Wrestling With the Devil: The True Story of a World Champion Professional Wrestler--His Reign, Ruin, and Redemption by Luger Lex

Author:Luger, Lex [Luger, Lex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Sports
ISBN: 9781414378725
Publisher: Tyndale Momentum
Published: 2013-08-13T06:00:00+00:00

Traveling had its perks and its challenges. It was great to see new places. But at times, it could become grueling. We had to carry so much stuff, we felt like pack mules. I would always carry one bag specifically for my wrestling gear, one bag full of workout clothes, and a third one for street clothes. I did get packing down to a science—I just rotated the clean stuff to the top and moved the clothes I had worn to the bottom of my suitcase in plastic bags, separated by towels.

I was doing more than separating clothes in my suitcase; I was starting to fall into a double life, separating my life on the road from my life at home. I remembered Matsuda’s advice about creating a fire wall between my profession and my family. But I used it to rationalize what I was doing. Everywhere we traveled, women were there. There was a serious unwritten code called “the wrestler’s honor.” Whatever happened on the road, stayed on the road. It was nobody’s business to tell another wrestler’s wife or girlfriend about anything that happened, especially when it came to other women. If you broke that code, you were blackballed by your peers.

It happened slowly, but the infidelities began to creep into my life. I would meet an attractive woman at the gym or the tanning salon or a restaurant—or wherever—in the cities on the circuit. So I’d think, As long as I go home and am a devoted husband and father, I can keep the two separate and distinct. It was a secret life with no accountability—or so I thought.

I felt that there was enough silence among my peers and enough distance from my family to keep my infidelities from Peggy. Back then, there weren’t fans with camera phones who could catch you in an indiscretion and immediately put it on the Internet for all the world—and your family—to see. Still, if I was honest, I knew my actions went against everything I had been taught. I had been raised by my parents never to lie; now I was living a lie.

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