>born in Italy and raised in Canada, Dino Bravo was a powerhouse in the ring, spending the majority of his career with the WWF as both a face and a heel. But when the behemoth billed as The Canadian Strongman retired from wrestling in 1992, he picked up a couple of new gigs: training young wrestlers in Montreal, and, allegedly, surreptitious cigarette smuggling. According to his friends, he was pretty good at it, using his celebrity status with local native tribes to nab a sweet slice of territory all for himself, but things went south after a $400,000 shipment was intercepted by the police. It's worth mentioning at this point that there's a Canadian mafia and that they're less than stereotypically polite about business deals not going according to plan. He was found dead in his home on March 10th, 1993after being shot 17 times.
