10 Wrestler Quirks You'll Never Be Able To Unsee
2. Lex Luger Plays Dead
Good at getting the sh*t kicked out of him in a company that booked too much of that sort of thing when he was there, Lex Luger had one strange preference during extended periods of selling that was impossible to ignore.
Rather than being dramatically splayed across the mat while laid out or face down eating sh*t, Luger keeps his arms neatly by his side and one knee up in the air. It's hard to articulate why this doesn't articulate being left for dead by a heel, but it happens so often that it must be a comfort/default setting for Luger when he hits the deck.
For a good year or so, there wasn't much of this to be seen - Luger was pushed to the moon until WrestleMania X, at which point Vince McMahon appeared to lose faith in him as a pressing top line concern. It was beatdown city in the aftermath, meaning plenty of shots of this strange quirk.
And he's not the only one...