Bruno Sammartino Says "Never Say Never"

[PHX]

Wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino spoke to Atlanta's Creative Loafing publication this week and was asked once again why he will not accept a WWE invitation to join the Hall of Fame.

"First of all, when they started all this garbage with the nudity and these girls always having accidents where a bra will fall off or whatever, then the vulgarity and the Kiss My Butt Club, and the profanity that they use and stuff like that, I find all that appalling and I was very, very outspoken. Then the drug use, of course, was the most appalling for me. So what kind of a person would I be to accept that ridiculous Hall of Fame after being as outspoken as I was? I think it would be very hypocritical on my part and I would never accept that because I don't believe in it."

He did however, leave a faint possibility of him working with WWE again as part of the Hall of Fame:

"I guess one should never say never, but I would have to see an awful lot of change before I would even think of it. A lot more than what I'm seeing now."

Considering how far WWE has come toning down their product as part of the current "PG era," one has to wonder how much more change Sammartino is looking for before he's willing to consider entering the Hall of Fame.

If he is wanting wrestling to go back to the way it used to be when he was wrestling then he is insane. Wrestling would have been horrible if it stayed that way and he really needs to get over it considering WWE hasn't had attitude era stuff for a while. Times change and he seems to not realize this.

 

[AF.]

The Attitude Era was awesome, there is no denying that. The only bad thing about it, is we will never see a product on its level ever again.

 

[Kingslayer]

People like Sammartino are what's wrong with the wrestling business. I wouldn't even put him in the HOF quite frankly, he has zero relevance to anything that happened after WWE went fully mainstream and a guy like him would've never been successful in an entertainment based product. If anybody actually deserves to be in the Hall of Fame it's Randy Savage.

 

[AF.]

lol pyro

 

[The Cork]

Meh.

Hes boring as fuck anyway.

 

[NotReallyaGoodUN]

Don't know why he'd turn down the company he worked for honoring him, but whatever.

Like stated, he needs to get over it if he thinks WWE should have no edginess whatsoever...that's just screwy on his part to expect that.

 

[Kairi]

People like Sammartino are what's wrong with the wrestling business. I wouldn't even put him in the HOF quite frankly, he has zero relevance to anything that happened after WWE went fully mainstream and a guy like him would've never been successful in an entertainment based product. If anybody actually deserves to be in the Hall of Fame it's Randy Savage.

i agree with you.

 

[Kizza]

lol.

i cant blame him. he's from a very different time, when wrestling actually meant wrestling. he has every right to be shocked.

saying he has zero relevance is absolutely Blue too.

 

[PHX]

lol.

i cant blame him. he's from a very different time, when wrestling actually meant wrestling. he has every right to be shocked.

saying he has zero relevance is absolutely Blue too.

Yeah that's the point he is from a different time and he needs to understand that everything has to change. Had wrestling stayed the way it was when he was doing it then it wouldn't have been around possibly at least to the extent that it is now. Plus what he is bashing happened damn near a decade ago and isn't even like that anymore.

 

[Kizza]

true, but his main gripe seems to be with the drug use. look at it from his perspective. he came from a time with clean athletes who did their best in the gym and what genes they had. then came a whole bunch of drug allegations/problems around hogan and vince, which disgraced the name of wrestling. he's obviously a very proud man, he would have a very difficult time looking vince in the eye and believing him and such.

it would be like your boss firing you and then inviting you round to dinner the next night. the feeling that is.