Vince McMahon acquired a style for bringing celebrities into his world with the very first WrestleMania, and he was all too keen to copy that components every time a chance introduced itself. In 1994, WWE introduced in Chuck Norris for a much-hyped look at that yr’s Survivor Sequence.
Lex Luger, a high star within the firm on the time, mentioned Norris was one of many few individuals who made him starstruck, noting how excited he was to fulfill the actor and martial arts legend.
“I’ve at all times been such an enormous Chuck Norris fan,” Luger mentioned on his “Lex Expressed” podcast. “I did not get to shoot the breeze with him, as a result of clearly he is Chuck Norris, however I did get to shake his hand and get to fulfill him. I want we had cellphones again then as a result of I might’ve acquired an image with him. Large fan. Chuck was one among my favorites for certain.”
On the time of Norris’ WWE look, his TV present, “Walker, Texas Ranger,” was nonetheless comparatively new, including to the excitement of his involvement. WWE promoted Norris with a sequence of vignettes, teasing him as a “particular enforcer” within the Undertaker vs. Yokozuna casket match. Norris was impressively straightfaced throughout these promos, vowing to have The Undertaker’s again if any chicanery befell, very similar to it did within the pair’s earlier encounter at 1994’s Royal Rumble.
Norris had a second of temporary physicality in the course of the bout, delivering a signature sidekick to Jeff Jarrett within the aisleway. Jarrett later revealed that Norris “knew how one can work” and did not harm him with the transfer. Wrestling repaid Chuck Norris the favor by crossing over into his world. Each Sting and Hulk Hogan appeared in episodes of “Walker, Texas Ranger” in the course of the present’s ninth season.
