Unsolved Mysteries: Who Killed WWE Superstar Dino Bravo?
With Claims of Mafia Involvement, the Death of “The World’s Strongest Man” Continues to Haunt Montreal
The world of professional wrestling is one that is tainted by decades of tragedy. From the infamous double-murder and suicide committed by Chris Benoit to the murder of Bruiser Brody, the spectre of death has never been far away from the squared circle. Equally, rumours have always persisted of links between “the business” and the criminal underworld, with the likes of the Cosa Nostra and the Yakuza once having interests in professional wrestling in the United States and Japan respectively. At this intersection of wrestling and organised crime comes Dino Bravo, one of the World Wrestling Federation’s (WWF, now WWE) most notable stars of the 1980s. Bravo would be gunned down in his own home in 1993. Many link his still-unsolved murder to the Montreal criminal underworld.
Adolfo Bresciano was born in Campobasso, Italy, in 1948. Emigrating with his family to Canada, the Brescianos settled in the Centre-Sud district of Montreal. The neighbourhood was poor and working-class, and like many…
