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Originally Posted by teejayC
I feel that somehow Bruno gets overrated here (compared to the other old timers) but can't really hate on the pick. I wouldn't have taken him until at least the third round though.
Bruno went 28th and 26th in the last two drafts, so this was a big jump for him. I definitely had designs on nabbing him on the way back at #21.
I think the reason he gets more love than other old-timers in drafts is that it takes very little to translate him into modern wrestling as far as ringwork is concerned. He wrestled up until the 80's, nearly overlapping with the WrestleMania era. Wrestlers who thrived like six decades ago were really competing in a different physical activity and it's harder to mentally transplant them into the modern day.
Bruno would probably be no great shakes in the ring today (from what I've watched, he never really was), but he at least looks like he'd easily fall into the "carryable by good workers" category.