Gino Brito
| Gino Brito | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Louis Gino Acocella |
| Born |
May 18, 1941 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Residence | Canada |
| Children | Gino Brito Jr. |
| Family | Jack Britton (father) |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Gino Brito Louis Cerdan |
| Billed height | 5 ft 10.5 in (1.79 m) |
| Billed weight | 240 lb (110 kg) |
| Trained by | George Cannon |
Louis Gino Acocella (born May 18, 1941), better known by his ring name Gino Brito, is a Canadian professional wrestler. He was a popular wrestler in Montreal, and was one of the promoters in the city in the 1980s. As Louis Cerdan, he was a WWWF Tag Team Champion, teaming with fellow Canadian-Italian wrestler Tony Parisi.
Brito was the son of wrestler Jack Britton, who was organized a central booking office for midget wrestlers in the 1950s. Brito had a job for the promotion shuttling the wrestlers from city to city. Before becoming a professional wrestler at the age of seventeen, Brito was an amateur wrestler. At age seventeen, he was trained by George Cannon. He began working with Detroit promoters Bert Ruby and Harry Light over a year later.
He first teamed with Tony Parisi in Tennessee, where the duo won the tag titles in Nick Gulas's promotion within two weeks. The two also won the WWWF Tag Team Championship in 1975 from Blackjack Mulligan and Blackjack Lanza. They later lost the title to The Executioners. Brito continued to wrestle through the mid-80s.
He also promoted shows under the International Wrestling banner in Montreal beginning in the 1980s, when he earned a television deal for his promotion. The promotion lost several key players in the mid-1980s, such as The Rougeaus, Rick Martel, and Dino Bravo. It held events that sometimes had up to 10,000 fans in attendance. The company, however, went bankrupt in 1987, nine months after the aforementioned wrestlers left. The promotion was the last Quebec-based promotion to have a weekly television show.
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