RIP Macho Man Randy Savage

[13th Duke of Wymbourne]

Sorry if there is already a thread on this sad news & I'm not sure if this is the correct forum (feel free to move mod's) but RIP Macho Man who died in his car of a heart attack earlier today.

RIP.

[Hornwort]

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Savage was reportedly driving his Jeep Wrangler in Florida when it veered off the highway and into a median, after he suffered a heart attack behind the wheel. His wife, Lynn, who he’d been married to for a little over a year, survived the crash with only minor injuries, while Savage died of his.
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/05/20/former-wrestler-randy-savage-dead-in-car-crash-tmz/
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Entertainment/20110520/randy-macho-man-savage-110520/

In Memoriam
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[mandoman]

OH YEAH, Sad he was my all time fav RIP Randy

[SalvadorMontenegro]

Oddly, I was thinking about him the other day. I looked him up on gettyimages.com and he looked shockingly different. Completely bald, snow white beard, chunky. Looked like Hemingway on steroids.

It's too bad. He was one of my favorites as a kid.

[aceinyerface]

58 is considerably younger than the average life expectancy. You mean 'roids, cocaine, metal chairs to the head, Slim Jim's, and skanky hooker VD is bad for you???

[Baloosh]

Be at peace, Macho Man. :frown1: :frown1:

In memory of the Macho Man, a personal anecdote about my only meeting with him...

In the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport, 1989. I walk into the restroom, and take my spot in front of one of the urinals. Doing my business, and I notice a guy out of my peripheral vision taking up camp in the urinal RIGHT next to mine. It seemed strange, as the bathroom wasn't crowded at all, and it's usual "guy etiquette" to leave at least 1 urinal in between... unless absolutely necessary.

I decide to casually glance over, and it's the Macho Man himself, in normal clothes, but one of his trademark multi-colored cowboy hats. "HOLY CRAP!" I thought to myself, "IT'S RANDY SAVAGE!!!"

Realizing the odds of this ever happening again being so minute, I manage to get up the nerve to look over at him, and say (in my cheesiest "this is totally a joke" voice), "Water's deep, huh?"

Without missing a beat, and without looking at me, he simply continues to stare straight ahead and say, "Hey, not while I'm takin' a piss, bro."

I guess he thought I wanted an autograph or something. I simply said, "Oh, ok... sorry Macho Man." -- and finished up my business, washed up and walked out.

To this day, I still wish I'd have least said something to the effect of, "You're awesome!" Which, of course, he was!!! :thumbup1: :thumbup1:

[Seraphim]

Saying "you're awesome" to a guy while he is holding on to his unit, is not the kind of conversation I'd want to enter into....:wink2:

[johnniegold]

I wasn't a big fan of wrestling but I think you would have had to been on another planet not to have heard of the Macho Man.

Sadly, his lovely sidekick, Miss Elizabeth passed away as well, in 2003 of an apparent drug overdose.

It's a shame what this sport can do to some people.

Mickey Rourke was dead-on in "The Wrestler."

[Cerealx59]

Randy was a pure entertainer, who desired very much to keep Entertaining people so long as his body would let him. He was fantastic in the Ring, and even better on the Mic. "Sports Entertainment" (wrestling), has lost an all time great. And many of us have lost a childhood hero. Thanks Randy :crying:

[bassmanlarry]

I remember him from back in the 80's, him and Elizabeth and him fighting with and against Hulk Hogan. I didn't think much about him until he showed up again in the first Spiderman movie as the wrestler Buzzsaw.

[rockviper]

I still have my old ticket from Maple Leaf Gardens when he and the Hulkster were feuding in my photo album with a newspaper clipping of him choking out Hogan. (Man, that was years ago!)

[Argonaut]

That sucks, always got a kick out of the Macho Man. Haven't really ever been a big wrestling fan but Savage, Flair, and Hulk always cracked me up with thier over the top performances.

[GDCarrington]

RIP to the one time Cincinnati Reds farm system player Randy Poffo.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Randy_Poffo

[ouch]

RIP to the Macho Man. Dig it!

[bladeruner]

RIP to the Macho Man. Dig it!

+1 Oooooh Yeeeah

[ouch]

Savage, the son of the great Angelo Poffo, was one of the very first wrestlers to be able to pull it off as both a good guy and a heel.

[gaj90027]

I have lots of happy memories watching wrestling with my 2 younger brothers back then. Just sent a text to both my brothers to see if they heard about it, what a shame.

[gaj90027]

+1 Oooooh Yeeeah

Ha ha - that was a great catch phrase :thumbup1:

RIP

[AABCDS]

No more snapping into a Slim Jim for him.

[Dalejr]

I read the news on IMDB and was shocked, I remember watching him back during the great early years of WWF. RIP...

[cfriend]

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[The Nid Hog]

Gentlemen, it is now officially the Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse.



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[htownmmm]

Oooooooooooooooo Noooooooooooooooooo(with apologies and condolences).

The Macho Man was one of my favorite wrestlers-oops, wrasslers!


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[sas71]

he is with Miss Elizabeth now

Godspeed to the Macho Man..."Oooh Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

[maxman]

You couldn't have lived through the 80's without hearing someone say "oooooohhh yeah"
RIP Macho Man!

[EvilGobi]

I was sad to read of this, he was one of my favorites. I think his match with Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat at Wrestlemania 3 was probably the greatest match of all time.

[instpasr]

We lost one of the great ones today I remember watching him when I was growing up.

[Luc]

Merged the Randy Savage threads... RIP!

[Sir Sartana]

R.I.P. Randy Savage.....thanks for the memories.

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[plpenn]

RIP Macho Man

[ouch]

I was sad to read of this, he was one of my favorites. I think his match with Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat at Wrestlemania 3 was probably the greatest match of all time.

And one of the best feuds, too. I remember when Savage jumped off the top rope with the timekeeper's bell and used it to "crush" Steamboat's throat. For the next few weeks, they would show Steamboat with a speech therapist as he struggled to re-learn how to speak. :lol:

They don't write 'em like that any more. It was drivel, but it was beautiful drivel. :thumbup1:


I think the best possible tribute to the Macho Man would be to watch low level wrestler Jay Lethal's killer impersonation of Savage. It's amazing.

[Kenno]

Macho Man, man they don't make em like they used to, these new guys can't hold a candle to Randy and the wrestlers in his day.

God bless.

[HoosierTrooper]

I'm sorry he's dead, but I loathe professional "wrestling".

[Legion]

I remember my younger brother watching the Wrasslin' and being a big fan when we were growing up. I was always more interested in Miss Elizabeth...

Pro wrestling seems like it was much more fun in the 80's than what I have seen on the TV recently.

I kind of like Lucha Libre, though.

[DaveNJ74]

58 is considerably younger than the average life expectancy. You mean 'roids, cocaine, metal chairs to the head, Slim Jim's, and skanky hooker VD is bad for you???

He also lived on Staten Island for a short time, that has to take years off your life. :wink2: