Lex Luger will long be remembered in professional wrestling for having tremendous potential that was never fully realized. He had the look and could hang in the ring when motivated. When the WWF got behind him in 1993, it should have launched his career into the stratosphere. Instead, Luger would lose his one and only WWF Championship match against Yokozuna at SummerSlam, then saw his next big chance at the Royal Rumble disintegrate into being co-winners with Bret Hart. Luger would lose his WrestleMania X title shot due to a weak DQ (touching referee Mr. Perfect) and shuttle down the card. There have been rumors that Luger was going to win the WWF title at Mania but ruined it by telling people beforehand about the plans and thus lost by DQ. Regardless, Lugers WWF career has been judged a dismal failure due to the circumstances surrounding his title opportunities.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
