Announcement
One of my childhood heroes has passed on.
Randy Savage was one of a kind, while everyone and their mama was cheering for Hulk Hogan, I was cheering for Randy Savage to retain his title at Wrestlemania V. Of course we know how that ended.
Wrestlemania III was all about Andre vs Hogan, but Steamboat and Savage stole the show. It doesn't matter what he did, you cheered him.
When he dropped a bell on the throat of Ricky Steamboat, people winced, I was in disbelief. Track down the backstage video of him asking Bruno about Steamboat's condition, after the fact. What a heel!
He had a career long before he entered the WWF, but I will always remember him during his WWF years. Even when he went to WCW and re-ignited his feud with Hulk Hogan, while everyone was pushing for Hulk to win, I was pushing for Savage. They don't make em like that anymore.
In these days of internet immediacy, the era of Randy Savage will never be forgotten. He had a presence about him, you knew who he was, and why he was there. He was there to wrestle and put on a show. You couldn't script a guy like Randy Savage. He was a loose cannon, before loose cannon became a catch phrase.
You can't fake that kind of intensity. How would it look to someone like Savage, if a TV writer handed him a promo. Savage would probably drag them into the ring and beat the tar out of them......and he would make it so real even smart marks would be fooled. Because smart marks think they know everything.
What I know is that one of my heroes is gone.......but not forgotten.
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