Definitely a student of old-school pro wrestling, Randy Savage's reclusive nature probably had as much to do with what he would call something like "preserving the madness" as it did with just wanting to be alone after spending the better part of two decades constantly on the road as a pro wrestler. In a business filled with strange characters, Randy Savage was likely the strangest of them all. A devil may care madman whose promos were literally out of this world also had an offensive arsenal involved attacking from heights and angles at that point never seen in professional wrestling, Thus, just being a bit "out there" was par for the course. Of his enigmatic behaviors, while married to Miss Elizabeth, it's said that Savage would dress in a separate locker room from the other wrestlers. Oftentimes, so nervous about his wafe/valet fraternizing with other male wrestlers, he'd lock Elizabeth in said locker room until it was time for Savage to head to the ring. A legend and a strangely enigmatic and reclusive figure, it's notable that every single wrestling fan valued Savage's unique persona so much that to a person, the most die hard of wrestling fans knows where they were and what they were doing the day the Madness died.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
