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John Ferraro (born November 28)〔 is an American professional wrestler and strongman, best known by his ring name Gino Martino. He has wrestled for Chaotic Wrestling, the Millennium Wrestling Federation, New England Championship Wrestling, NWA New England, and Paulie Gilmore's New World Wrestling. Although based in the Northeast, competing most often in the New England region, Ferraro has wrestled in other parts the US as well as in Canada and Europe.〔 Ferraro has held championship titles in numerous promotions in his career. He is a former NWA New England Heavyweight Champion, NWA New England Colonial Heavyweight Champion, NWA New England Tag Team Champion (with Ali Mohammed), and winner of the 2004 Tony Rumble Memorial Rumble. He also feuded with "Big" Rick Fuller over the Chaotic Wrestling Heavyweight Championship during 2001, winning the belt twice. Nine years later, he was inducted into the promotion's hall of fame. He has been similarly honored by the New England Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame. In addition to these championships Ferraro has won a number of brass knuckles and similar hardcore-themed titles, most notably, the AWA and NWA New England Brass Knuckles Championships; he is also only one of two men, along with Don Fargo, to hold brass knuckles titles recognized by both the American Wrestling Association and National Wrestling Alliance. He has been featured in ''New Wave Wrestling'', ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'', ''WOW Magazine'', and ''Wrestle America''; one magazine ranked Ferraro #39 of the top 50 brawlers in pro wrestling history. He has won numerous tag team titles as one-half of The Millenium Killaz with Ali Mohammed. He was also 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. A legitimate strongman, Ferraro has performed feats of strength for numerous television and radio shows in New England, and at public events throughout the world. Often referred to as "The Human Anvil", his specialty is breaking heavy objects such as concrete cinderblocks over his head. An assistant is generally used to drop bowling balls or operate a jackhammer or sledge.〔"The PWI 500." ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated''. Fort Washington, Pennsylvania: London Publishing Company. (November 2003): pg. 74.〕 He has also encouraged 300 pound wrestlers to stand on his chest while lying on a bed of nails.〔"The PWI 500." ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated''. Fort Washington, Pennsylvania: London Publishing Company. (December 2001): pg. 74.〕 In 2010, he was featured on ''Stan Lee's Superhumans''. Less than a year later one of his demonstrations in Milan, Italy, aired on ''Lo show dei record'', set the Guinness World Record for the most concrete blocks (45) broken on the head with a bowling ball.〔 ==Early life== John Ferraro was born in Revere, Massachusetts. He was a fan of pro wrestling growing up and followed the World Wide Wrestling Federation during the late 1970s and early 80s. Superstar Billy Graham, The Moondogs, The Samoans, and managers Freddie Blassie and The Grand Wizard were among his favorites. He started bodybuilding and weightlifting during his teenage years and eventually became a state power lifting and olympic-style weightlifting champion. As a powerlifter he benched 565 lbs. with 800 lbs. squats and lift 350 lbs. weights with his neck. He also had a background in martial arts,〔 namely judo, and was also a power breaking champion.〔 Ferraro was later employed as director of sales and marketing at Patriot Plastics in Woburn, Massachusetts, and remained with the company throughout his pro wrestling career.〔 Ferraro eventually became interested in a pro wrestling career. He considered attending Killer Kowalski's wrestling school in Malden, Massachusetts but decided against it due to the high tuition fees. He was instead trained by Jeff "Bruiser" Costa, Rip Morrison, Dan Petiglio, and Paul Zine among others. Zine specifically helped develop his in-ring persona and getting him bookings in his early career.〔 He also received additional training from Tony Rumble, Ox Baker, and The Iron Sheik and adopted versions of their finishers as homages to the latter two. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gino Martino」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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