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Before he started his full-time wrestling career, he was a minor league baseball catcher.
He is a second-generation professional wrestler; his father, Angelo Poffo, was a well-known wrestler in the 1950s and 1960s. His brother Lanny had a moderately successful career as a wrestler, under the stage names "Leaping Lanny Poffo" and "The Genius".
Savage wrestled in what is widely considered to be one of the greatest matches in North American wrestling history when he faced Ricky "the Dragon" Steamboat at Wrestlemania III in the Pontiac Silverdome. The match was the culmination on a long and bitter feud between the two and featured tremendous athleticism and in-ring storytelling. After numerous false finishes, Steamboat pinned Savage to end his reign as WWF Intercontinental Champion. The match was an extremely choreographed one, as opposed to "called on the fly" nature of most wrestling matches. Savage was a stickler for detail and he and Steamboat laid out and rehearsed every spot in the match prior to Wrestlemania. It still stands up to the test of time and is cited by such wrestling luminaries as Chris Jericho as their inspiration for becoming a wrestler.
The Macho Man is known to wrestling fans and non-fans alike for his trademark loud, drawn-out cry of "Ohhhhhhhhhh, yeahhhhhhhhhhhh!" made even more popular by a series of Slim Jim advertisements. For a while, as a wrestler in the WWF, he was managed by Miss Elizabeth (real name Elizabeth Hulette), whom he would often carry down to the ring with her sitting on his shoulder.
During the late 1980's and early 1990's he also became known for a supposed friendship with Hulk Hogan within the WWF (now WWE) that quickly developed into a very open animosity after a botched match, and has never fully faded.
Savage is now pursuing a career as a rap artist; his debut album, Be A Man, was released on October 7, 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U.
Savage also appeared in the original Spider-ManNew York City. Spider-Man (Peter Benjamin Parker, usually simply Peter Parker is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. He was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, and first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 ( 1962). Spider-Man is the quintes feature film, as the underground wrestler "Bone Saw".
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| Preceded by: vacant | First reign | Followed by: Hulk Hogan |
| Preceded by: Ric FlairThe "Nature Boy" Ric Flair (born February 25, 1949 in Memphis, Tennessee) has been one of the leading personalities in professional wrestling since the 1970s. His birth name, depending on the particular documents examined, was Fred Phillips Fred Demaree o | Second reign | Followed by: Ric FlairThe "Nature Boy" Ric Flair (born February 25, 1949 in Memphis, Tennessee) has been one of the leading personalities in professional wrestling since the 1970s. His birth name, depending on the particular documents examined, was Fred Phillips Fred Demaree o |
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