[1991-03-09-WWF-Superstars] Interview: Sgt Slaughter

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Slaughter with another great heel interview, and this time, he burns a Hulk Rules t-shirt. They must have doused the thing this time, because the poster was slow to burn while this went up in flames ridiculously fast.

[shoe]

I loved this.

[PeteF3]

The best Slaughter promo since the summer vignettes--he's one bad mother scud. Vince tells us, TWO WEEKS UNTIL D-DAY! Yeah.

[Kevin Ridge]

Adnan has a Hogan shirt made out to be a flag. Slaughter talks about going to war with Hogan. Slaughter lights the tshirt which goes up in flames real quick. Good promo by Slaughter.

[soup23]

This is probably the most iconic promo from the feud and was still great with great heat and the way the flame engulfed the Hogan shirt. I do want to see Hogan extract revenge.

[garretta]

They should have burned either the poster or the shirt, not both. This was overkill. And Vince was too busy hyping Mania to sell outrage, which takes a lot of the sting out of it. It's almost like he (the character) was beyond being angered by Slaughter and was just accepting what happened as an everyday occurrence not worth comment. Mean Gene was much better here, even walking out on the interview rather than seeing his friend's shirt burned. The crowd was hot, but who knows how much of that might have been artificial?

 

I thought we were getting away from the weapons analogies, but Sarge sure brought them by the bushel. I do admit to being amused by the "I'm one tough mother Scud" line, but one clever line does not a good promo make. He'd just done too many of the same type of interviews for them to matter much anymore.

 

Adnan is useless as usual. Once and for all, Vince, no one's going to mistake him for the real Saddam Hussein, so let this man speak English!

 

I thought we'd have seen Sheik by now, but I guess he didn't appear till after Mania. Given what little I remember about his run, I'm sure that was a good thing, because he was terrible in the ring and (like Adnan) nothing on the mic. The latter isn't his fault, though; he couldn't do his usual interview schtick without being exposed as Sheik, which Vince didn't want.