Wed., April 18, 2018 In this Nov. 30, 2000, file photo, former pro wrestler Bruno Sammartino, 65, poses with a painting of him in his pro wrestling prime weighing 275 pounds in 1965 at age 35, in his ...

It was March 29, 1965, four days after my 11th birthday, and I was the star of my Washington Avenue neighborhood in Brooklyn. I was going to see Bruno Sammartino — the greatest wrestling champion of ...

In this Nov. 30, 2000, file photo, former pro wrestler Bruno Sammartino, 65, poses with a painting of him in his pro wrestling prime, weighing 275 pounds in 1965 at age 35, in his Pittsburgh home.

The International Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame (IPWHF) is home to many wrestling artifacts and memorabilia from all-time greats. But their latest relic is among the most prized objects from maybe the ...

Bruno Sammartino, an Italian immigrant who was heavyweight champion of the World Wide Wrestling Federation for a record 11 years in the 1960s and ’70s, long before the federation admitted that its ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Before there was John Cena, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, or Hulk Hogan, there was Bruno Sammartino. He is one of wrestling's greatest icons, and ...

Bruno Sammartino, left, stands with a stautue of the former world wrestling champion in Pizzoferrato, Italy. Timing is everything in professional wrestling, er, sports entertainment. Good timing can ...

In this Nov. 30, 2000, file photo, former pro wrestler Bruno Sammartino, then 65, poses with a painting of him in his pro wrestling prime weighing 275 pounds in 1965 at age 35, in his Pittsburgh home.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... He was professional wrestling’s ultimate good guy. The son of Italian immigrants, Bruno Sammartino fled the Nazis as a child and built a career beating a ...