The Full Blooded Italians | |
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Stable | |
Members | See below |
Name(s) | The Full Blooded Italians The F.B.I. |
Former member(s) |
Salvatore Bellomo Tommy Rich Davey Piezono Mabel J.T. Smith Big Guido Ulf Herman One Man Gang Chuck Palumbo Johnny Stamboli Vito Trinity Nunzio Tracy Smothers |
Debut | 1996 |
Promotions |
ECW WWE NWE JAPW TNA HoH |
The Full Blooded Italians (or F.B.I.) are a professional wrestling stable and tag team that wrestled for Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in the late 1990s and for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) during the mid-2000s.
The original Full Blooded Italians began in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in 1996 as a comedy stable that placed African American wrestler J.T. Smith with Italian wrestler "Big" Val Puccio, eventually adding two wrestlers from the Southern United States, Tracy Smothers and Tommy Rich, and one more Italian, Little Guido. Guido has been involved in every ECW and/or WWE incarnation of the F.B.I. The running gag of the group was that most of the wrestlers were obviously not of Italian descent, but they often claimed to be and acted in stereotypical Italian American ways, including none-too-subtle Mafia references, constant hand gestures, and praising famous Italian figures such as Frank Sinatra and Rocky Balboa. During their ECW run, the crowd would regularly chant "Where's my pizza?" at the group. The group would routinely come out to a techno remix of "Stayin' Alive" and challenge their opponents to dance-offs.