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Sammartino teamed with Paul Orndorff in his matches against Piper, while Piper would tag with his " bodyguard ", Ace " Cowboy " Bob Orton.
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Sammartino would often teamed with Tito Santana and his old enemy George " The Animal " Steele ( who was a face at this point in his career ) to wrestle Savage and " Adorable " Adrian Adonis.
He defeated Hans " The Great " Mortier in less than a minute with the Figure-4 in Madison Square Garden, and teamed with Handsome Johnny Barend to take 2 out of 3 falls via pin from Sammartino and Bobo Brazil, with Rogers pinning Sammartino for the final fall.
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In 1986 Dirk Benedict starred as a low-life band manager " Harry Smilac " in the movie " Body Slam " along with Lou Albano, Roddy Piper, and cameo appearances by Freddie Blassie, Ric flair, and Bruno Sammartino.
Two years later, NWA president Sam Muchnick and McMahon discussed a unification match between Thesz and Sammartino, with both parties agreeing to Sammartino winning the unified title.
As a fan favourite, Morales could not be expected to feud with fellow fan favorite Bruno Sammartino for his WWWF World Heavyweight Championship belt.
In 1964, Blassie feuded with Bruno Sammartino and Bobo Brazil.
The rematches were held at Madison Square Garden in New York, with Sammartino winning out.
" Classy " Freddie Blassie also made a cameo appearance as himself, along with " Wrestling's Living Legend " Bruno Sammartino, and Ric Flair in the 1986 film " Body Slam " starring Dirk Benedict, " Captain " Lou Albano, and " Rowdy " Roddy Piper.
He is the second longest-reigning WWF Champion of all time ( after Bruno Sammartino ) and the longest-reigning of the 1980s, having held the title for 1, 474 days from 1984-1988, as well as the longest-reigning WCW World Heavyweight Champion of all time, with a 469 day reign from 1994-1995.
Eventually, Sammartino caught rheumatic fever but was nursed back to health by his mother with hot blankets and leeches.
Sammartino left the cage with swollen eyes and shredded clothes.
Within six months of his debut in wrestling, Sammartino was headlining at Madison Square Garden ( starting in tag matches, teaming with Antonino Rocca ).
Sammartino found himself with even fewer dates and payoffs than the first time he wrestled for McMahon.
One match ended in a draw and the other with Thesz scoring a fluke pin after a collision despite Sammartino controlling the 20 minute match from the beginning.
After many weeks of phone calls with McMahon trying to lure Bruno back, Sammartino demanded a title run.
" Rogers could not cope with the power of Sammartino from the very beginning.
Rogers and Sammartino did face each other two months later at Madison Square Garden in a tagteam match, with Rogers & Handsome Johnny Barend defeating Bruno & Bobo Brazil 2 falls to 1.
On September 28, 1965, after a match with Tarzan Tyler in Madison Square Garden, Sammartino went to a restaurant in Times Square.
Sammartino was concerned that his elderly parents would find out he was in a NY hospital with a broken neck and would die from the shock.
In his autobiography, Hulk Hogan claimed that his match with Andre the Giant was the real reason for the huge draw at Shea Stadium, however the feud between Sammartino and Zbyszko sold out everywhere in the build-up to the show.
Sammartino also engaged in a feud with Rowdy Roddy Piper after Piper insulted his heritage on a segment of Piper's Pit at Madison Square Garden.
Later on in 1986 Sammartino would team with Jake " The Snake " Roberts, and Santana in a 6 man Elimination Tag Team Match against The Hart Foundation & The Honky Tonk Man.
Sammartino also feuded with Hercules Hernandez during this time.
Sammartino and Paul
He was edged out by legendary strongman Paul Anderson – who outweighed Sammartino by 70 pounds.
Sammartino had his last singles match in the WWF against on August 28, 1987 as he defeated Hercules via count out at the Paul Boesch Retirement Show in Houston, Texas.
Sammartino and Orndorff
Orton remained with Piper for the remainder of 1985, feuding with Orndorff and a variety of partners, such as Hogan, André the Giant, and Bruno Sammartino.
Instead of keeping peace, Sammartino became a target for Orton and Piper, which led to Orndorff and Sammartino teaming up.
Sammartino and matches
Sammartino faced Piper in both singles & tag matches.
Although he dominated the matches against the champion, Sammartino never won the title, winning most of his matches by count out or disqualification.
Though he was not ousted from the WWF, Sammartino was then given a series of insignificant matches that were not designed to give him a shot at the championship title, and he soon left the circuit of his own accord, his career essentially ruined.
During his time in the WWWF, Ivan Koloff wrestled WWWF title matches against Bruno Sammartino, Pedro Morales, Superstar Billy Graham and Bob Backlund, holding the distinction, with fellow villain Stan Stasiak, as one of only two men to challenge all four of these popular champions.
In one of his final matches, Gorgeous George later faced off against ( and lost to ) an up-and-coming Bruno Sammartino, though he would lose his precious hair again when he was defeated by the Destroyer in a hair vs. mask match at the Olympic Auditorium on November 7, 1962.
One of the first men to try and claim the new, higher bonus was Roddy Piper himself, but their matches got so out of hand that Bruno Sammartino was appointed as a special referee in the hopes of keeping peace.
Because Wisniski was also wrestling in Texas at the same time, he got only sporadic main event matches against Sammartino during this feud.
One of his biggest career wins was pinning Waldo Von Erich in six minutes at Madison Square Garden, prior to two Garden title matches with Sammartino.
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Sammartino instead that night had his first match against new # 1 contender, Gorilla Monsoon ( Monsoon won on disqualification, starting a monumentally successful feud ).
Sammartino was so popular that in 1965 he was picked by the National Wrestling Alliance board to wrestle against the legendary Lou Thesz in a match for both the NWA and WWWF titles.
During this time, on April 26, 1976, Sammartino suffered a neck fracture in a match against Stan Hansen at Madison Square Garden, when Hansen improperly executed a body slam and dropped Sammartino on his head.
Despite a very long and financially successful series of re-matches against Billy Graham, Sammartino was unable / unwilling to regain the title.
The primary reason Sammartino returned was an attempt to promote the wrestling career of his son David Sammartino, who became a wrestler against his father's wishes.
At the inaugural WrestleMania at a sold out Madison Square Garden in 1985, Sammartino was in his son's corner, for his match against Brutus Beefcake.
Physically in decline, Rogers was matched against the hugely popular and immensely powerful Bruno Sammartino.
However, it can also be orchestrated by the wrestler himself, as was the case with David Sammartino ( son of the legendary champion Bruno Sammartino ) in the late 1980s when he purposely lost in a squash match to jobber Ron Shaw as a protest against his treatment as a competitor by Vince McMahon, the chairman of the World Wrestling Federation.
Koloff lost the title only 21 days later to Pedro Morales, essentially being used as a " transitional " champion ( as he was used to move the title from Sammartino to Morales without having the two faces work against each other ), much like Stan Stasiak and the Iron Sheik would be in later years.
To preserve his title, Honky often got himself counted out or disqualified on purpose against challengers such as Steamboat, Billy Jack Haynes, Bruno Sammartino, and George " The Animal " Steele.
On April 26, 1976, Bruno Sammartino suffered a neck fracture in a match against Stan Hansen at Madison Square Garden, when Hansen improperly executed a body slam.
They quickly ascended to the main event status, defending the titles against WWWF World Heavyweight Champion Pedro Morales and Bruno Sammartino on several occasions, throughout the year.
After turning against Sammartino, Zbyszko was approached by the WWWF's " Unholy Trio " of managers ( Fred Blassie, The Grand Wizard, and " Captain " Lou Albano ), but he decided to continue wrestling without a manager.
In the first match at MSG against Sammartino he was disqualified ; Sammartino scored the pin in a rematch.
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