I remember watching him on local tv when he was facing his brother ‘leaping lanny’ and the ‘rockstars’ (shawn micheals and someone else) were just getting started.
man, what a day.
Holy crap! Really? :eek: 
58 years old, actually. Quite young.
Do a lot of big wrestlers die from heart attacks around that age?
'roids. Heck, he live to a ripe old age, comparatively.
On another note, the Slim Jim curse continues…first, a plant blew up, now this.
Well…the rumor, and I stress that it is only a rumor, is that Savage had an…inappropriate relationship…with an underaged Stephanie McMahon. I do not know if that is true, but I do know there was bad blood between Savage and Vince over something, and Savage is not currently in the WWE Hall of Fame…
Originally Posted by Oakminster
Somehow, I suspect that Vince McMahon won’t miss Randy Savage even a little bit, and if the rumors are true, I don’t blame him. I do expect that WWE will do some sort of half-hearted “tribute” to Savage.
I was wondering that as well. McMahon kept Savage on TV for the longest time when he was past his “prime.” He did defect to WCW back during the Monday Night Wars era, but I would imagine that all has to be under the bridge by now.
Anyway, Savage was never one of my favorites when I watched wrestling, but I liked him a lot. He had a great finishing move and he always brought a real intensity to his matches. There was a time when he was the WCW champ and still worked matches while injured, so that’s really impressive to me.
FWIW from another fourm.
Some speculation on the falling out between Savage and McMahan.
That was probably The Midnight Rockers, sometimes shortened to just The Rockers. Shawn Michaels and Marty Janetty.
Sad news. Back in the late 1980s, I saw him wrestle many times–my girlfriend at the time loved wrestling, and we would go see the matches when they came through. I even saw him fight Ricky Steamboat once.
He was a character, and a talent, and he will be missed.
I may stand corrected on my last comments…
yup, that was them.
A lot of wrestlers sure have died before their time, one way or another.
Macho Man was a favorite of mine back when he and Hulk Hogan were tag team partners and he was with Miss Elizabeth (who has also passed, if I remember correctly). He was a very unique dude, and the OP is correct that he was one of the best technical wrestlers ever. His match in Wrestlemania III with Steamboat was legendary. Possibly the greatest performance of all time. RIP Macho Man.
Already a thread on this, and a mention in the celebrity death pool thread.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13823067
RIP Macho Man.
And FYI there is another thread about this in the Game Room.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=609262
Oooooh Noooh!
No. Savage was not a shooter so far as I know, and didn’t really use a technical style in the ring as that term is commonly used. He was more of a brawler.
I’d also take some issue with the notion that Savage was a “great worker”. He really wasn’t. He was a great performer, but there’s a difference. Savage was not a guy that could go out and improvise a match on the fly. He wanted everything choreographed beforehand. The true “great workers” would go to the ring knowing what the finish was supposed to be and how long the match should last. Everything else was left up to the wrestlers to improvise as the match progressed.
I always cheered on the heels back in the day. When Ric Flair and the Horsemen broke Dusty’s leg I cheered. When the Horsemen dragged Ricky Morton’s face across the concrete floor I popped champagne. When Jim Cornette slammed his tennis racket across someone’s back I signed up for tennis lessons.
But when Macho Man crushed Ricky Steamboat’s throat with that ring bell…DAMN did I hate Savage. In my adolescent mind that crossed the line. That hatred never went away, even during his face runs. And I think that’s the greatest compliment you can give a wrestler–when their actions bring about such a strong emotional feeling in the folks who watch.
Rest peacefully, Macho Man.
That’s an accurate description of the situation. I mentioned in the other thread that Randy could tell a story in the ring, something assisted by scripting in his case, and the true “greatest workers” could do that also, without a script. But Randy appeared on the scene when wrestling was jumping into pay-per-view, mega-events, and network television. He offered what was needed at the time.
RIP to the Macho Man.
Regarding the rumor. It’s something I wish would just go away. It first got reported in 2004 on a message board and was quickly ripped apart by other readers. The timeline reported made no sense at all.
Ever since, it’s just gained more and more traction. Really taking off when Dave Meltzer claimed that he believed it had some semblance of truth. There are hundreds of shoot videos produced since 2004, but no wrestler from that era has ever confirmed it. Of course, now the initial story has been changed every time a flaw is pointed out.
There was big heat between WWF and Savage in the last few years. What really caused it, is all just speculation. I prefer some actual proof before I’m willing to call a guy a pedo. And now, anyone searching out news on Savage will find thousands of claims online about a rumor, that’s been reported as fact within the wrestling “journalism” community.
The exclusion from the WWE Hall of Fame, as mentioned earlier in this thread is often mentioned as proof. Search out some information on the WWE Legends contract, and also realize that Savage was one of the few guys from the era who didn’t blow his money. This is as plausible explanation as any.
At one time, Savage would have returned to WWE, but he priced himself out of the market. Finding out that retirement wasn’t too bad, he quit even negotiating.
I just found out that before he became the Macho Man, Randy Poffo was a minor league baseball player in the Cardinals’ and Reds’ system. Here are his minor league stats.