Bruno Sammartino & Paul Orndorff vs Roddy Piper & Bob Orton Jr. 

Piper was a comedic genius!! He could rattle out insults & 1-liners like a "Machine Gun".. get the reference there??😁

I met RRP and he was so cool! RIP RRP!

On their feet the whole time

@@arriuscalpurniuspiso Facts

No one better than piper with the eye poke lol

Reminds me of Flair, he'd be begging off his opponent and then thumb poke to the eye.

Stephen Shkuratoff wrestling in the 1980's was the best!

I grew up in the 70's and 80's when networks like PRISM in Philadelphia and MSG Network in New York City used to broadcast their cards live at the Spectrum or MSG on those channels too. Not anymore sadly. I feel fortunate to have grown up when I did. Days like this are gone forever sadly. Philly crowds ALWAYS make RAWs or SmackDowns or PPVs great today but I really miss these days. RIP Bruno 😢😢😢😢😢

No cell phones. Just pure focus on the match

80s WWF is by far way better than WWE bullcarp of today

Yeah but Bruno was forced to work by Vince so that his son could get matches. Bruno hated this run in the WWF.

49!!!!!👏👏👏💪👍 Handsome!!! Remember.... 🙏🙏🙏🙏

He would turn 50 a month later.

I'M 65 years young!!

These guys were amazing. This is a total brawl

It's funny how that works.

Ya think????

Nothing gets by

and guys sold, hardly any high spots, not a ton of false finishes and kicking out of finishing moves

This is another example of McMahon asking Bruno to put the tights on, when the WWF was making its transition and the money wasn't quite right. Vince knew that wherever Sammartino appeared he would have a sellout crowd. The shameful part of this is that Vince used Bruno's work in the ring as leverage. At this time David Sammartino was wrestling and Vince would guarantee David's position as long as Dad Bruno would continue to wrestle. Bruno is in his 50's here, look at him go. Some people question why he is listed as the greatest of all time. Here is an example of his body of work. Long after volunteering to lose the championship twice, he's back in the ring helping the company in hard times. Nobody wanted the Bruno era to end. Thank goodness we have RU-vid to remind us of what wrestling used to be like. Good guys vs villain heals. Not acrobats who come back in a match after having their brains knocked out ! Look at the RU-vid testimonies of Stan Hansen, Bill Watts, and Nikolai Volkoff on their respect for the talents of Bruno Sammartino.

Also Bruno was moving well. When he was champ he was heavier and slow because of injuries. On the video he's thirty pounds lighter and well rested. Also still worked out. Kowalski must have been his inspiration.

Very true and WWE has nothing even remotely close to a Roddy Piper today

@@georgeiron8399 true - the video of Piper interview in the ring with Bruno was at a time when the performance was judged by the amount of items thrown into the ring and on that particular night it was a "shower" of success -

These guys knew what they were doing ,it wasn't just doing somersaults off the top rope and trying to look pretty

@@georgeiron8399 4 good workers!

No working Bruno beat the hell out of them

He was one of the all time best, R.I.P.🙏❤️

Ric Flair would soon emulate that

@@pc8679 WOOOO!👍

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There can be only one Rowdy Roddy Piper and he left us for a better world.

I think he's the only guy to have done that

Well its WCW but Hogan coming back in the red and yellow after nWo and owning just by a song. Or the opposite way when he turned heel. In WWF he was supposed to be a heel when he came back in 02 but fans wouldn't let hin

Master Psychologist

@@TheLifeisaParade Stone Cold Steve Austin did that in the late '90s

We like him no matter what.

Bruno was a horse. He came to America from war-torn Europe (defeated fascist Italy) when he was about 7 and trained and worked hard to help his folks.

Oh yeah...! I’m just noticing😂 hey, that was the manliest color back in those days..!😁

Even Bruno wore blue👏😅

They make a lot more money coming back a month later in a return match. Another sellout in the 17,000 seat Spectrum.

Iron Mike Sharpe as well, these guys were the ultimate professionals.

The Public Enemy originated the tables match, not the Dudley Boyz!

No padding on the floor. Just running on concrete floors

Damn was there as well, got pictures from my floor seats. Loved at the end they turned lights on Orton and Piper.

Yeah nor do they say literally when they mean figuratively

I still remember the late, great Gordon Solie with "We've got a pier-sixer going now!"

Oh shut yer mouth!

Bruno looks like a tank

The ref was Joey Morello the son of Gorilla Monsoon aka Gino Morello.

What guts by Ace...

Dude it's a gimmick. He had that cast for like 3 years

@@joespitler3929 It became part of his character but in January of 1985 he legitimately suffered an arm injury as part of the War to Settle the Score. He was on the undercard that night(the non televised portion) and hurt his arm in a match against Jimmy Snuka

@@paulsonj72 i just remember as a kid, he had that cast on for years

@@joespitler3929 And according to Wikipedia(not the greatest source) Orton himself said on WWE Confidential that the injury never fully healed until 1987 when he left the WWF

Orndorff brought some acrobatics. Some top rope jumps and elbows

Security always tight in Philadelphia, especially for a Sammartino or Strongbow match. They were beloved.

Don Rio These four legends are going out of the way to sell this match. The crowd is gobbling up every second of it.