Board 8 > All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 198: Only Bruno has the Stones to Blow Off Triple H

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Seriously, he could probably still go about as well Taker could last year,

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I think that "Blow Triple H Off" would have been better for the people who stopped reading after Triple H and die of fright.

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For those that missed it in the other thread:

- As was reported yesterday, WWE tried to get Bruno Sammartino to agree to be inducted into next year's WWE Hall of Fame as a headliner, only to have Sammartino's people issue a statement denying it once news broke.

According to reports, Triple H actually called Sammartino to convince him to accept the offer. Sammartino has serious and long-standing issues with Vince McMahon so Triple H contacted him and told him not to worry about Vince, and to think about his legacy and educating today's audience about his career instead. Bruno was said to be "not impressed."

Credit: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Maybe he thinks it's kinda pandering to have someone who was too young to appreciate what Bruno did while it was happening trying to butter him up.

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From: Jakyl25 | #004

For those that missed it in the other thread:

- As was reported yesterday, WWE tried to get Bruno Sammartino to agree to be inducted into next year's WWE Hall of Fame as a headliner, only to have Sammartino's people issue a statement denying it once news broke.

According to reports, Triple H actually called Sammartino to convince him to accept the offer. Sammartino has serious and long-standing issues with Vince McMahon so Triple H contacted him and told him not to worry about Vince, and to think about his legacy and educating today's audience about his career instead. Bruno was said to be "not impressed."

Credit: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Maybe he thinks its kinda pandering to have someone who was too young to appreciate what Bruno did while it was happening trying to butter him up.

But Trips is literally a student of the Game, (no pun intended). The guy knows his Wrestling history. He gets Bruno.

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From: Regaro_Ukiera |
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Right but look at it from BRUNO's perspective.

Also how does Trips introduce himself in that call?

Bruno: "Hello"
Trips: "Hi Bruno, this is The Game."

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From: Jakyl25 | #006

Right but look at it from BRUNO's perspective.

Also how does Trips introduce himself in that call?

Bruno: "Hello"
Trips: "Hi Bruno, this is The Game."

Hello, this is (stated job title) Paul Levesque calling for the WWE, am I speaking with Bruno Sammartino?

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From: Regaro_Ukiera |
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Isn't the reason Bruno's always said no because it's not a real Hall of Fame because it doesn't have a building?

I'm telling you, he's going to get it someday.

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I thought it was because he wasn't included in the first full class (not counting Andre going in solo to start the Hall, I don't think he has beef with that.)

He's kinda resentful that they want to make money off of his legacy.

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http://corporate.wwe.com/company/bios/p_levesque.jsp

It's kinda funny to me that his bio talks about his career and all his nicknames but never mentions "Triple H" or "Hunter Hearst Helmsley" except in his book title.

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I saw Bruno Sammartino at my mall one day. He basically talked about how wrestling sucks nowadays. lol

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Sounds like this topic.

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Yeah, every old wrestler they had at the mall absolutely HATES Michael Cole and thinks he's horrendous.

...Sounds like this topic.

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Which reminds me of that story about someone at WWE texting UFC to say their production was terrible, and the person at UFC texting back "At least our lead announcer isn't ruining our show"

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From: Jakyl25 | #010

http://corporate.wwe.com/company/bios/p_levesque.jsp

It's kinda funny to me that his bio talks about his career and all his nicknames but never mentions "Triple H" or "Hunter Hearst Helmsley" except in his book title.

Wait, is Big Johny really out of the company? Because he does not have a bio on there.

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Mike Goldberg does have just as many obnoxious catchphrases as Cole though. <_<

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From: EmDubyaSee | #015
Wait, is Big Johny really out of the company? Because he does not have a bio on there.

On-screen talent only now.

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Ace is in fact no longer VP of Talent Relations.

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From: Jakyl25 | #017

From: EmDubyaSee | #015
Wait, is Big Johny really out of the company? Because he does not have a bio on there.

On-screen talent only now.

But he doesn't do THAT either. Are they really paying him ****ing VP money to sit at home?

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Oh man now SmartMuffin is gonna come in and make a joke about calling Laurinaitis an on-screen "talent." <_<

Cutting him off at the pass!

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From: EmDubyaSee | #019
But he doesn't do THAT either. Are they really paying him ****ing VP money to sit at home?

He still does house shows and dark matches. He ran in on the Cena vs. Show/Tensai dark match last night.

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From: Jakyl25 | #022

From: EmDubyaSee | #019
But he doesn't do THAT either. Are they really paying him ****ing VP money to sit at home?

He still does house shows and dark matches. He ran in on the Cena vs. Show/Tensai dark match last night.

Ok.

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From: Regaro_Ukiera |
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And hey it's not only VP money.

He gets his cut of merch sales and PPV residuals!

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All I need to know is this, was he still ACTUALLY VP of Talent Relations when he fired that sack of **** John Morrison on Raw?

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From: Jakyl25 | #022

He ran in on the Cena vs. Show/Tensai dark match last night.

If I was Big Show, pretty sure the last person I'd want as my tag team partner against Superman would be a guy who just got done jobbing to Tyson Kidd

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From: Jakyl25 | #024

And hey it's not only VP money.

He gets his cut of merch sales and PPV residuals!

He doesn't get PPV Residuals unless he is on though, right? Cause if not, god, **** this man. And I can't think he moves any good number of merch.

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From: EmDubyaSee | #025
All I need to know is this, was he still ACTUALLY VP of Talent Relations when he fired that sack of **** John Morrison on Raw?

They made the changeover at some point in 2011. Not sure when.

Morrison left on his own terms anyway, his firing was kayfabe.

From: EmDubyaSee | #027
He doesn't get PPV Residuals unless he is on though, right? Cause if not, god, **** this man. And I can't think he moves any good number of merch.

He's been on every PPV this year!

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From: Jakyl25 | #028

From: EmDubyaSee | #025
All I need to know is this, was he still ACTUALLY VP of Talent Relations when he fired that sack of **** John Morrison on Raw?

They made the changeover at some point in 2011. Not sure when.

Morrison left on his own terms anyway, his firing was kayfabe.

From: EmDubyaSee | #027
He doesn't get PPV Residuals unless he is on though, right? Cause if not, god, **** this man. And I can't think he moves any good number of merch.

He's been on every PPV this year!

I know that, but I like to imagine it wasn't, and it is easier to do if he actually WAS the VP of talent relations at the time.

And he won't be at the next PPV.

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Yeah but he'll still get residuals from the ones he was on.

And I know some people in this topic wanted to buy those Future Endeavored shirts! <__<

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From: Jakyl25 | #004
According to reports, Triple H actually called Sammartino to convince him to accept the offer. Sammartino has serious and long-standing issues with Vince McMahon so Triple H contacted him and told him not to worry about Vince, and to think about his legacy and educating today's audience about his career instead. Bruno was said to be "not impressed."
At first I was thinking "Ah, Trips, that shrewd businessman."

But then I was like "Wait, what possible reason could he have to try and manipulate Bruno into the Hall other than legitimately respecting him and wanting him there?"

By the way, XIII, if you could send me the chat log of the Raw with the shoot interview and for Money in the Bank if you have it, I would make you a delicious chocolate e-cake in gratitude. (Actually hell, if it's not too much trouble, I'd take the entire month's worth of logs. Don't worry about it if you have to search through them to try and find them or anything tedious like that, though.)

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I'm pretty sure they legitimately want Bruno in the Hall. I don't doubt that. He's an even bigger glaring omission than Savage.

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From: Jakyl25 | #032

I'm pretty sure they legitimately want Bruno in the Hall. I don't doubt that. He's an even bigger glaring omission than Savage.

No, just no.

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From: Regaro_Ukiera |
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Well if you take Hall of FAME literally then sure, Savage is more famous than Bruno, but by any other criteria Bruno wins.

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CM Punk vs Bruno Sammartino at Wrestlemania for the WWE Championship.

If Punk retains, they add 2,803 days to his reign's length.

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Jakyl25 posted...

Well if you take Hall of FAME literally then sure, Savage is more famous than Bruno, but by any other criteria Bruno wins.

Savage is more famous true. But this is like Pete Rose not being in the MLB hall of fame despite being the hits king. Its a huge glaring omission that brings the credibility ofthe whole idea into question.

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To compare it to another sport, take two famous Celtics.

Larry Bird is certainly more famous these days than Bill Russell, but if neither was in the Hall of Fame, it would be somewhat more outrageous that Russell was excluded, even though both guys are first ballot material.

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So I am catching up on my internets and looking into that PWR thing from last topic, and I gotta say my interest is kinda piqued! This Underground thing has room for improvement (get a second announcer and balance the sound better for starters) but it reminds me of the old WMAC stuff I liked as a kid.

-I like how they have a guy named Jobs. And another guy named Blades. I will be upset if they don't live up to their names. :\
-I like the format a lot. They have a match and some promos, allowing them to quickly set up characters I'm interested in following before my attention span runs out.
-I want a match with the guy who said he is the Underground. THAT'S GIMMICK INFRINGEMENT
-did they forget to tell 1600 that the SAT goes to 2400 now
-I'm...curious how exactly this is going to "tie in" to the main universe.
-So the "prodigal son" is a guy named Stone? What are the odds that somebody in creative is a TEW fan?
-WE'RE DEFINITELY GONNA FIGHT.
-I am kinda annoyed that they have spent this much time going on about Stone COMING BACK OMG PW3 without actually going into why this is a big deal.
-Announcer couldn't make up his mind whether Shana was about to turn heel or whether they're a sweet couple. C'mon now.
-This makes me wanna start some TEW games. >_>

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No biggy, hold on a sec

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Savage is only famous because of his commercials. They should just induct the President of Slim Jim into the celebrity hall of fame instead.

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From: Tom Bombadil | #038
-I'm...curious how exactly this is going to "tie in" to the main universe.
I think it just more or less establishes the question of whether or not the wrestling in the WRP universe is "fake" like it is in our universe or not. Clearly it's not.

The Underground in that sense firmly establishes that in that universe, when elite fighters fight, the end result looks a lot like what we would consider a pro wrestling match.

-Announcer couldn't make up his mind whether Shana was about to turn heel or whether they're a sweet couple. C'mon now.
Since this was filmed she's been signed to FCW, btw.

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Armando Estrada, who has been under contract to WWE for the past eighteen months and only used on television once (as a manager for Tyson Kidd on the May 26, 2011 episode of WWE Superstars), announced Monday his departure from the sports entertainment organization. He writes:

"Espérate ... Espérate ... Espérate ...

Everybody, listen to me!

I would like to take this opportunity to let everyone in the wrestling world know that on 6/27/12, I was released from my contract with WWE.

Ahahaha

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I don't understand how they couldn't use Armando Estrada. I thought he was a great manager.

Getting back to Bruno Sammartino, hasn't he and Vince been on bad terms since the 80s? I could have swore that there were problems between the two shortly after Vince took over the company. Wasn't there a problem with David Sammartino not getting over, or something?

If that's not the case, then I do know that they weren't exactly on great terms when they were on the Phil Donahue Show back in '92.

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Actually had more to do with the fact that they were willing to manipulate David and his goals in order to squeeze more blood out of Bruno, which left a pretty sour taste.

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UPDATE: Sammartino's rep, Sal Correnete, has issued the following statement:

It has come to our attention that someone has claimed that Bruno was unimpressed with Triple H. That is an absolutely false statement Bruno had no issue what so ever with Triple H. He liked Triple H and enjoyed their conversation but for reasons personal to Bruno he has decided not to accept the induction in NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM IS THE REFUSAL A REFLECTION ON TRIPLE H or his presentation or conversations with Bruno.

Well okay then

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