1. Dino Bravo became one of the top wrestling stars of Canada; winning several major titles including the Canadian International Heavyweight Championship six times, the NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship and the NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship.
Dino Bravo later signed with the World Wide Wrestling Federation, where as a partner to Dominic DeNucci he won the WWWF World Tag Team Championship.
Dino Bravo was the sole holder of the WWF Canadian Championship before the title was abandoned in 1986.
Dino Bravo was killed in his home by multiple gunshots in March 1993, and his murder remains unsolved.
Dino Bravo was trained by Gino Brito and often worked in a tag team with his mentor, billed as Brito's cousin.
Dino Bravo made his debut in Grand Prix Wrestling on August 25,1972, defeating Frenchy Martin at a match in Quebec City.
Dino Bravo then jumped to NWA Hollywood, making his debut on November 7,1974, in Bakersfield, CA and pinning The Canadian Wolfman.
Dino Bravo ventured into singles competition extensively for the first time in his career and challenged Bulldog Brower on July 7,1975 in Roanoke, VA for the IWA North American Championship.
Dino Bravo earned rematches in August and September 1975 but each match saw the victor only win via disqualification.
Dino Bravo made his debut on December 5,1975 and battled Tony Charles to a draw at a house show in Atlanta, GA.
Dino Bravo then traveled north to Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, defeating Gene Anderson on April 26,1976 in Winston-Salem, North Carlino.
Dino Bravo then formed a new team with "Mr Wrestling" Tim Woods and DeNucci.
Dino Bravo held the Jim Crockett Promotions version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship with Woods, winning the title from Gene and Ole Anderson on May 5,1976 in a televised match in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Dino Bravo re-entered singles competition and challenged Blackjack Mulligan for the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship at a house show in Raleigh, North Carolina, defeating the champion via countout on March 29,1977.
Dino Bravo then returned to GCW on July 23,1977 and defeated Roger Smith at a television taping.
Dino Bravo then travelled north, making his debut for the World Wide Wrestling Federation at a TV taping in Philadelphia, PA on January 31,1978 and defeating Frank Marconi.
Dino Bravo then began a victorious house show series with Luke Graham in the fall of 1978.
One day later he faced Gene Kiniski in a match for the vacated NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship, and that night Dino Bravo secured his first ever singles title.
Dino Bravo defeated Ric Flair in singles action on January 20,1979 in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Dino Bravo returned to Maple Leaf Wrestling in May He faced Canadian Champion Greg Valentine on June 30,1979 in Toronto and regained his title.
Dino Bravo forfeited the Canadian Heavyweight Championship in September 1979 and moved to the American Wrestling Association a month later, making his debut as part of a 17 man battle royal in an event held in St Paul, Minnesota on October 23,1979.
Dino Bravo was undefeated in singles competition, defeating Buddy Wolff, Super Destroyer Mark II, Sonny Driver, Lord Alfred Hayes, until finally losing to Adrian Adonis on January 27,1980 in Green Bay, WI.
Dino Bravo formed a team with Greg Gagne and had a series of matches with The East-West Connection.
Dino Bravo returned for another tour one year later, teaming with Adrian Adonis to face Seiji Sakaguchi and Tatsumi Fujinami in the MSG Tag Team League 1982 on November 19,1982.
The tour ended on December 10,1982 with Dino Bravo teaming with Andre the Giant to defeat Abdullah the Butcher and Billy Robinson in Tokyo.
Andre the Giant dropped out of the ownership group, and Dino Bravo became a partial owner of the Canadian company.
Dino Bravo regained the company's championship on March 7,1983 by defeating Billy Robinson in Montreal.
Dino Bravo successfully retained against Sailor White on November 21,1983 and defeated Nick Bockwinkle on December 26,1983 in Montreal.
The match would once more be in Montreal, but Dino Bravo was only able to win via disqualification.
Meanwhile, Dino Bravo continued to hold the International Heavyweight Championship, defending against Rick Martel and Billy Robinson as the year progressed.
Dino Bravo faced Samu in a rematch on August 12,1986 in Montreal but battled him to a double disqualification.
Dino Bravo continued to team with Tonga that fall, with the team scoring a notable upset victory over The Dream Team in Montreal on September 23,1985.
Still billed as the Canadian Heavyweight Champion, Dino Bravo ventured into singles competition on November 26,1985 edition of Prime Time Wrestling and defeated Nikolai Volkoff.
Dino Bravo entered the new year still undefeated in singles action.
However the match was cancelled at the last moment due to the WWF's fears that Hogan would be booed; Dino Bravo instead faced and defeated Big John Studd at a joint.
At this point Dino Bravo disappeared from WWF rings and resumed competition exclusively within International Wrestling, defending the title against Kamala before finally losing it to Samu later in the year.
Dino Bravo was now noticeably more muscular and almost immediately began bleaching his brown hair blonde and turned on the Rougeau Brothers to become a heel.
Dino Bravo began working as part of Luscious Johnny Valiant's stable with Greg "The Hammer" Valentine and Brutus Beefcake.
Dino Bravo remained undefeated as the fall progressed and began teaming with The Dream Team in six man matches.
Dino Bravo closed out 1986 with a disqualification loss to former WWF Champion Pedro Morales in Providence, RI.
Dino Bravo opened 1987 by teaming once more with The Dream Team, defeating Tito Santana, Pedro Morales, and Hillbilly Jim in a match for Wrestling Challenge taped in Hershey, PA.
At WrestleMania III Brutus Beefcake was kicked out of the stable at WrestleMania III and Dino Bravo took his place in The Dream Team tag team with Valentine.
Dino Bravo was scheduled to face The Junkyard Dog in a match on August 3,1987 in Manitoba, but lost via forfeit when he learned that The Crusher had replaced the Dog as his opponent.
Dino Bravo returned to singles competition after a few months and began a strongman gimmick.
At the 1988 Royal Rumble, Dino Bravo attempted to bench press what he claimed was 715 pounds, which would have been a world record at that time.
Under his new gimmick, Dino Bravo was initially unbeaten and faced various competitors like Hillbilly Jim, Koko B Ware, Ken Patera, David Sammartino, and The Junkyard Dog.
Dino Bravo went to numerous time limit draws with Ricky Steamboat and Jake Roberts.
Dino Bravo played up his Quebecois identity by wearing the Fleur-de-lis and was managed by Frenchy Martin, who often toted around a sign reading USA is not OK.
In March 1988, Dino Bravo lost in the first round of the WWF Championship tournament at WrestleMania IV against Don Muraco after pulling the referee between himself and Muraco to prevent a hit from the Hawaiian.
Dino Bravo scored the biggest win of his WWF run to that point on July 29,1988 when he pinned The Ultimate Warrior using the ropes for leverage in Montreal.
Dino Bravo continued his feud with Patera throughout the summer and gained another televised victory over the former Olympian, defeating him on the August 22,1988 episode of Prime Time Wrestling.
The next day at the King of the Ring, Dino Bravo lost to Jim Duggan in a flag match.
Unlike his encounters with Ken Patera, Dino Bravo was defeated by the American wrestler multiple times and endured the first losing streak of his WWF career.
At the 1988 Survivor Series on November 22, Dino Bravo teamed with Andre the Giant, Curt Hennig, Harley Race, and Rick Rude to defeat the team of Jake Roberts, Ken Patera, Scott Casey, and Tito Santana.
Dino Bravo continued to feud with Duggan through the end of the year.
Dino Bravo opened the year with his feud with Duggan progressing to a series of flag matches at house shows with both wrestlers trading wins.
Duggan gained another televised win over Dino Bravo, pinning him on the January 30,1989 edition of Prime Time Wrestling.
At the Royal Rumble in January 1989, Dino Bravo, accompanied by Martin, teamed with The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers but lost a two out of three falls match against Jim Duggan and The Hart Foundation.
Dino Bravo then moved on to teaming with fellow Canadians The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers in a series of trios matches against Jim Duggan and The Bushwhackers.
At WrestleMania V Dino Bravo defeated fellow Canadian "Rugged" Ronnie Garvin.
Dino Bravo then moved on to a feud with Hercules Hernandez.
Unlike his disastrous series with Duggan, Dino Bravo was victorious in his encounters with Hercules.
Dino Bravo began taunting Ronnie Garvin in televised matches that the latter was refereeing.
At the SummerSlam 89 on August 28,1989 Dino Bravo defeated Koko B Ware in the dark match of the PPV.
Meanwhile, on the house show circuit Dino Bravo moved on to face the other member of the Hart Foundation, Bret Hart.
Dino Bravo participated in the 1990 Royal Rumble and was eliminated by the Warrior.
Dino Bravo vowed that Warrior's scheduled title versus title match at WrestleMania VI would not feature the Intercontinental title, as he declared he would be champion by the time of the PPV.
Dino Bravo then received a shot at WWF Champion Hulk Hogan on the March 10,1990 episode of WWF Superstars.
Dino Bravo then entered the tournament to crown a new Intercontinental champion after Warrior vacated the title following WrestleMania, and on May 12,1990 faced Brutus Beefcake in the quarterfinals.
Dino Bravo entered a house show series with Tugboat as the summer progressed but was unsuccessful, falling to Hogan's protege on numerous occasions.
Hulk Hogan finally returned in August 1990 and Dino Bravo was the recipient of a series of matches; Hogan won each encounter.
Dino Bravo interfered shortly after the match began, causing a disqualification.
Dino Bravo served as Earthquake's corner man at the 1990 SummerSlam on August 27 in Philadelphia, PA but did not get involved in the match.
On November 22 at the 1990 Survivor Series Dino Bravo teamed with Earthquake, Haku, and The Barbarian to face Hulk Hogan, Tugboat, Big Bossman, and Jim Duggan.
Dino Bravo was eliminated during the match by Hulk Hogan and his team went on to lose the match.
The feud continued through the end of 1990 with Dino Bravo often interfering in Hogan's matches with Earthquake, causing the former WWF Champion to lose on multiple occasions by count out.
On January 7,1991 Dino Bravo faced Davey Boy Smith at a WWF Superstars taping in Huntsville, AL.
Dino Bravo participated in the 1991 Royal Rumble on January 19 in Miami, Fl and was the first man eliminated, being tossed over the top rope by the now babyface Greg Valentine.
Dino Bravo then began a short run on Montreal house shows as a face and defeated The Mountie on October 27,1991.
On January 20,1992 Dino Bravo faced The Barbarian in Montreal, Quebec.
However Dino Bravo's retirement was not permanent; he returned to action on a WWF European tour in April 1992.
Dino Bravo was hit by 11 bullets in the head and torso at his Vimont, Laval, Quebec home.
Dino Bravo's alleged role in illegal cigarette smuggling in Canada is popularly believed to have led to his unsolved homicide.
Dino Bravo was a nephew by marriage of Montreal crime boss Vic Cotroni, and was believed by authorities to be involved in his organization for some time.
Dino Bravo is entombed at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.
Dino Bravo's death was the subject of the sixth episode in the second season of the wrestling documentary series Dark Side of the Ring, airing on April 21,2020.