1 | [[quoteright:227:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nunziobelt_1478.jpg]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:227:As [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-c.html WWE Cruiserweight Champion]]]] |
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4 | James Maritato (born March 12, 1972) is an Italian-American {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er from [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Howard Beach, Queens, NY]] best known for his work in the original Wrestling/{{ECW}} as Little Guido Maritato and in Wrestling/{{WWE}} as Nunzio. He debuted in 1991 and worked in various independent promotions and for the UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese shoot-style promotion Wrestling/UniversalWrestlingFederation, under the name James Stone. He debuted in [=ECW=] in 1996 and was given the name Little Guido and teamed with JT Smith as the comedy team the Full-Blooded Italians ([=FBI=]), although Smith, who started the gimmick, was African-American. The team expanded to include Southern wrestling veterans Tommy Rich and Tracey Smothers, neither of whom were actually Italian either. Smothers and Guido ''[[CueTheFlyingPigs defeated]]'' Wrestling/NewJack and John Kronus for the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-t.html ECW World Tag Team Championship]] due to Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys interfering, which was the ''only'' way the FBI were going to win, since they had been getting slaughtered to that point. Maritato and Wrestling/TonyMamaluke would defeated Wrestling/MikeyWhipwreck and Wrestling/YoshihiroTajiri for the titles in late 2000 before ultimately losing them to "Dastardly" Danny Doring and "The Angry Amish Warrior" Roadkill as the promotion died out. Maritato debuted in [=WWE=] in 2002 as Nunzio, the [[UnrelatedBrothers "cousin"]] of Jamie Noble. This connection was forgotten about as Nunzio teamed up with Chuck Palumbo and Johnny Stamboli in a [[TheMafia Mafia]]-themed version of the FBI, which was not very successful. Nunzio would go on to be a 2x WWE Cruiserweight Champion. He returned to the Maritato name for the [[MeleeATrois International Three-Way-Dance]] against Tajiri and Wrestling/SuperCrazy at ''ECW One Night Stand 2005''. He has since competed for a variety of promotions around the world, including Wrestling/ImpactWrestling's [=Ring Ka King=] promotion in UsefulNotes/{{India}} as Tony Broadway. |
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6 | !! "Full-Blooded Tropes": |
7 | * ArchEnemy: Tajiri and Super Crazy in equal proportions in ECW. Gregory Helms in WWF/E. |
8 | * BashBrothers: with Tracy Smothers, Tony Mamaluke, Vito |
9 | * BigGuyLittleGuy: with Big Guido and with Big Sal E. Graziano |
10 | * BrooklynRage: He was perpetually bad-tempered. |
11 | * FinishingMove: ''Arrivederci'' (Springboard single arm DDT), [=Tomikaze/Maratano/Kiss of Death=] (inverted double-underhook facebuster aka Wrestling/{{Christian}}'s Killswitch), Sicilian Crab, Sicilian Slice (Diving leg drop bulldog). |
12 | * [[IKnowKarate I Know Amateur Wrestling]]: In Nanuet Senior High School, he also trained under Wrestling/BillyRobinson and competed in UWF-I and USWF. |
13 | * TheNapoleon: Hinted at. In ECW he weighed in at "201 and 1/4 lbs." |
14 | * PowerStable: The FBI |
15 | ** The ECW version: JT Smith, Maritato, Tommy Rich, Davey Paesano (Kid Kash), Tracey Smothers, Salvatore Bellomo, Big Guido, Ulf Hermann, Wrestling/TheOneManGang, Big Sal E. Graziano, Tony [=DeVito=] and Tony Mamaluke. |
16 | *** Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA Wildside version: Maritato, Mamaluke, Tony [=Knightenelli=] (aka Tony Knight) |
17 | *** ''[=WWE SmackDown!=]'' version: Nunzio, Chuck Palumbo and Johnny Stamboli |
18 | *** [=WWECW=] version: Maritato, Mamaluke, Big Guido (only a couple of appearances) and Trinity |
19 | ** (in Impact Wrestling): [=EV2.0=] |
20 | * RedBaron: "The Extreme Stud," "The Sicilian Shooter" |
21 | * TagTeam: The Sicilian Shooters, with Mike Kruel |
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