Sam Roman

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Sam Roman
Statistics
Ring name(s)	Kid Romeo
Billed height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Billed weight	185 lb (84 kg)
Born	1975 Miami, Florida
Trained by	Paul Orndorff
Debut	1999
Retired	2008

Sam Roman is an American professional wrestler better known as Kid Romeo.

[edit] Career

After a stint as a male stripper, Sam Roman started wrestling in 1999 in World Championship Wrestling after being trained by Paul Orndorff at the WCW Power Plant. He wrestled as Kid Romeo and was mainly seen on WCW Saturday Night. In 2000, he was sent to NWA Wildside to gain more experience.

Roman returned in early 2001 and began portraying a character loosely based on Ricky Martin. He formed a tag team with Elix Skipper and entered a tournament for the WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team Championship. They won the tournament at Greed and had just begun feuding with Rey Misterio, Jr. and Billy Kidman when WCW was sold to Vince McMahon, the chairman of the World Wrestling Federation. Roman and Skipper lost the titles to Misterio and Kidman on the final episode of WCW Monday Nitro.

Roman was not hired by the WWF following the sale and he went to Puerto Rico to wrestle for the World Wrestling Council. He returned to the mainland in 2003 and began working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as Romeo, competing in the X Division, but was not a major player. He left TNA in late 2003 and joined Florida Championship Wrestling where he feuded with Tyree Pride, and wrestled for Nick Mayberry's Hardkore Championship Wrestling before returning to TNA as a jobber in early 2004.