12 Most Alarming Physique Transformations In WWE History

7. Randy Savage

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WWE Hall of Fame class of 2015 inductee Macho Man Randy Savage's physique yo-yo'd constantly throughout his career. He was always in decent shape, for sure, but there were times when there were very abrupt and alarming changes in his appearance. Savage was a larger-than-life character and that meant having larger-than-average muscles.

Savage was in great shape during the 1980s, as everybody who wanted a push during the cartoon era had to be. Savage admitted during an appearance on the Arsenio Hall show in 1992 that he had experimented with anabolic steroids "when they were legal," but that he didn't do it anymore, calling it a 'poison'. Indeed, Savage began wearing a shirt/vest to wrestle in around that time and switched from trunks to long tights in an attempt to hide his loss of size and definition. Savage's physique stayed roughly the same size until the late 1990s when he suddenly and noticeably tacked on lots and lots size.

In order to compensate for his decreasing mobility and speed, Macho instead pumped himself up to incredible proportions and added a gaggle of girls (known as Team Madness) to accompany him to ringside. It was supposed to provide a distraction from his performances in the ring. Savage looked bigger than ever before during his memorable appearance in the 2002 film Spider-Man. The 'Macho Man', who looked positively massive, was 48 years old at the time of filming. A man of that age, with his history of injuries, cannot obtain that size without some form of assistance. Randy Savage died of a heart attack a decade later, aged 58.

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