Hall Of Famer Says WWE Return Offer He Rejected Was A ‘Slap In The Face’

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WWE Hall of Famer Sgt Slaughter has addressed reports that he turned down the opportunity to make a WWE return to work with Lacey Evans.

It was previously reported that WWE had reached out to Slaughter to appear in the vignettes hyping up Lacey’s return back in January, but he ‘adamantly declined’ the opportunity.

Speaking with Sportskeeda, Slaughter confirmed this, noting that he wasn’t offered the money he would’ve wanted to re-join WWE.

Noting that he’d be interested in returning to the company if the scenario was right, he said:

“They came to me, offered this deal, and it was to make less money than I’m making now.

“Why should I give up making what I’m making and go get her trained and make her a star and then there I am dangling out there and owned by the WWE? It didn’t look so favorable for me, so I just said, ‘Well, I’m just gonna stay with what I’m doing.’

“If they want to, if they wanna come up with the right deal, they wanna come up with the right scenario, whatever they wanna do, I’d love to come back and manage her and show her what to do.

“I did it with Don Kernodle and Jim Nelson. I made them The Privates, made them champions. I took these two fan favorites and made them a couple of the meanest guys in town. I could easily do that with Lacey and not even hurt my character.”

“So, if they would like me to come back, I’d have no qualms about sitting down and talking about it, but to offer me something like they did was a slap in my face.

“It was like utterly ridiculous what they offered me. I was making more money when I left there than they were offering me to come back and make her (Lacey Evans) a star.”

Slaughter has previously discussed his issues with Evans, recently noting that he doesn’t like the fact that she started using the Cobra Clutch without asking for permission to do so.

The former WWE Champion has also taken issue with Evans’ military gimmick, however it’s worth noting that Evans is actually a veteran of the Marines.

Evans last wrestled on the June 23 edition of SmackDown, losing to Charlotte Flair in singles action.

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