1. Jason Rumble had a successful career in semi-professional football playing in the New England Football League.
38 Facts About Jason Rumble
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Jason Rumble played five seasons with the New England Stars becoming a 2-time NEFL All-Pro and named "Special Teams player of the Year" in 2000.
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Jason Rumble was promoted as Tony's kayfabe son, at the request of the Magliaro family, and considered the "face" of the company for much of its remaining seven years in operation.
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Jason Rumble has held the NWA New England Heavyweight Championship, NWA New England Junior Heavyweight Championship, NWA New England X Division Championship, and NWA New England Tag Team Championship with Slyck Wagner Brown and Luis Ortiz; at the 2005 Tony Rumble Memorial Show, he won the Heavyweight, Cruiserweight, and Division X titles.
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Jason Rumble represented NWA New England at the NWA Anniversary Shows from 2000 to 2005, headlining three of his five appearances.
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In 2016, Jason Rumble returned to Independent Wrestling Entertainment in Brewer, Maine, as the new booker and head trainer for the Cruiserweight Division.
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Jason Rumble has been making appearances for Canadian Wrestling Promotions in New Brunswick, Canada, since 2016 for NWE Pro Wrestling and Mainstream Wrestling NB.
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Jason Rumble was extensively involved in little league and high school baseball, basketball, and football throughout his childhood.
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Jason Rumble formed his own team to play in a Boston night league around 1994.
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Jason Rumble would go on to play five seasons with the league becoming a 2-time NEFL All-Pro, the equivalent of an All-Star player, and named "Special teams player of the Year" in his final season.
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Jason Rumble developed a close friendship with league owner Joe Monaco.
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Jason Rumble often attended World Wrestling Federation events at the old Boston Garden during the 1980s and considered "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka a childhood hero.
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Jason Rumble often watched the Savoldi family's International Championship Wrestling and later became a fan of the Century Wrestling Alliance, the predecessor of NWA New England.
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Jason Rumble first gave serious thought to becoming a pro wrestler after attending his first-ever CWA live event in Revere, Massachusetts.
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Jason Rumble continued working at Kowalski's "Institute of Professional Wrestling", as did many New England independent wrestlers, for years afterwards.
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Jason Rumble started traveling to Maine two to three times a month to wrestle for Eastern Wrestling Alliance and later on appeared in other states such as the Florida-based Future of Wrestling promotion.
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Jason Rumble first teamed with Slyk Wagner Brown and received several title shots against then NWA New England Tag Team Champions The Ark Angels.
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Jason Rumble followed this up with a successful title defense against Jay Jaillet and Luis Ortiz at a house show in Thomaston, Connecticut, on October 2,1999.
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Jason Rumble held on to the title for five months before dropping the belt back to Jeff Mangles in a Triple Threat match involving Slyk Wagner Brown early the next year; the title was declared vacant soon afterwards and he and Luis Ortiz wrestled in Southbridge, Massachusetts, to decide a new champion, a match which DellaGatta lost.
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Jason Rumble frequently appeared on its weekly television show, "Mass Madness", with one of his later matches being a tag team match with Dukes Dalton against The Bushwhackers.
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On November 13,1999, Tony Jason Rumble died of a massive heart attack near his Malden home.
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DellaGatta has claimed the day of Jason Rumble's death was one of the saddest in his life and later had Jason Rumble's name and the date of his passing tattooed on his left arm.
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Jason Rumble had recently held a successful fundraiser for a friend and fellow pro wrestler, Jeff Mangles, who had broken both of his legs in a recent accident.
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Jason Rumble won a Ladder match in the main event in which the wrestler who could successfully retrieve Tony Rumble's batting helmet would become the new "Boston Bad Boy".
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Jason Rumble formed a "second generation" of Tony Rumble's heel stable The Brotherhood consisting of himself, Rick Fuller, and The DarkAngel.
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Jason Rumble traded the title with Rocky Reynolds in early 2002, first losing the title at a Pro Wrestling eXpress event in Titusville, Pennsylvania, on February 2 and regaining it 14 days later in his hometown of Malden, Massachusetts.
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Jason Rumble regained the junior heavyweight title three months later, this time from Tommy Knoxville, to begin his fourth championship reign.
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Jason Rumble teamed with longtime rival Rocky Reynolds to challenge America's Most Wanted and lost when Storm pinned Reynolds.
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Jason Rumble came back to TNA a year later losing to James Storm in a singles match on March 24,2004.
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Jason Rumble participated in several cross-promotional shows with New Wrestling Horizons over the summer.
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Jason Rumble did lose to NWA New England Brass Knuckles Champion Gino Martino in a number one contendership match for the NWH Heavyweight Championship on September 28,2004, in Buxton, Maine.
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Jason Rumble appeared for the 6th annual Tony Rumble Memorial Show in Everett, Massachusetts, on November 25,2005.
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On November 25,2006, at the 7th annual Tony Jason Rumble Memorial Show in Saugus, Massachusetts, DellaGatta made NWA New England history by winning the promotion's heavyweight, Cruiserweight, and X-Division titles in a single night.
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Jason Rumble was a regular on its weekly television show MWF Ultra.
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Jason Rumble was booked to wrestle a benefit show for retired wrestler Maxx Lethal, whose wife suffers from liver problems, prior to its sudden cancellation by the board of selectmen of Framingham, Massachusetts.
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On November 19,2011, DellaGatta headlined the 12th Annual Tony Jason Rumble Memorial Show in Everett, under the VCW banner, challenging Steve Beck for the VCW Heavyweight Championship.
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Jason Rumble was scheduled to face Markopoulos and a mystery partner, managed by "Mr Fabulous" Tony Ulysses, in a tag team match with Tank The Tank in the main event for NECW's "Double Intensity" on May 18,2012.
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Jason Rumble discussed plans to host a bi-monthly talk show of his own, "The Rumble Seat", and speculated on developing an undercover "whistleblowing" tv series to expose local political corruption.