by Dino Bravo
Canada’s strongest man won a “rigged” bench lifting contest with the help of Jesse The Body Ventura at the inaugural WWF Royal Rumble in 1988. He would then avenge a WrestleMania IV loss to Don Muraco with a big win at SummerSlam 1988.
From there he bounced around awhile and did little else until becoming the main lackey of Earthquake in his feud with Hulk Hogan in the Summer of 1990. Bravo left the WWF and retired from wrestling following a European tour in April 1992. After retiring, he helped train wrestlers in Montreal.
His life would end tragically in the winter of 1993 when he was shot mafia style after getting wrapped up in a cigarette smuggling ring.
