Lou Albano

Louis Vincent Albano ( born July 29, 1933, Rome, Italy, † October 14, 2009 in Westchester County, New York, United States) was a former Italian wrestler, wrestling manager and actor. He was primarily known by his ring name "Captain " Lou Albano as a ring and companion ( Manager) from day teams and individual wrestlers.

Career

Albano began in 1953 with the wrestling. Initial successes come in the late 50s together in tag team with Tony Altimore as The Sicilians, which represented as a gimmick the stereotype of Italian descent Cosa Nostra mobster. In 1961 she won the important Midwest Tag Team titles, 1967, the WWWF United States Tag Team Championship. However, they changed their gimmick after they were asked by real mobsters do so. Really he was known but only after the end of the tag teams when he decided to become a manager. In addition to the WWWF World Champion Ivan Koloff he was known primarily as a manager of several tag teams, 15 of them in the 20 years of activity, each won the Tag Team Titles, the WWF.

In the 1980s, he agreed on a collaboration with singer Cyndi Lauper. This was the starting point of the Rock ' n' Wrestling period of the WWF, which contributed greatly to the rising popularity of the league in the 80s. While Albano, in turn, played small roles in some videos of Lauper ( including in Girls Just Want To Have Fun ), Lauper took part, as a manager in the WWF shows. The two of each managed wrestlers fehdeten each other, the subsequent reconciliation in front of the camera helped him gain great popularity.

Albano took advantage of his increased through collaboration with Lauper awareness to act as actors in minor roles in television series such as Miami Vice.

1986 ended Albano his active and played in 1989, the video game character, Super Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! . In addition, he only appeared occasionally on smaller independent leagues in his manager gimmick and with WWE only legends matches.

1996 Albano was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

In 2005, he suffered a heart attack and had consequently lose weight. He became a vegetarian and took in the aftermath than 70 kg from.

2008 Albano came just weeks before his 75th birthday final of wrestling events back by announcing after an event an Independent League, now to compete more with any wrestling event. On his 75th birthday, an ugly incident when the wrestler Jim Fullington occurred beat, among others, with police officers after he had previously beaten a beer glass in her face innkeeper. Albano was made indirectly responsible for the incident and required to pay the created in the local damage.

He died on 14 October 2009 at the age of 76 years.

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  • Profile at the WWE Hall of Fame
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