10 Least Successful WWE Tag Teams Of The Last 20 Years
6. New FBI (Big Vito & Nunzio)
Like Scotty 2 Hotty (Scott Taylor), Big Vito started his WWF career as a jobber in the early 1990s working as "Skull Von Krush" and "Von Krus" losing to Tatanka, Typhoon and High Energy (Owen Hart & Koko B. Ware). He bounced around with stints in ECW (as one of Da Baldies) and WCW (as "The Mamalukes" alongside Johnny the Bull) before finally landing in WWE in 2005. There, Big Vito reformed the "Full Blooded Italians" (FBI) team with Nunzio. The FBI team was originally born in ECW (where Nunzio, then Little Gudio, had been a member). Later, it was reformed in 2003 in WWE with Chuck Palumbo & Johnny "the Bull" Stamboli (aka Johnny the Bull from WCW). In the year they competed the Palumbo/Stamboli team notched up a respectable 13-9 record (including the Judgment Day 2003 PPV where the grab-bag combination of John Cena & Palumbo & Stamboli defeated Chris Benoit, Rhyno & Spanky). However, the 2005 Nunzio/Big Vito pairing was far less victorious. The unaspiring 2-9 record from Nunzio & Vito included losses to the Mexicools and the "new" Legion of Doom (Heidenreich & Road Warrior Animal). They were able to defeat the legendary jobber team of Funaki & Scotty 2 Hotty and traded both wins and losses with Brian Kendrick & Paul London. The team dissolved when Nunzio discovered proof that Big Vito was, in fact, a cross dresser. While the gimmick would arguably be Vito's most memorable angle, it did lead to the dissolution of the final FBI incarnation with each man going their merry way onwards to singles mediocrity.
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