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Frankie Starz Born: Frank Roberto- 11/30/1966, is an American professional wrestler. He is currntly working on the indy circuit in central Florida. Billed Ht : 6'2 Billed Wt:  235 Hometown : Brooklyn N.Y.

Frankie's other ring names were Samhain as part of Kevin Sullivan's "New Dungeon of Doom" in USA Pro Wrestling, and also as Conspiracy, also for USA Pro Wrestling.

Frankie Starz's training started in the 90's at the LIWF Doghouse, where he was trained by Laithon - The Tower of Torture, Homicide and Low Ki/Senchi. He also studied under ECW Veteran Jason Knight at his House of Pain Dojo, and with John Curse from ECW's House of Hardcore.

His 1st Professional match was for the LIWF/DPW vs Homicide, a hardcore match.

Frankie Starz appeared on the first episode of MTV's "Wanna be a WWF Wrestler" hosted by Mick Foley and Carson Daly and was a regular on Evan Ginzburg's "Wrestling Then and Now" Radio Show on WBAI-FM. Also he has made appearances on ECW TV and WWF TV.

Frankie's consistent Tag Team partners included: The Orphan & "Bobcat" Cyndi Lynch ( as STD/ Sickness ) in NWA-NJ, JAPW, Rick Silver's WWE, TMPW J-Lover ( as Team Jersey/Sickness )- LIWF/DPW Chris Michaels ( as S&M ) -USA Pro Wrestling, NWA-NY Mercedes Martinez in Assault Championship Wrestling and Ken Sweeney in USA Pro Wrestling.

Notable Feuds included; Balls Mahoney, Chris Candido, Jason Knight, Danny Doring & Amish Roadkill, Tiger Khan, Pat Gunner, Low Life Louie Ramos, John Curse,The Masked Maniac, The Big Unit ( Rick Silver /Dave Desire ), The Elm Street Kids and Johnny Diamond.

Managers/Valets include : Jezzabelle, Velvet Divide, Foxxy, Kristy Kiss, Riptide/Prodigette, Robyn Griggs, Vyper, Foo Foo and "Bobcat" Cyndi Lynch/Hardcore Ho.

Promotions Worked For:

Assault Championship Wrestling United Wrestling Alliance - also under NWA-NJ Long Island Wrestling Federeration- also as Doghouse Pro Wrestling Jersey All Pro Wrestling Mambo King's Total Mayhem Pro Wrestling Rick Silver's World Wrestling Enterprises Combat Zone Wrestling NWA- New York Outlaw Wrestling Promotions USA Pro Wrestling- also as USA Extreme Wrestling HOUSE of PAIN Wrestling Federation Christan Family Wrestling Federation World Class Independent Championship Wrestling

Long Island Wrestling Federation/Doghouse Pro Wrestling

Frankie Starz is a graduate of the LIWF Doghouse, ran by Bobby Lombardi. Starz started training there in 1996 when it was located in Queens NY and when the Dogouse moved to it's last location in Brooklyn in 1997 they finally had an arena to showcase thier talents.

The trainers at the LIWF Doghouse were Laithon - The Tower of Torture, Homicide and Low Ki/Senchi. They ran a tough curriculum and training was intense, and at one time the student shows that were put on there rivaled any of the "pro" shows going on in the northeast, in fact most of the workers on the pro shows in NY and Northern NJ were trained at the Doghouse. Frankie Starz has immense repect for his trainers at the LIWF Doghouse.

Frankie Starz achieved and maintained # 1 heel status in LIWF/DPW in short time, fueding with the # 1 face, "Low Life" Louie Ramos for what seemed like an eternity,

Frankie Starz and J-Lover also formed Team Jersey, and created chaos in LIWF/DPW, bringing in a ECW Invasion that included Jason Knight, Jazz, and Riptide/Prodigette. Starz eventually won control of LIWF/DPW, becoming the Comissioner, before losing that to "The Curse" John Cursi.

United Wrestling Alliance - NWA-NJ.

Bandido, a American Pro Wrestler of Puerto Rican descent, who ran UWA approached Frankie Starz to book and run his company, which was going nowhere, Bandido wanted to make it bigger, faster, and better than his normal shows were, with constant storylines and more notoriety, Frankie accepted and with the help of Fred Rubenstein, transformed UWA into NWA-New Jersey. UWA/NWA-NJ quickly went from shows that 20-50 people came to, to 300-500 came to regularly.

ECW Stars like Balls Mahoney, Jason Knight, Chris Candido, Danny Doring, Amish Roadkill, and Tammy Lynn Sytch were featured on a regular basis, elevating the talent level, Former WWF Hardcore Champion The Hardcore Ho aka "Bobcat" Cyndi Lynch and NWA-TNA Star Homicide also appeared on UWA/NWA-NJ Shows. Rick Silver and his indy wrestling expertise was brought in as well and became Comissioner.

In addition to the ECW/WWF/NWA Talent brought in, Frankie Starz also booked the top local talent like Crazy Ivan and Warpath, and cultivated the development of Bandido Jr as a top Crusierweight in the indies settign him in a fued with The Grim Reefer.

Starz also booked the women of pro wrestling, where most indy feds had maybe one match, Starz had at least 3 every show, establishing a womens division that almost every indy in New Jersey copied for years after UWA ceased running. Ariel, Alere Little Feather, Bobcat, Mercedes Martinez, Talia, Cindy Rogers, Alicia, Tara Charisma, Foxxy Dreams, Nikki Roxx,April Hunter, Penny Dreadful and Luscious Lilly were regular performers at UWA/NWA-New Jersey. UWA/NWA- NJ was the most talked about, controversial, extreme indy on the East Coast while Starz booked it, and fell apart shortly after Starz left, and moved to Florida. Frankie Starz last Professional Match was vs Chris Candido, who died shortly thereafter.

Championships Held

DPW/LIWF Tag Team - w J-Lover, as Team Jersey

DPW/LIWF NY State/NJ State

NWA-NY Hardcore

NWA-NJ / UWA World Title 3X NWA-NJ / UWA Tag as STD/Sickness v2.0 w Orphan, Bobcat & Foo Foo.

USA Pro NY State Title

TMPW Hardcore Title

Frank Roberto ( Frankie Starz ) born Nov 30, 1966, is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name of Frankie Starz. He’s currently working the indies, the 2 prominent companies he’s working for are Pro Wrestling Uncensored ( PWU ) and Bad Boys of Wrestling ( BBOW ). Frankie prefers doing the “hardcore/extreme” style of Wrestling, but can, and has, worked with anyone/any style. Frankie is currently training indy diva “Barely Legal” Nini Sambora.

Early Career and Life Frankie was a wrestling fan for most of his life, and at the age of 30, decided after a meeting with Jason Knight ( Original ECW ), that he would and could pursue his dream of becoming a professional wrestler. Frankie had been an athlete all his life, playing Baseball & Football for Brooklyn Tech HS, and being offered a football scholarship to Alabama before being hit by a car in 1983 and injuring his knee. Frankie joined the US Marine Corps in 1989, was discharged in 1992 and is a Gulf War/Desert Storm Veteran who served with the USMC’s elite ANGLICO and RECON units as a Forward Observer Radio Operator.

In 1996, Jason Knight started teaching Frankie the business of professional wrestling, and Frankie hung around the original ECW and learned from experiences with ECW veterans such as Balls Mahoney, Sandman, Axl Rotten, New Jack, Kronus, Kid Kash, Danny Doring, Roadkill, Little Guido, Justin Credible, Chris Chetti, Big Dick Dudley, Joel Gertner, Chris Candido, Tammy Lynn Sytch (Sunny), Missy Hyatt, Jazz and Riptide (Prodigette).

Frankie enrolled in Bobby Lombardi’s LIWF “Doghouse” Wrestling School in 1996, the instructors were Homicide, Laithon the Tower of Torture and Low Life Louie, Frankie Starz graduated from the Doghouse, and pursued further training at Jason Knight’s House of Pain Dojo in CT. His 1st career pro match was with LIWF in a hardcore match vs Homicide..

Wrestling; 1996-Present Frankie Starz wrestled for many companies including Jersey All Pro Wrestling, Combat Zone Wrestling, Total Mayhem Pro Wrestling, East Coast Professional Wrestling, Acid Pro Wrestling, Assault Championship Wrestling, LIWF/Doghouse Pro Wrestling, NWA-NY, USA Pro Wrestling, USA Xtreme Wrestling, Impact Championship Wrestling, Jersey Championship Wrestling, NWA-NJ (a.k.a. United Wrestling Alliance), House of Pain Wrestling, Bad Boys of Wrestling, Pro Wrestling Uncensored, Jersey Wrestling Alliance, World Wrestling Enterprises, and many others.

NWA-NJ (UWA) In 2004, Frankie Starz was brought in by Bandido, a Professional Wrestler of Puerto Rican descent, to run his company- United Wrestling Alliance, a company Frankie had worked for since he started wrestling, as the booker/promoter. Frankie took over the company and brought in many ECW names noted above and helped turn that company into NWA-NJ after meeting with Fred Rubenstein, and establishing a mix of hard hitting/ technical and hardcore/extreme style of show superseded only by ECW in many peoples opinions, Frankie also established the a prominent Womens Divison, and although no longer with UWA/NWA-NJ his idea continues to be a template for many successful professional Women’s feds operating in the North East currently. Frankie left UWA and wrestling in early 2005, with Chris Candido established as Champion. and other names from ECW like Jason Knight, Balls Mahoney, Danny Doring, and Roadkill giving the roster credibility, as well as top indy talent at the time in Homicide, Billy Reil, Low Life Louie, Rockin Rebel, Tower of Torture, Grim Reefer, Rick Silver, J-Lover, Joe Rules, Monsta Mac, Mana, C.J. O’Doyle and a womens divison that included, Former WWF Hardcore Champion “Bobcat” Cyndi Lynch (ECW, TNA), Former WWF and ECW Diva “Sunny” a.k.a. Tammy Lynn Sytch, former ECW star Angel Orsini –( Prodigette & Riptide), TNA star Velvet Skyy ( as Talia ), and indy standouts Foxxy Dreams, Kristy Kiss, Ariel, Cindy Rogers, Mercedes Martinez, Tara Charisma, Alere Little Feather, Alicia and others.

Frankie Starz left NWA-NJ and had his “final” match in 2005 vs. Chris Candido, where Starz lost the NWA-NJ Heavyweight Title to Candido, and left pro wrestling until 2009.

The S.T.D. Frankie Starz was part of a tag team called the S.T.D. that toured the US, The STD was Rick Silver’s idea, and made their 1st appearance in Jersey All Pro as part of The Sickness. His partner was The Orphan Bubba and they created havoc wherever they went, they always had a valet, and these included “Bobcat” Cyndi Lynch, who was also a replacement tag team member and defended the UWA/NWA-NJ Tag Team Titles with Starz 2X, other members of The S.T.D. that wrestled with Starz as their partner were Mercedes Martinez in ACW, Laithon- The Tower of Torture also was part of the S.T.D. and teamed with Orphan. J-Lover was also a member, teaming up with both Orphan and Starz as Team Jersey, The Sickness and The S.T.D.version. 2.0.

Bobcat, Foo Foo ( Ken Yanga ), Kristy Kiss, Jezzabelle, Velvet Divide, Foxxxy Dreams, also managed Starz and Orphan, notable feuds for the STD were The Big Unit- ( Rick Silver, Dave Desire, Joe Rules ), The Hit Squad ( Monsta Mac, Mafia Mac), and The Elm Street Kids ( Psycho, Rayza, Danny Yamz w/ Penny Dreadful ).

Appearances: Frankie Starz has appeared on MTV’s ‘Wanna be a WWF Wrestler” series and has appeared on ECW and WWF TV, Frankie Starz is a regular guest on Mike Trash’s Trash Talking Radio and has been featured in Evan Ginzburg’s Wrestling Then and Now magazine and radio show.

Bad Boys of Wrestling/Pro Wrestling Uncensored- 2009- Current.

After scouring the Florida indies for a place to make his re-debut, Frankie Starz brought his newest find, “Barely Legal” Nini Sambora with him to Bad Boys of Wrestling (BBOW) in November of 09 after receiving a call from longtime friend and biker brother Scooter Trash, and was awarded the BBOW Hardcore Title at Dixiefest, only to find out he had to fight “Nick” Foley for it, Foley a lookalike, is as psychotic as the original, and Starz and Foley fought 2 nights over the Title, 11-14-09, 11-15-09, in what many considere to be a hardcore booldbath. Starz won the 1st encounter with the help of Nini Sambora, Foley won Rd 2, and is the currrent BBOW Hardcore Champion.

No sooner than that happened, Frankie Starz and Nini Sambora were signed to work the debut show for Pro Wrestling Uncensored, Dec 5th 2009, that they found out they had a match for the PWU Hardcore Title, vs None other than Nick Foley.

Noteable Feuds Frankie Starz has notable feuds with Balls Mahoney, Jason Knight, Homicide, Ron Zombie, Nick Foley, Low Life Louie Ramos, J-Train (Julius Smokes), The Tower of Torture, Grim Reefer, and Curse (ECW House of Hardcore Graduate John Curcie) among others.

Titles Held Bad Boys of Wrestling: Hardcore Title NWA-NJ: Heavyweight Title NWA-NJ: Hardcore Title LIWF/DPW: New Jersey Title Assault Championship: Wrestling Hardcore Title Acid Pro Wrestling: Hardcore Title NWA-NY: Hardcore Title USA Pro Wrestling: Hardcore Title USA XTREME Wrestling: Hardcore Title TMPW: Hardcore Title

Tag Teams: As The S.T.D.- w Orphan/& Bobcat Cyndi Lynch & Foo Foo. NWA-NJ: Tag Team Champions – 3X

As The S.T.D.- w Orphan/J-Lover & Jezzabelle LIWF/DPW: : Tag Team Champions - 1X

As The Patriots – w Red Hott Russ World Wrestling Enterprises: Tag Team Champions 1X

Finishing Moves: Singles Enzugiri “Starz-Struck” Fishermans Buster onto Chair- “Seeing Starz” Superkick – “Frankie Kick” Kata Hadj Ame- “Shooting Starz”

Entrance Music: “Sound of Madness” by Shinedown- Current

Personal Life Frankie Starz is divorced, and resides in Florida.