- In his final interview before
going into the WWE Hall of Fame, Bruno Sammartino spoke with Inside The Ropes. Here are highlights:
Thoughts on Billy Graham’s recent comments
about him:
“I think I feel sorry for him. I
think he’s done so much drugs throughout his career that his brains been burned
out because he speaks of things he knows nothing about. For example in my own
situation, he knows very well that when I spoke about WWE and was very critical
about them, that he had heard me say if they changed everything that I would
change my mind. He heard me from years ago saying yes I would. He’s been
critical of the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in Amsterdam , New York and he wanted out of that because
he got mad at somebody, I don’t know who. He recently was appalled at CM Punk
because he said something about me wrestling in the Garden once a month. The
things that Billy Graham says, I really have no idea why he says them. He talks
about things without really knowing all the facts. I just think there’s
something wrong with the man.”
His thoughts on John Cena:
“He looks very well, looks like he
works out very hard. He moves well in the ring and I have only seen him maybe
twice all together. I have not seen enough of him, but from what I’ve seen you
can tell he absolutely is one of the top ones in the organization but sometimes
I would like to see these guys wrestle a 30-40 minute match. i can get a better
idea of how good they are, when they have to put in that kind of time, tells me
wheat kind of condition they have and how their skills would be out there for
that amount of time. I haven’t seen any long matches like that yet. One of the
times I saw him in a cage match and there was a referee and they were doing
wrestling holds. In my day, you would have a cage match as maybe the third
match with a guy and there would be no referee, and just everything goes and
the fans used to find that extremely exciting. Now it’s so changed, thes guys
are doing regular armlocks and headlocks. It’s so different now, I just can’t
compare it to the era I was involved in.”
What he thinks of CM Punk as a
performer:
“I think his interviews for a
villain…I think he’s very, very good. That’s why it surprised me that Billy
Graham would say anything when he used to be a villain who would say things to
put down his opponents, even myself. I think he does a very good job when he
gets on the microphone, how he talks, how he says it. I took no offence at CM
Punk, I know he was doing it to be a villain, that’s what he does. But I think
he does a very good job when he gets on that microphone as a villain, what he
says, how he talks, how he says it. As a villain I think he does a tremendous
job and as a wrestler, I’ve seen him a few times and I think he’s pretty darn
good. He’s not too bad at all. The only thing is I think if he was in my era,
he would be a little bit too small, we had bigger built guys back then.”
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