“Macho Man” Randy Savage defeated Ted DiBiase in the tournament final for the vacant WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 4 in 1988.
On the latest episode of his “Everybody’s Got A Pod” show, WWE Hall of Famer Ted DiBiase recalled Randy Savage winning three matches on the night of WrestleMania 4 to become the top guy in WWE.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On Savage’s run as champion: “You know the company. I thought he was great. Again, as you know, professional wrestling, it’s not. You know, you gotta’ look at everything, You know, it’s kind of like Vince. And that’s the other thing is Vince likes big guys. I mean, Andre [The Giant], I mean [Hulk] Hogan, him. It’s always like big well-built guys and Savage wasn’t. You know, I mean, he’s well built, but he wasn’t. He wasn’t a giant lean, but yeah, he had everything else and it was kind of like I respected his work immensely.”
On the similarities between them: “You know, he’s another guy like me who grew up in the business, whose father was a wrestler and. That’s something else that he and I had in common and and and so, you know, the same psychology of wrestling we shared and that was evident in our match, so. It was cool, man.”
