The late WWE legend Randy Savage once explained how he became the Macho Man.
Before he became a pro wrestler, Randy Savage had a baseball career, competing for teams such as the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, and Chicago White Sox. An old interview clip of him discussing that phase of his life reemerged on X/Twitter. He revealed that he got his iconic Macho Man nickname after he punched a pitcher four months after he beaned him in the on-deck circle.
“Cardinals, Reds, and White Sox. Bounced around in the minor leagues, loved every second of it. All them bus rides, beating everybody at poker,” Randy Savage said, recalling his baseball career. “That’s where you got the name, Macho Man, because I got beaned on the on-deck circle. They thought I was too close to the plate.
“So the pitcher.. I just looked right up here, and the ball was right there, man, got hit, went right to the mound, you know, brawl, separated us right there. Four months later, the pitcher is running on the outfield grass. He thought I forgot about it,” Randy Savage said. “So I just kind of wander around, and when he’s turning around this way with all his buddies, I go there, ‘Bam’, right on him. The next day, the reporter says, ‘What you trying to do, be a Macho Man or something?'”
Randy Savage passed away at the age of 58 in 2011, and WWE posthumously inducted him into their Hall of Fame in 2015.
WWE talent says Randy Savage gets left out ff the ‘GOAT’ conversation too often
During his appearance on the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast, WWE pre-show analyst Peter Rosenberg shared that Randy Savage and Bret Hart were the first two wrestlers he fell in love with. He noted that Savage has been left out of the “GOAT” conversation too often and explained why he should be in that discussion.
“Savage to me, in some ways, I think gets left out of the GOAT conversation too often. I think Savage was just brilliant. From the second he arrived in WWF, because obviously I hadn’t seen him prior to that, to me, he was brand new when he got there. From the second he got there, immediate impact, like just grabbed everyone’s attention, everyone hated him, and then everyone loved him.”
“When you go back, what makes Macho Man the perfect wrestler was that good guy, I give him 100 as a good guy, as a baby face, awesome. As a heel, clearly 100, there’s maybe nobody better. He was so easy to hate from a wrestling style standpoint, big guy, little guy. Put him in the ring with Ricky Steamboat, who’s not a little guy, but on the smaller side relative to the biggest guys, him and Steamboat have an absolute classic. Put him in the ring with Andre, you know, no problem, gold. You could put him in with anyone and everyone looks good,” he said about Randy Savage.
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