LEX LUGER REVEALS WHY HE DIDN'T WIN THE WWF TITLE AT WRESTLEMANIA 10, SQUASHES CRAZY INTERNET RUMORS, TALKS ABOUT HOW ERIK WATTS WANTED TO BEAT HIM UP, AND MORE
By World Wrestling Insanity on 2009-10-02 11:35:22
Just when you thought the hottest new ClubWWI.com audio show couldn't get any
bigger, it has. That's right. The only audio show powered by 1.21 gigawatts...
MEGAWATTS hosted by former TNA D.O.A. Erik Watts is proud to welcome "The Total
Package" Lex Luger for a 94 minute audio event that you can't miss!
It doesn't get any bigger than this as the Legendary Lex Luger joins James
Guttman and Erik Watts to discuss his entire career in a rare hour and a half
shoot interview. It's a chance to hear from not only one of wrestling's most
controversial names, but two at once. From the Lex Express to the Wolfpac, Luger
has had a career that fans will never forget. Now you can hear it all firsthand
thanks to MEGAWATTS...exclusively on ClubWWI.com. Among the many topics
discussed during this epic audio include: Why He Didn't Win The WWF Title at
SummerSlam 1993, Where The "Lex Luger" Name Came From, Not Knowing Who The
Horsemen Were When He Joined Them, The Role Bret Hart and Hulk Hogan Played In
Ending "The Narcissist" Gimmick, Almost Losing His Arm, Not Having The WCW Title
There When He Won It, His Personal Regret About His Jump To Nitro, Why Sting
Yelled At The Doctors After Lex's Motorcycle Wreck, Vince McMahon Not Wanting To
Use Lex's Name, WCW Center Stage: The Asbestos Joint, Traveling On The Lex
Express, Struggling With The All American Gimmick, How Erik Wanted To Beat Lex
Up, Yokozuna: The Dancing Bear, How Luger Turned His Life Around, Being Arrogant
and Cocky Before He Did, When a Golf Cart Driving Andre The Giant Scooped Him Up
With One Arm, The New World Order, Problems Lex Had Trademarking His Name, The
Ultimate Warrior, The Steiners, Hiro Matsuda, Bill Watts, Steve Austin, The
Special DVD Deal for ClubWWI.com members at UniversalWrestling.com, and Much
More. You can hear it now on ClubWWI.com and read the huge full list of topics
at http://www.worldwrestlinginsanity.com/am2/publish/newsnotes/ClubWWI_Lex_Luger.shtml
Fans will be surprised at Lex Luger's new stance on life. Having battled
personal health problems, he now dedicates his time to helping families dealing
with spinal chord injuries. Admitting that he was "cocky and arrogant" before
changing his life, Luger is more positive than he's ever been. This has lead to
his long-standing friendship with Erik Watts. But it wasn't always that way.
Erik has told the story before on MegaWatts about how he had wanted to fight Lex
when they first met in WCW. ; Luger knows this story as well. When the show
begins, James asks about their friendship and Lex brings it up…
"Tell the truth, Erik. You couldn't stand me. Remember? That's a crazy story
unto itself."
Watts starts to laugh. "It was one of those things," Erik explains. "You have
to be very careful what you say or do at any stage of your life. Because there
was a time where if I had a list of people that I would say…"
Luger jumps in - "Tell him the truth, Erik. You wanted to beat me up. James,
I'm serious. A couple of people, who shall remain anonymous, (told me)."
Erik and James laugh. Watts admits that people got him riled up, but in the
end, it didn't happen. "From the outside in, I had a lot of issues with what
people said - and/or rumors I thought about Lex as a person. And then, my
immaturity of being a physical person, I was all hands on. What's so crazy is
that a person I cared very little for at the time at the beginning of my
wrestling career is someone who is one of the most important people in my life
today."
Luger and Erik go on to talk about Lex's change in attitude, when he hit rock
bottom, his ministry work, and more. But that's not all. As the ClubWWI.com
audio event continues, many big topics come up including the Lex Express and the
entire American Original gimmick. The Total Package talks about struggling with
the gimmick, traveling the country on the Lex Express, where the gimmick came
from, how Bret Hart and Hulk Hogan played a role in the early demise of the
Narcissist gimmick, Vince McMahon not wanting to use the Lex Luger name, and
more. In regards to the character, SummerSlam 1993 is something James Guttman
had always wondered about. He asks Luger about not winning the belt at the
pay-per-view against Yokozuna. Lex reveals why that happened, explains that
some people threatened to leave if he was giving the title, and the reason Vince
McMahon gave him for not putting the strap on him. Ironically, the next year,
it happened again. At WrestleMania 10, many wrestling fans had all but assumed
that Luger would win the WWF Championship. The same politics from SummerSlam
came into play. And although it didn't happen, it wasn't a last minute decision
as many people have guessed at:
"No. To be honest with you, I knew maybe a few months before WrestleMania
because my family had never been to an event. So I asked (The WWF) for tickets
to WrestleMania and Vince was upset. He called me into his office, this is
months and months before WrestleMania, and he goes, "Lex, you know, you're not
going to be winning the belt at WrestleMania." And my ex-wife Peggy had some
really good friends o ut of New York. Their family had kids the same age as my
kids, so I wanted them there no matter what. So I said, "Vince, I just want
them to go to the event with their friends. It doesn't matter. That doesn't
have anything to do with me wanting tickets." So he let me know months out that
I was not going to be World Champion at WrestleMania because he was worried
about me flying my whole family in to celebrate me winning the title and he was
courteous enough to tell me that I wasn't winning the belt. So I knew months
out."
This flies in the face of one of wrestling's biggest urban legends. The story
goes that Lex Luger was set to win the belt at the PPV until he was overheard
bragging about it in a New York bar the night before. The story had no merit
and Luger tells ClubWWI.com listeners why:
"And I've heard these crazy rumors. Someone saw something on Wikipedia one time
- which is not an encyclopedia. You can type in and change whatever you want
that I was in a bar, messed up, telling everyone I was going to win so they
didn't do it. But I was actually, the night before, not in a bar in New York
saying I was going to win the World Title. I was actually staying two hours
away from New York for the site of Wrestlemania at my wife's friend's house in
Connecticut. So I wasn't anywhere near a bar telling people I was going to win
the=2 0World Title."
To say that his a rare chance to spend over an hour and a half with one of
wrestling's biggest names is an understatement. For the first time ever, hear
Lex's entire story along with Erik Watts, a person friend who has known him for
over two decades. It's jampacked full of information that any fan of the Total
Package won't want to miss. It's only available on MEGAWATTS, Erik Watts's
audio show, and that's only available on ClubWWI.com!
You can hear the entire show, including other superstar hosted audios like Paul
Roma's "Glorious," which has a new edition scheduled for this weekend and with
over 200 stars, you'll have plenty of superstars to put on your Ipod, Phone,
burn to CD, or just listen through your computer. Stars you can hear the minute
you sign up include: Jerry Lawler, Hillbilly Jim, Ron Simmons, Magnum T.A.,
Kevin Sullivan, Vince Russo, Mr. Fuji, The Iron Sheik, Rory McAllister, Jesse
Ventura, Bobby Lashley, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Tommy Rich, Tully Blanchard, Ken
Patera, Bobby Heenan, Terri Runnels, Kevin Nash, Kenny Dykstra, Outback Jack,
Paul Orndorff, Headbanger Mosh, Terry Funk, Lance Cade, Trevor Murdoch, Eric
Bischoff, Nikita Koloff, Nunzio, John Cena Sr., Kizarny, Armando Estrada,
Dangerous Danny Davis, Ronnie Garvin, Clarence Mason, Dave Taylor Colin Delaney,
Jim Mitchell, Chris Harris, Ahmed Johnson, Glacier, Balls Mahoney, Francine, Sid
Vicious, Paul Bearer, Brian Knobbs, Bruno Sammartino, Bryan Clark, Se an Mooney,
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Watts, Buff Bagwell, Christian, Jazz, Demolition Ax and Smash, Koko B. Ware,
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