also known as Big Vito or simply Vito, is an professional wrestler who has worked for WWE, WCW, ECW and TNA.
WRESTLING FACTS
Finishing and signature moves
Dress Code (Kimura with opponent's head buried under his dress)
Code of Silence / Luca Brasi DDT
Fuh-geta-bout-it / Big Vito Special / Paisan Plant / Skull Krusher
Mafia Kick
Corner slingshot splash
Diving elbow drop
Managers
Downtown Business Brown
Tony Marinara
Marie
Disco Inferno
Trinity
Little Guido
Nicknames
The Toughest Man to Ever Wear A Dress
The Skull
The Sicilian Silencer
Championships
IWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Campionship (1 time-current)
Deep South Heavyweight Campionship
(1 time)
EWP Iron Man Championship
(1 time 364 days)
WCW Hardcore Championship(2 times)
(once with Johnny The Bull)
WCW World Tag Team Championship
(2 times)-with Johnny the Bull
CAREER
1990-1999
Vito started wrestling in 1990. He first made a name for himself in ECW as Skull Van Krush, a generic big wrestler who began with a subtley "evil foreigner" gimmik who never rose above jobber to the stars category. Later he changed his name to Vito "the Skull" LoGrasso and becoming a member of " Da Baldies" stable, who claimed to be an offshoot of a real life New York street gang, and as such took issue with New Jack calling himself a "Gangsta" and began a with him.
1999-2004
In 1999 Vito left ECW for WCW where he teamed with Johnny The Bull as The Mamalukes . Managed by Tony Marinara The Mamalukes captured the WCW Tag Team title (twice), and were jointly awarded the Hardcore title.
After being awarded the Hardcore title Vito and Johnny were forced to face one and other in a match to crown one champion, which Vito won.
In 2001 when The WWE purchased WCW Vito was one of the wrestlers who was lost in the shuffle, neither becoming a part of The Invasion nor taking one of the large ticket buyouts offered.
He had a brief run in TNA in late_2004 with Glenn Gilberti , Trinity and Johnny Swinger as the "New York Connection".
2005
In Early 2005 Vito worked dark matches for the now renamed WWE and signed a contract with them in July. He was assigned to their OVW developmental territory for several months until he was called up to the main roster.
Vito made his debut on WWE television on the August 6 episode of Velocity, where he helped Nunzio win the WWE Cruiserweight Championship from Paul London . Together Vito and Nunzio attempted to reform the Full Blooded Italien team, but it didn't take off and they remained mostly on Velocity with a few appearances on SmackDown!, continuing to play up their Italian heritages, but without the name.
2006 - 2007
Vito and Nunzio turned heel again (after a short flirtation with being faces ) in March 2006 under an angle in which Vito announced that he wanted to be recognized as a "Godfather" and he would wear a blazer and glasses.
Beginning in May various wrestlers began approaching Nunzio in backstage situations and spreading rumors that they had seen Vito in public places in various forms of cross-dress. Nunzio originally wouldn't hear of any such thing until the June 2nd SmackDown! when Vito came down the ramp, in a dress, to collect Nunzio after losing a match. The next week, after arguing about Vito's clothing choices, the two former friends faced each other in a match which Vito won after hitting Nunzio with The Code of Silence. Not long after Nunzio joined the ECW brand, leaving Vito on SmackDown! alone.
The idea for the gimmick seemed to originate on The Sopranos, who also had a character named Vito who had recently been outed as a homosexual (though he was never seen in womens clothing).
Regardless of his passion for cross dressing, Vito continually explained that he was a straight man; including one instance of asking Diva Ashley out on a date while wearing a dress. After this he began to "have more fun" during his matches, running around and waving his dresses and otherwise interacting with the fans, turning him once again Face. As the gimmick took off, various people began voicing problems with a man wrestling while wearing a dress, including color commentator JBL and wrestlers Montel Vontavious Porter and W. Regal . At the same time, the WWE began to "censor" any incidents of Vito's dress raising and exposing his (bethonged) buttocks. Despite his detractors, once he started wearing a dress Vito began an undefeated streak which didn't end until over four months later when he was defeated by Elijah Burke after interference from his partner Sylvester Terkay.
2007
DSW
Vito defeated champion Bradley Jay and Ryan O..Reilly in a three-way round robin match to win the Deep South Wrestling Heavyweight Champoinship on January 25, 2007. After winning the title he was removed from the WWE.com SmackDown! roster page, and in DSW his gimmick changed from wearing dresses to martial arts-style trunks and going shoeless in the ring.When asked on DSW TV he announced that he changed his style of dress because his opponents were citing it as a distraction and claiming his clothing was the reason they were losing to him. He held the title until February 22, when he lost it back to Bradley Jay.
OVW
Deep South Wrestling talent were sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling following the end of DSW's relationship with WWE. On May 15, 2007 WWE.com announced that Vito had been released from his WWE contract.Vito is now taking bookings via WrestleMag.com.
World Tour of Wrestling
Vito lost two matches 1.Money in the Bank for the vacant World Tour of Wrestling Heavyweight Champion,2.6-man Battle Royal for the number one contender for the WTW Heavyweight Champion.On May 27,2007 Vito is scheduled to fight "The Texan" Aaron Arispe Jr. on the 1st Pay Per View(PPV) Event.
