Ranking EVERY WWE Champion From Worst To Best
8. Macho Man Randy Savage
When Hulk Hogan won the WWE Championship for the first time in 1984, he effectively locked down the remainder of the decade in the process. Hulkamania was a juggernaut, with every new commercial and financial peak seemingly then surpassed by another one the North American mainstream had never seen the likes of.
It speaks to just how much of a force of nature Randy Savage was that he was able to take the 1988-1989 run between WrestleMania IV and WrestleMania V and continue to improve on business by every conceivable metric. From formation to fleshing out and ultimately their explosion, The Mega Powers were blockbusters at the box office, but Savage singles matches performed substantially better than expected and the contests themselves were supercharged as opposed to the familiar Hogan formula.
Promotion and performer couldn't quite repeat the trick in 1992 when business in general was heading for the drain, but the Macho Man was at very least the most credible option to steer the ship in a rapidly changing time.