Bruce Prichard worked closely with the former WWE president, Vince McMahon, in ideas for the plot before Wrestlemania 7. The creative team member recently revealed details about the security concerns surrounding Sergeant Slaughter before the event.
In 1990, WWE took advantage of Kuwait's invasion by Iraq by converting the American Slaughter character on screen into an Iraqi sympathizer. The plot resulted in Hogan defeating the member of the Hall of Fame in Wrestlemania 7 in 1991 to win the WWE Championship.
Prichard, formerly known as Brother Love, appeared on WWE television with Slaughter at the time of the controversial angle. In his podcast Something to Wrestle Prichard recalled how the company's managers were worried that someone could shoot them:
“They wanted Sarge to wear bulletproof vests, they wanted me to wear a bulletproof vest, and we both refused. I underestimated this. Seeing it in retrospect, I think I underestimate it a bit, because what I thought was that our fans are sufficiently sophisticated and educated as to know that this is entertainment.”
Slaughter's Pro-Irak character was one of the most despised in the history of WWE. He often mentioned the name of Saddam Hussein on television and even claimed to have received boots from the former Iraqi leader as a gift.
Bruce Prichard was willing to receive a bullet for WWE
WWE made sure that Sergeant Slaughter's family had 24 -hour security After receiving threats from fans who believed that history was real.
More than three decades later, Bruce Prichard He joked saying that his character would probably have become a good guy if someone had shot him during a program. He also admitted that he was young and naive at that time and that he did not have an integral understanding of the serious threat that his life ran.
“At this time I am 26, 27 years old, whatever, I am invincible. They have me, I don't care. I will become a babyface! Or I will get up from hell, whatever it is necessary. But I did not take it seriously. I took it as if, in our world, I was so immersed (in thinking) that they have to understand that we are working here,” he said.
PRICHARD too speak On the failure of The Ultimate Warrior to replace Hulk Hogan as the WWE star babyface in 1990, saying that everyone was thanks to Warrior's poor attitude.
