10 Wrestlers You Won't Believe Never Had A Five Star Match
6. Randy Savage
Randy Savage was a beacon of realism in the exaggerated, cartoonish Golden Age of the WWF. He was athletic. He was intense. He was such a method professional wrestler that he sold his elbow immediately after striking an opponent with it. Selling wasn't a halfhearted routine for Savage, something to do before taking his turn to do a move. It was essential to his craft.
He wrestled a number of classics throughout his glorious run, even when he was past his mercurial best in WCW. He wrestled what many even refer to as the greatest wrestling match of all time. Meltzer is not one of them.
Closest Candidate: Randy Savage Vs. Ricky Steamboat, WrestleMania III.
It was awarded ****1/2 by the Observer, but Savage Vs. Steamboat is so widely regarded as a masterpiece that it might as well have been given the full five stars. But is that conventional wisdom entirely correct?
With its preordained layout, breathless pace and convoluted sequences of counters and reversals, it tore up the in-ring language of the WWF and informed essentially everything (good) that came after it - and the wider storyline is paid off beautifully with Savage going after Steamboat's throat - but it's not on the emotive and nuanced level of Steamboat's matches with Ric Flair.
Savage was a five star worker, but sacrilegious as it may be to some, this is not a five star match.