{"id":6985,"date":"2011-05-23T16:30:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T20:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6985"},"modified":"2011-05-23T15:30:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T19:30:54","slug":"randy-%e2%80%98macho-man%e2%80%99-savage-dies-in-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6985","title":{"rendered":"Randy \u2018Macho Man\u2019 Savage Dies In  Car Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wrestling legend <strong>Randy &#8220;Macho Man&#8221; Savage<\/strong> died in a hospital on Friday, from injuries he sustained after he lost control of his Jeep Wrangler and crashed it into a tree in Pinellas County.<\/p>\n<p>He was 58.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Savage<\/strong>, whose real name is <strong>Randy Mario Poffo<\/strong>, is the son of wrestler <strong>Angelo Poffo <\/strong>and brother to <strong>Lanny &#8220;The Genius&#8221; Poffo,<\/strong> also a wrestler.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife <strong>Barbara L Poffo<\/strong>, 56, who made it through the crash with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police reports said the couple was wearing seatbelts when the accident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most flamboyant personalities in wrestling, <strong>Savage<\/strong> made a name for himself in the 80s with his unique nickname Macho Man, catchphrase &#8220;Oooh, Yeah!&#8221; and over-the-top sense of style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrestling legend Randy &#8220;Macho Man&#8221; Savage died in a hospital on Friday, from injuries he sustained after he lost control of his Jeep Wrangler and crashed it into a tree in Pinellas County. He was 58. Savage, whose real name is Randy Mario Poffo, is the son of wrestler Angelo Poffo and brother to Lanny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}