10 Times WWE Forced It Down Our Throats

10. Lex Luger

There is a parallel universe out there, a world where Lex Luger is the biggest, most popular professional wrestler of all time. Luger’s career was one of false starts and erroneous dawns, of championship wins cut off at the legs by the rotten shadow of pro wrestling politics. Luger could have been the NWA’s new hope in the late ‘80s, and a decade later he gave WCW one of its all-time biggest pops in beating ‘Hollywood’ Hulk Hogan. It just never worked out.

Luger was brought into WWE in 1993 as ‘The Narcissist’, a heel who was more interested in his own physique than his matches. Judging by the quality of WWE’s in-ring product in 1993, he may have had a point.

But Luger’s mega-push came once the heel experiment ended, when Vince McMahon needed another bodybuilder to take over from the red and yellow-shaped hole left by Hulk Hogan. ‘The Narcissist’ became an All-American Hero, draped in the stars and stripes and given an actual bus in which to tour the country. No, not a Mike Awesome type of bus; this was the Lex Express.

What’s more, Luger was given the honour of being the first to bodyslam Yokozuna, doing so on an actual American warship no less. On July 4. Possibly while eating a hot dog and chugging beer, although that can neither be confirmed nor denied. It was all a little too much, which is code for "it was way, way, way too much," and the fans predictably rejected Lex Luger as their new American saviour.