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Dino Bravo was an icon in Quebec. He was
an idol. Bravo!

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I am proud of my heritage.

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He was big. He was strong.

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He could bench press 500 pounds.

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He had the size and he had the weight.

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He was really like the old Kogan of
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Dino appears to be in great physical
condition.

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I mean, he could do no wrong. I feel at
my best when I answer that square

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circle. You can't turn your back on Dino
Bravo.

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Dino Bravo combined relentless ambition
with a fiery intensity that made him a

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superstar in Montreal, Quebec, and saw
him wrestle the biggest names in the

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He did work with Ogun. He did work with
Ultimate Warrior.

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Did you see that power move by Dino
Bravo?

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With Dino Bravo, either he liked you or
he doesn't like you.

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He loves to live dangerously.

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He's tough.

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Nothing could touch him.

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For me, Mafia always scared me. The word
Mafia scared me.

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I said, listen, I don't know if you're
doing the right thing, but it's not for

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me to judge what he did.

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His world was the wrestling world. It
wasn't the organized crime world.

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He screwed up.

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On this episode, we'll examine

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the tragic consequences when a wrestling
enforcer is pushed out of the

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spotlight. and into a life of crime.

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Let that be a lesson for everybody, me
included, that everybody's touchable.

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On March 10, 1993, the family of Dino
Bravo came home and discovered his dead

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body. Police said he had been struck by
11 bullets.

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Within days, rumors began to surface
that it was a mafia -style execution.

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30 years later, Dino's unsolved murder
remains one of wrestling's darkest

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mysteries. Those closest to him have
never spoken openly about what led him

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such a dangerous path until now.

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My favorite.

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I never want to give him a kiss.

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And when he gives me a kiss, I was
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He said, okay, give me a kiss with your
nose.

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Dino Bravo, his name is Luther.

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His name is Adolfo Bresciano.

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I'm Diane Rivet. I'm from Montreal.

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I met him when I was working in a bar.

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And the manager of the place, who also
knew a lot about boxing and wrestling,

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was in love with Dino.

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And he always told me when I arrived
there, Dino is coming, Dino is coming.

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I said, who is Dino?

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I was barely 19 years old. And so he

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offered me to come and drive me home.

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My name is Patrick Leprade.

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I'm a wrestling historian.

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I first started watching wrestling when
I was six years old. And Dino was just

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that super hero to me.

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He was big, he was strong, full of
muscle. He was really like an action

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coming to life.

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In the early 80s, Montreal's
international wrestling is the leading

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Quebec. And Dino Bravo is its premier
star.

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We had almost 2 million people watching
the TV on Sunday morning. It was very,

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very big. My name is Tony Muley. I was a
wrestling promoter from 1971 to

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1986.

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During international wrestling, we had
Rick Martel, King Tonga. We had

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Raymond Rojo, Jacques Rojo, and The
Giant.

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But listen, Dino Bravo, he was the
biggest star here in the 80s.

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Dino Bravo was very hard to get to be
friends with. But once you were, he

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by you. He had your back.

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That's what I like about Dino. My name
is Gino Brito.

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Not wrestling now, but I started
wrestling in 1961.

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So I think I know a bit about wrestling.

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Well, Dino Bravo was more than a friend.
He was almost family.

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The other wrestler was seeing us getting
into the arena. Me, Dino, and Dino. Oh,

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here's the Italian connection.

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With his two business partners by his
side, Dino isn't just international

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wrestling's top draw.

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He's also co -owner and matchmaker.

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Dino was the boss here of the company in
Quebec.

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And we were like superstars in our own
home, in our own province, and Dino

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created all that.

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Maybe if you could just give us a brief
introduction to who you are. Do you know

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who I am?

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I'm the Mountie.

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My name is Jacques Rougeau. I've been
wrestling for 41

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years. But Dino Bravo, I've known him
since I was 18 years old.

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Dino was the booker.

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It's like when you watch a sitcom on TV
every week, they have storylines.

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Well, the booker is the one who creates
the storyline.

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How was it to have that full packed
house right behind you during that main

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event? And he created himself.

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He beat everybody when they came in, and
he worked around his image and his

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future. The fans here are obviously
solidly behind Dino Bravo.

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I think he was so passionate, and he was
so into the fight, that he just wanted

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to become more and more famous.

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Over my shoulder.

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the belt emblematic of the International
Heavyweight Wrestling Championship.

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This belt worn so proudly for four of
the last five years by, of course, the

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great Dino Bravo.

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Casting himself as the main attraction
doesn't always sit well with the other

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wrestlers, especially those looking to
make a name for themselves.

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He'd book himself a main event, and he'd
put my brother and I like in third or

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fourth match before intermission.

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But for me in my head, I was a main
eventer. There wasn't always sunshine

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between me and Dino.

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I wanted his spot.

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He was the boss.

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And me being unhappy, Pat Patterson and
Vince will call on me. They said,

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Jacques, would you like to join the WWF?
And I said, well, I don't know. It's a

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jungle out there. You know, I want to go
there out there alone in that jungle.

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As part of its plan for global
dominance, the Emerging World Wrestling

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Federation set its sights on Montreal.

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and his intent on poaching the town's
top stars.

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It was unheard of to have wrestlers make
the kind of money that Vince McMahon

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could make these people. By the 90s, it
was a new wave. It was something new. It

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was fun to see Hacksaw Jim Duggan. Whoa!

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And Coco Beware with his birds. And it
was, ooh, yeah, with Miss Elizabeth. It

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was an era that came and just, it was
fun to watch.

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Welcome to WrestleMania 3!

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Vince is a very intelligent individual,
and he knew that he needed Dino Bravo on

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board if he really wanted to draw good
crowds in Montreal.

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And in 1985, early 1986, there was a big
match that he aired in

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Montreal. It was a dream match.

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Al Cogan against Dino Bravo.

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As a matter of fact, that would have
been a match you could have put in the

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Olympic Stadium and draw at least 40
,000 people.

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And it never materialized. They got
scared that Dino Bravo would actually be

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more popular than Hulk Hogan in
Montreal.

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And at the last minute, just decided to
cancel the match. So Dino was not happy

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with WWE and decided to actually try to
bring international wrestling to a level

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of popularity where they could actually
compete with WWE.

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He was in a mood where, I'm not going to
let him ruin my business.

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He was fooling himself, and there's
nothing that he could have done to match

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what WWF was coming with.

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Despite Dino's blind ambition,
international wrestling is no match for

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showmanship. He's outclassed in almost
every single way.

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Now, either you get out of the way, or
you compete against an elephant.

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When I left to go to WWF, I did what I
had to do, and my dad and Dino, they

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begged me. I swear to God, begged me.

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Don't go, don't go, because if you go,
the WWF's going to come in here and

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they're going to kill everybody.

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But it was too late. The damage was
done.

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The Talon, they all went for Vince.

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The Rougeos went for Vince.

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Martel, Tonga, everybody went there.
Once your Talon's gone, you can't eat.

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And that was it. It was a downfall that
was, I think, that you couldn't avoid.

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Certain moments of frustration with the
WWF. And, of course, they questioned

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themselves.

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By the end of 1986, Dino Bravo's once
thriving company is on life support.

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Now he must decide whether to continue
to fight for his independence or to side

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with the enemy.

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In order to support his family, Dino
Bravo must decide if he can let go of

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pride and join the opposition, Vince
McMahon's World Wrestling Federation.

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So, of course, he was looking to take
care of his family. And Vince McMahon

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offered Dino money that Dino couldn't
refuse.

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It was something like $300 ,000
guaranteed.

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And with everything else, he could have
made over a million.

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Something that he could have not dreamed
of doing if he would have stayed in

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Montreal. I think Dino came to his
senses, and he came to WWF. And that was

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funny, because when he walked into the
room, hey, how you doing, Dino? You

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you did the same move we did.

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But there was never animosity.

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It was almost like when Dino came, he
put that behind him, and he says, okay,

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let's move.

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It was like

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a new life

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for Luther, a completely new stage in
his career.

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To make a French -Canadian strongman fit
within the cartoon world of the WWF,

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Dino was paired with one of American
wrestling's most iconic personalities.

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Can you tell us who Jimmy Hart is?

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Oh, my God.

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The best man in the business.

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Some managers took the credibility away
from their boys. Jimmy Hart was the guy

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who knew how to give credibility to his
wrestler.

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Look at him, man. Look how strong he is.
Woo!

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I wanted the ring. I was a baritone.
When I came out, I was a soprano.

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He's the world's strongest man. I
guarantee you that. Look at me.

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The wrestler was always the Cadillac. We
were kind of the hood on a Cadillac. He

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was in great shape. He could go 30
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He could go against Hogan. He could go
against Andre the John or any of them.

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was a big man's territory.

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And he had the size and he had the
weight. By being with me, it kind of put

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rocket on his career.

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And all of a sudden, he started moving
up the card a little bit more.

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And of course, when you make a lot of
money, your lifestyle goes up.

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And he had the Mercedes, the big million
-dollar house. He had this, he had

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that. We had our houses built at the
same time.

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That's how we got to be next to each
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Moi, je lui ai demandé pourquoi une
house, a big house in Laval. There

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had a garage with a red car.

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He took me to that garage, then he
told me, that's your car.

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Then I'm going to remember it all my life
life.

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I was 4 years old, I think.

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Dino's lavish new lifestyle comes at a
cost, as Vince McMahon makes radical

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changes to his character, from all
-round Canadian hero to an anti

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bleach-blonde villain.

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So for someone who's not familiar, how
would you describe who Vince McMahon is?

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Wow!

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That's the question I didn't expect.

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Vince likes to test the boys who stick
up to him.

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You don't see an Italian with blonde
hair.

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You know, not in Quebec.

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Everybody thought it was funny when he
came through with the blonder.

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And then Dino was pissed.

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Because Dino's a very proud guy.

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He was so embarrassed.

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but he had to do it because that's what
they wanted. That's the difference in

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when you're in a small -time league like
international wrestling. You believe in

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yourself, you build, you create
yourself. When you go to WWF, you're a

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you're a character, you're just part of
a show.

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Competing with the WWF's all -star
roster, the French -Canadian flair that

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worked for Dino back home gets lost in
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I think everybody looks at merchandise
and looks at sales and looks at what

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can do with you.

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Let's just say Dino Bravo, he had that
broken English.

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It was

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hard for people to understand what he
might be saying, and so that held him

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back a little bit.

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Dino had his routine.

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He had his punches, he had his boots, he
had his routine.

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But he was never the kind of guy to
discover something new.

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I think the hardest thing for Dino was
doing jobs for guys that weren't on top.

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Well, I'm talking getting beat.

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The most important thing in wrestling is
your valeur marchande, which means what

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you are worth on the market. And if you
are a guy that the fans see on TV week

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after week getting beat, getting beat.

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Even if it's a show and it's fake and
it's organized, people don't believe in

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you anymore.

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He was getting older. Gotta remember
that when he was like at his peak of his

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career back in international wrestling,
he was like in the early to the mid

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-30s. Now he was late 30s, early 40s. He
still saw himself as a top guy.

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When you go to WWF, if there's one thing
you don't bring, there's an ego. All

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the shames and all the things you're
afraid of, it's going to happen.

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Unfortunately, Dino had bigger plans for
himself than Vince had for him.

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Vince figured, you know, bring in new
talent, new faith, new blood, and you're

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out. By the end of 1992, Dino's days
with the WWF are over when his contract

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expires and is not renewed.

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No, he just came and told me, hey, I'm
leaving. He said, look, I'm burnt out.

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I've done everything I can. I want to
spend time with my family. We hugged and

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everything else, and that was basically
it.

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No, but suddenly it stopped.

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There's no more income. And you don't
have a pension and resting or nothing

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that. That's where the trouble starts.

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With his career over, Dino has lost his
life's passion and his livelihood and is

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left staring into an abyss.

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After six years on wrestling's biggest
stage, Dino Bravo's career is over.

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He must look for other ways to support
his family and decadent lifestyle.

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I think that once you get with the WWF
and you leave, where could you go? You

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know, it's like playing professional
baseball and then dropping down to a

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league contract.

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You know, as soon as you drop down, it's
like, oh, his career is over.

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Everybody has good times in life.

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makes money and everybody has bad times
in life where they need money.

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I've been there, done that many times.

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With no professional experience outside
of wrestling, Dino has very few options.

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What he does have is connections.

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Montreal is not far from the United
States, and the corruption is widespread

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the police.

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and the government in Quebec.

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That's why the mafiosi like Montreal.

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I am a journalist with interest in mafia
and organized crime.

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The Cotonou family was very active under
the authority of the Sicilian family

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Rizzuto. Vic Cotonou was the leader of
the first mafia family in the history of

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Quebec. Everybody knew who Vic Cotroni
was.

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He was like the so -called father of the
mob here in Montreal.

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Vic Cotroni was also a former wrestler.
He wrestled back in the 1930s under the

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name of Vic Vincent.

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Dino Bravo was actually related to the
Cotronis because Vic was Dino's uncle.

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For me, it's the Cotroni family. He was
in our family, actually.

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You have to say it. It wasn't a guy who
had a judicial record.

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It was a guy who had contacts.

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And there are people who will say, it's
not because you're alive that you're

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part of it.

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But it depends.

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The Cotroni group was powerful at that
time, at the

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level of cigarette smuggling, smuggling
at the level of alcohol.

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It was an imposing guy.

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He was a guy who had a beautiful
personality.

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And I think the mafia people
Italian people wanted, in a way,

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'approach. Me, I think he can
-be naive. And often the money goes

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do things.

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He was imposing. To collect, it
It was worrying.

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Bravo had a very imposing stature.
When you see, there were two guys in

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the door.

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It was like a

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$60 million man. He had no fear of
anything and no consequences.

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There's nothing could happen to him.

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Dino's past life as a wrestling
powerhouse means he has all the brute

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debt collector requires.

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We've kind of heard stories about Dino
kind of had a little bit of a temper. Is

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that true?

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Yeah. Hot temper? Oh, no, he had a hot
temper.

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Very, very hot temper.

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Dino Bravo was a big Montreal Canadiens
fan. And if you're a Montreal Canadiens

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fan, you hated everything about the
Quebec Nordiques. I'm not going to name

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the player, but one time in a bar in
Quebec City, there's a player that said

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something. I'm 18 years old.

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I'm drinking, drinking, drinking, and
I'm coming down the stairs, and then

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says, hey, that's a hockey player from
the Nordiques.

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And me, with my loud mouth, I'm drunk,
half drunk. I go, ah, the Nordiques.

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That's all bullshit.

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So he backs up against the wall and he
puts himself in position like that. And

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start running with my fist. But I'm
running towards the wall and he ducks

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hit the wall.

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And he grabs me by the shirt. And I
swear, I would have probably had the

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of my life.

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And Dino took him and he sidestepped and
he says, hey, let him go. And then he

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made a something to Dino.

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He said something about phony. And the
guy had a nice Corvette.

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Dino picked him up like you'd pick up a
rag doll and ran his head right into the

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Corvette just out of nowhere.

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You know, the guy just went down like a
sack of babies.

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He said, you think I'm a phony? Come and
try me out.

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Believe me, you didn't want to be around
him when he got mad.

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You were to put a gun to his head, he
says, don't point a gun at me. Shoot me

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right away because I'm coming for you.

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As Dino heads down his new career path,
his wife, Diane, senses trouble.

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It was very dangerous because if you
don't know the rules,

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you're in trouble.

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One night, Dino calls me. Hey Jacques,
can you come and see me?

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I'm like, Dino's calling me to go see
him? We're not that close of friends. We

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respect each other, but we're not that
close of friends.

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And I said, okay. I said, I can't go
today, but I'll go tomorrow. He said,

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and see me as soon as you can.

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That was his last words to me.

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That night, there was a hockey game.

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I called him. I said, Dino, what are you
doing?

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He says, I'm going to watch the hockey
game.

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And the next morning, I'm at the gas
station. Now I'm going to see him.

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The gas, we got the pump. The guy says,
yeah, your friend, your buddy there, he

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got it, huh?

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I looked at the paper. It was the front
page of the Montreal paper.

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He got 11 bullets in the body and 7
bullets in the head.

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That's a rough way to go.

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Are there any details that you wish to
share on that final day?

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Close to midnight on March 10, 1993,
Dino Bravo's wife, Diane, pulls into the

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driveway with six -year -old Claudia
sleeping in the back seat.

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Almost the first one to know because his
wife got back home and we had the house

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one beside the other one.

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She rings up the bell and I see her
crying with Claudia in her hand.

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They come in the house, said, why are
you crying? Do you know he's dead?

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I said, what did you say?

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It's like the biggest shock I ever had
in my life.

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If you would have taken a 2x4 and you
hit me in the back of my head, you

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wouldn't have hurt me more than that. I
said, are you crazy?

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Yeah, he was shot.

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It wasn't no scuffle.

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His wife and family were sent away, and
he was just sitting there.

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Like he was waiting for it to happen,
you know.

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Then you hear all kind of different
stories, you know, about what happened.

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Well, was it a robbery? Was it a break
-in? It was so sketchy on everything.

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Dino had been shot 11 times, seven
bullets to the head and four to his

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A pistol and a machine gun are found at
the scene, but strangely there is no

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sign of forced entry, and the door is
unlocked.

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The mysterious and brutal circumstances
of his death leaves Dino's family and

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friends

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I waited and the funeral, went to the
funeral.

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I don't know what to tell you. It was
the worst time of my life.

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I drew a drawing of my family. J
I drew my mother, my father and me.

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Then I took this to him to his grave.

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All the people behind me stood up
because they found it so

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afraid that a child...

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But I didn't recognize him at the time.

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But I recognized his fingers.

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I see his daughter there, so young, that
she didn't understand exactly.

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You know how sad it is.

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It was explained to me that my father was
gone to the sky to join the stars and

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I wasn't going to see him anymore.

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It was hard for me to realize that he
really wasn't there anymore, actually.

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I think she realized it more
when she started going to school

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friends, then people knew who
was his father, things like that.

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So, that's where we left,
then we explained to him a little more about

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details, but...

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The details of Dino's murder dominate
the headlines in Montreal.

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Yet despite all the coverage pointing to
a mafia -style execution, questions

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surrounding who did it and why remain.

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end up that way.

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Mr. Bravo would have confided to a
close, with whom we spoke this

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he feared for his life. This is where
we are there.

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Ah, my God, my father, there was
no enemies. Everyone loved him.

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He loved the world.

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I don't know how it could have happened
make enemies other than someone,

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something went wrong.

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I honestly thought when Dino was at the
end of his day, that he may have done

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something that he wasn't supposed to. A
lot of rumors run.

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And he must have realized at one point,
you're screwed.

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But the true depth of Dino's involvement
in organized crime will stun the

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wrestling world and beyond.

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The door must have been unlocked because
there's no forced entry.

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Or he let somebody in.

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I wouldn't want to go that way.

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Police examining the crime scene of Dino
Bravo's murder discover 17 bullet

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casings from two different firearms on
the living room floor.

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This leads authorities to believe that
two assassins are involved and supports

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the theory that his death is linked to
organized crime.

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The neighborhood he was living in in
Laval was in Vimon, which is like a very

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upscale neighborhood.

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A lot of Mafiosi from the new
generation, they moved there. At least

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who were living near Dino Bravo were
killed at the same time.

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Nine months earlier, Mafia accountant
Robert Caberson was shot in his home

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down the street from Bravo's house.

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Four months later... And two streets
away, a cigarette smuggler, Gislan

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was also killed. The police, aware of
Bravo's ties to the Catroni family,

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for connections.

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Three

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days

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after his death, a crucial piece of
evidence is uncovered.

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It is also suggested that there
had a considerable amount of money

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inside the house.

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An amount of approximately $55,000 which
included a cargo of cigarettes

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of contraband.

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At one point there was a theft of
trucks, then we couldn't find out where

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went the goods.

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There was someone who said, we have a
loss of $50,000. For investigators,

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Ido Bravo's death is related.

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By the early 1990s, organized crime is
flourishing in Montreal.

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Alongside the mafia are warring biker
gangs and smugglers operating out of

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Nation reserves.

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What connects them all is the lucrative
business of contraband cigarettes.

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He would take me anywhere I wanted
to say, I was like her friend. When we

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was alone together, when my mother
was not present, he sat me down

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before in the car.

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He mainly took me to the Indians.
I had no idea what the

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Indians meant to my father. C
he was their friend.

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I don't know how he
necessarily met these people.

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It is surely someone who has
presented, then at some point...

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It was like it was made official. I take care
with friends smuggling

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cigarettes. Here are some cigarettes
plumes qui viennent de ces réserves.

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Ça se détaillait combien à l 'époque?

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Ça devait être cinq piastres à
cartouches.

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Did you know that he was involved in
cigarette smuggling?

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Yeah, well, of course I knew.

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Yeah, he told me. I said, well,
everybody at that time, a lot of people

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into that business because everybody
smoked and everybody wanted to pay less

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money. So is it from that? I don't know.

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Is it for something else? I don't know.

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Because if I knew, believe me, I was so
close to him, I would like to have that

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revenge for him.

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The only wrestler that I know of that
Dino talked to about his organized

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crime life prior to leaving wrestling
was Rick Martel.

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Martel declined to be involved in this
documentary.

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But in 2007, he gave a rare interview
revealing conversations he had with Dino

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about his life in organized crime.

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Dino went to see the Indians.

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And the Indians were big wrestling fans,
you know.

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So when they saw Dino, oh man, you know,
so they started dealing strictly with

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Dino. So Dino had the monopoly with the
Indians because the Indians, you know,

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they have the river there.

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You know, they can pass cigarettes like
crazy or whatever.

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I had no idea what he was involved in.

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Really, no idea.

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Control over the narcotics trade is in a
constant state of flux.

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Each criminal group is looking for an
edge, even if that means crossing into

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somebody else's turf.

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doing so great that the cocaine people,
you know, saying, hey, there's some

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00:35:11,630 --> 00:35:16,650
money for us in there too, you know. So
the big cocaine guy apparently went to

450
00:35:16,650 --> 00:35:20,770
see Dino and said, look, you let me in
on your cigarette deals and I'll let you

451
00:35:20,770 --> 00:35:21,810
in on some cocaine deal.

452
00:35:22,050 --> 00:35:28,630
So what apparently happened, they did
some kind of agreement and Dino had a

453
00:35:28,630 --> 00:35:33,470
,000 shipment in some warehouse
somewhere and it stayed there for like

454
00:35:33,470 --> 00:35:34,470
days.

455
00:35:34,670 --> 00:35:41,610
A few days before the murder, the police
seized a large quantity of

456
00:35:41,610 --> 00:35:44,030
cigarettes in a warehouse.

457
00:35:44,330 --> 00:35:50,570
They made surveillance of the warehouse,
and they saw Dino Bravo with people who

458
00:35:50,570 --> 00:35:51,770
were on investigation.

459
00:35:52,370 --> 00:35:57,070
And on the third day, when the cocaine
guy went to pick it up,

460
00:35:58,049 --> 00:36:02,090
The RCMP and all the police were there.
So they were blaming each other. Dino

461
00:36:02,090 --> 00:36:05,290
said, oh, you should have picked it up
the first day. It never happened, and

462
00:36:05,290 --> 00:36:08,050
shouldn't have let it sit there. So
there was a lot of heat.

463
00:36:08,810 --> 00:36:15,650
Dino screwed up and would have made the
organization lose tons of money.

464
00:36:15,950 --> 00:36:20,010
It was a big seizure, $400 ,000.

465
00:36:21,370 --> 00:36:23,150
It's enough to be killed.

466
00:36:24,410 --> 00:36:25,570
They did investigations.

467
00:36:49,349 --> 00:36:55,550
It was so violent, and the way they did
it, the mafia...

468
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,260
They are more classy when they shoot
somebody.

469
00:36:58,940 --> 00:37:04,760
I did hear that the thinking was that
the killer wanted police to believe

470
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:06,920
were two shooters.

471
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,700
The person who killed him was a friend.

472
00:37:10,620 --> 00:37:11,620
That's what I think.

473
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,500
Sitting in the couch with your remote
control, when there's someone in front

474
00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:17,200
you, it can't be a stranger.

475
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,620
It has to be someone you like and you
trust.

476
00:37:20,580 --> 00:37:23,740
That, for me, is the definition of mafia
for me.

477
00:37:28,470 --> 00:37:35,090
In 35 years, I never heard that natives
killed people

478
00:37:35,090 --> 00:37:37,250
off the reserve.

479
00:37:37,590 --> 00:37:44,030
The motorcycle gangs, maybe it's in
their style. They are more violent.

480
00:37:44,270 --> 00:37:50,870
That's why maybe the bikers execute a
contract or the natives behind that

481
00:37:50,870 --> 00:37:53,800
contract. We don't know. It's a mystery
for everybody.

482
00:38:00,380 --> 00:38:06,060
This is a beautiful picture. Dino Brower
in blonde and Claudia, his little girl.

483
00:38:06,220 --> 00:38:08,760
Of course, the little girl was always
around him.

484
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:15,820
And here is me and Dino, well, walking
here at the arena. We were getting ready

485
00:38:15,820 --> 00:38:16,718
to work.

486
00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:20,400
So these are the best memories of my
life.

487
00:38:21,740 --> 00:38:23,120
I miss him every day.

488
00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:26,440
What could have been? What could have
been?

489
00:38:26,740 --> 00:38:28,360
Questions with no answers.

490
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:34,880
Decades after Dino Bravo's brutal
murder, friends and family still don't

491
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:38,020
they'll never find out the truth of what
happened and why.

492
00:38:51,210 --> 00:38:54,550
So we just continued to live the
daily. Then with my mother-in-law,

493
00:38:54,570 --> 00:39:00,670
obviously, she had the strength to just
live without her son. Then I

494
00:39:00,670 --> 00:39:07,370
I also followed this force a little
to also raise my daughter. Then d

495
00:39:07,370 --> 00:39:12,030
looks like a normal mother with her
enfant qui est veuve à 28 ans.

496
00:39:30,420 --> 00:39:31,420
It's correct.

497
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,240
It's correct that she did that.

498
00:39:40,300 --> 00:39:43,820
He started wrestling in 1970, ended up
in 1992.

499
00:39:44,260 --> 00:39:46,220
That's a 22 -year career.

500
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:52,420
So that's the only thing he knew. That's
the only thing he could do. And there's

501
00:39:52,420 --> 00:39:58,740
not a lot of jobs you can do, which will
give you several hundreds of thousands

502
00:39:58,740 --> 00:40:02,960
of dollars aside from organized crime.

503
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:07,360
Dino Bravo always made sure that there
was harmony.

504
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:09,080
between the boys.

505
00:40:09,100 --> 00:40:12,580
Dino knew how to create a team.

506
00:40:12,820 --> 00:40:17,620
If I had to start my life again, that
would be one part I'd never change.

507
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:21,380
The time that I had a business in
Quebec, working for Dino Bravo.

508
00:40:35,150 --> 00:40:38,170
Listen, my father was a volcano, an
explosion.

509
00:40:39,190 --> 00:40:45,790
As much as he could be nice in his role,
as much as when he was mean, he was

510
00:40:45,790 --> 00:40:47,650
mean. He was in his character.

511
00:40:47,970 --> 00:40:53,570
So I think the best heritage he left to
people is to be passionate.

512
00:41:02,570 --> 00:41:07,670
But believe me, the way things are,
people always keep reminding, there will

513
00:41:07,670 --> 00:41:12,750
always be stories that will come out
about Dino, how he died, and did he die

514
00:41:12,750 --> 00:41:14,390
from the bikers?

515
00:41:14,590 --> 00:41:17,670
That will stay with them. And that's too
bad.

516
00:41:18,170 --> 00:41:19,570
But that's the way it is.

517
00:41:20,070 --> 00:41:21,690
You know, you've got to take the punch.

518
00:41:29,790 --> 00:41:35,250
It created an immense pain, an immense
emptiness, more than immense.

519
00:41:35,510 --> 00:41:36,650
It's not even the word.

520
00:41:36,950 --> 00:41:43,770
Even today, after 25 years, everyone is
still sad about my father's loss.

521
00:41:43,950 --> 00:41:47,250
My family was angry that he wasn't found
guilty.

522
00:41:48,050 --> 00:41:49,490
Extremely angry about that.

523
00:41:49,910 --> 00:41:55,430
But also, I think it's better that we
don't know, because knowing is just

524
00:41:55,430 --> 00:41:56,430
being...

525
00:41:59,430 --> 00:42:00,030
I have

526
00:42:00,030 --> 00:42:16,250
beautiful

527
00:42:16,250 --> 00:42:23,050
memories of the man who was, who gave me
a beautiful daughter, whom I am very,

528
00:42:23,190 --> 00:42:24,190
very proud of.

529
00:42:24,910 --> 00:42:31,210
I would like people to remember
of him being a proud man

530
00:42:31,210 --> 00:42:35,550
Quebec at the level of the struggle,
level of his profession.

531
00:42:36,450 --> 00:42:38,030
The strongest man in the world.

532
00:42:38,710 --> 00:42:45,450
And above all a good teammate at the level
friends, then a good father and

533
00:42:45,450 --> 00:42:46,450
a good husband.

534
00:42:48,930 --> 00:42:50,290
I forgive him.

535
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:57,400
For making bad decisions
because he did that for us, but

536
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:01,800
I love it and I wish it
be there.

537
00:43:03,300 --> 00:43:07,180
I wish it was there and that it
would be grandfather today of two

538
00:43:07,180 --> 00:43:08,180
beautiful children.

539
00:43:11,300 --> 00:43:18,120
My son, I feel it so much, it
is his copy. I would have loved so much

540
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,200
let him play wrestling with him.

541
00:43:27,100 --> 00:43:32,540
The Quebec police were contacted for
this documentary, but they declined to

542
00:43:32,540 --> 00:43:35,740
participate as this case still remains
open.

543
00:43:40,020 --> 00:43:46,400
You know the old saying, Shakespeare,
somebody said, the evil that men do

544
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,060
after them, but the good...

545
00:43:48,300 --> 00:43:51,040
gets injured with their bones, it should
be the other way around.

546
00:43:51,460 --> 00:43:57,960
Think about the good and, you know, the
rest. Try to forget it and try not to

547
00:43:57,960 --> 00:43:58,959
repeat it.

548
00:43:58,960 --> 00:43:59,960
That's it.