HE WAS CALLED “LORD OF THE RING” ON UPN NEWS
  • 07/29/2005 (8:29:05 pm)
  • Georgiann Makropoulos

The Bruno Sammartino piece appeared on UPN News last night…..

Bruno Sammartino's segment on UPN News was on last night.  It started out with Bruno on the cruise around Manhattan Island, and passing the Statue of Liberty. 

It starts out with Bruno blowing a kiss to the Lady in the harbor.  They talked about Bruno coming to Ellis Island at the age of 14 years old.  Bruno said, seeing the Statue again gave him goose bumps.

They talked about the hardships in Italy during the war, and how Bruno almost died. 

Showed Bruno in Italy, where he received an award.  Talked about selling out Madison Square Garden almost 200 times, according to Bruno.  Showed some video of Bruno against Ivan Koloff, Monsoon, Killer Kowalski and talked about Haystacks Calhoun.  Bruno said, he declined being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

Showed Bruno working out in his basement in Pittsburgh, and working out in his youth.  Still trains and walks almost everyday.

Bruno mentioned the steroids in the 80's, and when he came back in September 1984 to do announcing, steroids were everywhere, and language and behavior was bad.

Bruno mentioned his appearance at WrestleReunion.  Talked about Larry Zbyszko going against Diamond Dallas Page on the wrestling show, and that if Larry should win, he will get 5 minutes with Bruno in the ring.  Bruno said, I'm ready. 

All in all, a nice piece by Brenda Flanagan....

BY THE WAY --- 

There is an article on the living legend Bruno Sammartino in the latest issue of Smackdown! Magazine with some classic black and white photo's. It's a retrospective on his career.

 

 

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