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The details of his passing were minimal at the time, but we now know the 82-year old's cause of death. Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that Sammartino's death was due to multiple organ failures which stemmed from heart issues.
18 apr 2018 · WWE Hall of Famer Bruno Sammartino died on Wednesday at the age of 82 in Pittsburgh. Tributes from the world of wrestling began flocking in shortly after news of Sammartino's passing, with...
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18 apr 2018 · On Aug. 9, 1980, Sammartino defeated his former protégé, Larry Zbyszko, inside a steel cage at New York City’s Shea Stadium in front of more than 35,000 people. The heated grudge match broke box-office records for wrestling events, and Bruno retired from the ring the following year.
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18 apr 2018 · Sammartino suffered a broken neck when he was dropped on his head by Hansen in 1976 at the Garden. Sammartino’s family fled a Nazi invasion of his village in Italy and he hid with his mother in a mountain during the German occupation.
18 apr 2018 · Bruno Sammartino, who fled his Nazi-occupied hometown before emigrating to the US where he became an icon of professional wrestling, has died.
18 apr 2018 · 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...
18 apr 2018 · PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bruno Sammartino, professional wrestling's "Living Legend" and one of its longest-reigning champions, has died. Sammartino was 82. Family friend and former wrestling announcer Christoper Cruise said Sammartino died Wednesday morning and had been hospitalized for two months.
