Tony D'Angelo, who was introduced via a vignette overtly teasing a mafia character on tonight's WWE NXT, is Joe Ariola, who was signed to a WWE NXT deal in February 2021.
As referenced in his vignette, D'Angelo has a background in collegiate wrestling, where he was the undefeated state and national champion while wrestling in high school in Illinois before qualifying for the NCAA tournament in 2016 while wrestling for the University at Buffalo in New York:
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