Ep. 412: 'The Coliseum Collection' Bruno Sammartino, Wrestling's Living Legend (Part 2)

<v Speaker 1>And we're back. Oscan Wrestling Podcast. The Colosseum Collection rolls
<v Speaker 1>on here as we tackle the tribute the living legend
<v Speaker 1>Bruno sim Martino Colosseum Home Video Release Boss. He is
<v Speaker 1>a living legend, and he lives on in this in
<v Speaker 1>this tape, and so does the legendary crackle of that VHS.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, indeed, federal law provides.
<v Speaker 1>Severe criminal civil penalties in case you forgot, no columns
<v Speaker 1>yet in our Colosseum home video logo, and there is
<v Speaker 1>no not yet that blue logo, that home video logo
<v Speaker 1>that we all love to see. I also don't know
<v Speaker 1>if you know the begin over five thousand years ago.
<v Speaker 2>Actually I have it at the game. It actually began
<v Speaker 2>over five million years ago when dinosaurs discovered methods of
<v Speaker 2>entertainment that would put smile on faces.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they were. They were carnying each other back.
<v Speaker 2>Right right, Well, you had the Carnivores after resolutely you
<v Speaker 2>did Carnivores, I suppose to be called.
<v Speaker 1>They should just rename the whole Colisseum video collection carniv Wars.
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<v Speaker 1>Carnivore home video series.
<v Speaker 2>There we go.
<v Speaker 1>So there's gene Oakerland in a bow tie and in studio,
<v Speaker 1>the WWF studios. Let us know, it's a great pleasure.
<v Speaker 2>Here we go. I got this one because I thought
<v Speaker 2>this was absolutely it's it's, it's there's so you know,
<v Speaker 2>I actually took all of Bruno's like intros to his
<v Speaker 2>matches because they were great. That's how everything with Bruno.
<v Speaker 2>It's just spectacular to hear him talk about this stuff.
<v Speaker 2>So that this is actually this clip. So I don't
<v Speaker 2>know if you have anything else you want to say,
<v Speaker 2>because this actually leads into the Nikolai Volkoff. Let's do
<v Speaker 2>it all right, Here we.
<v Speaker 3>Go, Hello, Gettaby Bond. This is being Gene Okerland and
<v Speaker 3>it is my great pleasure to be just one of
<v Speaker 3>the hosts for the next edition of Colisseum Videos, official
<v Speaker 3>World Wrestling Federation home video series. Now you'll notice that
<v Speaker 3>I said one of the hosts.
<v Speaker 2>He's making a big deal out of that, as if
<v Speaker 2>the last video wasn't the exact same fucking thing.
<v Speaker 1>I know it was multiple hosts, right, It's kind of
<v Speaker 1>the idea, right.
<v Speaker 3>Because to bring you this particular cassette, I'm going to
<v Speaker 3>be joined here in video control by a man who
<v Speaker 3>will be the subject of this program. Not only in
<v Speaker 3>professional wrestling, but in all of professional sport. There is
<v Speaker 3>only one man, and one man only, who has ever
<v Speaker 3>been a court of the extraordinary nickname of living Legend.
<v Speaker 3>I am speaking, of course, of our guest host, Wrestling's
<v Speaker 3>living legend, Bruno San Martino. Bruno, welcome aboard.
<v Speaker 4>Thank you very much, Jane. Great to be here with you.
<v Speaker 3>It is going to be a big hour. Bruno. We're
<v Speaker 3>going to be talking about your career in some detail
<v Speaker 3>a little bit later on, but I'd like to quickly
<v Speaker 3>describe for your fans some of the matches we're going
<v Speaker 3>to be reliving along with you. You right here. Opponents
<v Speaker 3>like Baron von Rashki, George the Animal Steal, There's a
<v Speaker 3>classic Nikolai Volkov, Olympic strong man, Ken petera rowdy Roddy
<v Speaker 3>Piper I know, not one of your favorites, and Killer
<v Speaker 3>Kowalski and Bruno, if we may, let's get right to it.
<v Speaker 3>It is October twenty fifth, nineteen seventy five, and early
<v Speaker 3>in the career of a man from Russia who outweighs
<v Speaker 3>you by sixty five pounds and is hungry for the
<v Speaker 3>world heavyweight title. You held at the time. Tell us
<v Speaker 3>what it's like to stand of the squared circles Bruno
<v Speaker 3>San Martino with Nikolai Volkov.
<v Speaker 4>Well, that was quite an experience, Jean, because Volkov did
<v Speaker 4>not come in that ring to Russell, he was a
<v Speaker 4>brutal man, very powerful, but very brutal. He tried to
<v Speaker 4>annihilate an opponent travicious tactics. So this was a root
<v Speaker 4>awakening for me realizing that this Russian meant business and
<v Speaker 4>you only have to meet him in his own game
<v Speaker 4>if you're to survive.
<v Speaker 1>Things he says about his he's got a whole spiel
<v Speaker 1>for every opponent.
<v Speaker 4>He does.
<v Speaker 2>He does, and and there's something part of it is
<v Speaker 2>just so it's so weak, Like sometimes the authenticity is
<v Speaker 2>great about what he's saying about his opponents, and sometimes
<v Speaker 2>it's just plain fucking weird. Yeah, you know, and it's
<v Speaker 2>just it. And again it goes along that same lines
<v Speaker 2>of the of of what was the phrase that he
<v Speaker 2>used that what they called how they described him, the
<v Speaker 2>way he wouldn't his wouldn't responses and ship you know,
<v Speaker 2>like they really are like he's he's it's it's again.
<v Speaker 2>He sounds like a fucking relative that that that doesn't
<v Speaker 2>really know how to respond to certain things.
<v Speaker 1>Son think he's making a lot of provisos for why
<v Speaker 1>a lot of the matches on this tape aren't going
<v Speaker 1>to be heavily technical. Like he's always talking about how
<v Speaker 1>this other guy was so brutal that he had to
<v Speaker 1>bring the fight out of me and vicious tactics I
<v Speaker 1>had to deal with.
<v Speaker 2>But it's kind of funny he says that. And I
<v Speaker 2>actually may note this earlier because he talks about about uh,
<v Speaker 2>I forget which one it was, maybe which match it
<v Speaker 2>was where he talks about it being a technical match,
<v Speaker 2>and I'm like, yeah, I don't know what he's talking about.
<v Speaker 2>He's he's a punch kick guy. Yeah, that's what he does. Like,
<v Speaker 2>that's what people react to. They don't react to and
<v Speaker 2>him doing a hold. They they react to him kicking
<v Speaker 2>him punching people like. That's that's what Brunos Sanmartino.
<v Speaker 1>Is for sure, especially against you know heels like this.
<v Speaker 1>He you know, when he wrestled Pedro in that hour match,
<v Speaker 1>when he wrestled baby Faces, he could do technical matches.
<v Speaker 1>He did one against do Zubisco that set up th
<v Speaker 1>Obisco heel turn on a TV tape. It was actually
<v Speaker 1>kind of a clinic in Chaine Wrestling. It was like, Wow,
<v Speaker 1>he actually can't do this if if the circumstance calls
<v Speaker 1>for it. It's just so rarely did the circumstance call
<v Speaker 1>for it because he was so effective coming coming up
<v Speaker 1>from the bottom against vicious Heel. But he kind of
<v Speaker 1>like on just about every match he comments on, like
<v Speaker 1>you observed as well on this tape, he's always like
<v Speaker 1>sort of apologizing for the fact that he's not using
<v Speaker 1>holes and just punching.
<v Speaker 2>Right, and it's like, that's what you do, man, that's
<v Speaker 2>what you do.
<v Speaker 1>I wrote down October of seventy five as the timestamp
<v Speaker 1>for this match because I think on the tape that's
<v Speaker 1>what they say. It's actually October ninety seventy six.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, that's what I had. That's what I ended up.
<v Speaker 2>I got from the website there the log there, right,
<v Speaker 2>it's October twenty fifth, nineteen seventy six.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so it might be uh okay, so we're on
<v Speaker 1>the same page there.
<v Speaker 2>The log also has another screw up later on actually
<v Speaker 2>where I it says a match that was at the
<v Speaker 2>Garden was actually at Boston Garden was actually in Philly
<v Speaker 2>the year prior, which is oh interesting. Yeah, I'll get
<v Speaker 2>to that one. You get there.
<v Speaker 1>They got October twenty fifth, seventy six to the terrific
<v Speaker 1>Wrestling in the Garden The Battle for New York Workshoots
<v Speaker 1>and Double Cross this book by Jay mcelcanyon and Scott.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you've got the real that's Drew. You have the real,
<v Speaker 2>fucking the real Guide.
<v Speaker 1>The Digest Semarantino being Nikolai Volcloff in eighteen minutes, thirty
<v Speaker 1>four seconds. This says Gorilla Monsoon was special referee. So
<v Speaker 1>I don't think it's that show.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, maybe not, but.
<v Speaker 1>It says October twenty fifth, nineteen seventy six. And in
<v Speaker 1>nineteen seventy five he was not wrestling. He was not
<v Speaker 1>wrestling Nikolai Volkoff yet. Yeah, he's he's up against the
<v Speaker 1>likes of was it Waldov on Eric and stuff like that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, So also on that card, Potsky beating Stan Hanson,
<v Speaker 1>Andrew the Giant Chief, j Strongbell and Billy White Wolf
<v Speaker 1>over Bruiser Brody and the Executioners. There was a broke.
<v Speaker 1>There was Brody Bruno matches in the Garden in seventy
<v Speaker 1>six think about that pairing.
<v Speaker 2>Fucking hell, I needed that.
<v Speaker 1>I need that absolutely, So, yeah, it's it's an interesting one,
<v Speaker 1>it is. It's uh, the Nikolai Volkoff we will come
<v Speaker 1>to know is not quite the nickeola I Volkoff that's here.
<v Speaker 1>That's more bepa mungol Volkov.
<v Speaker 2>This well what I uh, I was amazed. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>I guess I knew, but I don't know, it didn't.
<v Speaker 2>It didn't really kind of hit me until I was
<v Speaker 2>watching this. How long of a career, Uh, Nikolai Volkov had?
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, yeah before he had a whole career before that,
<v Speaker 2>like and and you know, unfortunately those of us who
<v Speaker 2>who I mean, those of us who who fucking joined
<v Speaker 2>in the nineties, Like he's just a joke, yeah, you know,
<v Speaker 2>but here he's actually vicious. But it's hard for me
<v Speaker 2>to look back at him and think of him as
<v Speaker 2>a legitimate threat for anybody, yep, because he's such a goof.
<v Speaker 1>That's quite a striped dress shirt that Bruno has on
<v Speaker 1>in the studio.
<v Speaker 4>By the way.
<v Speaker 2>Indeed, something a sight to behold if you're something to
<v Speaker 2>tell you that's that's that's that's the shirt. He wears
<v Speaker 2>when he's uh in the backyard on the grill and
<v Speaker 2>susiege totally.
<v Speaker 1>That is absolutely his labor Day cookout shirt. So it's
<v Speaker 1>Bruno versus Volkoff and we start with a knuckle lock.
<v Speaker 1>Nikolai velcoff to his knees and brunos and Maertino throws
<v Speaker 1>a knee and sends Volkov flying. We have gray ropes,
<v Speaker 1>navy buckling and a navy canvas in case you're wondering
<v Speaker 1>what era.
<v Speaker 2>And let me tell you a lot of marks are
<v Speaker 2>left in the body, yes after any of these matches.
<v Speaker 1>And you know that clinging noise the ring used to
<v Speaker 1>make in that era, has the rope sagged and shook,
<v Speaker 1>the rattle, the rattle of the ring. There's a top
<v Speaker 1>wristlock now by Bruno that takes Nikolae down to the canvas.
<v Speaker 1>Roughcounts one and Bruno shifts to the arm bar. Vince
<v Speaker 1>McMahon junr on the call. By the way, he had
<v Speaker 1>been on announcing for about three years at this point
<v Speaker 1>at ringside. Interesting this wasn't Bepo Mongol. Like I mentioned,
<v Speaker 1>the Mongols was a big time dominating heel tag team
<v Speaker 1>where Nikolai Velcoff first broke in and I always remember
<v Speaker 1>Bruno wrestling Beppo Mongol, not Nikolai Volkoff by names. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>but maybe there was a point in time where you
<v Speaker 1>switched to gimmicks and still working to their feet. And
<v Speaker 1>Bermontino grabs Sementino grabs side headlock push off. They collide,
<v Speaker 1>but neither man budgets and again, this time at Sammartino,
<v Speaker 1>who falls forward. Olcoff yells at him, hits the ropes
<v Speaker 1>and bowls him over. Tries again, and there's an arm
<v Speaker 1>drag by Bruno Simartino and the crowd likes that. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I thought he said there was no technical wrestling in
<v Speaker 1>this one, brother. And then Sammartino, with the wrist control
<v Speaker 1>on the mat, almost like an Americana, steps over into
<v Speaker 1>the mount. Interestingly, Bruno taking mount, the ref counts one.
<v Speaker 1>The ref funny, he slaps and says something one and two.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know what this ref's deal is, but he
<v Speaker 1>says one the two. Maybe he's just trying to get
<v Speaker 1>trying to speak Bruno's language.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>So then Bruno Sammartino lifting and dropping the shins on
<v Speaker 1>the stomach from that mounted position as Vince says, if
<v Speaker 1>you don't think that takes power, just imagine a neck bridge.
<v Speaker 1>Just imagine a neck bridge when you weigh three hundred pounds.
<v Speaker 1>That alone is a feat. But when you have Brunos
<v Speaker 1>Samartino on top of you, that gives you some idea
<v Speaker 1>of the power possessed by Nikolai Volkoff. Thanks Vince.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's a mouthful, fucking Actually maybe it was a
<v Speaker 2>mount leone. By the way, when he use.
<v Speaker 1>That's the line of kill weer nikkad joke. Yeah to
<v Speaker 1>the knucklelock in. Sanmartino is now struggling. He gets arrested.
<v Speaker 1>Down to the canvas for two and Vince is surprised
<v Speaker 1>by the nearness of the fall. Photographers are hugging the
<v Speaker 1>apron because they have yet to be banished from existence
<v Speaker 1>by Vince Junior. That's always a welcome sight. A Sanmartino
<v Speaker 1>lifts an arm and starts shaking, and they start going
<v Speaker 1>nuts at the suggestion that Sanmartino might be about to
<v Speaker 1>fire up.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, like you said, it's crazy.
<v Speaker 1>The original hulking up right here in the northeast, yep,
<v Speaker 1>and they're going nuts.
<v Speaker 2>Really what it is?
<v Speaker 1>Both stand and nicolaive o'clock kicks the gut to break
<v Speaker 1>and stomps on Sanmartino a bit. Now he's choking him
<v Speaker 1>on the canvas as some flash bulbs go off. Then
<v Speaker 1>Volkov lifts his arms to the crowd to draw some
<v Speaker 1>booze in, and Vince is saying he's taking the time
<v Speaker 1>out of yep, good, No, I was go ahead. I
<v Speaker 1>was just reacting, taking time out of the beating here
<v Speaker 1>to show off his work. Taking time out to show
<v Speaker 1>off his work here.
<v Speaker 2>He also talks about this was great. He comments on
<v Speaker 2>Volkoff's his fuel tank as it were, Well.
<v Speaker 5>Golf drass tank down around the E mark unless you're
<v Speaker 5>gonna get some pick fuel.
<v Speaker 4>Here, that's not lock.
<v Speaker 5>They go Guno's gonna be all over it.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, where's he gonna get the fuel from?
<v Speaker 2>I mean, what are you gonna ask for a snack?
<v Speaker 1>Isn't there an oil in Bargo back? Then he's gonna
<v Speaker 1>ask for a snack, But that has nothing to do
<v Speaker 1>with the the fuel comment. Can you play that again
<v Speaker 1>so we can hear the noise of the ring. This
<v Speaker 1>is mid seventies WWF.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, well, golf drass tank down around the E mark
<v Speaker 3>unless you're gonna get some puick fuel here.
<v Speaker 2>That's not lock.
<v Speaker 5>They go, Bruno's gonna be all over it.
<v Speaker 2>I mean just metal, you know, like whatever whatever they're
<v Speaker 2>landing on is hard, right, Okay, there's no give.
<v Speaker 1>Right, it's not designed and engineered for pro wrestling.
<v Speaker 2>It's just no, it's not. It's it's design and engineered
<v Speaker 2>for pain. Wow.
<v Speaker 1>So uh Brits Simotato kicking as uh Volkoff tries to
<v Speaker 1>close in, rams his head into the top buckle, and
<v Speaker 1>Nikolai Volkoff basically backflips out of the corner, but Sanmarteano
<v Speaker 1>unloads with body shots and right and a right hook
<v Speaker 1>drops Volkov cover No. Vlklof has his foot on the
<v Speaker 1>rope very adeptly, as Vince notes, the foot is put
<v Speaker 1>on the rope. There's like a new I don't know
<v Speaker 1>what I meant by this. Was there a new camera
<v Speaker 1>angle overlooking the ring that they cut to at one point?
<v Speaker 1>I feel like there was something novel.
<v Speaker 2>About Maybe I don't remember seeing anything that notable.
<v Speaker 1>So they flash forward like you said that, this is
<v Speaker 1>some abbreviated stuff here head luck by Sanmartino push off.
<v Speaker 2>But it's not like you know what I appreciate about
<v Speaker 2>this more than other videos in the past is that they,
<v Speaker 2>at least for the most part, they start off at
<v Speaker 2>the beginning of the match and they end the match. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>it's not like they showed they jump in the middle
<v Speaker 2>of the match and they leave before it's over, like
<v Speaker 2>so many of these tapes are like Yeah, it's like
<v Speaker 2>to me, if I were renting these tapes, I'd be
<v Speaker 2>fucking his totally, Like, at least this one's got some
<v Speaker 2>stuff to it that.
<v Speaker 1>I really get. Fourteen seconds of a six man tag
<v Speaker 1>from seventy eight, right, Stan Hayes stan Stasiak puts the
<v Speaker 1>heart punch on for twelve seconds. It's like, right, what
<v Speaker 1>the fuck was the point of that headlock push off
<v Speaker 1>by Sammartino. They collide and brunos Semartino nearly spills out
<v Speaker 1>of the ring with the ropes bouncing like you wouldn't believe.
<v Speaker 1>San Martino is able to slug Volkoff from his knees
<v Speaker 1>and cover for two, and then he rams Volkov into
<v Speaker 1>the canvas head first, as Vince says, Nikolai's Volkoff's gas tank,
<v Speaker 1>et cetera. We get a glimpse of the crowd and
<v Speaker 1>they're so panicked and so dialed into San Martino's struggle.
<v Speaker 1>Nobody's looking around, nobody's distracted. Everyone wants to suits on
<v Speaker 1>their phone to say the least uh bertis Himno, kicks
<v Speaker 1>the ribs and stands on the back of his fucking head,
<v Speaker 1>Volkov's head as he tries to retreat to the dle.
<v Speaker 1>Then he kicks him out to the floor. We have
<v Speaker 1>some police officers in motion with night sticks as a
<v Speaker 1>matter of fact, that you can see down on the floor,
<v Speaker 1>trying to keep the fans from striking Nikola.
<v Speaker 2>In the middle. Yeah, well, because they're like, you know,
<v Speaker 2>there really isn't much preventing not really the fans from
<v Speaker 2>there's no guard rails, let alone the fucking you know, uh,
<v Speaker 2>you know fucking thing they have now that they have
<v Speaker 2>the britaining barrier.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they I'd imagine the rule of thumb is like,
<v Speaker 1>don't let one fan get away with attacking a heel,
<v Speaker 1>because then it becomes a riot. Like if the first
<v Speaker 1>fan feels like he's got it, in the second, the third,
<v Speaker 1>and it's over at that point, you can't. They have
<v Speaker 1>some experience with the riots in the garden, that's for sure.
<v Speaker 1>As we talked about go back to the what was
<v Speaker 1>Argentina Roka in the horror movie?
<v Speaker 2>Uh, he was the Alice, Sweet Alice.
<v Speaker 1>We talk a lot about the garden riot that caused
<v Speaker 1>the Garden close to wrestling for years. So that's going down.
<v Speaker 1>And then Nicoleve o'clock climbs back in and Bruno Simartino
<v Speaker 1>with a float like a butterfly, sting like a b
<v Speaker 1>series of punches. Definitely he does, taking a book out
<v Speaker 1>of a page ont Muhammad Ali's book. Series of japs
<v Speaker 1>to the face, kick, kick to the chest drops him
<v Speaker 1>and the crowd is with it as Simmartino conquers him,
<v Speaker 1>and then he rubs his foot on a le Volkov's
<v Speaker 1>nose on the mat. He was, he was vicious man. Berno,
<v Speaker 1>Simarentino got in the fucking mud.
<v Speaker 2>He really, no, he did. I mean he did with
<v Speaker 2>with a lot of the opponents on his tape. He
<v Speaker 2>was very rough.
<v Speaker 1>Indeed, uh Volkoff stands up and raises his hand leaning
<v Speaker 1>up against the ropes, and Vince laughs and says, for
<v Speaker 1>some reason he thinks he should be declared victorious.
<v Speaker 2>I love that moment. That was a brilliant fucking moment.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if that was his idea or Bruno
<v Speaker 2>told him to do that, but I thought that was
<v Speaker 2>an absolutely brilliant moment.
<v Speaker 1>He's basically saying like he just cheated and I should
<v Speaker 1>win by DQ. Yeah, but it didn't happen. Vince says, unquestionably,
<v Speaker 1>it's Sammartino with all the momentum in the world right now,
<v Speaker 1>but don't count out Nikolai Volkov a very crafty individual. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>and Olkoff then throws a head butt to the gut.
<v Speaker 2>I can definitely sense craft going on here. Yeah, well,
<v Speaker 2>Mac and Cheese, especially in the Volkov side.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, who throws a head butt to the gut of
<v Speaker 1>Brunos Hammartino That drops him and then he shouts, does Volkov?
<v Speaker 5>Ah?
<v Speaker 1>Is he rained down?
<v Speaker 2>He should have fucking put in that goddamn sound effect.
<v Speaker 1>We know that one.
<v Speaker 2>Don't wait for the past. Yep, he used to do
<v Speaker 2>it even back then. He's a hilarious such an idiot,
<v Speaker 2>it really is. Picture is like his little boy face,
<v Speaker 2>you know right, you know, like with his droopy eyes.
<v Speaker 2>He always looks like.
<v Speaker 1>Someone like unattended by parents coming to Ellis Island.
<v Speaker 2>He always just like a kid, like in the backyard
<v Speaker 2>who'd like just I don't know, gutting like a fight
<v Speaker 2>and is posing for a picture from in front of
<v Speaker 2>the family or whatever, you know, like he's just a
<v Speaker 2>goof just.
<v Speaker 1>Get a I don't know, he's just cut these like
<v Speaker 1>this boyish face to me that kind of belies his
<v Speaker 1>vicious reputation.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, exactly.
<v Speaker 1>So he gets a stump to the gut for two,
<v Speaker 1>and then he goes to the sleeperhole doers Volkov. They
<v Speaker 1>flash forward again and it's Nikolai Volkov tucking in a
<v Speaker 1>short front headlock reversed whip and uh, Volkov hits the
<v Speaker 1>buckle and stumbles out of the corner right into the
<v Speaker 1>schoolboy roll up of Nicolai Volkov. Part of me of
<v Speaker 1>Bruno Simmartino who gets the one, two, three and the victory.
<v Speaker 1>So Bruno getting it done.
<v Speaker 2>When he was in the fucking ninety two rumble. By
<v Speaker 2>the way, Nikolai.
<v Speaker 1>Volkoff, goodness, think about the tenure.
<v Speaker 2>Because he's fucking and not to mention when he joined
<v Speaker 2>the million dollars the first million dollar corporation. Uh uh
<v Speaker 2>higher e, when he got that awful hair.
<v Speaker 1>Remember he had the jacket where instead of the dollar
<v Speaker 1>sign of was a cents sign.
<v Speaker 2>That's how much it was worth.
<v Speaker 3>True.
<v Speaker 1>Here he is drawing dollars against Bruno in the guard.
<v Speaker 1>I had no idea as a kid watching the million
<v Speaker 1>dollar corporation days.
<v Speaker 2>And he's, oh right, that's what I mean. Like he
<v Speaker 2>just even even watching his earlier stuff, even when he
<v Speaker 2>was part of the Bolsheviks. I'm like, this guy's a
<v Speaker 2>goof right totally.
<v Speaker 1>So he goes up. He gets up right away, does
<v Speaker 1>nicholae olcough, much rejoicing from the MSG crowd. They go wild, then,
<v Speaker 1>says and Arnold Scullin's in the ring, who of course
<v Speaker 1>was Berno Simartino's manager, with the wide collar and the
<v Speaker 1>title in case.
<v Speaker 2>He was wondering, fucking guy, like you know, he's like
<v Speaker 2>he's like the uncle like back then. I think I
<v Speaker 2>think of like the uncle who's whose fashion sense peaked
<v Speaker 2>in like nine eighteen fifty nine. Yeah, and he just
<v Speaker 2>he doesn't have anything else to wear. That to him
<v Speaker 2>is like the peak of fashion. So he never changed.
<v Speaker 1>He's got the wide leisure suit though, he's got those
<v Speaker 1>long collars going. Yeah, so he's got the seventy stuff going.
<v Speaker 1>But he stayed there.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, look at his hair, like his hair is
<v Speaker 2>just like you know, Arnie.
<v Speaker 1>His whole thing was he would he was the guy
<v Speaker 1>that Vincent trusted to bring the cash from the towns
<v Speaker 1>and put it into the bank and not siphon some
<v Speaker 1>off the top. So if you can do that as
<v Speaker 1>a loyal lieutenant and not arouse suspicion that you're trying
<v Speaker 1>to pocket some for yourself, you've got a job for
<v Speaker 1>life over there. And yeah, earn some extra coin managing Bruno.
<v Speaker 1>That can't hurt be out there for every main event. Sure,
<v Speaker 1>sure they replay the reversed Irish Whip. This is the
<v Speaker 1>you know, the MSG feed that you should go out
<v Speaker 1>on HBO if you can believe it in the MSG
<v Speaker 1>television network in New York where Bernisimmethiner just dropped his
<v Speaker 1>body and kind of like he didn't really do a schoolboy,
<v Speaker 1>He just like dropped down behind oh the what right,
<v Speaker 1>just drop down behind Volkov and let him trip over
<v Speaker 1>him and then yeah, almost like a football ligneman like
<v Speaker 1>drive someone out, you know, yeah, the brook or something.
<v Speaker 1>So we're going out of March nineteen seventy seven, Madison
<v Speaker 1>Square Gardening yet another indeed title defense yep.
<v Speaker 4>Well, again a bit of a surprise for me because
<v Speaker 4>he has a great amateur background and I expected to
<v Speaker 4>be involved in a great scientific wrestling match, but instead
<v Speaker 4>von Ruski came in a rank and he too, really
<v Speaker 4>tried to take the title off me by brutal tactics.
<v Speaker 4>So all of a sudden, I found myself really fighting
<v Speaker 4>for my life, and again I had to go with
<v Speaker 4>his tactics, say, which turned out to be an extremely
<v Speaker 4>tough and difficult bout. But I did okay, I did okay,
<v Speaker 4>A true but.
<v Speaker 1>It is a tough and difficult bout. It's difficult bout tonight, Bruno,
<v Speaker 1>do you have any comments on tonight's bout?
<v Speaker 2>Oh?
<v Speaker 1>Good stuff.
<v Speaker 2>I want to note too. So when I was looking
<v Speaker 2>up this is also yeah, obviously Madison Square Garden, I
<v Speaker 2>was verifying the lows and date, and I saw that
<v Speaker 2>on February second of nineteen seventy seven, the WWWE held
<v Speaker 2>a show at Bishop Gurton High School in Nashvin, New Hampshire,
<v Speaker 2>My fucking high school. Kidding me, nope, And I was like,
<v Speaker 2>what the fuck?
<v Speaker 1>That's a weird one.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, Rocky to Mao faced Larry's Obisco Baron Michael Sekluno
<v Speaker 2>versus Special Delivery Jones, Johnny Rivera versus Doug Gilbert, Jose
<v Speaker 2>Gonzalez versus San Stasiac and in the main event, the
<v Speaker 2>WWWE Tag Team Champions Chief j Strongbow and Billy White
<v Speaker 2>Wolf versus Torkamata and Bruiser Brody. So Bruiser Brody stepped
<v Speaker 2>foot in my high school. It's wild, man, it is wild,
<v Speaker 2>functually fucking wild. Yeah, just skimming through it, I would
<v Speaker 2>have never known. I had never known.
<v Speaker 1>That was you know, New England and stuff in the Northeast,
<v Speaker 1>like you had those towns that they still made and
<v Speaker 1>I mean this is still I shouldn't say still. They
<v Speaker 1>hadn't gone national yet. That was Vince's operation, Vince Senior's operation.
<v Speaker 1>You know, they would still play little high schools and
<v Speaker 1>stuff to get into the every town they could in
<v Speaker 1>the whole region.
<v Speaker 2>And that's just wild because I mean, like I mean,
<v Speaker 2>I guess, but you know, and I mean I know
<v Speaker 2>back in those days it's like going going a half hours,
<v Speaker 2>like going it's like driving two hours. But you know,
<v Speaker 2>there were other places that they could have gone to
<v Speaker 2>get a better stadium. Again, I think maybe not maybe
<v Speaker 2>not maybe that's maybe fucking the gym at Bishop of
<v Speaker 2>Curtin high schools. They did it outside. I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>That's why they all remember Chief j Strongbow were from,
<v Speaker 1>you know, because he would be a guy on the poster,
<v Speaker 1>you know, at the high school. His partner Billy white Wolf.
<v Speaker 1>Do you know that was? I do, but I forget
<v Speaker 1>General Adnan.
<v Speaker 6>Oh.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, as Billy white Wolf, the Native American. Back then
<v Speaker 1>they used to love to have an American gimmick on
<v Speaker 1>the card, and Jay Strongbow made a career out of it.
<v Speaker 1>He certainly did so. Yeah, seventy seven quite a year
<v Speaker 1>for Bruno, a lot of interesting challenges coming through Ken
<v Speaker 1>Peterra kicking the year off. We're going to see him later.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, seriously.
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, this March twenty eighth, nineteen seventy seven close
<v Speaker 1>circuit felt for him. Bruno over Baron in seventeen minutes
<v Speaker 1>and thirty five seconds via DQ. Also in the card
<v Speaker 1>that night, Ivan putskin Larry's Obisco over Ken Peterra. Would
<v Speaker 1>went to a draw with Ken Peterra and stan Stasiac.
<v Speaker 1>Dusty Rhodes is an MSG taking on Tour Commada and
<v Speaker 1>much more action. The feud would continue back then would
<v Speaker 1>wait a minute, Berno Serentertato would face Baron von Roschkie
<v Speaker 1>and Able twenty fifth nineteen seventy seven as well in
<v Speaker 1>a heavyly title match and pick up the victory. He
<v Speaker 1>then moved on to George Steele and then Superstar Billy Graham.
<v Speaker 1>And we know seventy seven is the year where Graham
<v Speaker 1>takes the strap off of Ye Bruno. So we're looking
<v Speaker 1>here at Bruno's final year as WWF champion. Look at that.
<v Speaker 2>That's right, it's insane, Gene says.
<v Speaker 1>The crowd noise is unbelievable. You heard all that, and
<v Speaker 1>again Berno throwing in the proviso as to why we
<v Speaker 1>will see a lot in the way of technical wrestling
<v Speaker 1>is Bruno faces the baron On Raski shows uh with
<v Speaker 1>a robe and Freddy Blasti. He's got Freddy Blasts in
<v Speaker 1>his corner as mentioned and Uh even before the bell
<v Speaker 1>he attacks Sam Martino and he's choking him with his
<v Speaker 1>robe on the mat and stopping him out. Baron von
<v Speaker 1>Rashki brings down the claw to the heart of San
<v Speaker 1>Martinos well corner to corner on the whip and San
<v Speaker 1>Martino hits and then his hip tossed, and Vince says,
<v Speaker 1>it's von Rashka. That's how he pronounces that, von Rashka,
<v Speaker 1>von Rashke. But I can see why you'd say von Rashka.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>I imagine that Vince just doesn't know. So yeah, I
<v Speaker 2>mean everyone else says rashk. They do. It's the only
<v Speaker 2>time I've ever heard it pronounced that way, So I
<v Speaker 2>would imagine that Vince just doesn't know who he is.
<v Speaker 1>Well, the baron gets a one, and then we have
<v Speaker 1>fever pitch and MSG because these these these fans are
<v Speaker 1>worried that Bruno's in trouble yep, and as von rask
<v Speaker 1>he's a scary individual is Oh my god, he's a
<v Speaker 1>nosferatu in there.
<v Speaker 2>He really, I mean he he looks. Yeah, he looks
<v Speaker 2>like a like a mouse or something.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, like an alien, you know, right, like something just
<v Speaker 1>like came out of an alien's would.
<v Speaker 4>I know.
<v Speaker 2>He's got such a weirdly shaped body, like it's almost
<v Speaker 2>I wish I could. I can't think of a way
<v Speaker 2>to describe it. But but he's so bottom heavy, you know,
<v Speaker 2>like he's so weird.
<v Speaker 1>Like extremely uncomfortable.
<v Speaker 2>His proportions, yes, and in his ears, those fucking giant ears.
<v Speaker 2>He's just he's a very He's not someone you enjoy looking.
<v Speaker 1>At, especially if you're a Bruto fans back in seventies.
<v Speaker 2>This is true.
<v Speaker 1>Lifts a claw to do it again, and Bruno kicks
<v Speaker 1>him from his back and that gets a big yeah
<v Speaker 1>from the crowd. And then Bruno starts slugging him from
<v Speaker 1>his knees and drops him and they go up again
<v Speaker 1>with Bruno as he comes up with a right hook.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, yeah, the go nuts whip to the corner,
<v Speaker 1>They go nuts absolutely. San Martino then soars into a
<v Speaker 1>boot but then blows it off and then goes off
<v Speaker 1>with more body shots. Man, I used to love when
<v Speaker 1>Bruno will load you up in the corner with those
<v Speaker 1>body shots. Yep, that's good stuff. And then a right
<v Speaker 1>up top and Baron Brown Rosky's bouncing all over the
<v Speaker 1>top rope.
<v Speaker 2>It's like it's like what Undertaker tried to do. It is,
<v Speaker 2>you know, like but fucking Bruno, Like, you can't fucking
<v Speaker 2>match that guy.
<v Speaker 1>He just bowled his head down and went to work.
<v Speaker 2>Yep. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And Van Rashki's fucking great. He's like flailing along the
<v Speaker 1>ropes like a boxer would trying to find refuge. You know,
<v Speaker 1>he's like spending on the ropes, ye, bouncing all over
<v Speaker 1>the place. His neck is wiggling everywhere, and he's good.
<v Speaker 1>He was really good selling here for Bruno. Bruno digs
<v Speaker 1>aknee into the temple and Baron Varan Rashki hits the deck,
<v Speaker 1>all tied up and crouched on the rope, flailing trying
<v Speaker 1>to get his wits about him. Vince McMahon a bit uncoordinated.
<v Speaker 1>Vince calls Baron von Roschki at this moment after that
<v Speaker 1>brutal attack by Samartino, which unquestionably he was justified, McMahon says,
<v Speaker 1>just in case you're wondering, lock upside headlocked by Bruno,
<v Speaker 1>Sammartino push off and van Rashki catches him and slams
<v Speaker 1>him with a tight body slam and drops the elbow
<v Speaker 1>for two on the champion. Vince with a quick no sir.
<v Speaker 1>When Bruno Sammartino kicks out Baron von Rashki, then stalking
<v Speaker 1>Sanmartino for the claw, but San Martino goes back to
<v Speaker 1>the gut from his knees working on the abdominals as
<v Speaker 1>Vince points out Baron Bruno. Sammartino then whips Van Rashki
<v Speaker 1>into the corner to the ropes, and then a backdrop
<v Speaker 1>nearly falls over and covers them for two back backdrop
<v Speaker 1>in an arm drag by Sammartino a couple of them,
<v Speaker 1>and then Van Rashki SCRAMs to the floor and they
<v Speaker 1>want blood. They want blood from the man. Flash forward,
<v Speaker 1>of course, yeah, exactly. Flash forward and Baron von Rashki
<v Speaker 1>is stalling on the floor next to Artole Skull and
<v Speaker 1>waiting for an opportune time to re engage, as we
<v Speaker 1>see photographers ripping cigarettes indors. Oh my god, that's something
<v Speaker 1>to see.
<v Speaker 2>Can you imagine the smell of oh, Madison Square Garden.
<v Speaker 1>Just the way your eyes would sting going to the match.
<v Speaker 2>Just expect that that's the thing, like you go in
<v Speaker 2>there expecting it. You know that it's gonna hurt.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my god. You know everyone goes home smelling like
<v Speaker 1>fucking smoke. You know that smell?
<v Speaker 2>Yep.
<v Speaker 1>Aaron von Rashki's back in Sanmartino puts his hand out
<v Speaker 1>like he's gonna lock up, and then kicks and punches
<v Speaker 1>by Baron von Roski Getshi up against the ropes and
<v Speaker 1>Simmartino with a huge running start and a flying kick
<v Speaker 1>to the stomach. He would take off and then just
<v Speaker 1>kick you.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, it's so great, it's so great.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's just like he's just being violent, you know.
<v Speaker 1>That's he's throwing tactics out the window. Baron von roskiy
<v Speaker 1>then is tied up in the ropes and looks to
<v Speaker 1>the people and they're going insane. Simmartino looks to the
<v Speaker 1>people before he continues to engage.
<v Speaker 2>He and then he runs the ropes and connects with
<v Speaker 2>a pair of boots. He's fucking ridiculous, Like, off the ropes,
<v Speaker 2>you got a guy who's just not mobile, right, and
<v Speaker 2>you go from from coast to coast and just drive
<v Speaker 2>a boot in his face.
<v Speaker 1>And it's the son of a bitch that you know
<v Speaker 1>had the gall to attack Bruno from behind before the
<v Speaker 1>bell too, right, This is all like he's getting. He's
<v Speaker 1>absolutely deserving what he's getting. The ref finally gets Baron
<v Speaker 1>von Rashki free from the ropes, and he gets a
<v Speaker 1>chop in the throat and drop say Martino with a
<v Speaker 1>short punch and a headlock and back in control than
<v Speaker 1>Rashki now stalking with those fingers extended, ready for a claw.
<v Speaker 2>Listen, listen to the Vince. This is what I think
<v Speaker 2>is amazing. What he calls the trademark maneuver.
<v Speaker 5>RASA noted presently for a whole he calls the brain claw.
<v Speaker 2>The what the brain claw? I've never heard it called
<v Speaker 2>the brain claw before. It's called the claw, Vince, or
<v Speaker 2>exactly just the claw to the head, the brain claw.
<v Speaker 1>That would have been a better movie title. The Rasca
<v Speaker 1>is stalking with those fingers extended. Throw some clubbing shots
<v Speaker 1>on Bruno and the claw is hooked in. Vince says
<v Speaker 1>he's working on the neck muscles. What does it mean
<v Speaker 1>to work on someone's neck muscles?
<v Speaker 2>Working the neck muscular shirt?
<v Speaker 1>Is he a fucking massage therapist or is he a wrestling.
<v Speaker 2>He's working the tendons, yeah, you know, and working the.
<v Speaker 1>Nodes, looking to relief pressure. Aaron von Rashki now engaged
<v Speaker 1>in reiki. Aaron von Reichy, He's.
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<v Speaker 1>M JP soorro warm stones being applied dow to the
<v Speaker 1>back of Bruno and then happen and certainly, unquestionably this
<v Speaker 1>Madison Square garden crowd hoping for a happy ending. Is
<v Speaker 1>there a zero percent chance that San Martino didn't turn
<v Speaker 1>over with the towel and, let you know, let a
<v Speaker 1>happy ending dribble out of his cock when a massage
<v Speaker 1>therapists and queens went too far.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, I mean, listen, if it happens, it happens, I
<v Speaker 2>think Bruno, you know, I think, you know, I actually
<v Speaker 2>I wouldn't put it past Bruno to like not even
<v Speaker 2>just question it, like it's just like, oh, that's what happens.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know, she insisted. I didn't want to be rude.
<v Speaker 2>She grabbed the cock, right, what do you want me
<v Speaker 2>to do?
<v Speaker 1>I understand not being rude Bruno, but did you have
<v Speaker 1>to curl your toes and scream I love it so much?
<v Speaker 2>Did you have to go ah right when she said sure,
<v Speaker 2>would you like a happy ending? Did you just have
<v Speaker 2>to say yeah, sure right?
<v Speaker 1>Did you have to say this is exactly what I
<v Speaker 1>came for as you finished? Did you have to say
<v Speaker 1>this is exactly what I came for your officer.
<v Speaker 2>Like also, like turns over and it's like, you know,
<v Speaker 2>a fucking mountain, all right, Like it's just honestly, it
<v Speaker 2>turns over and all of a sudden, it's like this
<v Speaker 2>fucking mountain right by his fucking crush. And she's like, well,
<v Speaker 2>I guess I gotta do this now, absolutely, I guess
<v Speaker 2>this is happening Bruno. Bruno, yeah, sure, Oh god, that's good.
<v Speaker 1>By the way, the brain claw is what he's known
<v Speaker 1>principally for the word. The word principally is doing a
<v Speaker 1>lot of work there, Oh my god, principally Flash forward
<v Speaker 1>and Van Rashki is squeezing one peck, just one peck
<v Speaker 1>of Bruno's basically grabbing his titty, and Bruno's.
<v Speaker 2>Rocking so ridiculous, so ridiculous.
<v Speaker 1>Bruno's rocking back and forth. We're getting to aknee. Throws
<v Speaker 1>a punch to break but selling the left arm big time.
<v Speaker 1>Then Berna Semertino closes in with the kick to the
<v Speaker 1>gut and another whipping a hip toss, and so tall
<v Speaker 1>is Baron von Rashki yea Berna Simertino almost completely loses
<v Speaker 1>his balance from a hiptos a guy of this height
<v Speaker 1>covers Van Rashki for two, and then Simartino charges.
<v Speaker 2>I love the idea that in this day and age,
<v Speaker 2>in the nineteen seventies, a hip toss calls for a pin.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, that could be curtains. You're obliged to capitalize.
<v Speaker 1>I know, it's so funny, unbelievable. Bernas Simertato with a
<v Speaker 1>charging gets body slammed again.
<v Speaker 2>And I guess it's unbelievable because we have like wrestlers,
<v Speaker 2>and therefore wrestling fans have ruined moves so much over
<v Speaker 2>the years. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the fact that these guys have to go as
<v Speaker 1>far as they do to convince the crowd this could
<v Speaker 1>be a near fall? Is it is a tragedy? I mean,
<v Speaker 1>I guess it's. I guess it's unavoidable, but it's accelerated
<v Speaker 1>way more than necessary.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, it's unavoidable to a degree, but it's only
<v Speaker 2>unavoidable as much as people let it be unavoidable, right,
<v Speaker 2>Like you know, I don't know when.
<v Speaker 1>Somebody goes further to get attention, it's going to be
<v Speaker 1>so much easier to find. That's the thing. Like if
<v Speaker 1>someone out there was doing twelve times the offense and
<v Speaker 1>kicking out. No one that went to the see Bruno
<v Speaker 1>with the Garden would see that, So they wouldn't see
<v Speaker 1>a version of wrestling where a hip toss meant nothing
<v Speaker 1>and a top rope power bomb a guy kicked out of.
<v Speaker 1>They wouldn't see that. But now it's like everybody sees
<v Speaker 1>everything when someone ups the ante on what you can
<v Speaker 1>kick out of.
<v Speaker 2>And I imagine a lot of it has to do
<v Speaker 2>with technology and yeah and whatever, and also the incorporation
<v Speaker 2>of different international styles of wrestling. But it's like, you
<v Speaker 2>think about, you know this stuff, you know the moves
<v Speaker 2>that he's going for. It's not like they it was.
<v Speaker 2>It was kind of new that they were doing. They
<v Speaker 2>were doing this pinning after moves like that for decades, decades,
<v Speaker 2>decades before it changed.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, you don't see that much anymore. You even
<v Speaker 1>seehiptoses hardly at all anymore. I'll begin with but yeah,
<v Speaker 1>so he does that and then he charges, he gets
<v Speaker 1>slammed again, and Van Rashke goes for another elbow drop,
<v Speaker 1>but this time he misses and rings out his hand
<v Speaker 1>like he's got pins and needles in him. It's a
<v Speaker 1>nice callback to the earlier spot and then San Maartino
<v Speaker 1>with a headlock push off. They collide, both go down
<v Speaker 1>and Baron von Rashki flips over on his neck on impacts.
<v Speaker 1>He's out there bumping, man, He's not just falling backwards.
<v Speaker 1>He's rolling all the way over in the back of
<v Speaker 1>his head and he is doing what it. San Martino
<v Speaker 1>makes his way over to a lateral press that gets
<v Speaker 1>too on Van Rashki. Then Rashki's up first rings down
<v Speaker 1>a shot. The ring is rattling as he's putting the
<v Speaker 1>stomps to the champion. He drops a knee and covers
<v Speaker 1>Bruno for one. Bruno in green trunks by the way
<v Speaker 1>for this encounter, and then Bruto Semartino is throwing off
<v Speaker 1>his back and his knees. Man nobody came up fighting
<v Speaker 1>like Bruno.
<v Speaker 2>Man, oh no, no one? Did I mean he came
<v Speaker 2>out He's like he's like Rocky, yes, you know, like
<v Speaker 2>he really is Rocky.
<v Speaker 1>If boxing allowed you to fight before you get on
<v Speaker 1>your feet again, right right, and he doubles over Van
<v Speaker 1>Rashki with a shot to the gut and plants.
<v Speaker 2>And also the time perre where they had the two
<v Speaker 2>hard camera angles from different different sides of the of
<v Speaker 2>the arena. I hated it. I hate it so much.
<v Speaker 2>So it's so confusing when like you see, you know, uh,
<v Speaker 2>like just the changing of the of the but it
<v Speaker 2>doesn't even look like you know, because they're almost at
<v Speaker 2>the exact same angle, but just from different sides, and
<v Speaker 2>it's so confusing and jarring.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, production values were hardly through the roof back then. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>you just had some cameramen showing up filming the matches
<v Speaker 1>like they'd film a fucking tennis match.
<v Speaker 4>You know.
<v Speaker 1>It's like no real consideration given to it beyond that
<v Speaker 1>Ye plants and needed the side of the great shot
<v Speaker 1>of a woman clutching her pearls and rooting for Sammartino
<v Speaker 1>just for a moment there. Samartino goes off with those
<v Speaker 1>jabs and right hooks and he drops Baron von Roschki
<v Speaker 1>covers him, but van Rashki puts his foot on the rope.
<v Speaker 1>Flash forward and now it's Bruno Simmartino kicking Van Rashki
<v Speaker 1>while he's down back up in a big right hand,
<v Speaker 1>and Van Rashki steel spills rather over the top rope
<v Speaker 1>to the arena floor. Bruno Simartino is about to go
<v Speaker 1>after him, but no. Baron von Rashki picks the ankle
<v Speaker 1>and Bruno Simartino has it tied up in the rope suddenly,
<v Speaker 1>and this allows Baron von Rashki to grab a steel
<v Speaker 1>chair and bash Bruno Simartino in the back to add contest.
<v Speaker 1>They are screaming because Samartino's foot is caught in the rope.
<v Speaker 1>There's nowhere he can go, and stuff is now beginning
<v Speaker 1>to fly into the ring, drink cups and the like.
<v Speaker 1>At the slightest provocation, they would do that.
<v Speaker 2>Unbelievable, really unbelievable.
<v Speaker 1>Reft's trying to break it up as Sammartino is in
<v Speaker 1>peril and Varon Rashki's taking advantage of the situation. Very
<v Speaker 1>effective stuff. I can see how this match set the
<v Speaker 1>tone for the rematch. I mentioned that they came back
<v Speaker 1>with so a couple of pay days in the garden
<v Speaker 1>for Baron vron Rashki.
<v Speaker 2>Here there's a sign in the crowd that says Bruno
<v Speaker 2>is Uno. That's hard wonder so like was that the
<v Speaker 2>ichi bon Bruno sam Martino?
<v Speaker 1>You could say that, you could say that a bunch
<v Speaker 1>of baby faces hit the ring to try to stop
<v Speaker 1>van rashcuie to a big round of cheers. They're trying
<v Speaker 1>to peel van Rashki off of Sanmartino and he's rabid
<v Speaker 1>is Baron von Rashki. I think David Sammartino is among
<v Speaker 1>them and two other guys. And there's some officials out
<v Speaker 1>trying to free Bruno's leg from the ropes. And we
<v Speaker 1>see a couple of guys basically trying to shoot single
<v Speaker 1>leg takedowns on Baron von Rashki to keep him away
<v Speaker 1>from Bruno. And they hustle, they hustle Bruno Baron von
<v Speaker 1>Rashki up the isle and to the back to keep
<v Speaker 1>him away from better yet better Bruno. Wow, what an
<v Speaker 1>incredible mustard colored suit on whoever that ring announcer was,
<v Speaker 1>I couldn't identify what is he doing? Some in seventeen
<v Speaker 1>forty five rough Danny Bardfield just qualifies Baron von Rashki
<v Speaker 1>awarded the victory in the match to Bruno Simmartino. That
<v Speaker 1>gets pop, but brunos Abartino left kind of motionless on
<v Speaker 1>the canvas and yeah, there's your Bruno Zuno sign Gene.
<v Speaker 1>Now to transition to Ken Peterra.
<v Speaker 2>Here we go and this is what Bruno has to
<v Speaker 2>say about it.
<v Speaker 4>Well, you know, Gene, when I was matched against Ken Peterra,
<v Speaker 4>I went back into some real power lifting because I
<v Speaker 4>knew the strength of Ken Peterra and overall was known
<v Speaker 4>for my own strength. But I realized that in Peterra
<v Speaker 4>I was meaning a bigger man who had been in
<v Speaker 4>the Olympic Game several times and turned out to be
<v Speaker 4>really one of the great bouts because not only was
<v Speaker 4>a test of strength, but a lot of wrestling involved
<v Speaker 4>in it, and it was truly one of the greatest
<v Speaker 4>bouts that I've ever had.
<v Speaker 1>The greatest bouts he ever had. Wow. Okay, It's turned
<v Speaker 1>to Ken Peterra's book Weight of the World to get
<v Speaker 1>a viewpoint on what it was like working in Sanmartino
<v Speaker 1>in seventy six. By the end of the summer of
<v Speaker 1>seventy six, I was chatting with Larry's Obisco and he
<v Speaker 1>mentioned that Bruno Sammartino wanted to connect with me. I
<v Speaker 1>was excited, to say the very least. Today the Disney
<v Speaker 1>kids say, we don't talk about Bruno, but back then
<v Speaker 1>Bruno was all anyone talked about. Another example of his
<v Speaker 1>co author in servings of in the wrestling world. Bruno
<v Speaker 1>and Larry were engaged in a tremendous feud and one
<v Speaker 1>that made them a lot of money. However, it was
<v Speaker 1>coming to an end soon, and Bruno liked to have
<v Speaker 1>things set up for his next feud before it was over. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>don't forget that. As much as Vince Senior played a role,
<v Speaker 1>Bruno booked his own programs.
<v Speaker 2>Right, and he really did.
<v Speaker 1>He would recruit heels, he would run into a hereabout
<v Speaker 1>around the country or in Japan and bring them to MSG.
<v Speaker 1>He pretty much was a small business in that regard.
<v Speaker 1>Larry and Bruno's feud was so heated, it was frenzied.
<v Speaker 1>It was brutal, the young machine going against the seasoned veteran.
<v Speaker 1>They sold out Madison Square Garden and Chase Stadium and
<v Speaker 1>basically everywhere they went. Sibisco and I had started around
<v Speaker 1>the same time. See this all happened after the Bruno
<v Speaker 1>was a Bisco fud happened after Petera came in. So
<v Speaker 1>I don't know what it is. He's right, he's kind
<v Speaker 1>of assigning that as if it was a tailwind to
<v Speaker 1>him coming in anyway.
<v Speaker 2>But nobody knows what they're fucking talking about at all,
<v Speaker 2>but he.
<v Speaker 1>Was on fire at that point. He had turned on
<v Speaker 1>Bruno at precisely the right time and his startdom exploded.
<v Speaker 1>See that's asked back. He think he turned on nineteen eighty,
<v Speaker 1>didn't he? And this match is in seventy seven.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, it's ad because that's what we were looking
<v Speaker 2>for the show, the Shay Stadium show.
<v Speaker 1>When I first called Bruno, his mind was already made up.
<v Speaker 1>He wanted to run with me, and it turned out
<v Speaker 1>he had already been looking to help me get into
<v Speaker 1>the WWF. He connected me with Vince McMahon Senior, and
<v Speaker 1>that started my first Foray North. The first Vince was
<v Speaker 1>my preferred McMahon. If I'm being completely honest, He saw
<v Speaker 1>potential in me even before I ever set foot in
<v Speaker 1>a ring. For him, he didn't live in his own
<v Speaker 1>world with blinders, honest. Some m'd argue about his son.
<v Speaker 1>He did his homework and was a complete professional, having
<v Speaker 1>already researched my accolades. He was familiar with my wrestling
<v Speaker 1>and athletic background. I'm glad we got together to chat
<v Speaker 1>here because Bruno already let me know he'd like to
<v Speaker 1>work with you. He has a lot of good things
<v Speaker 1>to say about you, Vince explained. So maybe once you're
<v Speaker 1>done with Watts you can come up, he asked, absolutely, sir.
<v Speaker 1>So apparently he was down in the Mid South territory
<v Speaker 1>before coming to WWF here. The timing was also just great.
<v Speaker 1>It worked out well for me because I was finishing
<v Speaker 1>up in Texas. Texas it was, but I didn't have Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I remember there was that cooperation between Fritz and Bill Watts,
<v Speaker 1>but I didn't have anything after that tour booked, so
<v Speaker 1>I reached out to Wats and looked for his blessing.
<v Speaker 1>No problem, Ken, you hadn't up north. Sounds good, he said,
<v Speaker 1>simply enough. Of course, Wats had made a ton of
<v Speaker 1>money with Bruno in the Garden, so he's not against it. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>might be good for me. Well, we can take you
<v Speaker 1>off the program with Funk. Bill told me he was
<v Speaker 1>working Terry Funk. Wow, I can stick with someone else. Wow,
<v Speaker 1>I can stick them with someone else. He seemed like
<v Speaker 1>he was completely fine with everything. Why can't we finish
<v Speaker 1>the Terry thing. I'm not going to the first of
<v Speaker 1>the year, I asked, doesn't matter. Okay, that works, We'll
<v Speaker 1>put you with someone else then, I'll see in December.
<v Speaker 1>Thanksgiving came, there was a big show, but I had
<v Speaker 1>been written off with someone else facing funk. When I
<v Speaker 1>got to my next show for Watts after that, I
<v Speaker 1>had no idea that I had another thing coming. We're
<v Speaker 1>worry on Thanksgiving, Watts shouted at me as I wheeled
<v Speaker 1>my bag in. What are you talking about? You canceled
<v Speaker 1>the program I was doing and told me you would
<v Speaker 1>see me in December, I asked, utterly, stunned by the
<v Speaker 1>spectacle that was being put on. I don't give a
<v Speaker 1>damn if you're going up north. You just don't have
<v Speaker 1>to phone in your last few shows when you're working here. Man,
<v Speaker 1>he yelled, But I have a rule about no show
<v Speaker 1>on my shows. Do it and you're done. You know that, Ken,
<v Speaker 1>You're fired, Bill?
<v Speaker 2>There we go.
<v Speaker 1>How can you fire me when I've already quit. I'm
<v Speaker 1>leaving to go up north. Remember, I was getting a
<v Speaker 1>little hot, but I quickly realized that this was less
<v Speaker 1>about me and more about say face. Bill shook his head.
<v Speaker 1>You know what, Bill, I get it. You got to
<v Speaker 1>look tough in front of the boys, I said, repacking
<v Speaker 1>my wow. Bill Watts was pulling some typical promoter behavior.
<v Speaker 1>They would agree with you behind closed doors, then they
<v Speaker 1>would act like they didn't in front of the boys.
<v Speaker 2>To say, face, I get it. You don't want to
<v Speaker 2>look like a bitch.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, God forbid, Bill Watts looks like a bitch.
<v Speaker 2>That never happened.
<v Speaker 1>I was worried that Bill's bullshit might change Vince mcmaon's
<v Speaker 1>thoughts on me, especially if Wats took it to the
<v Speaker 1>next level to call him and smarten him up. So
<v Speaker 1>I figured I might have needed to make a preemptive strike.
<v Speaker 1>I picked up the phone and told Vince about the
<v Speaker 1>strange events that had just happened. There was a long pause.
<v Speaker 1>To my surprise, Vince was utterly unfazed. He had heard
<v Speaker 1>that before, been there, done that. Then he just laughed
<v Speaker 1>hard at the whole situation.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, something that happens, and you know, we move on
<v Speaker 2>from there, and you know, there are you know, we
<v Speaker 2>have certain aspects of entertainment that require you know, different,
<v Speaker 2>uh you know, varied personalities and characterizations that uh you
<v Speaker 2>know DeFi that defy and you know, constantly evolve in
<v Speaker 2>regards to the product that we're trying to put out. So,
<v Speaker 2>you know, all things to.
<v Speaker 1>Him, So I guess he's fine. Then I guess he's
<v Speaker 1>fine to come in, And Okay, that's great. Can I
<v Speaker 1>does that mean I'm good to come in?
<v Speaker 2>What depends? I mean, we're talking about principally speaking and
<v Speaker 2>unquestionably a variation of the of the desired you know,
<v Speaker 2>character that you created in regards to your in ring
<v Speaker 2>entertainment persona. And we have notwithstanding an agreement regarding your
<v Speaker 2>talents and your abilities and the different strengths that you're
<v Speaker 2>going to bring to the the w W E on
<v Speaker 2>A on A on A on A on a you know,
<v Speaker 2>ten nundion nine basis.
<v Speaker 1>To be clear before you play dumb on that very
<v Speaker 1>important point. I love always says principally principally speaking, unquestionably
<v Speaker 1>tremendous stuff. So after that, after that pause, Vincentior laughs
<v Speaker 1>and says, yep, that's Cowboy for are you?
<v Speaker 2>He said?
<v Speaker 1>Vince then paused again before laughing wildly into the phone.
<v Speaker 1>You call him up once you're looking to go back
<v Speaker 1>to Texas and he will act like none of this
<v Speaker 1>ever happened. He was right too, Vince Senior knew him well.
<v Speaker 1>I worked for Cowboy even after that point, and we
<v Speaker 1>never spoke about that nonsense.
<v Speaker 2>Again.
<v Speaker 1>The good thing about being in New York was that
<v Speaker 1>Vince Mcmahonsenior wasn't like other promoters. He was warm and
<v Speaker 1>treated like family. I've said it before and I'll say
<v Speaker 1>it again, Vince Senior is my preferred McMahon a million
<v Speaker 1>times over. At that it got the point ken at
<v Speaker 1>that point in WWWF history, Vince's guy was Bruno San Martino.
<v Speaker 1>He was larger than life and a living legend. However,
<v Speaker 1>any stars time to shine eventually comes to a close,
<v Speaker 1>and his was coming. With seven years on top of
<v Speaker 1>the New York territory, Bruno had sold out close to
<v Speaker 1>two hundred Madison Square Garden made events. His fan appeal
<v Speaker 1>still wasn't wavering. It is interesting to think about all
<v Speaker 1>that he accomplished with no real gimmick. He had nothing
<v Speaker 1>incredibly out of the ordinary about him. He was like
<v Speaker 1>a superman in the eyes of the fans, and it
<v Speaker 1>was all one hundred percent homegrown. Bruneau was just a
<v Speaker 1>grown man who was considered crazy strong. He was someone
<v Speaker 1>who would stand up and fight for what was right.
<v Speaker 4>That was it.
<v Speaker 1>Another crazy thing worth mentioning about Bruno is that he
<v Speaker 1>never once went to the dark side, so to speak.
<v Speaker 1>He stated a babyface his entire career. There was never
<v Speaker 1>even a conversation around changing that status either. The crowd
<v Speaker 1>looked at him as someone who couldn't be beaten. It
<v Speaker 1>was like an unwritten rule. The sky was blue, money
<v Speaker 1>was green, and Bruno would be the champion forever. Unfortunately,
<v Speaker 1>we all get to the end of our run. Bruno
<v Speaker 1>was on his way there and promo's Larry talked about
<v Speaker 1>how he was a young machine. He pointed out how
<v Speaker 1>Bruno had had broken his neck, had pins in his
<v Speaker 1>knees and had been hurt so many times he had
<v Speaker 1>to sit in a whirlpool for an hour before actually
<v Speaker 1>getting his day started. That was all a shoot all
<v Speaker 1>that was a hard truth for Bruno. His bump card
<v Speaker 1>was almost filled up and planning for the other side
<v Speaker 1>of Bruno's career, Vince Junior was highly involved with the transition.
<v Speaker 1>He was coming up soon and it was understood that
<v Speaker 1>eventually he would carry on the legacy, and he had ideas. Now,
<v Speaker 1>Vince Junior was far more theatric as you know. He
<v Speaker 1>told me himself that he'd loved the idea of an
<v Speaker 1>all American or a patriotic character that would play on
<v Speaker 1>the patriotic heart strings of the country. Oh that's a
<v Speaker 1>direct quote. I don't doubt that direct quote heart strings,
<v Speaker 1>heart strings. Knowing what we know now, I have to
<v Speaker 1>assume that even back then, Vince Junior was planting the
<v Speaker 1>seeds and planning his takeover and hopefully had me in
<v Speaker 1>the back of his mind for a baby face turn.
<v Speaker 1>As you know, hindsight is twenty twenty, the character that
<v Speaker 1>Vince saw would ultimately be painted on Hulk Cogan's character
<v Speaker 1>for the better part of the eighties. Only Vince Senior,
<v Speaker 1>Bruno and Junior know for certain what they saw in
<v Speaker 1>me or what their plans were for me. But I
<v Speaker 1>was brought in and treated very fairly. Did they see
<v Speaker 1>me as that patriotic world's strongest wrestler who might become
<v Speaker 1>the face of their company? Who knows no, ken they didn't,
<v Speaker 1>that's the answer. However, when I got there, I had
<v Speaker 1>my robes and bleached blonde hair, and I still was
<v Speaker 1>obviously a heel. When I first showed up for Vince Senior,
<v Speaker 1>I started working for Special with Special Delivery Jones. After
<v Speaker 1>that it was Kevin Sullivan. In less than one month
<v Speaker 1>of being in the WWWF. On January seventeenth, nineteen seventy seven,
<v Speaker 1>I was working Madison Square Garden against main eventing against
<v Speaker 1>their top guy Bruno. It all moved so quickly to start.
<v Speaker 1>They wanted as much heat on me as possible, so
<v Speaker 1>they gave me a kickstart by making Captain Lou my manager.
<v Speaker 1>We did this deal where Billy White Wolf went after
<v Speaker 1>Lou before our our match had a Championship wrestling taping
<v Speaker 1>in Philly. As a result, I put him in the
<v Speaker 1>swinging full Nelson and refused to take it off. That's
<v Speaker 1>the Swinging full Nelsons featured boss in the Colisseum video open.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, that's right.
<v Speaker 1>They pic poor Billy out in a stretcher and the
<v Speaker 1>fans were informed I'd broken his neck. It's funny how
<v Speaker 1>wrestling works. Billy would change from Native American to a
<v Speaker 1>Rocky and eventually manage me and the AWA is adding
<v Speaker 1>an LKC. But back in the WWWF, Lou was a
<v Speaker 1>great mouthpiece for me and we got a ton of heat.
<v Speaker 1>Lou at this point was right on his game. He
<v Speaker 1>was one of the best talkers and one of the
<v Speaker 1>best drinkers alive. Yes, Loud was possibly the worst alcoholic
<v Speaker 1>I've ever seen. Try to keep this in mind. I
<v Speaker 1>myself had been an alcoholic nearly my entire life. I
<v Speaker 1>didn't know that. I didn't know that Pat Wow Ken,
<v Speaker 1>Pat Ken, Pat, So I know that what I'm talking about.
<v Speaker 1>And yes, this is the kettle calling the pot black.
<v Speaker 1>When I say it about Lou, I say it with
<v Speaker 1>peace and love. Peace and love. Lou would drink his
<v Speaker 1>vodka like a chance. There's nothing to walk into a
<v Speaker 1>locker room and see Lou passed out having polished off
<v Speaker 1>a full.
<v Speaker 2>Fucking now his ringo star, I know, I know, doing
<v Speaker 2>a piece and love, piece and love, he says here.
<v Speaker 1>It was nothing to see Lou passed out in the
<v Speaker 1>locker room having polished off a full liter or two
<v Speaker 1>of Smirnoff. And I'm thinking, alexis Smeirnoff or some generic
<v Speaker 1>cheap ship that they used to clean bumper stickers off
<v Speaker 1>of fenders. Bruno and I worked all the Matrox. What's that?
<v Speaker 4>My brother?
<v Speaker 2>What could possibly be objectionable? Are using? Could have cleaned
<v Speaker 2>off bumpers?
<v Speaker 5>Brother?
<v Speaker 2>Fenders? What are we talking about? Fenders? Defenders?
<v Speaker 5>Brother?
<v Speaker 2>Who who are you fending off? Exacul who off? Why
<v Speaker 2>do you need fenders? Why am I being fended off?
<v Speaker 1>I don't fenders.
<v Speaker 2>Who's fending, dude?
<v Speaker 1>Exactly? I'm the champion around here and I have no fence,
<v Speaker 1>are you? I thought we were fends to the end, brother,
<v Speaker 1>fenders to the enders.
<v Speaker 2>Fenders of the enders.
<v Speaker 3>Dude?
<v Speaker 2>Did you did you talk to Bruno? Who's talking about Bruno?
<v Speaker 5>Brother?
<v Speaker 1>He just comes to the locker room and like eighty nine, like,
<v Speaker 1>no one's talking to ut Bruno in like three years.
<v Speaker 2>It was kind of chilling, you know. It's like, you know,
<v Speaker 2>everyone else is like talking to something. He's just hoping
<v Speaker 2>the stands up there. He's just you know, waiting, and
<v Speaker 2>about five minutes go by and everyone is still talking.
<v Speaker 2>There's like a little lull in the conversation. So he's
<v Speaker 2>been talking about Bruno.
<v Speaker 4>Brother.
<v Speaker 1>Everyone starts to like look at their hands, like, oh god,
<v Speaker 1>we're going to.
<v Speaker 2>Start this again. Well, I'm just saying, you know, dude,
<v Speaker 2>no one has anything to say. Dude, I mean I've
<v Speaker 2>been talking about Bruno.
<v Speaker 1>I'm not afraid to admit it.
<v Speaker 4>Brother.
<v Speaker 2>You know Bruno. You know, Bruno was the guy I was.
<v Speaker 1>Supposed to sit her and believe no one's talked about
<v Speaker 1>Bruno lately.
<v Speaker 5>Brother.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, are you telling me that you know no
<v Speaker 2>one in this in this locker room, brother, is thought
<v Speaker 2>of You know what if Bruno or Hulkhoven.
<v Speaker 1>Runs out, Hey Bruns you brother, what I heard you talking.
<v Speaker 2>Abou about it? How about Brune Zel right here, dude, exactly,
<v Speaker 2>Jim Bruno Zel.
<v Speaker 1>Brother, I heard you talking about him. Brother. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>you didn't put your hand up. I don't know what
<v Speaker 1>that's about, dude. I don't think it's a big deal
<v Speaker 1>that you talked.
<v Speaker 2>To I mean, I mean, dude, I know that you
<v Speaker 2>talked about him, brother. I know you've been saying you
<v Speaker 2>know of the good old days with Bruno. Brother. Do
<v Speaker 2>you know how I know how that's not you not
<v Speaker 2>your business exactly. I just want to ask, but did
<v Speaker 2>you did you call Bruno?
<v Speaker 5>Brother?
<v Speaker 2>I mean, have you been talking on the phone lately?
<v Speaker 2>You said Bruno's call him back exactly exactly, She's saying
<v Speaker 2>Bruno's coming back. So, Vince, have you called Bruno?
<v Speaker 1>Of all the ones we've done over the years, we've
<v Speaker 1>never done a Hogan a friend of Bruno.
<v Speaker 2>But it makes all it makes the most sense of
<v Speaker 2>all of them here talking to him. Brinzel b you're
<v Speaker 2>talking about coming Jim Brinzell with his fucking cheeks up
<v Speaker 2>by his eyebrows.
<v Speaker 5>Oh my god, that was good. That is so good.
<v Speaker 1>Bruno and I worked all the major arenas with the
<v Speaker 1>terror Wrights to mostly sell out crowds. Our first of
<v Speaker 1>four MSG matches didn't sell out because of a snowstorm,
<v Speaker 1>but after that we did a Texas Death Match in
<v Speaker 1>February of seventy seven that did. Then in March we
<v Speaker 1>sold out again and went to a blood stoppage finished
<v Speaker 1>by the referee. Bruno had opened me up right above
<v Speaker 1>my eye and on the side of my face. I
<v Speaker 1>remember the news article stating Bruno had me bleed so
<v Speaker 1>badly that the referee stepped in to rescue me. Fucking
<v Speaker 1>mark writer. Bruno and I sold out MSG one last
<v Speaker 1>time together in August and another Texas Death match after
<v Speaker 1>that run. They didn't just push me to the sidelines.
<v Speaker 1>The rest of that year, I worked with a lot
<v Speaker 1>of the big names there, like I've been Wait, you
<v Speaker 1>say what August of seventy seven, that's what he just said? Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>is that that's when this match happened. So this was
<v Speaker 1>a Texas death match, which it which is kind of
<v Speaker 1>of I mean, I guess I don't remember the one
<v Speaker 1>that he said he used technical wrestling in right exactly exactly, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>whatever you say. I mean, he might be now, I
<v Speaker 1>would think his co author would have access to this
<v Speaker 1>book and would probably uh be referencing it. But let's
<v Speaker 1>see what year seventy seven we're talking.
<v Speaker 2>About here, Yeah, okay, well, let's they face several times
<v Speaker 2>and August and MSG.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I have August one Bruno no contest at Superstar,
<v Speaker 1>and then August twenty nine, that's this one Graham against
<v Speaker 1>Putski and Bruno against Ken Peterotec's death match. Yeah, this
<v Speaker 1>isn't for the title because this is after Graham beats
<v Speaker 1>Bruno for the belt in Baltimore August twenty nine, seventy
<v Speaker 1>seven attendants, twenty two thousand and nine one. So that's
<v Speaker 1>kind of disingenuous when he actually they had a great
<v Speaker 1>crowd when they they weren't even on top. This said
<v Speaker 1>a lot lower than their than the Bruno versus Graham
<v Speaker 1>match in August first of seventy seven, twenty six thousand
<v Speaker 1>and six O nine, whereas August twenty nine to twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty ninety one, Superstar and Bruno in June. Let's see
<v Speaker 1>in May sixteenth it was Bruno and George Steele. April
<v Speaker 1>twenty fifth, it was aforementioned Bruno and Baron Berno and
<v Speaker 1>Barron before that. Yeah, the first time they wrestled. This
<v Speaker 1>must be the snowstorm he's talking about. With just sixteen
<v Speaker 1>thousand attendance, which is low. Usually you go about twenty
<v Speaker 1>two in the garden.
<v Speaker 2>Hey, on the same show. Yes, on this Nikolai Volkoff
<v Speaker 2>was pinned by Verne Gagney.
<v Speaker 1>What what show?
<v Speaker 2>What year? What day? Rather this one August twenty nine,
<v Speaker 2>seventy seven, the show match God Vern came in, Vern
<v Speaker 2>got the call, Vern got the call. The fuck does
<v Speaker 2>that even happen?
<v Speaker 1>That is bizarre. Also, this is here early October of
<v Speaker 1>Phil Zacho and of the month.
<v Speaker 2>You know, kind of scout the area. See if we
<v Speaker 2>get that super Bowl of all the leagues put together.
<v Speaker 1>I got this idea.
<v Speaker 2>Let's see what happened. I got the idea. I've been
<v Speaker 2>going on in my head, you know for about twenty
<v Speaker 2>forty eighty years, I think.
<v Speaker 1>Twenty forty eighty years tremendous.
<v Speaker 2>They maybe do a super Bowl of all the sports,
<v Speaker 2>of all the leagues, get them all together, see what
<v Speaker 2>the best one is?
<v Speaker 1>Super Bowl of all the sports. But we're gonna have
<v Speaker 1>baseball players and.
<v Speaker 2>Soccer players, yep, have all the different leagues of sports,
<v Speaker 2>sporting leagues.
<v Speaker 1>I have an idea of the super Bowl of Sports,
<v Speaker 1>where everybody competes in a soccer match, even if you
<v Speaker 1>play pro basketball or golf.
<v Speaker 2>Call the super Bowl Sports were we're representative of every
<v Speaker 2>sport in the entire you know, an entire world comes
<v Speaker 2>in and they fight out in a battle royal.
<v Speaker 1>It doesn't even get permission from the NFL. Is that
<v Speaker 1>the super Bowl of sports? It's like, are you really
<v Speaker 1>going to go to market with Yes, that's what we're
<v Speaker 1>gonna call it.
<v Speaker 2>Where's felling it?
<v Speaker 1>S s U p E R R B O w
<v Speaker 1>l L the super Bowl of sports?
<v Speaker 2>Superbol brother?
<v Speaker 4>What?
<v Speaker 1>Superble brother?
<v Speaker 7>What?
<v Speaker 1>That's an issue? That's a fucking concern? Which ways up?
<v Speaker 1>Hide the ball?
<v Speaker 2>Whoa? Whoa dude?
<v Speaker 4>Whoa?
<v Speaker 3>Like?
<v Speaker 2>The ramifications are vast vern ghizzle? What's going on with
<v Speaker 2>the garden?
<v Speaker 1>Vern ghizzle? His neck looks like a gizzle, doesn't it.
<v Speaker 5>Yo.
<v Speaker 2>Vern Ghizzle's like, Terry, I really wish you wouldn't talk
<v Speaker 2>to me that way.
<v Speaker 1>I really wish you wouldn't dressed me that way.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think I take a little offense to that way.
<v Speaker 2>You're free, is it there? What do you mean?
<v Speaker 1>Tremendous vern spicture's face right now, like he was like, fucking.
<v Speaker 2>Smile yeah, oh god, he smiles.
<v Speaker 4>Uh.
<v Speaker 2>Hello, Michael, Hello, Frankel.
<v Speaker 1>Such an idiot, such a hello.
<v Speaker 2>Newman calls him Frankel, he calls him. That's his idea
<v Speaker 2>of a fucking joke, calling him because he calls him
<v Speaker 2>by his proper name, Michael, right, he calls he calls
<v Speaker 2>Frank Bass Frankel.
<v Speaker 1>Ah.
<v Speaker 2>I always think of myself, actually, you know, my my
<v Speaker 2>contribution to the to the screenplay.
<v Speaker 1>Well you say that, but guess who pinned Johnny Rods
<v Speaker 1>on the same card where Ken peterra first wrestled Bruno
<v Speaker 1>and January seventy seven, Greg gun ya oh, and also
<v Speaker 1>on that show What Who, making their Madison Square Garden debuts.
<v Speaker 1>According to the Kenyan book, one Howard Finkel What Who
<v Speaker 1>the book reads, debut as a ring announcer in nineteen
<v Speaker 1>seventy six made his first appearance as a ring announcer
<v Speaker 1>in the Garden on this show, replacing Friendly Bob Freed.
<v Speaker 1>So that guy in the mustard yellow suit was probably
<v Speaker 1>Friendly Bob Freed. You might add him to the death
<v Speaker 1>toll as a matter of fact.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I imagine it's got to be there.
<v Speaker 1>And finally it says Ken Peterra and Pat Patterson were
<v Speaker 1>making their Garden debuts on this card, while Bruis of Brodie,
<v Speaker 1>as had happened, was appearing there for the final time.
<v Speaker 2>So the first that's insane.
<v Speaker 1>There's a lot going on, a lot of cross currents
<v Speaker 1>there in this matchup. As we go to Bruno versus
<v Speaker 1>Ken Peterra from seventy seven, Bruno is cranking the neck
<v Speaker 1>with Terra's knee on the mat in the early going,
<v Speaker 1>stomping the hell out of him as Bernos and Martino,
<v Speaker 1>and he mocks the bicep pose even oh yeah here.
<v Speaker 2>Calling that not just writ where are your muscles now?
<v Speaker 2>That's just what he was saying, where are your muscles now?
<v Speaker 2>Ken Peterra's yeah.
<v Speaker 1>That's what I'm hearing. Yeah, Petera. His hair is on
<v Speaker 1>a different level. It's flowing.
<v Speaker 2>It's oh my god. You know these guys and their
<v Speaker 2>fucking hair main, right, but it's like it's not even
<v Speaker 2>that it's long hair. It's like it's just bushy, big,
<v Speaker 2>fucking like full hair.
<v Speaker 1>That's what it is, said Martino, going off with the
<v Speaker 1>jabs and peppering shots, and he puts Ken Peterra on
<v Speaker 1>his seat and he's dazed and confused sitting there to
<v Speaker 1>say the least, Ken Peterra, and Vince calls a pretty
<v Speaker 1>tough ombre, throws some kicks.
<v Speaker 2>And that's exactly what he is. He's a tough ombre.
<v Speaker 1>Soon he has Burtis and Maritino on his back and
<v Speaker 1>shouts get up boy to the crowd. Yeah, Vince says,
<v Speaker 1>these two have had a feud going in the garden
<v Speaker 1>for quite some time. So this is the Texas Death Match, then, yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>the way he says.
<v Speaker 2>It's got to be it. Although I don't think it's
<v Speaker 2>even that violent though, which is kind of funny.
<v Speaker 1>It really isn't, And you would think if it was
<v Speaker 1>Texas Death that Vince would say it at least once
<v Speaker 1>on commentary. He doesn't corner to corner whip and Berti
<v Speaker 1>Simertino hits and claps is holding his back, so san
<v Speaker 1>Martino making in roads working on the back of Bruno.
<v Speaker 1>He lifts and slams him and drops an elbow and
<v Speaker 1>this is the second one, but then catches him with
<v Speaker 1>the third curiously enough. Usually when you miss the second elbow,
<v Speaker 1>you don't come with a third, But right Bertie Stanto
<v Speaker 1>stands up with the headlock push off. They collide and
<v Speaker 1>San Matino spills to the apron and does the arm
<v Speaker 1>tied up in the rope thing, just like he did
<v Speaker 1>the leg tied up in the rope thing against Van
<v Speaker 1>Rashki for a second, but he gets free this time,
<v Speaker 1>but Ken Peterira uses that moment to pounce on him,
<v Speaker 1>raining down punches, but he misses and cracks a bone
<v Speaker 1>in his hand that perhaps they suggests Peterra, I think
<v Speaker 1>hit the post with his hand or something, okay, and
<v Speaker 1>then Brunos Smertino rams Kevin Ken Peterra's head into the canvas.
<v Speaker 1>Still waiting for this wrestling that Sammartino was referencing this
<v Speaker 1>technical right.
<v Speaker 2>No, where's this technical technicality stit that's been going on?
<v Speaker 1>You might he must have thought this was tape of
<v Speaker 1>a different PATA match, maybe a lap.
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<v Speaker 1>So Sanmartino with a knee and a whip and a
<v Speaker 1>nice lift and turns and slams him cover for two.
<v Speaker 1>Backup Sanmartino with a right hand stagger's Ken Peterra and
<v Speaker 1>another and then he lifts him up and hits the
<v Speaker 1>atomic drop, sending Ken Petera onto the apron. Where how
<v Speaker 1>did that move get that name? The atomic Drop? Yes,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, No one knows. You know, move names
<v Speaker 1>come from.
<v Speaker 2>Because it's just that atomic drop seems like it should
<v Speaker 2>be a much more devastating move than what it is.
<v Speaker 2>Like I need of the ass does not atomic drop?
<v Speaker 2>You know feel I don't feel that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, you're right.
<v Speaker 2>I mean I've never felt that.
<v Speaker 1>Well you just remember the Backland used it as a
<v Speaker 1>finisher for years as the top dog in the garden.
<v Speaker 2>I know, I just I mean, I guess. I mean
<v Speaker 2>it's a weird move, like what what do you so?
<v Speaker 2>You give a guy a need of the ass and
<v Speaker 2>that's gonna end it?
<v Speaker 1>For him sends a shock of paralyzing pain. I guess
<v Speaker 1>toxics bone. And I never understood why the inverted thing
<v Speaker 1>is called the Manhattan Drop in some places. I don't
<v Speaker 1>get that one.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, maybe the Manhattan Project. So there is that what
<v Speaker 2>it is?
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>It's not a bad guess, but I just again, it
<v Speaker 2>doesn't feel like to me, I'd rather almost a power
<v Speaker 2>bomb be called the atomic drop like that, to me
<v Speaker 2>is a much more atomic type mover maneuver. Whereas you know,
<v Speaker 2>lifting a guy up and dropping him on your dropping
<v Speaker 2>asked on your knee does not you know, I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>To me, it doesn't. It doesn't really match the name
<v Speaker 2>of the move. And when a move is I've always
<v Speaker 2>thought that after a wrestler you can kind of trace
<v Speaker 2>it back, but when it's not, it's really hard to
<v Speaker 2>say who came up with the first I mean, you
<v Speaker 2>know me, I've I've asked every old timer I've ever
<v Speaker 2>talked to if they know why it's called the Boston crab.
<v Speaker 2>That's just been on my personal thing, and nobody knows.
<v Speaker 2>Nobody has a clue. So because there's no crabs in Boston,
<v Speaker 2>well there's that too, like, why is it a Boston one.
<v Speaker 2>It doesn't make any sense. The Baltimore crab, yes, correct,
<v Speaker 2>or the Boston lobster, the Boston clam chowder, well, the
<v Speaker 2>Boston clam chowder as a hold, no, it's not.
<v Speaker 1>Imagine the Boston clam chowder. He applies the Boston clam chowder.
<v Speaker 1>It must have felt that way when they called it
<v Speaker 1>a crab the first time.
<v Speaker 2>Probably, like think of the Boston clams, like it's like
<v Speaker 2>putting your mouth on a guy's belly and just blowing
<v Speaker 2>on it.
<v Speaker 1>Jeez, well that's the case. What's the difference between the
<v Speaker 1>Boston crab and the Alaskan King crab or the imitation
<v Speaker 1>Crab's exactly it.
<v Speaker 2>That's a single leg crabtation crab.
<v Speaker 1>That's a that's a work pro wrestling crab is right.
<v Speaker 1>So oh god, Artina with a knee and a whip
<v Speaker 1>and a nice lift and turn slam cover gets two
<v Speaker 1>back up, Simartinio with a right staggered Speterira and another
<v Speaker 1>and then again. The atomic drop sends Petara stumbling onto
<v Speaker 1>the apron, where he clutches the ropes. The Sanmartino keeps
<v Speaker 1>stomping on him. Vinceys mister Petra not faring too well
<v Speaker 1>here at all at the moment, boots to the face
<v Speaker 1>and those jumping kicks that Sammartino used to do, he said,
<v Speaker 1>a stomping He would just jump up and kick you
<v Speaker 1>several of them.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, so he fucking did, Like yeah, I mean, honestly,
<v Speaker 2>I feel like he's gonna blow his knee doing that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, seriously. And then Petera takes kind of a timber
<v Speaker 1>bump and Vince cracks a laugh at that one. At
<v Speaker 1>the display being put on here by Ken Peterra, Smartino
<v Speaker 1>whips Petaria in and back drops him to ooze and
<v Speaker 1>ohs and covers him for two. PoTA rolls to the apron.
<v Speaker 1>The referee gets between checking in laying in the count,
<v Speaker 1>and then Sanmartino with a right and Patera drops and
<v Speaker 1>low blows Bruno Samartino right in front of the referee.
<v Speaker 2>And Vince feels the need to defend him. Listen to this.
<v Speaker 5>Apparently cull the abdominal and as effort there the ricks
<v Speaker 5>the abdominos. Potero is just.
<v Speaker 1>Out on, but it cannot be considered response before his
<v Speaker 1>actions here. Why I think he said that because there
<v Speaker 1>was no excuse for the referee not just qualifying him
<v Speaker 1>because he did it right in front of him. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>So he's trying to give the ref and out as
<v Speaker 1>to why he.
<v Speaker 2>Would have called for the bell. It just it just
<v Speaker 2>it's a bad call to me. Agreed, I wouldn't I
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't do that. I would have been more like, why
<v Speaker 2>did the referee see that?
<v Speaker 6>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Lean into it right? Yeah. Vince was never one to
<v Speaker 1>criticize the refs, you know, he was never do He
<v Speaker 1>never did the gorilla thing of like, yep, oh, this
<v Speaker 1>guy that the refinedes have his eyes checked kind of thing.
<v Speaker 1>So Petera rises, comes to the middle rope and rains
<v Speaker 1>down at stomp on Sammartino and man, did those ropes
<v Speaker 1>get wavy when you jumped off them? No support at all? None,
<v Speaker 1>might as well be springing off a jump rope. And
<v Speaker 1>then Patia's choke sin Maritino on the canvas whip to
<v Speaker 1>the corner. Sanmartino hits hard and into a big body
<v Speaker 1>slam with a delay by Ken Peterra and he lets
<v Speaker 1>out a big woo rook flair style and does a
<v Speaker 1>bicep pose and then Potero brings a knee down twice
<v Speaker 1>on San Martino's face. That gets a two count. San
<v Speaker 1>Martino with a big kickout, though, sending Ken Peterra all
<v Speaker 1>the way across the ring, showing that he's still very
<v Speaker 1>much in a position of strength. Ptera swings from his
<v Speaker 1>knees and misses, and Bruno Semartino starts hitting him. They
<v Speaker 1>exchange now.
<v Speaker 2>Nope, nope, nope, not a fan. Still not a fan
<v Speaker 2>even then, not a fan of the fucking trading blows
<v Speaker 2>on the knees and taking fucking yess hours in between
<v Speaker 2>each fucking hit. Right, Oh, not a fan. Not a fan.
<v Speaker 1>It's so much of that in the rumble this year
<v Speaker 1>they had at the yeat Yeah between Jimmy Use, Jay
<v Speaker 1>Usso and La Knight. They had to get Sena doing
<v Speaker 1>his yeah. Everyone had the big exchange spot backup. Sanmartino
<v Speaker 1>hauling off, goes off in the corner, now on Petera
<v Speaker 1>corner to corner, Irish whip and Ken Petera collapses before
<v Speaker 1>Sanmatino can even follow up on him. You can see
<v Speaker 1>Fink now at ringside. So I noted that before I
<v Speaker 1>realize this is his MSG debut, so it's actually yeah,
<v Speaker 1>Well he debuted Msgry that year, not on this card,
<v Speaker 1>but I hadn't seen him in the prior Bruno matches,
<v Speaker 1>so that I thought that was notable. Kenn Petera then
<v Speaker 1>slaps on a full nelson from the ring apron on
<v Speaker 1>Bruno Sammartino, who walks him over into the top rope.
<v Speaker 1>Sammartino low bridges kind of ducks his head between the
<v Speaker 1>top and middle Buckle's supposed to send Petera face first
<v Speaker 1>into the top and break the full nelson, but Ken
<v Speaker 1>Peterira kind of loses hold of Sammartino as he ducks down,
<v Speaker 1>so suddenly you have just the separation between the two
<v Speaker 1>and Petera standing awkwardly a few inches from the camp
<v Speaker 1>from the corner. But then he regrabs the full nelson
<v Speaker 1>and that allows Sammartino to kick off the buckles. Does
<v Speaker 1>the Brett Hart How far backack is this spot? Go boss?
<v Speaker 2>He doesn't roll over completely like Brett would do, but
<v Speaker 2>you know, he just kind of lays on him, but
<v Speaker 2>he still does the fucking kickoff.
<v Speaker 1>I was blown away by it, absolutely massive. One two
<v Speaker 1>and three. Ken Peterra tries kicking out when he realizes
<v Speaker 1>or thinks he won anyway, raises his hand, but now
<v Speaker 1>the referee can deed confirms by raising Bruno Simartino's hand
<v Speaker 1>that he was on top in that exchange. After Vince
<v Speaker 1>McMahon even questions on commentary, who won the match, Berno
<v Speaker 1>Simartino kicking off the corner buckling and using the full
<v Speaker 1>Nelson his advantage of pinning Ken Petera. Here in the
<v Speaker 1>Texas Death Match in Madison Square Garden, the sign says
<v Speaker 1>Italian Stallion Bruno number one, and the other sign says
<v Speaker 1>Italian sausage A dollar forty nine.
<v Speaker 2>Please, I'll have three.
<v Speaker 1>The mic drops from the ceiling and Fink delivers the
<v Speaker 1>announcement that in twelve minutes and thirteen seconds you're winner.
<v Speaker 1>Bruno Sammartino onto Bruno versus Kowalski.
<v Speaker 2>Here we go, and here's what he has to say
<v Speaker 2>about it, Jane.
<v Speaker 4>He talked to me the meeting of stamina. This was
<v Speaker 4>one of the greatest conditioned wrestler I've had to face
<v Speaker 4>in my life. He had such great stamina that up
<v Speaker 4>to this point I had been beating my opponents mostly
<v Speaker 4>would strength and my wrestling skills. In meeting Kowalski, I
<v Speaker 4>wrestled him one time for one hour, thirty minutes, and
<v Speaker 4>he was absolutely unbelievable. I started training, changing my training
<v Speaker 4>math as after my first bunch of Kowalski, who I
<v Speaker 4>combined strength training and stamina, which I found out that
<v Speaker 4>something that benefited me for the rest of my wrestling career.
<v Speaker 3>Would you have to say Bruno perhaps one of the
<v Speaker 3>toughest opponents you ever had.
<v Speaker 4>No question about it. I thought it many times. I
<v Speaker 4>had many one hour matches, some of them lessed longer
<v Speaker 4>an hour because usually were no time limits. And again
<v Speaker 4>I repeat it, probably was the toughest man I've ever.
<v Speaker 2>Faced, toughest many ever faced.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, that's heavy praise there. Well, he was his life,
<v Speaker 1>his career long foil in some ways. Yeah, these two
<v Speaker 1>never stopped trying to kill each other. What do you
<v Speaker 1>having a date on this one?
<v Speaker 2>I have April twenty ninth, nineteen seventy four at Madison
<v Speaker 2>Square Guard.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, closed circuit April twenty nine, seventy four, Bruno No
<v Speaker 1>contest was killer Kowalski twenty four minutes and fifteen seconds.
<v Speaker 1>And then you had Andre in Chief, Jay Strongbow over
<v Speaker 1>Don Leo, Jonathan and Otto von Heller in the co feature.
<v Speaker 1>They came back with it on May twenty at nineteen
<v Speaker 1>seventy four before seventeen thousand and one to oh three,
<v Speaker 1>not a great crowd. Bruno beating Killer Kowalski in the
<v Speaker 1>Texas Death Match. That's how you wrapped up the Bruno
<v Speaker 1>feuds back then, Yeah, right exactly, and he moved from there.
<v Speaker 1>Did Bruno to wrestling well the next time in June
<v Speaker 1>with Chief j Strongbow against Fred Lassie Nikolai Volkoff in
<v Speaker 1>a tag match, and then you have okay, Yeah, according
<v Speaker 1>to Kenyan, Strongbows in that main event because he approached
<v Speaker 1>Bruno and told him he would like to be in
<v Speaker 1>just one main event in the Garden, just to to
<v Speaker 1>let his eighty five year old father know he had
<v Speaker 1>arrived in the wrestling business. Okay, and then he wrestles Bruno.
<v Speaker 1>Si Martino goes on to wrestle John Tolos the Future
<v Speaker 1>the Coach July in August, the headline with Jimmy and
<v Speaker 1>Johnny Valiant against Strongbow and Sam Martino and Andre Versus Kowalski.
<v Speaker 1>That's something to see. I don't think I've ever seen
<v Speaker 1>Andre Versus Kowalski before.
<v Speaker 2>I uh I feel like I have. Actually, yeah, I
<v Speaker 2>feel like I have. I feel like I'm gonna watch
<v Speaker 2>it with my mom. Would be because she was a
<v Speaker 2>Kowalski fan.
<v Speaker 1>Sure was Bobby Duncan as well, one of Bruno's opponents
<v Speaker 1>in seventy four, as well as uh yeah, the last
<v Speaker 1>show in December, So here we go. Kowalski Versus Bruno
<v Speaker 1>nineteen seventy four. Sammartino is stomping his leg all around
<v Speaker 1>the ring and falls down into a crucifix hold by
<v Speaker 1>killer Kowalski. He takes over on the mat. Kowalski rolls
<v Speaker 1>him up into a pinning predicament, but Simartino's legs end
<v Speaker 1>up all of them on the ropes, getting him free.
<v Speaker 2>Kowalski looks like a teenager who just woke up after
<v Speaker 2>going to bed at two am.
<v Speaker 1>Someone who was up eating talkies and playing video games.
<v Speaker 2>On that exactly. And he's fucking woke up, and he's
<v Speaker 2>like shirtless, wearing you know, pajama pants. That's what like.
<v Speaker 2>Kowalski's like, he just always looks like he's just got
<v Speaker 2>out of bed.
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely he does with his purple pants with a creepy
<v Speaker 1>lightning bolt on them.
<v Speaker 2>So fucking biz.
<v Speaker 1>Now, I've looked this up before it and I probably
<v Speaker 1>talked about it. There's some creepy religion behind that lightning
<v Speaker 1>bolt and most purple pants. I forget what it is
<v Speaker 1>that he was part of Burt Simotaino when black trunks
<v Speaker 1>and black boots son that'll never get over never. I
<v Speaker 1>wonder what went into Bruno's choice of what colored trunks
<v Speaker 1>to wear. We've seen green, we've seen blue.
<v Speaker 2>I bet nothing at all. So I bet I bet
<v Speaker 2>he just went to fucking I don't know athletics store
<v Speaker 2>and bought like a set of ten speedo's and that
<v Speaker 2>was it.
<v Speaker 1>It'll Buckle didn't care red here for some reason, so
<v Speaker 1>probably no choice there either. Yeah, vinces on the call,
<v Speaker 1>that's uh Kilikwalski stomping the head referee with a strong
<v Speaker 1>yawk accent. I don't, I don't want to want you anymore.
<v Speaker 1>You can hear him say, that's a pretty much.
<v Speaker 2>Come on killer, that's a fucking piece.
<v Speaker 1>Kwal stomps the chest like a cigarette he's putting out.
<v Speaker 1>He scales the ropes and the crowd gets very yantsy
<v Speaker 1>because you know, Kowalski once took a man's ear off
<v Speaker 1>with a middle rope knee drop, and Sanmartino gets up
<v Speaker 1>and tosses him down off the canvas with a grilla
<v Speaker 1>press to a big pop and then a body slam
<v Speaker 1>in the middle gets too for Sammartino. Sementino then grabs
<v Speaker 1>the arm from behind. Kowalski gets to the ropes knees
<v Speaker 1>from Sanmartino on the mat, slugging away at killer Kowalski,
<v Speaker 1>who comes with shots to the gut from his knees
<v Speaker 1>until Bruno Sammartino falls, and then Kowalski puts the iron
<v Speaker 1>claw onto the abdominal muscles of a claw.
<v Speaker 2>Kowalski applies a claw and Bruno's ribs, and Big Show
<v Speaker 2>also applies a claw hold on ribs.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you won't be able to pry him out of
<v Speaker 1>his hand. Vince calls this that iron claw of.
<v Speaker 2>His iron claw. So now not not an ab claw
<v Speaker 2>or a brain claw here, So what do we got
<v Speaker 2>to do? A Big Show's looking for, right, A lobster claw,
<v Speaker 2>a bear of claw, bear claw of course, yes, kick
<v Speaker 2>on one fish gonna be fucking carbs. Come on, it's
<v Speaker 2>either carbs or you know, just meat. That's what it is.
<v Speaker 2>Why they call him the Big Slow.
<v Speaker 1>He's not going fast with those scombinations.
<v Speaker 2>There's never, never been, never been a man in the
<v Speaker 2>world who loves barbecue more than Paul White because it's
<v Speaker 2>his two favorite things, eating and being slow Afterwards. Loen's
<v Speaker 2>Slow Low and slow Big Slow called the Big Slow.
<v Speaker 2>I think Rock called them that one. It's always stuck.
<v Speaker 2>It's always stuck for me.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I would give you the credit because you know,
<v Speaker 1>you came up with things like it, ring of honorable mention?
<v Speaker 1>How funny is that? And should sucking not anymore? And
<v Speaker 1>it's so funny? Ring of honorable mention is Oh god,
<v Speaker 1>she refused stop ship flicks. You call it that flix
<v Speaker 1>ship flicks?
<v Speaker 2>I mean ring mention, like just totally. It destroys any credibility,
<v Speaker 2>you know, Like if I call that to somebody's face,
<v Speaker 2>if I said to somebody like, yep, you know you
<v Speaker 2>didn't didn't Tony get Tony kanbota right, if I said, oh,
<v Speaker 2>did you went and bought fucking ring of honorable mention?
<v Speaker 1>Which qualifies for that now?
<v Speaker 2>Right exactly?
<v Speaker 1>So uh britis and potato Popshi from his back with
<v Speaker 1>two fists, but Kwalski bites the head and looks like
<v Speaker 1>they were making out for a moment on the canvass.
<v Speaker 1>Kowalski comes off the middle of the stomp to the
<v Speaker 1>gut and goes back to the club or does Sermartino
<v Speaker 1>kicking his hand away as much as he can. Sanmartino
<v Speaker 1>dives on a double a takedown, lifts and dumps Kowalski
<v Speaker 1>almost all the way over the rose, but Kowalski is
<v Speaker 1>hanging on the top rope, so Sanmartino stomps him a
<v Speaker 1>bit and then runs Kowalski into the iron post from
<v Speaker 1>the ring. Apron is Kowalski doing the deed boss indeed
<v Speaker 1>back into the corner. Sanmartino's on him. Kowalski grabs him
<v Speaker 1>by the neck.
<v Speaker 2>We wait, what's up with the guy? The guy in
<v Speaker 2>a track suit sitting right next to the ring post. Huh,
<v Speaker 2>Like he doesn't look I mean, he doesn't look an official.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I didn't notice he looks.
<v Speaker 2>So there's a guy on the hard camera side on
<v Speaker 2>the on the camera on the camera right side by
<v Speaker 2>the upper ring post. It's a guy in a tracksuit
<v Speaker 2>sitting in a in a folding chair crossed with his
<v Speaker 2>legs crossed terrestic, like just and honestly, he looks like
<v Speaker 2>a guy who went to the show and is like
<v Speaker 2>because there's again, you know, there's no guardrails, right, and
<v Speaker 2>there's no real bear between fans in the ring, and
<v Speaker 2>so it kind of looks like he's a guys like,
<v Speaker 2>I don't know why people aren't just sitting over here.
<v Speaker 2>You can see way better over here. It's a good deal.
<v Speaker 2>Fucking that, no one, Hey, just move my chair over here.
<v Speaker 2>Look at that right next to the fucking ring.
<v Speaker 1>That was something about the garden under Vince Senior man,
<v Speaker 1>there were so many like Rando VIPs that seem to
<v Speaker 1>have free rain at ringside. Yeah, there's all these people
<v Speaker 1>that just like were cramming the floor that had no
<v Speaker 1>job to do. But they weren't fans either, but they
<v Speaker 1>were all around the ring. You can see him everywhere.
<v Speaker 1>So back in to the corner, san Maartino onon Kowalski,
<v Speaker 1>who grabs him by the neck and throws a slow
<v Speaker 1>punching kick, As Vince says, both beginning to look tired
<v Speaker 1>here as Kowalski comes with a dropkick to the back
<v Speaker 1>that sends Bruno. Sammartino threw the ropes into the laps
<v Speaker 1>of the press at ringside.
<v Speaker 2>It's a great.
<v Speaker 1>Dropkick from Kowalski and he rolls back in Kowalski's days
<v Speaker 1>on him lifting a slam by Kowalski for two. Kowalski
<v Speaker 1>slugs him twice and Bruno Simartino spills out of the ring.
<v Speaker 1>There's an old lady over there a point. Oh she
<v Speaker 1>goes not she's classic, pointing and gesturing at killer Kowalski
<v Speaker 1>from the floor. Everyone's aunt right there or grandmother yep.
<v Speaker 1>As Sammartino tries to climb the steps and Kowalski with
<v Speaker 1>the uh well, Kowalski with the carrot top haircut for
<v Speaker 1>some reason, grabs Bruno Sammartino and bites him and then
<v Speaker 1>lays in slapping gnaws in his head.
<v Speaker 2>And then right when that happens, we see a hot
<v Speaker 2>dog vendor asking if the crowd wants a non.
<v Speaker 1>A hot dog, slapping punches to the forehead and biting.
<v Speaker 1>Sanmartino ref does nothing, Kwalski laying some more, and I think, yes, indeed,
<v Speaker 1>this is the pomp. This is the moment where you
<v Speaker 1>can see him pinch the razor. Oh really, you can
<v Speaker 1>see him pinching the or. Bruno was not great at
<v Speaker 1>hiding the razor man at all.
<v Speaker 2>I just can't believe Bruno ran the razor. That's something.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I'm sure we've seen it before, but it
<v Speaker 2>just took me to me by surprise.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's rather dramatic to see. And yeah, you can
<v Speaker 1>really see the tip of the blade for a sec
<v Speaker 1>if you watch close on this tape, you can see
<v Speaker 1>like that coloration in his hand. And he keeps going
<v Speaker 1>to town man with the blade and then Samu the
<v Speaker 1>Kwalski's biting to you know, give a reason for the
<v Speaker 1>blood to be drawn, and Semartino now staggering, barely standing,
<v Speaker 1>and uh Kwalski's punching him into oblivion. A side shot
<v Speaker 1>shows the blood now on San Martino's head. Is Vince
<v Speaker 1>questions how much one man can take Sammartino big time
<v Speaker 1>communication going on with Kawalski about something rights and lefts.
<v Speaker 1>But Sammartino's time time standing up to the blows and
<v Speaker 1>they're losing their ship that he's standing there and not
<v Speaker 1>going down.
<v Speaker 2>We're gonna listen to it again.
<v Speaker 5>Well, standing back away be fore Puny by Pulaski kin
<v Speaker 5>up home on their worry above. Man, am if you
<v Speaker 5>can corring up that bunny for I put off Martell.
<v Speaker 2>I just never You'll never hear that ever again. Wrestling
<v Speaker 2>will never be like that ever again.
<v Speaker 1>I started typing in all caps. I wrote O MG
<v Speaker 1>O MG in my notes. Yep, it's amazing. Yeah, it's
<v Speaker 1>the greatest fucking sound. Reound it reound it to whip
<v Speaker 1>to the corner Sternham First, Bruno lifts his hands up
<v Speaker 1>and looks at the ceiling like I'm gonna do this.
<v Speaker 1>Their rabbit at their rabbit on the garden.
<v Speaker 2>Fuck it, they're going crazy. It's just fucking.
<v Speaker 1>Sammartino goes off it, punches and kicks and they're slugging
<v Speaker 1>it out at its electric while back to biting to
<v Speaker 1>cut off the momentum, and the ref gets in between.
<v Speaker 1>And when he does that, the bell sounds because they're
<v Speaker 1>just you know, swinging on the ref swinging on each other.
<v Speaker 1>It's just gotten totally out of hand. The bell sounds repeatedly,
<v Speaker 1>the referee trying to break it up, Arnold Scullen and
<v Speaker 1>the ring trying to break it up as well. Berta
<v Speaker 1>Si Maritino goes for the throat and Pedro hits the
<v Speaker 1>ring as well as the sword and other baby faces
<v Speaker 1>to try to keep the peace, tying up killer Kowalski,
<v Speaker 1>separating the two. Kowalski trying to make his way over
<v Speaker 1>and Berta. Simmartino gets free and gets his hands on
<v Speaker 1>his neck for a second, but they hustle Kowalski out
<v Speaker 1>of the ring and he walks in the apron looking
<v Speaker 1>after him. Berno has his hand raised and Vince says,
<v Speaker 1>although he's cut and cuts severely, Bruno still wants to wrestle.
<v Speaker 2>Of course he does.
<v Speaker 1>Simmartino with that waddle around the ring with his bloody
<v Speaker 1>head being consoled by other baby faces. The announcement is
<v Speaker 1>in twenty four minutes and fifteen seconds. The decision is
<v Speaker 1>a draw.
<v Speaker 4>Crowd is not like that.
<v Speaker 1>I don't think they expected it to be an even call,
<v Speaker 1>maybe a double DQ. It is a draw and funny,
<v Speaker 1>funny graphic. All it was just yellow letters and it
<v Speaker 1>flashes Bruno winter or winter or draw draw flashing.
<v Speaker 2>Draw draw draw I know like which you know back
<v Speaker 2>then you had someone who was like pressing it on
<v Speaker 2>and off too, like right thensarily have a flash like
<v Speaker 2>options like someone's pushing right, pushing, turning it on and
<v Speaker 2>turns keep pushing, keep pushing.
<v Speaker 1>It's amazing, what a job to have, so arnold school
<v Speaker 1>and raises uh San Martino's hand with a strap in
<v Speaker 1>his hand, and that is Pete Bruno right there, seventy four. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that is just the height of his powers. He's not
<v Speaker 1>fading yet. And we go back to the studio here
<v Speaker 1>on this Colisseum home video.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and we got some We got a Q and
<v Speaker 2>A here with Bruno.
<v Speaker 3>While Bruno sad. Martino coming out of one of your
<v Speaker 3>perhaps classic matches, one of the greatest ever you worked,
<v Speaker 3>of course on top in Medisine Square Garden two hundred
<v Speaker 3>and eleven times. I'll go on record as saying, perhaps
<v Speaker 3>the greatest professional wrestler to ever put on a pair
<v Speaker 3>of tights at a pair of boots.
<v Speaker 2>What I know.
<v Speaker 1>That's a huge concern. This tape was not welcomed run
<v Speaker 1>to the layahouse, not at all.
<v Speaker 3>Based on track record alone. Some questions Bruno I like
<v Speaker 3>to fire at you. Some of them you probably don't
<v Speaker 3>want to touch. Others you're going to be happy to answer.
<v Speaker 2>He doesn't as to ask any fucking question that doesn't
<v Speaker 2>seems offensive. At all close, Yeah, sir.
<v Speaker 3>First of all, on the length of your career, it's
<v Speaker 3>on precedented the number of years that you have really
<v Speaker 3>really competed in this great sport.
<v Speaker 4>Twenty two years NonStop, Gene, and thirteen of those years
<v Speaker 4>were this world champion.
<v Speaker 2>All right, if we can go back, see he's a
<v Speaker 2>thirteen and eleven, right, thirteen.
<v Speaker 3>A little history perhaps the early years in professional wrestling,
<v Speaker 3>how it all started for Bruno San Martino, Well, Gene.
<v Speaker 4>When I was very young, I started Greco Roman wrestling
<v Speaker 4>and Italy. I also played a little bit of soccer.
<v Speaker 4>But then the War when I was very young came
<v Speaker 4>about and we were driven into those mountains in the
<v Speaker 4>Brutes Italy, and so that when we came over here,
<v Speaker 4>I was rather thin and rather weak. So in order
<v Speaker 4>to build myself up, I took up weight training. But
<v Speaker 4>wrestling was always my first love, and the reason why
<v Speaker 4>I got into weights was really to help develop my
<v Speaker 4>body and get some strength. But I got so into
<v Speaker 4>weight training that I combined the boat. I was doing
<v Speaker 4>amateur wrestling and I was on Olympic lifting and powerlifting.
<v Speaker 3>You used you also set some records as a weightlifter,
<v Speaker 3>did you not well, yes.
<v Speaker 4>In nineteen fifty nine, I did five hundred and sixty
<v Speaker 4>five pounds in the bench press, which was a world record.
<v Speaker 4>I did seven hundred and fifteen pounds in a squad
<v Speaker 4>which at that time was a record, and I did
<v Speaker 4>seven hundred pound deadlift. So I did have some some
<v Speaker 4>pretty good records. But again, everything I did waits gene.
<v Speaker 4>I loved it, but it was all for wrestling, all
<v Speaker 4>to prepare me for wrestling.
<v Speaker 3>All right, A tremendously scientific match that I personally considered
<v Speaker 3>one of the greatest ever.
<v Speaker 2>So was he saying that that that that that he
<v Speaker 2>just weightlifted to wrestle like he was going to wrestle
<v Speaker 2>the whole So, okay, doesn't seem that like he knew
<v Speaker 2>he's going to wrestle from when he was like the
<v Speaker 2>moment he got to America.
<v Speaker 1>He's pretty much. Yeah, I don't know why he like
<v Speaker 1>that was.
<v Speaker 2>His fucking goal to wrestle, like even though fucking was
<v Speaker 2>the time.
<v Speaker 1>I said he did a greco back in Italy. But
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if you knew what pro wrestling.
<v Speaker 3>Was, Yeah, I mean Bruno Sam Martino versus Pedrol Morales.
<v Speaker 3>Your thoughts on that one?
<v Speaker 4>The conditions were horrible. We wrestled in Shea Stadium and
<v Speaker 4>it was a very windy day. It was the last
<v Speaker 4>day of September. It had rained for two straight days
<v Speaker 4>and the rain continued still. We had a tremendous crowd.
<v Speaker 4>But the match was absolutely great. We wrestled for an
<v Speaker 4>hour and believe seventeen on an hour eighteen minutes, and
<v Speaker 4>it was a truly not because I was involved in it,
<v Speaker 4>but I've been around a long time. I see a
<v Speaker 4>lot of great matches. This I felt was one of
<v Speaker 4>the that was the greatest scientific match that I was
<v Speaker 4>ever involved in my entire career.
<v Speaker 3>All right, Bruno, I am very curious your philosophy on wrestling,
<v Speaker 3>your philosophy on competition, and perhaps your philosophy on life.
<v Speaker 4>Well, philosophy in wrestling. I've always believed that in wrestling
<v Speaker 4>that one should put forties best efforts as far as
<v Speaker 4>showing his skills, his wrestling skills, strength, stamina is know
<v Speaker 4>how all these things has to be put forth one
<v Speaker 4>hundred percent because for your own self respect, but also
<v Speaker 4>for the fans that by their tickets and come and
<v Speaker 4>see you, and come and see wrestling. So I believe
<v Speaker 4>that's very very important. The other competition, competition, well, of course,
<v Speaker 4>I myself in all the years, I wanted to compete
<v Speaker 4>against the best because by competing against the best, you
<v Speaker 4>yourself become the best you could possibly be. I think,
<v Speaker 4>especially if you're known name and a top contender, this
<v Speaker 4>is the way to show the fans that you deserve
<v Speaker 4>to be where you're at. So it's extremely important to
<v Speaker 4>me to be with the best competitors at all times.
<v Speaker 3>And finally, I have tremendous, the utmost respect for this man.
<v Speaker 2>He knows it, I know it.
<v Speaker 3>Your philosophy on life life for Brunos San Martino on.
<v Speaker 4>Ah, boy, that's a hard one. It's simple, It's really simple.
<v Speaker 4>My philosophy of life is that I tried. I've had
<v Speaker 4>good family, good parents. My philosophy is that don't go
<v Speaker 4>out there as far as your general life to hurt anybody,
<v Speaker 4>help whoever. You can be as decent the human being
<v Speaker 4>as you can. Don't let success spoil you, because that's
<v Speaker 4>the one tragedy of life. Some people to get some
<v Speaker 4>success and this success changes in which to me, it's
<v Speaker 4>a tragedy.
<v Speaker 3>All right, Bruno, I may be throwing a curve at you,
<v Speaker 3>but I like to have you juxta position. Compare my
<v Speaker 3>will the wrestlers of today with the wrestlers of yesteryear.
<v Speaker 4>Well, you know, Geene, other people have asked mess they
<v Speaker 4>is big, Yes, three years they are today. Of course,
<v Speaker 4>we had giants in those days. When you talk about
<v Speaker 4>Don leio O, Jonathan six eight, three hundred and thirty pounds,
<v Speaker 4>Kowalski sixty six sixty seven, two hundred and seventy eight pounds,
<v Speaker 4>Big Bill Miller. I could go on and on. We
<v Speaker 4>had many, many giants in those days. The one thing
<v Speaker 4>that I liked about my era better than today is
<v Speaker 4>that these were big men. They went in the ring,
<v Speaker 4>they showed up.
<v Speaker 1>You got to promote today, right, You can't yesterday wasn't.
<v Speaker 1>I can't just glorify times before.
<v Speaker 4>I was the boss, right, a lot of wrestling skills.
<v Speaker 4>They were good wrestlers, good conditioned wrestlers. There was less screaming.
<v Speaker 4>Today seems like everybody is screaming. As to all the
<v Speaker 4>threats of what we threatened, of course we had. I
<v Speaker 4>had a big confidence. I used to tell the audience
<v Speaker 4>out there that I believed in myself and that I
<v Speaker 4>thought I could do well against any opponents, but we
<v Speaker 4>didn't talk so much about.
<v Speaker 5>It.
<v Speaker 1>Passes test or not.
<v Speaker 4>Dude, I'm going to break his leg, I'm going to
<v Speaker 4>break his snack, and there's an awful lot of that today.
<v Speaker 4>Today's wrestlers are great conditioned athletes. I want that being
<v Speaker 4>on because these guys are great, They're in great shape,
<v Speaker 4>they moved, they but there's an awful lot of screaming.
<v Speaker 4>There's so much treating. It's everything is hate, hate, hate,
<v Speaker 4>and I'm sorry to see that because as wrestlers, we
<v Speaker 4>are tough competitors. We go in that rink to prove
<v Speaker 4>our superiority perhaps over the other guy. But let's go
<v Speaker 4>and ring and do it, and let's do less screaming
<v Speaker 4>that we seem to be doing today, which we didn't
<v Speaker 4>do quite as much in my day.
<v Speaker 3>All right, that is commentary, by the way, from Bruno
<v Speaker 3>San Martino, very quickly wrestling versus announcing of what you're
<v Speaker 3>doing a lot of right now.
<v Speaker 4>Well, actually, Gene, you know, as a wrestler, I trained
<v Speaker 4>all my life for so I felt very comfortable because
<v Speaker 4>I had a lot of confidence in myself because of
<v Speaker 4>my wrestling skills, my training that I've had as an announcer,
<v Speaker 4>I take my head off to people like yourself, Vince
<v Speaker 4>McMahon Monsoon is doing a good job at it. I
<v Speaker 4>can't say to you that I honestly feels good about it.
<v Speaker 4>Do I see myself as being very good at it
<v Speaker 4>because it is not something that I had great training
<v Speaker 4>and experience, and so therefore I don't feel quite as
<v Speaker 4>comfortable as I did as a wrestler.
<v Speaker 3>All right, Finally, Brunos San Martino at your age and
<v Speaker 3>Martinez inspiration to me, and I know millions of fans
<v Speaker 3>literally around the world. Is there any thought on the
<v Speaker 3>back of your mind of once.
<v Speaker 4>Again coming out of retirement, Geane, I don't need to
<v Speaker 4>come out of retirement, certainly financially. I don't need to
<v Speaker 4>wrestle anymore. I'm doing it to prove a point. I've
<v Speaker 4>always heard this myth about when you're thirty five, thirty seven,
<v Speaker 4>forty years old, you're finished. You're too old, you worshed up,
<v Speaker 4>that's the end of it. I never believed in that.
<v Speaker 4>I've always believed that if an individual truly dedicates himself
<v Speaker 4>to a sport, even seasonal sports, don't take the time
<v Speaker 4>when the sport dends to relax and enjoy and get
<v Speaker 4>fat if you keep yourself in condition all year around
<v Speaker 4>stair away from certain bad habits. I've always believed that
<v Speaker 4>a person could go way way beyond what is that's
<v Speaker 4>so called cut off line, as far as age, and
<v Speaker 4>still be good at it. And I want to prove
<v Speaker 4>that as a professional rest I want to prove that
<v Speaker 4>at my age today, I can go in there against
<v Speaker 4>guys half my age, and because of my lifestyle that
<v Speaker 4>I can still beat any of them.
<v Speaker 3>Indeed, is the living legend, the great one, Bruno San Martino,
<v Speaker 3>And what an asset this man has been for the
<v Speaker 3>king of sports, the greatest of all professional wrestling. Bruno,
<v Speaker 3>I thank you very much.
<v Speaker 4>I thank you, Jane.
<v Speaker 2>My pleasure, terrific, tremendous, fucking crazy m class. Yeah, there's
<v Speaker 2>a very choice jump cut too. During that thing where
<v Speaker 2>Gene asks him many thought once again of coming out
<v Speaker 2>of retirement and they jump cut. You can tell his
<v Speaker 2>first answer, Yeah, it wasn't up up to far, and
<v Speaker 2>it comes with you. I don't need to come out
<v Speaker 2>of retirement, certainly financial Bruno. Bruno out of.
<v Speaker 1>Madison Square Garden, October twenty first, nineteen eighty five. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and Gene asks for a little bit of background on
<v Speaker 1>this thing.
<v Speaker 2>Do you have this?
<v Speaker 4>Of course I never liked Piper, made no bones about it, Gene.
<v Speaker 4>When I asked to make the pit, I really didn't care.
<v Speaker 4>I wasn't too crazy about the idea, but I went
<v Speaker 4>along anyway. What infuriated me most about Piper was not
<v Speaker 4>only his tactics that I never appreciated in the rank,
<v Speaker 4>but the net particular pit when he made derogatory much
<v Speaker 4>about my nationality that I resented. I resented very very strongly.
<v Speaker 4>And to this day I resent Piper, and hopefully I'll
<v Speaker 4>have an opportunity to get him in that rink again
<v Speaker 4>one of these days.
<v Speaker 2>Yep. And what's that?
<v Speaker 1>As he's doing that voice over, you can hear Mel Phillips,
<v Speaker 1>of all things, say something of the microphone. When Piper
<v Speaker 1>points at him, Bruno says, he'll it's actually Mel Phillips saying.
<v Speaker 1>Bruno says, he'll only come out roddy if you introduce
<v Speaker 1>him as the living legend.
<v Speaker 2>So that's the story, my god.
<v Speaker 7>Okay, it's the laptand Wrestling podcast, the wrestling podcast that
<v Speaker 7>knows the boys need their candy. It's the lapsed fan.
<v Speaker 7>He's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling podcast with Jack and Carnacio
<v Speaker 7>and JP Soro.
<v Speaker 2>And I'll tell you what fucking Piper is hilarious. Right
<v Speaker 2>at the beginning, ladies.
<v Speaker 4>No where in New York, aren't we?
<v Speaker 2>There ain't none of those here.
<v Speaker 5>This day.
<v Speaker 8>Wasn't that people of New York. I would like to
<v Speaker 8>introduce you to mister Runo Srtedo.
<v Speaker 1>And Bruto comes out jogging in the most dad in
<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty five polo you've ever seen.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, can he possibly like don't jog man.
<v Speaker 1>Chest popping out, big old titties. Mountain Ah chairs are
<v Speaker 1>in the ring for Piper's pit with Ace Orton as well.
<v Speaker 1>Please pull up a chair. Yeah, Seventino grabs a mic.
<v Speaker 1>You want to interview me? Won't get rid of this
<v Speaker 1>garbage right now, he says about Orton. Unless you're too
<v Speaker 1>Unless unless you're to frighten one on one. I'm not
<v Speaker 1>exactly thrilled of being in your stupid Piper's pit. But
<v Speaker 1>if you're gonna be one on one like a man
<v Speaker 1>interview me, you insist on having this guy in here,
<v Speaker 1>I'll get one of my friends out here to come
<v Speaker 1>into this ring. And they pop you like crazy, and
<v Speaker 1>Piper grabs the mic and screen you wait a minute,
<v Speaker 1>and he decides to do it. He sends Bobby as
<v Speaker 1>he calls him Bob Orton Junior, out of the ring
<v Speaker 1>and there's a hug between Piper Norton.
<v Speaker 2>He's gone.
<v Speaker 1>Ordon steps out with his cast on and Piper says,
<v Speaker 1>I'm okay, I have nothing to fear. Yeah, he says,
<v Speaker 1>are you a happy person now? Semrartez says, I am
<v Speaker 1>happy and ready. Berno takes his seat and Piper spit
<v Speaker 1>and Piper says, you still won't be able to get up,
<v Speaker 1>won't you? And then he goes garlic for lunch.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my god, it was absolutely amazing.
<v Speaker 1>Because Sammartino smells like garlic. Ah goes, I look at
<v Speaker 1>you and you're so much uglier than I am, and
<v Speaker 1>they have a laugh. I can what I can see
<v Speaker 1>up in the on the marquee, in the garden, oh,
<v Speaker 1>up in the deny, what do you see?
<v Speaker 2>Well? I would say that this segment is brought to
<v Speaker 2>you by a Bally's Casino, Burger King your way right away,
<v Speaker 2>met Life, Nathan's hot Dogs, and the time is ten
<v Speaker 2>seventeen pm.
<v Speaker 1>Local time right, and what's significant about that Met Life logo?
<v Speaker 2>Oh shit?
<v Speaker 1>Has Brian Penry he educated us on oh Shit a
<v Speaker 1>special two part interview we've dropped on you over the
<v Speaker 1>past two weeks. That was the menu Life logo, the
<v Speaker 1>met Life logo that they sued or threatened to sue
<v Speaker 1>WWF overcopying right.
<v Speaker 2>Around this times right. Actually, when I get it, Yes,
<v Speaker 2>that's it. Oh my god, I'm looking at it right next.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't even I forgot all about this.
<v Speaker 1>We want to talk about fucking serendipity.
<v Speaker 2>You're damn right.
<v Speaker 1>Talked to Brian Penry, the creative director for WWF at
<v Speaker 1>the time. He designed the Saturday Night's main event logo,
<v Speaker 1>the WWF logo that we all cherish, and the very
<v Speaker 1>first one he did, which you recognize if you saw it.
<v Speaker 1>It's sort of like a four point thing. We put
<v Speaker 1>a graphic on our Twitter page and on the posts
<v Speaker 1>about this. It's like w north, west, south and east right,
<v Speaker 1>and it looks a lot like the m's on the
<v Speaker 1>men MetLife logo at the time, and turns out, according
<v Speaker 1>to Brian Penry, Vince received a letter from the CEO
<v Speaker 1>of Met Life telling him to change the logo, and
<v Speaker 1>Vince comes back and says, I'll be one hundred thousand dollars.
<v Speaker 1>It's going to cost us a lot of money to
<v Speaker 1>do all of that, and he got a check. He
<v Speaker 1>got a check.
<v Speaker 2>That's amazing.
<v Speaker 1>And as a result of that, we got the prototype
<v Speaker 1>for the logo that we all need and we all
<v Speaker 1>cherish and that's our true north star. So it's it's
<v Speaker 1>amazing that that popped up in the background of the
<v Speaker 1>first thing we watch after learning the significance of the
<v Speaker 1>met Life logo of all things the insurance industry.
<v Speaker 3>So that is that.
<v Speaker 2>And Piper, you know, I just want to say that
<v Speaker 2>we do we ensure your entertainment.
<v Speaker 1>Starts with an eepal WWI, Per says, and of course
<v Speaker 1>these people here and they have demanded, they wanted me
<v Speaker 1>to call you the living legend. Is to say that,
<v Speaker 1>yer sis, did you bring your whole family? What is
<v Speaker 1>this out here? But just ask him, grabs the mic
<v Speaker 1>and says, do you know why they call me the
<v Speaker 1>living legend? I met many big mouths and I shut
<v Speaker 1>them up and they pop for that. They both stand up. Piper,
<v Speaker 1>that's the best one. He does best company back Wher
<v Speaker 1>says you fought here too, hundred and eleven times. How
<v Speaker 1>stupid can you be to fight two hundred and eleven
<v Speaker 1>times and not realize you're all washed up? San Martino,
<v Speaker 1>my two hundred eleven times, my two hundred eleventh time
<v Speaker 1>I kicked my opponent's butt, So I could have meant
<v Speaker 1>too washed up. Scowl on Bruno as he has to
<v Speaker 1>do this.
<v Speaker 2>I mean the scowl on me as a wrestling fan
<v Speaker 2>having to hear this shit like that's okay, like this,
<v Speaker 2>it's just a week. It's a weak response.
<v Speaker 1>I got a thing Jesse Ventura could have had a
<v Speaker 1>lot of fun with.
<v Speaker 2>Uh huh.
<v Speaker 1>Piper says, I noticed you lost weight. Bruno comes back,
<v Speaker 1>that's correct, No longer my two sixty five. I'm two
<v Speaker 1>forty five and in fantastic shape, man, And they pop,
<v Speaker 1>and Piper says, I noticed you lost a little hair.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, this is just Vince heaving is foot going
<v Speaker 1>into Bruno through Piper and Sematina says, I lost quite
<v Speaker 1>a bit of hair, just like my father, and he
<v Speaker 1>lived to be ninety five. I wrote, Okay, who cares, dude?
<v Speaker 1>Piper cuts there's a wonderful thought, you know it. Piper
<v Speaker 1>says when you were coming over to this country, and
<v Speaker 1>Semouteto cuts them off and says, I'm very proud of it.
<v Speaker 1>I'm from Italy. That gets a pop, and they says,
<v Speaker 1>by the way they'll leave, we don't wear skirts. Piper
<v Speaker 1>gets up on the bottom rope, fuming at that. Remarkably
<v Speaker 1>he hasn't heard that one before. Oh that's the way
<v Speaker 1>you want to play. Huh it ain't me, that's Scott,
<v Speaker 1>I know, lie fat puke son covering his daddy's name.
<v Speaker 1>Semberutato says, don't start anything, don't say anything smart, I
<v Speaker 1>won't take it from you. Now, interview me like a man,
<v Speaker 1>or just walk out of here. Vipers to sit down then,
<v Speaker 1>and they do as he always in every Piper spit
<v Speaker 1>He's got to say, sit down, sit.
<v Speaker 2>Down, yep, yep.
<v Speaker 1>If you want to be interviewed like a man, sit
<v Speaker 1>down like a man. You think fifteen years ago, when
<v Speaker 1>you were in your prime, do you figure you told
<v Speaker 1>at least lack of chantitude.
<v Speaker 2>Sometimes you got it right. I mean that's it doesn't
<v Speaker 2>make any sense.
<v Speaker 1>But he gets to the point, I think if you
<v Speaker 1>figure standing like a lick of chance against someone like
<v Speaker 1>myself in my prime. Now I want you to think.
<v Speaker 1>I know it's hard for you to think. Take your time,
<v Speaker 1>he says to him. I did not make the question
<v Speaker 1>too hard. I realize your eyes are nasty and naughty.
<v Speaker 1>Your nose is smeared a little over your face. Do
<v Speaker 1>you think in your wildest dreams, Bernos Simartino, after fifteen
<v Speaker 1>years you could ever come close? Saymartino says, I faced
<v Speaker 1>the best in the world. If you around fifteen years ago,
<v Speaker 1>I would squash you like a grape. And I'll squash
<v Speaker 1>it like a grape. Now there it is, you stupid
<v Speaker 1>wat man. And he gets shoved over and the chair
<v Speaker 1>rolls over, and Bruno turns to leave and gets clipped
<v Speaker 1>with a chair and Piper rams it into his neck
<v Speaker 1>and starts starts beating the shit out of him. I
<v Speaker 1>think he even says, motherfucker. If you listen really closely,
<v Speaker 1>Oh wow, drinks are flying into the ring. We have heat.
<v Speaker 1>Piper's hitting Berno Sarmartino with a microphone with his shirt
<v Speaker 1>hanging off, and Piper takes off his shirt and the
<v Speaker 1>belt as well.
<v Speaker 2>Yep and uh.
<v Speaker 1>Gorilla and Jesse are on the call, and Jesse says
<v Speaker 1>Piper had about all he could take from the living legend.
<v Speaker 1>It was Bruno that struck Piper first, litigating.
<v Speaker 6>Hey, I saw that, you know what I say, Bruno,
<v Speaker 6>Bruno attack Piper. Why is Piper the bad guy here?
<v Speaker 6>He wasn't the first aggressor here, Gorilla, you know Bruno
<v Speaker 6>drew first blood. I'm sitting here watching it just like
<v Speaker 6>you are, Gorilla. We both know Bruno threw the first punch.
<v Speaker 2>In fact, I'll tell you right now, Gorilla, you weren't
<v Speaker 2>even looking at it. You were looking at your damn
<v Speaker 2>breakfast hot dog there, And I've been paying attention to
<v Speaker 2>the bout hot dog and your goddamn banana. You're not
<v Speaker 2>paying attention doing your job.
<v Speaker 1>And Bruno starts firing back from his knees and Piper
<v Speaker 1>grabs a chair. They fight over the chair. Bruno slugs
<v Speaker 1>him and swings the chair in the corner like crazy,
<v Speaker 1>and Piper ducks out of the way. Bruno basically looks
<v Speaker 1>to take his head off, and Piper takes off up
<v Speaker 1>the aisleway at the garden with Bob Orton and Bruno's
<v Speaker 1>in the ring, wiping his shirt off, ripping it off,
<v Speaker 1>screaming like he wants some revenge here at the ten
<v Speaker 1>twenty two hour according to the clock at the garden.
<v Speaker 1>There we go, and Jean's going to take us now
<v Speaker 1>to Bruno versus Rowdy Rowdy Piper yep.
<v Speaker 2>And here is what Bruno has to say about that.
<v Speaker 4>In this particular case, Gina was easy because I had
<v Speaker 4>tremendous disliking for Pipe. When I had warned my fans
<v Speaker 4>in advance that I was not going to go in
<v Speaker 4>that rank to show a wrestling I went down there
<v Speaker 4>to do a number on Piper. I let the fence
<v Speaker 4>know and I let Piper know. And that's exactly what happened.
<v Speaker 4>When we went and I ran. That was not a
<v Speaker 4>wrestling match. It was a brawl. I wanted to show
<v Speaker 4>Piper that this older man could take care of him
<v Speaker 4>as they had taken care of so many people in
<v Speaker 4>the past.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, and you took care of me indeed.
<v Speaker 1>So that's the plan. And when's this match? Brunover's Piper?
<v Speaker 2>This is uh December seventh, nineteen eighty five.
<v Speaker 1>All right, eighty five Burtole going off high and low
<v Speaker 1>in the bottom of Dad and you can see the
<v Speaker 1>Boston guy. See the yellow floor and the yellow chairs
<v Speaker 1>that's how you know, yellow everywhere For some reason, Boston
<v Speaker 1>cops with their arms folded watching in the aisleway instead
<v Speaker 1>of doing anything to control the people. Piper on the floor,
<v Speaker 1>busted and burn it comes out after him and runs up.
<v Speaker 1>Bruto comes out after him and runs Piper into the post.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, it's some modern brawling here from Bruno. There's
<v Speaker 1>even yellow steps in the garden to get in the ring.
<v Speaker 1>I know, right, did those get involved in bed? As
<v Speaker 1>Bruno throws Piper into a chair and drags his back,
<v Speaker 1>him back into the ring. Gorilla and Jess on the call,
<v Speaker 1>Bruno rams him into the corner, kicks the stomach, and
<v Speaker 1>the mat makes a big swap as Piper hits the deck.
<v Speaker 1>This is a month after the Piper's Pit segment we
<v Speaker 1>just watched. Yeah, as Bruno was hauling off going to
<v Speaker 1>the North End, no doubt after this occasion.
<v Speaker 2>Oh you're damn listen, listen. He he got he went
<v Speaker 2>to Bova's, got a couple of Canoli's.
<v Speaker 1>Keep it open late for Bruno from absolutely.
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely, you know it's he's just walking over, you know,
<v Speaker 2>walking over, going to Cafe Pompeii, gonna get some maybe
<v Speaker 2>get some some pasta with meat sauce.
<v Speaker 1>I think so.
<v Speaker 2>Perhaps, Yeah, I can see him as being a Bolognier's fan.
<v Speaker 2>They got a great Bologniets.
<v Speaker 1>Is that how he says it? Actually? You know what,
<v Speaker 1>I think I can narrow this down. Just hold on
<v Speaker 1>one second, Okay, I finally had occasion to look this up. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>I always remembered that in a book that came out
<v Speaker 1>called Russell Radio USA by Ed Simkis and Vinnie Carroll,
<v Speaker 1>and they were Boston area radio show hosts and they
<v Speaker 1>used to have a wrestling show. Oh I didn't listen
<v Speaker 1>to it. I was too young, But they came out
<v Speaker 1>with a book of transcripts of some of their bigger
<v Speaker 1>wrestling star interviews. They used to interview people all the time.
<v Speaker 1>And this is where I get this whole notion in
<v Speaker 1>my head of Bruno going to the North End in Boston. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>Italian North End after his match is just a quick
<v Speaker 1>snippet here. Mister Tremtino. It's a great, great honor to
<v Speaker 1>have you on. Do you have any specific memories of Boston.
<v Speaker 1>I really did love Boston. I had some great matches there.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know how many times I fought Kowalski in Boston,
<v Speaker 1>but each time for me it was quite a thing
<v Speaker 1>because I had the utmost respect for that man. He
<v Speaker 1>was one of the best conditioned wrestlers that I've ever known.
<v Speaker 1>I think he read from this on the Colosseum tape.
<v Speaker 1>It sounds like, Wow, the guy didn't know what getting
<v Speaker 1>tired meant. So it was a great challenge for me
<v Speaker 1>because I prided myself to be in good shape all
<v Speaker 1>the time. I wrestled Kowalsky in Boston a number of times,
<v Speaker 1>and each time for me, it was a memorable bout.
<v Speaker 1>I don't think I ever had what a fan might
<v Speaker 1>call a boring match. And in Boston, Okay, and in Boston,
<v Speaker 1>the fans were absolutely fantastic. When I'd go in the ring,
<v Speaker 1>the ovations were great. But even afterward, after the matches,
<v Speaker 1>I would go to the North End. I think it
<v Speaker 1>was a place called Cantina Tavianna. That's your assignment. Cantina
<v Speaker 1>tavian t A V I A n A wait ta
<v Speaker 1>v I I N I A n A. Yeah, Tavian
<v Speaker 1>Cafe closed in nineteen seventy one.
<v Speaker 2>Well, it's wait a minute, I mean, this is this Okay.
<v Speaker 2>First of all, I want for the first thing.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>The first thing that comes up obviously the AI overview,
<v Speaker 2>which I never I never ever, He says, Cantina Taviana
<v Speaker 2>is a Mexican restaurant and bar.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't think you went to a Mexican place, No,
<v Speaker 1>not at all. The north here. Come on, the owner
<v Speaker 1>came from Europe too. We'd keep the place open and
<v Speaker 1>it was just great. Keep it open. I love that notion.
<v Speaker 1>So we can Bruno can come in with his blazer on.
<v Speaker 2>It might be so when I do it. The olyphant
<v Speaker 2>that comes up is.
<v Speaker 1>What was it called in Cantina Tavy.
<v Speaker 2>Andantina Taviana Right now? What comes up is UH Cantina Italiana, okay,
<v Speaker 2>which is in UH, which is in the north end there.
<v Speaker 2>But hold on, I want to see if I can
<v Speaker 2>find this here.
<v Speaker 1>He keeps the place open and it was just great.
<v Speaker 1>I came to Boston once a month for many many years.
<v Speaker 1>I had other great bouts there too, Tanaka cage match
<v Speaker 1>with Hanson after he came back to my broken neck,
<v Speaker 1>Russell colof my via one time. One time, Monsoon broke
<v Speaker 1>the ring. They had to hold the whole show up
<v Speaker 1>for a couple hours, so they were able to repir.
<v Speaker 2>I bet it's it. I bet this. I bet Cantina
<v Speaker 2>and Taliana is it because according to their Instagram page,
<v Speaker 2>it's the oldest restaurant on the North End. It's got
<v Speaker 2>to be it. That's got to be it. So I'm
<v Speaker 2>gonna go there just to eat. We're brunoit. Yeah, we
<v Speaker 2>got tremendous look at since nineteen thirty one, nineteen thirty one,
<v Speaker 2>since nineteen thirty one. That's old school, man. I've never
<v Speaker 2>heard of this place on Hanover. Yeah, three forty six
<v Speaker 2>Hanna Retreat. I have never heard of this fucking place.
<v Speaker 2>Why have I never heard of this place? Bruno heard
<v Speaker 2>about it? I know you would get a town car
<v Speaker 2>to take him there. Let's see they have for appetizers,
<v Speaker 2>they have Cantina meatballs. They have Prejutan motts, zuper the cots,
<v Speaker 2>Uh got them? Yes?
<v Speaker 5>And yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Uh they have Oh they have they have AINEI yes,
<v Speaker 2>with the fried rice balls filled with angus beef, bolognes
<v Speaker 2>ragou and asaggio cheese.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, he would definitely order that.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, for God's sakes. Yes, Uh, Mazzarella and carrots breaded
<v Speaker 2>and pan fried. Mozzarella marinera. That's that beautiful clams oregonatte
<v Speaker 2>see they have salad. That's right, I.
<v Speaker 4>Bruno never got trouble record.
<v Speaker 5>There for you.
<v Speaker 2>My friend Anthony.
<v Speaker 1>Who's screaming at.
<v Speaker 9>Kie stine a la pesto Giovese and papla pourio, a
<v Speaker 9>broccoli americano, bombola Bungosta.
<v Speaker 2>Oh you know you're doing me? Oh ship, they got
<v Speaker 2>they get carbonaro. I got a go. We gotta go
<v Speaker 2>to this place. This is fucking money, especially now we're
<v Speaker 2>doing it. Holy shit, I mean this sounds legit, man,
<v Speaker 2>Like where the fuck is this places been? It's been
<v Speaker 2>here all the time in.
<v Speaker 1>The long tenure. Man, that's I gotta the oldest restaurant
<v Speaker 1>in Boston.
<v Speaker 2>Fucking lived there, No, you know what I mean, but
<v Speaker 2>I fucking lived in the North End. First time. I
<v Speaker 2>never heard of this place.
<v Speaker 1>Wow, Cave Italiana so basic. I don't know why you'd
<v Speaker 1>remember it as Cafe Taviana, but maybe it probably might
<v Speaker 1>have been.
<v Speaker 2>It might have been the name of it before before.
<v Speaker 2>Let me see, they got a history page here. I
<v Speaker 2>see it doesn't really give a history at all. Cafe
<v Speaker 2>Taliana's historic location in Boston has been creating authentic Italian
<v Speaker 2>dishes for the North End community, sincenineteen thirty one. Since then,
<v Speaker 2>we are proud to say that our inviting, comfortable atmosphere
<v Speaker 2>has drawn people back for generations. Absolutely, Like, come on,
<v Speaker 2>that's not a history, that's just a fucking thing.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, this is a statement.
<v Speaker 2>I have a video to a video toured a restaurant
<v Speaker 2>meeting in there.
<v Speaker 1>That's what I need.
<v Speaker 2>Oh you know, I kind of recognize that sign though
<v Speaker 2>you recognize that sign, the cantina Italian cantina is vertical,
<v Speaker 2>italianos horizontal underneath. I kind of remember that.
<v Speaker 1>Gotta go, there's gotta be there's definitely a frame picture
<v Speaker 1>of Bruno in there.
<v Speaker 2>Oh I do know this place. It's got the walls
<v Speaker 2>are painted with the uh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 2>The wall There are certain walls when you go into
<v Speaker 2>the restaurant that are that are painted with I feel
<v Speaker 2>like I came here one time, not for ironically dinner,
<v Speaker 2>but I came from like a cappuccino or something like
<v Speaker 2>that with somebody. Yeah yeah, because it's got like paintings,
<v Speaker 2>like the walls, got arches and stuff like that. Like
<v Speaker 2>it's got it's very decorated in charactery and inside the
<v Speaker 2>arches are draw our paintings of Italy. Wow. Yeah all
<v Speaker 2>right and starving Yeah, oh.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that was definitely that's quite a line up there.
<v Speaker 1>I'm glad I finally got that in. I was never
<v Speaker 1>I could never find a time to go pull that
<v Speaker 1>book off. But that's shout out ted Simkis, by the way,
<v Speaker 1>who was helpful to me. We read the Pete Doherty
<v Speaker 1>story I did when we did the Saturday Into main event. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>did the history of Boston Wrestling piece, and he was
<v Speaker 1>quite generous with his insights, and he also gave me
<v Speaker 1>an old old school Boston garden poster.
<v Speaker 2>That we could scan in tremendous So it's nice to
<v Speaker 2>meet him.
<v Speaker 1>So yes, Bruno ramsom into the corner, kicks the stomach,
<v Speaker 1>and the map makes that big swap as Piper hits
<v Speaker 1>the deck, Bruno hauling off going to the north end
<v Speaker 1>Dad has mentioned, but the referee is shoved down in
<v Speaker 1>the process and Piper goes low with the referee being
<v Speaker 1>distracted and then slugs him from his knees, gets a
<v Speaker 1>two count on Bruno in a big slap and rattle
<v Speaker 1>of Plywood on this mat man, Oh, they put that
<v Speaker 1>together with loose materials in Boston. Jesse says, there wasn't
<v Speaker 1>even a bowl. These probably aired on a match probably
<v Speaker 1>aired on Nesson about that, Oh my god. That's kind
<v Speaker 1>of like our version of MSG Network that would play
<v Speaker 1>play the Red Sox instead of the Nicks and Yankees. Well,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know about Yankees anyway. They would show the
<v Speaker 1>matches from the garden, Boston Garden, just like the MSG
<v Speaker 1>Network would show matches from Madison Square. The Marquis was
<v Speaker 1>the only Boston Garden was the WWF logo and Bruno
<v Speaker 1>Samartino was Roddy. Piper is listed up there. Referee tries
<v Speaker 1>to inspect the cut, but Piper brushes him off and
<v Speaker 1>pursues as Bruno was throwing punches off of his knees.
<v Speaker 1>We now have the WWF logo imprinted on the turnbuckle pad.
<v Speaker 1>So that's a yes, that's a big that's a development.
<v Speaker 1>Is that like a first on this Colisseum collection? Probably not?
<v Speaker 2>Probably no, no, probably not. We've seen we've seen it before.
<v Speaker 1>But I'm just so jarring after seeing so many seventies matches.
<v Speaker 2>I know, I think for this one it's really yeah,
<v Speaker 2>he's right hand.
<v Speaker 1>And Bruno spills out of the ring to the yellow
<v Speaker 1>floor on the outside by Piper. Bruno slides in and
<v Speaker 1>throws a kick off of his back to keep Piper
<v Speaker 1>at bay, then kicks and rams Piper into the buckle,
<v Speaker 1>as Gorilla says that San Martino of old is evident here.
<v Speaker 1>As they go up the aisle, Bruno goes after and
<v Speaker 1>throws him back into the ring. Piper slugs him and
<v Speaker 1>they walk all the way and he tries to scram
<v Speaker 1>again out of the ring, and again Bruno catches him
<v Speaker 1>and they try fighting in the aisle almost to the
<v Speaker 1>hockey board where the Bruins hockey ice used to be.
<v Speaker 1>This is the old garden, by the way, for those
<v Speaker 1>that I don't know that it was torn down in
<v Speaker 1>ninety five or ninety six and now it's the TD garden.
<v Speaker 1>Piper is loaded back into the ring and Bruno gets
<v Speaker 1>in as well, and they stand up and looks and
<v Speaker 1>looks at him and holds his arms like he said,
<v Speaker 1>I beat his ass, and they pop for that. Piper, though,
<v Speaker 1>reaches over the middle and Bruno pulls his trunks down
<v Speaker 1>and we get a We basically get a look at
<v Speaker 1>Roddy Piper's ass crack, don't we, boss.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, we do. That's and it won't be the last
<v Speaker 2>time we get his ass crack in Boston. Why what's
<v Speaker 2>the other time get in the next match? Oh right, okay,
<v Speaker 2>we see it in the next match right away. Fucking
<v Speaker 2>Jesus Christ.
<v Speaker 1>Piper comes up slugging now and a double ax floor
<v Speaker 1>is Bruno San Martino huge bald spot on Bruno, by
<v Speaker 1>the way, in clear view.
<v Speaker 2>I know it's I mean, it's like it's like John
<v Speaker 2>Cina bad. As we know.
<v Speaker 1>Piper was calling attention to it, so it's fair game.
<v Speaker 1>And even it wasn't, we'd comment on it. Of course.
<v Speaker 1>Guerrilla on Soon says Berti. Sibertine was running five miles
<v Speaker 1>a day, three times a week. It seems like he
<v Speaker 1>didn't hesitate to remind anyone who asked, and even those
<v Speaker 1>who didn't ask that he's running quite a brit Bruno's
<v Speaker 1>definitely one of those guys man that you don't have
<v Speaker 1>to ask, and he's gonna mention his workouts. Ye, Jesse says.
<v Speaker 1>The longer the match goes, it went in Piper's favor.
<v Speaker 1>He came in thinking that but as the match develops,
<v Speaker 1>Jesse isn't so sure about that. Bruno berries a right
<v Speaker 1>hand to the solar plexus. You called it solar plexus,
<v Speaker 1>questioning if it was in fact a low blow. As
<v Speaker 1>Piper is floored, Bruno picks him up and throws him
<v Speaker 1>into the corner. And then here comes bob ace Orton.
<v Speaker 1>He hits the ring and Bruno blocks the shot with
<v Speaker 1>the cast and stays hitting him as the bell sounds
<v Speaker 1>due to interference. Berno trying to get the cast off
<v Speaker 1>of Bob Orton. That's a good idea. And then he dropped.
<v Speaker 1>I know, like nobody's done that before at all. Just
<v Speaker 1>end it now, get it off him and throw it
<v Speaker 1>in the river. Bruno drops Roy and keeps on wrapping
<v Speaker 1>the cast as the bell tolls, and then Bruno tosses
<v Speaker 1>Orton out of the ring and drops Piper and mounts
<v Speaker 1>him and rams his head into the canvas. Orton and Piper,
<v Speaker 1>let's see. Orton comes then in and drops the cast
<v Speaker 1>arm to the back of the head of Bruno. They
<v Speaker 1>say they thought he had eliminated Orton, but it was
<v Speaker 1>like U, I guess it was like stam Mussine's right
<v Speaker 1>over kaway. It was only simper. So Bruno is held
<v Speaker 1>open and Piper slugs him, drops the referee as well.
<v Speaker 1>Bruno gets tied up in the ropes for a further assault.
<v Speaker 1>The referees assaulted again and Piper spits on him throws
<v Speaker 1>a snot rock at his way. God, it's a vicious
<v Speaker 1>he'll beat down. I don't even know the outcome there.
<v Speaker 1>I guess Bruno won by DQ because.
<v Speaker 2>I guess there was a no contest or something like that.
<v Speaker 1>They don't show us the finish. They just forward to
<v Speaker 1>Ginokel and back in studio. Now this is an interesting situation.
<v Speaker 2>Wait not back in studio, are we ge?
<v Speaker 1>You got yourself in tremendous shape?
<v Speaker 2>Better? Oh yeah, well I don't have Gene, But if
<v Speaker 2>you want to go Gene, I got Bruno. When when
<v Speaker 2>you're ready, Yeah, go ahead? All right.
<v Speaker 4>Well, first of all, I never allowed myself to get
<v Speaker 4>out of shape, Jane. And as far as going from
<v Speaker 4>a single match to a tag match, they're really not
<v Speaker 4>much of an adjustment to make because I had so
<v Speaker 4>much experience in both single antag tream match throughout my career.
<v Speaker 4>This was really a pleasure one because I had orne
<v Speaker 4>or fast, my partner, whom I have great respect for,
<v Speaker 4>a great, great condition athlete, and to go and a
<v Speaker 4>ring against two people that we both disliked tremendously and
<v Speaker 4>Horton and Piper. For me, it was not work that night,
<v Speaker 4>but it was rather a joy to have a partner
<v Speaker 4>like Worndorf and to go in there and do a
<v Speaker 4>number on those two.
<v Speaker 1>Do a number on him, indeed.
<v Speaker 2>Number on those two. This is one again on the
<v Speaker 2>catalog the Colssum Video catalog site. Listen, this match occurred
<v Speaker 2>on which is weird given that the last one happened
<v Speaker 2>on December seventh, ninety five. This one, they said, was
<v Speaker 2>September twenty eighth, ninet eighty five at the Philadelphia Spectrum.
<v Speaker 2>Oh wow, which is Sam Martino and Orndorf versus Piper
<v Speaker 2>and Norton. But it's not this one.
<v Speaker 1>This is very much Boston Garden.
<v Speaker 2>This is bo Yeah, that's right. That's when I saw
<v Speaker 2>again the Boston Guard Like I saw the floor and
<v Speaker 2>I saw the steps. I was like, wait a minute,
<v Speaker 2>that's not the Spectrum, that's the Garden. And this one
<v Speaker 2>took place on January eleventh, ninet eighty six.
<v Speaker 1>Excellent, excellent, specificity. So paul and Droff with the right
<v Speaker 1>hands hands bob working out of the ring and Bruno
<v Speaker 1>holds Piper open for a shot and pobably it looks
<v Speaker 1>like paulooren Dorff has a cast on too, Sure what
<v Speaker 1>happened to him? Jesse to crying using a cast as
<v Speaker 1>a weapon now that Paulo and Dwarff is.
<v Speaker 2>Doduing, Yeah right, yep, fucking great. The double standard is spectacular.
<v Speaker 1>Piper flare flops off of a paulooren Dworff cast shot.
<v Speaker 1>There's a mid ring nogg and knocker, and Jesse says
<v Speaker 1>there's been no ring announcements, nothing, as Paulo and Dwarff
<v Speaker 1>is getting big pops as he lays him in on
<v Speaker 1>Piper in the corner. Now it's cast against cast. Gorilla says,
<v Speaker 1>damn night came out on the top.
<v Speaker 2>Let's see that's that was us in the last couple
<v Speaker 2>of months.
<v Speaker 1>To the apron on paul Oarendorf's side, he gets slammed
<v Speaker 1>into the buckle two and Jesse says, paul ooren Dwarf
<v Speaker 1>was choking Piper out with the tag rope. Bruno by
<v Speaker 1>the to make no mistake is clutching that tag rope.
<v Speaker 1>If there's one man you can count on, yeah, to
<v Speaker 1>believe in the tag rope, it's Bruno San Martino and
<v Speaker 1>he cups his head to tag Bruno and they go nuts.
<v Speaker 1>He gets the tag. Bob Orton gets in and Bruno
<v Speaker 1>kicks and punches the shit out of him. Grila Monsoon says,
<v Speaker 1>Ace is the one who Pearl harbored Sammartino, so he's
<v Speaker 1>getting what he deserves. Gets that in there, headlock, push
<v Speaker 1>off tackle. Orton goes low on the rebound and Bruno
<v Speaker 1>Simartino hits the deck as bob Orton drops a fist
<v Speaker 1>and makes a tag to Piper. Gorilla says, I don't
<v Speaker 1>know if the cast has been allowed for this match.
<v Speaker 2>Well, we're allowed for this match.
<v Speaker 1>Simartino gets free as the referee makes him get out
<v Speaker 1>of the ring, and he slugs Roddy before he does.
<v Speaker 1>Pursued on the floor, but bob Orton cuts him off.
<v Speaker 1>Piper grabs one of those wooden chairs and lightly taps
<v Speaker 1>Bruno across the back with it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I know it's brutal. It's brutal. How bad it is?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, Yeah, it's strange. Credulity paulo or Dorff has the
<v Speaker 1>chair and he's swinging it, loads it into the ring,
<v Speaker 1>and Jesse says, I don't know what to call this
<v Speaker 1>it is? Is it a street fight? As Piper rams
<v Speaker 1>Bruno into those yellow garden steps, Jesse thinks Brunos and
<v Speaker 1>Martina will be happy to go back to being just
<v Speaker 1>an announcer when this one's over. He's, as we heard earlier,
<v Speaker 1>he's probably hoping for it.
<v Speaker 2>He's hoping for it exactly. Piper and Rton praying to God.
<v Speaker 1>Doing kind of the snooka on the knee. Pos I
<v Speaker 1>don't know what that was about. All of a sudden
<v Speaker 1>they're falling to a knee and putting the I love
<v Speaker 1>you hand signal up. Jesse thinks Bruno is should should
<v Speaker 1>have stayed retired as Piper closes in, but Bruno puts
<v Speaker 1>him in the corner and goes to work a bit,
<v Speaker 1>slugs Bob Orton as well to a big pop, but
<v Speaker 1>Piper rakes his eyes whip and uh. Bruno ducks and wham,
<v Speaker 1>grabs a headlock and tags Paul Oorndorf. Worndorff comes in
<v Speaker 1>with his cast off the top rope. Jesse calls him
<v Speaker 1>out for flagrantly hitting his opponent with the cast, and
<v Speaker 1>Grilla Montsu says it's absolutely not in his qualification. So
<v Speaker 1>I guess that's the final word. If Gorilla says so
<v Speaker 1>exactly like you can, it's you're allowed to use the cast.
<v Speaker 1>It's like that gene sterotor they go to in New York.
<v Speaker 1>An NFL ruler right right, Allowendorff lines up a pile
<v Speaker 1>driver on a barry on a bob Orton.
<v Speaker 2>Do that again.
<v Speaker 1>Bruno cuts him off and Pauloworen Dwarf is trying to lift,
<v Speaker 1>but bob Orton comes off the top of the cap
<v Speaker 1>shot cast shot that drops Orndorf. Piper then rolls slowly
<v Speaker 1>over to cover him for two. Jesse wants to know
<v Speaker 1>what it is with the referees being afraid to count three.
<v Speaker 1>That's a funny thing to say when the heels get
<v Speaker 1>a two count. Yeah, what is this with these referees
<v Speaker 1>afraid to count to three? Whose pocket are they in?
<v Speaker 1>Hyper rams, paulow Dwarf.
<v Speaker 2>Did you pay them off?
<v Speaker 1>Monshoot, let's get some answers here a ringside.
<v Speaker 2>These are cowardly referees.
<v Speaker 1>If you ask me, it would be oh so convenient
<v Speaker 1>wouldn't it if these referees ultimately came up on your
<v Speaker 1>side of the ledger when they administered the count.
<v Speaker 2>I bet you very yeah, I bet you exactly what
<v Speaker 2>happens that if Orndorf was was making the cover, he'd
<v Speaker 2>count to three.
<v Speaker 1>Just fine, exactly, amen, you can put that one in
<v Speaker 1>the chamber for the next Saturday Night's made event exactly.
<v Speaker 1>Please do Orndorf into the corner and then he seizes
<v Speaker 1>on him. He almost has like a seizure. There's a
<v Speaker 1>frisbee thrown into the ring. Those must be the ones
<v Speaker 1>Landy Papa would throw to the crowd.
<v Speaker 2>That's a fucking backfire right here.
<v Speaker 1>One lands in the ring. Piper launches it on the
<v Speaker 1>apron at Bruno actually and then slugs him. Berno steps
<v Speaker 1>into the ring, and Jesse calls for illegally trying to
<v Speaker 1>come into the ring. Wants that to be called as
<v Speaker 1>if bob Orton drops Paul Orndorf, not tag made, and
<v Speaker 1>Grilla Onsun says, if you don't see it, ref get
<v Speaker 1>him out of there. Doesn't quite do that. As bob
<v Speaker 1>Orton drives Paul Ordorf into the mat for two, whip
<v Speaker 1>is reversed and bob Orton takes the sergeant slaughter corner bump.
<v Speaker 1>You know what I'm talking about?
<v Speaker 2>He does, Yes, indeed, yells boom yep.
<v Speaker 1>Orndorf nails Roddy Piper with the cast. Piper's now slouched
<v Speaker 1>over the ropes, and then bob Orton slides in front
<v Speaker 1>of poul Oorendorf. He slides like a dropstep in amateur wrestling, Yes,
<v Speaker 1>to nudge him back with his head and prevent the tag. Awesome, awesome,
<v Speaker 1>uh flash of brilliance there from bob Orton. Piper gets
<v Speaker 1>back and slugging paul Oorendorf, peppering him with punches up
<v Speaker 1>in a whip, Orndorf throws off the sunset flip. Piper
<v Speaker 1>stands and hits him, but Paul or Dwarf keeps holding
<v Speaker 1>on and yanks Piper down by the trunk set once again.
<v Speaker 2>More ass in Boston. It's too for Roddy Piper.
<v Speaker 1>Bob Orton breaks it up, Piper's ass hanging out as
<v Speaker 1>he stomp an. Orndorf tag to bob Orton, the best
<v Speaker 1>the best thing is that is that Orton is that
<v Speaker 1>Piper never pulls up his pants. Now he's let it
<v Speaker 1>hang doesn't he he walks around like.
<v Speaker 2>With his ass fucking hanging out halfway. It's really funny.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I didn't know Piper did that kind of physical comedy.
<v Speaker 2>I love when I love they do that, like when
<v Speaker 2>they just don't care. Yeah, you know, and they just
<v Speaker 2>kind of let that shit happen.
<v Speaker 1>Like they're too proud. They're too proud to acknowledge that
<v Speaker 1>the guy did it to the right so attacked bob Orton,
<v Speaker 1>who goes off with the headlog punches and Piper's ascrac
<v Speaker 1>still showing no attempt to fix it. As mentioned, bob
<v Speaker 1>Orton lines up a pile driver. Paul Orndorf counters with
<v Speaker 1>a backdrop he knows something about the pile driver. After all,
<v Speaker 1>bob Orton is going for the pile driver like I wrote,
<v Speaker 1>bob Orton going for the driver like Hogan. At Nassau
<v Speaker 1>Coliseum in nineteen eighty nine, Paul Arndorff pulls himself up
<v Speaker 1>on the ropes and throws a falling clothes line that
<v Speaker 1>drops bob Orton. Squirrel La Monsoon says it looks like
<v Speaker 1>a Texas death match here. Double down for both as
<v Speaker 1>bob Orton tags out, as does Paul Orndorf. So here
<v Speaker 1>comes Bruno to the Big Pop to face off with
<v Speaker 1>rowdy Roddy Piper, slugging it out with him. Now tosses
<v Speaker 1>Piper out of the ring and goes after him. Piper
<v Speaker 1>tries to climb the railing and Bruno rams him into
<v Speaker 1>the apron and there's kind of a miscue and a
<v Speaker 1>push off spot into the post. Anyway, Bruno picks up
<v Speaker 1>a chair and swinging wildly and missus Piper's head just
<v Speaker 1>narrowly and crashes the chair into the ring post, and
<v Speaker 1>the referee calls for the bell upon seeing that Roddy
<v Speaker 1>Piper's hand is raised. Him and Orton win the match
<v Speaker 1>by d Q. Even though Bruno didn't land the chair shot,
<v Speaker 1>they still decue him for swinging it as far as
<v Speaker 1>I can tell, yeh, which is unusual. Piper bales and well.
<v Speaker 2>No, that's not what happened. That's not what happened at all.
<v Speaker 2>What happens is it's a count out.
<v Speaker 1>Oh it's counted out, not Q.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, I thought it was a
<v Speaker 2>Q as well at first, but then but then oh yeah,
<v Speaker 2>there it is. Yeah. Uh, Piper gets back into the ring.
<v Speaker 2>That's what that's what it was. Was the last minute
<v Speaker 2>count out, all right.
<v Speaker 1>So Bruno and uh paul Endorff lose to Piper and
<v Speaker 1>Orton here via count out in Boston, and Paulo and
<v Speaker 1>Drff is consoling Bruno after the match, and they say
<v Speaker 1>that really wasn't a match, It was more pandemonium. Anything
<v Speaker 1>goes when the whistle blows. Gorilla says they show a
<v Speaker 1>replay and Jesse points out that Bruno and Piper were legal.
<v Speaker 1>Blah blah blah. Orton took a huge bump off the
<v Speaker 1>collision with Ordon Orf for what it's worth. Yeah, and
<v Speaker 1>Gene Okerlint is going to bring us home final match
<v Speaker 1>of Bruno San Martino, a living legend, taking it back
<v Speaker 1>to the glory days once again.
<v Speaker 2>And here's here's a Bruno.
<v Speaker 4>There's no question, Jeina. It was a very tough life,
<v Speaker 4>the traveling, being away from the family all the time,
<v Speaker 4>some serious injuries, including a broken neck which almost left
<v Speaker 4>me paralyzed from the neck down. It was just awesome
<v Speaker 4>the obligation, but however, I loved it since I was
<v Speaker 4>a little boy in Europe when I did Greco Roman wrestling,
<v Speaker 4>came over to this country as a youngster, did freestyle wrestling.
<v Speaker 4>Wrestling was always my life and despite all the injuries,
<v Speaker 4>all the agonies that I've gone through this career, Jean,
<v Speaker 4>There's no question about it. If I had started my
<v Speaker 4>life all over again, there's nothing I would do differently.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, what about George the Animal steel and a match
<v Speaker 3>in a steel cage.
<v Speaker 4>George Animal stee a three hundred pounds are very powerful,
<v Speaker 4>very unusual, and I had wrestled him outside of a
<v Speaker 4>cage match, and of course George Steele would handle everything
<v Speaker 4>and whether it be cherished, tables, anything, it wasn't nailed
<v Speaker 4>down to the ground. So I had demanded for a
<v Speaker 4>cage match because I felt that since he was an animal,
<v Speaker 4>that's the only way you were going to meet an
<v Speaker 4>anniboys out of a cage. And it was a brutal
<v Speaker 4>cage match to an extremely rough cage match, but I
<v Speaker 4>felt that it was necessary. It was done. I think
<v Speaker 4>that we showed the fans why Bruno San Martino was
<v Speaker 4>the champion.
<v Speaker 1>Let's find out what do you have for a year?
<v Speaker 2>This was nineteen seventy. This was July twenty fifth, nineteen seventy,
<v Speaker 2>the oldest match on the tape, YEP it is. I
<v Speaker 2>just thought it was the Koloski match. No, this one
<v Speaker 2>goes back to nineteen.
<v Speaker 1>That's the gardening.
<v Speaker 2>Actually I had in Philadelphia. Let me double check that.
<v Speaker 1>You're probably rightmm.
<v Speaker 2>Twenty twenty nineteen. It just says so on the history
<v Speaker 2>of the wrestling site there. It just says at phil
<v Speaker 2>Ladelphia PA Arena doesn't say what it is. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>I imagine it's gonna be the Spectrum.
<v Speaker 1>Right, I would think so.
<v Speaker 2>So, yeah, what's the date again? July twenty fifth, nineteen seventy.
<v Speaker 1>July tenth, seventy in the Garden San Maartinover's Crusher Verdue
<v Speaker 1>August first, Sanmartino and Victor Rivera Versus Beppo and Guido Mongol,
<v Speaker 1>the future Nikolai Volkoff. He were back in nineteen seventy.
<v Speaker 2>Wow.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, seventeen thousand fans, twenty twenty thousand fans. This is
<v Speaker 1>his Crusher Verdue days. Crusher Verdue was the first wrestler
<v Speaker 1>that Albano managed, I say, and that's what earned him
<v Speaker 1>his reputation because Crusher Verdue wasn't particularly charismatic, But it
<v Speaker 1>was Albano's promos that sold the Garden out to wrestle Bruno.
<v Speaker 1>So he was well on his way, and Bruno and
<v Speaker 1>Steele have an interesting bond. It's kind of a lot
<v Speaker 1>to get into now, but there was a story where
<v Speaker 1>when Steele was first breaking in, he worked for Pittsburgh,
<v Speaker 1>which is a territory that Bruno went a piece of,
<v Speaker 1>and for some reason it pissed he pissed Bruno off.
<v Speaker 1>Bruno was going around, according to Steele in his book,
<v Speaker 1>telling people that he was working too stiff and he
<v Speaker 1>didn't sell enough, and he was just basically putting him down.
<v Speaker 1>And four months or so later, he writes, I got
<v Speaker 1>a call from Bruno at school. Of course, George Steele
<v Speaker 1>a history teacher, a school teacher, So that's too funny,
<v Speaker 1>mister Steele, can you come to the phone. He began
<v Speaker 1>telling me, in so many words, what a jerk IY
<v Speaker 1>was Bruno calls him at school. As you can probably imagine,
<v Speaker 1>it did not evolve into an intellectual discourse. Soon he
<v Speaker 1>and I were hollering at each other, and not all
<v Speaker 1>of our words had more than one syllable. Finally he
<v Speaker 1>told me to shut up and listen for a minute.
<v Speaker 1>He said that Vince McMahon was looking for a new
<v Speaker 1>heel who had never been to the WWWF. Bruno went
<v Speaker 1>on to say that he had told mister McMahon that
<v Speaker 1>we could draw a lot of money in the Northeast.
<v Speaker 1>He also told mister McMahon that I was a backstabber.
<v Speaker 1>He said, I had thanked him to his face, but
<v Speaker 1>as soon as I got back to Detroit, I started
<v Speaker 1>shooting my big mouth off and knocking the way I
<v Speaker 1>got paid. I then told Bruno what I had heard
<v Speaker 1>about him knocking me. It turns out that we both
<v Speaker 1>had been fed a line of bull. Misinformation breaks a
<v Speaker 1>lot of hearts in wrestling, and it nearly broke Bruno
<v Speaker 1>and me apart, and reality it created a bond that
<v Speaker 1>lasted for years. The stage was for me to meet
<v Speaker 1>mister McMahon in nineteen It was nineteen sixty eight Steel
<v Speaker 1>recalls and Bruno Sammartino had just offered me the opportunity
<v Speaker 1>of a lifetime and thus the program begins that we
<v Speaker 1>see reflected here Bruno versus Steel. This is a white
<v Speaker 1>mat with red ropes. Ever last urn buckles. So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>this is probably Philly because this looks exactly like the
<v Speaker 1>Ring or Baltimore. This looks exactly like the ring where
<v Speaker 1>Graham beats Sanmartino.
<v Speaker 2>For the belt. Oh okay, yeah, but I also remember when.
<v Speaker 1>We were doing connecting the Spots and we were doing
<v Speaker 1>those early seventies, Remember that, like Carl gotch WWF title
<v Speaker 1>tight title match in a ring like this, and they
<v Speaker 1>have the chicken wire fence for a steel cage. It's
<v Speaker 1>not right thick bars, it's not chain link. It's like,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, just incredibly thin steel wire. You know
<v Speaker 1>that you could like literally bend with two fingers. But
<v Speaker 1>that's the cages they used in nineteen seventy, I guess.
<v Speaker 1>And George Steel is on Berno Saimartino, raking at his face.
<v Speaker 1>But Samatino gets up and starts throwing punches, but Steel
<v Speaker 1>is stalking and Berna Simmartine was blinded swinging at ghosts.
<v Speaker 1>Here as Brno goes to the corner of George Steeling
<v Speaker 1>kicking away, you know what's building this Steel gets heat.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yes, I got a great comment here by Gorilla
<v Speaker 2>coming basically criticizing Steel not walking me out the door
<v Speaker 2>when you have the opportunity.
<v Speaker 6>Steele could have went out the door a number of
<v Speaker 6>times in my opinion, at this point chose not to.
<v Speaker 4>Of course, everyone knows he doesn't have both oars.
<v Speaker 3>In the water.
<v Speaker 1>Wonderful line. I love that line, both oars in the water.
<v Speaker 1>And this is clearly a gorilla laying down a commentary track.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, post. It's kind of a shame because I
<v Speaker 2>wanted to hear more of the you know, I want
<v Speaker 2>to hear more of the live sound than I wanted
<v Speaker 2>to hear Gorilla.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, that's the matter.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Gorilla's completely drowns out.
<v Speaker 1>The sound is monotone.
<v Speaker 2>Yep.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we don't have the benefit of an announcer is
<v Speaker 1>in the building riding the emotional wave like Vince was.
<v Speaker 2>So it probably wasn't I mean, it almost also looked
<v Speaker 2>like it might have been on film too. I can't.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think so, tell but I mean, eighteen seventy
<v Speaker 1>that's old in terms of wrestling stock footage. So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>he's calling out Gorilla is blood into the eyes of
<v Speaker 1>Bruno and knowing what that feels like, and he can't
<v Speaker 1>see and therefore he's very much at the mercies of
<v Speaker 1>his opponent. As he points out, there's no referee in
<v Speaker 1>the ring, and one will have to open the door
<v Speaker 1>on demand, and that was clearly added after the first changing.
<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry you can hear change in sound. I don't
<v Speaker 1>know what I was trying to say there. So then
<v Speaker 1>we have George Steele stomping Bruno on the mat as
<v Speaker 1>Monsoon says, everyone knows that George Steele doesn't have both
<v Speaker 1>ars in the water. And then Sammartino is starting to
<v Speaker 1>build back up to his feet, staggering out of the
<v Speaker 1>corner and uh, George Steele keeps straying and striking his
<v Speaker 1>head as if but it's just not working. It's not
<v Speaker 1>working because Simartino is coming back. And here he is.
<v Speaker 1>Simartino making his way crouched over, closing in on the animal.
<v Speaker 1>He yanks Steel off the ropes and goes off with
<v Speaker 1>a series of punches.
<v Speaker 7>Uh.
<v Speaker 1>He even had a bald spot. Then sot a huge
<v Speaker 1>mark against him. Yeah, the kicks going off for Simmartino
<v Speaker 1>in the corner on Steel corner to corner, weapon face
<v Speaker 1>first into the cage wall, goes George Steele.
<v Speaker 4>Uh.
<v Speaker 1>He turns around and tries to climb out of the
<v Speaker 1>cage and get the fuck away from this rampaging Italian madman,
<v Speaker 1>but yanks him down. It is Yeah, he's starting to
<v Speaker 1>get the fuck out of there, and that's a it's
<v Speaker 1>a rather flee to foot George Steele, not the lumbering,
<v Speaker 1>damaged wrestler. We would know later. Yeah, So Seventino yanks
<v Speaker 1>him down by the pants and gets in there and
<v Speaker 1>should have tried to Okay, they talk about how he
<v Speaker 1>shouldn't have caused burnoum all this trouble, and George Steele
<v Speaker 1>is rammed into the steel rod, not just the fencing,
<v Speaker 1>but one of the poles.
<v Speaker 2>Right, yes, right in the corner there, yep.
<v Speaker 1>And again the post in the cage. Uh Bruno Simartino
<v Speaker 1>signals for the door. He's ready, and you better believe
<v Speaker 1>he is. He fucking He basically just takes George Steele
<v Speaker 1>and just beats the shit out of him, rams his
<v Speaker 1>face into the cage twice, says open the door, walks out.
<v Speaker 2>That's the best thing. It's like basically, you you fight
<v Speaker 2>in there until you think the other guy's had enough
<v Speaker 2>and you'll leave.
<v Speaker 1>You're even with style and you're head held high.
<v Speaker 2>There's no real like I gotta get out of a cage.
<v Speaker 1>Oh diving despiration.
<v Speaker 7>No.
<v Speaker 1>No, he did the same thing in the cage match
<v Speaker 1>against Zibisco that we watched and Hanson too. Hansen, Yep,
<v Speaker 1>it's it's so money. Fourteen minutes, thirty four seconds, with
<v Speaker 1>flash bulbs going off, Bruno Simbertino dispatches the threat of
<v Speaker 1>George the animal Steel all the way back in nineteen
<v Speaker 1>seventy in a cage that looks nothing like what we
<v Speaker 1>know today. Still an eavyweight champion of the world, and
<v Speaker 1>that's our closing. We go right to the dun dundunduns
<v Speaker 1>unsun suntans and.
<v Speaker 2>Such a weird closing montage it still is weird.
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<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty six. And we are rolling along here, folks
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