Style: A Life in the Ring - NYTimes.com/Video

[adamroth1960]

great guy...glad to see he didnt do drugs and mess up his life like so many other wrestlers.

[MrPurofan1]

Classy guy. More should follow his example.

[H3r0DuD3]

yo sean lol

[H3r0DuD3]

HE IS MY SPANISH TEACHER I DONT LIKE HIM

[scikovsky]

@H3r0DuD3 holy shit, brad?

[CVTom]

Tito was a great worker and one of my favorite wrestlers. It is good to see he is doing well.

[smgaydon]

I always liked Tito. He was a babyface for his whole career. He seemed like one of the few genuinely nice guys in a nasty sport/business filled with huge egos and drug addicts.

[mdhotstuff]

a stand up guy

[orion3448]

one of my favorite wrestlers growing up. he was great. i still think that match in the boston gardens against macho man for the inter continental championship is one of the greatest matches.

[holyrebels]

Chico was a great wrestler but the Macho Man was the greatest Intercontinental Champion of ALL time

[tetrakings]

I'm happy he's doing well for his family. Tito was one of my favorite wrestlers EVER. I'm latino and he represented himself well and prideful.

He has to stop wrestling now though, he's far from his Intercontinental championship physique.....he can get hurt out there now....and I'm sure he HAS.

He truly was and IS Class Personified.

[robbiegloverofficial]

When was this filmed? I see the upload as February 2009, in January 09 I spent a whole day with Tito & 14 other WWE legends from that era here in the UK & they were all great guys, Tito was sat with Rick 'The Model' Martel, we chatted & they were so nice, humble, lovely people, I'm so proud & happy to see that Tito has done so well & is in a great place right now, much love & blessings to him always!

[Derby14]

Tito won the first match in the history of Wrestlemania...and then went 0-7...a streak not as well publicized as Undertaker's

[prettybear765]

ya for once it's good to see a sucess story of a wrestler after wrestling insteed of the drugs and bad things very happy for tito he used his head not drugs and also stayed grounded even when everybody was telling him he was great just a genuine guy very refreshing in todays climate of old steroid destroyed drug dependent former stars congragulations and good luck tito

[SweetZombiJesus]

How humbling to see how focused and full of foresight he can be. Just wonderful.

[LoserMcGee99]

Good for him! Nice to see him doing well. :-)

[ayush709]

after much hyped status in wrestling still lives a simple life, great to see it.

[DoubleTalkingJive]

The morale of the story: Tito kept his nose clean and saved his money, and didn't end up broke and useless in the real world like so many other ex-wrestlers. Kudos, Tito!

[dp100eboggan]

His wife is really cute!



[ralfobob]

HE WAS MY SPANISH TEACHER!!!!!

[ayush709]

@ralfobob really! it's nice to having an inspirational teacher.

[citrussk8team]

@ralfobob mine to... but mr curet was my spanish teacher and mr solis was l;ike a new teach in some thing else with spanish

[simbadude6]

@ralfobob me to :3

[Jefgg]

ARRIBA!

[JohnnyBakery]

Tito was always a class act and a good worker. He always put the business first over his own personal success by not getting bent out of shape over heels making fun of his heritage and by putting a LOT of young guys over late in his career. I've never heard one wrestler say anything bad about Tito. Good luck, Tito. I'm glad you are well.

[trunkmonke1980]

$300,000 a year.  Not bad.

[VisionofOrion]

Tito was always a class act.

[Redneckman72]

ha this was my 4th grade qym teacher in bound brook new jersey

i thought my dad was just telling me a lie to get to listen in class



[romans52345]

@Redneckman72 When did he teach you gym? what year?

[Redneckman72]

@romans52345 i was in 4th or 5th grade so i think it was 1998 or 99 before i moved to washington twp and then to indiana yeah i remember that face cause it was his look of serious ness and thats how he taught he was a very good teacher one of my favorites

[romans52345]

@romans52345 did he go by the name mr. solis?

[UnholyMeatpuppet]

VINTAGE photos

[/michaelcole]

[DNotes06]

This video should be and MUST be watched by all wrestlers, past and present, as well as those that want to succeeed in this buisness. I understand and recognize that some may take and will take painkillers to deal with the bruises and muscle tears and so forth. However, that does not give you the right to be selfish and abuse them, or take cocaine, heroin, weed or whatever.

If Tito made it through this business without being broke or strung out, then so can anybody else!!!

[jrex47]

lol he teachest spanish in our school. nice guy. i recognize some of the kids in the video ;D

[JetFire0422]

One of the classiest wrestlers to ever step in the ring

[crocgirl101]

he was my spanish teacher... he's a creep

[eslubin]

@crocgirl101 sounds like someone got bad grades in that class

lol

[crocgirl101]

@eslubin lol i did very well actually =)

[JoeSchmoe2179]

Lol he was my Spanish teacher, he is really stupid lol.

[ReddFoxxPunxx]

Santana should go back to sweeping hair in his salon & quit wearing those banana hammocks at high school gyms! He might get arrested!

[vpdisco]

Tito is one of the all time greats. One of my heroes.

[cpaz15]

u take that back u son of a bitch. ur gay.

[Opoefiets]

this one was the gayest of them all

[trainbud]

THATS MY SPANISH TEACHER!!!!!!!!!!!

[ReddFoxxPunxx]

@trainbud Yer spanish teacher sux!!

[kylebigshark]

haha i win cause guess what he works at my school in roxbury! =]

[Fanik8]

Tito wrestled the very first WrestleMania match against The Executioner.

[Derby14]

"Kodiak Bear" idolize Mick Foley at all?

[losaztecas1969]

horale tito you are the best carnal puro orgullo congratulection for you and thnk.

[hoghash78]

His wife is hot.

I mean that in the best way.

[PaulB530]

thats my spanish teacher!

[stndrds79]

r u serouse!? ;p;

[Chuloloc]

Awesome. Amazing video. Thanks for posting it. Much appreciated. Much love for Tito Santana. Arriba.

[LovexoLifexo]

Yeah! he works at my school and is my spanish teacher :DDDD

[aviabuela]

he is still my favorite wrestler of all time, everytime he came here to chicago, I was there...saw him wrestler randy savage, the hammer etc.,this guy really gave it his all, no kidding. his nephew was a friend of mine during my high school years, and he said tito was always so kind and a family man. I hope I can meet this guy one day, but I know I would be so shy, at one time I wanted to be like him. I am so glad he is doing so well and still married. wrestling is a tough business...

[jtlbb2]

This gives me a lot of respect for Tito Santana. I like to poke fun at him being a jobber from time to time, but in all seriousness, this shows that he is a success. He knew when it was time to hang up his boots, and he had the education to go into a second career. He saved his money, and took care of his family. He is doing so much better than a lot of wrestlers from the 80s (Jake Roberts comes to mind.. a "real" Randy 'the Ram' Robinson).

[Notbadphonedaddy]

This Video is awesom and an inspiration to me. Right now in my life I want to be a pro wrestler more so than anything. I've been in the independents for almost 3 years now.  I'll graduate from college in August with a degree in History education, because people like Tito gave me the advice without even knowing it to plan for the future and have a backup plan. Thanks Tito! May I one day be an inspiration to someone the way you were for me! Arriba!

[jtlbb2]

Awesome man, way to be. Be like Tito and save your earnings and please don't succumb to the temptation of drugs.

[hoghash78]

I wish you the very best.

Any update? Still at it...

[ArtLoversStudio18]

I agree with you guys. Tito's a class act and entertainers like him who truly care about the wrestling guild are few and far between.

[LLMelvinL]

So true. If tito can make it so can anybody in the biz