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They are hyping a Larry Z/David Sammartino feud. I want to laugh at how stuck in the past this promotion is, but I suppose it's no worse than anything Eric Bischoff has been a part of in the last few years.

Larry Z is still clinging to his World Championship dreams and cuts one of the most bombastic, over-the-top promos of his career. Not a bad promo, but his talk of David talking to God about the secret to life was verging on Warrior-esque.

Larry Z talks about retiring Bruno Sammartino ten years ago. Get over it dude. I am surprised that David was still around at this point.

Good lord David sammartino is still being pushed at this point?

I think a push for David might have been the only way to get Bruno to be a part of the promotion. Bruno has said a few times that he would never have come back to the WWF in '84 if Vince hadn't promised to try to push David as far as he could. I get the feeling that, given his druthers, Bruno would have walked out of the business after his original retirement in '81 and never looked back. The only reason he stayed involved on any level was to try and get David a break.

 

The worst part of the whole Zbyszko "I retired Bruno" routine was that it was never even kayfabed to be true. Everyone knows that Bruno beat him to a pulp at Shea Stadium in August of '80 and didn't retire for the first time until over a year later, plus came back for limited runs in the mid-eighties. There's heel braggadocio and acceptable fudging of the truth to get over, and then there's the preposterous. Sure, he sounded obnoxious when he said it, but he also sounded delusional, and not in the usual way heels often are. He might have been taken more seriously if he'd dropped that part of his act, especially in the AWA, where it meant next to nothing anyway.

 

As for this feud, they're pushing it on the basis of Larry being jealous of David, the "chosen one". Can I ask you a question, Mr. Abrams? Which one of the two is still a current World champion (okay, so Verne's not promoting anymore, but we'll leave that aside for now), and which one would barely have gotten anywhere if Dad hadn't held a gun to the head of any promoter in the world who even thought about wanting to use him?

 

This feud might have actually worked better if Larry was the face and David was the heel, if you can believe it. Of course, Larry's much more fun as a total prick, plus they wanted to tease a possible confrontation with Bruno, so that had no chance of happening. But I could just imagine David whining about how Larry got everything because he could brag about retiring Bruno, while he got nothing but laughed at and abused, even with Bruno's so-called "help". It would have been an interesting dynamic, and Larry really wouldn't have had to change much when you think about it.

I thnk Lawler doing the "real world title" thing was much, much better after seeing this. Larry does what he can with it, he's just not on the same level.