WWE’s 10 Worst Choke Artists
1. Lex Luger
Carrying a burden he'd already earned in WCW right over to WWE when Vince McMahon decided to make a former 'Narcissist' a bicep-flexing flag-sporting Hulk Hogan knock-off, 'Lex Loser' quickly became an unpleasant nickname following repeated failures to win when it really mattered.
Having suffered similarly at the hands of Ric Flair in the late 1980s, Luger should have seen the backlash coming. Unable to dethrone WWE Champion Yokozuna at SummerSlam 1993 but celebrating a count-out victory as if he had, Luger's overcompensation was painfully transparent even to his youngest supporters.
Conversely, real sentimental favourite Bret Hart had actually lost earlier in the night, but delivered such an ungodly sh*t-kicking to hated rival Jerry Lawler that the fans never for a second stopped believing in 'The Hitman's cause. On headset that night, Vince McMahon himself could see it. Keeping both relatively strong for the remainder of the year, he crafted an ingenious strategy to gage crowd sentiment once and for all at the Royal Rumble.
Making Luger and Bret co-winners (in a match yet again marked as a failure for Luger), he ordered Howard Finkel to announce both men separately at first in an effort to judge popularity. The resultant cheers overwhelmingly favoured Hart.
WrestleMania 10 would be the site of Luger's main event collapse, losing yet again in a WWE Title rematch against Yokozuna he'd waited over 7 months for. Bret closed the show toppling the very man Luger couldn't, symbolically accepting McMahon's apology that he'd backed the wrong post-Hogan horse all along.