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It's fun to count the number of people celebrating with Lex after that title win who ended up in one of the NWOs.
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HE'S GONNA RACK HOGAN!!
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BrigadierSensible posted:Another good thing about Lex is that, as far as I remember, he was a proto-Kevin Nash. Lex usually seemed to put more effort in than Nash. He just had a way better nose for the bottom line than most of his peers.
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Ostentatious posted:4% body fat Was there a part of that gimmick where he advertised a Lex Luger Diet because I feel like that just writes itself
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It's too bad he broke his arm in that bike crash, otherwise he could have saved the WBF.
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Lex Luger was bad, but he always made the Torture Rack look awesome.
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The only other wrestler with a comparable career to Lex would be Maria Kanellis.
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Lex Luger was great in the 80s. He was basically a lesser Barry Windham.
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Twisted Eye posted:My mom always wanted to watch wrestling for that dreamboat luger!!! Made more sense when he got older and I realized that he facially looks just like my uncle. K that's my luger story This story reveals some weird poo poo in your family.
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Alain Post posted:Who's the bad wrestler voted into the WON Hall over Roman, Seth Rollins? HHH
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Late 80's Luger is back when he still has to try because he hasn't quite hit the big time and is not in early 90's WWF where trying wasn't part of the product. The 88-89 PPVs with Luger in them are like "Wait, what the gently caress? Luger actually trying? And is good?" I frankly don't think there is any other Luger stuff worth watching.
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dont even fink about it posted:
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when i was a young boy i remember crying when lex slammed yokozuna on the aircraft carrier and avenged pearl harbor. everyone thought crush was going to do it. i was rooting for tatanka.
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GB888 posted:Lex Luger was bad, but he always made the Torture Rack look awesome. in his later days, I thought it looked bad more often than not - it's supposed to be a backbreaker rack but he often had it looking like guys were submitting because he was driving his head into their stomach He did always seem to give more of a poo poo in NWA/WCW though, I'll give him that.
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my favorite lex moment is from that leaked video before a big wcw show where he's sharing all his coke with the road warriors and i forget who else was in the room with him
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Mulaney Power Move posted:my favorite lex moment is from that leaked video before a big wcw show where he's sharing all his coke with the road warriors and i forget who else was in the room with him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsIWMnwLn48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1i3SJZ5aKM
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drat that is a great find, i haven't seen those in forever
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My main takeaway of late period Lex Luger was that when he formed a tag team with Ric Flair they called it TEAM PACKAGE, because it was a union of Ric "Team" Flair and the Total Package I guess? Also Ric Flair just incoherently yelling IT'S TEAM PACKAGE, TEAM PACKAGE WOOOOOOOOOOOOO and elbow dropping clothing while feuding with Natural Born Thrillaz.
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My first wrestle memory was the Yoko bodyslam, but yeah when I was a mark teen WCW Lex was an immediate channel switch to up north. I was firmly in the Lex Sucks camp. I definitely appreciate his segments more now, and especially the The Total Package run for some great yet subtle (for WCW) comedy. The torture rack however was always the coolest and I am kinda glad nobody has really reclaimed it. It was my go-to wrestling horseplay maneuver when I was being a dumb kid with my buds
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I always rather irrationally loved Luger's mid-late 90's buttrock WCW theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elf59v2ldsY Still jamworthy ![]()
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Ragnarok the Red posted:I always rather irrationally loved Luger's mid-late 90's buttrock WCW theme. Dude that is Musou as gently caress. I love it.
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MassRafTer posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsIWMnwLn48 holy poo poo i can feel the cocaine flowing out of my screen
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Joey McChrist posted:holy poo poo i can feel the cocaine flowing out of my screen While Paul Ellering just sits in the back reading Alaska Magazine.
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RZApublican posted:While Paul Ellering just sits in the back reading Alaska Magazine. in a pair of pink coochie cutters and cowboy boots no less
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There are 3 things I liked Lex doing and that's about it -Camping out in front of the arena to ensure he got a world title shot -Doing the whole "being a heel behind Sting's back while Sting vouches for him" thing -His US title match with Brian Pillman
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MassRafTer posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsIWMnwLn48 this needs its own loving thread holy fshit
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they've been posted before already
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dont even fink about it posted:Late 80's Luger is back when he still has to try because he hasn't quite hit the big time and is not in early 90's WWF where trying wasn't part of the product. The 88-89 PPVs with Luger in them are like "Wait, what the gently caress? Luger actually trying? And is good?" Luger was routinely the best part of lovely 95/96 Nitro
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Mulaney Power Move posted:they've been posted before already But they never had their own thread.
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Alain Post posted:Luger was routinely the best part of lovely 95/96 Nitro even post-motorbike accident he seemed to put more effort in at WCW
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Lex overcoming the nWo and beating Hogan for the belt on Nitro and everyone coming out and partying with him, that's one of the best nitro moments.
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i was listening to jim cornette while lifting weights like ryback yesterday and one thing i learned is that lex had a 4.0 gpa
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Someone else pointed it out but OSW Review's spotlight on Lex's over-selling is hilarious. "AH! OW! OOH!"
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Suplex Liberace posted:Lex overcoming the nWo and beating Hogan for the belt on Nitro and everyone coming out and partying with him, that's one of the best nitro moments. His 1996 series with the Giant is great and him finally beating him is one of the high points of the classic nWo period.
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Blaise330 posted:It's fun to count the number of people celebrating with Lex after that title win who ended up in one of the NWOs. Including Lex Luger!
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lex luger looks like the crypt keeper IRL so he could probably make a killing on the lucrative haunted house circuit if he wanted to which is pretty cool if you really stop and think about it. he also served hard time in cobb county georgia for beating his wife or doing a lot of drugs or something. i bet some of the prisoners knew the big boss man so he probably made a bunch of friends fairly easily. Sugar Blaster fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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HOTLANTA MAN posted:Someone else pointed it out but OSW Review's spotlight on Lex's over-selling is hilarious. Which one was it?
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Sugar Blaster posted:lex luger looks like the crypt keeper IRL so he could probably make a killing on the lucrative haunted house circuit if he wanted to which is pretty cool if you really stop and think about it. He beat Elizabeth but according to wikipedia it was for violating probation after all the drugs they found in his house when she ODd. He got kicked off a plane for being hosed up.
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Intruder posted:Which one was it? Any of their dungeon of doom story arc they recently did. They do a recap of it on their golden nogger awards show which came out last week
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# ? May 6, 2024 01:59 |
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Lex was the ugliest wrestler, facially speaking.
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