What The Final Days Of Randy Savage's Life Were Really Like

Macho Man Randy Savage came from a wrestling family — his brother, Lanny Poffo (pictured above), wrestled in WWE under his real name and as The Genius, and their father, Angelo Poffo, was a veteran wrestler and promoter who worked in the industry for several decades. That family legacy was a key topic of conversation for the two brothers on the night before Savage died.

As quoted by Bleacher Report, the Macho Man invited his brother to his house for a few beers, as they discussed how their father was excluded from a 1987 WWE battle royal featuring several other old-school wrestling legends. This permanently soured Savage's relationship with WWE and its chairman, Vince McMahon, and he supposedly told his brother that he "handled it like Martin Luther King [but] should have handled it like Malcolm X. By any means necessary."

In addition, Savage was supposedly empathic about his stand that he wouldn't want to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame if he was the only one going in — it had to be the entire Poffo family or no one at all. This, along with his brother's expectation that he would die young, led Lanny Poffo to thinking that the onus would be on him to refuse any offer from WWE to honor the Macho Man.

Although Lanny admitted that he felt torn between believing his brother deserved to be in the Hall and wanting to honor his wishes, he ultimately agreed to induct the Macho Man, doing so when he was enshrined as part of the WWE Hall of Fame's class of 2015.