"The most iconic promo man in professional wrestling history." There's very few wrestlers who can fill the shoes required by that description, and Randy Savage, the first inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame for 2015, is certainly on that list. Much more than twirling a finger and screaming "Oooh Yeah!," Savage's promos were at times baffling, oftentimes intense, sometimes uniquely verbose, and at yet other moments completely gripping and able to sell wrestling fans everywhere on the absolute necessity of watching Randy Savage wrestle anyone, anytime, anywhere. Quite possibly not just one of a few on wrestling's most iconic promo man list, maybe Savage is actually at the top of the heap. Savage's best work as a talker in pro wrestling may have actually come when he was not in the then-WWF, but rather when he was wrestling in Memphis for his father Angelo Poffo's ICW, or for Jerry Lawler's CWA. In both territories he's more of a wildman than in the WWF, his promos showcasing a certain rabid level of absolute intensity. Of course, there's his time breaking into the WWF in 1985 and 1986 which set a new standard for stream-of-consciousness promos, or as well channeling his intensity into taking down Hulkamania and even better yet, as the "Macho King" alongside his "Queen" Sherri Martel, too. An absolute legend, he has literally hundreds of incredible promos. However, these are 15 of the best.
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.
