Awesome / Sgt. Slaughter

• Could you believe that not one, but TWO P.O.T.U.S. were his fans?
  • Ronald Reagan asked him to put him on his trademark Cobra Clutch when The Large Sarge received an invitation to a dinner at The White House, but the Secret Service didn´t allow it.
  • The other one was Richard Nixon.
• The "AWA America's Heavyweight Champion" was a short-lived title created specially for him to cash in his patriotic gimmick and put him over in front of a new audience, it was only held by two men, Larry Zbyszko and himself. Successfully defending the strap against Zbyszko, Boris Zukhov, and Nick Bockwinkel, the title was immediately retired after he left the brand.
• Regarding his Iraqi-sympathizer gimmick — his Take a Third Option of burning a Hulk Hogan shirt (on a flagpole) instead of a United States flag, thus getting the desired heat from the audience without going against his actual beliefs.
• How insane the whole thing ended up? The morning following the incident, The Large Sarge phoned home, but it was engaged. When he phoned the company, they asked if he had spoken to his wife. When he said that he hadn't, they informed him that a fan had phoned the company informing them that he planned to kill him, his boss, their entire families and blow up their houses. Slaughter wife's briefly fled the house in fear and he was told by the company that his family could only return home after accepting a personal security team of four armed officers. He also had to wear a bulletproof vest at all times.

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