Romeo Roselli
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| Birth name | Giovanni Roselli |
| Born |
September 23, 1980 White Plains, New York |
| Residence | Staten Island, New York |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Johnny Heartbreaker Johnny Romano Giovanni Roselli Romeo Roselli Romeo Johnny Roselli |
| Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Billed weight | 240 lb (110 kg) |
| Billed from | Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| Trained by | Kevin Landry Dory Funk, Jr. Tom Prichard Bill DeMott Lance Storm |
| Debut | 1998 |
Giovanni "Johnny" Roselli (born September 23, 1980) is a professional wrestler and actor better known as Romeo Roselli. He is best known for his work with World Wrestling Entertainment, (on its RAW brand) as one half of the tag team "The Heart Throbs". Roselli is a one-time World Champion, winning the NWE World Heavyweight Championship once.
Roselli began wrestling on the independent circuit, initially training in Springfield, Massachusetts under Kevin Landry.
From 1998 to 2000, Roselli wrestled as a heel, regularly appearing for the video-based promotion Junior Pro Wrestling Association as Johnny Heartbreaker. He rose to the top of the JPWA ranks after defeating top-ranked Damian "Lionheart" Campari. Heartbreaker went on to have the JPWA's longest undefeated streak until, after losing an arm wrestling challenge to Biff Backstreet, Backstreet challenged him to a match and was victorious. At the demise of the JPWA in 2002, Heartbreaker had the 3rd highest number of wins, behind Sasha "The Russian Skullcrusher" and Campari. Roselli also appeared for the video-based BG East Wrestling as Johnny Romano.
With JPWA closing, Johnny Heartbreaker started wrestling for New Era Pro Wrestling. While there, he formed a tag team with Mike Preston called the VIP. On July 13, 2002, they won the vacant NEPW United States Tag Team Championship which they would hold until they vacated the titles in March 2003.
In 2003, Johnny Heartbreaker formed a tag team with Antonio Thomas called the Heart Breakers. On January 23, 2004, in Southbridge, Massachusetts, they defeated Cueball and Nick McKenna to win the Eastern Wrestling Alliance Tag Team Championship. The Heart Breakers lost the titles to Clinically Inclined (Andre Lyonz and Dr. Heresy) on June 18.
In June 2004, Roselli moved to Louisville, Kentucky to train and wrestle in World Wrestling Entertainment's developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling. On August 25, Roselli made his OVW debut when he teamed up with Robbie Dawber to lose to Mac Johnson and Seth Skyfire. In late 2004, Antonio Thomas would also sign for OVW and the pair would reform their tag team, The Heart Breakers. After a few months of teaming together, they took on MNM in a OVW Southern Tag Team Championship number one contenders match but lost.
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