WWE Hall Of Famer Allegedly Lied About Serving In The Military

WWE Hall of Famer Sgt. Slaughter has always claimed to have served in the United States military. WWE.com even posted articles detailing his and other stars’ service.

Now, it has come to light that Slaughter never served to begin with. SoCal Uncensored (the website not the tag team) did some digging and was able to shed some light to the truth.

This came up on the WON board, but I'll post here too. Sgt. Slaughter was never in the USMC. While its fine that he portrays a character that was a Marine, him doing non-kayfabe interviews claiming to serve 2 tours in Vietnam, that he was a drill instructor, etc. is not good. pic.twitter.com/2XLPE1YFvl

— SoCal UNCENSORED (@socaluncensored) January 9, 2020

Surely the @WWE knows that Sgt Slaughter had no military service. To keep putting it out there that he actually served, such as in this article, https://t.co/i5LSBCMGf4 is pretty disrespectful to real veterans. WWE does a lot of good with the military, but this is stolen valor.

— SoCal UNCENSORED (@socaluncensored) January 9, 2020

At 1:42 into this clip Sgt Slaughter talks about his two tours in Vietnam. This is a non-kayfabe radio interview. This is incredibly disrespectful. https://t.co/kaOvBMRQjA

— SoCal UNCENSORED (@socaluncensored) January 9, 2020

I have no issue with the character of Sgt. Slaughter having been a Marine. Robert Remus should stop pretending to have been one. @WWE should stop claiming he was one before he was a wrestler outside of their fictionalized world.

— SoCal UNCENSORED (@socaluncensored) January 9, 2020

The newspaper clip in the first tweet is from the March 24, 1985 Baltimore Sun.

— SoCal UNCENSORED (@socaluncensored) January 9, 2020

As reported above, the newspaper clip came from the Baltimore Sun in 1985. The clip reports that despite claiming to serve from 1966 to 1973, Slaughter never spent time in the military. It goes on to say that an officer felt that Slaughter’s words were discrediting what those who do serve in the military have gone through.

Slaughter of course was very famous for his drill instructor gimmick in WWE and the old wrestling territories. His gimmick got him very popular as a babyface and later very hated as a heel. As a heel he won the WWF Championship at Royal Rumble 1991.

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