John Ferraro

John "Gino Martino" Ferraro, also known as Hammer Head, is a danger act from Season 11 of America's Got Talent.

Background
Gino Martino (real name John Ferraro) was born on November 28th, 1970. Best known by his ring name Gino Martino, John Ferraro is an all American professional strongman and wrestler. He has wrestled for a number of organizations including Paulie Gilmore’s New World Wrestling, NWA New England, New England Championship Wrestling, the Millennium Wrestling Federation and Chaotic Wrestling. He is considered one of the top brawlers in the Northeast of the United States. The Human Anvil = Gino Martino has a super human skull enabling him to break concrete over his head, he has also had bowling balls dropped onto his skull from a height of 15 feet!

He recently set the Guinness world record for having 45 concrete blocks split over his head!

John has been busy performing and he let us know he has just recently been on Discovery’s Shark week – Shark after Dark!

Additionally in June 2014 The Hammerhead was filmed as a feature on the Record Dei Lo Show (Italia Television).

When we were talking to John we asked him this question..

John, if you could share one special thing, from everything that you have learnt in your life, that could help our readers in theirs – what would it be?  John actually had three things he wanted to share with us, here they are.

The things I learned in life that probably stick with me the most – for me personally would be

Having faith in anyone but yourself is a foolish and costly decision..  or.

You go around once in this life, make it memorable  or his life motto-

Its mind over matter when your out of your mind-it don’t matter!  Genetic or Learned Super Power?

According to doctors this Super Human has a super thick skull. That is not something that can be learned so please don’t try to replicate his achievements. 

Audition
John "Gino Martino" Ferraro's audition was not televised, but it consisted of attempting a world record involving dropping a bowling ball on top of bricks laying on his head, breaking them. At least three judges voted "Yes", sending John to the Judge Cuts.

Trivia
John "Gino Martino" Ferraro is one of three acts who were advertised in the Episode 1106 episode but were not actually televised in the broadcast. The other two were singer Madison Watkins (although she was shown talking to RL Bell backstage), and trombonist Gunhild Carling.