![]() Recommended read: Deep Drive: A Randy Savage Baseball Career RetrospectiveĪngelo, the patriarch of the Poffo family, was a wrestler and promoter who made quite an impact regionally before his sons Randy and Lanny got involved in the business in the early ’70s. When a young Randy, fresh off a stint in minor league baseball, failed to grab Jarrett and Lawler’s attention in Memphis, Angelo Poffo created ICW as a place for his sons to be the top stars. ![]() ![]() The Poffo Family: Randy, Angelo, and Lanny ICW was considered an outlaw promotion because they did not have affiliation with the National Wrestling Alliance. What Led to the Randy Savage and Bill Dundee Fight?īefore Randy Savage became one of the most recognizable figures in professional wrestling, the real-life Randy Poffo, alongside his brother Lanny Poffo and father Angelo Poffo, created an "outlaw" wrestling promotion in 1978 out of Lexington, Kentucky called International Championship Wrestling. To truly understand the origins of this real-life conflict, we must go back to the events that led to them “rolling around like two old women on the ground” outside a Tennessee gym. ![]() The legendary fight between Randy Savage and Bill Dundee was a huge part of Memphis Wrestling history. ![]()
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