The Madness
I think at some point in most males lives, they become a fan of wrestling. Sometimes this fandom is brief and sometimes it lasts forever. Personally, I became a wrestling fan around 1996 and that lasted till about 2000-2001.
At first, the WWF was the only game in town. As a kid I had seen some matches and knew some of the characters but I didn't watch the programming regularly. All that changed when WCW came around and the "ratings wars" began.
The established TV show for the WWF at the time was Monday Night Raw. There was no competing show so you had no choice what to watch if you were a wrestling fan. Then WCW began airing Monday Nitro to compete with Raw on the exact same time slot. So began the war between the two companies which would last for over 5 years until the demise of the WCW in 2001.
The WCW was decidedly more gritty and bad boy than the WWF which was part of its initial appeal. The story lines were so convincing it was sometimes tough to tell if it was actually staged or not. They had the nWo, a faction within WCW that was portrayed as a group hell bent on destroying WCW. The WWF had no angle of their own to match this and for a long time(about 84 weeks) lost ratings wise nightly. The thing that saved WWF was Stone Cold vs Mr. McMahon.
Which brings us to the Macho Man Randy Savage, or The Madness, as he sometimes went by. The Mach appeared in both WWF, mostly in the 80's and early 90's and then later in WCW, most times as a part of the nWo. He was mostly an outside in the nWo however on account of his long-standing feud with "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan, the leader of the nWo. Because of this he was often routinely outcast and never given any title shot opportunities that he rightly deserved. However he did have a war with DDP, whom I hated and he had one of the best finishing moves in all of wrestling, the elbow drop from the top rope. Here's a taste of the legend in action.
I will note here that I no longer watch any wrestling programs. Wrestling is pretty much for 10 year olds and white trash hill-billys and if you still watch it religiously past the age of 16 you should probably remove yourself from the gene pool.
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