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Thursday, June 24, 2021

What's the Best WWF Lex Luger Match? Is it with Hacksaw?

Lex Luger vs. Jim Duggan WWF UK Rampage 93

ER: I had no idea how big of a star Jim Duggan was in early 1993 UK, apparently. This would have been just a couple months after Duggan was the first to knock Yokozuna off his feet - a moment I remember watching - but I wouldn't have thought that would have had a huge impact across the pond. Yokozuna did an in ring promo before this match, and Luger's entrance was treated basically like an afterthought. Yokozuna stays at ringside and the place comes unglued when Duggan's music hits. This is a 12,000 strong crowd and Duggan is wearing his USA singlet and USA kneepads, and gets the entire crowd to chant USA. Can you even entertain the IDEA of a foreign crowd chanting USA at a WWE show any time during the past 20 years?? You'd think this was in Alabama, not Yorkshire. Seriously, USA chants. Luger might as well not have even been in the ring. 

Luger works this as a stooge for Duggan, bumping around for Duggan's running clotheslines and playing into spots like trying to smash Duggan's head into the turnbuckles, only to have it reversed. Duggan was treated like Hogan and it was like I was watching this match from some weird alternate timeline. Yokozuna ends up sitting on Duggan on the floor, leading to the DQ, and Perfect runs in after Luger lays Duggan out. As loud as the crowd was for Duggan, they react to Perfect as if he was the biggest name on the show (which was true, so that checks out). The main thing this match accomplished was making me genuinely want to see a Luger/Yoko vs. Duggan/Perfect match, which is a match they set up wonderfully here and then never mentioned it again. All they did was run Luger/Perfect and Yoko/Duggan singles matches the rest of the tour.

Lex Luger's best WWF match was not against Duggan, but this was unique and weird in a good way. 


1. Lex Luger vs. Tito Santana WWF Mania 3/20/93

2. Lex Luger vs. Hacksaw Jim Duggan WWF UK Rampage 93


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