Lex Luger recently sat down with The Hannibal TV to discuss his life and wrestling career. One aspect that Luger touched on was a motorcycle accident that occurred in 1992. While Luger was driving in Atlanta, he and a car got into a head-on collision, that saw Luger being tossed from his motorcycle and into a patch of woods.
According to Luger, it was miraculous that he made it out alive. “I got injured in a motorcycle wreck, a very serious one,” he said. “It was a bad one, head-on with a car, twilight on like, a one-and-a-half lane road. I was riding it like it was mine, and the car came around a blind curve and head-on. I almost got out of the way, but knocked me probably 150 feet into the woods, missed every tree, but I was a mess. Ended up having…a miracle of god, I look back now that I didn’t hit a tree, it would have snapped me in two. We were probably both going 40-45mph.”
After the accident, Luger said that doctors were initially planning on amputating his arm, but it was another wrestling legend that helped him. “They initially were going to amputate my right arm, and Sting saved me on that, Sting was there in the middle of the night,” he said. “He was at a show and he came back, and then he came right to the hospital, and he got Dr. Andrews right out of Birmingham, he’s a world renowned sports orthopedic.”
Luger goes on to say that Sting had overheard doctors discussing the possibility of amputation, and was the one who phoned Dr. Andrews. “And the people in Atlanta wanted to amputate my right arm, it was really bad, multiple fractures through the skin. I had a lot of injuries but that was the worst of it,” he said. “And Sting heard them talking about amputating the arm, having emergency surgery, and he called Dr. Andrews and Dr. Andrews said ‘Don’t let them do that, tell them to clean him up and send him to Birmingham the next day,’ which we did, and Dr. Andrews somehow put that arm back together, and I was in the ring seven months later.”
Luger mentioned that he made his debut as The Narcissist around seven months after the accident, and that he didn’t feel too much residual weakness from the issue after working out his arm. The superstar also says he still has steel rods in his arms, and that he was able to work out and get back into the ring soon after.
