We're confident that just about everybody had the same reaction when news broke a few months ago that Randy Savage would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame:
Oh, yeeeaaahhhh!
Savage had the ultimate combination of ring skills, outsized personality and speaking ability to become a wrestling icon. His catchphrase was so simple yet so memorable just because of the way he delivered it.
The ceremony will take place Saturday at the Shark Tank in San Jose, just down the road Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, the site for Sunday's WrestleMania 31. It will be a posthumous induction. Savage was 58 when he died during a car accident in 2011. An autopsy later revealed that Savage was suffering from heart disease, and that was what killed him, not the crash itself. Here's a look at Savage throughout his career:
Here are some thoughts on Savage from Brian Shields, author of 30 Years Of WrestleMania: