Lex Luger - Pro wrestling legend on redemption and giving his life to Jesus
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Lex Luger is a former professional wrestler in the WCW and WWE. He is a 2-time WCW World Heavyweight champion and in 1993, was voted the most popular wrestler of the year by Pro Wrestling Illustrated.
Prior to his professional wrestling career, Luger was a pro football player with the Montreal Alouettes in the CFL, the Green Bay Packers in the NFL and three different teams in the United States Football League (USFL).
Today on the podcast, Lex Luger joins us to share his journey of fame, success, and emptiness in the wrestling world, and how he found true fulfillment and purpose in his relationship with Jesus. Luger also talks about the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people and the impact of his friendship with fellow wrestling legend, Sting. Despite facing a spinal cord injury and being in a wheelchair, Luger finds joy and strength in his faith and continues to share the gospel through his wrestling events and speaking engagements.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it's great to have Lex Lugar here on Sports Spectrum. Hi, Lex. How are you? |
| 0:17.0 | Hey, Jason. I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, it's great to see you. Great to talk with you. |
| 0:21.8 | I always like to start with the main thing because I think that focuses our conversation. |
| 0:26.7 | And we go right into it and start with faith. |
| 0:29.0 | So I'd love to have you share a little bit of who Christ right now is in the life of Lex Lugar. |
| 0:35.2 | And we'll get it started right there. |
| 0:37.9 | Wow. Man, we do get it started right there. Wow. |
| 0:38.9 | Man, we do get right into it, Jason. |
| 0:40.9 | I love it. |
| 0:42.1 | He's just my guiding light. |
| 0:44.1 | He's my purpose. |
| 0:47.2 | Every morning, I just get up and give him thanks. |
| 0:50.9 | Father's son, Holy Spirit. |
| 0:52.8 | Just thank you for the gift of the day for the beat of my heart and the breath of my lungs. |
| 0:57.3 | I mean, he's the essence of who we are and why we're here. |
| 1:00.1 | So he's my everything and everything else comes off of that. |
| 1:03.5 | I'm here to love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength. |
| 1:08.2 | And when the Pharisees and Sadd, he's asked Jesus to like a trick question |
| 1:11.8 | about the Ten Commandments, he said, well, just love God with all your heart, so mind and strength, |
| 1:16.5 | and love thy neighbor, meaning you're here to love me. I made you in my image to love me, |
| 1:22.7 | and I love you, and then just he wants us to have a servant's heart love your neighbor uh is just to have a |
| 1:30.5 | servant's heart people joke with me before christ before april 23rd of 06 when i got saved it was me |
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