Lynn frantically looked at Randy, then out the front window at the motorcycle and bus moving in their direction. Lynn, 56, sustained minor injuries.
Randy was pronounced dead at Largo Medical Center. Since that day, two years ago on May 20, , the real-life Randy Mario Poffo has been depicted as a recluse at the end of his life, a former celebrity who let his beard grow white, kept a registered gun in his glove compartment, and sequestered himself in a home surrounded by security fences and patrolled by guard dogs.
But his family says that he was always accessible to them and spent his final months contemplating his legacy—personally, professionally and financially—and making up for time lost to fame.
There was all this energy and no place to put it. Randy was different. Within the perimeter of the non-climbable fence, two dogs patrolled the acre-and-a-half surrounding his dark wooden home, built in a style more representative of the Old West than the modern Gulf Coast.
On the brick pillars on each side of the front gate, cameras surveilled possible visitors. Before their arrival, Randy called his mother with an unusual request: the ashes of his dog, Hercules, a German shepherd from a litter owned by the late wrestler, Hercules Hernandez.
If anything happens, I want you to do the same thing with my ashes, the same way, the same place. In another family, a year-old retired athlete might be beseeched not to speak in such morose terms. But Randy talked like this often. More than wrestling, more than baseball, more than the women he romanced on- and off-camera, Randy loved his father. In , while serving in the U. Navy, Angelo broke the world sit-up record. The story about him taxing himself to the point that his tailbone protruded from his skin is an exaggeration.
But Angelo did develop some form of friction burn and bled on the mat. His clenched fingers were swollen and temporarily sealed together. Then, he played baseball that night. Officially, Angelo completed 6, sit-ups in just over four hours. He followed up with another 33 — for every year he believed that Jesus lived. In , the school was absorbed by DePaul University, the largest Catholic university in the nation. When the couple wed in , neither family was pleased. Randy would do anything for Angelo, sending his parents on trips to Japan and Europe and Israel until they told him they were too tired to travel.
Petersburg prep school, on the condition that the facility was named for his father. Randy was thrifty, too. Naturally a righty, Randy taught himself how to throw with his left hand in the event of an injury. As a high school senior, he hit. When no team picked him up in the amateur draft, Angelo drove his son five hours to an open tryout at Busch Stadium in St. Randy went home with a minor league contract.
Starting in , they dated for three years before veering in separate directions. She only knew him as a failed baseball player. His final attempt to play in the major leagues ended when the White Sox organization cut him in , before the end of spring training. But The Sheik saved him. Army vet whose wrestling gimmick included bloodying rivals with a hidden pencil, throwing fire and jabbering incomprehensible phrases fans took to be Arabic.
He was also the promoter in Detroit, where Angelo and Lanny were wrestling at the time. Randy wrestled The Sheik, and he got over real good. Randy brazenly stole from both. The other touches—the head tics, sucking in his bottom lip, twirling his fingers above his head—were all his. Randy and other ICW performers began showing up at opposition shows, threatening to disrupt matches and frightening their adversaries to the point that some began arming themselves.
Savage grappled it away and pistol-whipped him. And he was colorful. In wrestling circles, the Macho Man suddenly had national exposure.
Angelo had dementia by this point, and his functions were failing quickly. Like the Poffos, the Von Erichs were a multi-generational wrestling family. Father Fritz began his career playing a Nazi heel, but later, as a promoter in Dallas, depicted himself as a tough, devout Texan while building storylines around his sons. He spent four seasons in the minor leagues, hitting. In the offseason of the baseball year, Savage entered into the professional wrestling scene.
He debuted as The Spider, which was a character that was based on Spider-Man. From the advice of Ole Anderson, he changed his wrestling name to "Randy Savage. He began wrestling with his father and brother. They were unable to get a serious push, so their father created the International Championship Wrestling promotion in He was being billed as the top free agent in professional wrestling. Savage chose Miss Elizabeth as his manager and his gimmick involved him being an egotistic person who would verbally abuse Elizabeth and attack anyone that even looked at her.
He would win the title in early , by using an illegal steel object that was hidden in his tights. Steele developed a crush on Elizabeth, which led to the feud and a match at WrestleMania 2.
Savage would win all title matches against Steele and held the belt for over a year. Savage then crossed paths with Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat. The two met at WrestleMania III, in what is considered by many as the greatest match in professional wrestling history. Unlike most matches at the time, Savage and Steamboat planned and practice every detail of the match. The match included 19 two-counts and the extremely high pace never dropped.
It would end with Steamboat ending Savage's near month reign as Intercontinental Champion. Around The Web Provided by Taboola.
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