Antonio Pugliese

Antonio Pugliese, better known by the ring name Tony Parisi, was an Italian-Canadian professional wrestler, born on January 22, 1941 and died on August 19, 2000. He won tag team championships in several professional wrestling promotions, among them the World Wide Wrestling Federation, where he and Louis Cerdan held the WWWF World Tag Team Championship from 1975 to 1976. As a singles wrestler he also won the WWF International Heavyweight Championship. After he retired from the ring he stayed in the wrestling business and also ran a hotel and a restaurant. He died in 2000 from an aneurysm.