Lives in a Shoe: Wrestler Randy Savage Died This Morning

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Friday, 20 May 2011

Wrestler Randy Savage Died This Morning

In 1984 I attended a WWF event in the Tacoma Dome with two young boys. Randy Savage was beaten to the canvas and one of the villains grabbed a chair -- a chair! -- and advanced with evident intent to knock his brains out. I know it's hard to believe, but the ref was facing the other way and did not see this, despite yells from the crowd. In the nick of time, Miss Elizabeth jumped into the ring and grabbed the chair from the bad guy, saving Macho Man from certain debraining.

I followed the story of Macho Man Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth* for years in a kind of absent way. Interesting to see that their action figures are still for sale -- "Power and Beauty" -

Leaving aside the issue of hypocrisy of these steroid-enhanced actors, WWF wrestling in those more-innocent days was a vehicle for transmission of our society's morality, our ideas of right and wrong. Fair play is right, chivalry is right, staying in school is right, avoiding drugs is right. This was a good thing.

WWF wrestling was a place of almost cheerful sexism and racism. Miss Elizabeth was scantily dressed. The Asian guy came out to the strains of tinkly "chinese" music. The black guy wore a bone necklace and carried a macaw. The Arab wore a burnoose and carried a wad of dollars marked "oil money". This was not so good.

(Source: Vince Bucci/Getty Images) Randy Savage, known as Macho Man when he wrestled for the WWE, died when he had a car accident near Tampa after suffering a heart attack

TAMPA (CBSMiami.com) – Former WWE heavyweight champion Randy “Macho Man” Savage died Friday morning in a car accident in Tampa, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Savage, who spent most of the 1980s and ’90s as a superstar in the wrestling industry, died when the 2009 Jeep Wrangler “veered across a concrete median…through oncoming traffic…and collided head-on with a tree.”

I enjoyed your work, Mr. Savage. Rest in peace.

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* Miss Elizabeth and Randy Savage were married briefly. She died of a drug overdose in the early 90s.

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