Lex Luger has revealed he once pitched a plan to WWE for a major heel turn and feud with Bret Hart following WrestleMania X.
Speaking on his podcast, Lex Expressed, Luger explained that it was always planned for him to lose his WWF Championship match against Yokozuna at WrestleMania X, while Hart would go on to win the title later that night. However, Luger had ideas for how he could stay in the main event picture after the show.
“That was the plan all along for me at WrestleMania,” Luger said. “I even thought of the option that if they went with Bret out of WrestleMania, I could even, at some point down the line, have a heel turn, which is kind of tied into when I was negotiating to stay at WWE instead of walking out on that first Nitro.”
Luger felt a rivalry with Hart made sense, pointing to their past issues, including a physical altercation at a press conference the day before WrestleMania IX.
“I wanted to stay with WWE, and I was hoping and talking about maybe down the line switching heel and going after Bret,” he added. “I hit him at WrestleMania 9 that time, so Bret and I had some unfinished business with Bret as a babyface and me as the heel.”
Despite his pitch, the company chose not to go in that direction. Luger instead moved into feuds with other stars before ultimately leaving WWF to return to WCW in September 1995, debuting on the very first episode of Monday Nitro.
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