Sgt Slaughter, is an American voice actor and retired professional wrestler.
74 Facts About Sgt Slaughter
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Sgt Slaughter is currently signed to WWE in the ambassador program.
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Sgt Slaughter won the WWF World Heavyweight Championship and headlined WrestleMania VII in 1991.
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Sgt Slaughter is a WWE Hall of Famer, inducted as part of the class of 2004.
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Sgt Slaughter, Remus became known for his dark sunglasses, his campaign hat, and his Vietnam War-era military fatigues.
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Sgt Slaughter is that of a former US Marine who fought in the Vietnam War.
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Sgt Slaughter received several draft deferments and actually opposed the war, often protesting and demonstrating within the antiwar movement.
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Sgt Slaughter attended Eden Prairie High School in nearby Eden Prairie, where he wrestled and played football.
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Sgt Slaughter held numerous regional titles early in his career and experienced his second major success in the National Wrestling Alliance capturing the NWA World Tag Team Championship with Don Kernodle in 1982.
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Sgt Slaughter then signed with the WWF and was pushed as a villainous character.
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Between 1980 and 1981, Sgt Slaughter wrestled in the WWF under the guidance of the Grand Wizard.
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Sgt Slaughter was the only WWF-based challenger not to do the honors for Backlund at MSG.
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Sgt Slaughter then engaged in a feud with Pat Patterson, which stemmed from Sgt Slaughter calling Patterson "yellow" and offering him $10,000 to try to break the cobra clutch.
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Patterson accepted on television and was escaping from the hold when Sgt Slaughter released it and put a beat-down on Patterson, starting a hot feud which culminated in an "Alley Fight" in New York, New York's Madison Square Garden between the two that is widely regarded as the best "hardcore" match of the Kayfabe era.
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In September 1981, Sgt Slaughter joined the National Wrestling Alliance, mainly wrestling for its flagship territory Jim Crockett Promotions.
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Sgt Slaughter would hold onto the title for over seven months, before losing the title to Wahoo McDaniel in May 1982.
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Sgt Slaughter returned to the WWF in March 1983, and again took on the Grand Wizard as his manager.
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Sgt Slaughter immediately targeted Backlund, who was still the reigning WWF World Heavyweight Champion.
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Sgt Slaughter turned up the feud another notch when he attacked Backlund at a television taping; Backlund was in the process of completing the Harvard step test before Sgt Slaughter beat him repeatedly with his riding crop, leaving bruises on his back.
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In early 1984, Sgt Slaughter's career took off after he turned face and defended America's honor against The Iron Sheik from Iran.
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On Vince McMahon's McMahon DVD, Sgt Slaughter said he was fired by McMahon in Toronto after no-showing an event in protest of McMahon's refusal to give him six weeks of paid vacation.
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Sgt Slaughter received a considerable push in the American Wrestling Association throughout 1985 and 1986, becoming the AWA America's Heavyweight Champion, defeating Larry Zbyszko shortly after his arrival.
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Sgt Slaughter defended the title against wrestlers like Zbyszko, Kamala, Boris Zukhov, and Nick Bockwinkel and feuded with Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissey and his stable of wrestlers, The Road Warriors, and Colonel DeBeers.
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Sgt Slaughter even challenged Stan Hansen for the AWA title.
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Sgt Slaughter was involved in the short-lived Pro Wrestling USA Promotion.
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In 1988, Sgt Slaughter returned to wrestling in the AWA, resuming some of his past feuds with the likes of Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissey, the Iron Sheik, and Col.
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Sgt Slaughter became a top contender to the AWA World title during Larry Zbyszko's reign in 1989 and was a team captain for the AWA's ill-fated Team Challenge Series during the first half of 1990.
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The AWA even teased fans with Sgt Slaughter appearing to win the World title from Zbyszko live on ESPN, only to have the decision reversed on a technicality.
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McMahon told Sgt Slaughter he wanted a heel, and his new gimmick would be that Sgt Slaughter turned on the United States due to its acceptance of the Russian Nikolai Volkoff.
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Sgt Slaughter aligned himself with an Iraqi enthusiast and kayfabe Iraqi military general, General Adnan, and entered a feud with Volkoff, leading to a match at that year's Survivor Series which saw The Alliance defeat The Mercenaries.
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Sgt Slaughter infamously adopted a move where he would grind the tip of one of his knuckles into his opponent's temple.
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Sgt Slaughter got his chance at the Royal Rumble in January 1991, days after the Gulf War air campaign had begun.
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Sgt Slaughter defeated the Warrior when "Macho King" Randy Savage, who had been feuding with the Warrior at the time, struck the champion in the head with his royal scepter.
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Sgt Slaughter thus became the thirteenth WWF Champion and was immediately challenged by Royal Rumble winner Hulk Hogan, who was furious that Sgt Slaughter had desecrated the American flag as part of his victory celebration.
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Duggan and Sgt Slaughter teamed up to defeat the Nasty Boys and continued to team over the next several months.
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Sgt Slaughter was taken off TV in June 1992 and worked in house shows against The Mountie until August of that year.
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Sgt Slaughter started appearing as an on-air official from October 1992 to June 1994.
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Sgt Slaughter made his first wrestling appearance in over a year when he appeared on a house show version of a Royal Rumble that was held on January 17,1994, at Madison Square Garden.
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In 1998, Sgt Slaughter turned heel, joined Vince McMahon along with Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson, and became the on-screen lackeys of McMahon; running errands for him and dishing out punishment to McMahon's rivals, namely Steve Austin.
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In late 1998, Sgt Slaughter relinquished the role of commissioner to Shawn Michaels and largely disappeared from television.
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Sgt Slaughter still appeared from time to time in the ring, mostly at house shows.
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Sgt Slaughter appeared on Raw to put over younger wrestlers, such as Kurt Angle and Funaki.
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Sgt Slaughter made an appearance at WrestleMania X-Seven, in the gimmick Battle Royal, which was won by The Iron Sheik.
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Sgt Slaughter got his revenge after the match by locking the Sheik in the cobra clutch.
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Sgt Slaughter appeared on both Raw and SmackDown on occasion during the Invasion storyline in non-wrestling roles, usually in conjunction with Vince McMahon.
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Sgt Slaughter made a special appearance on June 13,2005, episode of Raw to challenge Chris Masters in his "Master Lock Challenge", which Slaughter lost.
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Sgt Slaughter appeared on the July 4,2006 episode of Raw for a "Diva Boot Camp" segment, as a part of the 2006 Diva Search Competition.
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Sgt Slaughter was one of three options between himself, Roddy Piper, and Dusty Rhodes that fans could vote for as a tag partner for Ric Flair at Cyber Sunday, but did not win the vote.
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At Survivor Series, Sgt Slaughter teamed with Flair, Ron Simmons, and Dusty Rhodes to take on four members of the Spirit Squad in a Survivor Series match.
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Sgt Slaughter was eliminated in the match, but his team won, with Flair as the sole survivor.
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On December 18,2006, Sgt Slaughter participated in a 30-man battle royal for a chance to face John Cena in the main event for the WWE Championship, but he was eliminated from the match and did not get the title shot.
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On Raw XV, the 15th-anniversary Raw special on December 10,2007, Sgt Slaughter participated in the 15th Anniversary Battle Royal.
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On March 31,2008, on an episode of Raw, Sgt Slaughter paid tribute to longtime friend Ric Flair at the end of the show.
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Sgt Slaughter appeared on Raw's 800th episode in Kung Fu Naki's dance-off and made an appearance in the Slammy Awards.
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Sgt Slaughter, who had been working as a producer for WWE for the past several years, was released from his backstage producer duties with the company on January 13,2009.
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Sgt Slaughter started slowing down starting in 2006, wrestling only a few matches a year.
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Sgt Slaughter was the special guest host on Raw on August 10,2009, where he made fun of Canadians and saying how the USA is the greatest country in the world.
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Sgt Slaughter made an appearance on the Decade of SmackDown on October 2,2009, where he had an altercation with the Iron Sheik about which country was the greatest, USA or Iran.
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Sgt Slaughter would appear on November 15,2010's Old School RAW losing to Alberto Del Rio in one minute and 53 seconds.
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On July 3,2012, Sgt Slaughter appeared on Smackdown teaming with Jim Duggan and Santino Marella defeating Drew McIntyre, Huncio and Camacho for the Great American Bash.
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Sgt Slaughter later appeared on December 31,2012, edition of Raw, where he was challenged by then-United States Champion Antonio Cesaro in a match for the WWE United States Championship.
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Sgt Slaughter lost the match and failed to capture the title.
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Sgt Slaughter then made an appearance on Old School RAW, serving as the special guest referee for The Great Khali vs Damien Sandow match after he got the most votes.
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Sgt Slaughter made an appearance on November 24,2014, edition of Raw, where he confronted United States Champion Rusev and his valet, Lana, and attempted to force Lana and Rusev to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Rusev refused and had a staredown with Sgt Slaughter, who stood his ground.
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Swagger, Colter, and Sgt Slaughter then finished reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Sgt Slaughter returned at the Tribute to the Troops show on December 17,2014 and helped Dean Ambrose beat Bray Wyatt by giving Dean his steel-toe boot to use on Wyatt.
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Sgt Slaughter made a one-night appearance to WWE for the special Raw Reunion on July 22,2019, and on January 4,2021, on the Legends Night special episode of Raw.
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Sgt Slaughter was in attendance at the February 5,2020 episode of NXT.
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Sgt Slaughter appeared twice as a special guest on The Super Mario Bros.
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Sgt Slaughter appeared in the episodes "All Steamed Up" and "Caught in a Draft".
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Sgt Slaughter using fans from the crowd at a Monster Truck show to tug-o-war with Bigfoot.
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Sgt Slaughter was featured in the 1989 video game Sgt.
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Sgt Slaughter made a cameo appearance in the RadioShack Super Bowl XLVIII commercial "The '80s Called".