The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released earlier tonight and features former WCW & WWE Superstar Lex Luger return with an over two hour long interview.
You can find some of Lex’s comments regarding the night he won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship from Hulk Hogan transcribed below.
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LL: I didn’t learn until I basically went to the ring that I was going to win the World Title that night. I’ll never forget that. People ask me about the highlights of my career and that was such an honor that you and Hogan gave me; since he had some creative control as well. You could tell because of Nick the referee his eyes were as wide as saucers (laughs). It was such a shock. That Detroit crowd, I’ll never forget, it was such a huge pop, one of the biggest pops I ever had in my career but it was delayed. The NWO had left us laying and had so much heat that the crowd in Detroit when I had the World Title and all of the WCW guys filled the ring. You guys wanted to throw me a little bone and of course Hogan would win it back six days later at Hog Wild. It was a brilliant idea because it was just a little bone. I think that you guys knew much more about the fans saying, “We’ve left them laying 47 weeks in a row.” You had the courage to keep it going knowing that wrestling psychology of having to throw the fans a bone. You gotta throw them a bone or you’ll lose them and we didn’t. I never knew why you guys did that but you must have wanted to give the fans just a little bit of bone with the blue collar babyface who had been laying in nachos and beer every week at the end of each show. It was delayed. People waited like ten seconds to realize I really did win the World Title and beat Hogan. Number one, it was done LIVE on Nitro. Hogan never got beat live on television. People were like, “Did Hogan just lose live on television?” It was an amazing moment.
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This week’s episode of Bischoff on Wrestling starts with Eric talking about WWE’s recent decline in ratings and what he thinks may be attributing to it.
Eric then welcomes back his guest for the week former WWE & WCW Superstar Lex Luger! During his return appearance Lex and Eric speak candidly about:
- The amazingly close Super Bowl LI between the Patriots and the Falcons
- Lex originally joining the NWA/WCW and immediately working with The 4 Horseman
- Ted Turner’s enthusiasm for pro wrestling
- Dusty Rhodes as the first WCW booker Lex worked with
- Dusty’s booking style
- Whether or not there was backlash to Lex early on getting pushed to the top
- How their respective attitudes could have been mistaken for arrogance
- Their memories of WCW’s Jim Herd and Kip Fry
- Dirt sheets causing problems for Turner Broadcasting
- A failed meeting Turner tried to have with dirt sheet writers at the time
- Lex’s original departure from WCW for the WBF and eventually the WWF
- Lex managing to negotiate keeping the Lex Luger name with Vince McMahon
- Lex’s friendship with Sting
- Their familiarity with one another before meeting in WCW
- Sting as an advocate for the both of them
- The NWO and Wolfpack
- Lex beating Hulk Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship on Nitro
- How Lex’s affair with Miss Elizabeth started
- Lex’s relationship with Randy Savage
- How Lex was introduced to drugs
- Why he and Elizabeth did drugs together
- The drug epidemic in the USA
- The night Elizabeth passed away
- Lex contemplating suicide before he found religion
- WWE evolving their Wellness Policy
- How he has turned his life around
- More…
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