Back in 2013, Bruno Sammartino was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. If you believe Larry Zbyszko, he’s one of the main reasons for this happening.
The “Living Legend” was a recent guest for a “Captain’s Corner” signing and discussed how WWE reached out to him and asked him if he could talk to his mentor about being inducted. Zbyszko believes he was “instrumental” in making the two sides mend fences after years of bitterness from Sammartino’s side.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On talking to Sammartino for the company: “I was kind of instrumental in talking to Bruno. WWE approached me in 2012 because they always wanted Bruno in the Hall of Fame, and Bruno said he would never go in the Hall of Fame years before. But then, you know, they came to me and they asked me if I could talk to him … I wanted Bruno in the Hall of Fame and [Madison Square] Garden was perfect, and then Bruno, I talked to him for some months and then he talked to some other people and he realized the WWE became a great company.”
On Sammartino’s concerns about an induction: “His only thing was, ‘I don’t want people to think that I’m a hypocrite’. I said, ‘A what?’ He said some years before that he would never do it. I said, ‘Well, Bruno, no one will think you’re a hypocrite. Everyone wants you in the Hall of Fame’ … Bruno said, ‘Okay, I’ll do it’. So it all worked out great and it was a happy ending for everybody.”
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(h/t – Wrestling Inc)
