Episode 19: New Generation Declassified: Lex Luger: The American Hero
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling
4.8 • 356 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
What would a July in the New Generation world be without looking back again at the body-slam felt across the wrestling universe? A favorite topic of "The Chadster", we look back at the epic rise and somewhat misguided usage of "Made in the USA" Lex Luger from the shocking baby-face turn to the confusing and fizzled out end to the push of a lifetime by the WWF and Vince McMahon. As an added bonus, stay tuned for a special clip from Lex Luger's interview with John Poz and Chad from 2016 as he gives his take of that amazing summer of Lex.
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| 0:00.0 | The upcoming presentation is a two-man power trip on wrestling podcast production. |
| 0:19.6 | All right. Let's get it going right here or right now. |
| 0:23.1 | This is New Generation Declassified, and you're listening to an all-new, new Generation Declassified here, |
| 0:30.2 | exclusively on the two-man power trip of wrestling's podcasting Empire. |
| 0:35.5 | If you didn't know by now, my name is Chad, and every single week we go back in time |
| 0:39.4 | and look at the finer days of the World Wrestling Federation, my favorite time, the new generation |
| 0:44.8 | era. And as I speak to you from my vacation yet again, I'd be home by the point this episode |
| 0:51.3 | comes out, but I was kind of giving myself a little bit more time |
| 0:54.2 | to relax, so very nice of myself. And I will do that by presenting to you another look at Lex Lugar's |
| 1:02.3 | new generation defining moment, and that is the Body Slam heard round the world on the USS Intrepid |
| 1:08.5 | on July 4th, 1993, with not only a look back at an episode where we |
| 1:13.9 | covered the Body Slam, but also comments by Lex Lugar himself, courtesy of John and myself, |
| 1:21.7 | from the two-man power of wrestling's original duo back in, I think this was 2016, a huge interview with Lex Lugar at the time, |
| 1:30.7 | covered in all the dirt sheets. Of course it would be. We had a lot of great monumental and huge |
| 1:36.2 | interviews back in those days and still continue to do with John and the two-man power trip in |
| 1:41.5 | its present form. But without a shadow of a doubt, if you're talking |
| 1:45.6 | new generation, you are talking Lex Luger, body slamming Yoko Zuna, and the hullabaloo that was |
| 1:53.3 | the Lex Lugar push of 1993 and early 1994. But it all starts on the Intrepid on that fateful day, that beautiful day. |
| 2:03.3 | And I remember it very well. |
| 2:05.0 | It was an absolutely stunning day on the East Coast. |
| 2:09.3 | Of course, I grew up in New Jersey. |
| 2:10.8 | This happened in New York. |
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