Perhaps one of the most intense, and potentially tasteless, wrestling angles of all-time arose during the First Gulf War. In 1990 Sarge's contract with Hasbro had expired and WWF welcomed him back. They had an idea for a storyline, one that would catapult him straight to the top of the card, but it meant betraying everything that he once held dear. Sgt Slaughter, the man who had led two Presidents in the Pledge of Allegiance and battled the wicked Iranian, Iron Sheik, returned to the WWF an an Iraqi sympathiser. He pledged a new allegiance, to President Saddam Hussein and decried everything that America had become. He even started wearing boots that resembled the Iron Sheik's, with curved points, that had been allegedly sent to him by Hussein himself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yru-bIqX0WQ Sgt Slaughter became one of the most hated heels in the history of the business. But it wasn't simply confined to the wrestling arenas. The fans were so incensed that some went after him personally. The hated reached its peak after he won the WWF Championship from the Ultimate Warrior at the Royal Rumble 1991. The morning following the incident, Sarge phoned home, but it was engaged. When he phoned the company, they asked if he had spoken to his wife. When he said that he hadn't, they informed him that a fan had phoned the company informing them that he planned to kill Slaughter, Vince McMahon, their entire families and blow up their houses. Slaughter wife's briefly fled the house in fear and Sarge was told by the company that he and his family could only return home after accepting a personal security team of four armed men. He also wore a bulletproof vest at all times, the threats were so intense.
