Lex Luger

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 3-Winning the United States Championship

## TV Champion and alliance with Stan Hansen(1989-1990)

Lex Luger debuted at Saturday Night 3 pissed that he wasn't on the world title tournament so Ted Turner announced him as the first man in the United States Series. At Wrestlewar he defeated Ranger Ross before losing to The Great Muta in a fatal 4 way also involving Tom Zenk and Terry Gordy to determine the first United States champion

Luger was pissed and promised to murder Muta, he got a title match but lost in 30 seconds. At Great American Bash he faced him again but lost in a no DQ match. In the july 8th episode of Saturday Night Luger introduced his own belt, the WCW TV Championship as he held an open challenge for it which Harley Race answered and shockingly beat him and immediatly vacated it on the spot as he couldn't defend it weekly

The week afterwards Luger was in a battle royal for the vacant title which was won by Barry Windham, in the september 2nd episode of Saturday Night he finally won his title back, he took a vacation and due to this Turner punished him putting him in a 6 men package at Halloween Havoc but he managed to retain against Terry Gordy, Kevin Sullivan, Johnny Ace, Steve Williams and The Iron Sheik, he felt confident until Stan Hansen made his debut and revealed he would face him at Starrcade

At Starrcade, Hansen defeated Luger to win the TV Championship. Luger started attacking him in every TV title match, he got a rematch at Capital Combat but lost again, Hansen offered to mentor him but Luger headbutted him. In the june 30th episode of Saturday Night, Luger made Hansen lose the TV title to Brian Pillman but as The Police were beating up Hansen, Luger returned for the save. At Great American Bash, Pillman retained against Luger and they were gonna continue beating him up when Hansen saved him as they shake hands and join forces

They continued their feud with The Police while Luger and Hansen started teaming together. At Starrcade 1990, The Police injured Hansen but Luger and Midnight Express still managed to take the win against them for Luger to win back the TV championship in a wargames match

## Main event feuds(1991)

Lex Luger lost the TV title to Cactus Jack at Saturday Night 100 to move onto the main event scene as at Superbrawl 1 him, Sting and Barry Windham saved Dusty Rhodes from further attack by Four Horsemen. At Great American Bash they defeated Four Horsemen with Luger pinning Ric Flair

At Halloween Havoc, Luger was about to defeat Flair when Sid big booted him to end the match in a DQ so Luger got another granted shot at Starrcade where Flair defeated him and Sid in a triple threat to retain the WCW Heaviweight Championship

## Four Horsemen(1992-1993)

In the 1992 Royal Rumble, Lex Luger made his shocking WWF debut at number 21 having been in Starrcade's main event just 2 weeks earlier, he immediatly made an impact by eliminating Hulk Hogan, he was in the final 4 before being eliminated by Haku

His first feud was with Tatanka as both men were cultivating a streak, Luger was 31-0 while Tatanka was 99-0 and at Wrestlemania 8 Tatanka defeated Luger who turned heel afterwards beating him up. Later on the night, after Koko B.Ware won the WWF Championship, Shawn Michaels, Lex Luger and Bret Hart attacked him and the remaining participants of the main event as they ushered in a new era, they pointed to the stage as WCW Heaviweight champion Ric Flair made his debut and they formed WWF's version of the Four Horsemen

The brand split began as all of Four Horsemen were drafted to Smackdown, Luger and Bret were mostly involved in the tag team division, they had a world tag title match at In Your House 2 but Headshrinkers retained, Luger was the special guest ref for Yokozuna defending the world title against Ric Flair, he tried to screw over Flair but failed

At Survivor Series Four Horsemen along with their manager Bobby Heenan faced RAW's top tag team Empire and Heenan turned on 4HM to join Empire causing them the loss, Ric Flair won RAW’s WWF Championship as all of Four Horsemen were traded to RAW in exchange for Empire.

Four Horsemen coming to RAW caused a series of amazing shows which started with Four Horsemen invading RAW and injuring half the roster with Vince Mcmahon then firing GM Jim Duggan and replacing him with Harley Race. Bret, Luger and Shawn Michaels were defeated by 3 local wrestlers in one of the most iconic RAW moments but they got their win back against Lucky Trio at Royal Rumble 1993

Luger was number 26 in the Royal Rumble match and was in the final 2 with Four Horsemen teammate Bret Hart which ended with both men going over the top rope and hitting the floor at the same time, Harley Race declared both men as Royal Rumble winners. Bret Hart defeated Lex Luger to become the man who would main event Wrestlemania 9 while Luger had his WWF Championship shot in the opening match. At Wrestlemania 9, Luger defeated Flair to win the title in the opener when Shawn Michaels cashed in and took the belt, in the main event Bret defeated Shawn to win the title as all of 4HM held the belt once during that night

## Four Horsemen breakup(1993-1994)

Luger started working more as a babyface as there was a clear civil war brewing as Flair and Shawn acted like heels doing multiple beatdowns while Bret and Luger acted like babyfaces. Luger got his WWF title rematch at In Your House 7 where Bret retained

At Summerslam, Mr.Perfect defeated him to enter the G1. Flair was about to injure GM of RAW Harley Race when Luger stopped him wanting a match against his leader, at In Your House 9 Flair defeated him

At Survivor Series, Shawn, Perfect, Luger and Diesel defeated Team Smackdown consisting of King Kong Bundy, Ludvig Borga, Adam Bomb and Doink The Clown, Luger got an european title shot due to the Survivor Series Briefcases but after Shawn was injured, he abdicated his shot to get another WWF title shot. At In Your House 10, Bret rolled up Luger as he had his hand on the ropes but the ref still counted to 3, they had a rematch at Royal Rumble 1994 which ended in a double countout

Flair and Shawn ended up injuring GM of RAW Harley Race with Bret and Luger pushing them off. A huge segment happened to close off RAW 112 as Harley Race came out in a wheelchair with all of Four Horsemen in the ring. All of Four Horsemen had a legit claim for the title as Luger and Bret didn’t have a clean ending, Shawn had won the Survivor Series Briefcases and Ric Flair had won the Royal Rumble, Shawn tried to SCM Harley but Bret grabbed his leg telling him that enough is enough, Shawn calls him a coward for not putting the title on the line which finally begins a brawl between them and eventually all of Four Horsemen as Harley Race decides that Bret will defend against Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair and Lex Luger in a big Four Horsemen fatal 4 way, they continue brawling as 4HM has split. In the episode of RAW before Wrestlemania, after teasing it for a year but never doing it, Shawn Michaels finally hits the SCM on Bret Hart standing tall with the title. At Wrestlemania 10, Bret Hart defeated all his Four Horsemen members to retain the title.

## Lex Express(1994)

Luger didn't do much in the first half of the season, he was in the MITB ladder match but failed to win. On the 15th august episode of RAW, he started a new gimmick of an all american american telling people to come down to the lex express which got the crowd to boo him

At RAW 135, 123 Kid defeated Luger in a NO1 contender match to the WWF Championship and Luger turned heel afterwards throwing Kid through a table. At In Your House 14, he interrupted Bret and Kid's match beating up both men to end it in a DQ, Luger continued interfering until he got a shot and at G1 Finals Bret defeated Luger and Kid to retain the title

Luger was the captain of Team RAW consisting of Jim Neidhart, Tatanka and Bob Backlund but lost to Team Smackdown consisting of Barry Horowitz, Undertaker, Bam Bam Bigelow and Mr.Perfect, he started a feud with Tatanka and they were scheduled to have a match in the 1995 Royal Rumble but it was cancelled as WCW signed him back, his last match was a loss to Kama

## WCW's Four Horsemen(1994-1996)

At Starrcade 1994, Arn Anderson and Paul Roma defeated Flying Beauty to win the tag titles when Luger made his return, Arn beat up Roma and revealed Luger had replaced him in the Four Horsemen and they were freebirding the tag belts

At Slamboree 1995, Steiner Brothers defeated Luger and Arn to win the tag titles after a long series of matches against each member of 4HM. Ric Flair started saying that Four Horsemen had fell off since Luger's inclusion and he had to deserve his spot against someone who also wanted to re-join Four Horsemen: Barry Windham. At Bash at the Beach, Luger destroyed Windham but Windham rolled up Luger to get the win and join Four Horsemen but Ric Flair neglected that low blowing Windham as he didn't accept cheap wins

He got a WCW Heaviweight championship match at Nitro 65 but lost to Hogan. He started a feud with Randy Savage as both men were frustrated with their spot in the roster, at Fall Brawl Luger defeated Savage. He managed to win the Havoc Battle Royal but failed to defeat US champion Steven Regal as Savage interfered. At Starrcade Luger defeated Savage to get a WCW Heaviweight Championship match at Nitro 100

All of 4HM turned babyface after Starrcade 1995 as they let Sting join them, Arn and Luger continued in the tag team division. At Nitro 100, Luger was defeated by Sting for the WCW Heaviweight title and after the match Scott Hall and Kevin Nash made their debut beating up both men

## Feud with Horsemen(1996)

Arn and Luger were the only members of 4HM left after NWO's beatdown, they entered a feud with them which involved them faking that Sting was part of NWO which Arn and Flair believed while Luger didn't and it caused dissension within the horsemen. At Bash at the Beach Luger was scheduled to face Ric Flair when Arn shows footage that Sting attacked them both backstage and that's why Flair isn't here today, Arn beat Luger

Luger still didn't buy it but at Nitro 114, Sting showed up and scorpion death dropped him although this was clearly a smaller Sting, for some reason everyone believed it was the real Sting. At Hog Wild, Luger went up against "Sting" and he was locked in the scorpion death lock when the camera panned to a black and white version of Sting on the rafters as he took down all of NWO but then also put a baseball bat on Luger's neck as a sign of hatred

He blamed Arn and Flair for getting on his head and because of it he lost a good friend, at Fall Brawl Ric Flair defeated Luger. At Halloween Havoc he betrayed everyone in the main event as he helped Eric Bischoff defeat Roddy Piper to retain ownership of WCW and joined NWO

## Failed stables(1996-1998)

Luger won the NWO TV Championship from Flair in the october 28th episode of Nitro(which was Luger's last win in 2 years) but lost it to Disco Inferno which pissed off NWO. At World War 3 Piper defeated Luger and The Giant in a handicap match for him, Savage and Flair to get a WCW Heaviweight Championship match at Starrcade. Luger wanted the NWO TV title back but Scott Hall said they were all disappointed in him, Luger bet it all as he said if he couldn't win the title back, he would leave the group. At Starrcade, Scott Steiner defeated Luger to retain the title, Hall punted him in the head and Nash jackhammer'd him to kick him out of NWO

Luger returned in the 10th february episode of Nitro as he wanted revenge against NWO so he was put in a 6 on 1 handicap match, Steiner Brothers tried saving him but Luger punted Scott wanting to join NWO again but Nash attacked him not accepting cowards

No one wanted Luger as he was considered a traitor to WCW and a coward to NWO until the september 15th episode of Nitro where Konnan revealed Lex Luger to be the newest Mob member but immediatly caused dissension as Luger started talking too much and Konnan had to shut him up, he continued in a losing streak until him and Riggs were attacked backstage by an unknown man, Luger wanted Konnan to figure out who it was which pissed him off because he wasn't Luger's babysitter. It was finally revealed that The Mob's Billy Kidman was the one who attacked them because Konnan ordered a hit, Konnan gave them one last chance in a tag match against Konnan and Saturn which ended with Konnan kicking them out of The Mob anyways and ending the match in a DQ

In the january 19th episode of Nitro, Rick Rude showed up as a manager and promised Luger to bring him back to glory. At Superbrawl VIII, after The Mob almost injured Rude's neck, The Mob's leader Konnan defeated Luger.

Rude thought a tag partner was what Luger needed to end his losing streak so he got another man with a losing streak, The Barbarian. At Slamboree, Luger and Barbarian defeated Vampiro in a handicap match which was Luger's first win since october 96 and Barbarian's first win since october 95.

At Great American Bash, Luger and Barbarian won the CITL tag team match but they were the first men to lose their cash in match against Steiner Brothers later on the night. Rude was hugely disappointed by this and said that Luger needed to take a lot of time off WCW to learn and to get that main event spot back but first he had to cut off the dead weight as Luger turned on Barbarian.

## The Narcissist and Luger's list(1999-)

Rude introduced Luger back to WCW on the january 11th episode of Nitro introducing him as "The Narcissist" Lex Luger, Luger started a winning streak and defeated The Barbarian in the april 26th episode of Nitro to kick him out of WCW.

Rick Rude tragically died on 2nd may 1999, Luger continued his gimmick and introduced a list of goals Rude gave to him during his training days so he started working on achieving those goals and turned babyface. At Bash at the Beach Luger defeated Wrath and Billy Kidman to win the United States Championship which was his first goal. Luger retained against Jeff Jarrett at Great American Bash, he challenged Tank Abbott and trained with Stan Hansen for the first time since 1990, he managed to beat Tank at Road Wild

## Career history

### Companies/Promotions

 WWF
 WWF(Smackdown)
 WWF(RAW)
 WCW

## Championships and accomplishments

* World Wrestling Federation
* WWF Championship(1 time)
* Royal Rumble(1993)

* World Championship Wrestling
* United States Championship(1 time)
* WCW Tag Team Championships(1 time) - with Brian Pillman Ric Flair and Arn Anderson(1)
* TV Championship(4 times)
* WCW Hardcore Championship(1 time)
* Havoc Battle Royal(1995)
* Cash in the Ladder(1998) - with The Barbarian
* Wrestler of the Year(1991)