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And I looked over at the tree,
and they got a Randy Savage shrine
going on there with his picture.
- Oh my God. - Who would have thunk it
that of all the places I could have lived,
and all the trees that I would drive by,
that I'd drive by that tree? - Isn't that something?
- Randy looked down at me, and he says,
"I got you Dragon, I got you."
- "I got you." [laughter]
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- So much special moments from WrestleMania.
Ricky Steamboat-Randy Savage may be one
of the greatest WrestleMania matches of all time.
of - You're going to worknia mawith Randy Savage.
for WrestleMania III.
- Randy Savage, the day has finally come.
The minutes, the seconds...
motivated and very appreciative.
- WrestleMania III is so important.
Pontiac Silverdome,
more than 90,000 people.
- Both of us started brainstorming the match.
I have never met a performer
that was such a stickler, a perfectionist.
- I'm sure it was a little annoying.
He wore people out.
- Step number 1, lock up.
I went, "Savage. Come on.
We know we're going to lock up."
"Write it down, Dragon. Write it down."
I was using one of those legal pads,
and I'm in about the fifth page,
I'm at step number 250.
I never had a match that was laid out A-Z,
and had to remember everything
knowing that there was no deviation.
- Macho Man, poised in his favorite position,
bombs away.
- Randy--he was one
of those action kind of wrestlers.
When he worked out his matches,
they were very detailed. Randy, I think was like,
"No, I want to make it a little more complicated.
I want more twists and turns."
- In this match, we had over 20 possible finishes,
and every one had a hook.
What I mean by everybody
could have bought it at that moment.
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- And now it's the Macho Man.
Unbelievable how he's kicking out all these.
- And then finally, when the 1, 2, 3 went down,
believe it or not,
there was a little bit of a lull.
Like, it wasn't an immediate reaction.
Like, it went, okay, is this the one?
The 90,000 blew.
- He got him! I can't believe it.
History is made.
- What a moment that was.
Big moment in my career, you know.
I could count them on one hand,
and that-- that was one of them.
- New Intercontinental Champion!
- I honestly don't think,
that if he wasn't so stickler,
I don't think it would have come off
like the way it did.
And that's--I give that all to Randy.
- It was sold out for the wrestlers in the back.
There was nobody that didn't watch that match.
We knew before it happened.
It's like, this is gonna be the match
that raises the bar.
Just speechless, I really
was in awe of how good it was.
- All these guys are coming up,
just congratulating us,
shaking our hands.
And Arnold Skaaland, Monsoon,
old-school old-timers,
hard-knock guys
were coming up to shake our hand and tell us
they have never, ever seen anything like it.
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- You can watch that match,
and you could almost, you know, be as engrossed now
watching it on videotape
as you were live in-- at WrestleMania.
It is like-- it's art, it's art.
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- But you knew that the industry
changed that night.
Around the water cooler in the morning,
they were talking about Savage and Steamboat.
If you leave one thing in the industry,
one thing you did in life,
I think that's so important.
Have that moment that people will talk about
the rest of their life.
- Was Randy happy about the Ricky Steamboat match?
Yes, he was,
but in another way, not at all,
because he was never able to have a match
anywhere near as good,
and it bothered him.
- Me, uh, it's the match with Randy.
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Out of the 6,000 that I had...
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That match.
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