In Memoriam - Bruno Sammartino Encore Presentation

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

TIJ pays tribute to the late, great Bruno Sammartino with this encore presentation of an episode originally recorded in December of 2016 and first released in June of 2017. He’s a legend, a pioneer, and held the World Championship for 12 years! Bruno Sammartino’s on TIJ! It’s an epic interview covering Bruno’s childhood in Italy, including how he lived in a cave in the mountains for 2 years to escape the Nazis in WWII before finally emigrating to the United States. He explains how he discovered bodybuilding as a teen, when he first met Arnold Schwarzenegger, why he turned down the NFL & the Pittsburgh Steelers to wrestle for WWF and Vince McMahon, and how he became World Champ. You’ll hear why he was blackballed from pro-wrestling, how he found his way back, what he thinks about his own WWE Hall of Fame induction, and how he ended up in a ring wrestling an orangatang! He’s also sharing stories about some of his incredible matches with the likes of Ivan Koloff, Killer Kowalski, Bill Watts, and Larry Zbyszko.

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0:00.0	I'm talking to Jericho Baby, talking to Jericho.
0:07.0	I'm talking to Jericho Mama, talking to me.
0:13.5	Welcome to Talk to Jericho.
0:14.5	This is a special edition and earlier today I was doing some interviews for the greatest
0:20.2	Royal Rumble which happens next week in Saudi Arabia.
0:23.0	While I was doing one of the interviews, one of the guys mentioned how I felt about the
0:26.8	passing of Bruno and I was like, what?
0:28.8	Passing of who?
0:30.3	And he said that Bruno Samaritino had passed away.
0:32.4	I knew nothing about it.
0:34.1	So it really kind of threw me for a loop.
0:36.8	And all I could think of was the amazing episode of Talk is Jericho, where Bruno was my
0:43.1	guest.
0:44.1	And he was so great.
0:45.8	One of my favorite shows on my favorite guests.
0:48.9	And what happened was I had been asking the WWE if they could set me up with Bruno.
0:52.9	I knew I had a gig in Pittsburgh doing a signing at the Steel City Comic Con.
0:58.1	And they finally said, yeah, Bruno will do it.
0:59.8	But you have to meet him at his favorite Italian restaurant in Pittsburgh.
1:04.0	And I was like, okay.
1:05.8	And usually when I do talk is Jericho.
1:07.4	I like having silence and not a lot of extraannious noise because it just kind of messes with the
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