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As you might've already guessed, this article is about the toughest man to ever wear a dress. That's right, former (and best known as) Full Blooded Italian (F.B.I.) member, Big Vito. Big Vito's career isn't well known by many, although it is an interesting one. In his early days, he first started under ECW and later joined a faction called Da Baldies. Later on, he moved on to WCW where he joined up with the more well-known Johnny the Bull in an F.B.I-like tag team dubbed The Mamalukes. Farther down the road, he had a brief stint in TNA as well, appearing in a faction called The New York Connection. In each of these promotions, he was best-known for having some sort of Mafia-related gimmick with the only exception being ECW.

In 2005, The Sicilian Silencer broke into WWE where he remains today. For a while, he teamed with Nunzio as The Full Blooded Italians in a tag team. Throughout this stint, Vito kept a bodyguard type gimmick, and stayed rather generic. Rather generic that is, until more recently. Anyways, Vito had been receiving heat backstage for his attitude and most expected him to get fired in the near future.

In the end, Vito stuck around with Nunzio for a while, until more recently when various superstars told Nunzio that they thought they had each respectively seen a woman who looked just like Vito out and about. This remained a rumor until Vito came out to the ring on Smackdown in a dress after Nunzio lost a match. This led to some comical segments until the two had a brief feud which saw Vito come out on top.

Because of the heat Vito had been getting backstage, most assumed that the gimmick was a sort of punishment for Vito and that he would most likely be a jobber joke that everyone laughed at, but never won matches. However, everyone was proved wrong once Vito started actually breaking out in the spotlight as a singles superstar for the first time in his career. And ever since Vito became true to himself (can't believe I'm typing this), he's remained undefeated.

Although I personally was never a huge fan of Big Vito, I did like his work in tag teams and such in the bodyguard gimmick and thought that he could benefit the lower card. His in-ring work was never very good, but it suited him for tag team matches and lower-key matches fine (The only exception being his finishing move, The Code of Silence DDT which I still think is cool as hell). I also assumed that he should stay in tag teams or at some other wrestler's side for his career...

But I, myself even became one of the many who was proven wrong. Vito has gained about five times as much personality as he's ever had in his career, winning matches, shining in spotlight much more as well, receiving a singles push, and overall becoming a good addition to Smackdown's lower card division ever since he....donned the dress...

by Matt Cooper..