professional wrestler, of Italian origin, best known for his work in World Championship Wrestling as Big Vito and more recently World Wrestling Entertainment and working for their "developmental territories" Ohio Valley Wrestling and Deep South Wrestling as Vito.
LoGrasso started wrestling in 1990 on the independent circuit until being approached by NOW Wrestling Federation, based in Japan. Vito then went on to work in the USWA and WWC using the name Skull Von Krush.
He worked there for a while and then returned to the states in 1991 and became a jobber in the WWF. He wrestled on early editions of WWF Monday Night Raw as Von Krus, a generic big wrestler who began with a subtly "evil foreigner" gimmick. He faced such superstars as Bret Hart and The Undertaker.
1994 Vito debuted in USWA as Skull Von Krush managed by Lee Womack. He feuded with Brian Christopher, Spell Binder, and Jeff Gaylord. On March 7, 1994 Memphis Memories show. Vito, as Skull Von Krush, teamed with Danny Davis & Ken Wayne in a six-man tag match at a USWA show in Memphis to defeat the team of Jeff Gaylord, King Cobra & Spellbinder. He also later attacked Jerry Lawler.
After a lot of success in those promotions, Vito met up with extreme wrestler Tazz at Johnny Rodz training school, who was able to get him a try out in ECW. When he started in ECW, he was still using the name Skull Von Krush. He later changed his name to Vito "The Skull" LoGrasso and became a member of "Da Baldies" stable, who in the storyline, claimed to be an offshoot of a real life New York street gang, and as such took issue with New Jack calling himself a "Gangsta" and began a feud with him. Vito worked a couple of shows with the now defunct LIWF with Billy Alaimo and was on the Junkyard Dog memorial show in a casket match at The Elks Lodge in Queens, New York.
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