Full Blooded Italians

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Full Blooded Italians
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Little Guido & Tony Mamaluke celebrate a victory in Philadelphia's ECW Arena.
Stable
Members Little Guido & Tony Mamaluke
Name(s) Full Blooded Italians
F.B.I.
Debut 1996
Disbanded 2007
Promotions ECW
WWE
NWE

The Full Blooded Italians (or F.B.I.) was a professional wrestling stable and tag-team that wrestled for Extreme Championship Wrestling in the late 1990s and for World Wrestling Entertainment during the mid-2000s.

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[edit] History

[edit] Extreme Championship Wrestling

The original Full Blooded Italians began in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in 1996 as a comedy stable that put 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.[1] Guido being involved in every ECW and/or WWE incarnation of the F.B.I.[2] The running gag of the stable was that most of the wrestlers were obviously not of Italian decent, but they often claimed to be and acted in stereotypical Italian-American ways, including none-too-subtle Mafia references and constant hand gestures.

[edit] World Wrestling Entertainment

[edit] SmackDown! brand

After a beating at the hands of Rikishi, Little Guido, known as Nunzio at the time, threatened to bring in his "family" to gain revenge. The next week, Chuck Palumbo and Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli joined with Nunzio to reform the Full Blooded Italians and attacked Rikishi. They initially gained little success, but later had brief feuds with a number of notable wrestlers and tag teams, including Los Guerreros (Eddie and Chavo), Chris Benoit, Rhyno, and the Acolytes Protection Agency (Faarooq and Bradshaw). The F.B.I. was also used by Mr. McMahon to attack The Undertaker and by Jamie Noble (Nunzio's kayfabe cousin) to attack Rey Mysterio. When the group turned face, they grew in popularity, but were disbanded just as they were getting over and Palumbo was sent to the WWE's Raw brand.[3] In November 2004, both Palumbo and Stamboli were released.

Vito LoGrasso made his WWE debut on the August 6, 2005 episode of Velocity by aiding Nunzio with a blackjack to help him win the WWE Cruiserweight Championship. Soon after, a profile of Vito in SmackDown! Magazine "officially" referred to the new pairing as "The F.B.I." and they continued to appear in the tag team division of SmackDown! until they split in mid-2006. The duo had also previously teamed together in Ohio Valley Wrestling as The Andretti Express.

[edit] ECW brand

The F.B.I. reunited briefly at the 2005 One Night Stand and 2006 One Night Stand pay-per-view events when Little Guido, Tracy Smothers, Tony Mamaluke, Big Guido and J.T. Smith appeared together. The next year, when World Wrestling Entertainment launched the ECW brand, Nunzio (once again using the name Little Guido) left the SmackDown! brand and reformed the F.B.I. with Tony Mamaluke, Big Guido, and new member Trinity. After the 2006 One Night Stand and the first ECW event, Big Guido left the company. Tony Mamaluke was released from his WWE contract on January 18, 2007.[4]

[edit] Nu-Wrestling Evolution

After their release from WWE Johnny Stamboli and Chuck Palumbo formed a tag team version of the FBI in the Italy-based Nu-Wrestling Evolution,[5] using the gimmick to make themselves top faces in the company.

[edit] Incarnations

  • Third Incarnation
    • Promotion: WWE SmackDown! brand
    • Type: Tag team
    • Active: 2005-2006
    • Members: Nunzio, Vito
  • Fourth Incarnation

[edit] In wrestling

  • Signature team moves
  • Double Team
  • Triple Team

[edit] Championships and Accomplishments

[edit] References

  1. ^ SLAM! Sports - Wrestling - Nunzio
  2. ^ a b Superstar > ECW > Nunzio > Bio. WWE.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-03.
  3. ^ WWF Champs - Wrestler Profiles
  4. ^ http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2007/01/18/3401781.html Tony Mamaluke released
  5. ^ Evidence of FBI in NWE. Nwe-wrestling.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-03.

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