Salvatore Bellomo
| Salvatore Bellomo | |
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| Born |
June 18, 1951 Hornu, Belgium |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Salvatore Martino Salvatore Bellomo Crazy Belshlomo Centurian Marsella Jason Martino The Italian Stallion Adonis Romano Wildman Bellomo |
| Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Billed weight | 240 lb (110 kg) |
| Billed from | Calabria, Italy |
| Debut | 1974 |
| Retired | 2006 |
Salvatore Bellomo (born June 18, 1951) is a retired Belgian-Italian professional wrestler with a career spanning more than three decades.
Working in North America under various ring names of Italian derivation, Bellomo started out portraying a mild-mannered, clean-cut fan favorite with respectable technical wrestling skill. In later years, Bellomo would portray a wildman in the ring, thought to be unpredictable and/or brutal by wrestling audiences. The list of titles he has held over the years is almost as colorful and includes everything from the NWA Canadian Tag Team Championship to the WXW Heavyweight Championship.
Bellomo's solid in-ring work eventually landed him a stint in the growing pro-wrestling empire of Vince McMahon. At first, his record was actually quite favorable - particularly in Pennsylvania throughout 1983 and 1984, where the then-World Wrestling Federation put him over the likes of Johnny Rodz, Tony Colon and Butcher Vachon on a regular basis. Bellomo also wrestled former heavyweight champion Bob Backlund at the Philadelphia Spectrum on August 4, 1984, jobbing for Backlund in what would be Backlund's last WWF match of the decade.
From this point on, Bellomo was most recognizable as a jobber on WWF programs throughout the mid 1980s. He even lost cleanly to Bobby "The Brain" Heenan in a match at Madison Square Garden in November 1984. Being the fall guy was not necessarily as ignominious as it sounded, as Bellomo as a babyface got to work with a veritable who's-who of professional wrestling in some of the biggest venues to hold wrestling around the world. During one Piper's Pit segment, Bellomo made an "unscheduled" appearance, inspiring host Rowdy Roddy Piper to quip, "What are you doing here? I didn't order a pizza."
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