It was an emotionally charged moment in Lex Luger’s career when the decorated veteran stepped out of his wheelchair, walked to the podium and accepted his. WWE Hall of Fame Induction 2025 although it was an impromptu decision. The former two-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion talked about his original plan to walk further than just to the podium. but an accident the previous day thwarted his plans.
“(It) wasn’t the way it was supposed to go… But yeah, I got up. So that was a miracle of God right there because I had fallen the day before. So, yeah, I was in really bad shape,” the Hall of Famer said in his interview. “Going to ringside!” “I was going to go out. I was going to pull out on a chair and walk the rest of the way. But we couldn’t do that because I fell out of an Uber car on the cement the day before at the Atlanta airport.”
2007 Luger suffered a nerve impingement in the neck that left him paralyzed. Seven years later, in 2014, Luger was regularly using a wheelchair. With the help of a good friend and great motivator in the Hall of Fame Diamond Dallas Page, Luger was able to stand up from his wheelchair in 2025. Two months later, he once again showed the world that miraculous move in his Hall of Fame.
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