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Bruno Sammartino interviewed by Greg Sansone of the TheScore
Recap by Steve Khan  

Bruno said he headlined Madison Square Garden 211 times and says it does
feel like a long time ago. Sammartino said he lived in Toronto for 2 years
while wrestling there a under promoter Frank Tunney and also wrestled all
over Canada.

Sammartino talked about having his neck broken in 1976 in a match with Stan
Hansen. Doctor’s told Bruno he was one millimetre away from being paralyzed
from the neck down. To a certain degree, Sammartino still wakes up with some
of the pain from all the years of wrestling, but says he’s extremely lucky
and grateful for the doctors that he’s worked with and says he works out 7
days a week. Bruno said Yukon Eric was a friend of his and called him the
strongest guy he ever wrestled, and talked about being asked to have a
technical match with Yukon.

Bruno said there was always a certain level of showmanship in wrestling back
then, but it was still mostly wrestling. After being asked what turned him
off about wrestling over the years, Sammartino said there’s so many women
dressed in little outfits, a guy named Triple H having sex with a corpse,
people being buried alive, and McMahon dropping his pants on live TV
exposing his bare ass. He says this vulgarity made him appalled about a
business he loved. Bruno said they shouldn’t even call it “wrestling”
anymore. Sammartino said he can’t possibly agree on joining the WWE Hall of
Fame at this point, and would be hypocritical if he did.

He said you do have to give Vince McMahon Junior some credit for making
wrestling as big as he did. Bruno however said Vince did more damage on the
arenas. He doesn’t know any big arenas that they run 7-10 times a year
anymore. Sammartino said they only come to places like his hometown
Pittsburgh twice a year because they can’t sell out anymore, and they’ve been kicked out of MSG.

When Sammartino came back as a commentator 1984, he said it was obvious what
was going on with the drugs. In the New York Post, Phil Mushnick said in the
past 10-15 years, there have been hundreds of wrestlers that have died.
Bruno said there should be an investigation by congress, but maybe the
politicians don’t think these wrestlers’ lives mean anything. He said it
shouldn’t matter if the politicians take wrestling seriously or not. They
should do something about it because kids still watch it and see it as
wrestling. Sammartino would tell young guys today, no matter how much
pressure is being put on you, don’t risk your own life. He said by doing
these drugs, these young wrestlers may never see middle age. He admits it’s
hard to sway a young person, since being a bigger guy gets them an
opportunity.

He talked about his book and interesting stories of his life that have
nothing to do with wrestling, including having to run for his life as a kid
after Italy was invaded by the Nazis. You can go to Sammartino’s website at
brunobrunobruno.com for information on his book.

TheScore’s hockey expert Steve Ludzik is a long time wrestling fan and
joined Greg Sansone after the interview. Ludzik has met Vince McMahon a few times and called McMahon a jerk.

The producer of the show told me the interview will be online sometime next week.