Lex Luger on When He Knew WCW was Doomed?

[@Farmerb1985]

I miss WCW

[@alexandru5369]

Good call by Luger. It's well known that wrestling has always had a problem with advertisers and the amount of money they're willing too spend on for wrestling ( never mattered the company)

[@Fnoel98356]

Lex was not the only one who has said this. Bill Watts, Kevin Nash & Vince Russo have all said that Turner executives didn't want wrestling & wanted to replace it with a movie package or a syndicated show .

[@FuzzyWuzzy75]

Now that I can believe. I am sick of hearing all the finger pointing and excuses from the likes of Bischoff and Russo and Flair and Hogan and Nash etc. But I can believe what Lex says. He is a smarter guy than I ever gave him credit for back in the day.

[@sitcom1971]

Agree with you Flair lost all credibility on many things he has said even just saying he was in PR in July '88 for the Brody murder he completely is delusional at this point not knowing everyone can be fact checked now he living in the past like he can still strip on a flight. Imagine doing that in the 21st century.

[@rsb512]

Absolutely it's incredible to think in what Lex says makes a lot of sense. The big guy is upstairs with the big plants at turn the broadcasting did not have professional wrestling and Nitro as the most important thing of their future and they won that time slot not just over WWF at the time they won their time slot over lots of other competitions too. But Turner wanna get rid of it once it went South.

[@FuzzyWuzzy75]

@sitcom1971 I grew up with both Flair and Hogan and watched them both for 30+ years and still listen to them occasionally on podcasts. I like and respect them both for what they have done over their careers. They both entertained me personally for a long time. I hated Flair back in the day and loved Hogan like a good ol dumb mark should have done back then, lol. I almost look at them both like distant uncles who everyone knows, but neither of them knew me. They have both told some whoppers. I try to remember that they both made successful livings for a long time blurring the lines between fact and fiction. I don't remember where I was and what I was doing the night Bruiser Brody died, and I haven't been hit on the head near as much as Ric Flair has. Same with Hogan. But yeah, there are honest mistakes, and then there is flat-out bullshit. What irritates me is all the Mount Rushmore bullshit. And Ric Flair tells us a different story on who belongs on the Mount Rushmore of pro wrestling every time he talks about it, which is all the time lol.

[@sitcom1971]

@@FuzzyWuzzy75 Yep very similar experiences I was way more a Flair fan met him several times going back to Nov '81 onwards he was always nice to me. Even with some of the negative things many have said that his matches were repetitious he was the Main Event and by far the best match on all the cards I saw him in but his legacy has been tarnished by his actions in the last couple of decades seems he never learns any lessons relationships his own actions out of ring making stuff up to sound more important which makes no sense especially saying he was there for the Brody incident and claiming he was with Hallie Berry what's the point I don't get it. He could have easily went the Bockwinkel route the debonair gentleman ambassador and then when your son, son n law, 5th wife throws in the towel with him shows a lot about his character especially after what Wendy did for him after his very serious surgery.

[@coolguy298]

​@@FuzzyWuzzy75 guys who drew money are in the Rushmore. Today fans are smart and look at wrestling from a critical point of view. So the guys who never drew are on top and Luger and Goldberg are the worst. Lol

[@johnmcneill175]

The worst days of WCW was better then WWE now

[@jonbourgoin182]

You're not wrong

[@TheHannibalTV]

True

[@jonpotter9510]

Pure nonsense.

[@PopRockRevival]

1999 should have been wcw's year of the midcard talent being heavily pushed with fresh new storylines. by the beginning of 2000 some of the midcard should have been main event headliners while guys like luger, flair, savage, hogan, sting, took a backseat working on wcw thunder and rare appearances to put over talent. the only top talent who shouldn't have been selling and protected was goldberg.

[@MrMatthew262]

I think wrestling back then was a dirty business for them. Especially for a large diverse company. It was filled with guys on drugs and story lines that are so non pc.

[@afranks8566]

Finally, I'm actually hearing an excuse that makes sense!