Loss Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted November 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2012 We get an interview with Luger from before Capital Combat while on a hospital bed. This injury built in just handed them a great storyline on a silver platter and they did absolutely nothing with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted November 20, 2012 Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 Why the living fuck is this airing AFTER the PPV? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted December 15, 2012 Report Share Posted December 15, 2012 Really weird for this to air after the PPV since the week before we saw Luger all fired up talking about how the PPV was only hours away and here he looks like he is on his death bed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted December 27, 2012 Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 Stupid WCW!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 Tony interviews Luger from his hospital bed. Luger’s leg is not in good condition. Lex says he will do whatever he can to make Capitol Combat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cox Posted February 19, 2013 Report Share Posted February 19, 2013 Poor Lex. I wonder if they didn't tell him he was losing at Capital Combat until he got there. The way he keeps promising that he's going to win makes me think that he thought he was going over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Well, look at it from WCW's point of view: Assuming that they waited to give Luger the finish until he got to Washington, suppose that they'd given it to him before and he decides not to show up. You don't have Luger, you don't have Sting, the Steiners are already losing to Doom, and Zenk and Pillman are already losing to the Midnights. Who's left to take Luger's place against Flair? If you're going to ask Rick or Scott or Pillman to do double duty, do you really want them losing once and getting screwed a second time? If you're not......well, as I said, who else do you throw out there? Do you ask JYD to get out of his street clothes and main event a pay-per-view with no buildup whatsoever? Do you do something really off the wall, like turn Sid out of nowhere? Now, let's say you're Lex and you know that you're going to look like a fool getting suckered by the Horsemen again. Do you risk permanent injury to that knee, even for a pay-per-view payday? Remember, if WCW fires you, you have the look that Vince goes crazy for, so as long as you can walk, you'll have a job somewhere. I'm not saying that WCW necessarily did the right thing by getting Luger out of the hospital without him knowing the finish (assuming that that's what happened), but I can understand their thinking. By the way, Luger sounds more articulate with a staph infection than he does when he's healthy. How weird is that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted January 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Luger knew the finish. Cox was just commenting on how it seemed. He was simply saying what he was instructed to say. Luger had a great deal in WCW making $600,000 a year or whatever it was. I believe that amount is correct. He had no desire to go anywhere at this point and was probably better at leveraging himself a deal than just about anyone in wrestling. When you get to 1991, there is a funny story about how he responded when WCW asked him to work the New Japan show that shows how smart he was on this stuff. Anyway, the match was originally supposed to be a double juice cage match, but Luger's staph infection changed that plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted January 5, 2015 Report Share Posted January 5, 2015 Thanks for the explanation, Loss. I'm still curious about what would have happened if Luger simply couldn't wrestle. They had no one else ready to challenge Flair at this point, remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drew wardlaw Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 Lex looks very relaxed in his hospital bed, like he's laying on a beach towel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSR Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 A Luger interview with Tony Schiavone taped from Lex’s hospital bed on May 16th. Tony says that they’ve talked to Lex’s doctor and he’s had a temperature of over 103 degrees for the past couple of days and his leg doesn’t look good at all. Lex says that it will take more than a little discolouration and swelling in his leg to keep him from Capital Combat. The doctors have said he has a serious staph infection and that he may not be able to get in the ring, but even if he has to rip the tubes out of his own arm, crawl, take a bus, do whatever he has to do to get there, he will be in that ring at Capital Combat and Ric Flair’s reign of dominance will be over. He’s got him right where he wants him in that cage and he’s not going to let him slip through his fingers. This explains the Horsemen interview at Capital Combat, but why on earth is this airing after the event on Saturday Night? Surely they could’ve inserted it into the PPV somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawho5 Posted February 27, 2017 Report Share Posted February 27, 2017 Couldn't they have put this on the PPV somewhere? Or would that have taken valuable Robocop time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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