Deadspin’s been running a weekly post called Dead Wrestler of the Week, remembering wrestlers that have died. Most to overdoses or heart failures or a combination of both. This week: Miss Elizabeth.
There began not just one love story for the ages but two: Savage and Liz’s, of course, but also the love between Elizabeth and the WWF audience, as every male between the ages of 5 and 75 fell head over heels for this woman ‚Äî or, at least, for the idea of her. We had been talked into it.
Me included! Bill Simmons, in a podcast I think, mentioned something I could completely relate to: as a dumb kid he thought Miss Elizabeth was the pinnacle of elegance with Princess Di and Jackie Kennedy tied for second. We owned the Summer Slam ’91 tape which had the Match Made in Heaven—the Randy Savage & Miss Elizabeth wedding—and of course the Match Made in Hell—Hulk Hogan & Ultimate Warrior vs. Sgt. Slaughter and some Iranians. Two things stick out from that tape: Hogan in a Camel Clutch and the recap before the wedding of Randy Savage proposing. “Eliza-bett. Eliza-bett.” Crowd cheers. “Will youuu marry ME?”
And she replies, “Oooooooooh yyyyeaaaaah!”
P.S. You’d think that clip would be on YouTube with a label containing some form of the word “proposal” but it’s not. I found it though: Randy Savage Pops the Question . And my memory served me correctly for once. There are two other things I love, the first is Bobby Hennan yelling “Get down on your knee!” then Gorilla Monsoon screaming “YES!”. The second thing I love is that Macho Man and Miss Elizabeth look genuinely nervous during her reply.