‘Bruno Sammartino’s Bad Call on WWE Hall of Fame’ … today at SLAM! Wrestling

Since theBruno Sammartinomarks will automatically swallow just about anything he says, while the truly close friends seem afraid to speak the truth to him, it falls to the basic tough-love admirers to speak plainly to Sammartino about the damage he has done to his legacy by accepting induction into the WWE Hall of Fame.

OK, I’ll take that one.

First, let me qualify the above claim. I had breakfast with Bruno once in New York back in the 1980s, and we spoke several times on the phone over the next decade. In 1992, the day after Sammartino debatedVincent K. McMahonabout the then-WWF drug and ring-boy pedophile scandals onLarry King Liveon CNN, I called Bruno to tell him it was his finest hour. In critical statements to the media, he has cited elements of the reporting in my booksWrestling BabylonandChris & Nancy.

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