UPI – April 18, 1981
By Chuck Moody
The man who is called ‘Professional Wrestling’s Living Legend’ would like to retire from the mat game, but Bruno Sammartinosays promoters around the world won’t let him.
‘The first time I really considered retirement was five years ago when I broke my neck in a championship match in Madison Square Garden against Stan Hansen,’ said Sammartino, who lives in Pittsburgh’s suburban North Hills. ‘I was told by neurosurgeons that I came within a millimeter of being paralyzed from the neck down.
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