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Podcast: Under the Ring
Episode: Under The Ring: Sgt. Slaughter on having an A&E Biography, his inspiration for becoming Sgt. Slaughter after trying other personas, his friendship/rivalry with Iron Sheik, being a real-life GI Joe, career highlights
Description: Joining us today is wrestling and pop culture icon Sgt. Slaughter, whose WWE Legends: A&E Biography premieres at 9 p.m. on Sunday, March 3. Sarge discusses his early wrestling personas before conceiving Sgt. Slaughter and how he came up with it. He discusses his younger friendship with Iranian wrestler Khosrow Vaziri, who went on to become one of his greatest career rivals and eventual tag team partner, The Iron Sheik. He talks about his deal with Hasbro which put him everywhere as GI Joe, and forced him to leave WWE. And he discusses some of his top matches and...