1. Gino Martino has wrestled for Chaotic Wrestling, the Millennium Wrestling Federation, New England Championship Wrestling, NWA New England, Ultimate Ring Wars and Paulie Gilmore's New World Wrestling.
42 Facts About Gino Martino
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Gino Martino is a former NWA New England Heavyweight Champion, NWA New England Colonial Heavyweight Champion, NWA New England Tag Team Champion, and winner of the 2004 Tony Rumble Memorial Rumble.
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Gino Martino feuded with "Big" Rick Fuller over the Chaotic Wrestling Heavyweight Championship during 2001, winning the belt twice.
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Gino Martino has been similarly honored by the New England Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame.
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Gino Martino has won numerous tag team titles as one-half of The Millenium Killaz with Ali Mohammed.
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Gino Martino was part of The Alliance of Violence with The Vachon Brothers in CWA Montreal, where he and Pierre Vachon became the promotion's first-ever tag team champions in 2006, and Demon Ortiz in Chaotic Wrestling several years later.
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Gino Martino has encouraged 300 pound wrestlers to stand on his chest while lying on a bed of nails.
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Gino Martino was a fan of pro wrestling growing up and followed the World Wide Wrestling Federation during the late 1970s and early 80s.
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Gino Martino started weightlifting during his teenage years and eventually became a collegiate Bench Press and olympic-style weightlifting champion.
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Gino Martino had a background in martial arts, namely judo, and was a power breaking champion.
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Gino Martino considered attending Killer Kowalski's wrestling school in Malden, Massachusetts but decided against it due to the high tuition fees.
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Gino Martino was instead trained by Jeff "Bruiser" Costa, Rip Morrison, Dan Petiglio, and Paul Zine among others.
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Gino Martino received additional training from Tony Rumble, Ox Baker, and The Iron Sheik and adopted versions of their finishers as homages to the latter two.
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Gino Martino started his career in Jeff Costa's World Independent Wrestling promotion in New Hampshire twice winning the promotion's heavyweight title from Sonny Goodspeed and Bart Hart respectively.
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Gino Martino won multiple tag team titles with Ali Mohammed as The Millenium Killaz.
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Gino Martino appeared on its inaugural event held at the Good Times Emporium in Somerville, Massachusetts where he teamed with Joel Davis and Trooper Gilmore in a 6-man tag team match against The NY Posse.
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Gino Martino began competing regularly for the promotion the following year scoring victories over "Brutal" Bob Evans and Alex Arion in the fall of 1999.
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Gino Martino faced El Mascarado, "Mr USA" Tony Atlas, and Ronnie D Lishus, the latter match being officiated by special guest referee Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat.
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Gino Martino was originally brought in by MWF Commissioner Dr Von Johnson to take out Ralph Lano but later turned against him.
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Gino Martino was later recruited by Ox Baker to join his stable, Ox Baker's Army.
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Gino Martino started trading blows with Kamala and his former stablemates turned against him.
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Gino Martino later teamed with Danny Dangerous to win the NWH Tag Team titles from The Elite.
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Gino Martino defended the title in New Wrestling Horizons and NWA Green Mountain that same month.
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Gino Martino spent the rest of the year making Brass Knuckle title defenses in NWA Green Mountain, NWA USA Pro Wrestling, and NWA Wildside.
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Gino Martino re-wrestled Vachon, this time in a three-way broken bottle death match with Dave Donavan, and won the ASWF Hardcore Championship.
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Gino Martino has called this the most favorite match of his career.
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Gino Martino entered a championship tournament for the NWW US Heavyweight Championship.
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Gino Martino defeated Dave Showtime in the opening round but was eliminated in the semi-finals by Eric Shred via disqualification.
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Gino Martino teamed with Ron Zombie to defeat Justin Credible and The Sandman in a Beds of Nails Death match for Powerhouse Wrestling a week later.
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Gino Martino was a welcomed addition to URW with all of his experience and his showmanship.
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Gino Martino made his first appearance on the February 21st 2009 edition of "NWA On Fire TV" as a guest on "Tommy's Corner" with host Tom Savoldi.
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Gino Martino wrestled two matches for NWA On Fire TV, against "Boston Bad Boy" Jason Rumble and "Jivin" Jimmy Capone respectively, and remained undefeated during his time in the promotion.
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Gino Martino then defeated Elia Markopoulos in the second round before being eliminated by Handsome Johnny in the semi-finals at "Breaking Point".
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Gino Martino was a guest on the Canadian internet radio show Rope2Rope Radio where he discussed the independent scene in the Northeast, promoting Chaotic Wrestling and a few other New England promotions, as well as his own wrestling career.
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Gino Martino was scheduled to take part in the 2nd annual Al Biondi Memorial Tournament on December 11,2010.
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Gino Martino promoted an upcoming interpromotional show for Independent Wrestling Entertainment and NWA on Fire during the show, where he was to face former tag team partner Johnny Primer, as well discussed his recent appearances on Italian television and Stan Lee's Superhumans on the History Channel.
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Gino Martino's demonstrations have included bending steel bars and breaking iron bars over his head, and headbutting and snapping a Louisville slugger in half with his skull.
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Gino Martino's specialty is using his head to break various hard or heavy objects.
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Gino Martino has had cinder blocks jack-hammered off his head, concrete blocks set on fire and broken over the side of his head using a sledge hammer, and having 16lb bowling balls dropped on his head from heights up to 15 feet.
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Gino Martino was invited on WROR's "Loren and Wally show" in Burlington, Massachusetts where he performed "Feats of Strength" for guests and listeners.
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Gino Martino was part of the 1999 strongmen documentary "Beyond Pain" by James W Kent.
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Gino Martino won the Chinese Martian Arts Association Iron Skills title in Long Island, New York.