Bruno Sammartino Meets Larry Zbyszko

Bruno Sammartino and Larry Zbyszko appeared for an autograph session on Feb. 12, 2011 at The Mall at Robinson in Pittsburgh. First public appearance together in approx. 30 years in Western Penna.

[@SmilingSynic]

Without Bruno selling out everywhere as champion throughout the 60's and 70's, there might not be a WWE today.

[@ernestpassaro9663]

I know still strong !

[@ernestpassaro9663]

Definitely not he built it !

[@brodocbetty4856]

Yes Bruno was the foundation for WWE.

[@stevendajuan4915]

I will say this Bruno is in better shape than most retired wrestlers

[@grumpyyank]

Bruno Sammartino was recognized all over the world. Other than Andre The Giant there was nobody as well known as Bruno back in the day.

[@thebsexpress6112]

Bruno kayfabing it all the way...There was always a tremendous amount of mutual love and respect...Larry's Hall of Fame induction speech will always be my favorite...

[@NiqueFajors]

All the way...

[@needsaride15126]

I was laughing to myself about that too. Bruno keeping Kayfabe. It was four miles from my house and I didn't know it was happening. I would have loved to have seen them.

[@michaelrubin9547]

It was real

[@watsonvillian]

For a 77 year old man...Bruno still looks beastly.

[@bravobravoh1344]

He was still looking young there.

[@wingnut049]

I remember that match on tv when Larry turned on Bruno. Can't remember breakfast this morning but I do remember that.

[@rsb512]

Larry turning on Bruno was one of the great heel turns of all time.

[@MiloDuplex]

Larry and Bruno, Living Legends !!

[@Rahab111222]

Bruno is the real Italian Stallion

[@4EyedAnimation]

Love that Bruno keeps the work going!

[@michaelrubin9547]

Wasn't work

[@conan250]

hate to tell all you marks this but Bruno and larry were ALWAYS very close!!!!

[@SylentEcho]

Yup. I think the whole enmity thing was a work.

[@xREAVERx]

actually bruno did have problems with larry dave meltzer has mentioned this on his radio show

[@SylentEcho]

xREAVERx Maybe for a little bit, but I still don't believe it. I think it was all a big work lol.

[@johnathanwesleycritch5412]

xREAVERx Yeah, Meltzer also sad that CM Punk was going to appear on RAW on Monday just about every Monday before RAW aired.

[@MrAitraining]

Bruno was still kayfabing here. He couldn't go the shoot way of the other guys on youtube until recently. Even he couldn't keep it up in recent yrs lol

[@davidwilson9795]

Sammartino's in better shape than all the current wwe is.

[@howardweinstein1324]

Wow I cant believe what cauliflower ears Bruno developed from his years of wrestling.

[@UglyMannheim]

I love both of these guys. Great video. Thanks for posting it.

[@ChavaAyanna]

Thank you so much for posting this video. It's appreciated. I love Larry very much

[@chrislester4878]

Bruno was a legendary man and I felt down for days after he died, and I never meet him

[@Coodeville]

Bruno was the building block for the McMahon family

[@tonyjones1560]

Bruno just might have been the first, if not the only, pro wrestler who got regular coverage from Sports Illustrated. He was THAT popular...

[@danielcorreard3746]

you would never guess larry zbyszko was a heel he just seems like such a nice guy

[@TonyPremier732]

It's impossible to not like this guy. Respect.

[@WrestlingHeretic]

It's cute how Bruno still tries to protect the business by explaining away the joint appearance: "time heals all wounds... it was a long time ago, etc." As opposed to just admitting that they never actually hated each other in the first place.

[@michaelrubin9547]

Actually they did hate each other

[@WildBillCox13]

I love hearing Bruno talk about my favorite heel worker.

[@Elvis68spec]

Great to see those two guys together!

[@franktaliercio9478]

bruno. s. is. my. all. time. favorite. and. i. think. he. is. best. all. time. i. saw. him. as. a kid. wrestle. many. times at island. garden. arena. in west. hempstead. in. 1960s

[@quentin3330]

Frank Taliercio may he RIP.

[@MiloDuplex]

2 legends!

[@CarlosSanchez-bg4wf]

Wow nice rip bruno looking great Mr Larry bless your heart n keep it moving bruh been following you since 70's

[@patrickscranton3296]

These guys were such a big part of a lot of kids growing up. They were badasses of the day. Thank you for the Memeories

[@tonycapt1]

He is 77 years old and ripped.

[@quentin3330]

tonycapt1 RIP Bruno. Sad he passed today at 82.

[@swmita]

Bruno never breaks away from his role. RIP Bruno. I like Larry's comments "I'm a golfer now" he adds to conclude the 30 years gone by so fast, at least I look the same. Witty and personable. 👍kudo s to the both of them

[@leroywinnie8300]

I watched wrestling at midnight on Saturday and had to wait for the trotters were over,sometimes it was held over for several minutes , but we waited patiently just to watch wwf.

[@johnstrika9170]

Lol channel 9 in NYC 👍

[@walruswasrob]

I love it! Bruno refusing to break kayfabe!

[@jgfear]

I waiting for Larry to cut a promo on Bruno and the two of them start brawling in the fountain

[@PeppercornBingBong78]

I'll get a picture taken with both of them in Toronto. Bruno will have his old WWWF World title belt for that picture. Yeah, i'll try not to mark out too hard...

[@allenbennett2559]

good interview. just found this video.

[@NoTeaBaggers]

Could have done a separate interview with Bruno's ears.

[@Junkay2]

That was one hot feud! And it was amazing how Larry Zbyszko made a whole career out of that feud!

[@mulehead126]

With what passes for wrestling today, guys going from heels to babyfaces and vice versa is no big deal. But when Zbyszko turned on his mentor Bruno way back in the day, that was HUGE, and started a feud that never really ended.

[@aitraining]

and his feud made Larry - yet Larry plays up the living legend thing. Bruno being classy rarely brings it up but he made Larry's career.

[@ianmyers6643]

2 Legends. RIP Bruno.

[@garypmarquis]

Great to see.

[@17donhol]

RIP Bruno.

[@johnf2288]

Great man

[@MrKARLHUNGUS1962]

Come on, any of us who watched the match back then knew it was set up, it was plain to see. Bruno is in kayfabe talking about how it got out of hand. The chairshot was weak, and you could see Bruno blading and putting the cutter in his tights. As he said, it led to selling out arenas(lots a money to be made) , totally planned by the promoter, McMahon ,Skaaland and Morella(monsoon). Back then , TV broadcasts weren't the money maker, it was the arena shows that filled the pockets. These guys are all actors, some better than others.

[@elc1960]

It's almost hard to believe that Larry is that much younger than Bruno by looking at this video. Larry golfs and wrestles on the indie circuit, and Bruno had surgery a while back, yet look who appears in better shape! I know the video is nearly 2 years old, but they don't look any different now than in this clip.

[@qaenos]

Bruno looks fantastic.

[@TheNotthead]

I remember this feud. I thought it was real at the time. :) Still love the old Wrestling. Bad acting and all. Bruno seemed like he could take care of himself. I wonder if he ever worked with someone who wouldn't sell his moves or vice versa. Did he ever work with RIc Flair?

[@TuMalditaMadre]

Surprised Larry wasn't wearing his WCW Monday Nitro button up shirt he wore for every broadcast.

[@rowds]

RIP Bruno San Martino

[@johnstrika9170]

Seriously? You couldn't even spell his name right? That's sad

[@busheytube]

Bruno didn't even make eye contact with Larry for those first few minutes there. He spoke to Larry, but Bruno didn't seem like he was ready to meet Larry's eyes yet. Damn.

[@maraviyoso8473]

That's old school 'til death.

[@jjbeda]

Bruno still keeping Kayfabe alive.

[@Coodeville]

Im sure they saw each other before this

[@michaelhock9089]

2 greats

[@WrestlingHeretic]

It's really cute that you still want to believe.

[@buckbumble]

Man, look how caulifloured his ears are!

[@samsdad110]

Can’t believe Bruno in this interview is keeping still keeping kayfabe and thinks we don’t know that it was all work.

[@dennismedina1629]

Man Larry was hated for years for his turn I can't imagine a wrestler in today's wrestling have that kind of heat

[@MrAitraining]

They really knew how to do turn and feud angles back then. Patience and storytelling. Lost art today.

[@SolidMike84]

@keithjfro No breakage of kayfabe to the death ^^ Not a 100% real, but not a 100% fake either, do you do this as well in theaters I presume?

[@davidgolinsky]

Bruno is Kayfabe to the end.

[@seanbonella]

Two gents

[@spectrumlocalb191]

OF COURSE LARRY AND BRUNO HAD MET MANY TIMES BEFORE BUT PRIVATELY

[@magicbus63]

What year and day was the Shea Stadium match!

[@DomenicDee]

I was at the Shea Stadium match and dont remember the exact date but it was a Saturday night, definitely Summertime and the year was 1980(I'm thinking August).

[@GreensRams]

Aug 9, 1980

[@NCWPromoter]

@wheatbull No It Is One Of His Twin Sons Danny Or Daryl The Younger Brothers Of David

[@jmbooze9346]

Bruno Kayfabe to the end

[@countbloodula]

2 Professionals

[@GlorifiedTruth]

@RPenta - True that! :- )

[@matthewhanhauser]

this is awesome. i'm a big fan of hells kitchen and kitchen nightmares, too. i wish i could have gone

[@elma2824]

how much of that feud was staged. This was the only feud I think had some substance.

[@capacola262743]

idiot.

[@switchbuckle5th]

It doesn't really sound that way based on what Zbyszko says in his recent kayfabe commentaries shoot.

[@zackvanhalen]

Bruno looks like Uncle Leo from Seinfeld.

[@Manifest-Guru]

@WrestlingHeretic .....KUDOS TO YOU. MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY.

[@Blackhawk6699]

hard to look @ Brunos ears

[@Majahpaine]

omg look at his ears

[@Alleygreen2012]

@walruswasrob There's something really kind of cool about that. I mean, we've come so far and everything has been so exposed...it's nice to see a guy who says screw all that and keeps to the kayfabe for old time's sake.

[@robertosso5210]

larry left and never came back to the wwf after this feud was over

[@elc1960]

That dude oldschool6804 is one real old time true believer. I've seen his comments on other posted videos here, and he does the same crap; the dude truly believes that wrestling is 100% real. You handled him nicely.

[@HIVisaLIE]

larry was born in 1951

[@infernityzero2011]

i really hope your being sarcastic bruno held the world title from 63 to 71

[@colinkilian7885]

Still doing Kayfabe all these years later.

[@RPenta]

@zackvanhalen get your glasses changed.

[@martymarrero1123]

i remember this one and Bruno cutting himself didnt sell with me but it made alot of money, wrestling was fake back then but more so now because of the exposure to it plus it doesnt help that you can hear them calling out their next moves to each other.

[@mattind69v3]

It's marble

[@alt7244]

Their fued was the last great story of the wwwf

[@ClaudeBenjamin1]

Is that glass broken behind Bruno? What a crappy mall this must be!

[@Cojan1]

I met Larry Zbysko a few weeks ago at a wrestling meet and greet and asked him if Bruno was upset that Larry stole his "living legend" nickname. He was and in my opinion, rightly so. Larry hasn't accomplished a tenth of what Bruno has!

[@DixiePokerAce]

Bruno was the top man in the WWWF and then the WWF for a very long time. Larry became an excellent heel. He was a top contender in almost every territory he wrestled. As great as Bruno was it always takes a compelling villain to make an outstanding hero. The feud between these two was extremely hot. It sold out in every arena it went. Obviously, Bruno was the bigger star but Larry Zybszko had a lot to do with the Bruno legend.

[@RPenta]

@GlorifiedTruth Could have been worse; you could have been next to Lawler, asked him the same question and he would have said, "Bra and Panties, Bra and Panties!" By the way, that answers part of Bruno's issues as well.

[@nassermj7671]

All that hand shaking. Nice - BUT - hello corona.

[@HIVisaLIE]

sammartino was born in 1935 - he is gettin old

[@alrussell1985]

Hulk Hogan sold out Shea Stadium... Brother. Then he lifted the 750 pound Andre the Giant over his head in front over 100,000 ppl ion the Silverdome. Andre died soon after

[@brainimp]

They really did fall out during the run of sell out shows Bruno Mentions, It happened a lot in wrestling back then especially when they start believing they are the character or start getting jealous, It happened to Bret Hart and HBK too they was best of friends but one-upmanship ruined their relationship.

[@Ghouse666]

trolololololol good one troll!!!!! LMAO!!!!!! lolololololol

[@jewggerz]

Jesus Christ. If I look like Bruno when I'm his age, I'll thank god above, and I don't even believe in him.

[@KeithFroehlich07]

Bruno kayfabe to the day he died. 😀

[@vondurcult]

@walruswasrob The way it should be. haha

[@fjccommish]

Andre weighed a ton, brother. Only the Hulkster could lift Andre at that time. BTW, there were 100 million people at the Silverdome that night, Brother.

[@johnstrika9170]

Wtf are you talking about. Andre was slammed by ALOT of guys

[@fjccommish]

@@johnstrika9170 Nope. Only someone like Hogan, with the largest arms in the world, brother, could slam that stinky giant.

[@GlorifiedTruth]

I sat next to Bruno in geometry class. One day I said, "Hey Bruno, what's the volume of a cone?" He answered, "Damn it, man, don't get me started about Vince again. That product he's putting out is garbage, just garbage. It makes me sick to my stomach. Back in my day..."

[@fjccommish]

What about the way he embarrassed Larry in that original "exhibition"? Bruno was jealous of Larry because Bruno knew Larry would surpass the so called "living legend".

[@johnstrika9170]

It's real to you isn't it

[@fjccommish]

@@johnstrika9170 Of course it's real. It's on video.

[@bubbiesdad]

Cena is a joke compared to Sammartino and Zbyszko.

[@Cenamark2]

John Cena is much better, and has accomplished far more.

[@johnstrika9170]

You're a moron

[@capacola262743]

this guy is SUCH A LIAR!

[@capacola262743]

actually BOTH OF THEM are.

[@kingfrank01]

My God! He looks better than most 40 year olds.