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What was better? Bret Hart in WCW or Lex Luger in WWF?
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Brings up thoughts of Beniot ingesting his protein powder by placing it in his mouth, then drinking water and shaking his head.
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I mean you get brain damage from shaking your head, thinking about how much disgusting protein powder this guy shoved RAW into his mouth and we can add another item to the list
Does Lex have one of these bad boys? I don't think so.
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Even WCW coloring book Bret is stuck in the midcard
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Bret had the NWO welcoming him in a segment on Nitro. Luger was welcomed by The Brain (good) and was saddled with a terrible gimmick (not good). Bret's intro was better.
Bret won gold in WCW. Luger did not win gold in WWF.
Off the top of my head I can only think of two significant Bret Hart WCW matches and one of them involves the concussion. With Luger I can think of WMIX, RR94, WMX, and that dumbshit Summerslam main event. Even at whatever age (12?) I couldn't wrap my head around this man celebrating a countout victory in a title match when the stipulation stated you can't get a rematch. So by the metric of sticking in my memory, Luger had a more memorable stint in WWF than Bret did in WCW (And Bret's was more recent, though I was busier in that time too).
Bret got to fuck with Hogan, Flair, Goldberg, Sting, and a bunch of other big names. He also got to tag team with a few big ones too. Luger feuded with Mr. Perfect (good), Yokozuna (good), Tatanka (I liked him when I was a kid, not sure how he'd resonate now), and then teamed with British Bulldog in a team that had awesome theme music and was otherwise unremarkable. Also, he attacked Bret @ The WMIX presser and then...nothing? He was a face a few months later. Maybe they had a house show run?
Hell, am I remembering correctly that Luger wasn't even supposed to wrestle for WWF and he only went there b/c the WBF tanked? Bret Hart at least signed with WCW to wrestle for WCW. Even if his run wasn't the best thing in the world, at least his consolation prize was the money and not because the project he was with failed. Granted, I guess that means neither Luger nor Bret wanted to be there.
Anyway, I vote Bret.
Bret won gold in WCW. Luger did not win gold in WWF.
Off the top of my head I can only think of two significant Bret Hart WCW matches and one of them involves the concussion. With Luger I can think of WMIX, RR94, WMX, and that dumbshit Summerslam main event. Even at whatever age (12?) I couldn't wrap my head around this man celebrating a countout victory in a title match when the stipulation stated you can't get a rematch. So by the metric of sticking in my memory, Luger had a more memorable stint in WWF than Bret did in WCW (And Bret's was more recent, though I was busier in that time too).
Bret got to fuck with Hogan, Flair, Goldberg, Sting, and a bunch of other big names. He also got to tag team with a few big ones too. Luger feuded with Mr. Perfect (good), Yokozuna (good), Tatanka (I liked him when I was a kid, not sure how he'd resonate now), and then teamed with British Bulldog in a team that had awesome theme music and was otherwise unremarkable. Also, he attacked Bret @ The WMIX presser and then...nothing? He was a face a few months later. Maybe they had a house show run?
Hell, am I remembering correctly that Luger wasn't even supposed to wrestle for WWF and he only went there b/c the WBF tanked? Bret Hart at least signed with WCW to wrestle for WCW. Even if his run wasn't the best thing in the world, at least his consolation prize was the money and not because the project he was with failed. Granted, I guess that means neither Luger nor Bret wanted to be there.
Anyway, I vote Bret.
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True story: Since I was a fat fuck soon to be 11 year old when this happened my neighborhood friends and I concocted the "Slam the Looney" contest (My nickname was Looney Lutzke because even then I was fucked in the head)
So anyway, at the local bar's big summer bash soon after this, at least 4 or 5 teenagers tried to slam my big fat ass on the grass. IIRC a 16/17 year old named Jeff Heim was strong enough to hoist me up sideways and drop me, thus winning the contest. (I think I protested just like Yoko that I wasn't rotated into a slam postion)
I hope I wasn't dumb enough to be conned into offering a cash prize or something.
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We got to bring back the Slam the Looney contest for CXFCon!
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Those guys were my tackle football/backyard wrestling crew as well. We did both worked and shoot wrestling matches. Our shoot cards even had special events, like the other fat fuck in the crew (who didn't like me much) and I had "splash matches" where the only way to win was to shoot splash the other guy. We wouldn't do that to the smaller guys out of kindness.
We evolved in 1994 to even having ladder matches, with my WWF Eagle belt hanging from the tree by our creek.
I had giant rubber intertubes blown up so we could take bumps off of them or use them as weapons.
We even did a shoot run in once, where my friend Ryan (I should tell his story in some other thread) was invited over from a couple of miles away. Once he arrived, my neighbors, his cousins, rode their bikes out from behind my daddy's garage and "sneak attacked" him. They were wearing Road Warriors makeup IIRC and thus aimed for the full Summerslam 92 entrance experience.
My neighbors were eventually banned from the house (at least for a while) after we moved all the living room furiture to the side and had a shoot match on the carpet. (I tapped to a vicious chinlock) My dad found out and as an adult now I totally understand why he was pissed off. (He was always pissed off, but this was a good reason)
(We used to wrestle in their Grandma's living room, but we were 6 years younger then. We'd put up plastic chains for ropes and giver.)
Their cousin was quite a bit older than me in 88 but he and I would have wrestling matches in the front yard, with a crowd of a few people adults and kids. I remember it being a shoot, but I have to believe he was taking it easy on me.
Those guys and I stopped hanging out in like 95 and I moved on to my farm cousins for entertainment. I can't recall if they moved at that point or if they decided chasing women was more fun than wrasslin' with the ugly kid at the bottom of the hill.
We evolved in 1994 to even having ladder matches, with my WWF Eagle belt hanging from the tree by our creek.
I had giant rubber intertubes blown up so we could take bumps off of them or use them as weapons.
We even did a shoot run in once, where my friend Ryan (I should tell his story in some other thread) was invited over from a couple of miles away. Once he arrived, my neighbors, his cousins, rode their bikes out from behind my daddy's garage and "sneak attacked" him. They were wearing Road Warriors makeup IIRC and thus aimed for the full Summerslam 92 entrance experience.
My neighbors were eventually banned from the house (at least for a while) after we moved all the living room furiture to the side and had a shoot match on the carpet. (I tapped to a vicious chinlock) My dad found out and as an adult now I totally understand why he was pissed off. (He was always pissed off, but this was a good reason)
(We used to wrestle in their Grandma's living room, but we were 6 years younger then. We'd put up plastic chains for ropes and giver.)
Their cousin was quite a bit older than me in 88 but he and I would have wrestling matches in the front yard, with a crowd of a few people adults and kids. I remember it being a shoot, but I have to believe he was taking it easy on me.
Those guys and I stopped hanging out in like 95 and I moved on to my farm cousins for entertainment. I can't recall if they moved at that point or if they decided chasing women was more fun than wrasslin' with the ugly kid at the bottom of the hill.
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He probably would have clawed my eyes out, robbing the world of 15 years of glorious posts.