WWE Hall of Famer Sgt. Slaughter recently spoke with sacurrent.com about WrestleMania 32, the Jake Roberts documentary, and more. Here are the highlights.
Other than helping promote the event, how are you going to be involved with Wrestlemania 32?
We’re always involved in just about everything. I look forward to the Hall of Fame [inductions]. We do a lot of events during the week. It’s like a weeklong celebration. We have Monday Night Raw and Wrestlemania Axxess. We’re in and out doing different media events all week. As far as getting into the ring, I’m not sure. It would be fun to get into the ring at the AT&T Stadium.
I know in the past, Wrestlemania has been held in venues with capacities of less than 20,000. What kinds of events do you like as an entertainer – one with 80,000-plus spectators in the stands or something more intimate?
Throughout my career, I’ve wrestled in front of thousands of people, and I’ve wrestled in front of 12 people. It’s quite spectacular when you’re walking half a mile to get to a ring, and there are people on both sides of you. In the smaller [indoor] events, it’s more fun for me because of the noise factor. We always wanted [the fans] to get as loud as they could. You’re goal was to blow the roof off the place.
A new documentary on Jake, the Snake Roberts, was released this year that talks about Jake’s life as a wrestler and his struggles with addiction. The story isn’t a rare one for former WWE wrestlers. Do you think that story is still an important one to tell?
I think it’s important for Jake to tell his story. A lot of people didn’t know what happened to him and how it happened. He’s one of the better characters and performers we had. He kind of just fell off the map. I haven’t seen the documentary myself, but I’m looking forward to seeing it. I’ve run into him a couple of times, and he is the same guy. He still rags on me because I [participated] in some of his first matches. He told me I made him do things he had never done before in the ring. He just smiles and grins about it.
You can read the entire interview here.
