8 Times WWE Stars Couldn't Hide Their Boo-Boo Face

1. Lex Luger

Lex Luger
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There's a great clip easily found online of Lex Luger parading around with the WWE Championship belt ahead of WrestleMania X.

For years, it had been the sort of footage that only existed in write-ups from newsletters reported back by people that were in attendance, and seen through the hazy lens of a disposable camera shot from a bad angle. A curio, akin to The Last Battle Of Atlanta, Bret Hart Vs Tom Magee and other rarities that existed as much in the conversation as in the real world. Until they all arrived, neatly packaged on services such as much-missed WWE Network and WWE's Vault YouTube channel, servicing as wish fulfilment content for longstanding fans when Raw and SmackDown won't do the job. 

Luger lap of honour (and that's all it ended up being) is fascinating to observe. How does he appear with the gold around his waist? How are fans taking to it? What micro-expressions can be spotted across Vince McMahon's face as he gives it one last look before making his mind up. It's quite the cheesy scene, never intended for air, with Jim Cornette selling fume as McMahon and Luger set up the preposterous scenario of announcing the former 'Narcissist' as "new World Wrestling Federation Champion", in a way that might have slotted in as real footage just fine had he got the job done against Yokozuna on 'The Grandest Stage'.

He didn't, of course, hence why the footage went back on the shelf. And wouldn't you just know it by his entrance? Looking like he'd rather be anywhere else (ironic, considering that a bus had taken him all over the shop the prior summer and he'd gotten sick of that as well), Luger knew that he wasn't getting his hands back on it after fighting Yoko, or for that matter ever again.

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