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Today is a sad day for those of us whom are professional wrestling fans, as it was discovered that legendary wrestling superstar, Macho Man Randy Savage died today in a car accident that was triggered by a heart attack while he was behind the wheel.\u00a0 He was 58 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n Typically the deaths of wrestlers come as no surprise to me, as throughout the years, I\u2019ve shrugged off the deaths of numerous sub-40 year old wrestlers whom I certainly do remember, but were mostly indifferent about their passings.\u00a0 Renegade, Test, Rocco Rock, and Crash Holly come to mind as wrestlers who died early, mostly because of their own stupidity and\/or drug problems. \u00a0There was a stretch between 2004-2008 where there was pretty much another wrestler dying on a monthly basis.\u00a0 And every time, it was the same stories \u2013 heart failure.\u00a0 Drug overdose.\u00a0 Or both.<\/span><\/p>\n If they were big enough wrestlers, then the media would get a hold of the stories, and then point their fingers at steroids, and just how stupid professional wrestling is.\u00a0 Otherwise, they would die in relative obscurity, except to those of us who remember them as enthusiasts.<\/span><\/p>\n But the death of Macho Man is different. \u00a0The death of Macho Man legitimately makes me feel a little bit sad.\u00a0 Macho Man\u2019s death isn\u2019t just the death of one man, but it\u2019s also the death of a small slice of childhood.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n To some degree, I can rank how much a wrestler\u2019s passing affects me; to some it seems silly to be a little affected by people I didn\u2019t know who made a living running around in wrestling trunks, jumping off the top rope, hitting each other with chairs, and pretending to fight and hate one another.\u00a0 But what can I say, some people obsess over shit like Twitter and Facebook, and as a kid, I obsessed over pro-wrestling, and still enjoy it to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n But anyway, the few times I have been disturbed by wrestlers passing have been: Eddie Guererro, Chris Benoit, Ray Traylor, Curt Hennig, and now Randy Poffo, the real name behind The Madness.<\/span><\/p>\n Guerrero\u2019s passing was sad, because here was a guy who literally battled back from all sorts of injury and addiction, found God, and cranked his career up to eleven, and legitimately was on top of the world, when the payback for years of substance abuse simply came to collect at an inopportune time.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n Chris <\/span>Benoit was the story of a man who was an incredible performer, who simply succumbed to the monsters inside of him, and was involved in one of the most horrific real-life murder stories – he strangled his wife (also a former wrestling personality), murdered his child, and then hung himself, in the ultimate coward\u2019s way out.\u00a0 All of this happened, not too far from where I live today, less than the distance it takes for me to get to work.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe Big Boss Man,\u201d Ray Traylor, and \u201cMr. Perfect,\u201d Curt Hennig\u2019s deaths upset me in the same way that Macho Man\u2019s death upsets me.\u00a0 The three of these guys were prominent stars in the era of wrestling that I grew up with.\u00a0 With each of their passings, it feels like another sliver of my childhood fandom has died with them.\u00a0 Not only do I have fond remembrances of matches that all these guys have had, but I still admired and loved them after I got older, and I saw former shells of their once great selves still trotting out to the ring, having adapted to the times, and engaging in over-the-top storylines and character changes.\u00a0 The ever-evolving wrestling business, and these guys stayed with it until the very bitter ends.<\/span><\/p>\n Google the words “macho” and “man,” and it’s a forgone conclusion that the top image result is Randy Savage.\u00a0 If you look on Youtube for Slim Jim commercials, and you’re going to end up with Randy Savage.\u00a0 If you ever hear anyone go “oooooh yeah,” it’s assumed that it’s a Macho Man impression.\u00a0 The words “dig it,” are synonymous with Randy Savage.\u00a0 His impact on culture beyond wrestling is gargantuan than people realize.<\/span><\/p>\n However, Macho Man\u2019s in a slightly different boat, which adds to the sadness of his end.\u00a0 Unlike most wrestlers in the industry, he was one of the very few who never truly made his peace with Vince McMahon, the ever monopolized owner of the business.\u00a0\u00a0 Seeds were sown for his eventual re-emergence onto WWE television, as one of the last things he did was a web-spot for the latest WWE video game, which he was actually a part of, which is a pretty big leap to begin with.<\/span><\/p>\n But to those fans \u201cin the know,\u201d would know, Macho Man and Vince McMahon never really liked each other for the longest time.\u00a0 And McMahon is the kind of guy that can let any bygones be bygones, as long as there\u2019s profit to be made, but throughout the last two decades, Macho Man was the one guy that would never return.\u00a0 All sorts of rumors, from just some severe head-case bridge burning, to Poffo being the guy that took daughter, Stephanie\u2019s virginity are all out there to why the two never could work together, but the fact was, that Macho Man was denied to the fans for the longest time.\u00a0 And now, it\u2019s too late.<\/span><\/p>\n Macho Man never got a DVD set, like many previous controversial wrestlers in the past already have, from Bret Hart, Hulk Hogan, all the way to the Ultimate Warrior.\u00a0 Vince\u2019s greatest banes, enemies, annoyances, and competition have all been given a share of the limelight, and subsequent monetary benefits, at some point, but Macho Man never did.<\/span><\/p>\n Macho Man was never inducted into the superficial WWE Hall of Fame.\u00a0 When he is next year, it\u2019ll be for all the wrong reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n But what kind of sucks a lot is that Macho Man was on the very small list of wrestlers that I\u2019d love to have met one day.\u00a0 I\u2019ve met Hogan, I\u2019ve met Foley, I\u2019ve met DiBiase, and I\u2019ve met a lot of jobbers that have been amusing to meet.\u00a0 Meeting the Macho Man would\u2019ve been one of those unforgettable encounters.\u00a0 But it\u2019ll never happen.<\/span><\/p>\n The funny thing is that Macho Man came up in a conversation Huzzard and I had, literally a day ago, while talking about old school wrestling, and how today\u2019s matches never end on surprise pins, like small packages, or sunset flips.\u00a0 And how some of the greatest matches in history did, namely two of Macho Man\u2019s greatest Wrestlemania matches, against Ricky Steamboat at WMIII, and Ric Flair, at WMVIII.<\/span><\/p>\n I guess the long hiatus since the last wrestler\u2019s death only meant that someone big was going to be next.<\/span><\/p>\n Beef, spice.\u00a0 Art thou bored?\u00a0 OOoooOOhhHH yeah, brother.\u00a0 DIG IT!\u00a0 R.I.P, 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