[1991-03-24-WWF-Wrestlemania VII] Interview: Sgt. Slaughter

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Slaughter has turned into a caricature. He's gone from offensive to this mustache-twirling clown, which I suppose is an improvement.

[PeteF3]

Sarge threatens to get disqualified or counted out if he has to. I was hoping for Prime Time footage of Hogan vs. Adnan which ended in a pretty effective Sarge attack, but no dice.

[Kevin Ridge]

Slaughter teasing getting disqualified or counted out to keep the title. That would send the fans home happy after the big show.

[soup23]

I am pretty much done with this feud by this point. Slaughters logic of getting count out and Dq'd actually was not a bad strategy but wasn't really played up in the match.

[garretta]

Sarge didn't actually twirl his mustache, but he was the stereotypical foreign menace heel in every other way here. Was that better than what he's been up until now? I can't answer that. because I didn't much care for either one. I guess portraying him this way was less offensive to the much larger pay-per-view audience, and I guess that's a good thing, although showing the shirt-burning brings back to mind all the offensive garbage that's gone on since this whole mess started at the Royal Rumble.

 

I liked Sarge mentioning that he could get himself DQd or counted out just to save the title. I've never heard a heel bring that up before; it's usually left to the announcers to do it. As for why it wasn't brought up during the match, if there was ever a time that Vince wanted to openly telegraph a Hogan pinfall win, it was here. It would have been counterproductive to even mention any other possible type of finish, kayfabe be damned. I honestly believe that if Vince thought he could have gotten away with Gino saying as Hogan walked down the aisle, "We've already decided that the Hulkster's gonna beat this no-good turncoat right in the center of the ring!", he would have told him to say just that. If Sarge had kept the belt in any make, shape. or form, the WWF probably would have either gone out of business entirely or at least lost most of its TV.

 

As usual, Adnan adds absolutely nothing. I keep waiting for Vince to wise up and at least let him mix English and Iraqi (or whatever the language is called) but no such luck.