Santino Marella

Wrestler's Name: Santino Marella
Nicknames: The Italian Stallion
Hometown: Milan, Italy
Height: 5 ft 10 in
Weight: 233 lb
Alignment: Face
Wrestling Style: Goofball
Manager: Hornswoggle
Entrance Music: Formerly the ending of Tchaikovsky's "Overture 1812", now "La Vittoria è Mia (Victory Is Mine)" by Jim Johnston
Favorite Moves: Arm drag; back suplex; camel clutch; gutbuster; pendulum backbreaker; running headbutt drop with theatrics; savate kick; split evasion followed by hip toss; snap suplex; snap swinging neckbreaker; STO; three left-handed jabs followed by a right-handed forearm smash; triangle choke
Finisher(s): Santino Stunner (Split-legged Stunner); The Cobra
Tag Team Finisher: Mind Your Manners (Samoan Drop (Sandow)/Corkscrew Neckbreaker (Marella) combo)
Win/Loss Record: 94-36-3
Accomplishments: 2 x EWA World Heavyweight Champion; 1 x EWA National Champion; 1 x EWA Television Champion; 5 x EWA Tag Team Champion (3 w/Damien Sandow, 1 w/Braun Strowman, 1 w/Honky Tonk Man); Lethal Lottery 2015 winner w/Damien Sandow; Super Brawl XVI winner as part of Team Demise; Civil War 2017 winner; Super Brawl XVIII winner as part of Team Shamrock, Super Brawl XIX winner by capturing Tag Team Title; King of the Ring 2021 winner

Biography: Santino Marella was just another bum with big dreams but no real way of making them come true...that is until Damien Sandow declared that he would hold open auditions to find a new tag team partner whom he could help transform into a bona fide EWA superstar using his own unique brand of intellectual enlightenment! Well, you can bet your bottom dollar that as soon as Santino saw that opportunity, he went for it with everything he had, arriving at SLAM! to try and win Sandow over...only for Sir Nicholas Magnus and his lackey Wade Barrett to crash the proceedings. This dastardly duo got the jump on Sandow's man-servant Spudley, resulting in Santino attempting to step in only to receive the same fate, as Magnus and Barrett then challenged Damien Sandow to a tag team match the following week at Spring Scramble, if he could find a partner.

Lo and behold, Sandow was impressed with Santino's bravery in the face of such adversity and called upon him to answer that open challenge with him, resulting in the birth of the single most formidable tag team the EWA has ever seen. Well, not really, but hey...they've not done too badly for themselves, as Sandow brings out the best in Santino and Santino somehow seems to bring out the best in Sandow. It's not all been sunshine and lollipops however, as for a while there there seemed to be some tension between the Italian Stallion and poor Spudley, who became jealous of Santino, as if he were taking Spudley's place by Sandow's side. However, the two of them appear to have put those differences aside and are now on the same page, as Santino finally lives his dream of competing on the grandest stage of them all!