Wrestling's BIG DUMB IDIOTS Who Thought They Were COOL! ?
5. Macho Man Randy Savage (1999)
Randy Savage was maybe the coolest man alive in the 1980s. Both a tonic to the bombast of Hulk Hogan and somehow fifty times more bombastic than ‘The Hulkster’ himself, Savage was a psycho in sequins and nobody could even get close to mirroring his genuinely magnificent idiosyncrasies. He encapsulated the preposterous aspiration of the era, and yet never once felt destined to become a relic of the day.
The Macho Man as we knew him was forever timeless. The Macho Man of 1999 was dated before he arrived.
Believing the trick to modernising his act was creating a 90s retrograde version of it, Savage became a jacked-up dudebro clad in black leather as shiny as his oiled-up (and bigger than ever) biceps. His in-ring work had been ultra-valuable to WCW’s upper midcard for three years, but his zip and dynamism were sacrificed for the size.
It also didn’t help that the company had one ludicrously oversized nutcase already, and Scott Steiner (ironically aping much of the Hogan stuff that had been lifted from Billy Graham) was a study in contrast to how an industry icon really lost his cool.