Macho Man's BIZARRE Interview

Randy "Macho Man" Savage was always "entertaining" but this interview is rather bizarre. Then it's followed up by Ox Baker. Welcome to professional wrestling. Watch Classic Wrestling OnDemand at vimeo.com/ondemand/classicwre...

[@hexkwondo]

Macho Man was on the weird side of youtube decades before youtube was even thought of!

[@RyanBenbow]

You are weird and odd.

[@Greasyheels]

The way he holds that tiny mic is hilarious to me

[@smoothvoicemail1407]

😂

[@HatedHumanist]

This is trippier, crazier, and funnier than anything Adult Swim has ever forcibly produced. LOL

[@dosomething5062]

ever watched world peace on as?

[@e.b.6144]

You can use the word "forcibly". How talented you are.

[@dennisbowen452]

Yeah adult swim is a joke now ngl

[@HitLeftistsWithHammers]

@@e.b.6144 was that a big word to you? What's special about it?

[@chrisfrench8006]

@@HitLeftistsWithHammers E.B. is the special part of that word! Lol

[@sultanofsneak]

This promo needs more cowbell

[@spfdff]

Macho Man can do no wrong!

[@tonoslim]

spfdff exactly!!!

[@regulardadhere8832]

Puts me in mind of those crazy nwo videos in black and white. Savage was ahead of his time. Also his shirt has come true G.O.A.T.

[@sickofidiots4095]

Probably the single greatest motivational speech ever.

[@dustyjarvis464]

Sickof Idiots Hell yeah MAN

[@kidsfromthenorth3191]

Damn, Neil deGrasse Tyson looks young here!

[@dillclinton4379]

Neil was paying his way through college by doing some wrestling commentary

[@colonellingus7220]

Dill Clinton hahaah

[@miketyson1240]

bman4621 Neil was a muscular fit wrestler back then

[@miketyson1240]

Google it, Neil was in great shape and a good wrestler

[@troyf.9050]

+Deep Waters.. true! Neil was in great shape & he also looked like he should've been jamming with the Commodores!

[@whydoineedahandle406]

Broken Randy Savage. lol

[@Cazz8203]

Please dont compare randy to that moronic broken matt bullshit

[@johngist3761]

That synth stab at 2:05 has me in tears. 😂😂😂😂

[@MarkPiggy79]

RIP Randy Savage. You'll always be my favorite wrestler of all times.

[@mikehunt4986]

The flashing lights, the synth stabs, Irene Cara's "Fame" playing in the background...that promo by Macho Man was absolutely fucking BONKERS! And then Ox Baker shows up, screaming like a maniac! This is AMAZING!

[@joshuacruz4244]

You can tell he was learning and discovering what his character should be like at that time.

[@Nightrain76]

Vince McMahon: "Hire this man!"

[@shemailgoondall9531]

Nightrain76 nah, Vince has Roman reigns running his wrestling Roman empire!

[@Nightrain76]

I think Roman needs to be completely repackaged. We all know he is Samoan, so calling him Roman makes no sense at this point.

[@shemailgoondall9531]

I think he should be gotten rid of from wwe, he's bringing down wwe

[@milkcarton6654]

#nighttrain76 Vince: "i've got the best idea, Roman is samoan and his shoot first name is Joe. Let's call him SAMOA JOE."

[@BenJohnson0531]

Milk Carton that's how the real Samoa Joe got his name, as there was another Joe at his wrestling school.

[@Junkay2]

People who watch Randy Savage's ICW and Memphis primos would be shocked to realize that the intense guy they saw on WWF/WWE television in the 80s was actually a toned down version of the Macho Man!

[@VolumedMusicMan]

Randy was something completely different. I mean that as a complement. That’s why Vince went with him in 85.

[@actionsub]

I remember his first TV match in WWF. Savage was like nothing else: nonstop, aerial, chaotic. You could not take your eyes off the TV when he was on.

[@russellgoulding4263]

That wasn't an interview. That was an epic Shakespearean LOL soliloquy.

[@gfolkins1]

Ox Baker was once a contestant on The Price is Right

[@mrnaji]

...Scared the HELL out of Bob Barker

[@moderusprime]

So is this where Eric Bischoff got the ideas for the nWo videos from. Sure looks like it.

[@DrBeef216]

This interview gave me epilepsy.

[@simpsonhomersimpson2071]

Dr.Beef K then

[@teeoak]

This has cured my seizures!

[@mrvapor4791]

I'm fucking spazzing out watching this man!

[@powertoachieve]

teeoak 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@NightWarriorAlive]

Freak out, freak out! That's what it's all about, oh yeah!

[@x5079x]

OOOOH YEAAAAH! Macho WAAAYY ahead of his time! BAD ASS!!

[@PsychomachineryEBM]

Absolutely

[@kevinrichmond6513]

x5079x most definitely

[@thesnakeman8006]

Huh,always wondered what savage sounded like without the raspy voice

[@huflungdung8252]

Randy Headroom

[@gadget00]

Haywood Yahblowmee LOOLOLOLOL

[@dreammule]

Haha, Wow.. that's exactly who I was thinking about seconds before seeing this comment.

[@VirtuaFighterRPG]

Oxe Baker??? Wow, another incredible persona.

[@AreaEightyNine]

"You goof!" lmao

[@thebigandgreat1]

Yeah the gimmick for Savage wasn't as fine tuned as it would be years later.

[@mrnaji]

ICW Savage>Any Version of Savage after this run

[@natalieparker5928]

I disagree. Watch Savage in the late 70s and early 80s and he's the same old Macho Man you see 10 years later in WWF. He's just 'different' or 'primitive sounding' in this video..

[@shaolin1derpalm]

I think from here to his memphis run was best. His wwf run was missing "do the thing" and "confetti".

[@ericjackson7632]

@@shaolin1derpalm He did it early on. A lot on 1985 and it gradually fell off. By 1987 it was full on WWF Macho Man. Still great but Savage was more raw in ICW and Memphis. Almost reminds me of Austin in 1996 & 1997 verses 1998 onward.

[@shaolin1derpalm]

@@ericjackson7632 agree. Actually when he said "Elizabeth! Do the thing!" I was happy. I grew up on wwf macho. I hated him lol. Not in the good way. I refused to watch his matches. But I eventually came around. But "Confetti! Don't tell me nothin' man!" Is just so epic. His best wwf promos to me were his Hot Dogg'n and Grandstand'n, and his late era interview "It's okay, not really".

[@DeSoto1986]

wait i didn't eat my mushroom stash yet

[@missumenimsatanass]

this is back when he lived here in Lexington Kentucky when his dad had the awesome promotion ICW. I loved ICW wrestling back then. They got all the stars and had great story lines. Randy wasnt very well known here and lived next door to my uncle. I use to go over and watch them wrestle in the back yard all the time. I watched randy get in fights with Rick flair one time and JYD another time and a couple of indy wrestlers I didnt know. lol. It was def interesting living next door. always something going on there. lol. I didnt realize how lucky I was then. As I said though he wasnt that big yet. Plus I didnt really watch wrestling till I met him.

[@thegoughandbordenfamily8234]

Savage didn't wrestle Flair back then or in a backyard in the 70s lol

[@mrnaji]

Better than any promo today

[@SamsonWhitemoon]

That porno music and special fx makes it even funnier hahahahahaha

[@HyperRoboTenguris1984]

The music was actually Randy's theme from when he wrestled in Memphis and in ICW, Irene Cara's "Fame".

[@dmac5472]

Mitchell Patterson man if I were only about 5-6 yrs older. i came into fandom around 87 at 5 and there was def some cool stuff going on. but i need to go back nd dig up the early 80s

[@baeshin]

LOL pretty sure that was Fame sung by Irene Cara.. unless I didn't watch long enough for the porno music to start...

[@johngist3761]

That synth stab at 2:07 has me in tears. 😂😂😂😂

[@LyricMind]

Could you imagine that at your front door?

[@killerjoe9524]

That music would win a Grammy for best hip-hop today.

[@Excalibur2112]

Ox Baker looked like Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon a bit, lol....

[@RoxyDarkness]

The 80's seems so awesome! If only there were a time machine

[@79tazman]

I was about to adjust the rabbit ear antenna on my UHF VHF TV damn I am get flashbacks and was that the song to the TV show Fame I was hearing

[@Gootothesecond]

I think I figured out what's happening here, I'm high.

[@bettywhite9634]

Stoner Randy seemed a little more chill compared to Coked up Randy. Both pretty awesome 😎

[@insicknessandindeath]

It's Ox Baker stumbling over his words at the end that does it for me

[@CactusJacksEar]

"I will be the champyun!"

[@martygowen8018]

This is solid GOLD!! Prowrestling needs to return to this. Nobody was better than Macho Man!! RIP man. OHHH YEAA!!

[@Makron5]

WWE will never let anyone become another Macho Man or Hulk Hogan. They script em to death. I saw a few years back that there's some serious charismatic talent being dragged to hell by the way they do things. Even Mojo Rawley when you took him off the script showed some actual character and personality. Vince McMahon is the problem with wrestling and always has been since he kill the territories. Him and Kevin Dunn hate wrestling yet it's the only damn thing that made them money.

[@akkermansia1488]

This was before he warped his vocal cords to sound how he sounded later on. He was still working on it at this point.

[@williehill47]

ICW was in syndication here in Philly back in the 80's late Sunday night

[@jamesstinedurf9841]

there's a method to the madness

[@ShogunX11]

James Stinedurf Macho Madness

[@troylowe814]

I miss this kind of insane territory wrestling. Sooooo glad I grew up on ICW and Memphis wrestling.

[@prettynoose8497]

This is not 'bizarre'...this is classic Savage in full character. He had classic charisma that todays wrestlers severely lack

[@wyattrussell7496]

Macho Man was the original mod to the broken gifs subreddit.

[@TravelingTal]

Cocaine is a hellava drug....

[@joshuacruz4244]

Bro its a character and an act you can clearly see he was new to the game of wrestling and discovering what his character should be like.

[@genlightbeer7676]

Well that was an acid trip.😳

[@dono2926]

😳

[@jet-up2474]

😲

[@reggiecarter9581]

Ox bakers interview was weirder than Randy’s...😳

[@DNSV-ex8of]

I like how he passes the mic back and forth from hand to hand the whole time Lol.

[@andyappleton3353]

"Greatest of all time" Love it. Savage lives forever in all of us.

[@83reggieT]

how many hits of acid brought that about?

[@joeyshoe9095]

Damn I love Macho’s promo but Ox Baker is a straight savage in this

[@mcbillygoat2413]

This video is ahead of its time.

[@ATHOMEDAD777]

Loved watching this. Part of ICW's territory was here in Southern Illinois and I got to watch Savage, Leaping Lanny, (and their dad, Angelo Poffo.) One Man Gang Ronnie Garvin, Pistol Pez Whatley, The Great Kabuki, Hustler Rip Rogers, Ox Baker and many others at live events as a kid.

[@logancaine9616]

It's like the Max Headroom channel hijacking, but a thousand times better.

[@baddboo]

That was like wrestling while on LSD... lol

[@dgenerate707]

Randy was nWo long b4 96.

[@clydemosis]

And THIS is why we have conspiracy theories...

[@bo0tybandit]

A young Rev. Jesse Jackson back when he was wrastlin' for equalities in the ring.

[@johndohio]

Randy Savage: the dude you want on your side if you were in prison. Nobody would fuck with you

[@horizontoday7874]

Wow! He looked about 250 lbs here

[@TravelingTal]

3:56 "One Man Garvin" "One gang Garvin" "One man Garvin Gang" "One man Randy Garvin" WTF was this genius smoking?

[@VladamireD]

Ronnie Garvin's nickname was "One Man Gang" so he kept messing it up, LOL!

[@thegoughandbordenfamily8234]

@@VladamireD no one man gang and Garvin both wrestled there

[@hawaiisidecar]

I had lunch with Ox back in 2003. What a gentleman!

[@alphadeathclaw417]

I feel like I'm tripping balls while a jacked Doctor Teeth from the Muppets is yelling at me.

[@sassytroy8282]

Savage channelling his Wolfman from The Hilarious House of Frightenstein.

[@nelsonian7077]

Macho Man before the coke years, lol, I miss you Randy.

[@miamimagicians]

Young Machoman, theres nothing better! He had this weird way of getting over people loved him

[@betaboog]

miamimagicians what do u mean by getting over ppl

[@neverwalkalone7081]

lol,seriously? Stacking bodies in piles then tossing someone over top of the pile,obviously

[@betaboog]

neverwalkalone ur sick

[@Gootothesecond]

So he was on psychedelics before the coke? Was Savage secretly Hunter S. Thompson?

[@peterp2153]

Lols like Randy doing a promo being beamed in from another dimension.

[@kevinrichmond6513]

Randy had it all wrestling will never be the same without Savage he is definitely one of the all time greats that made me wrestling fan for life

[@danlivni2097]

Ox Baker looks like the bad guy in Flash Gordon from the 1980 movie

[@lampini]

South paw regional wrestling’s interview table was so accurate it’s absolutely Amazing

[@trxxxtr]

I use your go to the taping of ICW all the time as a kid. It was so great that it was here in Lexington KY. ICW was to me the best wrestling show on tv.

[@Poffomaniac]

Any pre 1981 tv tapings you recall? Icw was the best

[@rh5466]

Is that Jesse Jackson?

[@killerjoe9524]

Ryan H No, it's Johnny Taylor.

[@crashunderride]

+Killer Joe I thought Neil Degrasse Tyson. lmfao

[@zappasmustache]

No. This guy had a job.

[@redcabbageVic]

zappasmustache LOL

[@Jaythestingray]

GOT EM!

[@luv2eatpuss79]

what the hell did I just watch?

[@jeancarlosartist]

luv2eatpuss79 a message from a different dimension.

[@richiebee1984]

SAME HERE WHAT THE FUCK

[@Cryptofwrestling]

Ronnie Garvin was "One Man Gang", and One Man Gang was "Crusher Broomfield" in ICW? With the Fame theme song in the background. Hehehe....

[@ATHOMEDAD777]

Yes, they both were there.

[@Gootothesecond]

+ATHOMEDAD777 Who was he feuding with? One part sounds like he was trying to get Ox Baker off of him and the other sounds like he was trying to get Ox Baker to take out Ronnie Garvin.

[@shyvoodoo]

Fame was Randy Savage’s ring entrance song in ICW wasn’t it??

[@actionsub]

Yes. He even used it in Memphis before going to WWF.

[@KeeperOfProphecies]

Wish wrestling went back to this style. It was over-the-top and had some crazy characters. Nowadays almost everyone feels the same just with a different wardrobe.

[@abark]

Now it's all pretty boy models that all look the same, or someone like Kevin Owens, who looks like a fat slob who would mow lawns for a living.

[@dono2926]

@@abark Doesn't change the fact that they are good in the ring.

[@abark]

@@dono2926 Ratings and viewership would speak otherwise.

[@dono2926]

@@abark I mean their movesets, they are much better than they used to be. But I agree that WWE is not as good as it was

[@abark]

@@dono2926 I'd rather watch a career's worth of Brooklyn Brawler matches than 1 single minute of anything involving Kevin Owens the fat autistic Canadian.

[@SupesMe]

I watched this, and have to keep coming back and watch it some more. :/

[@rickcarmack5850]

commenting to bring this amazing video back to life

[@mr.green2341]

“One Man Randy Garvin!” - Ox Baker WTF?! 😂

[@idontknowteachmeplease3154]

damn the vocab back then was on point

[@biffroberts1007]

Just wonder how old Savage was at this point?

[@benadams3569]

Pre-sunglasses and "oh, yeeeeah" Savage lol

[@GonzoAmerican]

Randy was born in 1952. This looks like early 80’s video production…plus they used “fame” which was from 1980. So I’m guessing he was 28 or 29 here. No mention of “macho man” yet either. He hadn’t started dying his hair/beard black. No “oh yeah”…and no gravel voice yet. Just 3-4 years after this he would be packing arenas and stadiums. Miss you Randy! You are the greatest wrestler past present and future. Ohhhh Yeahhh!!

[@thegoughandbordenfamily8234]

He was the Macho Man at this point. This was just one promo that cut in and out. He was already using his Oh yeah catchphrase.

[@carlcarlton8886]

macho man the real deal no joke always had been

[@Junkay2]

I wish that bit where Randy Savage threw confetti over himself had carried over into the WWF/WWE. That was pretty cool!

[@DarkPark]

One Man Randy Garvin, brother!

[@christopherseaton7598]

One of the best wrestling matches i ever had the pleaser to see was a cage match between Randy Savage and Ronnie Garvin

[@Mugicha808]

Macho Man merch has come a long way.

[@BronzeBullBalls]

They caught Macho when he is fiddling around with the bass, treble and pitch on his voice settings...

[@lewjones3]

man.. this earlier macho man than I remember

[@oveidasinclair982]

This video looks like it's older then I am, when was this put out in the 1980's ? Look at the hair cuts, the dress of the announcer's, One man Gang ? Ronnie Garvin, I had to ask my dad about them, early 80's.

[@ThisIsSolution]

love how he holds the mic lolol

[@MegaSkyline69]

"Drugs are baaad mkay"

[@kenterminateddq5311]

The sound effects are very distracting but Savage sounds awesome as always.

[@BigStash]

Macho Man was Randy Savage before Macho Man was Randy Savage. Rip Legend.

[@nitramletnan]

He must have done this on the Hiliarious House of Frankenstein.

[@drummingdanny84]

Thank God by 1985 he started wearing Bon Jovi-type regalia and began his meteoric rise to fame.

[@rontate7719]

OX Baker and the heart punch.!!!! I remember Jerry Lawler almost convincing me he was skeered of the heart punch... Telling he would do something never done in wrasslin to Baker if he tried it.... Some good acting for Savage.....

[@MisterBeauJanGels]

To quote Randy and Jason from Cheap Seats: "Somebody got a new graphics machine for Arbor Day".

[@TheJames-Edward]

I wonder what he was on for this promo shoot lol

[@RobD-jq7ry]

"You goof!!!" Yo I lost it.

[@Oktanesevensun]

this video is in great quality