I got back stage in 91 in Spfld MA and I asked the triangle of terror for an autograph. I was 11 and instantly Slaughter said get out of my face you maggot. The iron Sheik fake threatened to hit me and General Adnan was backing them up. It was absolutely hilarious and way more memorable than the autograph would have been.
I think I was at that show. Springfield Civic Center? I was very young and barely remember, but I got stuck in the isle trying to go find a bathroom when all of a sudden the Undertaker walked out for his match. I was frozen, petrified, in the isle as he slowwwwwly walked past me! I wish there were some video of that somewhere.
Met Sgt at wrestlecon this year. I asked him about becoming the influence of IPs with him becoming one of the first people to trademark himself. Real smart guy
I love that Sheik threatens to kill Warrior, then Hogan busts in after that and suggests Sheik break Warriors leg. Sheik was ride or die for the business and a bit crazy and everyone knew it.
Sarge has family in my area, and I got the pleasure of meeting him twice when he came to a restaurant I was waiting tables for. The first time, it was actually about 10:30 at night, and he came in with a buddy or two. I went back and told the manager "Hey, I think Sgt. Slaughter is out there". The manager comes out and they greet each other by name, lmao . I was like "you knew him this whole time?". I just asked him to call me a "maggot", no autograph, no pictures, none of that. Kind of like how if I ever meet Mick Foley I just want to shake the man's hand.
For modern fans who maybe don't know much about Slaughter - the heat he had in 1991 going into WM7 was insane. Great promo and he could have a good match with anyone. Also that turnbuckle bump to the floor is one of the best in the business!
and that was at a time where the audience still believed it was real. People literally wanted to kill Sarge because he was doing his Iraqi sympathizer gimmick.
Prior to there match, they told slaughter to burn the American flag on live TV. He told them "no, but I will burn the next best thing I will burn Hulk Hogans singlet" he said the fans were pissed because he held in his hands, what fans considered Americana, a burning hogan shirt.
Never let that get in the way of a tabloid story. It's funny how they all trash Warrior for wanting money from Vince, like Vince was some bastion of honesty.
Throughout the history of the wrestling business, has there EVER been a time when guys in the locker room went into the shower area to talk about something and it resulted in a positive outcome?
Warrior was simply asking to be paid for WrestleMania, an event that took place over FOUR MONTHS prior to SummerSlam. Would you be okay with waiting that long to be paid, while your employer continues to not only profit from your work but demands you continue to perform said work? Vince literally "fired" Warrior because Warrior demanded to be fairly compensated for services rendered. As an "independent contractor," Warrior was well within his rights to do so.
So many people refuse to give warrior his due because they're team hogan. They fail to see Warriors mental strength and his convictions that didn't involve using others but getting what was fair. He stood up to the system.
Yeahj, everyone believes the crap that everyone involved in the match peddles "He held Vince up" when the fact is Warrior was owed the money from the previous WrestleMania and wanted the money for it at SummerSlam, the letter he wrote to Vince is on the internet for anyone to find.
Is that right? If so it kinda sucks how they don't clarify that. (Sometimes marks just wanna embrace the most popular narrative (i.e. that Russo/Ferrara killed WCW when it was really an AOL/Warner company merger).
Yea that is true,Warrior proved it with his paperwork(it was lots of reading but I read through it all) Vince agreed to Warriors demands and agreed to pay him but never did and that’s why Warrior used Summerslam because Vince had avoided any interaction and Warrior knew that would be one of his only chances to see Vince face to face
@@toddrobertson1398 I saw report on that on line and Warrior literally asked Vince over and over again which Vince agreed too. If the report is fake I don’t know, but I literally saw it.
I always thought that Sgt. Slaughter should have been turned face at the SummerSlam '91 match. The way they could have done it is have Warrior taken out of the match and then Hogan is incapacitated. At that point, Mustapha and Adnan start to light the American flag on fire and then Slaughter, with tears in his eyes, is shocked turns on them (implying that he still had some patriotism inside of him) and then at that point, Hulk is revived, wins the match, and then he and Slaughter celebrate afterwards. The whole "I want my country back" vignettes that occurred weeks later just seemed weak to me. This was a missed opportunity. EDIT: and moreover, this face turn could also be used to retcon why Slaughter had turned to the Iraqi side in the first place: that he did so as a double agent in order to infiltrate the inner workings of Iraq's interests, especially in the world of wrestling.
@@joed2444 He never lit a flag on fire -- he burned a poster of Hulk Hogan that happened to have a flag on it. Vince begged him to legit burn the flag to generate heat, but Sarge said no and they compromised on burning a poster instead.
@@hitfan2000 That's right. I was having a real Mandela Effect moment. I could have sworn it was a flag, but now I remember the poster didn't burn very well, but the shirt caught fire very quickly.
Yeah and Hogan refused to lose cleanly to Sting at Starrcade which is one of the reasons that eventually led to WCW losing the Monday Night Wars and going out of business. He even refused to sell for Vader which could have made money if they did a Rocky III type storyline.
Yeah sure.....LOL, another dork fan always trying to work a negative Hogan angle. Sting was whacked on drugs which caused all the problems but sure, Hogan did it...smh
@@liquidsnake6879 A main reason WCW lost the Monday Night Wars was because of the Starrcade 97 match. The fans wanted one thing - Sting to beat Hogan cleanly. And I say that as a Hogan fan BTW. That is all they had to do was have Sting beat Hogan and they could have delivered a one-two finishing combo to the WWF. By f'ing up one of the biggest angles and not giving the fans what they wanted, WCW only pushed fans to the competition since they were tired of the NWO constantly winning every angle and gave Vince enough time.
@@1980Triumph Actually as a Hogan fan I've said that Hogan gets shit on unnecessarily and I have defended Hogan countless times. Especially with Hogan/Andre being the important better WM3 match. However the Starrcade 1997 match basically reversed the tide of the Monday Night Wars. The fans were behind Sting at that time, were tired of the constant NWO bs and the iron was hot. They needed to pull the trigger and have Sting win cleanly. That said if Sting was too drugged up then you have someone else take the title off Sting at a later point. As for Vader - having your number one heel who was over with the fans and could do amazing things in the ring look like a chump against Hogan whose act was stale did no one any favors. Vader was special and not just monster of the month for Hogan to slay. If Hogan played ball and have Vader win one match and look like a complete killer and then Hogan can get the win back later would have made everyone money.
@@bw3230 Ok, you do that, Sting beats Hogan what now? Where do you go from that? The WWF doesn't stop existing the night after, they're still around putting out amazing content and now you have a victorious babyface on top and no real heels left besides the nWo for him to go up against. What do you do now? Keep in mind that in WCW, contracts are fixed, so despite Sting winning Hogan is still the primary reason for your ascension to mainstream fame, your highest paid wrestler for the next few years and him jumping ship to the WWF should you upset him would wreck you overnight
*Actually, Warrior WASN'T holding Vince up for more money- Vince agreed to Warriors demands weeks before the event so he could get the match in the ring, then back-tracked on the deal immediately after the match and indefinitely suspended Warrior. As usual, it was Vince being a lying scumbag.*
He wasnt anywhere near the best wrestler but his image was pure money the superhero looking guy who all kids wanted to be, i take alot of what i hear about the warrior with a pinch of salt n think he was misunderstood n sort of bullied by alot of jealous egotistical people n its a real shame, the amount of money in warriors image was worth far more than $500,000 but vince was so spoilt for talent at that time he didnt "need"anyone, imo.
Slaughter vs Pat Patterson in the Garden will always live as one of my favorite matches of all time. If that match was at WrestleMania it might go down as the greatest ever.
Sgt. Slaughter is one of the all-time greatest wrestlers. And I have to say Sgt. Slaughter is my favorite character of G.I. Joe. It should also be noticed that one of the key reasons why Serpentor is so powerful as the Emperor of Cobra is because Dr. Mindbender used the DNA of St. Slaughter and mixed it with other great leaders and fighters from history. I'm actually surprised the WWF never copied that plan to have someone like Bobby "The Brain" Heenan combine the DNA of great wrestlers such as Sgt. Slaughter, Hulk Hogan, Andre The Giant, The Ultimate Warrior and combine them into one, and then introduce a new wrestler.
Sarge turning was a big deal. Maybe the last big heel turn during a time when the majority of the audience believed it was a shoot. I was new to wrestling then and was outraged alongside every other fan I knew. GI Joe the Movie is one of my all-time favorites. Sarge was incredible in it. Everything he said and did was memorable. Every line quotable. The character in the movie is about as heroic and one can get. Most every kid I knew was a Joe fan. One of the greatest heroes of that time betrayed them. When I saw Sarge vs Warrior live, the heat was just insane. The crowd was incensed. Even The Mountie had a ton of heat. One guy yelling “The Mountie sucks!!” really loud after his music stopped. It was quite something to be part of a crowd that believed wrestling was a shoot. The WWF did a great job of keeping kayfabe back then by doing bit spots for real. The scepter, the snake bite, some stuff with the Funeral Parlor, it was legit so you’d always wonder why they would do this stuff for real if it was fake.
Hogan wanting Sheik to break Warrior's leg is hilarious because wasn't there a rumor that.. was it Verne Gagne, someone offered to pay Iron Sheik to break Hogan's leg
Another example of Vince not living up to business promises. The conversation had gone on for months. Good on Warrior for knowing how to deal with Vince unlike other guys that worked their asses off for vince only to end up broke.
Where did he hear the warrior was in bad health prior to the hall of fame? I saw video of the warrior not long before that and he still looked in great shape. He was smaller but he still was training everyday
Jake the Snake had already lost out on the opportunity to work with Hogan, but he was scheduled to have a run with the Warrior after turning heel by arranging for the Warrior to get snake-bitten (in kayfabe). But he lost the opportunity to work with the Warrior also after the Warrior got fired over this. Apparently, Vince McMahon turned to Jake after the Warrior had been fired and said to him, "You've got the worst goddamn luck!"
Its another case of Vince lying and getting held up for what he promised. Warrior was supposed to get $2 million to drop the strap against Hogan at Wrestlemania 7 which would have been at the LA Coliseum... and probably sold it out as a Warrior vs. Hogan part 2. Tickets were still being sold for the Coliseum at that point in the Royal Rumble where Warrior dropped the strap to Slaughter. But... the geniuses at WWF in their infinite booking wisdom turned Slaughter into an Iraqi sympathizer trying to draw off some USA USA storyline.... which didnt get over at all and tickets stopped selling at the sports arena limit. I'm surprised Warrior put Sgt. Slaughter over.... he probably did that thinking he'd still be compensated. Wrestlemania 7 = stacked card but everyone should wrestle everyone else. Such bad booking. Another possible match was Actually Hogan vs Greg Valentine ... im serious as a heart attack they had house shows at the long beach sports arena I remember that Summerslam for the IC title match of Bret Hart vs Mr Perfect.
It's all bs from McMahon. It wasn't the day of SummerSlam. It happened a couple of months before. Ultimate Warrior provided evidence on his website where McMahon signed and dated the fax of those negotiations.
Nope. Warrior was paid; he simply decided he should have got over half a million more, and suddenly wanted the same cut on merch and the perks as Hogan or he’d no-show SummerSlam. Unwise.
Bret Hart NEVER held Vince McMahon up for money he worked for less than Warrior and Hogan,DESERVED MORE than both,gave a 4 to 5 star match every single time, Bodybuilders at WBF took Bret's EARNINGS so Vince could have his PERVERTED FETISH over Oily Men,Bret brought International Power to WWF/WWE,countries that despised anything in the USA absolutely LOVED United States PRO-WRESTLING because of Bret being from Canada,Bret was screwed over 4 different times by WWF/WWE from 92' to 97',Bret's brother Owen was dropped from the ceiling his Family name drugged through the ground..and Vince let Warrior get away with holding a Financial gun to His head,gave him the money,brought him back 3 different times after the fact..BRET HART should have left after WM12 then WCW would have WON THE MONDAY NIGHT WARS and Bret would have had the Recognition,Respect and Revenge he Deserves!! ✊
Actually Bret did hold up Vince/WWf and admitted to doing it. He was sick of WWf making promises of a push (ofcourse the bigger pay that would come with it) that was never coming. So he held them up until they gave him the promised push, and got it. Warrior did kinda the same thing, he was trying to get what he was worth, and instead got screwed. But Bret and Warrior weren't the only ones to do it. Hogan demanded more money after WM1, and got it. Honky Tonk Man threated to leave with the IC belt if they didn't give him a bigger contract, and got it. These isn't the only times Hogan and HTM did stuff like that, and I'm sure they weren't the only ones.
Hulk Hogan was one of Vince McMahon's boy toys which is why after Wrestlemania 1 when Hogan asked for more money he got it. Warrior was not a boy toy and thus got let for holding Vince up for more money.
What I have never understood....If Vince wrote him a check all he had to do was cancel it. If he paid him cash. What did Warrior do with it? All the locker room bag stories no would leave half million in cash just laying around.......
Warrior was the man. In a business where you either sellout to yourself or you play by your own rules he did just that. He wasnt one of the boys and thats ok. Some guys just arent followers. Jim was far from perfect but he did it his way and thats commendable!
That's the thing, Warrior wasn't a boy he was a man because he stood on his own two feet and didn't suffer fools or liars. 'The boys' is almost an insulting demeaning term. I don't know why anyone would want to be referred to as a boy especially if they are over 6' tall and over 230lbs.
@@bw3230 On the other hand, a lot of wrestlers from the 80s and 90s were bullies and/or deeply insecure, so calling them boys isn't really far-fetched…
It's hard to take him seriously. "Well you can never say never uhh.. but I never thought warrior would come back". And "he and hogan had this monstrous fued on the internet.. on facebook. It was really really nasty" 😅
That's how promoters sometimes dealt with unruly wrestlers back in the territory days. Sometimes if a wrestler tried to hold the promoter up at the arena at the last minute, one or two shooters would take the guy in the broom closest or out in the parking lot and straighten him out.
@@rickstalentedtongue910 - Hulk wrestled in Japan for years where it is the hardest style so that lame claim that he avoided stiff wrestlers is nothing more than some sissy fan delusion. Who didn't Hulk wrestle, who did he duck and avoid???
@@gilson1982In an alternate universe had Warrior been disciplined and the steroid trials not happened he could have been as big as Hogan going into the 90s, the kids loved that comic book look he had.
It's ironic that a lot of wrestlers who made money because of Hogan's popularity continue to make money off him decades later by talking badly about him....Not so much Sarge, but some of the others. Bobby Heenan correctly diagnosed it once as nothing more than jealousy. They called him the "Brain" for a reason.
Exactly, it has become very profitable to trash Hogan and the jealous wrestlers continue to pile on. It really is pathetic, none worse than that loser Jim Cornette.
Where does Sgt Slaughter rank against other greats of that classic WWF era? Let us know in the comments below!
Not high
He made his mark. His 1990-1991 heel run was epic for sure. I would have liked to have seen him in the WWF in the mid-late 80's though.
Somewhere in the Top twenty.
He looks the exact same.
He was no push over and had brains for the business. He didn't have stunning good looks or a chiseled physique.
I got back stage in 91 in Spfld MA and I asked the triangle of terror for an autograph. I was 11 and instantly Slaughter said get out of my face you maggot. The iron Sheik fake threatened to hit me and General Adnan was backing them up. It was absolutely hilarious and way more memorable than the autograph would have been.
😂 they were my favorite heels of all time.
Sheesh
I think I was at that show. Springfield Civic Center? I was very young and barely remember, but I got stuck in the isle trying to go find a bathroom when all of a sudden the Undertaker walked out for his match. I was frozen, petrified, in the isle as he slowwwwwly walked past me! I wish there were some video of that somewhere.
I would've 💩 my pants 😂
Met Sgt at wrestlecon this year. I asked him about becoming the influence of IPs with him becoming one of the first people to trademark himself. Real smart guy
Slaughter never changes. He still looks the same
Jimmy Hart looks the same since the last 30-40 Years😂😂
That’s because he looked 70 when he was 35. 😂
I was convinced he died. Around the 2016 mark not long after Roddy Piper.
I'm so confused.
@@chip.chippa6416He died but made a full recovery! 😜
War. War never changes.
I love that Sheik threatens to kill Warrior, then Hogan busts in after that and suggests Sheik break Warriors leg. Sheik was ride or die for the business and a bit crazy and everyone knew it.
but not smart enough to not get caught out in public with the wrestler he was "feuding" with. eeeh run numba one!
Shiek could barely move, I doubt he was breaking anyone's leg😂😂😂😂
@@sicfrynut. HOCK PTHOOEY!!!
@@Am71919 Are you really that dumb? This was in 1991. Sheiky could move just fine. He was on the WWF roster, you goof. 🤯🙋♂
He wasn’t hurting warrior lol I hope ur kidding
Sgt. Slaughter, in character, exactly how we want him. He was my favorite GI Joe, too.
Maggot!
Repo man 😅
@@Corcrikey i had to look at your name but I was so expecting simon miller
@@mastagoalie 😂
There is a new GI Joe movie. They should have Slaughter be their Nick Fury.
"I love the scent of burnt flesh in the morning." -Sgt. Slaughter
Was that the one where he burnt the flag?!
Nice to see the Slaughter in his GI Joe fatigues again.
What about the Iraqi gimmick?
He's still doing promo work for GI Joe to this day. They recently released an updated figure of him.
@@neilsun2521The less said and remembered about that, the better.
He was a fantastic heel tho! It was very exciting at the time
"I want my country baaaaaack!"
Warrior knew his worth he didn’t let anybody push him around n for that is why he was the best of 80s n 90s
Sarge has family in my area, and I got the pleasure of meeting him twice when he came to a restaurant I was waiting tables for. The first time, it was actually about 10:30 at night, and he came in with a buddy or two. I went back and told the manager "Hey, I think Sgt. Slaughter is out there". The manager comes out and they greet each other by name, lmao . I was like "you knew him this whole time?". I just asked him to call me a "maggot", no autograph, no pictures, none of that. Kind of like how if I ever meet Mick Foley I just want to shake the man's hand.
I know Mick, he’s one of the nicest guys ever.
For modern fans who maybe don't know much about Slaughter - the heat he had in 1991 going into WM7 was insane. Great promo and he could have a good match with anyone. Also that turnbuckle bump to the floor is one of the best in the business!
exactly, he was such a good seller, and he seemed dangerous to us kids!
and that was at a time where the audience still believed it was real. People literally wanted to kill Sarge because he was doing his Iraqi sympathizer gimmick.
@@Spongemonkey26 They literally sent death threats and forced Vince to change arenas before the ppv
Prior to there match, they told slaughter to burn the American flag on live TV. He told them "no, but I will burn the next best thing I will burn Hulk Hogans singlet" he said the fans were pissed because he held in his hands, what fans considered Americana, a burning hogan shirt.
i met sgt slaughter in 1992 and had my picture taken with him i was 15 at the time in san bernardino ca at the orange show
I had his action figure around then. Good times
These guys talk like Warrior held Vince up day of event. Warrior wrote that letter to Vince a month before the event.
Never let that get in the way of a tabloid story. It's funny how they all trash Warrior for wanting money from Vince, like Vince was some bastion of honesty.
Two things can be right. Vince a dbag and warrior a pos. Warrior was not a good dude. Stiffing kids appearances and shit. Countless stories...
It was obviously a manipulation tactic from Vince, can’t blame the other wrestlers for that
Warrior was garbage, get over it.
Correct
That Sheik impression 😂
Vince calls you into shower saying hes a problem.....that shower will need a deep clean 😂
I think that would be the last place I'd agree to meet Vince.
Throughout the history of the wrestling business, has there EVER been a time when guys in the locker room went into the shower area to talk about something and it resulted in a positive outcome?
Yeah I'm pretty sure Sarge left out a key part of that story... Imao
He was a great heel in 1990/91. 💯👊🏼
Agreed.
Gulf war heat. (Always a special place in my heart for it as WM7 was the first event I got on tape.)
Warrior was simply asking to be paid for WrestleMania, an event that took place over FOUR MONTHS prior to SummerSlam.
Would you be okay with waiting that long to be paid, while your employer continues to not only profit from your work but demands you continue to perform said work?
Vince literally "fired" Warrior because Warrior demanded to be fairly compensated for services rendered. As an "independent contractor," Warrior was well within his rights to do so.
So many people refuse to give warrior his due because they're team hogan. They fail to see Warriors mental strength and his convictions that didn't involve using others but getting what was fair. He stood up to the system.
Destroucity.
Yeahj, everyone believes the crap that everyone involved in the match peddles "He held Vince up" when the fact is Warrior was owed the money from the previous WrestleMania and wanted the money for it at SummerSlam, the letter he wrote to Vince is on the internet for anyone to find.
Is that right? If so it kinda sucks how they don't clarify that. (Sometimes marks just wanna embrace the most popular narrative (i.e. that Russo/Ferrara killed WCW when it was really an AOL/Warner company merger).
Yea that is true,Warrior proved it with his paperwork(it was lots of reading but I read through it all)
Vince agreed to Warriors demands and agreed to pay him but never did and that’s why Warrior used Summerslam because Vince had avoided any interaction and Warrior knew that would be one of his only chances to see Vince face to face
Warrior gave him that letter notice months ago Vince acted like he did that day of the event. So now that lie continues even with the boys.
source?
@@erictowns7553 im gonna guess warrior.
100% False. Everyone connected with the situation on both sides has said the same thing consistently.
Google ultimate warrior letter to Vince it was dated in July
@@prowlprime like I said google it I can’t post links in UA-cam I provided google above
Wild that Vince was the most level headed amongst Sheik and Hogan😂😂😂
Haha, so true. The guy who poops on people was the voice of reason!😂😂😂
Warrior was supposed to be paid the same amount Hogan for that match. Warrior got paid less then Hogan. That’s why Warrior held Vince up.
Nope, it was about his wrestlemania 7 pay
This. WM 7 payout was the gripe.
Nope .. not true at all.
@@toddrobertson1398 I saw report on that on line and Warrior literally asked Vince over and over again which Vince agreed too. If the report is fake I don’t know, but I literally saw it.
Warrior was owed "male entertainment " money from Vincent
I never thought I needed Sarge doing an Iron Sheik imitation more than I do now.
I always thought that Sgt. Slaughter should have been turned face at the SummerSlam '91 match.
The way they could have done it is have Warrior taken out of the match and then Hogan is incapacitated. At that point, Mustapha and Adnan start to light the American flag on fire and then Slaughter, with tears in his eyes, is shocked turns on them (implying that he still had some patriotism inside of him) and then at that point, Hulk is revived, wins the match, and then he and Slaughter celebrate afterwards.
The whole "I want my country back" vignettes that occurred weeks later just seemed weak to me. This was a missed opportunity.
EDIT: and moreover, this face turn could also be used to retcon why Slaughter had turned to the Iraqi side in the first place: that he did so as a double agent in order to infiltrate the inner workings of Iraq's interests, especially in the world of wrestling.
for all his good ideas, Vince wiffed on quite a few as well. your idea would have been better.
That would have been way better than what they did...
Yeah, except for one problem. Sarge had already lit a flag on fire. It would seem would seem odd that he would suddenly change his mind.
@@joed2444 He never lit a flag on fire -- he burned a poster of Hulk Hogan that happened to have a flag on it.
Vince begged him to legit burn the flag to generate heat, but Sarge said no and they compromised on burning a poster instead.
@@hitfan2000 That's right. I was having a real Mandela Effect moment. I could have sworn it was a flag, but now I remember the poster didn't burn very well, but the shirt caught fire very quickly.
I miss GI Joes
Buy some of the new classified figures.
I got Tunnel Rat and Lady Jaye.
Gives you a nice wave of nostalgia.
I think Snek eyes and the white ninja dude are pretty cool
Slaughter is a legend!!!
Fun fact, Sergeant slaughter was the first wrestler to have an entrance song
Yeah and Hogan refused to lose cleanly to Sting at Starrcade which is one of the reasons that eventually led to WCW losing the Monday Night Wars and going out of business. He even refused to sell for Vader which could have made money if they did a Rocky III type storyline.
Yeah sure.....LOL, another dork fan always trying to work a negative Hogan angle. Sting was whacked on drugs which caused all the problems but sure, Hogan did it...smh
facepalm at the old "if only Hogan lost WCW would still be around" nonsense
@@liquidsnake6879 A main reason WCW lost the Monday Night Wars was because of the Starrcade 97 match. The fans wanted one thing - Sting to beat Hogan cleanly. And I say that as a Hogan fan BTW. That is all they had to do was have Sting beat Hogan and they could have delivered a one-two finishing combo to the WWF.
By f'ing up one of the biggest angles and not giving the fans what they wanted, WCW only pushed fans to the competition since they were tired of the NWO constantly winning every angle and gave Vince enough time.
@@1980Triumph Actually as a Hogan fan I've said that Hogan gets shit on unnecessarily and I have defended Hogan countless times. Especially with Hogan/Andre being the important better WM3 match.
However the Starrcade 1997 match basically reversed the tide of the Monday Night Wars. The fans were behind Sting at that time, were tired of the constant NWO bs and the iron was hot. They needed to pull the trigger and have Sting win cleanly. That said if Sting was too drugged up then you have someone else take the title off Sting at a later point.
As for Vader - having your number one heel who was over with the fans and could do amazing things in the ring look like a chump against Hogan whose act was stale did no one any favors. Vader was special and not just monster of the month for Hogan to slay.
If Hogan played ball and have Vader win one match and look like a complete killer and then Hogan can get the win back later would have made everyone money.
@@bw3230 Ok, you do that, Sting beats Hogan what now? Where do you go from that?
The WWF doesn't stop existing the night after, they're still around putting out amazing content and now you have a victorious babyface on top and no real heels left besides the nWo for him to go up against. What do you do now?
Keep in mind that in WCW, contracts are fixed, so despite Sting winning Hogan is still the primary reason for your ascension to mainstream fame, your highest paid wrestler for the next few years and him jumping ship to the WWF should you upset him would wreck you overnight
*Actually, Warrior WASN'T holding Vince up for more money- Vince agreed to Warriors demands weeks before the event so he could get the match in the ring, then back-tracked on the deal immediately after the match and indefinitely suspended Warrior. As usual, it was Vince being a lying scumbag.*
Yep and admitted he lied yrs later and publicly apologized with a statement it's sad folks keep slandering warrior with this story
Slaughter is one of the best all time. This man came up with the idea of entrance music
I heard a few old timers make that claim. Is it really slaughter?
He wasnt anywhere near the best wrestler but his image was pure money the superhero looking guy who all kids wanted to be, i take alot of what i hear about the warrior with a pinch of salt n think he was misunderstood n sort of bullied by alot of jealous egotistical people n its a real shame, the amount of money in warriors image was worth far more than $500,000 but vince was so spoilt for talent at that time he didnt "need"anyone, imo.
When Sarge gave Warrior the potato 😂
I watched Sarge do the job to Randy Orton at a live Raw I attended in Salt Lake back in 2004. Great show, especially with the Raw Roulette theme.
Slaughter vs Pat Patterson in the Garden will always live as one of my favorite matches of all time. If that match was at WrestleMania it might go down as the greatest ever.
Great SummerSlam
Sgt. Slaughter is one of the all-time greatest wrestlers. And I have to say Sgt. Slaughter is my favorite character of G.I. Joe. It should also be noticed that one of the key reasons why Serpentor is so powerful as the Emperor of Cobra is because Dr. Mindbender used the DNA of St. Slaughter and mixed it with other great leaders and fighters from history. I'm actually surprised the WWF never copied that plan to have someone like Bobby "The Brain" Heenan combine the DNA of great wrestlers such as Sgt. Slaughter, Hulk Hogan, Andre The Giant, The Ultimate Warrior and combine them into one, and then introduce a new wrestler.
Sarge turning was a big deal. Maybe the last big heel turn during a time when the majority of the audience believed it was a shoot. I was new to wrestling then and was outraged alongside every other fan I knew.
GI Joe the Movie is one of my all-time favorites. Sarge was incredible in it. Everything he said and did was memorable. Every line quotable. The character in the movie is about as heroic and one can get.
Most every kid I knew was a Joe fan. One of the greatest heroes of that time betrayed them. When I saw Sarge vs Warrior live, the heat was just insane. The crowd was incensed. Even The Mountie had a ton of heat. One guy yelling “The Mountie sucks!!” really loud after his music stopped.
It was quite something to be part of a crowd that believed wrestling was a shoot. The WWF did a great job of keeping kayfabe back then by doing bit spots for real. The scepter, the snake bite, some stuff with the Funeral Parlor, it was legit so you’d always wonder why they would do this stuff for real if it was fake.
80's Sarge was a babyface. Him and Corp Kirchner as a tag team -vs- Iron Sheik and Nicolai Kolovaf were epic!
The money demanded by Jim Helwig was money owed to him by Vince McMahon--very few ever mention that fact.
Warrior Never Said That! Not once in that letter does he say that if Vince didn't give him the money,he wasn't going to show up. He never said that.
Love his honesty.
Hogan never mentioned this meeting with Vince and all of them.
Hogan wanting Sheik to break Warrior's leg is hilarious because wasn't there a rumor that.. was it Verne Gagne, someone offered to pay Iron Sheik to break Hogan's leg
Another example of Vince not living up to business promises. The conversation had gone on for months. Good on Warrior for knowing how to deal with Vince unlike other guys that worked their asses off for vince only to end up broke.
You believe Warrior's side. The mark of a mark.
Slaughter a huge part of my childhood. Between GI joe and then going back to WWE as a heel.
That was a classic PPV
Wrestling was a cut throat business then.
Another thing that hasn't changed
Thats why warrior made sure he got paid. He wasn't going to let the business dictate to him. He was his own man! He could think for himself!
@@truvintage5800 he thought himself right out of the company!
@@ZBR_ProXP yeah because he had half a brain
@@truvintage5800 most people have two halves lol. I’m kidding around, I like Warrior, but cmon that was not a great long term business decision.
Where did he hear the warrior was in bad health prior to the hall of fame? I saw video of the warrior not long before that and he still looked in great shape. He was smaller but he still was training everyday
He looked great three days later when he died... steroid abuse works that way.
The autopsy report indicates a known about heart problem.
Haha i love a good sheik impression
Ironic Hogan wanting Sheik to break Warrior's leg when a few years earlier Gange tried to get Sheik to break Hogan's leg.
….And matsuda did! Hogan came up in the old schools days, he knows what’s up lol.
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Jake the Snake had already lost out on the opportunity to work with Hogan, but he was scheduled to have a run with the Warrior after turning heel by arranging for the Warrior to get snake-bitten (in kayfabe).
But he lost the opportunity to work with the Warrior also after the Warrior got fired over this.
Apparently, Vince McMahon turned to Jake after the Warrior had been fired and said to him, "You've got the worst goddamn luck!"
…….Yeah. I saw that on Vice TV, too. Thanks for the random, off-topic recap no one asked for.
@@gilson1982 Any time.
Almost 40 years Slaughter looks exactly the same. Like Stone Cold, brand on point. 💪
Didn’t slaughter want to confront warrior in the locker room on the one documentary?
Sounds realistic. This is good stuff.
This guy is the best!!
Makes me wish i still had all my G.I. Joes..
But Warrior wasn't fired. He was suspended and just didn't accept it.
Its another case of Vince lying and getting held up for what he promised.
Warrior was supposed to get $2 million to drop the strap against Hogan at Wrestlemania 7 which would have been at the LA Coliseum... and probably sold it out as a Warrior vs. Hogan part 2.
Tickets were still being sold for the Coliseum at that point in the Royal Rumble where Warrior dropped the strap to Slaughter.
But... the geniuses at WWF in their infinite booking wisdom turned Slaughter into an Iraqi sympathizer trying to draw off some USA USA storyline.... which didnt get over at all and tickets stopped selling at the sports arena limit.
I'm surprised Warrior put Sgt. Slaughter over.... he probably did that thinking he'd still be compensated.
Wrestlemania 7 = stacked card but everyone should wrestle everyone else. Such bad booking. Another possible match was Actually Hogan vs Greg Valentine ... im serious as a heart attack they had house shows at the long beach sports arena
I remember that Summerslam for the IC title match of Bret Hart vs Mr Perfect.
My question is where did he put the money during the match?
It's all bs from McMahon. It wasn't the day of SummerSlam. It happened a couple of months before. Ultimate Warrior provided evidence on his website where McMahon signed and dated the fax of those negotiations.
He really needs to write a book on his life
Sgt Slaughter still looks like he is in his 40s. Great wrestler!
Let’s not forget..Vince McMahon broke his promises to Warrior before that..and that money was owed to Warrior from Wrestlemania 7
Nope.
Warrior was paid; he simply decided he should have got over half a million more, and suddenly wanted the same cut on merch and the perks as Hogan or he’d no-show SummerSlam.
Unwise.
@@jonharrison9222 We're ever know what actually happened there. But when you consider all parties involved, I could see it going either way.
Bret Hart NEVER held Vince McMahon up for money he worked for less than Warrior and Hogan,DESERVED MORE than both,gave a 4 to 5 star match every single time, Bodybuilders at WBF took Bret's EARNINGS so Vince could have his PERVERTED FETISH over Oily Men,Bret brought International Power to WWF/WWE,countries that despised anything in the USA absolutely LOVED United States PRO-WRESTLING because of Bret being from Canada,Bret was screwed over 4 different times by WWF/WWE from 92' to 97',Bret's brother Owen was dropped from the ceiling his Family name drugged through the ground..and Vince let Warrior get away with holding a Financial gun to His head,gave him the money,brought him back 3 different times after the fact..BRET HART should have left after WM12 then WCW would have WON THE MONDAY NIGHT WARS and Bret would have had the Recognition,Respect and Revenge he Deserves!!
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Actually Bret did hold up Vince/WWf and admitted to doing it. He was sick of WWf making promises of a push (ofcourse the bigger pay that would come with it) that was never coming. So he held them up until they gave him the promised push, and got it. Warrior did kinda the same thing, he was trying to get what he was worth, and instead got screwed. But Bret and Warrior weren't the only ones to do it. Hogan demanded more money after WM1, and got it. Honky Tonk Man threated to leave with the IC belt if they didn't give him a bigger contract, and got it. These isn't the only times Hogan and HTM did stuff like that, and I'm sure they weren't the only ones.
kudos to him remembering the event and the way it was advertised. thats actually a pretty big thing, ask Scott Steiner lol
I want to see the sergeant slaughter come back in the WWE video game
Sgt Slaughter used to scare me as a kid when I watched him in the 80s
Did he say Hogan and Warrior were beefing on Facebook?
Slaughter is one of greatest of all time.
Vince calling you into the shower hits differently in 2024.
Wow, what a shocker.
What's hilarious yrs later Vince admitted he owed warrior that money lol
I remember loving UW. Really sad learning what an absolute POS he was in real life.
Hey what's going on Sarge
Shiek was so much fun. Bubba!
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Sheik break his leg Hogan was Working Vince Too lol
80s kid here, yeah i had LJN Sgt.Slaughter that was cool...But Man... when I got my mail away G.I.Joe Sgt. Slaughter...💀🔥💯 CAN'T EXPLAIN IT IFYKYK 🔥💯
Little bit of a misleading headline here. I don’t think Hogan was conspiring anything. He was angry Warrior was holding the company for ransom.
He had dirt on Vince
Hulk Hogan was one of Vince McMahon's boy toys which is why after Wrestlemania 1 when Hogan asked for more money he got it. Warrior was not a boy toy and thus got let for holding Vince up for more money.
What I have never understood....If Vince wrote him a check all he had to do was cancel it. If he paid him cash. What did Warrior do with it? All the locker room bag stories no would leave half million in cash just laying around.......
Warrior was the man. In a business where you either sellout to yourself or you play by your own rules he did just that. He wasnt one of the boys and thats ok. Some guys just arent followers. Jim was far from perfect but he did it his way and thats commendable!
That's the thing, Warrior wasn't a boy he was a man because he stood on his own two feet and didn't suffer fools or liars. 'The boys' is almost an insulting demeaning term. I don't know why anyone would want to be referred to as a boy especially if they are over 6' tall and over 230lbs.
@@bw3230 On the other hand, a lot of wrestlers from the 80s and 90s were bullies and/or deeply insecure, so calling them boys isn't really far-fetched…
I love the Sergeant he's a cool down to earth type of guy and a great storyteller 👍
I know he got grief for the iraqi sympathizer angle, but sarge was the ultimate heel for about 2yrs. As a kid, I hated his guts.
It was an amazing angle.
Vince could make millions from people wrestling, but how dare the wrestlers want to make money from their wrestling.
It was owed to him. He didnt hold up Vince.
Didnt Warrior do the same thing when he came back?
It's hard to take him seriously. "Well you can never say never uhh.. but I never thought warrior would come back". And "he and hogan had this monstrous fued on the internet.. on facebook. It was really really nasty" 😅
Ultimate Warrior was my favourite 😢
How many meetings did Vince McMahon n Hulk Hogan have like that if a wrestler gets out of line we straight it out
I went to summer slam 91 in person
You have Sid Justice right there at your disposal as ref I don’t understand why Vince didn’t tell Warrior to get bent and use Sid instead.
Because Warrior had been the one who was advertised.
@@gilson1982 Never heard of the term "Card subject to change"?
@@ValiantWrestling - Of course, but Warrior clearly made more money than Sid, so firing Warrior would have been a poor choice.
Hogan could not stand anyone making more money than him
SGT SLAUGHTER RIGHT ABOUT ULTIMATE WARRIOR R.I.P ?
That's how promoters sometimes dealt with unruly wrestlers back in the territory days. Sometimes if a wrestler tried to hold the promoter up at the arena at the last minute, one or two shooters would take the guy in the broom closest or out in the parking lot and straighten him out.
That's why Hogan offered to teach Warrior a lesson.
@@rathraven1313 Hogan was a wimp though, never wanted to take a bump or wrestle anyone that was stiff. He was not about to rough anybody up.
@@rickstalentedtongue910 - Hulk wrestled in Japan for years where it is the hardest style so that lame claim that he avoided stiff wrestlers is nothing more than some sissy fan delusion. Who didn't Hulk wrestle, who did he duck and avoid???
Hogan and warrior couldn't stand each other
Cuz Warrior was a serious threat to Hogan's position.
Plus, he was younger, better built and had a full head of hair 😅
@@NoneofYabiz-rx3zi- Despite all of that, Warrior was never as famous as Hogan.
@@NoneofYabiz-rx3zi That don't work for me, brother
@@gilson1982In an alternate universe had Warrior been disciplined and the steroid trials not happened he could have been as big as Hogan going into the 90s, the kids loved that comic book look he had.
@@gilson1982 Hogan was a backstabber and always sabotaged anyone he saw as a threat.
He’s one of the few people not to do a “ Vince “ voice. But oddly enough he did other people’s voices 😆😆
Hogan wanted to go all Verne on Warrior. LOL
It's ironic that a lot of wrestlers who made money because of Hogan's popularity continue to make money off him decades later by talking badly about him....Not so much Sarge, but some of the others. Bobby Heenan correctly diagnosed it once as nothing more than jealousy. They called him the "Brain" for a reason.
True.
Exactly, it has become very profitable to trash Hogan and the jealous wrestlers continue to pile on. It really is pathetic, none worse than that loser Jim Cornette.
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Never say never. Nothing means nothing.
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