Baldo

Baldo is an American comic strip written by Hector Cantú and illustrated by Carlos Castellanos. It was launched in April 17, 2000.

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Matt Bloom

Matthew Jason "Matt" Bloom (born November 14, 1972) is an American professional wrestling trainer, color commentator and retired professional wrestler. He is currently employed by the professional wrestling promotion WWE, where he is the head trainer at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida and was a color commentator for the television program WWE NXT under the pseudonym Jason Albert.

Bloom is best known for his in-ring appearances with WWE as Prince Albert, Albert and A-Train from 1999 to 2004 and as Lord Tensai, Tensai and Sweet T from 2012 to 2014, as well as for his appearances in Japan from 2005 to 2012 with All Japan Pro Wrestling, New Japan Pro Wrestling and Pro Wrestling Noah as Giant Bernard. Championships held by Bloom over the course of his career include the GHC Tag Team Championship, IWGP Tag Team Championship and WWF Intercontinental Championship.

Early life

Bloom attended Peabody Veterans Memorial High School (Peabody, Massachusetts), where he earned three letters in football and basketball, two in track and field, and one in baseball. Bloom also attended Camp Tevya in Brookline, New Hampshire in the early 1980s, and went on to attend the University of Pittsburgh, where he played football as an offensive tackle and an offensive guard. Bloom graduated in 1996 with a degree in sign language. After graduating, Bloom briefly played in the National Football League for the San Diego Chargers. He then became a schoolteacher, teaching mathematics and English to children with behavioral problems and deaf children at Revere High School. After rewarding his three most apt students with a trip to a professional wrestling event, Bloom, who as a child had aspired to wrestle professionally, met wrestler and wrestling trainer Killer Kowalski and expressed an interest in learning how to wrestle. Kowalski invited Bloom to attend his school, and Bloom opted to leave teaching and train as a wrestler.

Baldo (Italian comics)

Baldo is the title character of an Italian comic series created by Luciano Bottaro. He is a Canadian Mountie.

Background

It debuted in 1952, in the children magazine Gaie fantasie. Its stories were later published, until 1987, in a number of "Edizioni Alpe" (later Edizioni Bianconi) comic magazines, such as Tiramolla, Pepito and Cucciolo. Baldo was also the title character of a shortliving comic book series, published from 1979 to 1980.

The comic was also published with some success in France, between 1954 and 1982, by the editor Sagéditions. Many stories have been made specifically for the French market by Carlo Chendi as writer and by Guido Scala and Giorgio Rebuffi as illustrators.

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