10 Wrestlers That Vince McMahon Hasn't Forgiven

10. Lex Luger

In mid-1993, Hulk Hogan left the WWF, and Vince McMahon’s reaction was about as mature as you’d expect: he immediately transferred Hogan’s spot, push and ‘all-American hero’ character to another blond, jacked bodybuilder.

In the end though, for whatever reason, McMahon didn’t follow through on the Lex Luger push. In less than a year Luger was back in the midcard, and by summer 1995 WWF thought so little of him that they let his contract expire without realising. This allowed him to jump to WCW, arriving on Nitro’s inaugural episode without informing McMahon.

Luger must have been desperate - Eric Bischoff only made the offer as a favour to Sting, who’d made a pitch on behalf of his old gym buddy, and it was a fifth of what his old WCW contract had been worth.

Regardless, McMahon never forgave Luger for keeping him in the dark, and didn’t offer Luger a contract when he bought out WCW in 2001. Things might have been squared away between them, but Luger’s later relationship with Elizabeth Hulotte screwed things up still further. Randy Savage’s ex-wife and former valet was remembered fondly in New York, and her subsequent drug habit and death from binging on painkillers and vodka was laid squarely at Luger’s door.

Luger spent some time after that wasted and on the wrong side of the law. After getting out of prison, he suffered a spinal stroke in 2007 that paralysed him, ending his career. Supposedly he worked with them briefly in 2011 on their Wellness Policy, but as far as the WWE are concerned, Lex Luger has been damaged goods for a long, long time.