It’s time to stand at attention and show some order for The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling’s very special guest a REAL G.I. Joe come to life, 2004 WWE Hall of Fame Inductee, Former WWE Heavyweight Champion, Sgt. Slaughter. Sgt. Slaughter takes us all back to the days when two things ruled a young child’s life, wrestling and G.I. Joe. Sarge being the first major crossover star from pro wrestling to mainstream entertainment gives John and Chad meticulous details about his controversial departure from the WWE amidst the launch of the Rock N’ Wrestling Era and how it was a “now or never” situation. He also looks deep into the Mid-Atlantic roster and how the crowds of the Mid-Atlantic area compared to those of Madison Square Garden. There is also a very interesting twist to his infamous heel run as an anti-American sympathizer that has rarely been revealed and how an injury could have massively changed the plans of WrestleMania 7.
Full Episode Download Link: http://tmptow.podomatic.com/entry/2015-09-02T21_00_00-07_00
Sgt. Slaughter On Why He Left The WWE For G.I. Joe https://youtu.be/ox7v8WGrRlU
Sgt. Slaughter On His Role & The Success of G.I. Joe: The Movie: https://youtu.be/f_2A-qALc-I
Reaction to the NXT Takeover: Brooklyn event and sitting first row:
It was pretty incredible. I was kind of set-back myself a little bit because there was so much energy in the audience and the performers. A lot of them I didn’t know as well as I do the WWE Superstars and I’ve gotten to know more of The Divas because there are so many of them. Getting out there and seeing not many of the WWE Superstars there, some were wandering around but it was like NXT’s own little private show to the public and I was just incredibly entertained. To be asked to go out at ringside and watch one of the matches was a great honor to be a part of that, that first inaugural Brooklyn, New York type style of match. It brought me back to when I first went into the ring in Allentown, Pennsylvania or Madison Square Garden and Baltimore, Philadelphia all the fans appreciation of knowing how hard they work in there and really enjoy being entertained. When you give them something that they really enjoy they make you go harder and harder and put out more then you thought you could.
Crowd reactions to stories being told in ring:
Fans are mostly the same wherever you go. They are going to get behind you whether you are the hero or the villains. It’s the way you come across, your character it’s just really nice to see that the fans are getting back into it and that they can be told a story. It makes it so much easier and so much fun for the villains and the heroes to tell the stories and have people that want to watch those stories and continue to watch them.
Memories of the Mid-Atlantic Territory:
Well, there was so many of them. Ricky Steamboat, Jay Youngblood, my partner at the time Don Kernodle probably had some of the greatest matches ever witnessed in tag team action. The match we had in Greensboro, North Carolina, a cage match for the titles, they still claim that it is one of the greatest matches of all time because they never had tag matches in a cage before. Back then, we didn’t have pay per views we had closed circuit and I kept trying to get Crocket Promotions to rent the building next door and do closed circuit. Sixteen – twenty thousand people were turned away and that’s a lot of people who want to see a match so it meant a lot and it’s still very close to Don and I. I see Steamboat once in a while and he always mentions that match.
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
