A veteran author of numerous award-winning books, Jon Finkel’s new bucket list biography, “Macho Man: The Untamed, Unbelievable Life of Randy Savage,” delves deeper into Randy Savage’s psyche and life than any book or documentary that has preceded it.
Finkel gave a lengthy interview to Web Is Jericho ahead of the book’s April 2 release via ECW Press. One aspect that Finkel covered in great detail was Savage’s quest to make it as a professional baseball player.
“He was as obsessive-compulsive about baseball as he was about anything else,” Finkel said. “I always just assumed he had these two options. He’s an incredible baseball player, but if that doesn’t work out, ‘I have my dad doing wrestling, my brother doing wrestling, and it’s fine.’”
But when baseball didn’t work out for Savage, he was heartbroken. “He was devastated,” Finkel said. “It was like pure heartbreak. It was like an existential crisis. This was a kid — and I talked to all his high school teammates and all his neighbors and a lot of guys who played minor league ball with him — this was a kid who walked around high school with his backpack and his baseball bat. Who sat in the back of class not to goof off but to do tricep kickbacks with a weighted baseball. It informed who he became as a wrestler and how he transitioned over first to Randy Savage and then the Macho Man. When you talk about surprising, I just didn’t realize it was so cut and dry. There was no talk of wrestling, Baseball was it.”
Read the full interview with Finkel here. And pre-order the book via ECW Press.
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