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Post by srossi on Apr 12, 2024 21:07:55 GMT
This is the first time I’ve heard this. Does anyone believe it? Was it ever discussed by Warrior or Savage?
“Randy and I came up with the scenario where he hit Warrior with the sceptre. When it happened in the match I heard this ungodly sound of glass shattering, Randy had hit the Warrior right between the eyes with that sceptre. It was obliterated. It didn’t go in the ring, but it was all over the floor. After that Warrior was supposed to be lying in the ring, but when I went over he was still sprawled over the second rope. I tried to pull him back in but he was dead-weight, he was completely knocked out. I finally got him off the rope and threw him into the ring, and I saw glass sticking out of his head like a spear. It was an incredible sight. The match was supposed to go another ten minutes at that point. I thought ‘What do I do? He’s knocked out. I don’t want to just cover him and that be it, the heat is going to go on Randy’. I figured Warrior wasn’t moving, so I would just drop an elbow on him and hopefully that would wake him up and he’d kick out of it’. So I dropped the elbow and covered him, I didn’t even grab his leg because I thought he was going to kick out. And I heard ‘One’, so I grabbed his leg, ‘Two’, I was still waiting for him to kick out and he didn’t kick out, ‘Three’. The match was over and I was like ‘What the hell?’. So I celebrated. I was the new World Champion.”
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Post by Jim on Apr 12, 2024 22:04:00 GMT
First I ever heard that. I find it hard to believe. But I remember thinking that sceptre shot was impressive and it looked like glass flew everywhere. Also remember thinking Warrior looked knocked out and dead-weighy when Slaughter was pulling him off the ropes. I saw it recently on the Slaughter bio and think the same.
I always put it down to either Warrior selling it brilliant or maybe sandbagging a bit because he wasn't happy losing
I can buy that maybe he was knocked out for real. I don't believe it right now but I could believe it.
But I'm finding it hard to believe that wasn't the finish. Why doesn't Slaughter explain what the real finish was?
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Post by Franchise on Apr 12, 2024 23:20:21 GMT
So Sarge was the one that originated the reviving elbow his just didnt work.
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Post by KGB on Apr 12, 2024 23:34:57 GMT
Nah, not buying this. Never heard it before and it sounds like the kind of worked tale someone of Slaughter's generation would tell.
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Post by cookie on Apr 13, 2024 0:38:37 GMT
Not buying it either. It’s been 33 years, something along these lines would’ve come out before now. It was a helluva shot though, very memorable.
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Post by srossi on Apr 13, 2024 0:46:33 GMT
Sarge is likely kayfabing, but I think back to Warrior slumped over the ropes and he normally wasn’t that good at selling…
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Post by cookie on Apr 13, 2024 3:08:18 GMT
Sarge is likely kayfabing, but I think back to Warrior slumped over the ropes and he normally wasn’t that good at selling… To be fair, Savage nailed him so Warrior was probably legit hurting causing him to slump on the ropes that way. |
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Post by Jim on Apr 13, 2024 7:24:53 GMT
Sarge is likely kayfabing, but I think back to Warrior slumped over the ropes and he normally wasn’t that good at selling… Same here. This is the smoking gun, people! |
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Post by Jim on Apr 13, 2024 7:26:14 GMT
Sarge is likely kayfabing, but I think back to Warrior slumped over the ropes and he normally wasn’t that good at selling… To be fair, Savage nailed him so Warrior was probably legit hurting causing him to slump on the ropes that way. I think I'm landing here... warrior got.hit harder than he was expecting and might have been knocked out for a minute. It was a good finish, actually one of my first memories as a WWF fan. |
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Post by Kriss on Apr 13, 2024 10:41:08 GMT
It wouldn't have been as much of a heel finish if they had gone another 10 minutes after Savage's interface. Such a devastating piece of interference has to lead directly to the finish. At most, Sarge was gonna throw him into the ropes before a cobra clutch or something and Warrior couldn't do it after getting his bell rung. So maybe another 10 seconds, not minutes.
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Post by Jim on Apr 13, 2024 11:03:51 GMT
Yeah, that part makes no sense.
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Post by WongLee on Apr 13, 2024 14:02:42 GMT
I remember reading a much more pedestrian version of the title change. This was from the Village Voice of all places who were doing a front page story on wrestling. Sarge's daughter was about to enter college and like all pro wres fighters, he was short on cash. He went into Vince to ask if he could get a raise. Vince told him, "why don't I make you champ for a while". Sarge was totally shocked as he never thought himself as championship material. Vince told him that he was a long time employee who was reliable. Vince needed an interim champ. Sarge needed money. Done deal.
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Post by Jim on Apr 13, 2024 14:17:59 GMT
I remember reading a much more pedestrian version of the title change. This was from the Village Voice of all places who were doing a front page story on wrestling. Sarge's daughter was about to enter college and like all pro wres fighters, he was short on cash. He went into Vince to ask if he could get a raise. Vince told him, "why don't I make you champ for a while". Sarge was totally shocked as he never thought himself as championship material. Vince told him that he was a long time employee who was reliable. Vince needed an interim champ. Sarge needed money. Done deal. The recent biography of Slaughter didn't have that story whatsoever. |
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Post by OneFanGang on Apr 13, 2024 15:00:57 GMT
I don't buy the Village Voice theory because nobody in the business considers themselves unworthy of being main event material, especially someone with Sarge's career accomplishments to that point. Plus Vince calling him a longtime employee who was reliable would have come less than six months after his WWF return from Slaughter's 5-year exile where he held his ground on his Hasbro GI-Joe deal and lost his spot because of it. Upon his WWF return they spent that time building Sarge with victories over Nikolai Volkoff and Jim Duggan. The extra Iraqi-sympathizer stuff may have been icing, but Vince had plans for Sarge on top from that September 1990 restart.
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Post by srossi on Apr 13, 2024 16:38:16 GMT
I don't buy the Village Voice theory because nobody in the business considers themselves unworthy of being main event material, especially someone with Sarge's career accomplishments to that point. Plus Vince calling him a longtime employee who was reliable would have come less than six months after his WWF return from Slaughter's 5-year exile where he held his ground on his Hasbro GI-Joe deal and lost his spot because of it. Upon his WWF return they spent that time building Sarge with victories over Nikolai Volkoff and Jim Duggan. The extra Iraqi-sympathizer stuff may have been icing, but Vince had plans for Sarge on top from that September 1990 restart. All of this. No way the Village Voice story is remotely the way it went down. They no doubt were told that story, but it’s a complete work. |
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