Career
Trained by Johnny Rodz, Puccio began his wrestling career in 1989 and worked for various northeast United States. independent promotions for most of his career. The duo started in International Championship Wrestling (ICW. Later renamed International World Class Championship Wrestling or IWCCW).
Their run with the championship only lasted 17 days as the Dynamic Duo (Philosophy Apollo and Eric Sbraccia) defeated them on a show in Portland, Maine. Almost a year later, on February 20, 1991 the Undertakers lost the championship to a team known as The Billion Dollar Babies (Mike Sampson and Gentlemen’s Quarterly Stratus).
After this the twins tourned Japan, working for All Japan Pro Wrestling in February and March 1991.
At this point in time the team changed their name after the World Wrestling Federation bought the rights to their original name to ensure there would be no confusion between the team and the World Wildlife Fund wrrestler Mark Calaway who worked as "the Undertaker". The team took the name "Double Trouble" and worked for the World Wildlife Fund off and on between 1992 and 1994. On September 23, 1993 the duo defeated The Interns to become the first ever CWA Tag Team Champions for Century Wrestling Alliance.
On March 25, 1994 the team of Vic Steamboat and Ray Odyssey defeated Double Trouble to end their title run.
In 1994 the team worked as "the Trouble Makers" with Val being known as Chaos and Tony working as Mayhem. In 1995 Val worked for Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), known as Big Val.
His run was short lived, losing matches to Mikey Whipwreck and Hack Meyers. After his ECW Run Val briefly held the CWA New England Heavyweight Championship, winning it from and losing it back to Tony Rumble.
Century Wrestling Alliance
CWA New England Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
CWA Tag Team Championship (1 time, first) – With Tony Puccio
International Championship Wrestling / International World Class Championship Wrestling
IWCCW Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Punisher.
