This is the match that for years was never seen but talked about in magazines all over the world. Its the WWF Title match where Superstar Graham won the belt from The Legend Bruno Sammartino. It was not a televised match (yes titles used to change hands with cameras present) and if I remember the story the match was filmed and Vince McMahon added commentary later. The crowd sound was also added later.
This was probably the biggest turning point in wreslting in the 1970s as the old school 60s Bruno gave way to the hipper 70s style Graham. The best thing to come out of this was that Bruno would leave the WWF for almost a year and travel to other promotions and one of those was Indianapolis. That was my first exposure to Bruno on tv. I had read about him in magazines but to see him on tv was a great experience. His tag team with Bruiser was second only to Bruiser and Crusher. I remember the crowd at the Expo center just going bonkers when Bruiser came out with Bruno behind him for a tag title match against the Valiants.
They had some classics against Ernie Ladd and Baron Von Raschke that I will try and find to post on here for your enjoyment.
Here are both parts of this 1977 title bought.
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