Randall Mario Poffo, (born November 15, 1952), he is better known ...
randall mario poffo, (born november 15, 1952), he is better known by his ring name "macho man" randy savage, is a professional wrestler. savage achieved prominence in the world wrestling federation (wwf) and later world championship wrestling. for much of his tenure in the wwf, he was managed by his real life wife, miss elizabeth, to whom he was married on december 30, 1984.
early career
born in columbus, ohio, and a graduate of downers grove north high school in a suburb near chicago, illinois, randy poffo was a minor league baseball catcher in the st. louis cardinals and chicago white sox farm systems prior to his wrestling career. he injured his natural (right) throwing shoulder at one point, so he learned to throw with his left arm instead.
he is a second-generation professional wrestler; his father angelo poffo was a well-known wrestler in the 1950s and 1960s, who was featured in ripley's believe it or not for his ability to do sit-ups for hours on end. randy's brother lanny had a moderately successful career as a wrestler too, most notably under the names "leaping lanny poffo" and "the genius".
randy first broke into the business in the early 1970's during the fall and winter of the baseball offseason. when he decided to abandon his baseball career, he became a full time wrestler, working with his brother and father in michigan, the carolinas, georgia, the maritimes, and the eastern tennessee territory run by nick gulas. his father felt that his sons were not getting the pushes they deserved so he started the "outlaw" international championship wrestling (icw) promotion in the mid-american states. randy dated fellow wrestler debbie combs for five years while they were working for icw.
eventually, icw disbanded, and randy and lanny entered the memphis scene, joining jerry lawler's continental wrestling association (their former competitors). while there, savage feuded with lawler over the awa southern heavyweight championship, and he and lanny battled the rock 'n' roll express, including one infamous match on june 25, 1984 in memphis, where savage (kayfabe) injured ricky morton by piledriving him through the timekeeper's table, which led to the express winning by disqualification. later in 1984, savage turned face and become allied with lawler against jimmy hart's first family stable, only to turn heel on lawler again in early-1985 and resume their feud over the title, which ended when lawler beat savage in a loser-leaves-town match on june 8 in nashville, tennessee.
world wrestling federation 1985-1994
randy savage, along with "mega powers" partner hulk hoganin june 1985, savage signed with vince mcmahon's world wrestling federation. one of savage's first appearances was on tuesday night titans where the established wwf managers all made their cases to offer their services to savage (including bobby heenan, jimmy hart, and "classy" fred blassie). savage eventually rejected all these offers in favor of his new manager, the debuting miss elizabeth. he made his pay-per-view debut at the wrestling classic on november 7, 1985, where he defeated ivan putski, ricky "the dragon" steamboat and the dynamite kid on his way to finishing runner-up to junkyard dog in a sixteen man tournament.
he eventually beat tito santana to win the wwf intercontinental championship at the famed boston garden in february 1986 by using an illegal steel object stashed in his tights. early on in his wwf career, savage also won two countout victories in madison square garden over his future tag-team partner wwf champion hulk hogan (although the belt did not change due to the countout), and engaged in brutal feuds with bruno sammartino and george "the animal" steele.
savage wrestled in what is widely considered to be one of the greatest matches in north american wrestling history when he faced steamboat at wrestlemania iii in the pontiac silverdome. the match was the culmination of a long and bitter feud (which saw savage crush steamboat's larynx in kayfabe) and featured tremendous athleticism and in-ring storytelling. after nineteen two-counts, steamboat pinned savage (with help from george steele, who pushed savage from the top rope seconds before he was pinned) to end his near 14 month reign as intercontinental champion. the match was extremely choreographed, as opposed to the "on the fly" nature of most wrestling matches. savage was a stickler for detail, and he and steamboat laid out and rehearsed every spot in the match prior to wrestlemania, at his home in florida. it still stands up to the test of time and is cited by such wrestling luminaries as chris jericho as their inspiration for becoming a wrestler. the match was voted pro wrestling illustrated's match of the year for 1987.
savage turned face later in 1987 after drawing increasingly positive reactions for his charisma, in-ring ability, and the estimable presence of miss elizabeth, and began to feud with the honky tonk man. on saturday night's main event in october 1987 he solidified his status as a face when elizabeth got hulk hogan to save him from a beatdown by jimmy hart's cronies the honky tonk man and the hart foundation. as a result, the mega powers were born. hogan and savage together ruled the wwf for the next sixteen months.
savage reached the pinnacle of his career to date during wrestlemania iv when he defeated "million dollar man" ted dibiase in the final of a tournament for the vacant wwf championship. savage held the title for a full year before losing it to hogan at wrestlemania v in 1989. prior to his wrestlemania v match, he turned heel on hogan, getting jealous of him over miss elizabeth as well as his self-perceived third-banana standing in the megapowers. he eventually left elizabeth as his valet for sensational sherri. savage would co-main event summerslam '89, where he teamed with zeus, a character from hulk hogan's movie, no holds barred, against hogan and brutus beefcake. in this match, hogan "no-sold" savage's flying elbow by standing straight up after savage hit it in the centre of the ring.
he adopted the moniker "macho king" after defeating jim duggan for the wwf's unofficial "king" title. after the match where he won the honor, savage proceeded to give duggan five big elbow drops from the top rope, and sherri did several splashes from the top to further humiliate duggan.
in 1990, the "macho king" feuded with the "commoner" dusty rhodes, meeting him in a mixed tag team match involving sherri and rhodes' valet sapphire at wrestlemania vi and a singles match at summerslam. after this, savage got into a feud with the ultimate warrior after the warrior, then wwf champion, refused to grant savage the no. 1 contendership, as sgt. slaughter already promised, if he were to defeat the warrior. savage had sent "sensational queen" sherri out during the 1991 royal rumble to try and convince the warrior, and in a face-to-face interview laced with sexual innuendos and gestures, failed to get anywhere with the champion. outraged, savage promised revenge, which he sought during the slaughter-warrior title match. sherri goaded the warrior out of the ring, causing the warrior to leave and run down the aisle, only to be clotheslined by savage, who was hiding behind the stage. he followed up by smashing warrior across the back with a light stand. warrior managed to make it back to the ring, where (after being dominated for several minutes by sgt. slaughter) he rallied and was nearing victory, when savage and sherri interfered again. at an opportune moment the king smashed the warrior on the head with his scepter, costing him the wwf championship against sgt. slaughter. savage went on to score several tainted cage-match victories over warrior in venues across the country, due usually to the interference of sherri.
this led to a career-ending match at wrestlemania vii. savage lost the match, even after delivering five consecutive flying elbow drops, as the warrior somehow managed to kick out and return to score the victory after several splashes and gorilla presses. after the match, savage was attacked by queen sherri as he lay dejected in the ring. this was too much for miss elizabeth, who happened to be in the audience. elizabeth rushed to savage's aid, fighting off sherri and reuniting with her one-time love to huge crowd appreciation. the match was far from a legitimate "retirement" match, especially since savage stayed in wwf afterwards and the ultimate warrior himself eventually left at summerslam that year.
savage returnd to tv in a non-wrestling role as the "macho man" after wrestlemania vii as a broadcaster. meanwhile the angle with miss elizabeth continued, culminating with savage "proposing" to her in the ring, leading to an on-air "wedding" at summerslam 1991, dubbed the match made in heaven. it was at this time that savage was targeted by jake roberts, who was by now a dastardly heel. in a memorable incident at the wedding reception, roberts ambushed macho man and miss elizabeth on their wedding day by putting a snake in their pile of wedding presents, and later forced a cobra to bite savage as the macho man lay prone in the ring (seen on wwf superstars). due to fan pressure brought on by savage's lobbying, savage was "re-instated" as a wrestler by wwf president jack tunney so that he could do battle with roberts. during the tuesday in texas pay-per-view, roberts — after losing to savage — beat him down, then forced elizabeth to beg for mercy; when roberts was dissatisfied with her, he slapped her hard across the face. the feud finally ended after a saturday night's main event match in february of 1992.
savage then found himself with another run as wwf champion, defeating "the nature boy" ric flair at wrestlemania viii in 1992, and holding it until september of that year, when he lost it back to flair at a wwf tv taping in hershey, pennsylvania. savage and flair later swapped the wcw world heavyweight championship during their 1995–96 feud, making them the only duo to win and lose both the wwf/e and wcw versions of the world title to each other.
he formed a tag team with the ultimate warrior, known as the ultimate maniacs, but nonetheless defended the title against his partner at summerslam 1992. flair and mr. perfect inflicted (kayfabe) knee injuries on savage during the match, resulting in a countout loss and ultimately costing savage the title to flair in september. savage backed warrior to be the man to dethrone flair. savage and warrior were scheduled to face flair and ramon in a tag team match at that year's survivor series. however, warrior left the wwf weeks before the event was to take place, so savage chose mr. perfect, executive consultant to flair, as his partner to replace warrior. perfect turned face and teamed with savage. the duo defeated flair and ramon via a disqualification.
when monday night raw began in january 1993, savage served primarily as a color commentator, wrestling only occasionally against characters such as doink, the repo man, and crush. he also defeated crush in a "falls count anywhere match" at wrestlemania x. savage also made periodic appearances in jim cornette's smoky mountain wrestling promotion in fall 1994. his final wwf pay-per-view appearance was at summerslam 1994 where he served as host. he left the wwf in november. there is no public consensus on the exact circumstances of his departure, though it is known that savage wished to continue wrestling on a regular basis as opposed to wwf's less intensive "ambassador of the company"-like schedule. mentions of him have been notably absent from wwe programming in recent years, even as his contemporaries make guest appearances, are featured in dvd releases, etc.
world championship wrestling 1994-1999
savage signed a $6 million contract with wcw, joining his "friend" hulk hogan, who was feuding with the 3 faces of fear and the dungeon of doom.
savage resumed his rivalry with ric flair during this time. during the 1995 wcw united states championship tournament (created when former champion leon white (vader) was stripped of the belt for attacking wcw on-air commissioner nick bockwinkel), savage interfered in flair's match vs. alex wright, attacking flair and causing wright to get disqualified, setting up a tournament semifinal match where the winner would face the winner of the sting/meng match for the united states championship at the great american bash that june. savage and flair's match never took place, as savage and flair brawled in the backstage area prior to the bell ringing. they were both eliminated from the tournament, and had their own match in the main event of the bash, which savage won. later on that year, during part of the storyline where arn anderson and ric flair turned on each other, flair (in looking for a partner to take on anderson and brian pillman in a tag match) tried to recruit savage to be his partner. however, remembering the rivalry (and how flair had attacked savage's father, angelo poffo, during their rivalry), he refused, telling flair point blank to "get the hell out of here!"
on november 26, 1995 at world war 3, macho man won the wcw world title by winning the 60-man three-ring battle royal. he lost the title to flair a month later. macho man won the title back a month afterwards but lost the title back to flair another month later. in january 1996, he brought elizabeth with him into wcw as his valet once again. elizabeth turned on savage in his last title loss to flair. thereafter, flair claimed that elizabeth had given him a sizable amount of savage's money, taken in their divorce settlement, and which flair used to set up a "vip section" at monday nitro events. flair and savage continued to feud through the great american bash in june 1996.
in july 1996, the nwo was formed when hulk hogan turned on savage and joined the outsiders, a tag team of former wwf wrestlers kevin nash and scott hall. after their inception, one of their main enemies became macho man himself. at halloween havoc 1996, macho man faced hogan for the wcw title but lost when the rest of the nwo interfered. after months of abuse from the nwo, savage joined them at superbrawl vii in 1997, when he helped hogan defeat roddy piper in a rematch from their starrcade match the previous year. he also reunited with elizabeth, who had joined the nwo several months earlier. he began feuding with diamond dallas page and kimberly. when hogan failed to recapture his "nwo" title from sting, it was savage's turn, and he got his shot at spring stampede 1998. hogan tried everything he could to make sure that savage would not win the title because hogan felt that he was the only nwo member who should be world champion, since he was the leader of the stable. with the help of nash, however, savage beat sting for the belt, despite tearing the acl in his knee during the match.
the following night on wcw monday nitro, hogan faced savage for the championship. for a while it looked like hogan had savage beat, but for the second consecutive night, nash came to savage's aid, powerbombing hogan. savage tried to capitalize, but an interfering bret hart attacked savage and preserved the victory for hogan.
after that, savage joined with nash and others to form the nwo wolfpac, a split from hogan's group, which became known as nwo black and white or nwo hollywood. he went on to feud with both bret hart and roddy piper before leaving the company due to his knee injury.
for nearly a year, randy savage took a hiatus from the company due to recover from at least two major knee surgeries. he made only one more appearance in 1998, helping ric flair defeat eric bischoff for the presidency of wcw on the december 28 episode of monday nitro. when macho man returned, he came back with a new look and new attitude and also brought with him his then 22-year-old girlfriend gorgeous george as a valet. his first action was as the guest referee in the wcw world title matchup at spring stampede 1999, which was won by diamond dallas page. for a short time after, randy interfered in ddp's matches to make sure that page kept his world title (for reasons unknown and never explained by wcw), but when kevin nash won it at slamboree 1999, savage went after the title himself. it was around that time that madusa and miss madness joined macho man as his other two valets; together they were known as team madness.
at the great american bash 1999, sid vicious returned to wcw and helped macho man attack kevin nash. this led to a tag team match between kevin nash and sting against randy savage and sid vicious, in which whoever pinned nash (including sting) would win the world title, at bash at the beach 1999. savage won the wcw title for the fourth time when he pinned nash but lost the title again to hollywood hogan the next night, when nash interfered and powerbombed macho man (in a reversal of the situation from the previous year, where nash had attacked hogan to help savage keep his title, albeit unsuccessfully).
after that, team madness slowly started to disband as madusa and miss madness started fighting each other because they blamed the other for savage's title loss. savage soon fired both of them and started a feud with dennis rodman, defeating him at road wild 1999. he eventually joined the millionaire's club with hogan, jim duggan, flair, ddp, and other popular veteran wrestlers. when vince russo came to wcw and savage's wcw contract expired, savage and george left wcw and never returned.
total nonstop action wrestling 2004
savage made his return to wrestling for tna at victory road 2004 and feuded against jeff jarrett, kevin nash, and scott hall. at turning point 2004 he teamed up with jeff hardy and a.j. styles to defeat the kings of wrestling (jeff jarrett, kevin nash and scott hall). the main event of final resolution 2005 was going to be jeff jarrett and randy savage for the nwa title. savage's plan was to win the belt and then drop it back to jarrett at the next pay per view. when tna management didn't like the idea savage left because neither party would budge.
post-wrestling career
in 2005, savage told a missouri newspaper that he can't wrestle right now because of "health concerns," as he had apparently injured his back and shoulder blade.
jakks pacific tried to sign him up for the classic superstars line up only to be denied by vince mcmahon, despite the fact that he allowed them to sign a number of wrestlers on bad terms with wwe, including the ultimate warrior (signed twice by jakks), bruno sammartino, the honky tonk man, and even bret "the hitman" hart. savage remains one of the only big stars who hasn't signed up with jakks for a figure.
outside of the ring
acting career
savage provided the voice for the character, rasslor, on an episode of the "dial m for monkey" segment on dexter's laboratory.
he has also lent his voice to the online cartoon college university in which he voiced himself.
he also appeared in one of the more popular episodes of the television program space ghost coast to coast, entitled "piledriver." in the episode, savage supplied the voice of space ghost's grandfather, a former professional wrestler. zorak commented, "that sounds like randy savage," and the character also referenced elizabeth, his brother, "leapin" lanny poffo, "wildfire" tommy rich and haystacks calhoun, a now obscure wrestler from forty years ago.
savage beat out rival former wrestler goldberg as the casting choice to appear in the original spider-man movie as the underground wrestler "bonesaw mcgraw." the original character from the comics is named crusher hogan.
in 2005, he provided the voice of sasquatch in the nickelodeon show the x's.
he's also appeared on the jeff foxworthy show as himself.
savage played pro wrestler james "pretty boy" carter on the sitcom nikki, ep# 14, season 1, "fallback". his character's financial bankruptcy and physical injuries led dwight (nick von esmarch) his long-time fan, to rethink his own options between college education and passion for wrestling.
he played a prison inmate who was forced to fight other inmates in a cage in the episode "fight or die" of walker, texas ranger.
in 1999 macho man appeared as himself on mad about you, ep #17, season 7. in the episode savage wrestles "gorilla boy" (marvin), and wins only after ira, marvin's manager, tells him to bite marvin on the back of the foot, his achilles heel. savage responds by asking "is he basically a clean guy" before he bites marvin. marvin's mom then attacks savage resulting in a brawl in the ring.
he is also rumored to be in many shows including studio 60 on the sunset strip and er.
in 1997, randy savage guest starred on the weird al show, playing himself. he had a scene where he busted through weird al's wall, looking for a wrestling match. savage then had to wrestle al's pet hamster, harvey the wonder hamster, featuring a match in which he was defeated by the rodent.
music career
savage had pursued a career as a rap artist; his debut album be a man was released on october 7, 2003. his album was met with scathing reviews; according to a review by dan aquilante of the new york post, his album "defies the laws of physics by blowing and sucking at the same time." another critic described the vocals as sounding like "nick nolte after a whiskey and sandpaper binge." the title track of the album was intended to make fun of hulk hogan. there is also a track entitled "perfect friend", a tribute song for his wrestling buddy, the late curt hennig.
television
when phil hellmuth did an interview on sirius satellite radio recently, he said that savage will be on the next season of vh1's surreal life along with playboy playmate tina marie jordan and rock musician peter steele. this has been verified by savage himself in a press release, though vh1 has not released the official cast list yet.
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