Randy Savage

Randy Savage appears in ten storylines documented on WrestlingFeuds, as a principal in eight, spanning 1986–1998 in WWF and WCW.

Feuds and rivalries

Golden Era·WWF·1986–1987

Macho Man Randy Savage vs. Ricky The Dragon Steamboat (Nov 1986 – Oct 1987)

Randy Savage crushed Ricky Steamboat's throat with a ring bell. The revenge match, planned move by move on a legal pad, stole WrestleMania III. Steamboat's reward lasted 64 days.

Randy Savage · Ricky Steamboat · Miss Elizabeth · George Steele

Golden Era·WWF·1987–1989

Hulk Hogan vs. Macho Man Randy Savage (Oct 1987 – Apr 1989)

The partnership between Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage collapsed at WrestleMania V in one of the WWF's most carefully built storylines, driven by jealousy over Miss Elizabeth and the WWF Championship.

Hulk Hogan · Randy Savage · Miss Elizabeth

Golden Era·WWF·1990–1991

Macho Man Randy Savage vs. The Ultimate Warrior (Nov 1990 – Aug 1991)

Randy Savage put his career on the line against the Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania VII and lost. Then Miss Elizabeth came over the rail and gave the story its real ending.

Randy Savage · Ultimate Warrior · Sensational Sherri · Miss Elizabeth

Golden Era·WWF·1991–1992

Macho Man Randy Savage vs. Jake The Snake Roberts (Aug 1991 – Feb 1992)

Jake Roberts crashed Randy Savage's wedding reception with a cobra in a gift box, had the real thing bite him on live TV, and slapped Miss Elizabeth. The feud drew death threats, upset Elizabeth's real family, and ended before its WrestleMania payoff.

Randy Savage · Jake Roberts · Miss Elizabeth · The Undertaker

Golden Era·WWF·1992

Macho Man Randy Savage vs. Nature Boy Ric Flair (Jan 1992 – Nov 1992)

Ric Flair walked into the WWF with the NWA's real world title belt under his arm and, months later, doctored photographs claiming he'd had Miss Elizabeth before Randy Savage ever did. Savage's real marriage was already collapsing off camera, and the WWF built its WrestleMania VIII main event on top of it anyway.

Randy Savage · Ric Flair · Miss Elizabeth · Mr. Perfect · Bobby Heenan · Razor Ramon

Attitude Era·WCW·1996

The New World Order vs. WCW (May 1996 – Dec 1996)

Scott Hall's shock walk-in from the crowd on Nitro, Kevin Nash's arrival two weeks later, and Hulk Hogan's heel turn at Bash at the Beach launched an invasion angle built on real WWF contract jumps, turning WCW's Monday night ratings around and igniting the New World Order's first chaotic year against the promotion it claimed to be taking over.

Hulk Hogan · Kevin Nash · Scott Hall · Randy Savage · Sting · Lex Luger

Attitude Era·WCW·1996–1998

Sting vs. Hollywood Hogan (Sep 1996 – Feb 1998)

Eighteen months of Sting silently stalking the New World Order from the rafters built to Starrcade 1997's WCW World Heavyweight Championship match, a finish so botched by conflicting instructions and Hollywood Hogan's last-minute creative control that the title had to be vacated and settled two months later at SuperBrawl VIII.

Sting · Hulk Hogan · Randy Savage · Bret Hart · Lex Luger · Kevin Nash

Attitude Era·WCW·1997

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Macho Man Randy Savage (Mar 1997 – Oct 1997)

Randy Savage joined the nWo and humiliated Diamond Dallas Page's wife on national television to start it, but the feud that followed became the story of a veteran deliberately handing a rising star his career: Savage chose to lose to the Diamond Cutter, twice, and Page never stopped saying so.

Diamond Dallas Page · Randy Savage · Kimberly Page · Miss Elizabeth · Scott Hall

Also appears in

Golden Era·WWF·1989–1990

Jake The Snake Roberts vs. The Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase (Mar 1989 – Apr 1990)

Ted DiBiase, unable to buy or win the WWF Championship, unveiled his own self-sanctioned Million Dollar Championship and spent a year defending it against Jake Roberts, a program built around a kayfabe neck injury, a stolen belt zipped into a bag with a live python, and Big Boss Man's famous face-turning refusal to be bought, before DiBiase kept the belt on a count-out at WrestleMania VI.

Jake Roberts · Ted DiBiase