Jim Cornette Reviews A&E's Sgt. Slaughter Biography
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- From Episode 333 of the Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
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That DR. D promo had me laughing until my sides hurt
Sgt. Slaughter was the IC champ in my 80’s
Gi-Joe wrestling fed. Tomax and Xamont were the tag champs; but I had to bury Snake Eyes because he couldn’t cut a promo
Doing this in my Classified Collection, the Crimson Twins use pro wrestling double teams
Jesus this comment just brought me back to my childhood, lol. GI Joe and wrestling, mostly Jim Crockett's NWA, were my two passions as a kid. I would try and make my Joes represent certain wrestlers. I remember almost all of them. I had a native american Joe named "Spirit" who was my Wahoo McDaniel. There was "Recondo" whos mustache made him Paul Jones. "Quick Kick" was Ricky Steamboat. I forget there names but two of Zartans dreadnoks were my road warriors. "Dr. Mindbender" was bald so he was Gary Hart. "Roadblock " was the Junk Yard Dog. And I remember there was a blonde guy in a Hawaiian shirt named "Chuckles" that was my Ric Flair who I would team up with three of sgt slaughters "renegades" to make my own 4 horseman. Good times! I wish I still had them. I think I owned just about every GI Joe figure between 85 and 90. They all became hand me downs to my nephews and are long gone today.
@MrAnthimos112 you helped sculpt their childhood by giving them those figures
This might be my favorite TH-cam comment of all time, so I will gladly chime in....
I was never a big collector of Joes, but I had plenty of other toys to make my fed, from WWF to He-Man to Dick Tracy to Captain Planet to Power Rangers....
Captain Planet's Duke Nukem was my tallest action figure, so he chokeslammed his way to many victories and the Winged Eagle. The Red Ninja Ranger had the most articulation, so he was favorite to throw everyone around with. The Black Ninja Ranger superkicked the competition. Blue Ninja Ranger threw the Roaring Elbow with pinpoint precision. The Black and Red Zeo Rangers were the Brothers of Destruction. Dick Tracy and Sam Ketchum were the biggest babyface tag team I had.
However, the king of my ring was the ultimate Power Rangers baddie....Lord Zedd. Putting many opponents away with his dreaded DVD, followed by his devastating tope rope leg drop. He ruled with an iron fist, until a debilitating leg injury derailed his career ( his leg broke off, and I had to superglue it back on. He was never the same. Sigh.)
Those were the days.
Ha ha! I did that stuff too! 80s kids were the best!
When Bobby Heenan did his hall of fame speach, he referenced Bob Remus a couple of times, he never called him Sarge
So?
@@Rjensen2 so what ? Aren't I allowed to comment
That story about him and Sarge riding along with the fat women with no teeth 🤣
I was a child of the wwf in the northeast like Brian and still get a chuckle watching clips when he turned heel and called Hulk "The Immortal Slime" and Warrior "The Ultimate Puke"
Back in the day Sarge had all the best insults. I have to assume he either ad-libbed or had script input for his character's lines on GI Joe
Peak Slaughter was Mid Atlantic Slaughter. Work was off the charts, believability as a character was 100% and in his physical prime.
I remember that Sarge. My mom took me to see him wrestle at a local baseball park. He was with Kernodle and Nelson and wrestled Flair I believe. Nelson and Kernodle wrestled Stramboat and Youngblood in a cage. Those were the days!
Wheres don kernodle???
@@stevew7571 he was being carried by Sarge into a main event program. Being a lucky MFer. Then dropped back down to where he belonged after Sarge left, never to sniff past 3rd match on the card again.
Pvt. Nelson was the talent among Sarge's Corp. Or at least the one that found a gimmick that got him further anyway.
His match against Steamboat and Youngblood was legendary
@@jacoborourke Steamboat and Youngblood are criminally underrated. Decades ahead of their time as for as tag team move set.
AMAZING point on how the Slaughter WrestleMania 7 angle should have gone. That would have been HUGE
"I love the scent of burnt flesh in the morning." - Sgt. Slaughter
Is that an order?
if you're going to rip off a line from a movie character you could do a lot worse than Kilgore from Apocalypse Now.
He was smelling ring worms.
It smells like victory.
"Charlie don't surf."
Sgt Slaughter has always been synonymous with the Dutch flag.
That's Mantell ...
My father served as a Sargent in the Army in the Vietnam War, he loved slaughter. He never thought anything about stolen valor. I think he knew the business but never told me as a kid.
Your dad probably thought he actually served. Epecially since he was suppose to be a marine not the Army.
I worked with a guy who was in the military and told him about the stolen Valor thing when it happened his words so what do you know how many of my soldier buddies love him as kids. And talked about meeting him and respectful Sgt was towards the other soldiers
Nobody really cares homie everybody served in military at some point
@@stevesherm260nah
I remember Sgt Slaughter confusing me as a kid. I would see him on TV wrestling then suddenly he was a cartoon character on G.I. Joe.
He had a great match with the Nemesis Enforcer.
That David Schultz promo is hysterical
"I don't care if your mama lives there with another man" 😂😅
I agree with Jim on Sarge's wife!
Yes!
She was brutal!
It was a great documentary. But also ruined by his whiny, grown up kids and ungrateful, unsupported wife
That's a shame, she's always had such nice things to say about you. 🙄
@@davey3884 You hitting that old bat on the down low? You better hope Sarge doesn't find out!
Good lord, I had forgotten about Corporal Kirshner.
Most everybody else did, too.
@@specialk9424The WWE gave him a memorial post in 2006 because they thought he had died. He hadn't and lived until 2021.
Funny how short his run was. But alot of people had his ljn action figure .
9:07 Burlington coats started in New Jersey
Naah fuck New Jersey
Thank you 😂😂😂😂😂
*Burlnt'un
Sgt Slaughter beating Billy Robinson is about as likely as the Young Bucks beating Haku and Harley Race in a shoot
Maybe she means he beat Billy back to the hotel or he beat him at a pancake eating competition
Greg Gagne was there, both he and Ken Patera verified the story
It happened homie get woke
If the guy who "should" win, always won, fighting wouldn't be a spectator sport.
@@stevesherm260Why are you telling a guy you don’t like to get informed and enlightened?
Vince’s biggest WM botch is not having Hogan vs Flair.
They couldn’t figure out a finish
Why doesn't somebody ask Hulk Hogan about this incident with Billy Robinson and Sergeant Slaughter? I'm sure he knows the lowdown TRUTH about it😮😂😂😂😂
Xpac was there . He would definitely know.
Holy c*** that David Schultz promo was epic.
Sarge’s wife was the Adrian Balboa of wrestling
That David Schultz promo is one of the best things I have heard on you tube in the last 12months!
I met slaughter a couple of days ago at a convention and he is just such a great guy and he is one of the true greats
Not afraid to admit I was today years old when I learned sgt slaughter was never a marine lol
Yeah with as many pictures he's taking with military people and meeting presidents you can't be blamed
@@Emperor_x8that plus he claiming he was in Vietnam
He was as much of a marine as Captain Kangaroo was.😂😅
I can't believe he wasn't even a Sgt.
Yeah my dad hated Slaughter, my dad was in Vietnam.
My introduction to Sgt, Slaughter didn't actually come from seeing him on AWA or WWF tv.
It came from and old USHRA (United States Hot Rod Association) videotape called Blood, Sweat And Gears where he and his "Battle Batallion" (a bunch of local indie guys from the area) were featured doing a three round tug of war against Bigfoot as a special attraction during the USHRA's tour in 1987.
I'm fairly sure that the footage used in the video was actually shot at the USHRA event at the Metrodome in Minneapolis in january of 1987 because the video was released in the summer of that year and pretty much all of the footage used in its production was culled form tv broadcasts in the late months of '86 and the early months of '87.
I vaugely remember the tug of war with Bigfoot stuff... another thing people forget with exactly how big Bigfoot was back then.
Also, wasn't there a later version of the "Battle Batallion" where Slaughter was swapped with Hogan? And I think it was also about the time when Gravedigger became the draw for the trucks instead of big blue?
OMG I remember the commercials for that tape! That's awesome!
@DefendYoungstown
WCW did a monster truck sumo match at Halloween Havoc in the late 90's (I want to say '98) where hogan and the giant each had a custom bodied truck, hogan won the match and the segment ended ended with giant falling off the roof of Cobo Hall.
Both of the trucks used were built by Bigfoot 4X4X4, one was a reskinned bigfoot 14 and the other was an old snakebite truck from 1994.
They actually had bob chandler on the broadcast as an "expert commentator" for the match, but they didn't explain who he was or that his company built the trucks.
@@ethankeller1835
There's also a hilarious bit at the end where there's a "music video" for big bad and blown and sarge is standing in the back of a super modified 4X4 pulling truck miming along to the song on guitar, but he's not even trying to pretend he's playing along too it.
But the funniest part is that the guitar he's using is a budweiser logo shaped guitar that they scotch tapped a piece of white printer paper that says "slaughter" on it too, so it's a budweiser shaped logo guitar that says "Slaughteriser" instead.
Sgt. Slaughter is past my time but growing up I used to have his action figure and I used to put him in storylines with Venom and Iron Spider-Man.
That's the thing. A gimmick like "Sgt. Slaughter" from old-school wrestling, the whole Iraqi thing him vs Hulk Hogan at 'Mania, etc. and now kids today still thinking his action figure looks dope is what's missing with today's wrestling stars. Storylines and auras. That last for generations
First knew Sarge through GI Joe, then later found him in classic wrestling.
The thing that always sticks with me now though, that I didn't find out until a few years ago, was that there were some GI Joe fanatics and toy collectors that hated the Sarge!
Seemed to be that they didn't like their super serial toy line being made impure by a crossover with childish wrestling.
That's funny. I remember G.I. Joe had a "Refrigerator" Perry figure also. These toy nerds must have cried.
@@maitreyas.4902Those toy nerds somehow managed to father the dubbalos.
I agree with Jim. I absolutely hated his wife. Daughters weren't likeable either
I agree with Jim, St. Slaughter’s ex-wife she got on my nerves. I was like why are you here? They could have just interviewed the daughters.
To Jim’s point, it is strange that his wife as no regard for the business that literally paid for their house and life.
True dat. I myself am a rather hard working blue collar pimp. My wife does not appreciate my hos, my manicures, my jimmy wacking part timers, my Cadillac Eldorado, my cups filed with cognac, or my herpes. She is certainly willing to max out my American Express. Women.
@@BuJammy It's hard being a pimp these days
Slaughter's Beautiful Bobby Remus character had me in stitches. I couldn't stop laughing. He literally looked like a clone of Mike " meathead" Stivic from All in the Family. They looked almost like twins. 😅😆🤣😂😄
Who else thought of AVGN everytime they said LJN ?
Sarge a marine? So was Sargeant Bilko and Captain Kangaroo...😅
And popeye
Bob Keeshan, aka Captain Kangaroo, was in the US Marine Corps Reserve, in 1945, at the end of the war.
"F Vermont" Jim is killing me this morning lmao
I live in Vermont and nearly wet myself laughing
I listened to that Dr D promo the other day!!
“You idiot!”
“You a goof!”
Sarge is a awesome dude. For those who put him down because he was never actually in the Armed Forces,he has done nothing but PROMOTE them in positive ways so many times. The guy is a legend 🇺🇸
That clip of David Schultz was incredible
The line of the day : "I would've of keep the wife in the garage." Funny sh*t!
“You don’t know what it’s like to be a military man’s wife.” NEITHER DOES SHE!! He never served a day in the military. That was found out a couple of years ago.
Did Jim and Brian review the Earthquake Darkside of the Ring?
Not yet. Should be soon since the Buff Bagwell Dark Side already came out. Hopefully this week!
What did Nia Jax do?
U got jokes c'mon now. Earthquake as in John tenta lol@@MariuszMroczek-dd7ku
Probably ate something.@@MariuszMroczek-dd7ku
@@JB-xh5mc
But she looks like she's losing weight.
Hopefully she doesn't treat herself to her index finger for dessert.
The best part of this was Dr. D's promo. 😂 What a heel!
Wait a second: Burlington Coat Factory's HQ is in Burlington, NJ
Brian really hates bruce prichard
Rightfully so
Me too, why pay both he and Bisch to give interviews where all they say when asked about controversial moments that fans really want to hear about is "I don't remember" 😂
Everyone does
@@chrischar9428no. I loooooooove him
"Tubs in the garage" This is actually a great point to many men these days.
Women make men put their "foolish" things away that they enjoy. Then later wonder why they are stressed, spiteful and frustrated. Men have hobbies and interests and it keeps us sane. Don't let someone nag you into giving up your happiness, just because they don't understand it.
You must get a lot of girls lmfao 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The David Schultz promo makes this! 😆
Jim Cornette is a great and true American Patriot. Thank you for your service Jim!
Except for the part where he blindly over the top supports the dementia riddled guy who is handing our country to people who hate us. Other than that…
Brian is EVERY bit Cornette's Avatar as Bruce is Vinces.
Someone said it
I felt the same way about Sarge’s wife
As a proud resident of Burlington? I can say Bob Remus is one of the nicest men you’ll ever meet. And in a double nod to wrestling? I frequently see him at the Kerbodle Clinic Medical Center, named after the family of Don Kernodle himself.
Burlington Pride!
The local Wendy’s in Charlotte had a meet and greet event about 10 years ago and Slaughter was there. Super friendly guy. He told us a story about how the belt had a typo on it and he was the first to call attention to it. As for what belt and what promotion, I can’t remember
Slaughter did a really good long-form interview on the Brisco & Bradshaw podcast. Worth checking out...
This video had me thinking it would be interesting to see a quick tour of what kind of memorabilia Brian Last has.
I would watch "Guess where the memorabilia is from" where Brian gives as many details about an object as possible without using the federation's name.
I remember commissioner Slaughter trying to order around DX and Steve Austin with little success.
The dumbest thing was Vince not thinking people would remember the Iron Sheik and accept him as a Iraqi
Dumber than that was renaming him Col. Mustafa
I remember watching AWA way back. They did an interesting ongoing segment where there was a big buildup into who the next recruit was going to be into Camp Slaughter. That was back in the day when the most exciting thing was when you got a big star from another territory to jump ship and make a surprise debut into your conference. There was a huge buildup and speculation which major star they would get. Then when they finally made the intro in a Jungle setting Sarge called him out and out comes the 170 w no muscle pasty Greg Gagne wearing a bandana and playing a Rambo character. I remember turning off the tv in disgust and took quite a break from AWA after that, was tired of Verne over promoting himself when well past his prime and then later his version of George Gulas, Greg.
Greg deserves a little credit. Comparing him to George Gulas is a little harsh.
@@Uuusssaaas Over pushed promoters son, comparison is dead on. Was pushed way too high on the card. As a tag team wrestler with Brunzel he was fine but as a single he was a complete joke.
@@johnkolko5199 I agree. But George Gulas? He might be one of the 10 worst wrestlers of all time. Gagne could wrestle, but he was too small to be believable. Gagne should have worked behind the scenes. He has a decent mind for the business. He had no business wrestling after intermission.
@@johnkolko5199 Nah greg was a talented tag team wrestler, no where near George Gulas who wasn't talented at anything.
Whenever i remember sgt slaughter..i always think of that bump he took in the rumble..even though i knew wrestling was entertainment.. that bump stuck in my mind..
The wife traumatised the kids
Burlington Coat Factory is neither from Burlington North Carolina nor is it from Burlington Vermont, It is from Burlington *New Jersey*. I remember going to the original factory store there as a kid. Burlington is D-Lo Brown's hometown btw
Burlington, Ontario, Canada! Lol
The only Burlington coat factory in the mid Atlantic region was in Burlington North Carolina, the whole area was built up around it back in the late 80s.
You are correct. A small factory seconds store overflowing with clothes. I think it was off of Route 130 but can’t remember exactly.
Burlington, formerly known as Burlington Coat Factory, is headquartered in Burlington Township, New Jersey. Many apparel retailers were headquartered in that region of PA/NJ.
That ad read is killing me. Say good-bye to Factor Meals. Lol
Sarge has definitely claimed the story too.
Yo Joe!!!
I guess the Gleason movie was "Soldier In The Rain" where he starred with Steve McQueen, I think. 1960s movie made between Gleason's TV days with CBS.
God I love you Mr Cornett! When Jim said nah f*** Vermont I jumped 10 ft in the air because I'm born and raised in North Carolina and that was a perfect response Burlington coat factory is awesome because they're from North Carolina
Got to meet Sargent slaughter a few years ago what a nice guy talks to everybody and he put me in the cobra clutch it was awesome.
Well, I don’t know about Trump “conning the gullible suckers” but I do know, he sure has your number Jim: he lives rent free in your head.
Right?! Jim can't seem to go a day without pissing and moaning about Trump but won't say shit about Biden.
Well, if you don't know, you might be one of those gullible suckers Jim's referring to...
@@DLRXI didn't know Biden was at WrestleMania😂
I loved everything about this documentary except for the part where people got all offended at Sarge for talking about tours in Vietnam that ne never did. That was just stupid. Too many morons getting offended over every little thing these days.
Still not as egregious as Manny doing it. Slaughter was working; Manny wasn't.
The GI Joe guys' Swivel Arm Grip screws were always the same color as the guy
The David Schultz promo almost took me OUT 🤣
After that, I’m bummed that Dr. D was before my time… time to go digging for some promos.
@@Dodong0 ikr!?
Burlington, New Jersey is where Burlington coat is from.
I was a little kid during the GI Joe cartoon time and I loved Sgt. Slaughter. I thought he was a mean, kick your teeth out kinda guy, then I saw him in interviews later and I was stunned. He's soft spoken and approachable, total opposite of what I thought as a kid. 😄
Cpl K looked like he never did laundry after he tried the booger sugar
I have a picture of Sarge gripping me in the Cobra Clutch. It’s won of my favorites!
Yeah I was 9 or 10 when Slaughter did the Iraq thing and I was in shock. He was a GI Joe!!! I didn't know what a work was but I did know that wrestling was a show. And I was glued to the TV. This heel turn, macho man and the cobra, Earthquake squishing Jake the snake's snake. WWE was FN insane and I'm so glad that slaughter had the balls to be a bad guy. As devastating as it was to see a GI Joe turn bad, it was awesome to watch
You're both wrong -- Burlington, New Jersey is where Burlington Coat Factory began and is headquartered.
No. You're thinking of The Coate Jersey and Burlington Factory, which began and is headquartered in Coate, Idaho.
(Both "Jerseys" and "Burlingtons" are types of wool sweater. Coate is Idaho's 9th largest city).
You're welcome.
Not in this economy. @@distantandvague
I lived in Burlington NC for several yrs & didn't know Sgt lives there. The late Don Kernodle lived there too.
I didnt think it was weird at all that he had so much sgt slaughter memorabilia. I saw a guy In his older years who was proud of his work.
& He should be. Havin to keep everything in a bin in the garage.. well thats woman.
To be fair to his wife, a lot of people didn't want to see that Wrestlemania main event.
That Patterson match he was bleeding like a pig at a slaughter house. It was a really good match. Saw him in cage matches in Maple Leaf Gardens. Steamboat and Youngblood.
I started watching wrestling around the time Sgt. Slaughter won the WWF title from The Ultimate Warrior. I was only 5 so I didn't understand the backstory behind the Iraqi sympathizer gimmick. I just wanted Hulk Hogan to beat him lol. I saw GI Joe for the first time a few months later and when I saw that I really became a fan of Sgt. Slaughter.
When he became commissioner, he was perfect for the role. Stone Cold stunned him and insulted his weight, DX wore those shields with wipers on them and exposed Brian Pillman for not having broken his arm. I never knew he had a lazy eye until I watched this show.
I think this is high on my list in the series but the Scott Hall one is really good as well.
I met Sarge on Sunday when he was eating brunch at the hotel I used to be F&B Manager. He was in town to visit his daughter at college.
Its refreshing corny and brian talking about something they like vs whats wrong with aew 😂
Badmouthing AEW is like throwing darts.
You can hardly go wrong and there is always a point.
30:00 Turning Sarge heel for WrestleMania - Just do exactly what they did with Wahoo. Sgt. comes back. New Superpowers. Then Sarge loses it because Hogan took his spot in 1984, driving Sarge away.
Cornette 2024
Soldier in the Rain is a great film starring Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen. It also features Tuesday Weld and Tom Poston. It's a quiet movie about a career soldier during peacetime. It's definitely NOT an action film.
Bruce catching strays lol, and that promo is gold.
Corny got it wrong about Burlington Coat Factory. It’s from Burlington, New Jersey, not Burlington, North Carolina
The Iraq sympathizer turn was probably one of the bravest thing a wrestler has ever done. He had to wear a bullet proof vest. Hogan said people would throw rocks at him and puncture his car tires. I saw him once in a Jamesway shortly after he turned face again and he had six cops around him. Imagine getting that kind of treatment where ever you go
Wasn't Bobby Heenan "Beautiful" at one point as well?
Harmon was
Yes
The sgt slaughter documentary was great to watch he went back & forth to babyface to heelore than once.
Those who accused Sarge for "stealing valor", do not understand that Sergeant Slaughter came from a time where it was important to protect the business from outsiders. Obviously things have changed over the years and more people have been educated on the inner workings of pro wrestling. As a result, many who hadn't been smarten up, thought Bob Remus was doing the interviews instead of Remus doing the interviews in character. Sgt. Slaughter is a character, no different than Corporal Kirschner and G.I. Bro and any other military-inspired wrestling character.
Exactly.
As an 80s kid this guy was a bigger than life hero to me than Hogan was. Hated his heel turn becauae I was still young when it happened but when he made that crossover to G.I. Joe he achieved mythical status but what a run that was.
I grew up in Connecticut, and when he would do autograph signings around the state, he’d drive the camo caddy to the signing. You’d see him driving that around the state.
I saw him at a signing last year. Freaky how he hasn't aged a day
One of my founds memories as a kid, was meeting Sgt Slaughter at the Statue Of Liberty, till this day, he's one of the largest humans I've ever encountered.
Sgt Slaughter *is American styled icon*
*Flag of the Netherlands behind him* 🇳🇱
I love the near end of this with the promo Dr David Schultz laid out, that was hilarious and amazing! Just like Brian Last said, it was utterly brilliant!
Our dad used to tell us that Sarg would come to Ernie's Roadhouse in Danbury every Friday in the early 90s. Sadly now, Sarg is dead, and Ernie's is a Dominican barber shop
I was first introduced to Slaughter from GI Joe. And i remember being a little let down when he took his jacket off. And he didn't quite look like he did in the cartoon.
Did not see a Mean Gene shoot coming. 😂😂
I always thought that Sarge took the Stunner from Steve Austin the best. I real jaw jacker there
Darn . I missed it. Welp i'm here for Corny's review.
Their both wrong: Burlington Coat Factory started in the Burlington Township in New Jersey. But see how convincing and 100% Jim felt about his answer? Scary to think influence can come from people who are so gunhold and believe whatever they think is right instead of staying quiet about facts their not quite sure about.
You ever hear his bullshit liberal politics and constant talking points? Not surprising coming from him specifically