Paul Roma
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Roma in 1994.
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| Birth name | Paul Centopani |
| Born |
April 29, 1960 Kensington, New York, United States |
| Residence | Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Paul Roma |
| Billed height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Billed weight | 235 lb (107 kg; 16.8 st) |
| Trained by | Tony Altomare, Mr. Fuji |
| Debut | December 17, 1984 |
| Retired | 1998 |
Paul Centopani (born April 29, 1960) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Paul Roma. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling between 1984 and 1995.
Centopani was trained to wrestle by Tony Altomare. He made his professional wrestling debut on December 17, 1984 with the World Wrestling Federation at a WWF All American Wrestling taping in Poughkeepsie, New York, teaming with Salvatore Bellomo in a loss to WWF World Tag Team Champions Adrian Adonis and Dick Murdoch.
Roma began regularly wrestling for the WWF, and his first victory would come at a house show on February 5, 1985 against Steve Lombardi in Brooklyn, NY. His first televised victory would be on May 25 at the Philadelphia Spectrum, where he defeated another preliminary wrestler, Johnny Rodz. For the next two years Roma would appear as a preliminary wrestler, but slowly began to accumulate victories while wrestling on the bottom rung of the promotion, defeating such talents as AJ Petrucci, Joe Mirto, Steve Lombardi, Tiger Chung Lee, Frenchy Martin and "The Duke of Dorchester" Pete Dougherty. In the summer of 1986 he formed a short-lived tag-team with S.D. "Special Delivery" Jones and won a series of house show encounters with The Moondogs. Despite continuing to lose in tag-team matches on television, Roma entered 1987 on an overall hot streak, defeating preliminary wrestlers Randy Culley, Steve Lombardi, and Frenchy Martin to go 10-0-1 on house show matches between January and March 1987.
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