Bruno Sammartino: “Vince McMahon is a sick-minded idiot”

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Bruno Sammartino gab Slam Wrestling gegenueber ein kurzes Interview, darin teilte er seine Meinung ueber das derzeitige WWE Programm mit.

“What's this I hear that Vince has a club where guys have to kiss his butt? Come on. That's just ridiculous. I can't believe that's the state of the business nowadays and I can't believe that's what people watch for. Cable companies should be ashamed for even showing that garbage on television in the first place.”
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“It was great working for Vince Senior. There's no comparison between Senior and Junior. Nowadays, Vince makes the wrestlers depend on him. Back in my day, Vince Senior depended on me. We didn't have pay-per-view or WrestleMania, but we would sell out (Madision Square) Garden no problem 12-15 times a year and that's all we had back then were house shows. Vince depended on me. When he would want to bring in a new wrestler for a program with me, he'd run it by me first and if I liked the idea, we'd go with it. If not, then we'd come up with something else. Junior, he just doesn't care. He'll do whatever he wants. He's just a sick-minded idiot. I mean, who else books a match where you wrestle God. How low can you go? It's disgusting.”
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Zur WWE Hall of Fame:“They've called plenty of times. I turn them down every time. What's the point to a Hall of Fame? Is it a building I can actually go to? No. Give me a break. If I gave in and was inducted, what would that say about me? It would make me a hypocrite and then Vince would turn right around and sell DVDs about me and my career and make more money. Look at a guy like Pete Rose. Why is he in the Hall of Fame? It's a sham. Because a real wrestler piledrove him? Please. That makes him Hall of Fame material?”
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“People would always tell me that if I didn't like the product to stop being involved. So I have, for the most part. If I do watch a show nowadays, they say it's a sellout, but you block off a third of the arena for lighting and what not, plus you tarp off another section and what do you have left? We turned people away back when I wrestled. We drew the fans for the pure wrestling, not for the sex and vulgarity that Vince throws at you now. It's just ridiculous.”

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