Lex Luger was the guest interview on Matt Koon‘s second episode of MLW Radio’s Total Engagement. Luger addressed the long-standing rumor that he scheduled to win the WWF Championship until plans changed after he was heard bragging in a bar about plans for him at Wrestlemania X.
(Transcription credit should go to @DominicDeAngelo of WrestleZone):
On the crazy rumor of him about how he blew his chances winning the WWE Championship:
There was one crazy rumor that I’m asked all the time that I was drunk at a bar and told everybody that I was going to win the title and Vince was irate and changed his mind. I wasn’t anywhere near the hotel bar. I had my family which was in town visiting friends and I was at a hotel with my wife and kids at the time. I wasn’t at a hotel bar, as we’d say nowadays that was fake news (laughs). I get asked that all the time!
You know wrestling, part of the fun of it is, when you look on social media is rumors that go ‘these are just rumors.’ I think with the fans and all of us it’s just part of the fun, you know?
Lex Luger on if the WCW locker room harbored any jealousy during his wrestling beginnings:
No they rolled out the red carpet for me. If they had any jealousy I didn’t sense it. Cause I was around guys who were very secure, big stars already. From Ric and Arn, Tully & JJ – so now they wanted to see me succeed and they paired me with guys that they knew would work well with me so I didn’t sense that in the locker room. Maybe I wasn’t perceptive. The only time they ever said things later on was when I got a guaranteed contract I heard rumors that guys were mumbling and grumbling over the money. I was being paid at such a young and inexperienced stage at my career, but really throughout my career I never paid a lot of attention to that. I was more of a front windshield kind of guy, so I didn’t look side-to-side or behind me, so I never really paid a lot of attention to the locker room stuff, not just then, but throughout my career. But what you said earlier when we started out our talk, it was more about me anyways so maybe that’s why I was impervious to it! (Laughs)
On his chance meeting with Vince McMahon while still under contract with the Crocketts:
My initial contact with WWE was a chance meeting with Vince McMahon in a gym. He was working out in the same gym as I was in Las Vegas and we met and talked. Shook my hand, ‘I’m keeping an eye on ya,’ basically. ‘Maybe we’ll be able to do business in the future.’ That actually vaulted me into my first guaranteed contract with the Crocketts because rumor got back to Dusty and other guys that in the gym I was talking to Vince McMahon and I wasn’t under a formal contract for any number of years or anything with the Crocketts and they offered me a three-year guaranteed contract out of that chance meeting with Vince McMahon cause they thought ‘We better sign this guy up! We got him on the TV with the Horseman and everything. He just talked to Vince McMahon at gym.’
So I did have another talk with WWE. My contact was always directly through Vince McMahon himself. We looked it up, we didn’t like the potential legal problems there might be with me still being under contract, even though we thought they [Crocketts] were breaching my contract.
