Around the time of WrestleMania 10, Lex Luger and Bret Hart were the two biggest faces in the company, and both of them had legitimate claim to face WWE Champion Yokozuna at WrestleMania X when both men won the Royal Rumble at the same time. When Luger got his chance, he defeated the big man but was unable to win the championship. Bret Hart then had his turn, and the rest is history. After Luger had been pushed for so long, many believed that a WWE Championship run was inevitable. He was practically the new generation of Hulk Hogan, and everyone knows Vince likes his wrestlers big and muscular. Bret winning was a shock, and with shock comes confusion, anger, and the birth of many wild rumors and speculations as to why Luger lost. One of the big rumors was that the night before WrestleMania, Luger was at a bar bragging to everyone about how he was going to win the match and become the new champion. When Vince heard about this, he decided to punish Luger's blabbing by changing the results at the last minute and having Bret win at the end of the night instead of Luger. It's not unusual for Vince to make sudden changes to results, but for the main event at WrestleMania it would have been highly unprecedented as WrestleMania is a show that gets planned months in advance. Furthermore, in an interview with Luger that took place in 2009 over at ClubWWI, Luger knew that he wasn't going to win the title months before WrestleMania X:
"To be honest with you, I knew maybe a few months before WrestleMania because my family had never been to an event. So I asked (The WWF) for tickets to WrestleMania and Vince was upset. He called me into his office, this is months and months before WrestleMania, and he goes, "Lex, you know, you're not going to be winning the belt at WrestleMania." And my ex-wife Peggy had some really good friends out of New York. Their family had kids the same age as my kids, so I wanted them there no matter what. So I said, "Vince, I just want them to go to the event with their friends. It doesn't matter. That doesn't have anything to do with me wanting tickets." So he let me know months out that I was not going to be World Champion at WrestleMania because he was worried about me flying my whole family in to celebrate me winning the title and he was courteous enough to tell me that I wasn't winning the belt. So I knew months out."
So there you have it. Luger wouldn't tell people he was going to win if he knew it wasn't going to happen, and even if he had, changing the entire WrestleMania main event because one guy spoiled it for a bunch of people in a bar is ludicrous. "To be honest with you, I knew maybe a few months before WrestleMania because my family had never been to an event. So I asked (The WWF) for tickets to WrestleMania and Vince was upset. He called me into his office, this is months and months before WrestleMania, and he goes, "Lex, you know, you're not going to be winning the belt at WrestleMania." And my ex-wife Peggy had some really good friends out of New York. Their family had kids the same age as my kids, so I wanted them there no matter what. So I said, "Vince, I just want them to go to the event with their friends. It doesn't matter. That doesn't have anything to do with me wanting tickets." So he let me know months out that I was not going to be World Champion at WrestleMania because he was worried about me flying my whole family in to celebrate me winning the title and he was courteous enough to tell me that I wasn't winning the belt. So I knew months out." - See more at: http://www.wewantinsanity.com/am2/publish/JGcolumns/JG_s_Ten_False_Wrestling_Rumors_That_Everybody_s_Heard.shtml#sthash.Ke27GRc3.dpuf "To be honest with you, I knew maybe a few months before WrestleMania because my family had never been to an event. So I asked (The WWF) for tickets to WrestleMania and Vince was upset. He called me into his office, this is months and months before WrestleMania, and he goes, "Lex, you know, you're not going to be winning the belt at WrestleMania." And my ex-wife Peggy had some really good friends out of New York. Their family had kids the same age as my kids, so I wanted them there no matter what. So I said, "Vince, I just want them to go to the event with their friends. It doesn't matter. That doesn't have anything to do with me wanting tickets." So he let me know months out that I was not going to be World Champion at WrestleMania because he was worried about me flying my whole family in to celebrate me winning the title and he was courteous enough to tell me that I wasn't winning the belt. So I knew months out." - See more at: http://www.wewantinsanity.com/am2/publish/JGcolumns/JG_s_Ten_False_Wrestling_Rumors_That_Everybody_s_Heard.shtml#sthash.Ke27GRc3.dpuf "To be honest with you, I knew maybe a few months before WrestleMania because my family had never been to an event. So I asked (The WWF) for tickets to WrestleMania and Vince was upset. He called me into his office, this is months and months before WrestleMania, and he goes, "Lex, you know, you're not going to be winning the belt at WrestleMania." And my ex-wife Peggy had some really good friends out of New York. Their family had kids the same age as my kids, so I wanted them there no matter what. So I said, "Vince, I just want them to go to the event with their friends. It doesn't matter. That doesn't have anything to do with me wanting tickets." So he let me know months out that I was not going to be World Champion at WrestleMania because he was worried about me flying my whole family in to celebrate me winning the title and he was courteous enough to tell me that I wasn't winning the belt. So I knew months out." - See more at: http://www.wewantinsanity.com/am2/publish/JGcolumns/JG_s_Ten_False_Wrestling_Rumors_That_Everybody_s_Heard.shtml#sthash.Ke27GRc3.dpuf
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