4. Torture Rack
Not too many other wrestlers in the nineties had the size or sheer lack of skill as the mountainous Lex Luger, whose arsenal, while cumbersome, was seemingly unable to add one single new move to it in nearly a decade. Go ahead and check. I guarantee all you can find is a powerslam, a running forearm, an occasion atomic drop, and a reverse elbow. While Luger may not have had an overflowing binder of moves to call upon in the ring, the one move he did do often, he did well. In no large part due to the involvement of Lex flexing his admittedly impressive physique. The "Human Torture Rack" was a brutal-looking beast of a move, with Luger's bulging biceps conspiring to rip in half the flailing carcass of a tapping or unconscious victim. From 1993-1998, Luger had a run that one can't sneeze at. From being given the golden ticket as Vince McMahon's pet project by arriving via helicopter to slam Yokozuna on July 4, 1993 to challenge Yoko for his WWF title at Summerslam 1993, only to "win" by count out, but no title. It would seem someone may have soured the bus on the "Lex Express", and like the stench of spilt milk left out in the sun, Luger found this cloudy funk difficult to outrun throughout the remainder of his WWF tenure. Urban legend dictates a pre-Wrestlemania bar blathering cost Luger his title win the next day at Wrestlemania X, who then lost to Yoko again under shady DQ reasons. If Luger wasn't in the doghouse, it was hard to tell otherwise, as he was soon relegated to tag team status partnered with the equally limited and bulked-up British Bulldog, as the Allied Powers, a forgettable run that saw Luger out the door to WCW, which he evidently left for with no notice to Vince Jr., a tradition once violated, could never be righted. Luger entered WCW and Torture-Racked his way to Tag Team, TV and (a brief) World title runs, his career pretty much dying out with the last days of WCW, and Luger's contract was never pursued by Vinnie Mac (yet another reason to think Luger was/is in the dog house). While Luger's body of work went unrecorded in the WWF title books, he added to his gold tally while on WCW time, but during both runs, Luger made the Torture Rack a formidable, agonizing submission throughout the nineties in the "Big Two".