That seems to also be the case for many others, at least as far as why this story has, somewhat improbably, not come to a head sooner. Slaughter only played a character on WWF TV, very few people know he never served in the military. Slaughter, that’s not me,” Remus said of his TV wrestling persona. After a successful year-long run doing strong business with great matches (primarily against in the Carolinas, another famously lucrative territory, eventually Slaughter would return to the WWF shortly after the traffic jam, changing his villainous ways to a good guy after about a year.
He still says he was a veteran even today.
“I, Sgt. To make things official, he later , after which he announced, “IRON SHEIK, I DECLARE WAR ON YOU!” and led the fans in the Pledge of Allegiance. Slaughter, pledge that my career will follow your lofty standards!" Norton mentioned how returning Vietnam vets were scorned, and how things have improved throughout the decades.
“Does it help too, getting into wrestling not too long after that and showing up at these buildings and these arenas where you do have adulation?” asked Roberts, who also hosts a popular wrestling podcast and works the panels for the pre-show of major WWE events.
he yelled. “You’ve got to understand: That’s Sgt. “We weren’t acknowledged as being heroes or anything like that. “I just went as myself.” Bryant said he didn’t buy WWE’s contention that Remus was discussing his time in Vietnam as the Sgt.
WWE Hall Of Famer Sgt. I love the character of Sgt. Slaughter character after seeing the 1957 film “The D.I.” “I started watching it and I said that’s a hell of a character for a villain in professional wrestling,” Remus recalled.At 1:42 into this clip Sgt Slaughter talks about his two tours in Vietnam. By the end of the interview, which was a few months before the annual WrestleMania event, Roberts and Norton thanked him for coming in. I humbly ask the man who is 71 year old Robert Remus to consider setting the record straight.” “There is no shame in being a great character … no shame at all in a job well done,” he added. “That interview, he’s talking about behind-the-scenes stuff, how storylines come up,” Bryant told Marine Corps Times. 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. Slaughter (real name Robert Remus) being accused of stolen valor. My idea of a perfect evening is to cook a steak, build a fire and relax. “Were you messed up when you came back?” Norton asked. It turns out that a major market newspaper had explicitly reported the fact that “Sgt. (FWIW: Available newspaper records don’t shed any light on what Remus really did during his “service” other than .) Jay Farrar was quoted as saying in the magazine. I just wish I had more time to do that.” While no, his real name is not “Bob Slaughter,” Remus was still making a clear distinction as early as late 1984 that “Sgt. Remus recalled having issues with burning the American flag as part of Sgt. While Didinger’s statement that his subject was an actual veteran is made in passing (“The 34-year-old Marine Corps veteran was dressed in slacks and a wind-breaker…) and doesn’t quote Remus/Slaughter, the wrestler would continue to claim until as recently as a few months ago that he was a genuine veteran, decades after he had started talking about the wrestling business in more surface-honest terms.And not just to the media either. "Just as you conquered Kuwait, I, Sgt. Case in point: “Yes,” he responded when Jim Norton of Sirius XM’s him if he really served in the Marine Corps last February 18th. “He’s trying to uphold good things. “Did you ever see one of those administered?” “I’ve been in one,” Remus answered. “It’s like Paul Newman. Robert Rudolph Remus (born August 27, 1948), better known by his ring name Sgt. “I walked into a café near the Holiday Inn in Oklahoma City and saw Sergeant Slaughter sitting quietly by himself,” , which is sourced almost entirely from his contemporaneous audio diaries. According to Remus, the main trainer told him: “Your last name, Remus. There could be a very good reason for …
over Remus’ non-service on his podcast last week when answering a listener question about the controversy. “Full Metal Jacket, there’s that famous scene of the blanket party,” Norton said. “After graduating from high school,” wrote Kevin Powers, “young Robert Remus joined the United States Marine Corps where he earned the moniker ‘Sgt. I’ll go into the Marine Corps, and I’ll go to college when I get out.’ I got halfway there [and] ended up at a pro wrestling training camp on leave.” A follow-up question asking if it was “an easy transition for you from being a Marine to becoming a pro wrestler” saw Remus avoid going further than the above implication that he may have only gone through basic training. Your father’s named Rudy?” “I said, yeah,” Remus told the radio show, adding that his dad had roofed the coach’s house. “He did his research,” the wrestler added. Making sure all the, uh, the grunts don’t [go] AWOL on us, and keep ’em all in line.” It got a lot uglier when Norton asked him if he was “messed up when you came back,” with Remus saying that “we never talked about it much” because Vietnam vets weren’t viewed as returning heroes. By way of his choice of retweets and who he chooses to send positive vibes to when he responds to tweets, he’s been stumping for the bad faith and/or uninformed take that he was just playing his gimmick like any other old-school wrestler. Questions about Remus’ claims of real-life military service But accusations of stolen valor have resurfaced recently on “It’s a bad look, especially since WWE uses him for veterans events,” said Steve Bryant, an Army veteran and founder of the California wrestling news site WWE told Marine Corps Times that when Remus is in character as Sgt. Slaughter in the Marine Corps,” Remus said. The reason people didn’t make a … I thought he had been a Marine before he was a wrestler.”Over the last few years, though, Remus has made matters worse by pushing more and more egregious claims.