The pair won the Midwest tag team championship on the undercard of the June 30, 1961 Comiskey Park event starring Pat O'Connor and Buddy Rogers that set the all-time record gate in the United States to that point.

In Chicago, Tony Accardo and two associates "requested" that Albano and Altomare cease using the word "mafia."

During their run as Midwest tag team champions, personal differences with bookers and other wrestlers resulted in the pair abandoning the territory quickly enough that they did not lose the title before leaving.

[3] In July 1967, they won the WWWF United States Tag Team Championship from Arnold Skaaland and Spiros Arion.

"[6] In 1980, Altomare filled in for Afa in a three-on-three match alongside Sika and his old partner, Lou Albano, ten years after the breakup of The Sicilians.

In 1984, he opened a wrestling school in Orange, Connecticut, called "The Factory," where he trained later superstars such as Ted Arcidi, Paul Roma, Steve Blackman, Rita Chatterton, and Doc Butler and established a training relationship with Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels.