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@ericfellner35242 жыл бұрын
One of the best heels ever in the WWF and AWA.
@mayormc3 жыл бұрын
I saw Larry Z. at a house show in 1980 and the heat was unreal. The crowd was drunk and riotous throwing beers and a woman tried to jump into the ring and attack him and had to be dragged away by three cops likely off to the nuthouse. It was hilarious. People went ape.
@jsneller1985able3 жыл бұрын
This is SUCH an amazing interview. I grew up watching in the mid 90s to 2000s, but the heat he took from this and the chemistry for these matches is unbelievable. Sammartino, a grizzled vet, would rather hold a choke longer and inflict punishment on Zbyszko than to win the wrestling match. And the crowd could sympathize with Bruno and understand why he did it, making Larry hated even more for making Bruno stoop that low. Amazing.
@rex7883 жыл бұрын
Greatest HEEL turn ever. So good.
@raider77823 жыл бұрын
Yes it was.
@Stagetwothroatcancer3 жыл бұрын
Mark, the greatest heel turn of all time is when hogan formed the nwo with hall and nash
@raider77823 жыл бұрын
@@Stagetwothroatcancer fact
@bloodlegion48743 жыл бұрын
@@Stagetwothroatcancer It was a great heel turn no doubt but Hogan wasn’t as beloved as Bruno and plus Larry was “trained” by Bruno was like a “brother” to Bruno. Hogan gave his longtime enemy Randy Savage a legdrop which was not so big as Larry hitting his best friend his brother Bruno over the head with a chair. I say Larry’s heel turn was definitely the biggest of all time. Again Hogan was big too I respect that
@davidmeichner83463 жыл бұрын
Along with Hogan
@Davepool-hs7vr2 жыл бұрын
People having heart attacks watching wrestling back then. That was when wrestling was believable.
@aaajimmyb74723 жыл бұрын
The living legend Larry zabisco was so over as a heal he should had won the wwf championship from Bob backland and it would have seen even bigger than hulk hogan beating the iron shek. Larry was fantastic in and out of the ring he was a promo machine. Thank you for post this
@jackjd8106 Жыл бұрын
Yes. Beating Backland after the Bruno heal turn would have been the best heal champion ever.
@philaman19723 жыл бұрын
I was 8 in 1980, but remember the classic Larry heel turn! Wrestling back then was about subtlety coupled with psychology. Of course, society was a lot different back then as well .Also, today we talk about the "Mr. McMahon" character but back then, Vince was a really good announcer!
@stanr25743 жыл бұрын
Larry Zybysko was one my favorite old school wrestlers. I remember watching him hitting Bruno with the chair and then went to the Pittsburgh Civic Arena to watch them fight in a Steel Cage Match. They were the best days of wrestling .
@sharps63 жыл бұрын
I loved Larry and the AWA back in the 80’s. The feud with Bruno was always talked about and I had to rent a VHS tape to get up to speed. All the blood on Bruno freaked me out as a kid! That chair Larry used was larger than normal. I’ll never forget that and Zbyszko’s nunchucks!
@trapperdan3 жыл бұрын
@@sharps6 find the video of Larry just destroying Bockwinkle in St Paul....BRUTAL
@sharps63 жыл бұрын
@@trapperdan Thanks I’ll look for it!
@sharps63 жыл бұрын
@@trapperdan Yeouch! I’m sure Ledoux and Bockwinkel needed some aspirin after that nunchuck beatdown!
@robertpeacock8942 жыл бұрын
Larry was also recently found to be the guy who named the NWO, and told Scott Hall to come out the crowd! He is a wrestling genius!
@josemontano77673 жыл бұрын
I never understand why Larry didn’t come back to the WWF after his run with Bruno.
@robertpeacock8942 жыл бұрын
He would’ve made a good interim champ during Bob Backlund’s reign. Someone to knock Bob down and make him come back for a big match.
@jlmartinez84822 жыл бұрын
He burned bridges with the McMahons. Larry screwed himself with too many demands. He didn't want to lose to Pedro Morales cuz Bruno didn't pin him. That's ridiculous ! Pedro was a WWWF champ. Bruno wrestled Morales to a draw so I don't understand Larry's logic. Guess he thought he was elite.
@gregorykrug8034 Жыл бұрын
I never understood why they did not have Zbyszko feud with Backlund, and win the strap after his feud with Bruno. Larry had so much heat!
@josephvitielo16937 ай бұрын
Think it was good he left He was getting real threats for his safety
@Dac543 ай бұрын
I was at Shea Stadium on August 9th, 1980; the steel cage match between Bruno and Larry was the last match of the evening. The place went nuts numerous times that evening, but that steel cage match was something special. Earlier, during and after the fifth match on the card, Lou Albano, as only he could do, managed to whip the crowd into a near-riot (at least in my section, which was near field level between home plate and first base) with his antics after the Wild Samoans were defeated by Bob Backlund and Pedro Morales, thereby losing the tag team championship belts.
@liljo911xxx2 жыл бұрын
Love him or hate him... Larry is a master entertainer..
@JustinTyme333 жыл бұрын
I was 9 years old and had just started watching wrestling when this classless protege betrayed his mentor.
@gothchicksbongrips57122 жыл бұрын
What was it like as a young fan from that era
@JustinTyme332 жыл бұрын
@@gothchicksbongrips5712 good for my vocabulary. I learned two new words right away, protege and mentor. Lol. It was great back then. In 1980 I saw Bruno fight Larry Zbysko in a Texas death match at the Boston Garden. I saw Hulk Hogan body slam Andre The Giant. Every month we went to the matches at the Boston Garden and it really all began for me because of the betrayal of Bruno by Larry. I was hooked instantly.
@briankregg63292 жыл бұрын
Larry had that attitude that just made you want to hate him, it was exactly what a heel should be, Tully Blanchard the same
@abelaldrich7831Ай бұрын
Bruno was so over at not just being a wrestling hero but icon as a person just a true great man RIP Bruno
@murdiesel2 жыл бұрын
Larry you are and were a genius! You guys worked that angle and then ran with it!
@jasonfaber14633 жыл бұрын
I was in the Spectrum with the Cage Match between Bruno and Superstar Billy Graham. That match George Steele talked about in an interview recently. That match was around 1977. The Animal said how close Bruno and Graham were going to change the outcome of the match to prevent Backlund from winning the belt the following Monday in MSG. I too felt all that emotion in the audience. The audience was so into the match.
@candyb3573 ай бұрын
Graham wanted to fake a leg injury so Bruno could walk out as the winner and champion and Bruno begged him not to do it. Bruno didn’t want to be champion again. He wanted to ease into retirement and not take on a full schedule again.
@raygordonteacheschess55018 ай бұрын
I saw the actual chair smash on Channel 9! Then saw the cage match at Shea in 1980. Epic!
@chriszenko63553 жыл бұрын
I was traumatizes as a kid when Larry turned on his mentor Bruno it was the talk of the town
@jrupp88533 жыл бұрын
As Cornette said, the horse has left the barn and is never coming back. Meaning, nobody will ever take pro wrestling this serious ever again.
@swmita3 жыл бұрын
@n\a wait Larry Z said what?
@swmita3 жыл бұрын
@n\a I was being sarcastic to whom I though made the comments you mentioned. Apparently it was Corney who was mocking Trump supporters.
@GOTTAMIKE6 ай бұрын
I remember this episode on the weekly wrestling show and then we went to the cage match at the Capital Center where Bruno got his revenge. It was as wild as he says.
@Ken-uo7iw3 ай бұрын
The 1st & maybe only Capital Center wrestling show that sold out. WWWF had previously averaged 4-5,000.
@RBoskey19672 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the memories
@GhostManBrandonDDpre Жыл бұрын
That really was the greatest heel turn of all time. The heat was scary. Larry could have set Tony Garea's house on fire or set Strongbow on fire, and it would not have been as much white heat as stabbing Bruno in the back. People would have cheered the Sheik against him. Years later, when Larry was in the AWA, I saw him wrestle David Sammartino and Bob Backlund in matches on the East Coast and the crowd still hated his guts, just like 1980.
@lance690 Жыл бұрын
What happened to that video of Larry speaking about Frank Sinatra and the mob guy that was a great one great one please put that up I can't find it and thank you very much for all your videos
@markbrodie2784 Жыл бұрын
Luv the heel turn of Zbyscko--one of the best! And love the general Jim Cornette.....I drove him in a limo back in the mid 1990's--a really cool guy!
@arochelle90742 жыл бұрын
Larry Zabyszko was a really good wrestler….i remember his heel turn like it was yesterday
@ginamunroe18983 жыл бұрын
Love Larry! I remember this happening when I was a kid. :)
@robbiemiller58003 жыл бұрын
Me too
@thomasredmond57933 жыл бұрын
i must ask if you have the historic knowledge of it, do you know what the storyline that involved the reason behind Zbysko's heel turn on bruno?
@ginamunroe18983 жыл бұрын
Hi, I read Larry's book and he said he wanted a storyline that he was frustrated being Bruno's protege and wanted to do his own thing, and that's why he turned on him. Of course, they were still friends in real life
@cirenosnor57682 жыл бұрын
Thomas Redmond - Can verify that Gina is correct. I watched the storyline play out week after week on tv. I was round 14 years old, lived in Nyc (still do, Native New Yorker) Larry was frustrated with being in Bruno’s shadow and identified as being Bruno’s protégée. Think he was even often called “Little Bruno” If I remember correctly, leading up to the heel turn, the commentators played up Larry being Bruno’s protégé whenever he was in the ring. Would also introduce him as being Bruno’s protégé when being interviewed and Larry would act annoyed by it to help build the storyline Like so many, Bruno was my favorite. I sat and watched the heel turn on tv and was distraught. Couldn’t sleep hoping he was ok and couldn’t wait till the next tv show after the heel turn to hear Larry explain his actions and get a update on Bruno. Think Bruno wasn’t interviewed the next week to help build the suspense. All we got was a rant from Larry justifying turning on his mentor. Great storyline and my vote for vest heel turn based on the fact that kayfabe wasn’t dead yet. We believed it
@JoeMamaLlama12343 жыл бұрын
There are some people who just don't age and Larry looks the same here as he did in wcw in the late 90s
@GeorgeD1965 Жыл бұрын
Not surprised that people were shocked, back then, chair shots were very rare
@brianconnelly12382 жыл бұрын
Larry Zbysko, when he tuned on Bruno Sammartino (CORRECT ME IF I'M WONG) But, it might have been ONE of the first swerves, if not, THE very first swerve ever in the professional wrestling industry.... (AT THE MAIN EVENT LEVEL anyway... After that happened, when Zbysko turned on Bruno, it sparked the entire territory, all the fans, all the publications, they were talking Bruno Sammartino/Larry Zbysko
@josephvitielo16937 ай бұрын
Spirios Arion Turner on Bruno also but less heat than Larrys turn
@voxpox18503 жыл бұрын
The WWF needed this feud to draw attendance. Champ Backlund couldn't draw on his own.
@MrAitraining3 жыл бұрын
Fake news. Bob drew well in 1980. The heels had the real heat then. No one was a better worker than Bob Backlund. By the last 2 yrs of his reign, the opponents were shit.
@voxpox18503 жыл бұрын
@@MrAitraining So Backlund gets credit for Bruno vs. Zbyszko, The Samoans and the return of Pedro Morales? Fairly typical Backlund fan response.
@briankregg63292 жыл бұрын
Backlund drew because it was so perfect, he was good but there was always the believably that he could lose tonight especially to the larger than life heels he faced
@brodocbetty4856 Жыл бұрын
I clearly remember this match, My Mom and brother went to the match when it came to Phila I think it sold out in a day. It was hot as fire at the time.
@grahamkilpatrick48623 жыл бұрын
Just watched the Cage Match from Shea! Love Larry!
@JohnDoe-wb4iv2 жыл бұрын
Larry should have been world champ cause every arena anywhere he wrestled would have been filled for capacity for years Larry would have. been rich n McMahon super rich not from loving fans like for Bruno but from hated fans that wanted to see Larry get his
@rugger1042 жыл бұрын
In the old days, these guy’s were real masters of psychology.
@peterrevilla69573 жыл бұрын
The best heel turn ever !!!! Great feud
@odinquincannon42372 ай бұрын
I was at Shea Stadium. If I ever doubted my Dad loved me, the proof is that he took me to Shea, not for the Mets (we loved the Mets) but for wrestling which he always made fun of and didn’t have any time for. Dealt with three hours of it for me anyway.
@larry30647 ай бұрын
I always felt that Larry was one of the greatest technical wrestlers of all time.
@joeyanoschik721 Жыл бұрын
To think Larry Zbyszko, with his multiple titles around the world, deep martial arts studies and volcanic heat, may not have been the greatest wrestling Zbyszko of all.
@briankregg63292 жыл бұрын
When he hit Bockwinkle with numb chucks it’s was insane also
@NicolasBowling3 күн бұрын
Can anyone tell me how I can watch this entire story? Like beginning to end? I have peacock. What date do I start and watch show?
@azapro9112 жыл бұрын
Heel turns hit differently in those days.
@nate978x Жыл бұрын
Larry the legend can pass for Steamboat twin
@brendanoneill14662 ай бұрын
I remember that match like yesterday. My mother watched it with me because I was so worked up about it. She had a great take on it. Bruno stayed the face, but he never followed through with anything. In retrospect it looks like he has next to no respect for Larry.
@robertbishop53574 ай бұрын
I think the 3 greatest heel tur b s are 1.) Zybysko on Bruno.........2.) Ole Anderson on Dusty........3.) Hogan's NWO turn.
@davidmeichner83463 жыл бұрын
Larry Legend
@desmondcastro36794 ай бұрын
I believe that when this created a ticket selling phenomenal idea, Ole Anderson has to do what he did to Dusty Rhodes later that summer.
@koffinradio3 жыл бұрын
LARRY LAND!!!
@eugenemalush92843 жыл бұрын
Best!!!!
@jackjd8106 Жыл бұрын
They should have have had him beat Buckland for the title after the Bruno fude.
@raygordonteacheschess55018 ай бұрын
The Showdown at Shea (1980) occurred because the Democratic National Convention had MSG for their normal dates.
@johnsawh84592 жыл бұрын
too bad Larry never got a run with the WWF title
@TheStikapos Жыл бұрын
Nobody like Larry. I remember the day vividly.
@RonSegan4 ай бұрын
I loved that match because Saartino was not a wrestler he could do no wrong
@xsqrewfacex3 ай бұрын
I am 43 and missed the heel turn but I remember hating him. He was the most arrogant sob I had ever seen at 6😂😂😂😂
@mikecozzi10402 жыл бұрын
😲 I have one question to ask Larry Zbyszko ? Did you ever get the opportunity to take on the Greatest Wrestler of all Times and the Most Dangerous Wrestler of all Times!? 😲 Dr David Schultz! 🇺🇲 I bet you didn't cause you would have had the greatest Ass Kicking of your life and you would be talking about the Greatest! 😲 Dr David Schultz! 🇺🇲
@sleazyfellow Жыл бұрын
You got that wrong. The greatest is Glacier, the cryonic kick was a devastating kick, a fatality but not as fatal. If that smelly hick Dr d got hit with it, he'd be loopy af, and probably go to San Francisco where alot of men dress like women, and REALLY become known as the real Dr D.
@mikecozzi1040 Жыл бұрын
@@sleazyfellow 😳 Don't you trash talk! Dr David Schultz! is a family kind of guy! 😲I agree with what you say about San Francisco! A lot of peculiar and queer people, that are not dressed for church! 😲 You may want to stay OUT of San Francisco! and Thanks for Sharing!
@robertrodriguez787 Жыл бұрын
What do you have you Lips on David ass. Go Back To Playing With Your Wrestling Dolls .(OOPS ) I'm sorry I meant Your Action Figures and Leave The Grown Talk To Grown Folks. Mikey
@JohnDoe-wb4iv2 жыл бұрын
Larry I hated u too but wrestling would have even Superbowl capacity
@patrickkelley6212 Жыл бұрын
Probably, the most hated wrestler of all-time!
@AgnesCarpenter-p1o9 күн бұрын
Williams Patricia Walker Amy Martinez Jason
@richardphillips6205 Жыл бұрын
And Brittany Russian criminal the wnba basketball player was crying people were calling her names.
@jameskelly56724 ай бұрын
Larry beat Bruno like a dog
@madbrowniac7871 Жыл бұрын
Stanislaus! He gets so forgotten about. And in his prime he was as renowned and as impressive as Thesz, Sammartino, or Gagne. 😂🤔😉🎤💪🤼♂️B.W.
@bb-gc2tx3 жыл бұрын
one of the best of the timeline series by kayfabe comm. nash 1995 timeline is the best id put this second