Adolfo Bresciano

Adolfo Bresciano

Born: August 6, 1948
Died: March 10, 1993
in Campobasso, Molise, Italy
Adolfo Bresciano (Italian: [aˈdolfo breʃˈʃaːno]) was an Italian-Canadian profesional wrestler and promoter, better known by the ring name Dino Bravo.

After training under Gino Brito, he started his career in Montreal in the 1970s, working for Lutte Internationale. He became one of the top professional wrestling stars of Canada; winning several major titles including the Canadian International Heavyweight Championship six times, the NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship (Toronto version), and the NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship. He later signed with the World Wide Wrestling Federation, where as a partner to Dominic DeNucci he won the WWWF World Tag Team Championship. He was also the sole holder of the WWF Canadian Championship before the title was abandoned in 1986.

After leaving professional wrestling, Bravo became involved in organized crime, allegedly working for the Cotroni crime family. He was killed in his home by multiple gunshots in March 1993, and his death remains unsolved.

Movies for Adolfo Bresciano...

Title: Dark Side of the Ring
Released: April 10, 2019
Type: TV
Finding truth at the intersection of fantasy and reality in the veiled world of professional wrestling.
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Get Smartass
Title: Get Smartass
Released: September 4, 2008
Type: Movie
Saving The Day, One Fuck At A Time!! With the world threatened by the evil organization know as P.E.N.I.S., Maxwell Smartass and Agent 69 are ready to save the day, one fuck at a time!
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WWE U.K. Rampage 1992
Title: WWE U.K. Rampage 1992
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: April 19, 1992
Type: Movie
UK Rampage 1992 was an event produced by World Wrestling Federation. On April 19th 1992 live from the Sheffield Arena, The British Bulldog battled IRS, Intercontinental Champion Bret Hart met Rick ‘The Model’ Martel, Shawn Michaels challenged Macho Man Randy Savage for the WWF Championship and The Undertaker squared off against Sid Justice.
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WWE Mega Matches
Title: WWE Mega Matches
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: March 28, 1991
Type: Movie
Get ready for big action and excitement as Sean Mooney takes the WWE Universe on a journey through WWE Mega Matches. From Hulk Hogan going one-on-one with Dino Bravo, to Tito Santana using his speed against Earthquake, don't miss these and more exclusive battles!
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WWE WrestleMania VII
Title: WWE WrestleMania VII
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: March 24, 1991
Type: Movie
WrestleMania VII was the seventh annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation . It took place on March 24, 1991 at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. The main event saw Hulk Hogan defeat Sgt. Slaughter for the WWE Championship as part of a controversial storyline in which Sgt. Slaughter portrayed an Iraqi sympathizer during the United States' involvement in the Gulf War. Significant events in the undercard included The Undertaker's WrestleMania debut and the beginning of his renowned winning streak, as well as the final match of the original Hart Foundation, after which Bret "Hitman" Hart became primarily a singles wrestler.
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WWE The Main Event V
Title: WWE The Main Event V
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: January 28, 1991
Type: Movie
A huge tag team tug-of-war pits Hulk Hogan and his pal Tugboat against "The Natural Disaster" Earthquake and his cohort Dino Bravo on January 28, 1991 from The Macon Coliseum in Macon, Georgia!
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WWE Royal Rumble 1991
Title: WWE Royal Rumble 1991
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: January 19, 1991
Type: Movie
The 1991 WWE Royal Rumble was the third annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation, and fourth overall. It took place on January 19, 1991 at The Miami Arena in Miami, Florida. The main event was the 1991 Royal Rumble match. Featured matches on the undercard were The Ultimate Warrior versus Sgt. Slaughter for the WWE Championship, "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase & Virgil versus "The Common Man" Dusty Rhodes & Dustin Rhodes and The Mountie versus "The Birdman" Koko B. Ware.
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WWE Survivor Series 1990
Title: WWE Survivor Series 1990
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: November 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Survivor Series (1990) was the fourth annual Survivor Series pay-per-view professional wrestling event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 1990 at the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut. This Survivor Series saw the on-screen WWF debut of The Undertaker, who went on to become WWF Champion at the next Survivor Series one year later, and the debut of the Gobbledy Gooker. In addition, Sgt. Slaughter — who was then using an Iraqi sympathizer heel gimmick — delivered a promo where he insulted servicemen stationed in Iraq for Thanksgiving during Operation Desert Shield. Randy Savage, as the "Macho King", was interviewed by "Mean" Gene Okerlund, and issued a challenge to the Ultimate Warrior for the WWF Championship. Ravishing Rick Rude was replaced by Haku after being suspended by WWF President Jack Tunney for insulting the mother of the Big Boss Man.
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WWE SummerSlam 1990
Title: WWE SummerSlam 1990
Character: Dino Bravo (Ringside)
Released: August 27, 1990
Type: Movie
WWE SummerSlam '90 was the third annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view produced by The World Wrestling Federation. It took place on August 27, 1990 at The Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The card featured ten televised matches, including two main events. The pay-per-view also included three title matches.
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WWE SummerSlam Fever
Title: WWE SummerSlam Fever
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: August 19, 1990
Type: Movie
The Summer heats up as the Superstars of WWE hit the ring for some rope-meltingly hot action in the lead up to WWE SummerSlam '90!
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WWF SuperTape vol. 2
Title: WWF SuperTape vol. 2
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: July 25, 1990
Type: Movie
On Supertape Vol. 2, Sean Mooney takes the WWE Universe on a journey through some unforgettable battles and moments involving some exciting WWE Superstars of the past. Witness several exclusive matches, including "Rowdy" Roddy Piper battling "Ravishing" Rick Rude in a Steel Cage Match, Bret Hart facing off against Rick Martel, and much more!
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WWE WrestleFest '90
Title: WWE WrestleFest '90
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: June 28, 1990
Type: Movie
Bringing you the best of WWE, WrestleFest '90 explodes with action!
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WWE World Tour
Title: WWE World Tour
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: May 23, 1990
Type: Movie
Enjoy a first class seat for WWE's World Tour 1990, featuring a memorable collection of exciting matches and exclusive interviews from all over the globe, including Hulk Hogan defending the WWE Championship against “The Macho Man" Randy Savage in a battle from Paris, France. Plus, action from places like Tokyo, London, and more!
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WWE WrestleMania VI
Title: WWE WrestleMania VI
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: April 1, 1990
Type: Movie
More than 65,000 fans pack the Toronto SkyDome to witness The Ultimate Challenge as The Ultimate Warrior faces Hulk Hogan with both the WWE Championship and WWE Intercontinental Championship on the line. "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase defends the Million Dollar Championship against Jake "The Snake" Roberts. Dusty Rhodes and more in action!
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WWE The Main Event III
Title: WWE The Main Event III
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: February 23, 1990
Type: Movie
Heavyweight Boxing Champion James "Buster" Douglas tries to maintain order when "The Macho King" Randy Savage attempts to take back The WWE Championship from Hulk Hogan on February 23, 1990 from The Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan.
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WWE Royal Rumble 1990
Title: WWE Royal Rumble 1990
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: January 21, 1990
Type: Movie
Royal Rumble (1990) was the third annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on January 21, 1990 at the Orlando Arena in Orlando, Florida. The main event was the 1990 Royal Rumble match won by WWF Champion Hulk Hogan. Hogan last eliminated Mr. Perfect to win the match. Featured matches on the undercard were Jim Duggan versus The Big Boss Man, Ronnie Garvin versus Greg Valentine in an "I Quit" match and The Bushwhackers (Butch and Luke) versus The Fabulous Rougeaus (Jacques and Raymond).
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WWE Survivor Series 1989
Title: WWE Survivor Series 1989
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: November 23, 1989
Type: Movie
The 1989 WWE Survivor Series was the third annual Survivor Series professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1989 at The Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois. This was the first Survivor Series event to feature team names. It was also the first Survivor Series to feature four-on-four tag matches instead of five-on-five. The main event was a four-on-four Survivor Series match where The Ultimate Warriors faced The Heenan Family. The undercard also featured Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Matches.
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WWE U.K. PPV
Title: WWE U.K. PPV
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: October 10, 1989
Type: Movie
The first WWE U.K. PPV was held on October, 10, 1989 in London, England at the London Arena. The main event featured Hulk Hogan vs. Randy Savage for the WWF World heavyweight Championship. Other matches featured The Brooklyn Brawler vs Paul Roma, The Rockers vs. The Rouges, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan vs. The Honky Tonk Man, Dino Bravo matched against Bret Hart, and Koko B. Ware versus Boris Zhukov.
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WWE SummerSlam 1989
Title: WWE SummerSlam 1989
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: August 28, 1989
Type: Movie
SummerSlam (1989) was the second annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on August 28, 1989 in the Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The main event was a tag team match between The Mega-Maniacs (WWF Champion Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake) and the team of Randy Savage and Zeus. The main matches on the undercard were Ted DiBiase versus Jimmy Snuka, Ultimate Warrior versus Rick Rude for the WWF Intercontinental Championship[4] and Jim Duggan and Demolition (Ax and Smash) versus André the Giant and The Twin Towers (Akeem and Big Boss Man).
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WWE Royal Rumble 1989
Title: WWE Royal Rumble 1989
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: January 15, 1989
Type: Movie
The 1989 WWE Royal Rumble was the second annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling event produced by the World Wrestling Federation, and the first one to be held on pay-per-view. It took place on January 15, 1989 at The Summit in Houston, Texas. The main event was the 1989 Royal Rumble match won by Big John Studd, who last eliminated Ted DiBiase to win the match. Featured matches on the undercard were Jim Duggan and The Hart Foundation versus Dino Bravo and The Fabulous Rougeau Brothers, Rockin' Robin versus Judy Martin for the WWE Women's Championship and "King" Haku versus Harley Race.
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WWE Survivor Series 1988
Title: WWE Survivor Series 1988
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: November 24, 1988
Type: Movie
Survivor Series (1988) was the second annual Survivor Series pay-per-view professional wrestling event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on November 24, 1988 (Thanksgiving night in the United States) and was held at the Richfield Coliseum, in Richfield, Ohio. The main event was a ten-man Survivor Series match between a team captained by The Mega Powers (Hulk Hogan and WWF Champion Randy Savage) and a team captained by The Twin Towers (Akeem and The Big Boss Man). Hogan and Savage were the sole "survivors" of the match. The undercard featured three Survivor Series matches between mid-card wrestlers.
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The Best of the WWF: volume 17
Title: The Best of the WWF: volume 17
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: November 10, 1988
Type: Movie
All the best and brightest rising stars of WWE - plus the biggest and baddest superstars!
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WWE SummerSlam 1988
Title: WWE SummerSlam 1988
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: August 29, 1988
Type: Movie
WWE SummerSlam was the first annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view event. It was produced by the World Wrestling Federation and took place on August 29, 1988 in Madison Square Garden, located in New York, New York. The PPV was created to help the company compete against rival promotion World Championship Wrestling. It was one of the first four annual pay-per-view events produced by the WWF. The main match of the preliminary bouts was the WWF Intercontinental Championship match between The Ultimate Warrior and the reigning champion The Honky Tonk Man. The Ultimate Warrior won the match in approximately thirty seconds to end the longest Intercontinental Championship reign. The main event was a match pitting The Mega Powers (Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage) against their long-time rivals, The Mega Bucks (Ted DiBiase and André the Giant). Hogan and Savage won the match after Miss Elizabeth distracted the special guest referee by removing her skirt to reveal a bikini bottom.
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WWE WrestleFest
Title: WWE WrestleFest
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: July 31, 1988
Type: Movie
Much like 'The Big Event' held in August of 1986, Wrestlefest '88 was a supercard meant for the live audience only, but ticket sales were large enough to justify recording it for Coliseum Video, with commentary added in afterwards. Taped from Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the latter part of July 1988, with the wonderful combination of Sean Mooney, Lord Alred Hayes, and Superstar Billy Graham on the call. The main event was Hulk Hogan versus Andre the Giant in a steel cage match. The British Bulldogs challenged Tag Team Champions Demolition while WWF Champion Randy 'Macho Man' Savage defended against challenger Ted DiBiase. There were 15 matches total.
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The Best of the WWF: volume 16 Around the World
Title: The Best of the WWF: volume 16 Around the World
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: July 27, 1988
Type: Movie
The best of WWE action from across the globe!
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WWE WrestleMania IV
Title: WWE WrestleMania IV
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: March 27, 1988
Type: Movie
WrestleMania IV was the fourth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on March 27, 1988 at the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The main event was the finals of a fourteen-man tournament for the undisputed WWF Championship, where Randy Savage defeated Ted DiBiase to win the vacant title. The main matches on the undercard were a twenty-man battle royal won by Bad News Brown, Demolition (Ax and Smash) versus Strike Force (Tito Santana and Rick Martel) for the WWF Tag Team Championship, Brutus Beefcake versus The Honky Tonk Man for the WWF Intercontinental Championship and a 14-man tournament for the vacated WWF Championship.
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WWE Royal Rumble
Title: WWE Royal Rumble
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: January 24, 1988
Type: Movie
Royal Rumble (1988) was the first annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on January 24, 1988 at the Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario. Unlike the subsequent Royal Rumble events, this event was not shown on pay-per-view and was instead a television special shown on the USA Network. The main event was a two out of three falls match where The Islanders (Haku and Tama) defeated The Young Stallions (Paul Roma and Jim Powers). The undercard featured the first-ever Royal Rumble match which was won by Jim Duggan, Jumping Bomb Angels (Noriyo Tateno and Itsuki Yamazaki) defeated The Glamour Girls (Judy Martin and Leilani Kai) in a two out of three falls match for the WWF Women's Tag Team Championship and Ricky Steamboat defeated Rick Rude by disqualification.
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The Best of the WWF: volume 14
Title: The Best of the WWF: volume 14
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: December 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Coliseum Home Video Exclusives! Rare footage never shown anywhere else!
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WWE Survivor Series 1987
Title: WWE Survivor Series 1987
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: November 26, 1987
Type: Movie
A team led by "The Macho Man" Randy Savage and Jake "The Snake" Roberts battles a team featuring The Honky Tonk Man & "The King of Wrestling" Harley Race. A Women’s Survivor Series Match includes World Wrestling Federation divas!
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WWE WrestleMania III
Title: WWE WrestleMania III
Character: Dino Bravo (Ringside)
Released: March 29, 1987
Type: Movie
Hulk Hogan goes up against André The Giant for the WWE Championship, while Randy 'Macho Man' Savage battles Ricky 'The Dragon' Steamboat for the WWE Intercontinental Championship at The Pontiac Silverdome in Detroit.
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Title: WWF Wrestling Challenge
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
WWF Wrestling Challenge was a professional wrestling television program produced by the World Wrestling Federation. It was syndicated weekly and aired from 1986 to 1995. The show became simply known as WWF Challenge in 1995. The show featured matches, pre-match interviews, and occasionally, summarized weekly events in WWF programming. Matches primarily saw top tier and mid-level talent versus jobbers. At times, there was a "feature" match between main WWF talent. As with other syndicated WWF programming, the show promoted WWF event dates and house shows in local media markets.
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Tag Team Champions
Title: Tag Team Champions
Character: Dino Bravo
Released: March 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A tribute to the WWF's dynamic duos precision, timing, and teamwork that make them champions.