Randy Savage and Road Warrior Hawk's Epic Brawls Revealed!

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The '90s witnessed real tension between "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Road Warrior Hawk, resulting in heated altercations on two different occasions. Learn more

In 1996 at a New Japan show, Randy Savage was set to have a match and was on his way to the ring when he got ambushed by Hawk of the Road Warriors backstage.

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According to Randy’s brother Lanny Poffo: “Hawk had a mistaken notion that my brother had made a pass at his wife."

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Hawk had claimed victory over Savage, yet former WCW manager Sonny Onoo, an eyewitness to the Japan incident, contradicts this assertion.

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Sonny Onoo: "Randy Savage and Hawk were going at it. I mean, they were going at it. They were face to face about to go, and the music hits, and he’s not going out."

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Stephanie Bellars, aka Gorgeous George, former girlfriend and wrestling manager of Randy Savage, tells a different story.

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GORGEOUS GEORGE: “They had the urinals ripping off the walls, the doors, oh lord!”

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