Former AWA World Heavyweight Champion, Larry Zbyszko will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as announced today.
Zbyszko was a former WWF Tag Team Champion in the late 70’s, but it was a heel turn on his mentor, Bruno Sammartino that catapulted Zbyszko to the main event. The feud would culminate in a steel cage match at Shea Stadium, where they would place over 30,000 people to the facility.
Zbyszko would leave the WWF and become a mainstay in the Minnesota based American Wrestling Association where he would become their Heavyweight Champion, and would in fact be their last champion. He would later go to WCW and become a Tag Team Champion there, and would become a successful broadcaster for the company.
Like the earlier announcement of Alundra Blayze to the Hall of Fame, this one was not expected as of a few years ago, as Zbyszko has been adamant for years about his hatred toward the WWE and to Vince McMahon in general. Last year, “The Living Legend” signed a legends deal with the WWE, indicating that fences had been mended, and once again in the WWE, hell froze over.
Never say never, right Vince?
Larry Zbyszko to the WWE HOF
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16 Mar
2015
2015
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