Why Sammartino accepted WWE Hall of Fame offer

The newest WWE Hall of Famer Bruno Sammartino was interviewed in Pittsburg by KDKA-TV and was asked a few questions regarding his Hall of Fame induction.

When asked why he had declined the offers to be inducted into the Hall of Fame for this long, he said,

“So much steroids and unfortunately other drugs involved in that,” he said. “And I was very appalled by that. I hated seeing the game that I had been in for all those years come down to that. We started having some deaths and so forth, reported due to these drugs.”

But after WWE hired Pittsburgh neurosurgeon Joseph Maroon as the medical doctor, Sammartino felt that WWE had better chances of getting clean. According to him, Maroon was a very strict doctor when it came to testing drugs and hence he felt WWE had finally come clean. He said,

“And they do very strict drug testing. And just from watching it now, I can see that these guys are not on drugs.”

After years of stand off between the two, Triple H represented WWE and spoke to Sammartino about the offer to induct him into the Hall of Fame. Talks went well and on Monday this week, Sammartino finally agreed.