Paul Roma
Paul Roma (born Paul Centopani April 29, 1960) is an American professional wrestler who is known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling. He worked primarily as a tag team wrestler alongside partners including Jim Powers, Hercules, Arn Anderson and Paul Orndorff. Roma entered professional bodybuilding at a young age, before becoming a professional wrestler, performing for the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling
Professional wrestling career
World Wrestling Federation
Early Years (1984 - 1987)
Roma made his professional wrestling debut on Dec 17, 1984 at an All American Wrestling taping in Poughkeepsie, NY, where he teamed with Salvatore Bellomo in a title match and in a losing effort to WWF Tag-Team Champions Adrian Adonis & Dick Murdoch. He soon signed a contract, and his first victory would come at a house show on February 5, 1985 against Steve Lombardi in Brooklyn, NY. His first televised victory would be on May 25 at the Philadelphia Spectrum, where he defeated another preliminary wrestler, Johnny Rodz. For the next two years Roma would appear as a preliminary wrestler, but slowly began to accumulate victories while wrestling on the bottom rung of the promotion, defeating such talents as AJ Petrucci, Joe Mirto, Steve Lombardi, Tiger Chung Lee, Frenchy Martin and Pete Dougherty. In the summer of 1986 he formed a short-lived tag-team with S.D. "Special Delivery" Jones and won a series of house show encounters with The Moondogs. Despite continuing to lose in tag-team matches on television, Roma entered 1987 on an overall hot streak, defeating preliminary wrestlers Randy Culley, Steve Lombardi, and Frenchy Martin to go 10-0-1 on house show matches between January and March 1987.
