Every WWE Champion From The '90s Ranked Worst To Best

Number of Reigns: 1

Total Length: 64 Days

Sarge was a star for the WWF and AWA in the '80s, known popularly as one of the cast of the GI Joe animated series. He reemerged in 1990, but now, with Vince hoping to capitalize on the Gulf conflict, Slaughter was repackaged as an Iraqi sympathizer. So sure it would be able to sell out the LA Memorial Coliseum for WrestleMania, Vince booked Slaughter to beat the Ultimate Warrior at the Royal Rumble to win the championship and face off against Hulk Hogan.

Unfortunately, the angle did not do the business Vince had hoped for. In addition to the tastelessness, Slaughter was older, fatter, and slower than when he was in his prime. He just wasn’t captivating as a champion, and his program with Hogan wasn’t drawing anyone to the Coliseum, forcing WWE to change the location of WrestleMania to the LA Sports Arena. Perhaps if they had gone with the original plan of a Hogan-Warrior rematch, they could have had a better shot at filling the 90,000 seat stadium. As is, Slaughter’s title reign goes on the pile of weird, failed Vince McMahon experiments. But hey, at least Sarge got a WrestleMania main event out of it.