Former wrestling star Randy "Macho Man" Savage is dead after suffering a heart attack at the wheel of his Jeep and slamming into a tree in Tampa, Fla., Friday morning.
View full sizeRandy "Macho Man" Savage, pictured in 1998, is dead. Police in Tampa, Fla., said he suffered a heart attack and ran his Jeep into a tree, and it was those injuries that killed the 58-year-old, according to the celebrity website tmz.com.Tampa, Fla. -- The celebrity website tmz.com is reporting that former WWE wrestler Randy "Macho Man" Savage died as a result of crashing his Jeep into a tree after suffering a heart attack this morning.
TMZ spoke with Randy's brother, Lanny Poffo, who tells us the wrestling legend suffered a heart attack while he was behind the wheel around 9:25 AM ... and lost control of his vehicle.
Savage, who became a star in the theatrical world of professional wrestling in 1985, was 58. His bride of one year, Lynn, was in the car with him, according to the website, and both were wearing their seatbelts. Alcohol was not a factor, according to tmz.com.
Savage was born in Columbus, Ohio and played minor league baseball in the Cincinnati Reds organization.
Macho Man Randy Savage around the web:
Radar Onliine: "Hulk Hogan tweeted, "I'm completely devastated, after over 10 years of not talking with Randy, we've finally started to talk and communicate. He had so much life in his eyes & in his spirit, I just pray that he's happy and in a better place and we miss him. We miss him a lot.'"
Peter Abraham, Boston Globe: "In my job, you learn not to get too excited when encountering famous people. It's not cool to be a journalist and get all silly when Willie Mays walks by. I got on an elevator once with Muhammad Ali at the 1996 Olympics and managed not to act stupid. But the Macho Man? I had to talk to him. I wasted thousands of hours as a kid watching wrestling and nobody was more entertaining than the Macho Man. OK, maybe George "The Animal" Steele. But Macho Man was a close second."
Hardball Talk: Baseball-Reference.com has all his statistics, which I recommend viewing alongside this video of Savage and Miss Elizabeth entering the ring. He debuted at rookie-ball as an 18-year-old in 1971, hitting .286 with a .492 slugging percentage, and advanced to high Single-A before calling it quits with a .254 batting average in 289 career games."
MTV.com: "Ever the showman, Savage will certainly be missed by legions of fans, but it's nice to know he'll also go down in history as the first guy to challenge Spider-Man to a brawl on the big screen, too."
Source: http://www.cleveland.com/ohio-sports-blog/index.ssf/2011/05/former_wrestler_randy_macho_ma.html
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