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

Lex Luger vs. Mr. Perfect WWF WrestleMania IX 4/4/93

ER: Lex Luger gets a great entrance, flanked by four women in bikini thongs, an outdoor arena filled with 10 year olds in disbelief that they're seeing butts. They hold him mirrors with sparklers on them, and it seems windy for that. Luger poses for a really long time, and heel posing Luger is so much better than face posing Luger. Perfect gets a loud reaction for his entrance music and Luger's girls are walking out as he's walking in, and he jumps out of the way of one of them while making an ewwwwww face. Perfect just working a bit out here. And this match feels like it should have gotten a bigger reaction. Maybe it was half the crowd looking directly into the sun, or maybe they were burnt out from a day just spent out in the sun, or burnt out from the Hogan segment. But this is quiet. It is good, but feels like it should have been better, and there were some miscommunications that looked clunky. But it still should have gotten a louder reaction. Perfect is really smart and senses the silence, so starts playing to the crowd by working stiff and making some loud noise. He hits a super loud chop in the corner and laughs along with the crowds louder reaction, so he goes back to that in a couple fun ways. He hits another chop for the crowds approval, slaps Luger in the stomach off an Irish whip, and starts kicking him in the hamstring all around the ring.

Perfect's knee work was really cool, and it's a shame they didn't let that play into the rest of the match. And, Luger's back work was really cool, and it's a shame they didn't let that play into the rest of the match. Each had nice powerslams, Perfect almost wrecked his leg on a missile dropkick, Luger knows hot to take a catapult into the turnbuckles really well, there's a really fast rope running exchange with a slick Perfect leapfrog, a fun match. The finish is a bad one (par for the course on this show), with this cursed idea that's a bad idea on paper, and a poorly executed idea in reality. It was supposed to be a battle over backslides (that's not the part that sounds bad, battles over backslides should always be cool), and Luger sets it up by swinging a full 360 on a missed clothesline. Except Perfect doesn't duck or anything, so Luger just spins in a circle and then they clumsily lock arms back to back. Luger gets it and Perfect's entire body is in the ropes, but Marella counts the 3 anyway and it stands. Marella was given some bad finishes on this show, making him look like a guy purposely trying to get fired for the duration of this PPV. Luger salvages things some by blasting Perfect with the forearm after the match. I loved that KO forearm as a killshot.

This was not Luger's best WWF match. 

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

2. Lex Luger vs. Mr. Perfect WWF WrestleMania IX 4/4/93

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