Remembering Macho Man Randy Savage

The wrestling and entertainment world was saddened by the loss of Macho Man Randy Savage early Friday morning, one of the greatest characters that ever did grace the squared circle. To me, Randy was a good wrestler, when I started watching wrestling, WrestleMania 7 was my first event I saw and the career ending match with he and Ultimate Warrior was just awesome, when you look back at Ultimate Warrior's career, he never had many, if any good matches, yet WrestleMania 7 he had that great match all in thanks to Macho Man, epic storytelling and Randy made Warrior look better in that match than Hogan did when Warrior won the then WWF title.

Fast forward later into the autumn of 1991 and the infamous rivalry with Jake Roberts, a very memorable rivalry for me for many reasons, Jake striking Elizabeth as Tuesday in Texas, Jake's king cobra biting Savage on the arm on an episode of WWF Superstars, as a young fan this was gripping viewing for me as it was scary stuff seeing that happen with the cobra, something that Santino couldn't recreate if he tried his hardest in the modern day era.

Many people who remembers Randy's WWF career will no doubt know about the great WrestleMania 3 match for the WWF Intercontinental title against Ricky Steamboat, arguably the greatest match in the history of WrestleMania, and again good built up stemming from Savage injuring Steamboat's throat on an episode of WWF Superstars Of Wrestling. Watching this match is one of the reasons I love wrestling, you cannot fail to be in awe of this match and how well it is worked by both men. It was a solid wrestling match and the best match for many years.

Many ex wrestlers have called Randy a control freak when it came to his matches, that he liked to plan ahead of the matches move by move, whereas many of the wrestlers back in the 80's liked to call the moves on the fly, Hulk Hogan has said this in The Self Destruction Of The Ultimate Warrior DVD when referring to the WrestleMania 7 career ending match, but I say this, when it comes to preparing for a job, having research is always good as it can help a person further their work, so why would it be a bad thing for a man to want to prepare a wrestling match, yes back in the 1980's wrestlers were very into kayfabe and trying to show us how legitimate and real professional wrestling was, whereas now we are all wise to how pro wrestling works. So having Savage guide Warrior through the entire WrestleMania 7 match was obviously a correct choice as, in my view, it was the best match of WrestleMania 7 and would have been the only way of getting the Ultimate Warrior to have a somewhat great match.

There are many other memories of Macho that I have not mentioned and I apologise for that, these are the ones that stand out to me, we all ave our own “Macho Memories” and ooooooohhhhhhhhh yyyyeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhh they are good memories I hope. Randy Savage will be sorely missed, but now in the great wrestling ring in the sky, The Macho Man, the first lady of wrestling and the Sensational queen are reunited for eternity. R.I.P. Macho Man Randy Savage.