http://www.cooldudesandhotbabes.com/legends.html
Great bio’s on the legends.
Archive for August, 2006
http://www.cooldudesandhotbabes.com/bruno.html
Bruno
Sammartino
The place: New York’s famed Madison Square
Garden. The time: May 17, 1963. He wore the world’s heavyweight championship
belt for the first time in his life, four years after turning into a professional
wrestler. Since then he had held that title for fourteen years, undefeated except
on one occasion in 1971. He was a consummate athlete, and he commanded respect
from friend and foe alike. He held a wrestling attendance record in Australia
for selling out twenty-one consecutive nights and he once drew in an estimated
crowd of 40,000 fans in a bull ring in Caracas, Venezuela. It’s no surprise
that Bruno Sammartino is truly known as wrestling’s living legend!
Bruno was born in Abruzzi, Italy
and immigrated here to the United States at age 15. His lifelong dream since
age 8 was to become a wrestler. He idolized a Greco-Roman wrestler named Batisti
who represented Italy in the Olympics
in the 30’s. He loved amateur wrestling, but he said it’s not really a spectator
sport because it didn’t have any thrills or surprises. In pro wrestling, you
have to add a lot of stuff to make it exciting. While going to high school during
the day, Bruno worked out constantly at a local gym in Pittsburgh where he lived.
His first job while living here in America
was as a construction worker and during the evening he wrestled at various arenas.
He finally turned pro in 1959. Then on May 17, 1963, Bruno defeated Nature
Boy Buddy Rogers to capture the WWWF
Heavyweight
Wrestling Championship and from that night on he successfully
defended his title with such enthusiasm and tenacity that no other wrestler
could ever hope to defeat him.
That is, until he met “The Russian Bear”
Ivan Koloff. Koloff became the new heavyweight champion by defeating Sammartino
on January 18, 1971 in Madison Square Garden. It was a night of humiliation
for Bruno and a night of victory for Koloff who boasted and bragged about how
he became the only man to ever defeat Sammartino, and that Bruno was no living
legend.
And from that night emerged a devastating
feud that would become historic in the annals of professional wrestling. Koloff
subsequently lost the title to Pedro Morales at Madison Square Garden a month
later on February 8, and Morales held the belt for two years, then lost it to
Stan “The Man” Stasiak. Stasiak held the title for a mere nine days before losing
to Sammartino on December 10,1973. The living legend then became the first two-time
WWWF champion.
Throughout his entire career, Bruno has
met and fought challenger after challenger and emerged victorious in the WWWF.
Most of his matches have been grueling and sometimes have ended in controversy.
But no matter the outcome, Bruno has defended his title.
I agree with tribecanet
that this has some “Censors claiming to deplore censorship”, but its worth a read now and then for info purposes.
Blimey!
http://www.machine-envy.com/blog/
This is a top-notch blog by Becky Hogge who is a freelance writer and researcher. From her Portfolio/About page:
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http://news.com.com/2300-1026_3-6033210-11.html?tag=ne.gall.pg
Before Couric shed them pounds, Oprah did it to the point she looked like Ann Margaret! Hehheheh.
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06
kalma23s reviews – StumbleUpon
http://kalma23.stumbleupon.com/
A paranoid conspiracy nut of a stumbler, or one of the growing few that understands that what we have been led to believe about the governments of the world has been one big sham.
Read the info on his alternate-news links and follow them up to verify. Only then will you realize there’s a lot of suppressed truth that is finding its way to the surface, thanks to efdforts by the likes of kalma23
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/07/reuters.photog.reut/
From the page: “Reuters says Mideast photographer doctored shots“
Man, the doctoring of journalism stops not at Katie Couric, but thats been known for a while by us skeptics.
http://www.users.bigpond.com/daniel1977/kits.htm
Mess with my poodle, will ya?!? Go ahead punk, make his day! Woof!!!
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From the page: “Want to look thinner? Taller? Tanner? Don’t worry, there’s a camera for all that.
Today’s cameras will let you do more than adjust the flash; they’ll let you adjust reality. Photo-adjusting features that once required a PC and special know-how are now allowing consumers to alter a photo as soon as it’s snapped.”
http://www.hp.com/united-states/consumer/digital_photography/tours/slimming/index_f.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083002853.html
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