WWE Warrior Award Winner Still Gets Paid For Randy Savage Angle
A WWE Warrior Award recipient has revealed he still gets money from a memorable moment from Randy Savage’s legendary career.
There are a lot of great moments from inside the ring during the career of the legendary “Macho Man” Randy Savage. Many people consider Macho Man to be one of the greatest Intercontinental Champions of all time while also being a two-time WWE World Champion. He also won the WCW World Title four times.
In terms of memorable storylines, Macho Man was a part of some big ones in WWE like when he turned heel on Hulk Hogan while Savage was the WWE Champion, the infamous snake rivalry with Jake Roberts, and his classic battles with Diamond Dallas Page in WCW.
The main event of SummerSlam 1991 featured the wedding of “Macho Man” Randy Savage and his manager Miss Elizabeth, which took place in the ring. What most fans watching at the time likely didn’t know is that Savage and Elizabeth were married in 1984. They ended up getting a divorce in 1992.
Randy Savage’s SummerSlam Wedding Still Paying Off For WWE Warrior Award Winner
Rich Hering is a former longtime WWE employee who worked behind the scenes as the Senior Vice President of Government Relations and Risk Management. He also was the officiant for the Randy Savage-Miss Elizabeth wedding at SummerSlam 1991.
During WrestleMania weekend in 2021, Hering won the WWE Warrior Award for his lifetime of work for the company. Hering appeared on Ciliberto and Friends recently where he mentioned that he still gets residuals from being a part of the Savage-Elizabeth wedding.
“That was the largest wedding I ever did. It was in Madison Square Garden. I’m still getting residual checks.
They were going to do the wedding in Madison Square Garden, and I was talking to Vince [McMahon] and Pat Patterson about getting someone to do the wedding.
Vince said to me, ‘You’re a judge.’ ‘Yeah.’ I was Town of Liberty, Associate Village of Liberty, and Fallsburg Town Judge for four, five, six months when there was a vacancy of both judges.
I was appointed by the chief judge in the Fallsburg court, which I held for several months. [Vince] says, ‘Rich, you’d be the perfect person to do the ceremony.’ ‘Yeah, I’ve done quite a number of them over the years.’ That’s how that happened.”
The wedding between Savage and Elizabeth kicked off the intense rivalry between Randy and Jake Roberts.
Opening up a present at a wedding to find out that somebody put a snake in it is not the kind of gift that a bride and groom are looking for. It also told the audience that anything can happen at a WWE wedding.