Roberto's bio on Wikipedia

Kimura · 09-12-2009, 11:34 AM

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Cristian Sant'Angelo (born on May 7, 1985), better known by his ring name Roberto Superstar, is a Canadian professional wrestler of Italian descent currently signed to Clique Wrestling Alliance (CWA).

In professional wrestling, Roberto won numerous titles in the independent circuit before signing with CWA and winning the World Heavyweight Title.

Roberto initially came to prominence through his career on the professional wrestling independent circuit, primarily as a member of the Xtreme Wrestling Planet (XWP) roster, where he won the XWP World Tag Team Championship, XWP World Championship, and was the first head trainer of the XWP wrestling school. In 2009, Roberto signed a contract with CWA and was crowned the its first ever World Champion after he defeated Ultimate Pain.

Throughout his career, Roberto has used different gimmicks, but has always been a fan favourite. Before signing with CWA he used a Dark Angel gimmick and went by the name of The Saint.

Many analysts, as well as former and current wrestlers, consider Roberto Superstar to be the best pure wrestler in the world today.

EARLY & PERSONAL LIFE

Roberto was born in 1984 in the city of Naples, Italy. In 1987, when he was three years old, his family moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His mother, Teresa Raspucci, was a teacher and his father, Italo Sant'Angelo, was a welder. Roberto is the second child in the family and has an older brother and a younger brother and sister, including professional wrestler Davide Sant'Angelo, who is currently signed with XPW. His older brother Pietro has also trained but not competed at his brothers' level.

Roberto finished high school in 2002 and graduated with honors from the University of California in 2007. While attending University, he also attended Mario Ganzo's wrestling school, also known as the Chamber, where he was one of the only three guys to ever graduate (2fon Tastic and Reverend Rudy being the other two).

In 2008 he met his girlfriend Rachel Twist, whom he is still together with to this day.

AMATEUR WRESTLING

Roberto began wrestling while in the 10th grade at Ryerson Catholic High School. While in high school, Roberto achieved a 122–5 win-loss record and was a two-time Ontario high school heavyweight wrestling champion, earning the title in both 2001 and 2002. He was then accepted to attend the University of California where he achieved a 40-2 win-loss record. Moreover, while attending the University, Roberto was a two-time All-American heavyweight wrestler. In 2005, Roberto went 40-2 and made18 pins in the Big Ten Championship, in which he placed second. Instead of trying to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics, Roberto decided instead to keep pursuing a professional wrestling career and thats when he decided to join Super Mario Ganzo's wrestling school.

BACKYARD WRESTLING

Roberto, together with his brothers, began wrestling in backyards in his neighborhood. Not having the money for a ring, they used a trampolin. Also, a trampolin was way easier to carry around. More often than not, someone would get seriously injured. He would wrestle as I.M.Angel (I.M.stands for Italian Made). Roberto today speaks out against backyard wrestling.

INDEPENDENT CIRCUIT

Right after University, Roberto dedicated all his time to professional wrestling. Wrestled in various promotions around the country, before signing for XWP. This is where Roberto made a big name for himself and became an internet sensation with hardcore wrestling fans.

Roberto joined Xtreme Wrestling Planet (XWP) as The Saint, a vigilante gimmick and soon became involved in a feud with top villain Nick Corvo that featured numerous variants of no disqualification matches.

Roberto started climbing the ranks of XPW, including coming in second at the Third Anniversary Show during the tournament to crown the first XWP Hardcore Champion losing to Brandon Banks in the finals and winning the XPW World Tag Team Championship twice with Reverend Rudy as the Divine Saints. Both times Roberto and Rudy defeated the Malone Brothers to win the championship.

Circa May 2008, Roberto faced off against XWP World Champion Logan V for the championship in a three match series. The first match took place on May 12, 2008 at the Retribution PPV in Chicago, and resulted in a 60-minute time limit draw when neither Roberto nor Logan could pin or cause the other to submit in the 60 minutes. The second match between the two, took place on June 16 at the Journey to Hell PPV, where they again wrestled to a second 60-minute draw. In addition to Roberto vs Logan II becoming XWP's best-selling DVD at the time, the match received a five-star rating by Dane Neltzer's Top Rope Observer Newsletter. It was the first match in North America to receive a five-star rating in seven years—the last one being the Cage Match match between The Guardian Devil and The Ultimate Pain in 2001. Logan V ended the series by defeating Roberto in the third and final match on July 28, 2008 at Summer Havok 2 PPV in which there was a no time limit stipulation. To this day the three match series between Roberto and Logan V is considered to be some of the best wrestling matches ever witnessed.

In September 2008, Roberto finally achieved his dream of becoming XWP World Heavyweight Champion when he defeated The Black Sheep and Frankie Enzo in a triple threat match to crown a new champion, when Logan V was stripped of the Title due to being suspended after failing a drug test. All of these men had a long history with each other. Frankie Enzo is the son of Beppe Enzo, the same man who was trained by the late, great Mario Ganzo. Ganzo of course is the same man who trained both Roberto and Black Sheep.

Roberto successfully defended the Title on countless occasions defeating anyone who got in his way, until dropping the strap to former partner Reverend Rudy in a Table, Ladder and Chair Match on December 6th. This was Roberto's last match and soon after joined CWA. Roberto was given a 38 minutes standing ovation by the crowd in New York Madison Square Garden right after the match.

ROBERTO SIGNS WITH CWA

After a long bidding war between FTW and CWA, Roberto finally opted to sign for the new company as he saw FTW as a sinking ship. FTW not long after, went out of business.

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Sir Nicky Talent · 09-12-2009, 01:14 PM

Nice stuff.

You know you can actually do one of those on the e-fed wiki.

Kimura · 10-07-2009, 10:02 PM

In December 2008, CWA played a few vignettes of Christian whom was repackaged now as Roberto Superstar, a flamboyant and eccentric wrestler with questionable traits, whom sexual orientation made his opponents very uncomfortable. He started going by many nicknames, including The Man Event and The Innovator of Style, but mainly The Beautiful Man. Roberto utilized tactics such as groping his opponents and expressing affection towards them.

In the first ever CWA Adrenaline Rush, Roberto faced Vance Johnson, Mike Rotch and Frankie Enzo in one of the two elimination ranking matches to declare the the two top contenders to the CWA Heavyweight Title. Roberto won the match which meant that at the first ever CWA PPV, he would be facing the winner of the other ranking match Ultimate Pain for the Title at the first ever CWA PPV Uprising.

After short feuds with Vance Johnson and Frankie Enzo, Roberto and The Ultimate Pain finally squared off at Uprising to declare the first ever CWA Champion and Roberto made history when he defeated The Ultimate Pain by making him submit with his trademark move the Gay Crab. The move would later be renamed The Flavours of Roberto.

Roberto's popularity soar to new heights, as he was now appearing on late night talk shows, commercials and magazine covers. He also became the new face of GAP when he signed a very lucrative deal with them. On top of all that, he started hosting a new talk show "The Rainbow Room" at various CWA TV Shows.

Roberto defended the Title against all challengers, but on April 08/09 at CWA's second PPV In Exile, Roberto lost the CWA World Heavyweight Title to The Ultimate Pain. Their grueling match took place inside a Steel Cage and both man left In Exile with injuries. Roberto more so than Ultimate Pain and as a result had to take a few weeks.

Roberto returned and right away was given a chance to win the CWA World Title back, as he and The Ultimate Pain headlined another CWA PPV. At Hostile Takeover, their match did not disappoint and once again they put on a show. But the match ended in a double Count Out and Ultimate Pain was able to reatin.

On July 1st/09 at Adrenaline Rush, Roberto battled Rich Stone for a chance to face The Ultimate Pain at Redemption for the World Heavyweight Title. It was a hard fought match with Rich Stone on the offensive most of the match, but Roberto like the opportunist he is, pulled it off when Rich Stone started arguing with ref about a slow count and was able to catch him by surprise with a very tight small package.

to be continued...

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