1. Ricky Steamboat vs. Randy Savage (Intercontinental Champion)- Wrestlemania 3
This match is considered by many to be the best Wrestlemania match of all time and after watching it I can understand why. It is one of the best technical matches ever put together on wrestling's biggest stage. This match set a standard in storytelling and action that is missing in today's presentation. Savage would lose to Steamboat but he would prove to be one of the best athletes wrestling ever had.
2. Randy Savage (World Champion) vs. Hulk Hogan-Wrestlemania 5
Long before Shawn Michaels or Bret Hart won the WWE World championship belt in the land of the giants. Macho Man Randy Savage did it with wrestling's biggest star: Hulk Hogan. The story was that Savage thought Hogan wanted Miss Elizabeth and in a jealous rage attacked Hogan. Savage would lose the WWE title to Hogan but would still be recognized as on of the WWE's best.
3. Randy Savage (World Champion) vs. Ric Flair-WCW
I know that Ric Flair and Randy Savage feuded in WWE but I loved their feuds in WCW even better. Here is a link to their Starrcade'95 match: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xzzj_macho-man-randy-savage-vs-ric-flair_sport. Randy always made you believe that he hated Flair and vice versa. Two of the very best ever.
4. Randy Savage vs. Diamond Dallas Page
This is the rivalry that put DDP on the map. I'll never forget how it started when Macho Man showed pictures of DDP's then wife Kimberly in Playboy covered by the NWO logo. Out came Kimberly humiliated by being spray-painted. Here's a link to the actual moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34fsgq1kSIE
At that time from about 1995 to 1997 wrestling would begin to turn a corner and go into the late 90's era that would bring pro wrestling back into the mainstream. From sexy women (Sunny, Sable, Kimberly) and Extreme action (ECW). Macho Man was apart of two separate boom periods.
RIP Macho Man.
You will never be forgotten
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