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Post by tekkenguy on Jan 2, 2014 1:53:03 GMT -5
When Sgt. Slaughter returned to WWF in 1990, his first feud was against Nikolai Volkoff. He was angry at his country for embracing Volkoff with open arms.
How would you have booked this angle without turning Slaughter into an Iraqi sympathizer?
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Post by Capt Lunatic on Jan 2, 2014 4:37:33 GMT -5
I'd have him go Rambo. He's still the same, it's the country that changed. He tried to be our hero and we spat on him. And Hulk Hogan's the biggest traitor of them all!
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Post by James Fabiano on Jan 2, 2014 9:16:56 GMT -5
Yeah, maybe try 2000 Kurt Angle yet more serious. With a dash of Zeb Coulter perhaps?
/And no, I don't mean Jack Swagger.
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Post by Aceorton on Jan 2, 2014 10:18:51 GMT -5
Sgt Slaughter = Joe McCarthy. Obviously if Volkoff is getting cheered, it means the WWF has been infiltrated with slimy pinko commies, and he's going to find them all and root 'em out! There would be weekly unfounded accusations of communism against the other wrestlers, with Slaughter slowly building his way up to Hogan. (In a minor swerve a few months into the angle, it would be revealed that Tugboat actually is a communist.)
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jan 2, 2014 12:28:34 GMT -5
Sgt Slaughter = Joe McCarthy. Obviously if Volkoff is getting cheered, it means the WWF has been infiltrated with slimy pinko commies, and he's going to find them all and root 'em out! There would be weekly unfounded accusations of communism against the other wrestlers, with Slaughter slowly building his way up to Hogan. (In a minor swerve a few months into the angle, it would be revealed that Tugboat actually is a communist.) "Toot toot, comrades!" |
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Post by James Fabiano on Jan 2, 2014 14:04:24 GMT -5
Sgt Slaughter = Joe McCarthy. Obviously if Volkoff is getting cheered, it means the WWF has been infiltrated with slimy pinko commies, and he's going to find them all and root 'em out! There would be weekly unfounded accusations of communism against the other wrestlers, with Slaughter slowly building his way up to Hogan. (In a minor swerve a few months into the angle, it would be revealed that Tugboat actually is a communist.) Then, when the Attitude Era came about, Slaughter could keep this character and the reason he wants to stop Austin is not because Vince wants it, but because with that bald head and goatee, he is clearly a Russian. |
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Post by toodarkmark on Jan 2, 2014 14:22:21 GMT -5
They could have brought back Don Kernodle as a "Senator", and have "hearings" organized by Sgt. Slaughter. You could have Bob Orton, Jr., Dick Murdoch, and just to make a mockery of it have Dino Bravo and Haku be a part of it.
So they bring in patriotic characters for questioning, Dusty Rhodes, Jim Duggan, Big Bossman (sort of), who all claim this is stupid and ridiculous. Then they try to subpoena Hulk Hogan, who shows and cuts a killer I Love America promo and like Murdoch, Orton, Bravo and Haku like leave the room with their heads hung in shame. But Slaughter isn't buying it.
I know what you are Hogan! You're the top traitor of them all! Then in a swerve, have him team with Iron Sheik because "at least he ain't no commie!" You could still bring in the anti-Iraq thing with that. Hogan could cut " youre living in the past, dont you know whats going on in the world" promos. Then Wrestlemania.
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Jan 2, 2014 17:19:37 GMT -5
I would have kept on the track they started at before the Iraq stuff. Have him just be a hard ass living in the past that's bitter over America and seeing what its becoming. An old school guy who hates the modern world he lives in and resents the flashy Wrestlers in the WWF. A bitter, older man. that has still the flare, passion and fight of his younger self.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Jan 2, 2014 19:46:27 GMT -5
Sgt Slaughter = Joe McCarthy. Obviously if Volkoff is getting cheered, it means the WWF has been infiltrated with slimy pinko commies, and he's going to find them all and root 'em out! There would be weekly unfounded accusations of communism against the other wrestlers, with Slaughter slowly building his way up to Hogan. (In a minor swerve a few months into the angle, it would be revealed that Tugboat actually is a communist.) "Toot toot, comrades!" Toot toot indeed twitter.com/Tugboat_Toots |
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Post by horsemen4ever on Jan 2, 2014 20:22:10 GMT -5
Similar heel turn happened with Dick Murdock, he turned on Dusty Rhodes because he choose Nikita Koloff as his partner, and questioned Rhodes patiotism by accepting as a Russian as a allie, than alligned himself with Ivan Koloff.
Speaking of which, off topic when they were a kid anyone believe there was a kayfabe Russian syndicate that sent all these Russian wrestlers to different wrestling promotions. When I was a kid, I thought Volkoff and Koloff had the same bosses. Though for some reason I found it belivable the Soviet of proving their superoity in athletes, while I didn't find it believeable that Saddam Hussein give a f who the WWF champion.
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Post by Todd Pettengill on Jan 3, 2014 1:52:48 GMT -5
They could have brought back Don Kernodle as a "Senator", and have "hearings" organized by Sgt. Slaughter. You could have Bob Orton, Jr., Dick Murdoch, and just to make a mockery of it have Dino Bravo and Haku be a part of it. So they bring in patriotic characters for questioning, Dusty Rhodes, Jim Duggan, Big Bossman (sort of), who all claim this is stupid and ridiculous. Then they try to subpoena Hulk Hogan, who shows and cuts a killer I Love America promo and like Murdoch, Orton, Bravo and Haku like leave the room with their heads hung in shame. But Slaughter isn't buying it. I know what you are Hogan! You're the top traitor of them all! Then in a swerve, have him team with Iron Sheik because "at least he ain't no commie!" You could still bring in the anti-Iraq thing with that. Hogan could cut " youre living in the past, dont you know whats going on in the world" promos. Then Wrestlemania. Gotta have Slaughter question why Hogan wears the colors of Communism; if we're going this route. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2014 13:20:50 GMT -5
I'd have him go Rambo. He's still the same, it's the country that changed. He tried to be our hero and we spat on him. And Hulk Hogan's the biggest traitor of them all! That's the angle I'd have gone with. Though wasn't he basically an "all Rambo" heel in his original WWF run? I personally think they did the Iraqi thing to screw over his relationship with GI Joe/Hasbro, which did indeed end (he was on the cartoon when it came back, then dropped pretty quickly) when he went Iraqi heel. |
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Jan 3, 2014 23:05:35 GMT -5
Sgt Slaughter = Joe McCarthy. Obviously if Volkoff is getting cheered, it means the WWF has been infiltrated with slimy pinko commies, and he's going to find them all and root 'em out! There would be weekly unfounded accusations of communism against the other wrestlers, with Slaughter slowly building his way up to Hogan. (In a minor swerve a few months into the angle, it would be revealed that Tugboat actually is a communist.) "Toot toot, comrades!" Instead of making him Typhoon, they could have rechristened him as "The Red Tide" |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2014 23:06:27 GMT -5
I mostly remember the noogies of doom that he used on Volkoff.
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Post by Todd Pettengill on Jan 5, 2014 3:17:21 GMT -5
I mostly remember the noogies of doom that he used on Volkoff. The noogies were great! Also, when he would "put a smile" on his opponent's face when he had them locked in the Camel Clutch! |
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Post by MichaelMartini on Jan 5, 2014 18:51:01 GMT -5
I like the idea of him being a bitter, old war horse but if they had to go with the Iraqi stuff, I wouldn't have made him a sympathizer, just a sell out. Instead of General Adnan,that guy would've been a rich Iraqi manager. A friend of Iron Shieks that wanted into the wrestling biz. Feuds would've been the same but Sarge wouldn't have been pro-Saddam since it made no freaking sense.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jan 5, 2014 20:00:45 GMT -5
Sgt Slaughter = Joe McCarthy. Obviously if Volkoff is getting cheered, it means the WWF has been infiltrated with slimy pinko commies, and he's going to find them all and root 'em out! There would be weekly unfounded accusations of communism against the other wrestlers, with Slaughter slowly building his way up to Hogan. (In a minor swerve a few months into the angle, it would be revealed that Tugboat actually is a communist.) Hogan's colors were red and yellow, after all! |
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