Sammartino began exercising at the local ... front of nearly 20,000 fans at the old Madison Square Garden. Bruno held the WWE Championship for nearly eight years, by far the longest reign of ...

Buddy Rogers is fondly remembered for being the first-ever WWE Champion in history. Rogers was 42 when his reign as WWE ...

An Icon amongst Icon’s, Bruno Sammartino has passed away. RIP Bruno. My thoughts and prayers are with his family today. The @WWE Championship turns 55 years old next week. Bruno Sammartino ...

Legends like Bruno Sammartino had built up reputations for ... Sammartino's over seven-year reign as WWE Champion is a record that will likely never be broken, but it did come to a shocking ...

Before Bruno Sammartino started his nearly eight-year World Wide Wrestling Federation Championship reign in ... the belt in her attic, and when WWE archivist Ben Brown received the news, he ...

One of the greatest stars to grace a WWE ring, Bruno Sammartino holds the record for the longest WWE Championship reign in history at 2,803 days. On May 17, 1963, Sammartino defeated Buddy Rogers ...

Bruno Sammartino And Antonino Rocca Were The Two ... A lot was made of the fact that Sheamus was the first Irish-born WWE ...