Lex Luger won PWI wrestler of the year in 1997

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One of the best and most popular wrestling years ever.

People are always talking like Luger was some bum on these podcasts. I heard Paul Roma’s garbage ass trashing Luger the other day.

Luger made a hell of a JCP debut. Didn’t matter if Flair and Arn were carrying him in matches. His look alone plus one of the GOAT submission moves (the torture rack) made him that dude. He was believably a beast.

He was great as a heel back then. He did the “cerebral assassin” shtick better than HHH and seemed like a scary highly intelligent psycho.

In 97, he was over as fukk. He got over by just consistently racking the fukk out of everyone in his path. When he racked Hoegan to win the title, that was one of loudest Nitro crowd pops ever.

He gets judged unfairly because of the big WWF push that flopped. Basically his whole WCW/JCP body of work was really good up until about 98.

It seems whenever he mentioned, people mostly talk about what he didn’t do or what his shortcomings were but he was one of the top wrestlers for about a decade and had good runs as a heel and face. I’d contend that Luger is underrated. :manny:
 
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Luger was trash, PWI Wrestler of the Year is a kayfabe award so that means fukk all, plus dude was terrified of skeletons, automatic bum status :camby:

Diesel won PWI Wrestler of the Year in 1995 for fukk’s sake :russ:
 
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Lex is the most underrated wrestler of his generation. He was always over, understood his character, and was one of the best body guys in the ring. People judge his career based on his WWF run where he was mismanaged & given awful booking and the dying days of WCW when he stopped caring.

In his prime Lex was an all-time great. His run with Harley Race was some of the best heel work of that era.
 
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Lex is a weird case for me. He was a bland wrestler, but with that being said, he was promoted well to hide his flaws. He could be a face or he could be a heel. Because of his look though, he had that classic build of a what a World Champion would look like.

Not to mention one of the GOAT poses ever :lolbron:

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THEREALBRAND said:
Lex is the most underrated wrestler of his generation. He was always over, understood his character, and was one of the best body guys in the ring. People judge his career based on his WWF run where he was mismanaged & given awful booking and the dying days of WCW when he stopped caring.

In his prime Lex was an all-time great. His run with Harley Race was some of the best heel work of that era.
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Personally I think Sid is the most underrated, but for the same reasons.

Luger 97 as probably the best organic babyface push you can write. For like 9 months he came out second hour of nitro, got the music, pyro, flexed, shook hands with the crowd, beat up a jobber or a midcard heel, hit the torture rack, and popped the crowd as he won. Every week. And his crowd responses kept getting better and better. And the crowd would get so hype when he got a big dude in the rack. Even fukkin roadblock or someone.

There are some Detroit brehs here who were in the house when he beat Hogan for the title on nitro and said to was the biggest pop ever and I believe it. Crowd lost it.

97 most over acts were the outsiders, Austin, luger, Hollywood Hogan, HBK, Bret, flair, Sabu, and RVD, in that order IMO. It is very reasonable for him to be #1 on a 97 list though I'd out hall and nash over him for sure
 
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