Here's an idea that makes sense in 1992 (or not). Sign Les Luger away from World Championship Wrestling and make him the cornerstone of the World Bodybuilding Federation. Anybody in the room with Vince McMahon when he either a) developed the WBF or b) decided that Luger as the headliner made sense, is an idiot. Just like, say, signing Bill Goldberg to play in the XFL in 2001, it's completely absurd. But, it happened, and when Luger injured himself in a motorcycle accident and the WBF shut down before he came back, there was Vince McMahon with Luger's big money contract wondering exactly what could be done? Yeah, look at that picture from Wrestlemania IX. That's an idea that looks great on paper, but when executed sh*ts the bed. Let's all be glad that Hulk Hogan left the WWF in 1993 so that Lex Luger could be dressed in the American flag, put on a bus that traveled cross-country, leading to him bodyslamming Yokozuna during an event on an aircraft carrier. That's not any better, is it? Oh well.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
