Bruno Sammartino on Why He HATED Nature Boy Buddy Rogers
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Talks so highly about someone he doesnt like. What an absolute class act. A shame he left us. Legends like Bruno need to have their story told
Many more should follow his example.
Uhhh wut..?
A class act wouldn't lie like Bruno does here.
@@Rjensen2Can you explain what he’s lying about?
@@kevinm6790 He's lying about Buddy, particularly saying Buddy was not in bad health.
I can listen to Bruno talk wrestling all day. So well spoken, amazing memory, and comes off as honest and legit. The epitome of class.
I couldn't.
Being the epitome of class and boring as shit clearly aren't mutually exclusive
@@jameskennedy7307 he couldn't have been that boring. he saved vince's ass or he would have lost the wwwf.
@@MrMferg240 Listen I'm sorry if I gave you the impression that I was trying to denigrate Bruno samaritino or his legacy.. I absolutely did not mean boring in the ring, although I have only seen bits and pieces of his matches. I was really just referring to this video, and the comment about how he could be listened to all day. He really wasn't even that boring it was more a combination of me being in a bad mood And the fact that I definitely couldn't listen to him all day, although A little bit at a time was perfect
@@jameskennedy7307 nothing to apologize for JAMES. my true respect for BRUNO is not even his accomplishments in the ring. his life story and what he had to endure to become what he did to me is far more interesting.
@@MrMferg240 🙏 now you're making me wanna listen to his story!!
Met Bruno about 4-5 years ago at an airport and he was a total gentleman. RIP legend.
RIP? Dude, he's still alive.
Had dinner with Bruno & Denucci. Talked wrestling, opera & classical music. R.I.P. two great legends
@@theexpresidentshe died in 2018
Michaelrood2751 I whatch Bruno wrestler many many I never had the pleasure to meet Bruno in person if I had that would’ve been so awesome
RIP Bruno. Bruno was truly the legend of wrestling. Very classy guy who respected the business.
I loved Bruno Sammartino . We will never have another like him . I miss him . I thought he'd never leave us . He's in that great big ring in the sky .
Bruno brought joy to many….easy journey, Champ!
Bruno always came across as being a gentleman.
Best video Sean ever did. Great job guys. RIP Bruno, on WWE s mount Rushmore, no doubt about it
Is that the incredible Mt. Rushmore that Bernie Sanders visited or the racist Mt. Rushmore that Donald Trump visited?
ua-cam.com/video/faEWDgvfkVc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=wjlintz
@@taekwondotime YO, MORON. DON'T PUT FUCKING POLITICAL SHIT IN PRO WRESTLING VIDEOS EVER AGAIN. YOU FOOL.
@@taekwondotime there is always one dipstick off-posting and you sir are that dipstick
@@jameskennedy7307 I can post whatever I want to. Get a sense of humor. The topic was Mr. Rushmore and my comment was relevant.
@@evanb1470 People who insult others for making jokes are the real dipsticks. You're too dumb to recognize humor.
Bruno ruled for decades.
I saw Bruno beat Buddy Rogers in Madison Square Garden as a kid…Buddy was my hero…I was heartbroken…still, what a memory!!!!
Bruno the perfect icon . Bundle never backed down to nobody
When I saw Pedro morales against Bruno the greatest match ever God bless them both
Off all the shoot interview mr. Sammartino have done. The story never changes.
That doesn't mean he's being truthful. He's 100% lying about Buddy.
Particularly when he claims Rogers wrestled every night before. What he fails to mention is that 1. It wasn't every night and 2. Rogers stood on the apron the whole time and didn't do a thing until the finish.
Young Bruno, Glasses Bruno and Mustache Bruno. You just can’t beat any of them.
Bruno was a class act.
Their will never be another Bruno Samartino
Getting Haystacks off of the ground made Sammartino . 570 lbs -640 lbs
Did Bruno ever talk about Gorgeous George, who was without a doubt the biggest wrestling star of the late 40s and 50s? I know they had a match together in early 60s not long before George died.
Yes he does in this interview and ties it into his own coerced comeback in the eighties when he worked with the likes of Rowdy Piper and Randy Savage. Speaking of the match he had with George Wagner, Sammartino was excited to wrestle him and felt it was a big deal. The match however did not go over well with the audience. According to Bruno, the fans in the sixties did not buy Gorgeous George as a legitimate threat to the World Chanpionship taunting him with reactions of “Go Home Old Man” and telling Bruno to “take it easy on the old man, he’s finished, he’s done”. Sammartino felt so bad for Wagner that he decided right then and there that he would never “wrestle old” and when Sean brings up his comeback, Sammartino disowns it.
Bruno mentions Toronto and MLG. So many greats got their start in TO with the Tunney family and Whipper Billy Watson. Before MSG
Toronto was the mecca for pro wrestling.
Awesome Q&A with Bruno. I watched his retirement announcement before this. Wish there was more to this. He and guys like Sabu and Terry Funk should've had WWE Biographies like Bret Hart and Billy Graham did less than twenty years ago, I definitely would want to buy/watch those anytime.
Hopefully he will one day. Randy Savage and Roddy Piper managed to get them despite both of them passing away.
Who cares about the Biography shows? Both Bruno and Piper always talked at length about their lives and careers.
Bruno sold out the garden more than the knicks
If anyone negates either Buddy Rogers or Bruno Sammartino , I think you would be doing yourself a great disservice. Both were great but for different reasons, but both are legends. So Rogers may have been difficult and maybe dangerous with the boys, maybe Bruno just didn’t like Rogers, so be it, both are icons of the sport. I think Bruno was speaking truth in my opinion but I liked Rogers heel gimmick, he was THE HEEL in his day. We need both the baby face and the heel to tell a great story.
They don't make many men like Bruno anymore.
The music intro of these shoots is great
Buddy Rogers operated like Hogan ....only working with his guys
Re that Rio de Janeiro thing: It's a common misconception that Pat Patterson was awarded the Intercontinental title after that "tournament" in Rio. The way it really was is Pat, in storyline, won the tourney to become South American champ. In WWF at the time, Ted DiBiase had the North American title that he had brought with him from, if I'm not mistaken, the Central States territory. When Patterson won that title from DiBiase in that controversial match on Championship Wrestling in the summer of 1979, they decided to combine the two belts into one and gave the new title the name WWF Intercontinental Championship.
Buddy Rogers had the original Kliq.
Bruno had his own “Kliq” also.
Bruno greatest ever.
I wonder if Sean ever played what’s in the bag with Bruno
No, cause drug use wasn't widespread in Bruno's time. Not saying there wasn't guys in the business who were probably using stuff but it wasn't like it wasn't the 70s 80s and 90s
Wrong show. This isn't YouShoot. This is Timeline History. They only talk about a specific year in a wrestle's a career in this special and there are no fan questions/gimmicks involved here which can be refreshing as the fan video questions are always cringe.
Bruno is the real deal but it's employment money and control. Buddy wanted control. Bruno tells the truth. Obvious.
LOL. "Bruno tells the truth" and then talks about how is beating Buddy Rogers was a shoot.
I searched around and looked at many videos and interviews and I don’t see this opinion shared by many others . Buddy Rogers seemed to be and was by most accounts one of the greatest. And if you watch his match against Ric Flair when Rogers was in his late 50s ( it’s on UA-cam) he still put on a great match. And I’d argue a better match that Bruno usually put on .
He was great but he was also a con man. He tried to take over territories from smaller promoters and hot shot business for a quick haul and then leave the territory high and dry and go to the next place. He was also a slip and fall guy. He would fall in a building or some property or business and then sue whoever owned it and whoever else he could connect to it and collect off those deals. Though he could be considered by some a good guy he was a shady character also.
read Flairs book about that match. Bruno isn't saying that Buddy wasn't one of the greatest technicians, but he was also a politician and a guy who worked hard to get what he wanted.
Buddy’s reputation among wrestlers as a person wasn’t great. He’s one of the best in ring of all time and a huge draw as a heel but he had a way of pissing off guys and being unprofessional. Karl Gotch broke Buddy’s hand for a reason back then. 😂
3:06 Bruno is talking about the “It factor” you always hear people like Triple H talk about that you can’t put your finger on it but you know they got it.
Bruno had one of the greatest runs of all time. That being said, I’d watch a Rogers match any day over a Bruno match. Buddy in his prime was on the level of the all time great workers. He created so many spots still being done today and spots that nobody has been able to do since.
Vincent J. Preferred Buddy to Lou Thesz Mostly Because Buddy Was More Metropolitan/Big City Glitz & Glam, While Lou Was Not So Much That, But More Middle America/the Sticks
By all accounts, Bruno was an honest, sincere, respected, and well-liked family man. In contrast Buddy was widely hated by just about everybody who had to deal with, that says a lot
this is pretty bullshit. buddy was well liked by many.
@@anish3183 On the contrary, if you actually do some research on the topic you would see that a lot of the boys in the back did not like him due to his tendency to take advantage of other wrestlers in the ring and his politicking ways backstage. When he died, only 3 major names from the wrestling business attended his funeral: "Sadder still that the only major wrestling names at Rogers' funeral were Billy Darnell, a wrestler from the same time period who was Rogers' next door neighbor in South Florida, George Scott, the former wrestler and booker for both WWF and WCW, Bobby Davis (Rogers' manager during his heyday) and Larry Sharpe, whose boyhood hero was Rogers, and who was Rogers business partner when they opened up the original Monster Factory in Jersey." If that's your definition of well-liked by your peers, then I'd hate to see how someone who is despised is treated
Bruno was never as honest as he is perceived. He lied through his teeth about Rogers.
@@IAWIA5 Bullshit. Rogers had a whole crew of guys.
@@Rjensen2 A whole crew of guys who didn't even give a shit about him enough to attend the man's own funeral lmao. When Rogers died, only 3 major names from the wrestling business attended his funeral: "Sadder still that the only major wrestling names at Rogers' funeral were Billy Darnell, a wrestler from the same time period who was Rogers' next door neighbor in South Florida, George Scott, the former wrestler and booker for both WWF and WCW, Bobby Davis (Rogers' manager during his heyday) and Larry Sharpe, whose boyhood hero was Rogers, and who was Rogers business partner when they opened up the original Monster Factory in Jersey." Yeah, definitely a "whole crew" full of loyal friends eh? Gimme a break
Amazing memory honestly
Such a classy guy.
Every WWE employee should be required to watch this full shoot in order to have a complete understanding of how their company was formed!
So, Lou Thesz beating Buddy Rogers for the NWA title set in motion the destruction of pro wrestling.
A tip of the fedora to you, brother.
You nailed it sir
Yeah, if there's one thing that record revenue for pro wrestling shows, it's that wrestling is dead.
@@KaneRobot Merchandise is all
I live this because he’s breaking kayfabe but also keeping it too.
Done in the correct way, the best interview in terms of an example on how to do it and do it properly so it keeps respect for wrestling.
Some of the later episodes exposed wrestling as a nasty vile collection of drug and people abusers and certainly lowered the tone for the shoot series.
How big is batistas? How can I watch these videos around family members?…. This was tastefully done and I appreciate it.
No kayfabe it's all true
One of the greatest wrestlers of all-time! RIP Bruno!
Bruno your the man.
Anyone know what year this interview was taped ? Thanks
Bruno Samartino was a great Champion! ! Wrote his Autobiography in 2004 . Get it ! A great read ……
I worked backstage at a few old WWF cards and met Rogers once when he was managing Snuka. I didn't like him. Seemed like a mean, mean guy.
Exactly did you know snuka was a druggie
What was muraco like?
@@michaelrubin9547 Don Muraco was smiling and friendly. Seemed like a nice guy. Same when I met him decades a decade or two later in hawaii.
@@kronos77 ty who else was a great guy?
@@michaelrubin9547 Backlund for sure. Whatever else people say about him, he was nice as could be to the fans. Ricky Steamboat too.
The best!
This is how wresting stars should’ve done their shoot videos, kayfabe should’ve tried to rebuild wrestlings respect instead of give us the truth we already knew deep down.
I have watched them all say the truth and it hasn’t helped the stars of today.
The stars from our greatest era made the most money and now expose the business all over again to the next generation and make it impossible for wrestling by today to get over with the next generation!
It’s quite a sad realisation, knowing that the videos I’ve been enjoying have also been a huge factor in wrestling not being to rebuild.
Bruno keeps it “Real” while still letting us behind the scenes but still keeping it believable too, that’s an art that’s seems lost now.
He's not lying about anything
This is just nonsense. Nobody wants to watch interviews where wrestlers claim it's all real. That's just asinine.
Bruno and buddy were and will always be living legends! Rip guys
I only saw Buddy Rogers later in his career when he teamed with Bam Bam Gordy and Michael Hayes as the Freebirds.
That's Buddy Roberts, different guy.
What a class act 👏🏽
HEZ ENTERTAININ ME JUS LIKE HE DID 4 ME N ME BRO BACK IN THE DAY.
Speak English
I see the thumbnail of this clip and my immediate reaction tells me I’m about to hear Jesse The Body speak only to hear an Italian accent come out. So I’m like, “What??”And then I actually decide to READ the the title and it hits me. 🤦🏻♂️
Bruno- R punch,R punch ( L punch does not exist) Leg stomp,Leg stomp
Bear hug
Repeat all of the above
Yea Bruno- your the greatest!!!
Who gives a shit? I'm actually at the point in my life where I enjoy those matches more than the complete clusterfuck high spot fests that air on TV these days.
Like 50 or 40 years ago
Thesz Pinned Bruno in Toronto
Let's see Sean pull out some toys on Bruno. Bruno would have folded him into a pretzel!
Respect to Bruno. But Buddy was way more talented in the ring than him.
I love Bruno but he had his " Own crew" with DiPaolo, Denucci,Bravo,Brito and countless others. He brought a lot of people in from Italy and trained them in his Own territory in Pittsburgh Pa. Buddy Rodgers was pure class and could run circles around him. His wrestling abilities were impeccable and did it all. He went toe to toe with Lou Theze whereas Bruno wouldn't be able to keep up. RIP to the REAL Nature Boy.
Bruno met Thesz a few times
They went an hour & Bruno stayed tough & Thesz could not take him down. Had Bruno got Thesz in a broom closet, Bruno could have beat him senseless
My guess is that Vince Sr. knew Buddy Rogers was a proven commodity, in that he knew Buddy was able to draw in fans to see him get beat, because Buddy was "the man you love to hate." The Northeastern promoters wanted him kept at the top of the card because he made them lots of money, simple as that. They were loyal to the money he brought in. That's why they wanted him to remain as world champ.
And that's proof Bruno is lying through his teeth about Rogers.
When Rogers was champ, the garden was dead & the rest of the territory was on life support. Bruno came back in & by years end after taking the title, buildings were selling out again
@@aldonelson5757 Uh...that's just nonsense. If business was so bad, why did they want to keep him as NWA World Champion?
They chose to leave the NWA in order to keep Rogers in a top spot. But yeah, business was dead with him on top. 🤣
@Robert \ Thry kept Rogers on to control his booking in the east only. Bruno does not lie & neither did Vince Sr & Bruno made more money than Rogers ever dream
@@aldonelson5757 So Vince Sr. wasn't lying when he screwed Bruno on his payoffs?
You dumbfuck, don't you even know Bruno sued him, and had very little good things to say about him? You are way too ignorant to argue with.
why has this video got only one comment
It’s been taken down and re-posted
Rogers was a legendary wrestler
ages ago
So was Bruno
Sounds like Rogers was an early prototype of Vince Russo as far as ruining the rassling business.
Because Vince Russo was so great that everyone that came after him sucked.
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@@philkessel8162 Phil Kessel answering Hannibal about Bruno and Buddy Rodgers. I've seen it all now.
@@TheEWFX29 nice to see brotha
OK so Buddy Roger's was a con man, I think all wrestlers are running a con of sorts. You have to do things that aren't true to develop a story and then pull us in. You're purpose is to get us to believe the unbelievable. We're mark's.
jealous bruno. just like bench was of rose
I never liked Buddy Rogers he cheated n deliberatly hurt people. Rogers could wrestle but he was a prick. I remember when Bruno did strong man feats on tv before he met him for the title.i saw Bruno wrestle twice bout 64 n 65.
sanmartina hated everyone.
You are greatly mistaken. Sammartino refused to take a pay raise when he began filling the Garden and insisted that the McMahons spread the money with the undercard wrestlers.
@@bulldogbrower6732 hahahahahaha!!! yeah, THAT happened!!!!
I loved Bruno but he was def in it for himself. He wasn't much of a seller in the ring or putting guys over outside the ring. Even up to his death.
@@MrAitraining exactly. he was a prima donna and an ego maniac. and he sucked in the ring. all he did was punch, kick, punch, kick, punch, kick, then a ten minute bearhug or test of strength. same match over and over. he didn't even have a finishing move. he would wait for his opponent to miss a splash or something and then just cover him and the guy wouldn't kick out.
@paul kersey Bruno could whoop your ass, even deceased
He's better talker than he was a wrestler
I dislike the way Sammartino and the interviewer were treating a wrestling icon like Buddy Rogers
Rogers was a prick.
@@jeffdeiderich4510 surely he was complicated. But he was also a great wrestler and a great worker in the ring. Even wrestlers who weren't efficient looked good when they worked with Rogers.
@@xaviermouratonabo6499 Do you even listen to what Bruno said? He was complimenting his work for almost half the video.
Based on different accounts, 90s Shawn Michaels was like Buddy Rogers. Extremely talented, great worker, and an absolute legend, but a world-class prick in real life.
End of the day it's Bruno talking about the guy, not the icon just the person he had to deal with and he even says that he was talented.
Sour grapes.
honestly Randy Orton > Buddy Rogers
Bruno was a hack
Buddy was twice the star as Bruno.
He might have been at one time. However when Bruno came in to New York at age 23 weighing 285 lbs, benchlifting 565 lbs. Buddy at age 42 in 1963 had seen better days. Sammartino overpowered him in every one of their match ups. Bruno was tired of the fake finishes and wanted Rogers for real. Take a look at Sammartino taking Rogers for a ride. ua-cam.com/video/pY9Ikj3FGs4/v-deo.html
When Bruno won the title from Rogers it only lasted 48 seconds because Rogers had a heart attack shortly before the match and was totally unfit to wrestle.
Sounds like jealousy on the part of this Sammartino. He couldn't hold a candle to Buddy Rogers! History will remember Buddy long after Sammartino!
lol, yeah right. RODGERS was a dickhead who intentionally hurt wrestlers. in a real shoot BRUNO would have obliterated RODGERS.
I was indoctrinated in 1961 in the eighth grade, my friends said hey, watch wrestling it’s pretty cool. One match on black and white TV and I was hooked for life. No one, repeat, no one could bring the heat like Rogers. Remember that the people that watched wrestling both live and on TV were virtually all WWII veterans and Rogers knew how to stir them up like no other. Fans flocked to the arenas fervently hoping that Rogers would get his ass beat. He was a former carnival employee and was a con man‘s con man. Bruno was spot on in his interview when he said that Rogers was supremely talented, physically had almost the best physique of any wrestler of his day, but was a true dirty dealer all the way around. A strutting, bleached blonde arrogant prick, he virtually made professional wrestling as the greatest heel ever. Bruno comes along and wins the title and becomes the quintessential good guy and was idolized by virtually everyone for many years. So they will both be remembered but for different reasons.
If Buddy Rogers was intentionally hurting people and possibly ending their careers he was a douche
You are 100% wrong wrong wrong and I can prove it. Go out and ask 100 wrestling fans of all ages and ask them who was a better wrestler and who was more well known, Buddy Rogers or Bruno Sammartino? You will get 70-85% of your answers will be Sammartino.
So says the 80-year-old guy who forgot his own name again.
Bruno's Kayfabe is unrivaled
The media destroyed the wrestling business. The breaking of kayfabe. It all went to garbage 2001 onwards. Bruno should appreciate the good times, yet when they called him into the hall of fame, he said he liked the wrestling of the time (2014 ). To me, Bruno has his timeline incorrect. What was he trying to prove?
Bruno is a liar. He lied about Buddy Rogers for years.