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Contents 1 Montreal Screwjob 2 Vitalstatistics 3 Sgt. Slaughter the singer 3.1 Entrance Music! 3.2 AWA World Heavyweight Championship 3.3 Sunblock 3.4 WikiProject class rating 3.5 Military Career 3.6 RAW XV anniversary

[edit] Montreal Screwjob

Sgt. Slaughter was present at ringside with Vince McMahon during the Montreal Screwjob at the 1997 Survivor Series. At that time, Slaughter also was, for lack of a better term, an advisor to McMahon and the World Wrestling Federation's bookings (similar to Gerald Briscoe and Pat Patterson). Does anyone know of Slaughter's role/knowledge in the incident, if he had any at all? --Dilk85

Please document the origin of sgt slaughter. I want full chicken and egg proof which came first, the wrestler or the gi-joe guy

The first Slaughter GI Joe toy came out in 1986. Bob Remus had been using the name and gimmick as a wrestler since the late '70s. Courtesy yojoe.com: "Professional wrestler Sgt.Slaughter was the first celebrity immortalized as a member of G.I.Joe. In addition, he voiced his own character in the G.I.Joe cartoons, filmed promotional spots and introductions for some of the G.I.Joe cartoons, and served as the spokesman in G.I.Joe toy commercials from 1987 to 1990." PeteF3 07:01, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vitalstatistics

I have always seen the Sarge billed at 6'3" in PWI and other publications. (Sky Magazinr billed him as 6'6" in '91, but that was because Hogan was billed as 6'7"). How come the Sarge's height is now at 6'4"? Does anyone disagree with me reverting this?(Halbared 12:04, 30 May 2006 (UTC))

Hogan is actually 6'4, they'd bill him at 6'6 back then. It was most likely just to make Hogan look better. -- Dan N.

Here is Sgt Slaughter with 6'3 Jim Duggan. 6'4 + for Slaughter. http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/pictures/06/hacksawsgtslaughter.jpg

Here Jim duggan is slightly taller than legit 6'2.5 Dibease. http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/pictures/05/ratpack.jpg

[edit] Sgt. Slaughter the singer

I just added a new section to the article documenting the Sarge's brief musical career. The reason I am aware of this project, is that my dad was one of the main investors. (He lost nearly all his money.) He became involved because he lived downstairs from Sarge's friend, who did most of the actual singing.

Has anyone out there heard this album? I destroyed all my copies long ago, trying to make a whirlybird for my high-school science class egg drop competition. A cousin of mine says he saved his though. Wouldn't surprise me if that's the last remaining copy! Truly horrible, horrible album...

[edit] Entrance Music!

In the WWE's Greatest Wrestling Stars of the 80s DVD ( there is a featurette on Sgt. Slaughter. In this he claims that he was the one that first performer to ever have music played upon his entrance to the ring for crowd reaction. Has anyone seen or heard of this? Apparently he came out with some soldiers hymn.

I was a bit puzzled cause in the WWE's Hollywood Hulk Hogan book, Terry Bollea credit's himself for doing this. Apparently he came out to the eye of the tiger or something.

Sometimes it's too hard to differentiate between storylines and fact. It's too hard to try and be a smark.

Does anyone know anything about this? (Thebandweekly 01:12, 8 January 2007 (UTC)) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thebandweekly (talk • contribs) 01:11, 8 January 2007 (UTC).

Slaughter, The Freebirds, Hulk Hogan, and Roddy Piper have all at one point or another claimed to be the originator of entrance music. In fact, I beleive it was already in use sporadically in boxing during the 1970s. BoosterBronze 20:26, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AWA World Heavyweight Championship

I was watching a dvd last night that the WWE put out a year or so ago called the Greatest Wrestling Stars of the 80s. Its a 3-disc collection with each disk featuring a number of matches and biographies of 5 wrestlers telling their history through interviews, photos, and footage. One of the wrestlers profiled is Slaughter and the dvd shows and states that he defeated Larry Zybszko for the AWA World Title. I know that he deveated him for the AWA America's Championship but the dvd explicitly stated he also won the AWA World Title. I'm a bit confused and was wondering if anybody knew if this was a case of the AWA revising its title history and not recognizing Slaughter winning it, the WWE declaring Slaughter a former AWA World Champion, similar to their reference to Ric Flair as a 16 time World Champion, or what exactly. Odin's Beard 00:23, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sunblock

Does anyone remember the zinc based sunblock that Sgt. Slaughter promoted? I recall it came in many bright colors.

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 04:21, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Military Career

In a recent interview on Steven Colbert's show [1] , Jesse Ventura implied that Sgt. Slaughter was a "fraudulent veteran", in contrast to Ventura, who was a Navy SEAL in the Vietnam era. I am only able to get, off of a web bio linked on this page, that Slaughter was a former drill instructor for the U.S. Marines - can anyone else verify, or is there any legitimacy in Ventura's claim? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.255.32.146 (talk) 21:20, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Jesse's lost his mind. Have you seen the guy lately? He's in pretty sad shape, and he's also seeing conspiracies all over the place.76.234.154.131 (talk) 07:33, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RAW XV anniversary

Shouldn't it say that Slaughter was the last man eliminated? it seems important. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.102.213.209 (talk) 13:14, 25 April 2008 (UTC)