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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2017 15:57:33 GMT -5
According to Martel, who actually asked in 1991 to work with Bravo in a tag team (which sounds like a Power & Glory sorta team-up), he was told by Vince that "Dino doesn't fit in our plans anymore."
How he fit into the plans is the topic at hand, naturally, but at some point whatever usefulness Vince did have for him just......ended.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Jul 11, 2017 16:31:24 GMT -5
What happened to him is still one of the craziest things to ever happen in wrestling. Was there ever a positive ID on who murdered him? I understand he was involved with Canadian Gangsters but what was the reason they murdered him for ? Around the time Dino Bravo died, the price of cigarettes in Canada was rapidly increased, I think due to something with taxes, and so, there was sort of a criminal boom of people taking much cheaper U.S. cigarettes and smuggling them into Canada to sell them. And Bravo got involved in it. But it seems he stiffed the wrong people and they assassinated him. If memory serves correct, Quebec at least had a notable organized crime problem back then.
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Post by Squirrel Master on Jul 11, 2017 17:43:49 GMT -5
My guess is that Dino Bravo was very much in the know about when and where it would snow heavily in Canada, and such was very useful information if you worked in the '80s WWF.
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Post by Albino Heat on Jul 11, 2017 18:11:19 GMT -5
I seem to recall Pat Patterson liked him, due to Bravo being French Canadian, so he probably stuck around off that.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2017 20:43:16 GMT -5
He had the Apter mags in his corner ![](https://guideimg.alibaba.com/images/shop/2016/08/20/73/the-wrestler-magazine-dino-bravo-the-man-hulk-hogan-cannot-beat-july-1989_23897673.jpeg) In July 1989? I can't even remember what Bravo was doing in 1989 apart from that dull Mania match. He didnt do much other than start teaming with Earthquake late in the year They were building a "Montreal dream match" between Hogan and Bravo for years, they were just waiting for Dino to finally pull up stakes and move to the WWF. (As I've stated before, Montreal had their own little pocket WWF world only Francophones - French speaking people - saw. The Rougeaus beating the Harts for the belts, only for Jack Tunney to overturn the decision? Montreal. "Frenchy's Studio" interviews? Montreal. Pat Patterson speaking French? Eh, can be either one...) Later on, a magazine declared "The night Hulk Hogan was carried off on a stretcher!" Bravo locked Hogan in a bear hug and wouldn't let go, leaving Hulk incapacitated. They did have the match in 1990. Wasn't as big a buzz as expected because...well, Dino was a bad guy and fans hated him now, but not enough to cheer Hogan, who was not one of "their guys". And Hogan beat him with the bear hug.
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Post by efarns on Jul 11, 2017 22:29:51 GMT -5
I wonder if it also had to do with being popular in Montreal. They were breaking into territories and they had to think regionally. Montreal seems to have been an important market for Vince early on.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2017 5:10:08 GMT -5
I wonder if it also had to do with being popular in Montreal. They were breaking into territories and they had to think regionally. Montreal seems to have been an important market for Vince early on. Pretty much, Vince was buddy-buddy with them for awhile, promoting joint shows with IW. Then slowly but surely, the talent switched sides. Vince signed the top names like the Rougeaus & Martel. Then the "joint promoting" was pretty much relegated to "WWF show...and Dino Bravo". Once Bravo signed, the writing was on the wall; IW was practically dead.
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