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Been here 50 years, never heard a single bad thing.....a legend.Dad used to be a running partner with Bruno. He was a really good guy.
Dad used to be a running partner with Bruno. He was a really good guy.
I vaguely remember when my parents took us to visit our South Philly Italian relatives some of whom spoke good English and others were working on it.My mothers favorite, she started to learn the English langue when she came to the USA through wrestling {I laugh about it every time I hear the living legends name mentioned}
Bruno was a true legend. He told the story of growing up in the Abbruzzi region of Italy( where all my grandparents were from) during WWII. He said the Nazis controlled all the villages while his family hid in the mountains. They would send 8 year old Bruno into town at 3am to get food to bring back to the family. RIP paizano. My all time wrestling hero.
Two things the grandpaps back in the day were on that tube for....I vaguely remember when my parents took us to visit our South Philly Italian relatives some of whom spoke good English and others were working on it.
They did the same with the Gillette Friday Night Fights boxing in the 50's & 60's.
They would all end up at the corner tavern in the Italian section of South Philly and eat steamed mussells, drink beer. They'd all yell and scream for their favorite boxer half in English and half in Italian but they learned some English doing this.
After the boxing they'd go home to their double side by sides and sweep the stoop, steps, sidewalk and the road in front of their house.
How things have changed in that neighborhood!
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go PITT & CSU Rams!
My Dad loved Studio Wrestling! He was born in 1920. He quit on wrestling in the '80s, when the WrestleMania Era started and it became too obviously fake. I think he liked it when it seemed real, or at least when they presented it as real and the characters weren't stupidly over the top. He liked the ones that seemed like real people, like Bruno or DiNucci.Two things the grandpaps back in the day were on that tube for....
Friday night boxing and Studio Wrestling
Don’t even bother them.
My Dad might. I don't.did you know Vic Santucci ? he was Bruno's guardian ...
My Dad might. I don't.
to properly use a term used to sickening ways by our friends in the central part of the state and apply it to McMahon's WWE and Bruno... "We are, because he was"....I'm of the age (40-something) where my memory of Bruno was as the third mic on the weekly Wrestling Superstars program with Vince McMahon and Jesse the Body Ventura.
My Dad loved Studio Wrestling! He was born in 1920. He quit on wrestling in the '80s, when the WrestleMania Era started and it became too obviously fake. I think he liked it when it seemed real, or at least when they presented it as real and the characters weren't stupidly over the top. He liked the ones that seemed like real people, like Bruno or DiNucci.
to properly use a term used to sickening ways by our friends in the central part of the state and apply it to McMahon's WWE and Bruno... "We are, because he was"....
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No longer the living legend, but still a legend. My first memories of "studio" wrestling were as a 5 or 6 year old watching with my uncles. Bruno near the end of his career, Ivan Putski, DeNucci and Dino Bravo, Superstar Billy Graham, Larry Zbysko, George the animal, Gorilla Monsoon...
RIP paisano
Sexist.Dubbed "The Living Legend",[5] Sammartino is widely regarded as having been one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time.[6]
How about replacing the statue on the PITT campus that was removed with a Bruno statue including the cigar!!
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go PITT & CSU Rams!
You must be young! I watched Bruno live in Pittsburgh in the 60's. Bruno could not have beaten an average college Hwt wrestler. He knew NO wrestling moves whatsoever. There were no real wrestling at all during Bruno's time. Vern Ganye(sp?) was the last pro wrestler who actually did some real wrestling moves as well as being one of the all time great real wrestlers.Since we had a mutual acquaintance, I was able to have him come and speak to a group of boys some friends and I were mentoring. One of the most powerful experiences of my life. He was unreal. None of us even knew who he was. Within an hour, every dude of every age, class, race and nationality in that room agreed that he was the greatest man that any of us would ever meet.
Bruno Sammartino, Dan Marino and Andy Warhol...Easiest freaking "which one of these things is not like the other" in the history of Sesame Street.
Professor Tanaka.No longer the living legend, but still a legend. My first memories of "studio" wrestling were as a 5 or 6 year old watching with my uncles. Bruno near the end of his career, Ivan Putski, DeNucci and Dino Bravo, Superstar Billy Graham, Larry Zbysko, George the animal, Gorilla Monsoon...
RIP paisano
Lemieux left handed?
My Dad loved Studio Wrestling! He was born in 1920. He quit on wrestling in the '80s, when the WrestleMania Era started and it became too obviously fake. I think he liked it when it seemed real, or at least when they presented it as real and the characters weren't stupidly over the top. He liked the ones that seemed like real people, like Bruno or DiNucci.
No longer the living legend, but still a legend. My first memories of "studio" wrestling were as a 5 or 6 year old watching with my uncles. Bruno near the end of his career, Ivan Putski, DeNucci and Dino Bravo, Superstar Billy Graham, Larry Zbysko, George the animal, Gorilla Monsoon...
RIP paisano