10 WWE Stars I Would Have Made World Champion

By Vince Russo /

8. Lex Luger (1993­-1995)

WWE.comInterestingly, in 1993, Lex Luger jumped WCW€™s ship and headed towards Vince McMahon€™s World Bodybuilding Federation; remember that little piece of history? Then unfortunately for Lugar, he suffered a bad motorcycle accident, and by the time he was healthy enough to return back to work­­­, the WBF was already out of business. So, with no other options he pulled up his trunks, and became a WWF €œSuperstar€ on the roster. With the departure of Hulk Hogan in 1993, Luger was handed the moniker­­ €œMade in the USA€, given a monster push, and as the new jewel of the company was flown by helicopter to the USS Intrepid where he body-slammed 600 pound Yokozuna on the deck. That would be shortly followed by putting Lex in a bus, fittingly named the Lex Express, which travelled around the country promoting his upcoming World Title match against Yokozuna at SummerSlam 93€™. At this point, there was no doubt that Lex was being groomed to be the next Hogan, however, to the shock of the entire world­­­, Luger beat Yokozune­­­ via count-out at Summer Slam, winning the match­­­ but not the coveted WWF title. In the collected words of everyone watching... huh? To this day, I have no idea why all that built up hoopla went down with a single whimper. You would think that Vince may have decided at the last minute not to put the title on a WCW guy­­­, but that can€™t be assumed. Next time I cross paths with Lex, I€™ll have to ask him that question myself.