Wednesday, June 22, 2011
A Broken Heart
So this past Monday I was outside watching Lex, Jack and our neighbor daughter Kaelyn play. And as all children do they started to argue over something really silly. I believe this argument started because Kaelyn climbed to the top of the slide and would not slide down. Lex went to tickle her, and push her down the slide but she was having none of that. This argument is about 5 minutes in, and thankfully I caught the last 30 seconds. Because at second 31 I was laughing so hard they stopped fighting. Enjoy the video below.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
End of an Era
May 31, 2011
To whom it may concern
It is with a heavy heart I am writing to announce my resignation from Skye Hospitality’s Hampton Inn effective June 20, 2011. The past 10 years have been wonderful and rewarding and I appreciate the opportunity I was given.
Thank you for the opportunity that has been provided for me.
Sincerely, Scott D. Williams
And with the words above the end of an era is now upon us.
I am posting this as I am about to walk out the door of the Hampton Inn hotel in White Marsh, MD. I am filled with memories of co-workers, guest, and some amazing stories to tell.
My first day at the Hampton Inn was on Halloween day in 2001. Previously I was working at Sbarros in Towson Town Mall when they decided to close the store the day before my birthday. I was not that upset because the job was only supposed to keep me occupied while I looked for another job. I had gone on a few interviews o this point but I have not heard back from anybody yet. So with no job I thought back to an absolutely crazy girl that I met a few months previous who was working at the Hampton Inn Annapolis. My thought was if she can do this job so can I. I walked in and grabbed an application and things took off from there. I was told later that the girl, who I picked up the application from, Rashanda, immediately went to the back and told them to give me a call. A few days later I received a call for an interview and was hired immediately, with a start date of October 31, 2001.
I will never forget my first day at the Hampton Inn. It was Halloween and everyone was dressed up while I am wearing a tie. But then I was shown a tour of the hotel by the same girl who interviewed me who was dressed in a skin tight cat outfit. After the tour I was introduced to my AGM who was wearing a witches outfit and she did not look half bad in that either. I walked out of there my first day and said, “I could get to like this job.” Little did I know at the time how true that statement was going to be.
The expression, “my work place is like a family” is so true when it comes to the hotel. I pin pointed it to you are stuck working with someone for 8 hours at the hotel. You have two options, being friendly and get to know the person you are working with, or sit in silence for 8 hours and be miserable. Most of us end up going with the friendly approach. We end up getting to a comfort level with everyone that singing and dancing and making a complete fool of yourself is something natural as opposed to being guarded and careful. Topics that are normally off limits like religion and politics are talked about like we were talking about movies and books. Jokes played on each other can happen daily and really teach you to put your guard up. I also have learned one really good joke can give you a legend status that makes it really hard to top, and that they talk about for years after. I have made some friends here that I hope I have with me for a life time.
Here I am ten years later about to walk out the door. It is an extremely bitter sweet moment but it is a decision I am proud to make. It was so hard to walk into my GM’s office and tell her that I was calling it a career. I almost instantly started to regret the decision until I got home that night. I told Lex I was not going to be working at the hotel much longer and he gave me the biggest hug, and with a huge smile on his face he told me he loved me. At that point the decision was set in stone.
I feel like so much has changed in my life since I started at the Hampton Inn. When I started Lisa and I had only known each other for a few weeks, here we are 10 years later with two kids, a mortgage payment and adult responsibilities. I have grown personally and professionally because of the people who I have met at the Hampton Inn at White Marsh. I am extremely grateful for the opportunity that I was given by Mr. Dresher and I hope I never embarrassed the hotel too much when talking about it in public. I will miss my friends that I leave behind and I hope we stay in touch. Thank you, thank you, and thank you for the time of my life.
Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis
To whom it may concern
It is with a heavy heart I am writing to announce my resignation from Skye Hospitality’s Hampton Inn effective June 20, 2011. The past 10 years have been wonderful and rewarding and I appreciate the opportunity I was given.
Thank you for the opportunity that has been provided for me.
Sincerely, Scott D. Williams
And with the words above the end of an era is now upon us.
I am posting this as I am about to walk out the door of the Hampton Inn hotel in White Marsh, MD. I am filled with memories of co-workers, guest, and some amazing stories to tell.
My first day at the Hampton Inn was on Halloween day in 2001. Previously I was working at Sbarros in Towson Town Mall when they decided to close the store the day before my birthday. I was not that upset because the job was only supposed to keep me occupied while I looked for another job. I had gone on a few interviews o this point but I have not heard back from anybody yet. So with no job I thought back to an absolutely crazy girl that I met a few months previous who was working at the Hampton Inn Annapolis. My thought was if she can do this job so can I. I walked in and grabbed an application and things took off from there. I was told later that the girl, who I picked up the application from, Rashanda, immediately went to the back and told them to give me a call. A few days later I received a call for an interview and was hired immediately, with a start date of October 31, 2001.
I will never forget my first day at the Hampton Inn. It was Halloween and everyone was dressed up while I am wearing a tie. But then I was shown a tour of the hotel by the same girl who interviewed me who was dressed in a skin tight cat outfit. After the tour I was introduced to my AGM who was wearing a witches outfit and she did not look half bad in that either. I walked out of there my first day and said, “I could get to like this job.” Little did I know at the time how true that statement was going to be.
The expression, “my work place is like a family” is so true when it comes to the hotel. I pin pointed it to you are stuck working with someone for 8 hours at the hotel. You have two options, being friendly and get to know the person you are working with, or sit in silence for 8 hours and be miserable. Most of us end up going with the friendly approach. We end up getting to a comfort level with everyone that singing and dancing and making a complete fool of yourself is something natural as opposed to being guarded and careful. Topics that are normally off limits like religion and politics are talked about like we were talking about movies and books. Jokes played on each other can happen daily and really teach you to put your guard up. I also have learned one really good joke can give you a legend status that makes it really hard to top, and that they talk about for years after. I have made some friends here that I hope I have with me for a life time.
Here I am ten years later about to walk out the door. It is an extremely bitter sweet moment but it is a decision I am proud to make. It was so hard to walk into my GM’s office and tell her that I was calling it a career. I almost instantly started to regret the decision until I got home that night. I told Lex I was not going to be working at the hotel much longer and he gave me the biggest hug, and with a huge smile on his face he told me he loved me. At that point the decision was set in stone.
I feel like so much has changed in my life since I started at the Hampton Inn. When I started Lisa and I had only known each other for a few weeks, here we are 10 years later with two kids, a mortgage payment and adult responsibilities. I have grown personally and professionally because of the people who I have met at the Hampton Inn at White Marsh. I am extremely grateful for the opportunity that I was given by Mr. Dresher and I hope I never embarrassed the hotel too much when talking about it in public. I will miss my friends that I leave behind and I hope we stay in touch. Thank you, thank you, and thank you for the time of my life.
Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis
Fathers Day
Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there
Being a dad to Lex and Jack is the most important thing I have done in this world. The boys got me the coolest tie for fathers day, which I received a day early because Lex is the worst secret keeper of all time.
My Fathers Day Gift
Being a dad to Lex and Jack is the greatest honor in the world to me. And I will try everyday to be a better dad to them then I was the day before. I love you both with all my heart.
I also want to send out a special father day to my dad.
You have taught me so much in life, and I want to thank you because with out you I would not be the person I am today. Happy Fathers Day dad, I love you.
Being a dad to Lex and Jack is the most important thing I have done in this world. The boys got me the coolest tie for fathers day, which I received a day early because Lex is the worst secret keeper of all time.
Being a dad to Lex and Jack is the greatest honor in the world to me. And I will try everyday to be a better dad to them then I was the day before. I love you both with all my heart.
I also want to send out a special father day to my dad.
You have taught me so much in life, and I want to thank you because with out you I would not be the person I am today. Happy Fathers Day dad, I love you.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Friday
So I noticed that Rebecca Black was trending on Yahoo earlier today. And I was very curious to know why.
Rebecca black is the soon to be 14 year old singer who jumped to be infamous when she debuted a music video for the song “Friday” on you tube. The song was originally uploaded to You Tube on February 10, 2011 and received a lot of negative feed back.
Well the news is that Rebecca Black asked You Tube to pull the song.
Below is a link to the video. I am not sure how long this is going to stay up but it here for your listening enjoyment(?)
Rebecca Black singing “Friday”
I am not a fan of the song, although I do admit I hum the refrain when I walk out of work on Friday, but I am also not the audience she is after. But I did find this cover version of the song.
Katy Perry Singing “Friday”
The whole point of this blog post is to show this below video of Stephen Colbert covering Rachael Black’s “Friday”
Stephen Colbert covering “Friday”
Rebecca Black will has cemented herself a place in our pop culture. One day we will be watching VH-1 best of 2010 and that song will be something they talk about. And really is that a bad thing. Besides as long as this guy is around she will never be the world’s worst singer.
Rebecca black is the soon to be 14 year old singer who jumped to be infamous when she debuted a music video for the song “Friday” on you tube. The song was originally uploaded to You Tube on February 10, 2011 and received a lot of negative feed back.
Well the news is that Rebecca Black asked You Tube to pull the song.
Below is a link to the video. I am not sure how long this is going to stay up but it here for your listening enjoyment(?)
I am not a fan of the song, although I do admit I hum the refrain when I walk out of work on Friday, but I am also not the audience she is after. But I did find this cover version of the song.
The whole point of this blog post is to show this below video of Stephen Colbert covering Rachael Black’s “Friday”
Rebecca Black will has cemented herself a place in our pop culture. One day we will be watching VH-1 best of 2010 and that song will be something they talk about. And really is that a bad thing. Besides as long as this guy is around she will never be the world’s worst singer.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Back to GBMC
So I definitely have had better weeks then the one I had last week, that’s for sure.
Monday June 6 started off like any other normal day. We had some big wigs in the company come in so I was dressed a bit nicer than the normal outfits.
Everything started around 4pm. I was at my desk and had this terrible pain in my back. In college I had herniated my L4 and L5 vertebrae, so I have had back pain for some time. However, this pain was completely different. This pain was too left of my spine around the kidney area. I could feel the color drain out of my face I became uncomfortable and wanted to pass out. I became extremely hot, and just wanted to sit in front of an air conditioning unit. I went into the bathroom and threw water on my face and that did nothing. So I grabbed my things and told one of the AE’s I work with that I was not leaving I just needed to sit in my car. They could see me in excruciating pain and immediately became worried. I was trying to walk to my car and god love my co workers, everyone was so concerned but they kept preventing from getting to the car because they were so worried about me. They tried to get me to drink water but everything and every smell made me want to throw up.
I finally made it to my car and the air condition could not get cold enough quick enough. I tried calling Lisa several times but I did not get an answer on her cell phone or the house line. At this point I was in so much pain I was almost in tears. It was around 4:30pm now and I knew my In-Laws were on their way to drop of Lex and Jack. I called my mother-in-law and told her what was going on. She told me Lisa was home because she had a horrible migraine and could not see straight (Yes I know we did well on the parenting that night). I told my in laws I wanted to go to the hospital so my father in law took me to GBMC. About a 5 minute drive from my work but it was the longest drive ever. He dropped me off at the emergency room and then went to park the car. I got myself checked in and saw a nurse within 20 minutes of arriving. She immediately thought it was a kidney stone. So they took blood and a urine sample. She also gave me medicine to help me from my nausea and a Percocet for the pain. They booked me for a CT scan and they confirmed blood was in my urine but they did not find the stone. So they assumed it already passed. I was sent home around 7:30 that night. The boys ended up spending the night at my in laws house and Lisa and I went home and rested.
On Tuesday, I woke up feeling pretty good. I still had some pain in my back but it was not as bad as Monday. That changed quickly. I was part of a political meeting that morning, and during the meeting I could feel the color drain from my face. I wanted to pass out, and I must have sounded horrible to the person sitting next to me. I was trying to catch my breath and be tough in all of this. Finally my boss saw me from across the way and asked to see me in the hallway. I went out there and he just told me to go. So my co workers saw me again in poor shape and I just walked to the car and ended up falling asleep. At 12:30 I woke up to two of my coworkers checking to see if I was dead. Obviously, and thankfully, I was not. They did not have to do much but the convinced me to drive home and get some rest. I was having the most wonderful nap of all time when around 3pm Lisa got home and was not happy with me that I did not pick up the phone when she called (ironic since the day before she did not pick up the phone for me when I called). She had made me a doctor’s appointment to my personal physician that I have not seen in a few years. When we got there again I had some more problems with feeling dizzy and light headed. They put me in a room and just let me sleep for the two hours we waited to be seen.
In a funny side note Lisa tried to pull out the part of the chair that when a patient lies down they can put their feet up. She pulled a little too hard and broke it, and the best is part she just hid the broken piece in the doctor’s office.
My doctor disagreed with the Kidney Stone diagnosis. He felt the problem was more of a pulled muscle because with the kidney stone the pain would move and this pain did not move. He felt all the other symptoms were my body reacting to the pain.
So here I am a week later and I feel pretty good. By Friday of last week I was in no pain at all. Here I am hoping that it does not happen again because it really sucked. But I am so grateful for my family and my coworkers because it’s nice to know people care about you.
Monday June 6 started off like any other normal day. We had some big wigs in the company come in so I was dressed a bit nicer than the normal outfits.
Everything started around 4pm. I was at my desk and had this terrible pain in my back. In college I had herniated my L4 and L5 vertebrae, so I have had back pain for some time. However, this pain was completely different. This pain was too left of my spine around the kidney area. I could feel the color drain out of my face I became uncomfortable and wanted to pass out. I became extremely hot, and just wanted to sit in front of an air conditioning unit. I went into the bathroom and threw water on my face and that did nothing. So I grabbed my things and told one of the AE’s I work with that I was not leaving I just needed to sit in my car. They could see me in excruciating pain and immediately became worried. I was trying to walk to my car and god love my co workers, everyone was so concerned but they kept preventing from getting to the car because they were so worried about me. They tried to get me to drink water but everything and every smell made me want to throw up.
I finally made it to my car and the air condition could not get cold enough quick enough. I tried calling Lisa several times but I did not get an answer on her cell phone or the house line. At this point I was in so much pain I was almost in tears. It was around 4:30pm now and I knew my In-Laws were on their way to drop of Lex and Jack. I called my mother-in-law and told her what was going on. She told me Lisa was home because she had a horrible migraine and could not see straight (Yes I know we did well on the parenting that night). I told my in laws I wanted to go to the hospital so my father in law took me to GBMC. About a 5 minute drive from my work but it was the longest drive ever. He dropped me off at the emergency room and then went to park the car. I got myself checked in and saw a nurse within 20 minutes of arriving. She immediately thought it was a kidney stone. So they took blood and a urine sample. She also gave me medicine to help me from my nausea and a Percocet for the pain. They booked me for a CT scan and they confirmed blood was in my urine but they did not find the stone. So they assumed it already passed. I was sent home around 7:30 that night. The boys ended up spending the night at my in laws house and Lisa and I went home and rested.
On Tuesday, I woke up feeling pretty good. I still had some pain in my back but it was not as bad as Monday. That changed quickly. I was part of a political meeting that morning, and during the meeting I could feel the color drain from my face. I wanted to pass out, and I must have sounded horrible to the person sitting next to me. I was trying to catch my breath and be tough in all of this. Finally my boss saw me from across the way and asked to see me in the hallway. I went out there and he just told me to go. So my co workers saw me again in poor shape and I just walked to the car and ended up falling asleep. At 12:30 I woke up to two of my coworkers checking to see if I was dead. Obviously, and thankfully, I was not. They did not have to do much but the convinced me to drive home and get some rest. I was having the most wonderful nap of all time when around 3pm Lisa got home and was not happy with me that I did not pick up the phone when she called (ironic since the day before she did not pick up the phone for me when I called). She had made me a doctor’s appointment to my personal physician that I have not seen in a few years. When we got there again I had some more problems with feeling dizzy and light headed. They put me in a room and just let me sleep for the two hours we waited to be seen.
In a funny side note Lisa tried to pull out the part of the chair that when a patient lies down they can put their feet up. She pulled a little too hard and broke it, and the best is part she just hid the broken piece in the doctor’s office.
My doctor disagreed with the Kidney Stone diagnosis. He felt the problem was more of a pulled muscle because with the kidney stone the pain would move and this pain did not move. He felt all the other symptoms were my body reacting to the pain.
So here I am a week later and I feel pretty good. By Friday of last week I was in no pain at all. Here I am hoping that it does not happen again because it really sucked. But I am so grateful for my family and my coworkers because it’s nice to know people care about you.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Our Visitor
Monday, May 30th was a very special day for me and my family. It was Lex 4th Birthday. I will blog more on his birthday after his birthday party coming up. But on this Monday we had a special visitor in our backyard.
We were eating breakfast when our neighbors dog, Buddy, barking like crazy out back. Buddy had slipped a disc in his back the day before so we were surprised at how full of energy he was. However, Lisa and I didn’t really pay any attention to it at all.
An hour later or so I looked at my Facebook page and saw my neighbor posted on our wall to go out into our back garden, and that we wouldn’t believe what was in there. By the time I saw the message what ever was in the garden was gone but it had definitely dug up the ground.
Our neighbors took a picture of it and we had a GIANT snapping turtle there.
The next day, Lisa was chatting with our neighbors and did some research on snapping turtles. We then went out to the garden with a shovel. Very quickly we found what she was doing in our garden.
When all was said and done we discovered almost 30 eggs were laid.
We talked to a friend of ours who told us we could rebury the eggs and when they hatch the baby snapping turtles are harmless and will go right to water.
Sadly the next morning we discovered something had dug up our garden and had taken the eggs. We were really excited to see the eggs hatch. I guess there is always next year.
We were eating breakfast when our neighbors dog, Buddy, barking like crazy out back. Buddy had slipped a disc in his back the day before so we were surprised at how full of energy he was. However, Lisa and I didn’t really pay any attention to it at all.
An hour later or so I looked at my Facebook page and saw my neighbor posted on our wall to go out into our back garden, and that we wouldn’t believe what was in there. By the time I saw the message what ever was in the garden was gone but it had definitely dug up the ground.
Our neighbors took a picture of it and we had a GIANT snapping turtle there.
The next day, Lisa was chatting with our neighbors and did some research on snapping turtles. We then went out to the garden with a shovel. Very quickly we found what she was doing in our garden.
When all was said and done we discovered almost 30 eggs were laid.
We talked to a friend of ours who told us we could rebury the eggs and when they hatch the baby snapping turtles are harmless and will go right to water.
Sadly the next morning we discovered something had dug up our garden and had taken the eggs. We were really excited to see the eggs hatch. I guess there is always next year.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
“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.
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.
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 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.
At Summer Slam that year the Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth got hitched in a drama free wedding.
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.
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