Lex Luger was The Total Package, and for a stretch in the late eighties and nineties he was one of the biggest stars in the business. He held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice, including the night in 1997 when he beat Hollywood Hogan on Nitro to end the nWo's grip on the title, and he was a two-time WCW United States Champion and NWA World Tag Team Champion with Sting.

In WWF he was the all-American hero who slammed Yokozuna on the deck of the USS Intrepid on the Fourth of July in 1993, then toured the country on the Lex Express and headlined SummerSlam. He also main evented the 1994 Royal Rumble, where he and Bret Hart were declared co-winners in one of the most talked-about finishes in Rumble history, and he later helped launch WCW Monday Nitro by walking out on the competition and appearing on the very first episode.

Luger was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame with the class of 2025, and the moment he walked to the podium to accept it was one of the most emotional scenes wrestling has produced in years. Nearly two decades after a 2007 spinal cord injury left him almost completely paralyzed, years of rehab work with Diamond Dallas Page got him back on his feet, and his recovery has continued to progress since. Meeting him is something else entirely.