Macho Madness

When you are a boy, you get dealt your first guilty pleasure. Professional Wrestling.

As a kid it is cool but the older you get it, being a wrestling fan just gets creepy. But when I was a kid Professional Wrestling was cool across the board, no matter what age you were. Everyone threw up the Wolfpac sign, everyone knew Stold Cold, and everyone chanted E-C-Dub.

But now I am nineteen-years-old, and fondly reflect on the Attitude Era, WCW and the Extreme Revolution. But I am also seeing a lot of the wrestlers that grew up watching die at an alarming rate and very young.

The latest was "Macho Man" Randy Savage.

I am sure you have heard the story by now, and it is incredibly heart-breaking, especially if you watched wrestling or knew about him.

He had an amazing amount of charisma, and even though he was not my favorite wrestler as kid, I always noticed him and realized that he was passionate about what he did.

I pride myself in my Macho Man impersonation that I have perfected over the years after watching all of his outrageous promos from back in the day on youtube. I still do not like Hogan because of Savage.

Here is one of my favorite videos of the Macho Man:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQxyD0Q7GtU

How could you not like that guy after watching that?

Savage was the spokesperson for Slim Jim for quite awhile too. And in fact after I saw a Slim Jim box in a party store I wanted to write this, as it took me back to being a kid. Staying up till 9 at night watching Nitro and RAW, watching WWF Livewire Saturdays at my Grandma's with my cousin Lindsay and Joey, Nick and I doing our best Too Cool impersonations.

Though I am not the fan I used to be, I would be lying to you if I said I did not check up on it every now and then.

It just does not have that same magic that it did when I was a kid though.

Because guys like the Macho Man are not there anymore.