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Macho man, Randy
Savage, oh yeah!

Oh yeah!

Complete mental insanity!

Everybody when they're
talking about Randy,

they're never going to
speak in their own voice.

They're going to
do a Randy voice.

They're going to do macho
voice every single time.

I am the lord and
master of the wreck.

The growl that he would have.

But I was going to do
something devastating.

It's more about
quiet than it is loud.

Cream will rise
to the top for you.

Dude, it's all in the fingers.

Look at the words.

Dance outside, yeah.

Snap into a Slim Jim.

Snap into a Slim Jim.

Oh yeah!

Oh yeah!

Oh yeah!

Ooh!

Ooh!

Ooh!

Ahem.

You want some water?

No, no.

What happened?

I did my Randy Savage
voice and I choked on it.

Isn't it great we didn't
wear the same outfit?

He was a pop culture phenomenon.

This is unbelievable.

Randy loved it.

There was no faking
anything with him.

He believed everything he did.

I'll be in the ring till
they throw my withered

carcass in a bag and
drag me to the dumpster.

Let me tell you
something, Dingleberry.

David Perry.

We have a little
magic in the bottle here.

The ones that stand the test of
time are the things that are real.

So long as you both do this.

Ooh yeah!

Three minutes of peak time.

He was a wild man.

Ooh yeah!

In this corner, from
Downers Grove,

Illinois, weighing 225
pounds, Angelo Puffo!

My father was a wrestler
and he was traveling around.

Randy was born in Columbus, Ohio,
and I was born in Calgary, Alberta.

Our kids went
to lots of schools.

When we finally settled down,
we were in Downers Grove,

Illinois, and it was nice
for them to have roots.

His mother, his mother
was from Germany,

and she was Jewish
when Hitler was in power.

So his mother had had
an extremely difficult life.

Randy was really something.

He was so different.

The first complaint we got, his teacher
that he had for the fourth grade said,

he can't sit still a minute.

He sees a piece of
paper on the floor, 10 feet

away, and he has to
get up and pick it up.

The earliest memory of my
brother, he's like having two fathers.

He gave me a lot of
instructions, let's put it that way.

If he felt I wasn't giving my maximum
effort, is that the best you can do?

When he was in high school, we
had a lot of kids that were being bullied.

He and his friend, they used to escort the
kids that were being bullied from class to

class, so they
wouldn't get picked on.

He used to say, you want
to pick on this kid now?

Always for the underdog.

He was so busy with his sports,
because he played basketball, football,

and baseball.

He never dated, but
all the girls liked him.

He didn't have time to date.

He had homework.

He had to get asleep.

He had to get up
early to practice.

It was always something to
practice, practice, practice.

He moved to Tampa, Florida in
1971 to about 75 to play baseball.

Apparently he was
very successful.

He was also a baseball player because he
had made it to the minor leagues with the

White Sox, the Reds,
and the St. Louis Cardinals.

Professional baseball
was the first endeavor

that I encountered,
and I did it rather well.

I did it rather well, I
have to admit myself.

I started out in 1971, St.
Louis Cardinals, minor leagues.

He was a catcher, and then he had an
accident at home plate with a collision,

and he separated his shoulder.

And then he did the impossible.

He learned to throw left-handed.

And he signed as a left-handed first
baseman with the Chicago White Sox.

But what I didn't do was I was a
switch hitter and a switch thrower.

That means I could hit and throw
with both arms, which no other wrestler,

no other baseball player, no other
hockey player, no other football player,

no other nothing could do with
an athletic background like that.

Yeah.

If it's even true, I couldn't imagine
what he had to do to make that work.

I mean, you just have to
be some kind of blessed

super freak athlete for
that even to be an option.

He made the first cut, the second
cut, third cut, and then they cut him.

He was a right-handed thrower, and
then he learned to throw left-handed.

So they said he looked funny, and
they couldn't put him on the White Sox.

It broke his heart when
he was no longer involved.

He threw away his bats.

He broke them.

He said, they're fantastic.

I'm finished with me.

I'm finished with them.

He asked his dad, how do
you get to the top in wrestling?

That was the beginning.

Randy never spoke
about baseball anymore.

He was always wrestling.

I 100% think that all
greatness comes from failure.

And I think all greatness comes from
being overlooked, for doing it wrong.

Him not looking
good throwing that ball

probably affected how
he performed in the ring.

So now he goes to his dad's business,
the thing he grew up around, the thing

that he knows, and he's passionate
about, and he makes it look great.

In 1979, we got a
family business started.

The ICW, International
Championship Wrestling.

The inevitable, Randy
Macho Man Savage.

Welcome back, wrestling fans.

We take you now to the Capital
Plaza Sports Center in Frankfurt.

Macho Man Randy Savage.

My brother was gung-ho onto it.

One reversal by the Macho Man.

John King takes it down.

Shoulders down.

He had those feet
hooked over his shoulders.

The only thing that comes with a
second-generation wrestler is falling into

your father's footsteps,
and you got to toe the line.

Angelo was a tough guy,
so Randy had to deal with

a lot, especially when
he made the transition.

In the 80s and in
the 70s, there were

territories, and every
area had its own promoter.

Mid-South, Louisiana,
Oklahoma, Florida, Georgia.

There were all these different fiefdoms of
promotions that promoted their unique area.

The first time I met Randy Macho
Man Savage was almost 40 years ago.

He was running a little outlaw promotion,
independent promotion up around Kentucky

area, and they were doing the invasion
on Memphis Wrestling, where I was from.

We started in Lexington, Kentucky,
and we spread out in every direction.

We considered it our town.

And all of a sudden, the Pafos opened
up their own local wrestling promotion.

Randy Savage has to beat
both these men in 10 minutes.

The first time they tried to run their
shows, they didn't draw very many people.

So I think that's why they turned
their formula around and said, look,

if we're going to draw money, we've
got to challenge the other company.

You know, our
company against them.

Our boss told us, whatever we do,
don't ever say anything on our live TV

show about them, because
sooner or later, if you don't

talk about your opponent,
they're going to go away.

Jerry Lawler's dead.

He's dead, man.

He ain't healthy, man.

He's in his grave somewhere.

Randy would come on
TV and challenge me.

Say, Jerry Lawler, you know, this
week, when I get you down in that arena,

you know, I will beat your
brains out if you show up.

I'm Macho Man Randy Savage,
and I ain't been under no longer, no.

Four years, man!

Four years!

And we felt like they were, you know,
almost false advertising to their audience.

You know, they're building up a match
between me and Randy Savage that we know

is never going to take place because
we don't have anything to do with him.

Put it down.

It escalated into what we
felt like was a gang war.

I mean, people started
carrying guns on the trips.

You know, that's how scary
this thing got at one point.

Because the Pappos were known
then around the territory as being nuts.

But finally, I think what
really brought this thing to

a head was the fact that
the Pappos ran out of money.

I was at Jerry Lawler's
house one night.

So he sent me this letter
that Randy had sent to

him saying, look, we're
leaving the territory.

Everything that we
said, we apologize for.

Hopefully one day
we can work together.

I said, what a home run.

That's going to be
a complete sellout.

King and the Macho Man.

There's been a lot of
talk about this meeting.

This is something that, boy,
had been talked about for years.

Randy Savage against
Jerry the King Lawler.

And completely sold out.

Randy caused quite a stir when he
joined up with Memphis Wrestling.

I mean, people knew he was
going to be a very big deal.

My mother thought of Macho Man, but
the song by the YMCA Village People,

the song Macho Man was first.

Where did the name
Savage come from?

Well, I think he earned it.

And the prophet told me, he says, better
to be rich and dead than poor and alive.

Never ever in his life
came to me for any advice.

If there was advice, he would give me
advice, but he wouldn't ask for advice.

And then he
absolutely floored me.

And he said, Lanny, I need help.

When you see some people that go up there
and say that the Macho Man can be beat,

those are 10,000
people telling 10,000 lies.

I said, you've changed
your name to Savage.

You've got hair like a savage.

You wrestle like a savage.

Who is the best Savage-type
interview that you've ever seen?

Let's copy him.

And he says, OK.

How about Amparo Firpo?

He has done it.

Amparo Firpo, the
wild bull of the Pampas.

Oh, yeah!

And he goes, ooh, yeah.

And I won.

By George, I think he's got it.

The manager came up to me and he says,
hey, you don't play baseball no more, man.

You're fired.

Yeah, they do that.

When you're not good
enough or they think that

you're not good enough,
they get you out of there.

They take your uniform
out of your locker.

I promise you.

I never heard that voice again.

His other voice.

I got my head
together later that night.

I stared at a candle and I
said, Randy Savage, you

are going to be the greatest
at something someday.

Yeah.

Fans are going wild.

Hulk Hogan was larger than life.

He was literally like
a real-life superhero.

And WWE needed a
real-life supervillain.

You want to look for
unique personalities.

And unique personas.

Or you see something and someone you can
then take that and apply a new concept to.

In those days, all
these little fiefdoms, all

these little territories
had very rich characters.

And so the question is
whether or not they wanted

to come to work at WWE
or stay where they were.

When the WWE began its national
expansion, to come on board

to the WWE meant now you're
exposed to the entire country.

Now you're going nationwide.

It was national exposure
and exposure that a

lot of the talent had
never experienced before.

Ladies and gentlemen, you're
going to meet without a doubt one

of the fastest rising stars in
the World Wrestling Federation.

A man who is really
making a reputation for

himself almost overnight
as a matter of fact.

Would you please welcome
Randy the Macho Man Savage.

I think Randy left Memphis probably
in hindsight just at the right time.

Somebody said something
about Hulkamania, yeah.

Somebody said something about Hulkamania
and I answered it with Macho Madness, yeah.

So I'm feeling real, real good and I
will be the next... Macho Madness.

This contest is
scheduled for one fall.

The Macho Man, Randy
Savage, who is quite a competitor

making his World
Wrestling Federation debut.

The top wrestlers that
had only been seen in these

local markets, they wanted
to be seen nationwide.

They wanted to
be worldwide stars.

He's a very good wrestler,
but he's a very mean

individual, but he
certainly has been a winner.

That's what happened with Randy.

He wanted to be seen
on the biggest stage.

Macho Man, Randy Savage.

Ooh, another one.

I think these managers are out here
all to take a look at Randy Savage.

I think so.

The Macho Man congratulated
by Bobby the Brain Heenan.

Here by Freddie Blassie, Jimmy
Hart, Mr. Fuji with a handshake.

My goodness, I can't
believe what I'm seeing.

Here is your winner,
Randy Macho Man Savage.

When I first met
him, I'm going, hmm.

He's small compared to the
size of our performers at that time.

I think Randy was very
subconscious about being smaller.

Randy wasn't the
biggest in size and stature.

However, Randy made up for the
size differential with his intensity.

It's all over.

It is all over.

Here is the World
Wrestling Federation.

Look at this maneuver.

Wow.

At that point, managers
were very, very important.

Everyone was sitting
around waiting to find

out who would manage
this new heralded talent.

He has invited all of the managers
who were bidding for his services.

He has invited...

They had Bobby Heenan
come out and go, Randy, let

me tell you why the Brain
should be your manager.

Then Jimmy Hart came out, hey, let
me tell you why you should be a manager.

Macho Madness is
at this peak right now.

And we've got to know who
the manager is going to be.

And here she comes.

Oh, my goodness.

We're going to have
to find out a lot more.

Welcome to another sensational
hour of international all-star wrestling.

I'm your hostess, Liz Hewlett.

You know what?

Liz is the love of Randy's life.

And we happen to be
around when they first met.

I mean, you know, they
met down in our territory.

Lexington, Kentucky, on Richmond Road,
had a gym called the Cente Sports Center.

Elizabeth was the first
person you saw in the morning.

And she would hand you the
towel and the key to the locker room.

And that's how
Randy met Elizabeth.

They were married on
December 31, 1984, approximately

six months before
Randy went to the WWE.

The poem for us all.

Part of Randy's deal was he was
going to bring his brother, Lanny Poffo,

later on became the genius.

But Randy also wanted his wife,
Elizabeth, to have a role in the company.

His legend has it that
Randy originally wanted

Liz to do some
broadcasting work for WWE.

And then Vince took a look at her and said,
No, you're not going to be a commentator.

It's a waste.

And so she became the manager.

What a beautiful woman.

My goodness.

The smile.

It was kind of the prequel.

Of all these reality shows.

Randy Savage selecting
Miss Elizabeth to be his

manager and giving
her that proverbial rose.

Her being in his corner, I
think it was revolutionary.

The Bachelor, The Bachelorette.

Randy was one of the very
first real scenarios of love on TV.

People could just kind
of pick up on the energy of

that realness that was
actually happening in real life.

It was a unique pairing because
she carried herself so beautifully.

And she had an
elegance about her.

It was kind of like this Beauty
and the Beast sort of dynamic.

That's what made
Macho Man, Macho Man.

You know, you get
this queen, man.

You know, everybody
wants the queen.

I don't know what in the world.

We're going to have to find
out a lot more about this lady.

She's not a Macho
Man to find a break.

At ringside, he would sort of give her a
look sometimes that's like, You better.

Or there was an inherent threat to the
relationship of Savage and Elizabeth.

Don't get me wrong.

I assume that part was him
hamming up the character.

But it's still
uncomfortable to see now.

He developed that persona.

But he started using that
personality in his real life.

Randy was so protective of Liz.

He started bringing
her to the matches

before he actually got
her into the business.

And he would put her
in his dressing room.

And literally locked the door
when he wasn't in there with her.

So that she couldn't come
out and nobody could go in.

It was almost like a
way to dominate her.

Once again, they did not
treat Elizabeth very well.

The way he interacted with her.

And you know, he put the voice.

Oh yeah, don't look at my wife when she
walks through the dressing room, brother.

I was watching him.

It was like, okay, I get it.

You know, he's the dominating
personality in this relationship.

The right chance in beating him.

Randy made it clear.

He made it clear to everyone.

Miss Elizabeth
was his and his only.

He'd jump out of the ring
and take Miss Elizabeth

and move her to the
other side of the ring.

And tell her, you're safer here.

You don't know if it
was a controlling factor.

Or if it was a sincere,
heartfelt protection

that he wanted
for Miss Elizabeth.

He believed in his gimmick.

He lived his gimmick 100%.

And he became the Macho Man.

Even when Randy popped over.

And his treatment of Elizabeth.

You have to believe it.

You have to actually believe it.

And feel it.

And live it.

If you don't do that,
you're not going to connect.

Randy lived it.

And he's ready.

Oh, look at that.

Give me a break.

What do you call that, Jess?

I think the first thing that I
perceived was obsession.

Oh, this guy's...

This is a lot.

I think little kids were like,
stop being mean to Elizabeth.

We liked her.

She was like our nice second
grade teacher that was beautiful.

And we're like, leave
her alone, Randy.

You're mean.

But it's so good.

It was such good storytelling.

Randy Savage had this
beautiful woman that he loved.

But no one was
going to talk to her.

And she better know her place.

Elizabeth, I've got to
compliment you on that.

Just outstanding jewelry.

That is very, very attractive
on a very attractive lady.

Thank you very much.

Wait a minute.

I didn't tell you
to talk, did I?

Did I tell you to say anything?

No, I told you to say nothing.

Didn't I tell you that?

What a dick.

I want to watch
this guy get beat up.

Tampa's a great town.

It really is.

It's kind of a white
trash version of Miami.

Tampa's known for strip joints, pimps,
shock jocks, sex tapes, macho, Hogan.

Stuff like that.

Great stuff.

This is still the
hotbed of wrestling.

Everybody from John Cena to
the Big Show to Edge and Christian.

Roman Reigns.

Everybody lives here in Tampa.

It actually started
during the 70s.

When I first went up to
Minneapolis and New York,

I started bringing some
guys down that were single.

And the next thing you know,
we had a whole crew here, man.

It was crazy.

And Randy got
the job in the WWE.

And I got Nazeer.

I got him and Liz to come down.

Randy and Elizabeth were
just so much fun to be around.

Just normal people.

Nice, really kind,
normal people.

The relationship with
myself and my wife

and Randy and Liz,
we hung out all the time.

Oh yeah, this is unbelievable.

They lived right down
the beach from us.

So every day when we
were home, we were all

together on my boat or
at the pool or at the beach.

We hung out with
them all the time.

Therein lies the problem.

Hey, Hulkster, what's
the deal, brother?

Talk to me.

It's not like you to leave
me hanging and just

checking out the babes
and just leaving me out there.

We need to have a little talk,
brother, about who cut out on who.

All right, let's
do it right now.

Come on.

All right.

Hey, maybe they're gonna fight.

Randy and Miss Elizabeth threw a party
and we were so excited to go because my

sisters and I all wanted
to be like Miss Elizabeth.

My dad and Randy were really close
friends, but for us, we were still in awe

of Miss Elizabeth because she was the
woman that we saw on our TV screens.

As kids, even though our dad was
a WWE superstar, we were still fans.

They had a beautiful home and
they had really beautiful artwork.

It wasn't a mansion, but
it was just this beautiful

home that was so well
taken care of and so pristine.

Their house was immaculate.

I felt like when we walked
in, we had to take our

shoes off right away
and put on little booties.

So I felt like he
may have had OCD.

When I met Randy, he was
the macho man, Randy Savage.

Oh, yeah.

24 hours a day.

But what he didn't
have was the look.

He needed to look like a star.

I said, bro, I got a guy named
Michael Braun that when I

played in a rock and roll
band for a while, he was a star.

He was a star for 10 years.

He made all of
Hendrix's clothes.

He made all the stuff
for the guys in my band.

Randy calls me on the phone.

The Hulkster told me, you
can make me some clothes.

I'm going, who's this?

He comes with Miss Elizabeth and he brings
me shorts that have three stars in the

front and maybe two
inch letter across his tush.

It says Macho Man.

And I say, dude,
I need real estate.

I need from the floor
to past your head.

He says, you can do
whatever you want.

This is the kiss of death.

I make him five outfits out of
spandex, but full length pants and shirts.

And maybe there's a
little fringe here and there.

We're just starting out.

In the 80s, there
was a series of pimps.

One pimp would bring another pimp often to
us and they'd say about me, he's all right.

Yes, there was some inspiration.

There was some inspiration
from them for Macho Man's clothes.

The costumes fit, man.

The towels, everything just went down
right where it was supposed to go to.

You know what I'm saying?

Damn, there was a pimp outfit Randy
was wearing, man, when you think about it.

Like, duh.

Randy pimping Savage.

The guy that dressed the
pimps in the 70s ended up being

one of the most influential
costumers in all of wrestling.

That's how Tampa rolls.

A real funny story is he wanted
a really fast car, you know.

A buddy of mine had one.

So Randy went out there,
looked at the car, bought it.

Had the car sent
from California.

He called me, we'll
send the damn car back.

I said, what's
wrong with the car?

He goes, my hat box
won't fit up front in the trunk.

I guess the only place there was
a trunk was in the front of a Ferrari.

So he put the hat box in and he wouldn't
close, so we had to send the car back.

Hats are doing good.

Now we got hats, we got glasses.

I'm painting on his shirt,
on the hat, on the sleeves,

on the pants, on the back
of the jacket, Macho Man.

Over and over again.

How many times can
you write Macho Man?

How many times can
you paint the name?

How many fonts can you use?

Nobody can wear Randy's clothes.

Nobody.

They all look silly.

There's something about
this person fits these clothes.

He did spend
money on his outfits.

And they were lavish and
extraordinary and colorful.

Randy spent a lot of money on the
perception of who the Macho Man was.

That was all out of his pocket.

Michael Braun made a
fortune making Randy's clothes.

I knew he wouldn't buy you a cup
of coffee, but that's another subject.

Randy saved his money.

He was smart.

That's a nice way of saying
he was cheap, but it's okay.

Randy was making a lot of money.

Randy probably held on to
every nickel that he ever earned.

His mom and dad didn't
always have it easy.

And his father had to work really
hard for every penny that he made.

So Randy's father, Angelo, instilled
in both kids, save your money.

He would drive from Memphis all the way to
Louisville, Kentucky, wrestle in a match,

and then he
wouldn't get a hotel.

He'd sleep in his car.

It was a lot of fun having
him with us on the road.

I don't remember him
ever buying anything.

I'll say that.

Pomp and circumstance.

What a song.

All these other wrestlers
had, I'm gonna beat you up.

And that like crunchy,
like 80s, 90s guitar.

I'm a man, I'm a man.

And then you just have this classic,
elegant, pomp and circumstance.

And the second it hits...

Macho man Randy Savage is the
definition of pomp and circumstance.

I think that that was the
perfect music for Randy.

What I think made Randy such a
good wrestler is the combination of his

athletic ability and his personality
and his work ethic in the ring.

Man, he was just on the
cutting edge with all of it.

Always.

He was extremely professional
when it came to his preparation.

He spent more time on the
preparation than some other people did.

A lot more than I did.

And it showed in
his work product.

Guaranteed.

One, two, three.

You know, my phone
would ring at 3 or 4 o 'clock.

Hey, I got an idea about that
finish at Madison Square Garden.

I'm going, Randy, it's 4
o'clock in the morning, brother.

What time is it?

You should care as much as I do.

I'm like, okay, I
care, Randy, I care.

It was always just
banging heads with him.

He'd go instead of the
big foot for it rather than

how about just elbow
me back over the top rope.

I was like, okay, Randy,
fine, talk in the morning.

But he was always on,
man, and he was a wild man.

I think he would really
overthink it sometimes.

He was too calculated, you know.

Sometimes you
gotta like free form.

In the ring, you hear what
the crowd wants instead

of going to the corner
and hitting the guy.

You may want to grab his arm and
bite his thumb off or something, you know.

Cut out the costumes, cut out
the crazy voice, cut out everything.

At the core is a man that
knew what it took to be great.

He knew the work.

He wasn't afraid of the work.

He put in the time
and he put in the effort.

And I think that's a beautiful
thing that anyone in any

field could look at and
realize that's what it takes.

And

then you'll have your
WrestleMania III moment with Sting.

Heavyweight champion
along with Elizabeth.

Along with the man who will be
in his corner, George DeAnimus.

Nice block by the driver.

This is the WrestleMania Report.

I'm Gene Okerlund.

Surprise!

Yes, yet even another match has
been added to WrestleMania III.

Well, this was going to
be the biggest thing ever.

At least that's what I said.

It actually became the biggest
thing ever for a long time.

We could hear the
numbers coming in from the

number of ticket sales
at the Silverdome.

You know, 50,000, 60,000,
70,000, and it finally got up to 93,000.

Heavyweight champion Hulk Hogan.

Hulk Hogan and Andre the
Giant, the two biggest icons

in our business at the
time, were the main event.

We want a match
to steal the show.

Randy and Ricky were not
trying to upstage my main event.

They didn't go out there and go, okay,
we want to steal the show from Andre.

We want to steal the
show from Hulk Hogan.

They didn't do that, man.

Our goal was to have
the match of the night.

And to do that, we had to
upstage Hogan and Andre.

Welcome to

WrestleMania III!

March 29th, 1987.

This is going to be the biggest
moment in wrestling history.

I knew that when I watched the whole show,
as good as Hogan-Andre was, and it was

damn good, it didn't hold a candle to
Randy Savage and Ricky Steamboat.

Obviously, it turns out that one of the
ways that they were able to do that is

because Randy Savage was obsessive about
that match and worked out every single

detail repeatedly on notepads
with Ricky Steamboat until

they got exactly the match
that they needed to have.

We had these
yellow legal tablets.

We got into two and a half
pages of these long legal pads.

We were getting
up to like 160 steps.

We started quizzing each
other, and I would say,

Randy, step number
37 is this, this, and this.

Tell me the rest of the match.

Number 38 is this, number 39 is
this, number 40 is this, this, that.

We took every opportunity
and every advantage going over

the match just to make sure
they were all on the same page.

You got the ultimate good
guy in Ricky Steamboat.

He's impossible to dislike.

Then you got Randy, Macho Man Savage,
who, Savage being, you know, the bad guy.

It was just a
perfect storm ahead.

Everything you needed
for the perfect story.

And the story that they told
leading up to it had layers.

I will not only embarrass you,
not only pin you with the one,

two, three count, but I'm gonna
put you out of wrestling for good.

They never have
a televised match.

Until WrestleMania III.

The crowd is so big.

It's majestic.

It's like this gigantic
sea of people.

The noise of 97,000 people.

Your body would almost vibrate from
when you came down the ramp, through the

curtain, and you're out
there for the first time.

My stress level rose because of trying
to remember 160-some different steps.

One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight.

It's never as good as when they have
one pure good guy and one evil bad guy.

And they're doing things
that are athletic and

excellent and great and
violent with reckless abandon.

159, 160.

It is done.

It worked.

It is perfect.

To this day, people think it was
like one of the best matches ever.

The goal of a match is to
tell a story within a match.

How can you, with your body and
your face, tell a story to the fans?

There was nothing like
the rush from the crowd.

After taking the fans on a ride of 20
false finishes, the sound was deafening.

You see the crowd
jump up and react.

I watched it a thousand times.

I still get the chills.

It's the definition of what the art of
professional wrestling is supposed to be.

I'll never forget Savage
when I covered him.

Randy... We got him, Dragon.

We got him.

A very despondent leading.

It's a labor of love.

And it's a craft that, when
done at the highest level, is hard.

Savage, even though he
was obsessed with living the

character, didn't seem to
care about wins and losses.

I'm going to lose to Steamboat at the
biggest thing in front of 93,000 people?

No problem.

It's going to be awesome.

We're going to
make it incredible.

A truly great wrestler should be
as happy when the third count hits.

If he's on the top or looking
up, it should be the same thing.

If the crowd reacts, you
should be happy either way.

The match actually
ruined his life.

Because he could
never top that night.

He could never top the match.

His standards were too high.

After WrestleMania.

That's where it all blew
up, right there, man.

Lightning power of the tornado.

Perfectly ridiculous.

With Mr. Perfect, you
can achieve perfection.

Wrong!

Randy and I, I think we had
300 licenses each at one time.

So Randy was running neck
and neck with my merchandise.

Everywhere they booked Randy Savage and
Hulk Hogan, it was always, always sold out.

Everywhere.

We couldn't do anything wrong.

Watch old man Randy Savage!

High in the air!

Hogan wasn't threatened
at all by anybody.

And there was no one around that
could touch Hulk Hogan at the time.

But Randy Savage was...
came close at that time.

I feel real strongly about
this man right here, yeah.

This is the man...

who is going to lose to the
macho man, Randy Savage.

Isn't that right, Elizabeth?

Randy was a little more indoctrined to
it and knew the lifestyle because of his...

of being the second
generation of his family.

Whereas Terry kind
of stumbled into it.

And I think that maybe Randy
always resented that a little bit.

That Hogan not only stumbled
into it, but also became the biggest.

And outshined him.

There was no jealousy
over anything like that.

No problem at all, baby.

No problem at all.

You see my t-shirt?

In a lot of ways.

In a lot of ways.

Everybody's gonna be seeing
a Hulk cool Vince McMahon.

I think everyone that has been
or will be ever in the WWE...

will be in Hogan's shadow.

I don't think Randy ever thought
he would overshadow the Hulkster.

Hulk Hogan was gonna
be the unbeatable guy.

That's the way it is.

Those eyes right there!

Those eyes!

You got lust for Elizabeth,
you understand that?

You got lust for
Elizabeth right there!

I think Randy Savage doesn't
get nearly enough credit for

how important he was to the
success of the WWE at that time.

Hulk Hogan seems
to be the guy that's like,

there was Hulk Hogan
and there was wrestling.

He was intense.

Mix a little intensity
with the right toxins and

the right poisons and
he can get a little crazy.

Get out of the way!

No!

Somebody get some help out here!

Tonight is the first time that I've
ever been the prize in a match.

If Randy wins, I stay with him.

And if George wins, he gets
the title and he gets to keep me.

Tonight is definitely the
scariest night of my life.

When we look back on
Randy Savage's career...

so many of the most
influential matches and

storylines of his career
involve Miss Elizabeth.

So without her being a foil
and a catalyst in his storytelling...

we wouldn't remember
those iconic, epic matches.

He'd grab her and
push her in front of him.

He was the king of that move.

Of grabbing her and
being like, no, no, not today.

You're gonna hit my woman?

And you're like, what a dick!

To use Elizabeth in the
storyline was so easy.

Looking back, we weren't
setting a good example for her.

It's not something we do today,
but we learn and we move on.

It's professional
wrestling, man.

I call it the theater
of the absurd.

Anytime you cross that line,
that stirs the fan's reaction.

When you stir their reactions,
you start putting asses in seats.

And that's what it's all about.

She was the first major valet in
wrestling to be kind of part of the story.

Elizabeth has shot everybody.

The husband-wife team
working together, I don't

think we really had
anything like that before.

So it was unique.

Randy was extremely
possessive with Elizabeth.

That's right, Randy.

Shut up and keep polishing.

If I lose tonight,
it's your fault.

If you're given to be a
certain way, and I can take

that and boost it up, then
it becomes larger than life.

It worked.

It just worked.

He's not staying in
the neutral corner.

Miss Elizabeth broke the mold.

You remove Elizabeth from the
equation of Randy Savage, and

he's just a guy that talks weird
and is incredible in the ring.

Miss Elizabeth anchored
Randy Poffo to that character.

I don't think she had any clue about how
talented she was and how beautiful she was.

She didn't have a
healthy body image.

Liz struggled with
eating disorders.

She struggled with bulimia.

So she really struggled
with just self-confidence.

She tried to be what she thought the man
that she was having whatever relationship

at the time with, what
they wanted her to be.

So she would get
lost in the relationship.

I was the first one to
push Liz down in a very

physical altercation where
I shoved her sideways.

That was really,
really a big deal.

He asked me to come up to his hotel
room, and we went over the pushing.

I was pushing of Liz
for about two hours.

She was falling on the bed
when I was pushing her sideways.

How they got Randy to go for
that or to do that, that's a mystery.

Thirty or thirty-five million
people tuned in to see it.

They came up with
the idea of the slap.

Not me, but that was the
last thing I thought I'd ever do.

I got more heat from the fans for slapping
her than I did for the snake-biting Randy.

The wrestling fans
destroyed my car.

They totally did.

Knocked all the windows out of
it, busted the headlights, taillights.

It's like the thing with
slapping a woman.

You don't do that.

That's ingrained in here, man.

That's one of the two
top evil things you can do.

Can you imagine somebody
slapping somebody today?

Randy and Liz were
married in real life.

However, on camera,
their relationship was never,

it was never exposed, and
it was never talked about.

It was more of an animal
magnetism and attraction.

Randy's character changed.

Randy went from a
very popular character to

just a despised character
in the Macho King.

Savage goes full bad
guy because of jealousy.

A very real reason to turn.

Elizabeth is out.

Sherry's in.

Queen Sherry, what
kind of rules are there?

Not

a... She turns on the Macho Man.

In the crowd, Elizabeth.

When she came back and
slapped Sherry, come on.

Come on.

Everyone popped.

Everyone went nuts.

I loved it.

Bring us up to date on the travels
of the World Wrestling Federation.

I mean, you could be
in Dallas one night and

Miami the next, and then
up to Chicago the next.

And this would just keep right on going,
and the traveling part was the hardest.

We were running so
hard in those days, man.

We were running seven
days a week, every night.

Our way of dealing
with it wasn't right.

Guys were doing steroids.

You guys were doing
a lot of pills, man.

You know, and a lot of pills.

Some of us, including myself, did fair
amounts of cocaine just to get going.

Your body needs time to heal.

These guys, their whole empire is
built upon their physique, so to speak,

so I got to think that's
very, very tough on them.

I mean, it's a world of action figures,
and when you put yourself out there as

much as wrestlers do, your body ain't
going to keep the body of an action figure.

It's tough enough to do by yourself not
to imagine having your wife there with you

every step of the way with,
you know, sharks tagging behind.

Randy really loved her.

And I know that he wouldn't
have it any other way.

Miss Elizabeth with him.

You know, the business is tough.

It's just the road, and
it's just a tough business.

I don't know of any husband-wife
teams that have done it since.

There's, you know, probably, but there's
probably a reason why that doesn't happen

a lot in wrestling, because
it's just, it'll ruin you.

I guess in hindsight, she just
finally couldn't take it anymore.

Not only sometimes
was Randy overprotective,

he was a little bit
overbearing on Liz.

And I really think that she
just reached her breaking point.

I think he always felt like there was
somebody else in her life besides him.

When there really
wasn't, how could it be?

You're locked in the house,
and you can't go out on the road.

Nobody can touch you.

Nobody can see you.

How in the world could she
fall in love with anybody else?

Elizabeth, I love you!

You marry me!

Oh, yeah!

When Randy the Wrestler and Miss Elizabeth
were having a great life on stage,

on TV, they were having a horrible life
in real life, and I think that was a huge,

huge accelerator, so
to speak, of the demise.

Can you imagine that?

Like, if your marriage was seriously
in trouble, and you had to publicly get

married again, so the
world is kind of like, oh,

my God, that's so cool,
you guys are married.

It's like, no, no, actually, we were
married, and now we're barely married.

I wonder how much of the worst of him
was brought out by the wrestling villains.

It clearly brought the best
out of him professionally,

but I wonder how much
it cost him personally.

That's terrific.

That's disgusting.

As the orchestra played,
the formal line of eager

guests gave their congratulations
to the happy couple.

I remember Randy
coming to me, Liz is very

unhappy with me and
thinks she wants a divorce.

And I said, well, maybe she
just wants a little bit of freedom.

But I knew he was really
heartbroken over that, you know?

I don't know if anybody ever looked at the
Randy and his wife's situation and said,

hey, maybe I should
step in and say something.

If you knew Randy, I don't think
that would have set well with him.

I think maybe later on, Hulk
Hogan and the time Hulk's wife

may have crossed that line,
and that didn't go well either.

I didn't realize that
Liz was uneasy.

I just remember Randy
had just bought a boat.

My ex-wife was on the dock, and,
you know, her and Liz were talking.

She goes, yeah, well, Terry's going
down to Miami to shoot a movie called Mr.

Nanny.

We'll be down there a
couple of months, and I'll be

there with the kids, and
he's going to be working on it.

So if you get bored, come on down and
hang out and help me with the kids, so...

I went down the next
day to Miami, and I was

shooting nights, and I
guess I left work early.

I left work about 5 o'clock,
and when I came in at

6 in the morning, I saw
the red Cadillac out there.

Hmm, that's Liz's car, you know?

I go upstairs, and I
said, where's Liz at?

My ex-wife was still asleep.

She goes, oh, she's in
the back room over there.

I just kind of peeked in the other
room, and no one was in the bed.

And I went, hmm.

I didn't think nothing
of it, so I went to

sleep and got up,
worked out, did my thing.

The next day, I
went to work again.

At night, I came in, same thing.

Nobody in the bed.

I said, okay, here's the deal.

I don't know what's
going on, but if she's not

going to be sleeping, I
don't know what's going on.

She needs to get her stuff out of
here, because I don't want any heat.

And so as things progressed, I saw her
down by the pool, hanging out with a guy

that played tennis, and I was getting
ready to go to work at night, and I came

out of the shower about 6 o'clock, and I
heard the screaming, oh, where is she at?

Where is she at?

Do you know where she's at?

And I said, oh,
my God, he's here.

So I put a towel on, and I went out in the
living room, and there was Randy standing

there with my ex-wife, pointing his
finger, going, you know where Liz is?

I said, Randy, calm your
you-know-what down, brother.

Grabbed the manager.

I said, hey, brother.

This is Macho Man.

His wife's here.

He doesn't have
a key to her room.

We need a key to her room.

So the manager walked us all the
way around the back of the hotel.

Guy put the key in
the door to open it.

Randy pushed the door open.

He goes, hey, Liz.

And I took off.

I was gone.

All of a sudden, I get
ready to leave to go to work,

and there's like 20 cop
cars outside the hotel.

I was blamed for that.

The truth is, after the second guy, I
should have called him right away and

said, hey, man, I don't know where
your wife's at, but her car is here.

She's not in her room.

I should have
done that, I guess.

That's where our relationship
fell apart for about 10 years.

It's just as intense
as the wrestling was.

That's how much he
hated me in real life.

I just figured if I got her out of my
room, I had no idea she didn't call home.

I had no idea that she left
and packed all of her stuff

up and didn't tell him she
was done with the marriage.

I didn't know any of this stuff.

I just thought she
came down to hang out.

She left him and didn't tell us.

Let's just be honest.

The day that Randy died,
he still loved Miss Elizabeth.

Like, I mean, that's
his ultra love in life.

And so, as Randy died, as he's losing
her in real life, he has to act like,

you know, we're in love,
getting the whole nine yards.

And so, I mean, I can't even
understand how much pain that would be.

That's right the
real deal right here.

I'm the Macho Man, Randy Savage,
and me and Gene Okerlund, I'm gonna be

your co-host, yeah, on
All-American Wrestling.

Do you have any
problem with that?

I don't have a problem at all.

I don't know why Vince puts people on
commentary other than the fact that he

might have another vision of what
needs to be done for the product.

Vince, I don't think, wanted
him to work anymore.

They wanted to get him out
of the ring and do commentary,

and Randy always felt like
he had some matches left.

The reason that I argue that Randy Savage
is probably the greatest who ever lived is

because he literally could do every
single aspect of professional wrestling,

except for commentary,
and was not a fan of that.

You gotta be able to get a patent
on some of these wrestling hoes.

People are stealing them.

That's the million dollar dream.

Randy probably looked at it as,
man, do they not think that I'm good

enough in the ring
anymore that they're

gonna put me out here
as a color commentator?

His voice was a
small doses thing.

You don't wanna just
hear, running commentary,

oh, up the top, oh,
there we go, yeah.

After two hours of it, it's like, ah, it
doesn't have the same mystique anymore.

Are you ever gonna get
back in the ring again?

Absolutely.

Thanks for asking
me that question.

I'm gonna just, you know, I've been on the
sidelines kind of just picking my shots,

and I feel an opportunity coming
up really, really, really soon, within a

week, in fact, and I'm
gonna get back into the ring.

I'm gonna still be doing the broadcast
because I really enjoy it, and I'm

broadcasting because I
want to, not because I have to.

But when I get back into the squared
circle, I'm gonna make a quick name for

myself again, and I'm gonna
go after that World Wrestling

Federation Championship belt
for the third time, a three-peat.

Randy had a lot of fight left
in him, a lot of gas in the tank.

He had no knee replacements.

Randy hadn't had
any major surgeries.

His legs were good.

He tore his tricep and knocked
his teeth out one time by accident.

He was in great shape, man.

He could go.

When they wrestled me, they turned
out to be a clown one way or another.

Yeah, Doink the Clown.

Doink the Clown, Hulk Hogan
the Clown, or whatever it is.

You know, it
doesn't even matter.

I know you and Hulk were
kind of friends there for a while.

Kind of not, too.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

Kind of and kind of not, yeah.

Somewhere in between, uh-huh.

They said, we're having
a youth movement.

The best thing you can
do is hold onto the mic.

He says, well, I'll get a
second opinion on that.

And it turned out, WCW
didn't think he was too old.

I'll never forget the
night that it happened.

I remember Vince walking around
saying, has anybody seen Randy?

I would need to go
over the format with him.

And then an hour before
our show started, somebody

came to Vince and said,
hey, Vince, turn on the TV.

It gives me a great deal of pleasure to
introduce truly one of the all-time greats

in professional wrestling, finally
arriving at World Championship Wrestling.

I was with Vince at the time, right
in the same room, and he no-sold it.

There was no expression
change on his face at all.

He looked around.

He looked over at me.

He said, King, could you do
the commentary with me tonight?

Randy, I know you're
out there listening.

And on behalf of all of us, all of your
fans, and certainly me, the number one

fan, I'd like to say thank you for
all of your positive contributions.

Even when it was happening, a lot of
people didn't believe it was happening.

I wish you nothing but the best.

Godspeed and good luck.

It was a surprise and
not a pleasant one.

And it was, you know, it hurt.

They wanted me to do the commentary
thing, you know, which I will want to do

sometime, because I got a pretty good
slanted viewpoint on things, you know?

I feel that I would like to
express it at some time.

You know, it's not even
now, but I just wasn't

ready, you know, to take
off my boots at that point.

I'm glad I didn't.

I don't think he
wanted to do that.

He didn't want to do that.

This isn't Randy.

Macho Man and Hulk Hogan
have a date with destiny!

Oh, yeah!

Star King, dig it!

All right, the Macho Man,
Randy Savage, already

making his presence known
here on WCW Saturday Night.

Oh, yeah!

During the Monday Night Wars when WWE and
WCW were going head-to-head on TV on the

same night, for a long time, WCW,
they were winning the Monday Night Wars.

And part of that was
because a lot of talent would

jump ship, and Randy
was one of those talents.

I mean, he was a big, big star.

I think it was devastating.

You know, I think it was
because he was our captain.

I remember a bunch
of us were talking and

saying, like, man, like,
we don't have any stars.

Macho Man, Randy Savage
with the one and only...

We all felt that maybe
there was a shift going on.

My gosh.

The two biggest guys of our era,
Hogan and Randy Savage, are there?

Oh, yeah!

There was a huge rift
with Randy and Hogan.

So when Randy went to WCW, it was
always a very business-like relationship.

It was a really smart move
because Randy wasn't done wrestling.

Vince told him he was done wrestling,
and Randy wasn't done wrestling.

He had a major impact on the
wrestling business once he came over.

Randy was highly
motivated, so was I.

And when you have two highly
motivated people that each

want really the same thing,
then it's just about numbers.

And what was really, really interesting
about negotiating the Randy Savage deal is

it didn't cost me a dime, because when
Randy Savage made the jump to WCW,

so did Slim Jim.

He took Slim Jim with him, and that
was to the tune of $750,000 per year.

I was a big fan of Slim Jim.

Is that a wolf?

Ooh, yeah!

Slim Jim!

Macho Man got
me to eat Slim Jims.

So any irregularity I have with
my bowels is on you, Slim Jim.

I'm gonna take you to court.

Drop the elbow from it, yeah.

Intestinal fortitude
not included, yeah.

What do you see?

Slim Jim.

Slim Jim.

Slim Jim!

You could tell he was
struggling with aging

in WCW, and you could
tell he was doing well.

He was doing whatever he had
to do to keep his body in shape.

And he got too big.

I'm not giving up.

I'm just getting started.

In that period of time, it was about
guys being bigger, stronger, faster.

You know, it was in all sports.

A lot of wrestlers took steroids just
to heal and to maintain their body.

If you're on the road like that,
you're not eating properly, you're not

getting the right sleep,
your body starts to tear down.

Did Randy use them?

I had never seen him do it.

Now, if you ask me
if I think he did, yes.

That's just my own thought.

I've been wrong before, though.

He got his money
in WCW, you know?

He went and cashed in,
got a nice check, money he

could have lived off
of for the rest of his life.

He did sort of, in WCW, kind of
end up in Hogan's shadow again.

In WWE, it was almost
like he was lurking in the

shadows of Hogan, like,
I'm right here, I can do this.

In WCW, it wasn't like that.

He was never a
threat to Hogan's spot.

I think there was
a lot of competition.

I think until the day that
Randy Savage died, there

was a lot of emotional
feelings between he and Hogan.

It was kind of scary.

Even though neither one of
them would talk about it, they

didn't need to have anybody
tell you what was happening.

You could see it.

They didn't get along.

They did not get along.

Eric Bischoff came to
me and said, hey, man,

we got an opportunity
to grab Elizabeth.

They were divorced, you know.

I went, oh, my God, if we could
get her, that would be so intense.

When Miss Elizabeth
wanted to come to WCW, it

was Randy who was one
of her biggest advocates.

Randy had moved on with his personal
life, so there was no excess baggage.

He didn't have a
problem with it at all.

He said, man, if there's
money to be made, let's make it.

My boy.

By the time that I met Liz and we were
getting to know each other, I had the

sense that she had completely
moved on from the marriage with Randy.

She had met someone.

All of a sudden, Liz was converting
to Judaism and moving to Florida.

You know, it didn't
last long, but she tried.

A real man totally out
of the gate of a woman.

What I thought at the time was an innocent
workplace flirtation, and sure enough,

there is no such thing as innocent
workplace flirtation, so working together

and being around each other, we
definitely crossed those boundaries.

Take a good look at the
genetic wonder here, Mr. DNA.

My best friend from
wrestling, Stink, he tried to

sit down with me many
times and talk to me about it.

Man, I just, I wouldn't do that.

There just wasn't any
stopping him at the time.

It didn't seem like it was probably the
best idea for a number of pretty obvious

reasons, but somebody else's life, and
they're gonna do what they're gonna do.

When it became obvious to
me, I thought, okay, here we go.

This is that iceberg that the
Titanic hit that nobody saw coming.

Here comes mine.

And it didn't happen.

I think Randy was just kind of maybe over
it, just kind of was keeping his distance.

It was like a full circle
situation because, you know, if

I hadn't have done that,
then I hadn't have got over it.

You know what I mean?

Because, you know.

I don't believe in taking
anything to the grave.

You know what I mean?

Because me and Alyssa,
they are still friends.

You know what I mean?

Just something that didn't work.

And it was a
no-problem situation.

You know what I mean?

And just, life goes on,
and you shouldn't spend

the rest of your life
dwelling over any one thing.

When he had Liz, I don't
think he really went out.

When they separated, it was almost like
It's like having a freshman in college.

What are we doing tonight?

I believe Randy Savage met Gorgeous
George outside of the wrestling business.

I'm not sure what she was
doing for a living at the time.

There may have been
some dancing involved.

I moved to Tampa and the
first person that I met was Randy.

It was kind of like fate.

I totally believe in fate.

The first place I worked
was the dollhouse.

So I get in there, they
give me a sequined gown

that I owe money for
at the end of the week.

I'm on the set
list to go on stage.

I didn't even have enough
money to get a drink for myself.

So I'm sitting there and some old
guy starts whacking me in my arm.

And he's like, girl,
buy me a drink.

And I was like,
you buy me a drink?

And he starts fighting with me.

So next thing I know, I got grabbed
up and thrown outside the dollhouse.

On my knees in a sequined
gown, some guy comes

up to me and says,
Hey girl, are you okay?

And I'm like, dude, did you
just see what happened?

He's like, yo, that
wouldn't have happened if

you would have been
beaten up on Evel Knievel.

And I get to looking at him
and I'm like, Macho Man?

I mean, this was
like a surreal dream.

He gives me his phone
number and an address.

So I got this piece of paper with
his phone number in my hand.

And I'm thinking to myself,
well, he might be cool.

She was a lot
younger than all of us.

She was the perfect eye candy
for the Macho Man, for the gimmick.

Where Elizabeth was unplugged,
she got plugged back in.

George was George.

She was cool.

I mean, young.

And she was kind of hip.

She kind of updated Randy.

Randy got kind of a cool factor.

That's when he
started wearing leather.

That's where he
got really jacked.

He got rid of all the flare.

He was coming out in just like
black leather with a necklace.

Here comes the Macho Man.

Thursday night thunder,
Monday night nitro.

It just kept going, you know.

There was never no let up.

We traveled over
300 days a year.

There's the celebration.

My sister, she's
about 17 at the time.

She moved down to
Florida to watch my son.

So when we went to
travel, I trusted somebody.

My sister had called me.

She said, I'm going
to be wrestling.

And with Isaac being down here, I need
someone that I can trust to watch him.

And you know, I'm down.

Randy was really nice to me.

He was just really
focused on his work.

Macho Man, he would
take me to Toys R Us.

He would buy different
action figures for me and stuff.

And a couple of times he actually
bought himself as an action figure.

It was cool.

Aw, that's nice.

Is that like a negligee?

Randy and George had the
reputation in town of really partying.

And that reputation got out.

They seemed to have a good time.

After shows or matches,
they went out together.

She partied hard.

George wasn't afraid.

George came from the stripping community
and Randy was, I think, trying to live

vicariously in a young
type of way through George.

I don't know what
the age gap was.

I think it was quite extensive.

Even though he was
older, he didn't act older.

He was fast going, upbeat.

He worked out every day.

He was just go, go, go, go, go.

That was Randy.

When I first met Randy, he
was definitely doing steroids.

There was veins upon veins.

He had veins in his eyelids.

If he started to regress from it, he'd
see the difference in his body change.

So as soon as he thought, for one second
he was getting older, he'd push more.

We would always stop
at his mom and dad's.

And Angela would put
me in the massage chair.

He would take Randy upstairs
to give him his medicine.

The dad would distribute the things that
he needed to enhance his physical being.

I would stay in the
chair until the shots were

distributed and then we'd
jump in the car and leave.

We were doing alcohol, ecstasy,
steroids, uppers, downers.

He liked to indulge
in some ecstasy.

In Florida, it was kind of on the
scene, especially over in Tampa.

He'd sometimes give me
two, three hundred dollars

and I would go and get
them and I'd give them to him.

Randy would walk around.

He'd walk around with
a thousand dollars or

more worth of ecstasy
pills in his hip sack.

At all times.

There's one really
distinctful time we were high.

It was when we were
wearing the red outfits.

And gorgeous George,
her in the house.

Oh yeah.

You're right about one thing.

What's that macho?

I ain't no punk bitch.

People were like, what
is he talking about?

We were so high.

And gorgeous George
are leaving the building.

Oh yeah.

At the height of my success was the worst
part I've ever been in my entire life.

I looked gorgeous.

I looked beautiful.

I looked like I had it together.

And at the same time,
I had nothing together.

I heard about Randy doing
things to Liz through the grapevine.

I had heard that
she had to go to Hulk

Hogan's house to hide
from him with his wife.

I'd heard about her
eating in closets.

I'd heard about all this stuff.

I didn't believe it because
he was so good to me.

And then as time went on, the
steroids gotten worse and worse.

And the paranoid schizophrenia
started to grow more and more.

I was so young.

I had no idea how to
categorize what I was seeing.

I didn't see the
side of him yet.

Until now he's
looking at me like that.

One day, I'm cleaning his
house and all of a sudden I

notice this fuse box on the
bottom of the broom closet.

I go to open it up.

So I put the keys
in and I turn them.

And I pull it out and I open the
door and I'm like, wow, what is that?

And there's four screens on
top and four screens on bottom.

Wow, that looks like my house.

Wait a minute.

That is my house.

He's got my whole house taped.

And then I hear him
coming up the corridor, right?

And right when he walks in the
door, boom, clicked it, slammed it.

I sit there like this.

He goes, are you okay?

I go, he goes, what's
wrong with you?

I go, take me home now.

He goes, what is wrong with you?

I go, take me home.

There was things
that he would say.

There's no way he would
be able to say that if he didn't

have some kind of camera
or audio video in our home.

Because he wasn't there.

That's when it got creepy.

There was some times where, you know, you
could feel the tension between them both.

Being that young and
being around a lifestyle

like that, it was
really busy, you know.

Everything was
just really constant.

Randy had it upon
delusion of our relationship

would be a termination
of every kind of contract.

He knew what he was doing.

When they broke up, she went from
Gorge to George, back to George.

Back to Stephanie.

Done.

Randy cut her out
of every single thing.

We ended up leaving Florida, and she
got a place back in her home, Rockford.

And we got our own
house there and stuff.

And Randy was really pissed
off about that, you know.

And he wanted her.

He just wanted her, you know.

And she didn't want
to be a part of it.

Nobody knew what
I was going through.

And I've never really
opened up and told anybody.

I don't want to tarnish somebody's
reputation, who was such a great person.

The things that were
bad were very bad.

But the things that were
good were very good.

Miss Elizabeth was very pristine, was
always on this extra pristine pedestal.

I think she may have
jumped out of Randy's

frying pan into a hotter
skillet, so to speak.

I think the ongoing scuttlebutt amongst the
boys was, this is not going to end well.

We definitely did
not put the brakes on.

It might have been a
good idea, but we didn't.

In retrospect, of course.

In hindsight.

Because she was
so deep into this

relationship, she was
around us less and less.

She was a little more isolated.

We were concerned and we were worried,
and we would always reach out to her and

see what we could do to help
her, but it just wasn't working.

I was surprised she
was running with Lex.

Lex was running real hard, and so
were some of his friends at the time.

And when I saw her with
Lex, I told Eric Bischoff,

we'll be reading about
her in about two years.

I'm not getting pumped
out in my hometown.

Let me just tell you that right
now, by you or anybody else.

You know, if he wants
to fire the first shot, that's

fine, because I'll fire the
last shot machine gun style.

You know, the sad part
is about this whole thing.

I'm supposedly the enemy, and
I'm this no-good son of a bitch.

Randy and Hulk had a dysfunctional
relationship, much like many marriages

that I've witnessed over the
years, where a husband and a

wife kind of tend to fall in
and out of love with each other.

If all the moons line up just right,
you know, and everything is just great,

and it's a sunny day, you know, they
might be able to work something out.

It was that way with them.

You know, they had their
wars, you know, in Florida.

Randy Savage got on
another radio station and talked

crap about me, saying that
me and Hogan are having sex.

That's fine, Randy.

The girl you used to have
sex with now is doing pornos.

Join me tonight at
Stormin's on the big

screen, and I'll play the
gorgeous George tape.

It was all apparently real.

They were always
kind of hot at each other.

When he started on me, I started on him,
you know, and I had a bigger voice in him

because I had a buddy here in Tampa
that had a local radio show, and we just

blasted him every
morning, drove him crazy.

Making fun of Randy kind of gravitated
to my airwaves fairly instantaneously,

so within a few months
of Hogan and I hanging

out, we just started
kind of ribbing Randy.

Everybody look, it's
Randy Macho Man!

Working out at Gold's Gym!

He just his pants!

Oh, it just drove
Macho Man insane.

Macho Man would go to lawyers in town and
be like, oh, yeah, there's this fat radio

guy who's talking a bunch of crap
about me, and I poop my pants.

And then the lawyers would say,
well, Randy, did you poop your pants?

And they're like,
well, yeah, well...

It's the debut release from
Macho Man, Randy Savage.

Listen to him throw down with such
songs as Let's Get It On and Be A Man.

At some point, I look up and I see that
Macho Man, Randy Savage is a rapper.

And he's not kidding.

I've been putting my
music as a priority one.

Everybody's writing a book,
and I'm not writing a book.

I want to express
myself with music.

I think the entire motive of his rap
album was to try to take a shot at Terry.

Uh, I just think...

I don't know.

You know, it didn't really
gain any traction anywhere.

You know, it was just
one of those things.

He got it off his chest.

It was part of that hate
that he had to get rid of.

Randy had a plan that Be A Man
Hulk was going to sell 50 million copies.

Instead, it only sold 50,000.

The critics said it defied
physical possibilities.

It sucked and blew
at the same moment.

I don't necessarily know that
any of us are really proud of it.

You know, I mean, I wouldn't
be a man if I didn't say, you

know, to the camera that I was
sorry for the things that I said.

good shot of this right
here, you hear me?

Oh yeah, I'm savage, boy.

If you don't got it you don't
know what music is, dude.

music.

There was nothing
untypical about the evening.

We were hanging out, watching movies, uh,
having a few drinks and popping some pills.

She dozed off on the
couch for a minute.

It was a late at night, so I realized
definitely there was something wrong,

so I immediately called 911.

She's laying on the floor.

I tried to pick her up.

I tried to...

Okay, what I want you to do, I want
you to go over and see if she's breathing.

I can't tell.

Please send somebody here
who knows what they're doing.

And I got taken in from there, and
they found out all the drugs in the

house, and I was placed
under arrest shortly thereafter.

One day the phone rang.

Liz is gone.

Pro wrestler Lex Luger is under
arrest tonight, and his girlfriend is dead.

This all happened today.

Gosh, she just had
so much to offer.

Both Lex and Elizabeth did what
addicts often do, which is hide it.

By the time it became obvious to those
of us who would have liked to have known,

it was too late.

They were already
pretty far gone.

She was a beautiful,
wonderful, gorgeous woman

who had no clue how
gifted she actually was.

Absolutely, I had a role and definitely a
profoundly negative influence on someone.

You ask, did you murder her?

No, I didn't force her
to do drugs or take pills.

But...

Was I a negative influence for
time that led to that happening?

Definitely.

If I could change that
and go back in time, I...

Boy, I would, but I can't.

I think the end for
Elizabeth is one of the

saddest things that's
ever happened in wrestling.

She wasn't supposed
to go that way.

Like, she wasn't a wrestler.

She didn't abuse her body
that we knew of, you know?

Like, it's just heartbreaking.

I never said a word about it.

I said, I'm very
sorry for Elizabeth.

She said, thank you.

I didn't pick his scabs.

I spoke when spoken to, and if I saw a
mud puddle, I didn't splash him with it.

We loved each other, but we didn't talk
about everything unless he brought it up.

I know that he had a lot of
fond respect for Lex Luger,

and I don't think he held
any animosity toward him.

At all?

Really?

Really?

I gave my answer.

I really feel real bad
for her and her family.

And it was a situation where we hadn't
seen each other in about maybe five,

six years.

But, you know, we had closure, and we
said hello, and everything was all good.

But I feel bad for her family.

It just sort of ended.

And Randy Savage seemed to
just sort of fade away from wrestling.

He seemed to kind of go
peacefully into the night

in a way that most wrestlers
are incapable of doing.

In my whole life, it's because I want to
do something rather than having to do it.

You know, so I've been a
really good businessman

as far as my personal
finances have gone.

From what I heard,
he was doing well.

He was happy.

A lot of the guys leave this
business and they can't get

it out of their system,
can't get it out of their blood.

But Randy seemed
to have done that.

And if you remember, I mean,
he was one of the first guys

that got a decent part in a
major, major motion picture.

Hey!

Unlock!

You're going nowhere!

I got you for three minutes!

Three minutes of PE time!

I got this little switch
inside my brain.

When you trip that
light fantastic and it's

showtime and you hear
that roar from the crowd.

You know what I mean?

And you get those chill bumps
all the way up from nose to toes.

And then it's not
a problem at all.

You know, in fact, it's pretty easy for
me to get up for something like that.

You know, because it's just
either inside you or it's not.

And I say that when it
stops getting to be fun

for something, it's somebody
they need to get out.

When Randy Savage was
done with people, he moved on.

And Randy would
cut it off and move on.

You didn't exist to him.

So the same thing with his personal
life, same thing with his business.

It was time to move on.

He moved on, didn't look back.

And the latter part of his life where he
went gray and he kind of naturally aged,

I think that that might
have been when he finally

dropped the Macho Man
persona and could be Randy Poffo.

And I think that that might
have been a huge relief for him.

There's arguably no more tiring
character to play than Macho Man.

I mean, just from a
physical voice standpoint.

You can't tell me there
weren't times when he was like, I

just want to not talk for three
days because my throat hurts.

Randy had reunited with
his high school sweetheart.

To me, it was like
Randy had found peace.

I was at a heart doctor.

I look up and there he is.

He looks great.

He's about 240 pounds.

He's got his weight back.

He's smiling.

He's happy.

Hey, Mach, what's up, man?

I love you.

I miss you.

I love you too, brother.

I said, damn, you got
your wedding ring on.

He goes, oh yeah,
I got remarried.

I was so happy.

He looked so great.

You could see the
glow coming off him.

He was at peace and he
was himself and he was happy.

It kind of like made my life
to see how happy he was.

And he forgave me
for whatever I did.

I remember my dad telling
us about Randy having met,

you know, back in the 70s,
a woman named Lynn Payne.

And he had this relationship with
her before he ever met Miss Elizabeth.

Yeah.

In 1975, Randy had left baseball
and he and Lynn had broken up.

So it caused Randy to leave Florida
and get into professional wrestling.

Randy had told me that Lynn
was always the love of his life.

They were sweethearts early on.

And then, of course,
they went their own ways

and they found their
way back to each other.

And boom.

The stars never shone so bright.

They get married on Lido Beach
where they had met 36 years before.

Just tell him that he
had just, he was zen.

He was still macho, but
the pace was much different.

You could just see that Randy had
kind of, you know, went full circle.

So many of these
guys were so tormented.

And then you
hear that they died.

It's like the life of
a kamikaze pilot.

At least, you know,
Randy got to touch down.

Back on the carrier for a while.

It was at the point of
relaxing and enjoying his

life with the woman that
he was supposed to be with.

So he's just in the,
ready to just, ah.

And he told me that, I got
my dogs, I got my house.

You know, I'm there.

Randy?

Getting back to this high
school sweetheart who

hadn't been around the
wrestling business ever.

She wasn't jaded, you know.

And I think when he unplugged from this
crazy business, he fell back in a really

beautiful place that was
probably before he ever wrestled.

You young punks ain't got nothing on the
macho man Randy Savage and my generation.

Randy Savage, at the
end of his life, left wrestling

in a way that I really
respected and I liked.

Because he walked away from it.

He pulled a lot out of the WWE.

Made a ton of money.

Had a hell of a ride.

Circumstances being
what they are, man.

A wonderful, wonderful life.

They were coming back
from being at the store.

Randy was driving his Jeep.

He said, I'm not
really feeling that well.

I think I'd like to go home.

And he started to
swerve out of his lane.

And he pressed the gas.

Lynn had to steer.

The Jeep was going to crash into
other vehicles, oncoming vehicles.

And cause all kinds
of other fatalities.

So she steered the
Jeep into a tree to stop it.

And Randy was pronounced
dead right there on the scene.

Some sad news to
report this morning.

Pro wrestling icon Randy Macho Man Savage
died Friday in a car crash in Florida.

TMZ reports.

I get a message
from Largo Medical.

And that my brother and
his wife were in a car wreck.

So I called up.

And that's when they put
me on the phone with Lynn.

And she explained
to me what happened.

Police say Savage lost control of his
Jeep Wrangler about 9.30 this morning.

His wife suffered
minor injuries.

Randy Macho Man Savage was 58.

My thought immediately
went to I wish I would

have shared some more
moments with Randy.

Not so much of
in the ring stuff.

But just going out and
having a lunch or something.

You know, to the
other side of Savage.

If I never would have
been able to meet with

Randy one last time
before he passed away.

It would have probably been
something that would have haunted me.

I don't think I could
have really rationalized

it if I never got across
and saw him again.

He had a heart
attack while driving.

And that's a crazy way to die.

But it's also a very
Macho Man way to die.

You take a Jeep and a
heart attack into a tree.

You're like, dude, what's up?

You kind of wonder if
he negotiated that death.

He's like, yeah, what
if the heart stops?

And then the Jeep
pops over the highway.

Yeah, right into a tree.

And everyone's like,
that's a tough way to go.

Very memorable.

You know?

As opposed to
just dying in a bed.

It's a very Macho
Man way to die.

I mean, it's a sad death.

I'm not taking
that away from it.

But I'm saying.

As far as spots go, that's
a suplex off the top rope.

For as many people as can be like,
oh, it's not a real sport, you know?

It's just entertainment.

By the way, I have a
big update for everyone.

All sports is just
entertainment.

The value that these
athletes have is just

as great in culture as
a competitive athlete.

In fact, with ones like Randy
Savage, they're greater.

He gave us more than
physical entertainment.

He gave us himself as a person.

Snap into a Slim Jim.

Oh, yeah.

Being in Spider-Man.

I hope all of those things,
these cultural moments, added

up to something where he
knew, like, I was a big deal.

I was meaningful.

It's crazy because there are
some people whose run as a

professional wrestler is
amazing because it lasts 20 years.

Randy Savage, his run
was really seven years.

But it's one of those things.

It's one of the greatest
seven-year runs of all time.

History beckons the macho man.

He was different.

He wasn't like everybody else.

And who was the first man?

The perfect way to describe
him, he was an enigma.

The front page, the front
page, the headlines, yeah!

How about a headlock?

Can you repeat like that?

Like watching an artist paint.

He can take you
on that rollercoaster.

He had psychology.

He had athleticism.

And he could tell a story.

That was him being that painter.

I am the new kid
on the block, yeah!

Captured the imagination
of the WWE Universe.

Truly did.

Damn it, it was Slim Jim!

A whole generation, probably
a few generations, have a piece

of him in their heart, in their
minds, in their memories.

Oh yeah, brother!

That was Hulk Hogan.

Oh yeah!

Randy affected a lot of
people all over the world.

You conjure up warm
feelings thinking about Randy.

He was very intense
and wanted to give his all.

And I so respect
someone like that.

You gotta clip by
a tie and I'll tell the

people that if you don't
shut up and sit down!

Randy was the real deal.

He loved this business.

He gave his heart and his soul
and everything to this business.

And there'll never
be another like him.

Very few guys have this
in their blood and live it.