Bruno Sammartino vs Ken Patera

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1. 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!
2. GET UP BOY!!
3. Bruno was champ for several years back when there was not a dozen different division. wwf, nwa, awa etc.
4. Anyone that says Bruno Sammartino is a bigger fool than Samaroido himself... 'Trian and believe in yourself... BULL!
5. this match sucked lol lots of botches though still better than a cena match...
6. 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
7. Bruno did not need the steroids it was hard training and believing yourself.
8. 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.
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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!
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. Patera used to juice up, see his shoot.
18. 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.
19. man,I remember watching all these old wrestling clips..This is when I watched wrestling
20. Look at the hair on Patera! Still at least these guys were real, not like today's steroid freaks.
21. 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!
22. 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
23. if bruno[in his prime] ever had a real fight with john cena,i hope that cenas family had taken out a life insurance policy,because bruno would have destroyed him!
24. you're looking at bruno wrestling after he broke his neck and suffered from a horrible back condition. watch bruno during his first run to see him do the technical stuff. he was very good at it.
25. KEN PATERA was a beast, didnt he break someones back?