Super Show! Albano on His Wild Acting Career Captain Lou Albano wore many hats over the years! On right: as Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Chris could probably go in and beat half these guys. I think Ivan would have made it in any era. He slimmed down…he’s a great conditioned guy. Originally when Ivan Koloff started out, his name was Red McNulty. 2 Inter-Continental, and 1 world champion, Ivan Koloff. I managed Andre the Giant and a fellow named Don Muraco. I’ve had 17 tag team champions- the Valiants were 2-time world champions the Samoans were 3-time world champions The Lumberjacks, The Blackjacks Fuji and Saito the British Bulldogs, among others. My first managing job was in 1969 when I handled Crusher Verdu, and that was the first sellout in the new Madison Square Garden, which they’re working now against Bruno Sammartino, who I consider one of the living legends of all-time. There were so many greats out there that I admire more than the wrestlers of today. You should realize that they’re in there to make money just like you are, but let’s get back to the old days with a little more actual wrestling rather than all the Mickey Mouse stuff going on. I believe you should respect other wrestlers. All of a sudden, Tony’s 5 to 6 years younger than me! But hey, he’s been a friend for some 35 or 38 years along with a lot of these fellows like John Tolos and Bruno Sammartino.
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He’s also doing the coordinating for a movie called Calhoun County down in Atlanta, helping them with the stunt work. Tony was a very funny guy and a talented individual.
Without a doubt, Bruno Sammartino is one of the legends of wrestling who made wrestling what it is today.Īnd I have to say I admire more of the old-time wrestlers-the tag-teams of The Tolos Brothers and The Valiants. I met Gorgeous George years after his prime, but he was right up there with Tarzan Tyler in the old days, another good friend that I managed. I watched him, and he was very, very talented with his feet and so forth. Then I’ve got to say Argentina Rocca was one of the greats of all-time. And to look at Kowalski, who at the time-weighted 290- that was a legend. I’d never wrestled before in front of 17-18,000. When he walked into the ring against Édouard Carpentier, I’ll be honest with you I was in awe.
Years ago, in one of my earlier matches, I was up in the Forum in 1953 with Killer Kowalski. I got to work with and enjoyed watching some of the all-time greats. I wrestled singly, and then I teamed up with Tony Altimore, and we wrestled for some 13 years together as a tag team. This is the first time this interview is available in digital form. These excerpts are his thoughts on his wild and wildly successful wrestling career and the acting fame that stemmed from it.
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In this stream of consciousness interview, originally published in my Wrestling- Then & Now sheet, I managed to squeeze in a few questions while "the guiding light," "the manager of champions," "the Captain" regaled me with his thoughts on everything from politics to religion, to his film and charity work, and of course, pro wrestling. The talent-laden but money-losing promotion ran from 1990 until Abrams’s death in 1996.
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On February 15, 1991, I was honored to interview one of my wrestling heroes in Captain Lou Albano backstage at Herb Abrams ill-fated Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF) TV tapings at the Pental Hotel in New York City. When a Bruno Sammartino or Chief Jay Strongbow clocked him, and he floundered like a fish out of water on the canvas, the 22,000-strong roared, the building shook, and for that moment, good had triumphed over evil, and all was good in the world. The mega-heat Lou generated at Madison Square Garden was almost beyond description. If you grew up in the old WWWF territory, the late-great Captain Lou Albano was one of the Three Wise Men of the East, along with Fred Blassie and The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, immortal heel managers who are forever etched in our childhood memories.
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