Another Wrestling Icon Taps Out For Good

Lanny Poffo, who found glory in Wrestling?s heyday as ?The Macho Man Randy Savage,? died in a car accident Friday in Pinellas County Florida. It was another Saturday night in the fall of 1986. My brother and I stood shirtless in front of an old, wood paneled TV, arguing over who had the biggest ?pythons.? ?Mean? Gene Okerlund was setting up the match, his mustache twitching as he talked. Jake ?The Snake? Roberts sat in the corner of the ring, his giant Boa Constrictor slithering through his fingertips. Suddenly a man with space-age shades emerged from the tunnel. Everyone jumped to their feet. We stood with mouths agape ? The Macho Man was in the building. He was the only guy who could suck the air out of the room in the presence of Hulk Hogan. With his big colorful cowboy hat, he would storm down the aisle, slip under the ropes and reach down to flex his traps like the Savage he was. In those days ?professional wrestling? was in its prime. Characters like Hulk, Rowdy Roddy Piper, The Honky Tonk Man, and Andre The Giant seemed to beat themselves to near death on a weekly basis; and we [...]

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