The WrestleMania X "Drunk" Story and Rumored Changes:
I didn't know what the plan was as far as what was to be the finish that day. I never got involved in that kind of stuff. There were rumors – crazy stuff – that I knew the finish. My reputation, and sure I deserved a lot of the rumors back then, [was] that I was drunk at a bar and telling people I was going to be champion. Where did they get this stuff from? I've done so much crazy stuff in my career. I didn't have to make stuff up. I was like 100 miles away with my family the night before WrestleMania. I wasn't anywhere near what they said. It was a crazy kind of rumor. Go figure, wrestling, right?
That Dark Road:
We're all sad about that. I think it's getting much better. It's a much healthier atmosphere in WWE and with pro wrestling. Nothing can ever be 100%. We'd love to see nobody battle with [demons] but stuff happens in people’s lives, you know? We’d love to make it all where it never happened but I think it’s vastly improved now. We also see a lot of cases now of guys who are getting it back together who we were all very concerned about. So it’s not all negative. There are a few stories – we’ve lost a lot of our comrades and good friends way before they should have been with that whole ‘work hard, play hard’ [mindset] of my era and a lot of the mistakes that we made. A lot of us paid dearly for it. NONE of us want that to be the legacy that we left.
Being the Next Hulk Hogan:
To me it's flattering for anyone to say I'm the next Hulk Hogan. There is only one Hulk Hogan. No one could ever, unless it was an extraordinary circumstance, ever even come close to something like that so. In my career I was very confident in myself and what I had, talent-wise, and I think I had a good career. But to even be mentioned in the same breath as the next Hogan, I was flattered by that. I couldn't have lived up to that and I don't know that anyone could.
Frequent Heel/Face Turns:
Behind the scenes, I was kind of the guy … I was proud that I was able to pull that off. A lot of guys might not have been able to. At the time, if one of the top three babyfaces or heels would get injured, people don't realize that they'd switch me. [They] were like 'So-and-so got hurt. What are we going to do? Let's switch Lex.' And when the first heel went down, they'd switch me back heel … All those changes, it was actually sort of a compliment that I was the type of character that could be either an arrogant bad guy or be a confident good guy and kind of pull it off with some kind of credibility. Would I have been able to sustain it for longer periods of time as a good guy or a bad guy? I guess I'll never know but I'm not complaining. I was like the utility All Star.
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