5 Times WWE Superstars refused to travel with someone

#4 Bruno Sammartino refused to travel with certain WWE Superstars

Bruno Sammartino held the WWE Championship for a combined 4,040 days

WWE legend Bruno Sammartino did not hold back whenever he gave his opinion on WWE’s reputation in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The 2013 WWE Hall of Fame inductee appeared on several American talk shows to discuss the drug and steroid issues that many WWE Superstars had around that period of time.

Speaking on Donahue in March 1992, Sammartino said the WWE environment had completely changed compared to his days as a wrestler between 1959 and 1981.

The Italian-American explained that Vince McMahon once asked him to travel to Arizona and New Mexico to replace another WWE Superstar who, in Sammartino’s words, was “out of it”.

Sammartino said he refused to travel with anybody on the WWE roster who used drugs, so McMahon asked Jay Strongbow to drive with him to shows.

“So he arranged for this other old time wrestler, Jay Strongbow, for me to travel with him because I wouldn’t be in a car [with WWE Superstars who had drugs], because I was always afraid of a car being stopped full of drugs. And he said to me, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll get the agent to rent the car so you can go around with him.’”

Sammartino, who passed away in 2018 at the age of 82, originally declined WWE’s offer to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

However, after witnessing the positive changes that the company had made both on-screen and off-screen, he accepted Triple H’s offer to become part of the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013.