Bruno Sammartino vs Ken Patera

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1. So true!
2. Bruno my first hero, recall watching him as a kid on WNEW
   channel 5
3. Oh the ironies of Kayfabe!
4. the reason hansen broke bruno's neck was,he fuck*d up a body
   slam and dropped bruno on his neck because he was out of
   shape and tired after 12 minutes into the match!
5. GET UP BOY!!
6. Bruno was champ for several years back when there was not a
   dozen different division. wwf, nwa, awa etc.
7. Anyone that says Bruno Sammartino is a bigger fool than
   Samaroido himself... 'Trian and believe in yourself... BULL!
8. this match sucked lol lots of botches though still better
   than a cena match...
9. augh yeah.. man that thickness of patera down and begging
   off.. augh....augh.... augh... man i am rock hard and workn
   it.. thanks for the post rasslequeer ron
10. Bruno did not need the steroids it was hard training and
    believing yourself.
11. Go to Bruno's website...you will be amazed at how he looks
    today at 75 years old. He lives about 12 miles away from me
    just north of Pittsburgh Pa.
12. SSBG talks about that in his book and how Bruno was livid
    that they were taking the belt off of superstar and giving
    it to Backlund, In real life Bruno and SSBG were good
    friends. Billy said if they had told him that he was to drop
    the title to Bruno and not Backlund, he would have said
    "name the time and place, and I would be honored" Bruno
    wanted to be at home more as he had had enough with the
    traveling 300+ days a year that was required by the belt
    holder then
13. Actually, he broke Billy White Wolf's neck (Chief J
    Strongbow's partner. In reality it was a work and I read
    that Billy became Patera's manager in AWA known as General
    Skandor Akbar...or was it Shiek Hadnon Al Kasi???? I get
    those guys confused
14. Actually, he broke Billy White Wolf's neck (Chief J
    Strongbow's partner. In reality it was a work and I read
    that Billy became Patera's manager in AWA known as General
    Skandor Akbar...or was it Shiek Hadnon Al Kasi???? I get
    those guys confused!
15. the promoters back then put on some good wrestling shows no
    doubt,but they had no vision whatsoever.i always thought
    graham should have kept the title longer than he did. but
    listening to you now i wonder what would have happened if
    they not only let him keep the belt,but turned him heel at
    the right momment.he would have definitely precursored
    hogan. he would have done 4 the 70's what hogan did 4 the
    rock n wrestling era. big things big things.
16. could you imagine if vince senior had the vision to turn
    graham face in the middle of his wwf title reign? could you
    imagine graham v. hogan in 80 when hogan made his wwf debut?
    could you imagine graham v patera? well..all we can do is
    imagine.
17. that is what the fans wanted,vince senior knew this and was
    smart enough to utilize brunos beat up the bully persona
    that the fans wanted to see bruno do.
18. lou thesz WAS agreat technical wrestler,but this is
    wrestling for big money,lou was boring,a very nice man,but
    very vanilla,bruno had charisma,super strenght,and could
    wrestle,for a 285 pound strongman,bruno had several 60
    minute and 90 minute bouts,very quick for his size,and if
    you want to see realNATURAL steroid free strenght,watch
    bruno body slam gorilla monsoon who was 400 pounds,with such
    ease,it looked like gorilla was 150 pounds.
19. Did he really? I'll check it out. Thanks. Still I think
    steroids in their day was not nearly as potent or widespread
    as it is today.
20. Patera used to juice up, see his shoot.
21. Unlike most of Youtube viewers, I remember seeing these
    "classic wrestling clips" live, back in the day. it was all
    about showmanship then as it is today - however, there is a
    great degree of athletic ability and agility involved in
    these matches.
22. man,I remember watching all these old wrestling clips..This
    is when I watched wrestling
23. Look at the hair on Patera! Still at least these guys were
    real, not like today's steroid freaks.
24. Read Graham's book. He and Bruno were great friends, and
    bruno suggested Graham get the title from him to Vince
    senior, as Bruno was tired of being on the road as champion
    for 300 days a year. When they decided to take the title off
    of SSBG and give it to Backlund, Bruno argued that it was a
    trmendous mistake, as SSBG was becoming one of the first
    "stone cold steve austin" types...the heel that the crowd
    loves. Bruno was overruled, but he was thinking about 20
    years ahead of his time!
25. Billy Graham got just as big as Bruno only reason Graham
    didn't outdo Bruno is cause they gave it to that chump Bob
    Backlund cause the narrown minded Vince Senior didn't see
    Graham as anything but a heel