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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 18 2018, 07:38 AM (48 Views) | |
| Scrooge McSuck | Apr 18 2018, 07:38 AM Post #1 |
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I'll get you next time, toilet!
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Only 82. I say only because he seemed to always be in good physical shape, even at an advanced age. I honestly thought he was older than that. |
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| Erick Von Erich | Apr 18 2018, 08:49 AM Post #2 |
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I'm Big E and I tell it like it is
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I "learned" about him when I briefly watched WWF in 1986. Came back in late 1987/early 1988 and was shocked that my dad knew all about Bruno. "He was wrestling when I was a kid in Pittsburgh! Used to fight George the Animal Steele and hang out with Haystacks Calhoun!" So the fact that Bruno was still loosely associated with the current product served as a "seal of approval" for my dad (ditto for George Steele, FWIW). Haven't heard a bad story about him. Like you, I was a little shocked that he was "only 82". Whenever I saw him on TV in the past decade or so, I'd think: "he could probably still kick my ass". I mean this as a compliment, but he was a great inspiration for getting old. "Oh man...I'm getting old and gray. All these lines in my face gettin' clearer. Pfft! Whatever. Bruno's still around and kicking butt!" |
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| torturedsoulv1 | Apr 18 2018, 12:53 PM Post #3 |
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He was my dad's favorite wrestler. He was an announcer when I started watching in '83 RIP Bruno Sammartino He's only one of two wrestlers I ever paid for a pic with. It was at an ROH Show in 2005. Spoke to him a bit. He called me one of the old timers as most of the ROH crowd was teens/early 20s and I was 36 at the time He also had a big smile when I spoke to him in Italian. My Italian is so-so, so not fluent like him or my dad was Edited by torturedsoulv1, Apr 18 2018, 01:00 PM.
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| HeenanandMonsoon | Apr 18 2018, 01:30 PM Post #4 |
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During his HOF speech I remember thinking damn he looks in great shape for a guy in his late 70s. Like others my dad was a big fan during his long run as champ. Definition of a Legend without question. RIP Bruno. |
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| Scrooge McSuck | Apr 18 2018, 08:42 PM Post #5 |
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I'll get you next time, toilet!
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With time to digest his passing (and recapping the Bruno Coliseum Video for Da Site), Bruno was before my era, but I still knew enough of him. Having been a fan of reading wrestling magazines (Apter mags especially), even during the years as an adolescent where he was on bad terms with Vince, I knew of his title reigns that combined for more than a decade. The mythological crowd response to him losing the title to Ivan Koloff. He was Italian and based in the Northeast. Guess who's parents and grandparents liked Bruno. (Hint: Yo) As an adult, I never cared much for the era he wrestled in, but he clearly had the love and support of audiences that was only rivaled years later by Hulk Hogan and Steve Austin, and even at the age of 50, was having decent rivalries with Roddy Piper and Randy Savage that played to his strengths. |
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