“Macho Man” Randy Savage

On May 20th I was sitting in a conference room at work and decided to see what was going on the world of Facebook. When I logged in the first thing I saw was a post from someone I went to High school with who wrote RIP Macho Man. I actually thought this was the start of one of those horrible social network rumors that idiots write about celebrities saying they are dead. Not this time as I was saddened and a bit surprised to read “The Macho Man” Randy Savage died of a heart attack/car accident.

The funny thing about a celebrity death that you admired growing up is that it really doesn’t affect a thing that happens in our life today or tomorrow but it does get the memories flowing to think back on why that person is a celebrity.

I did not start watching wrestling until 1990. Although I do remember going to a friends house before my parents allowed me to watch wrestling and seeing the event “the Match/The Movie”. So I watched the Hulk Hogan movie “No Holds Barred” and after the movie the match that was Hulk Hogan and Brutus “the Barber” Beefcake vs. “The Macho King” Randy Savage and Zeus inside a steel cage.

In June of 1985 The Macho Man came into the WWF and was something people had not seen before. He wore bright colors and talked like he was on coke all the time. One of the first things the WWF did to build the Macho Man up as a Superstar was have several of the established heel managers offer their services to him. The big day came when Macho Man was introducing us to his new manager.
Macho Man introduces us to Miss. Elizabeth

In a gimmick that would never work today Macho Man was an egomaniac who would bully and mistreat Miss Elizabeth. He would attack and harm anyone who looked at her. It made her one of the most beloved wrestling personalities of all time.

He won the Intercontinental title from Tito Santana in February 1986 which led to memorable feuds against George the Animal Steele and Ricky the Dragon Steamboat. Savage wins the Intercontinental Title

His match against The Dragon at Wrestlemania III, not only stole the show of the biggest even in Wrestling history, but was what many argued is one of the greatest matches of all time.

During a match with the Honkey Tonk Man the nucleus of one of the greatest rivalries in wrestling history started. The Honkey Tonk Man was DQed from a match against the Mach Man when the Hart Foundation attacked Macho Man. Miss Elizabeth ran to the back and brought out Hulk Hogan to make the save. The Mega Powers were official formed and at Wrestlemania IV Hulk Hogan was standing in Macho Man’s corner when Randy Savage won his first WWF championship

The Mega Powers

Macho Man wins 1st WWF Championship
Macho Man Randy Savage and the 1st Lady of Professional Wrestling Miss Elizabeth

The Macho Man held the title for a year until his “jealousy” of Hulk Hogan got the better of him and the Mega Powers exploded at Wrestlemania V


After Wrestlemania V The Macho Man took the late Sherrie Martel as his Queen and the two of them feuded with Hulk Hogan for the rest of the year and then the American Dream Dusty Rhodes and his manager Sapphire.

In 1991, one of my favorite moments happened. Savage wanted to be the #1 contender for the WWF Title. Sgt Slaughter said he would get the first title shot if he beat the Ultimate Warrior at the Royal Rumble. The Ultimate Warrior refused to give him the first title shot. This led to Sgt. Slaughter winning the WWF Title thanks to interference from the Macho Man. Savage and the Warrior ended up wrestling at Wrestlemania VII in one of my personal favorite matches of all times. Not only was the match amazing, the post match and the reuniting with Miss. Elizabeth was what is now known as a Wrestlemania moment.

The Macho King went back to being Macho Man and became an announcer for the WWF. During this time the WWF used him in the story line and advanced the relation between the Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth. Macho Man Proposes

At Summer Slam that year the Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth got hitched in a drama free wedding.
A Match Made in Heaven

The reception, however, was filled with drama


At WrestlemaniaVIII the Macho Man regained the WWF World Championship beating the “Nature Boy” Ric Flair.


He lost the belt back to Flair in September but during this time wrestled the Ultimate Warrior again at Summerslam, and shortly after that joined forces with the Warrior and became the Ultimate Maniacs.


In 1993, the Macho Man transitioned once again to be the color commentator for Monday Night Raw. He would occasionally wrestle but those moments were becoming less and less. He did wrestle in the 1993 Royal Rumble and was the runner up losing to Yokozuna. The Macho Man’s last WWF Pay Per View match was at Wrestlemania X in a falls count anywhere match against Crush. On November 7, 1994 Vince McMahon gave an on air farewell to the Macho Man during Monday Night Raw.


Savage signed with WCW, and his first appearance was on the December 3, 1994 edition of WCW Saturday Night. Savage eventually saved Hogan from an attack by the 3 Faces of Fear, at Starcade. His first WCW feud was against Avalanche. At SuperBrawl V, he teamed up with Sting and took on Avalanche and Big Bubba Rogers in a tag team match, which Sting and Savage won.


He went on and rekindled his feud with Ric Flair.

At World War 3, Savage won his first WCW World Heavyweight Championship by winning the first-ever 60-man three-ring battle royal.


He lost the title to Flair a month later at Starrcade 1995: World Cup of Wrestling; earlier that night, he defeated Hiroyoshi Tenzan. Savage won his second WCW World Heavyweight Championship back from Flair on the January 22, 1996 edition of Nitro but lost the title back to Flair the next month in a steel cage match at SuperBrawl VI

Flair and Savage continued to feud until June 1996. At Bash at the Beach, the nWo was formed when Hulk Hogan turned on Savage, Sting, and Lex Luger and joined "The Outsiders. After their inception, one of their main enemies became Savage himself, who was one of the leaders of the WCW crusaders against the nWo before joining them a year later. At Halloween Havoc, Savage faced Hogan for the WCW title but lost when the Giant interfered and choke slammed him.

Savage joined the nWo at SuperBrawl VII, when he helped Hogan defeat Roddy Piper in a rematch of their Starrcade match the previous year. He began feuding with Diamond Dallas Page and DDP's wife Kimberly. Their feud lasted almost eight months and many people today give this feud as a reason DDP became a star in WCW.

When Hulk Hogan failed to recapture his "nWo" Title from Sting, it was Savage's turn, and he got his shot at Spring Stampede. Hogan tried to make sure that Savage would not win the title because Hogan felt that he was the only nWo member who should be World Champion, since he was the leader of the stable. With the help of Nash, however, Savage beat Sting for his third WCW World Heavyweight Championship, despite tearing the ACL in his knee during the match. The following night on Nitro, Hogan faced Savage for the championship. Savage tried to capitalize on Kevin Nash power bombing Hulk Hogan, but an interfering Bret Hart attacked Savage and preserved the victory for Hogan. Savage then joined with Nash and others to form the nWo Wolfpac, a split from Hogan's group, which became known as nWo Black and Red (Wolfpac) and nWo Black and White (Hollywood). Savage went on to feud with both Hart and Roddy Piper.

After the June 15 edition of Nitro, Savage took a hiatus from the company to recover from at least two major knee surgeries. He made only one more appearance in 1998, helping Ric Flair defeat Eric Bischoff for the Presidency of WCW on the December 28, 1998 edition of Monday Nitro. When Savage returned, he debuted a new look and theme music, sporting a slicked back ponytail, earrings, and a new villainous attitude, as well as introducing his then 22-year-old girlfriend Gorgeous George as his valet. When Kevin Nash won it at Slamboree, Savage went after the title himself. It was around that time that Madusa and Miss Madness joined Macho Man as his other two valets; together they were known as Team Madness.

At The Great American Bash, Sid Vicious returned to WCW and helped Macho Man attack Kevin Nash. This led to a tag team match at Bash at the Beach between Nash and Sting against Savage and Sid Vicious, in which whoever scored the winning fall would win the WCW World Title. Savage won his fourth and final WCW World Heavyweight Championship when he pinned Nash.


Savage's last reign as champion did not last long. The next night on Nitro, he lost the title to a returning Hollywood Hogan, when Nash interfered and power bombed Macho Man.

Savage made his final WCW appearance on Thunder on May 3, 2000, where he participated in the 41-man battle royal for a title shot at The Great American Bash.


Savage made his return to professional wrestling at Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's Victory Road by confronting Jeff Jarrett. At Turning Point, he teamed up with Jeff Hardy and A.J. Styles to defeat the Kings of Wrestling (Jarrett, Kevin Nash, and Scott Hall). The main event of Final Resolution in 2005 was scheduled to be Jarrett and Savage for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Savage's plan was to win the belt and then drop it back to Jarrett at the next pay-per-view. In December 2004, Savage left TNA over a disagreement on the finish of the next scheduled PPV.


In the mid 90’s Slim Jim picked him as their spokesperson and made the phrase “Snap into it” a household saying. Who can forget his Slim Jim commercials.


The Macho Man also became the character “Bonesaw” McGraw in the 2002 hit Spiderman which grossed $403,706, 375 (domestic) and $821,002,176 (worldwide)


On October 7, 2003, Savage released a rap album titled “Be a Man”. It includes a tribute to "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig as well as a track aimed at Hulk Hogan




WWE Intercontinental Title
2/8/86 - beat Tito Santana

WWE Championship
3/27/88 WrestleMania IV - beat Ted DiBiase in the tournament final for the title
4/5/92 WrestleMania VIII - beat Ric Flair

WCW World Title
11/26/95 World War III - won a battle royal for the vacant title
1/22/96 - beat Ric Flair
4/19/98 Spring Stampede - beat Sting
7/11/99 Bash at the Beach - w/Sid Vicious beat Sting and Kevin Nash in a tag team match to win the title

I have seen the Macho Man wrestle several times. He was the Main Event of the 1st ever wrestling show I have gone to. February 8, 1993 the Macho Man was in the Main Event of a house show at the Baltimore Arena. He wrestled and lost to that night Yokozuna. I wish I had a better recollection of that entire card and I am sure I may have photos somewhere but if my memory is right it was more or less the same match they were having on TV at the time, building Yokozuna to be a monster heel. The Macho Man did not win a lot of matches I was at. I saw him wrestle at Superbrawl V (Video is above) where he teamed with Sting. The rest of the shows I saw the Macho Man at he was losing to Kevin Nash by DQ at the Great American Bash. Plus I saw him at the previous Great American Bash lose a tag match (Savage and Piper vs. Hogan and Hart). After he lost the tag match Savage then lost to Piper in a match immediately following the tag match. Macho Man was a legend to us wrestling fans and he will be missed.

Thank you for the memories

Some New Pictures

Just look at how awesome my family is

So on April 30th (I know I am horrible at updating this blog) Lisa, her father and brother decided they wanted to throw a surprise 60th birthday for the matriarch of the Borman family, Joanne.

That morning, Lisa and her brother along with Lex, Jack and I met up on Jerusalem Rd for pictures with Kory and B Chase Photography.

This is not the first time we have used Kory for our family photos. She does an amazing job, with the photos and the kids absolutely love her. I would recommend to anyone to go to her web site and book her. Just look at the amazing work she did for me and my family.

Our Little Monkeys

Using Mommy and Daddy as a Jungle Gym

The boys

My minions

Lex showing Jack something

Jack having none of that and showing Lex something cooler

Lex ready for some trouble

Jack finding a spot to live in a van down by the river

Jack looking for rocks to throw in the water

The Man the Myth the Legend, Jack









The last time we had pictures taken with Kory, Lex was not a happy campier. I am not sure if it was because of the photographer (just kidding Kory) or Lex being 3 years old, but he shed a lot of tears that day. So I made a deal with him at the beginning of the day if he was really good, and did everything Mrs. Kory told him to do he would get a special surprise.

The surprise was that he could take off his shirt and turn into the Incredible Hulk for some pictures.

Going through the agony to turn into the Incredible Hulk

Lex, The Incredible Hulk

The best part about the picture above is when we showed it to Lex, he immediately started to lift up his shirt to see if he was actually turning green. It was so cute and adorable.

Thank you to Kory and B Chase Photography again for the wonderful experience and we are already looking forward to our next session

The End of the Beginning

Tonight is the night. One of my favorite shows is coming to an end
Oh and did I mention for the first time since Season 7 look who is back

I remember when Smallville was first airing I didn’t have a whole lot of interest in watching it. Not because I thought it was going to be a bad show, but at the time I did not watch nearly as much TV as I do today. I was too busy going out with friends and meeting the future Mrs. Williams. A guy I was working with named, Chris (the same guy who talked me into watching LOST), told me I should really give the show a chance. Lisa was out one evening and I ended up catching my very first episode of Smallville. Krypto, the 14th episode of the 4th season, was my introduction into the world of Superman. I really enjoyed the episode. The next day I told Chris how much I liked it and that I was going to watch next week’s episode. He told me that the Krypto episode may have been the worst episode that he has seen. I ended up buying the first two seasons, and borrowed the third and we got caught up pretty quickly. Smallville soon became a main stay in my viewing habits (and the only reason I would watch the CW/WB Network).

Superman was created in 1935 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Originally as a bald headed villain who had telekinetic abilities.
At some point Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster decided to take a very different approach and “re-envisioned the character, who became more of a hero in the mythic tradition, inspired by such characters as Samson and Hercules, who would right the wrongs of Siegel and Shuster's times, fighting for social justice and against tyranny”. This led to the iconic version of Superman being in the image we all know and love today.

Superman has been in comic books, has had his own radio show, lunchboxes, t-shirts, several television shows, and of course the movies. One of my favorite Superman stories is his battle with the Ku Klux Kan. This is part of an article that was on Wikipedia that shows how everyone behind Superman wanted to help fight against social intolerance.

“Clan of a Fiery Cross” - The series delivered a powerful blow against the Ku Klux Klan's prospects in the northern USA. The human rights activist Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the KKK and other racist/terrorist groups. Concerned that the organization had links to the government and police forces, Kennedy decided to use his findings to strike at the Klan in a different way. He contacted the Superman producers and proposed a story where the superhero battles the Klan. Looking for new villains, the producers eagerly agreed. To that end, he provided information — including secret code words and details of Klan rituals — to the writers. The result was a series of episodes, “Clan of the Fiery Cross,” in which Superman took on the Klan. Kennedy intended to strip away the Klan's mystique. The trivialization of the Klan's rituals and code words was perceived to have had a negative impact on Klan recruiting and membership.

Reportedly, Klan leaders denounced the show and called for a boycott of Kellogg's products. However, the story arc earned spectacular ratings, and the food company stood by its support of the show.
However, this is about the end of Smallville, and the journey to become Superman, and not the story of Superman. This moment is very bitter sweet. Tom Welling has done such an amazing job creating Clark Kent that the only person I want to see in the Superman suit is Tom Welling. Tonight I have a very different feeling than when Lost went off the air. LOST I knew I was going to get answers to my questions and a conclusion to an amazing journey. I was excited but also sad to see LOST go off the air. With Smallville I have more excitement than sadness. We have been waiting 10 years and 217 episodes later for this moment, the moment that Clark Kent finally accepts his destiny and steps into the light to become the symbol of hope that is Superman.

I would love to see the journey continue and see how Tom Welling takes the Superman character but all good things must come to an end.
Entertainment Weekly recently put out this article by Jeff Jensen, talking about the Super 9 Episodes of Smallville, and they pretty much hit the nail on the head with this list.

1) “Pilot” (Season 1) - Smallville's premiere episode on The WB — watched by 8.4 million people — made an immediate impression with its cinematic panache and inspired reformulation of Superman's small-town coming-of-age beginnings. Tom Welling was instantly winning as a humble, hunky Clark, and he had crackling chemistry with the show's key supporting players — John Schneider's Jonathan Kent; Kristen Kreuk's Lana Lang; and especially Michael Rosenbaum's Lex Luthor. The premise of a heartland town forever changed by a catastrophe from the sky (the radioactive meteor shower that attended Kal-El's arrival) had provocative resonance one month after 9/11, as did a high school hazing subplot that evoked the Matthew Shepard hate-crime tragedy. Credit series developers Al Gough and Miles Millar for delivering the geeky goods while working the Man of Steel mythos for meaningful, accessible metaphors for alienation and adolescent angst.


2) “Heat” (Season 2) - Some boys find themselves daydreaming about the cute farm girl that lives down the Lang... I mean Lois Lane.. err... just... ROAD, and feel a strange stirring in their skivvies. But when Superboy gets his tighties in a twist over a cute lass (or gets hot for a femme-fatale biology teacher imbued with radioactive pheromones), he shoots fire out of his eyes. Smallville was often ingenious in the way it used teenage Clark's developing powers to access those previously mentioned ''metaphors for adolescent angst,'' and ''Heat'' was one of the funniest and best.


3) “Red” (Season 2) - One of the sillier parts of the Superman mythology is the idea that different kinds and colors of kryptonite — remnants of Kal-El's exploded home planet; the ''meteor rocks'' that showered Smallville on the day of Clark's arrival — could affect him in different ways. For example, while green kryptonite can kill Superman, gold kryptonite takes his powers away, and red kryptonite makes him bad — the anti-Superman. But kudos to Smallville for embracing almost everything about Superman, and even making the silly parts work for effective drama. ''Red,'' which exposed Clark to crimson meteor rocks and turned the humble superpowered square into a selfish superpowered jerk, was a nifty allegory for teenage rebellion that allowed Tom Welling the chance to stretch and play with his performance. Even Lana Lang was dazzled by his bad-boy act.

4) “Rosetta” (Season 2) - Smallville was slow to deal with Superman's Kryptonian backstory — a calculated decision that may have irked impatient fanboys, but gave the series somewhere to go once it exhausted its early freak-of-the-week storytelling conceit. In ''Rosetta,'' Clark finally began decoding the mysteries of his extraterrestrial origins with the help of a big-screen Super-friend: Christopher Reeve, stirring and inspiring as a twinkle-eyed, Stephen Hawking-esque astrophysicist.


5) “Crusade” (Season 4) - The producers of Smallville promised a version of Superboy/Superman that stayed away from the more overt comic-booky elements that could limit the show's broad-skewing potential or strain the show's budget. (Though let's pause to note that Smallville's special effects have always been top-notch for series television.) However, at the start of the fourth season, one tenet of the show's well-known ''no flights, no tights'' philosophy fell by the wayside when the producers allowed Clark Kent one awesome, well-produced flight, in a rousing episode that saw Kal-El temporarily renouncing everything Earthy about him and go Kryptonian warlord on everyone. (As for the ''no tights'' part of the mantra, all signs point to the May 13 series finale finally breaking that rule in equally triumphant fashion.)


6) “Reckoning” (Season 5) - Pa Kent's death loomed from the start of Smallville. Yet his demise was a wrenching shock, nonetheless, well disguised in a poignant time-travel episode that also dealt smartly with the inevitability of Clark and Lana's doomed romance. The show's terrific ticktock chronicle of a maturing Man of Steel owes a huge debt to Schneider's portrayal of the man who taught Clark to be super.


7) “Justice” (Season 6) - Over the years, Smallville found ways to import more characters and story lines from the DC Comics universe, much to the delight of fanboy viewers. ''Justice'' marked an ambitious attempt to bring many of them together — most notably Green Arrow (Justin Hartley), who became a series regular. (''Absolute Justice'' from season 9 — featuring old-time heroes from the Justice Society of America — was also a geek blast.)


8) “Artic” (Season 7) - This was a tumultuous time in the long life of Smallville. The seventh season — interrupted and shortened by the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike — marked the swan-song years for producers Al Gough and Miles Millar and stars Kristen Kreuk and Michael Rosenbaum, whose always-riveting and nuanced Lex Luthor was as much a reason to watch as Welling's Clark or the show's strong, confident storytelling. Complex Lex was ostensibly killed in ''Arctic,'' Smallville's momentous season 7 finale, although he's slated to make a return appearance in the series capper on May 13. And yet, while many fans and critics thought Smallville was doomed by these departures, the show would hold its own for three more years under the stewardship of longtime writers Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson, Todd Slavkin, and Darren Swimmer.
I can’t embed the You Tube Video but this scene is awesome

9) “Homecoming” (Season 10) - Smallville found new creative traction in the middle of its decade-long run by adding Lois Lane (Erica Durance) and moving Clark to Metropolis. In ''Homecoming,'' a riff on It's a Wonderful Life, Clark got a peek at his Super-future (complete with knowing nods to the Superman movies) and revealed his identity (and heart) to the love of his life. Will they seal the deal at the altar? The May 13 finale will tell the tale. Bring tissues.


With the exception of the 4th Season Finale “Commencement” where the fortress of solitude is built and another meteor shower hits Smallville “Commencement” is awesome
the above list has the best episodes.

My personal favorite is Homecoming. 200 episodes into the series and I was nothing but smiles during the entire episode.

This is a fan made trailer for the final episode of Smallville but it is pretty cool.


To everyone who was behind Smallville for the past 10 years. Thank you for making a show that I cared about and enjoyed watching every single episode. I will always hold out hope that we will get a once a year movie dedicated to Tom Welling Superman and the world he created. Superman will live on and after tonight we will look to Harry Cavill who will carry the torch that is the Last Son of Krypton.