10 Original Failed WWE Pushes You Completely Forgot About
6. Lex Luger - WBF Bodystar
In a move that ultimately diffused his eventual arrival a year later but found a way around getting him on television in the meantime, Lex Luger's trip North from WCW in 1992 brought him in as a member of Vince McMahon's fledging World Bodybuilding Federation.
This got around a no-compete clause, and also positioned the 'Total Package' in a role relatively familiar-feeling, but several huge setbacks came between Luger and Bodybuilding supremacy.
The idea was already on its a*se around the time Lex informally debuted via link-up promo at WrestleMania VIII, but had folded entirely by the time he was medically cleared to appear again. In downtime between his WCW departure and...whatever it was exactly his WBF run would have entailed, he suffered significant injuries from a motorcycle accident.
At full fitness by January 1993, he was reborn as 'The Narcissist' with the metal plate used to repair his arm as big a weapon as the bulging biceps he clung onto from his brief WBF pomp.