Macho Man Randy Savage DVD Review: 16 Things You Should Know

10. The Perfectionist

Another obsessive trait of Randy was his perfectionism in regards to matches. He never called matches in the ring, nor did he listen to an opponent calling bouts. Instead, he insisted on planning out matches on paper beforehand... point by point. Whether that made him a better or worse wrestler we'll never know for sure, but it certainly made him different from the majority of guys who just do brief points and then call it in the ring. "This was the way Randy does it," Ricky Steamboat says as he details how Randy plotted on paper their epic Mania 3 bout move for move. "If something was screwed up he would lose it completely," Pat Patterson says. The dedication that Savage put into his match planning was also mirrored in his character planning. Dusty Rhodes says that "Randy knew his character as well as anyone." "If you said to Randy, be a monk for two weeks, he'd study how to be a monk and live like a monk lived."