Miss Elizabeth
The importance of Elizabeth to the career of Randy Savage cannot be overstated. She was very much the yin to his yang, an intrinsic part of the character. Indeed, one could go so far as to say they had a symbiotic relationship; one could not exist without the other. Indeed, the only thing really keeping fans from cheering Savage at first, as they so desperately wanted to do, was the way he was treating Elizabeth. Savage’s on-screen jealously climaxed in a feud with George Steele, who became besotted with Elizabeth. While the matches between the two didn't click and often actually rather sucked, which was a rarity for a Savage bout in this era, the fans were gripped by the rivalry for years. However, Savage’s jealousy extended beyond the cameras, and there are numerous legendary tales of how he used to treat his real-life wife behind the scenes. Some observes claim that Savage used to lock Elizabeth in closets, and when she was allowed out, she was instructed by Randy to stare at the floor and not make eye contact with any of the wrestlers. Various other anecdotes have been told over the years, with George Steele claiming in a Kayfabe Commentaries shoot interview that on Elizabeth’s first day with the WWF, Savage made her practice walking up and down the ring steps and getting into the ring a few hundred times. The reason? To assess how much leg she was showing and deciding if it was acceptable. His mind must have been blown by the SummerSlam 88 spot where Elizabeth took her skirt off completely to reveal just a pair of bikini pants. Savage was by all accounts completely paranoid when it came to Elizabeth, and Steele used to love winding him up about it just before they went through the curtain, because it got Savage in the right frame of mind for the matches. Or maybe it distracted him, they were pretty balls, after all. Elizabeth developed a massive following during her tenure, become probably the most loved female performer the WWE ever had. It is a shame she later allowed her image to be ruined by the ineptitude of WCW booking. Sadly Elizabeth died in new boyfriend Lex Luger’s house in 2003, after a lethal combination of drugs and booze. Yeah, Luger. We don’t know what she was thinking either.
