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I was looking very forward to doing a blog about the great things I have been watching this week in pro wrestling, but on Friday I heard the new, as I’m sure most of you did, that the “Macho Man” Randy Savage was involved in a fatal car accident. So today’s blog will be about him.

Savage, who was born Randall Mario Poffo, was a second generation superstar born into a wrestling family. His father, the late Angelo Poffo, was a wrestler in the NWA back in the 40s. His brother Lanny was also a wrestler. He wrestled in WWE for Angelo but never made it huge like Randy. He wrestled as the Genius and was wrestling with Mr. Perfect. But of course neither of them was as big as the Macho Man.

Macho Man wrestled in Memphis with the AWA in the beginning of his career, until he signed with the WWE. After joining WWE, Savage brought his real wife, Ms. Elizabeth, into the business to be his valet (that is what they called the female managers back then). He began to feud with Tito Santana for the Intercontinental Championship, which Savage went on to win and hold straight through for over a year. He then went to Wrestlemania 3, to wrestle what many call the greatest wrestling match of all time, Macho Man vs. The Dragon. Ricky Steamboat and Randy Savage tore down the house in Detroit over the Intercontinental title, and though Savage didn’t win that night, being a part of this match made him a viable candidate for the biggest prize in pro wrestling, the WWE Championship.

After losing the IC title, Savage began to get a main event push after he and Hulk Hogan became a tag team and called them the “Mega Powers”. As Wrestlemania 4 came around, a lot of things were up in the air, including the WWE title. There was going to be a 14 man tournament and the winner would win the championship. With the likes of Hogan, Andre the Giant, Don “The Rock” (not that Rock) Muraco, and Ricky Steamboat, you could see how Savage would be an afterthought. But after beating 3 guys, and getting help in the final, Savage reached the panicle of his career, and won the WWE title.

After winning the title, he and Hogan continued to work well together as the Mega Powers, for almost a whole year. Then Ms. Elizabeth came in between the 2 men, and at Wrestlemania 5, the men fought for the WWE title. Savage lost, and afterwards dropped Elizabeth as his valet. Later in his WWE career he and Elizabeth reunited, and Savage had one more reign as the Champ, before he left WWE.

After leaving WWE, Savage signed with WCW. When he started in WCW he was just an announcer, but as time went on he was back in the ring. In fact it was almost like a déjà vu for him. He started feuding with Hulk Hogan (who signed a huge deal with WCW), and Ric Flair, who he had a big feud with in WWE leading up to Wrestlemania 8. Later on in his WCW career he joined the NOW, a faction that was formed by Hogan, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. During his run in WCW he held the WCW world title 4 times, and he helped form a different faction the NOW Wolf pack, which consisted of former NOW members who did not want to follow Hogan.

After leaving WCW, Savage tried his hand in TNA in 2004, but they could not work out an agreement to keep Savage. And beyond wrestling Savage, released a rap (oh yes, I said rap) CD entitled “Be a Man”, including a diss song about Hulk Hogan. Savage has also done a few films, with his most recent main stream film being Spider-Man.

Savage lived a very full life. It was sad to see this life come to an end the way it did on Friday. But as all of us fans know, Macho Man will live forever in our hearts, and in the world of DVDs we can always watch the great moments of his storied career.

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Can someone please speak(for) the Truth?

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As I was watching wrestling this week, I noticed something. A lot of us, who are fans of the business, became fans either in the early to mid 80s, or in the late 90s. For the most part we have been fans before the 2000s, which by most people’s account was not a great decade in the sport of pro wrestling.

But this week I noticed there were a lot of great things going on in wrestling today. A few things in both WWE and TNA. I will do a blog on TNA next week, but there was something I really needed to get off my chest. Again, after watching all of the great things happening in pro wrestling this week, I had to write a blog about what I have seen, that was not so good, and from the title, you have probably figured it out. Today’s blog will be about R-Truth.

I like R-Truth, I think he is a pretty good wrestler, but I would love for someone, anyone, to please talk for him. Truth’s mic skills are just horrible.

Now I have not been following Truth’s career that much. I know he was in WWE back in late 1999, and was gone from the company in 2001. In his 1st stint with the WWE, he really didn’t do anything. I remember watching him and the Road Dogg, form some sort of tag team, where they both came down to the ring rapping, which wasn’t any good at all. Truth was in the 2001 Royal Rumble, and was even the Hardcore Champion, before let go from WWE. So I really didn’t know what he was back then. Didn’t know if he was good enough on the mic to be a superstar.

After leaving WWE he signed with TNA. In TNA he showed a lot of the wrestling world that he could hold his own. He was a two time TNA world champion, and a three time world tag team champion. He was a main event guy in TNA for the 6 years until he re-signed with WWE in 2008.

After coming back to WWE, Truth has been mired in a lower status. We didn’t get a chance to hear him on the mic much. The only time was when he was rapping his theme song. It has taken him almost three years to get into the title picture. He had a reign as the United States champion, but that was for less than a month. And he has not been anywhere near the title, until this past month.

On a recent episode of Monday Night RAW, Truth was named co-number one contender for the WWE championship. This was a good thing. As you all know, I like to see new guys in the title picture. Even if they don’t win, it is a big boost to the business to not have the same guys wearing the title. So the next week Truth comes on, and I realize why it has taken him so long to be in the main event. He is still no good on the mic. He had a monologue which none of the fans got into. Then he was interrupted by his friend John Morrison, and put his title shot on the line, and lost. But even better for his career, he turned on his friend, and became a heel (bad guy). But again, when he was on the mic, he really was bad.

I think this next year could be great for Truth. He could be a main player in the WWE for this next year. There is some much he can do in the ring, and with him being a heel, he can push the envelope as much as he wants. But I think he will not make it in the business (especially in WWE) if he does not have anyone to speak for him. Vickie Guerrero, Michael Cole, hell bring Bobby The Brain Heenan back, please just get someone to talk for him, and let him do what he does best…….wrestle.


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Just as I was about to write all about Christian

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If you did not know from the title, this week’s blog is about Christian losing the World Heavyweight Championship, The New World Champ, Randy Orton, and how that shapes out for the WWE going into the summer.


1st let’s start with Christian. My mind was set on writing a blog all about Christian and his finally winning a World Championship in WWE. But after watching Smackdown on Friday, that has all changed. Though he was only Champion for 2 days (I know Smackdown airs on Friday’s, but its taped on Tuesdays), I want to congratulate him on winning the big one in WWE. This was not his first world title. Back in February of 2006, when he worked for TNA he won his first World title. And that reign was longer than his most recent one (even though back when he won it, he beat Jeff Jarrett, who at the time was the owner of TNA, and never let anyone hold the belt for too long). So Christian is no stranger to being a champion, but him winning in WWE after being in the company, leaving then coming back, it was like vindication for him, I’m sure.


Now moving on to Randy Orton. We all know Randy’s story. He was with the group Evolution. And at 24 years old, he won his 1st world title. Later in his career, he became a super heel (bad guy), and would kick people in the head, and hit the RKO (that is his finishing move) on anyone at any time. He had an outstanding feud with John Cena back in 2009. He was my favorite wrestler at the time. Then all of a sudden, even as a heel, the fans started to like Orton, and started cheer for him, whenever he did anything. But instead of keeping him as a bad guy, WWE turned him in to a good guy, and I don’t think that is working for him. I think this character is very limiting to Randy. He is not Cena, he can carry being a heel, where as a guy like Cena, just cannot.


What does this mean for the world title, and the WWE going in to the summer? I’m not quite sure. Now that the WWE draft has taken place, and the rosters are set, it looks like we have new guys who are going to get a chance to be stars. Just this past week, on the same smackdown where we had a world title match, we also had Mark Henry come out and make his intentions of being a challenger for the title, known. Henry has never been a champion, and it was good to some new blood in the mix. Even Christian being champion was great because he was a guy who has never been to the top of the mountain in WWE. With a proven champion like Orton on smackdown with the world title, I think he can elevate these guys to take the place of the most recently retired Shawn Michaels, and Edge.



With a new World Champion, Smackdown may be turning the corner and become a big time brand for WWE.


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