Elizabeth's Impact On Randy Savage's Career

[Mustang Sally]

Originally Posted by BigThunder

She was the Audrey Hepburn of the WWE....

Not bad, not bad at all. Liz did have the quality that made Audrey Hepburn a revered movie star; her vulnerability, tempered by an inner strength that made you suspect she wouldn't put up with the indignities forever.

Randy and Liz were unique in that you almost never saw a pairing of wrestler and manager with different leanings: Elizabeth was as good a person as could possibly be, while Randy was the quintessential bad guy. They were polar opposites who functioned together.....and when did you ever see that in pro wrestling? When we saw Edge play a heel while Lita accompanied him as a face, all I could see was Randy and Liz.

Savage & Elizabeth did it brilliantly; you hated him and loved her. Still, even as young as I was at the time, I figured one of them would eventually change.....and because of Randy's bullying, I reasoned they would turn Liz bad, the idea of which revolted me. Instead, Randy changed, in what had to be one of the most genuine emotional moments I ever saw (with Sensational Sherri in a role traditionally reserved for men). Yeah, it was a storyline, but you couldn't have convinced me of that at the time.

It was a fairy tale, in which Beauty rescues the Beast. Say what you will about Randy Poffo.....all the stuff about his refusing to work matches unless every move was scripted in advance.... but his willingness to work a program that night in which he took the "weak" character role....almost the submissive role..... made him my favorite performer in pro wrestling of all time.

Savage would have had a great career alone, but with Liz, it was better by solar years.

[FlairFan2003]

Liz was essential to getting Savage's character over. Remember, they were doing this act before he came to WWE, Vince simply signed him and used him as the same character he'd been playing elsewhere.

Liz, her character essentially a goody too shoes, helped draw immemse heat for Savage as he belittled and bullied her. Maybe more than anything other than the time keepers bell on the throat incident with Steamboat, Liz established Randy's cred as a viscious mega heel with the audience.

She also played a key role in the 2nd half of his career, her shocking heel turn and alliance with Ric Flair as payback for everything Randy had put her through during their time together made perfect sense in relation to their prior storyline but at the same time helped garner Randy extra sympathy as a fan fave he lacked before when he was simply viewed by the audience as Hogan's buddy. The "This one's on Randy" promos they did with his credit cards were priceless.

[thebarber]

she was massive towards Savages career. His feud with Hogan would have had no reason to occur without Savages intense real life jealousy being played out in story line mode