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Zbyszko V. Sammartino was a great feud. Willie remember that when wrestling was great?


I grew up in the end of that period, when Waldo von Erich's kids were more popular than he was, and Bruno Sammartino was doing the Shea Stadium roadshow with Zbyszko. What a great Polish name.




The August 1980 Shea Stadium match between Larry Z and Bruno was actually too big for Madison Square Garden and ended up at taking place at Shea Stadium because that venue was larger!

Zbyszko vs. Sammartino in the cage, drew around 40,000 fans and set a North American live gate record for the time.

Back then, that type of massive crowd was literally unheard of. And more impressive when you consider this was before the days of cable and internet promotion.

That was some major old school heat. The fans loved Bruno and truly hated Zbyszko who was the ultimate wrestling bad guy. And he played it perfectly.

And those two guys sold out a lot of big arenas back in the day.

Word is, Zbyszko was so "hated" over the Sammartino feud, that Godfather Carlo Gambino had to pull off some of his own "boys" and smarten them up as to the "show biz" aspect of wrestling ....as a few of them were planning on sending Larry swimming to meet Big Pussy...complete with a pair of size 12 cement boots.

Larry's lucky Don Carlo wasn't a "mark" or he might not have lasted long enough to take Felicia Flint on a one way ticket to Larry Land.

Hey, the guy never had a "real" job unless you consider wrestling a job. He retires, takes up golf and hooks up with the occassional porn babe.

I'd say Larry Z deserves to be called a "Living Legend."



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