Bruce Prichard talks about hypothetical scenarios where Randy Savage could have returned to WWE at the climax of the Attitude Era.
Randy Savage never returned to WWE after 1994, when he left the company for WCW. Following the closure of WCW in 2001, Savage remained one of the only top stars from that company to never move back to WWE outside of one video game commercial for "WWE All-Stars" in 2011, shortly before his passing that same year. Still, Savage remains a legend of the industry, and there were plenty of dream matches left on the table with "The Macho Man" never going back to WWE.
During the most recent episode of his podcast, Something to Wrestle, Bruce Prichard spoke about the possibility of Randy Savage returning to WWE and how he would have liked to see it happen. Prichard believes that Randy Savage returning to WWE at WrestleMania 17 would have sent the crowd into a frenzy less than a week after the final WCW Nitro.
"Well, in a post-WCW world, I think that Randy, frankly, coming out at [WrestleMania] 17, would have been through the roof," he said. "Where I'm going with that is from the standpoint of right after Rock -- let's maybe take Vince out. Again, you're fantasy booking. What would you do? Again, you would have had to have known what you had. Take Vince out. Savage comes back in with Rock and Austin, and throw Savage into that mix so they could have blown the roof off the place. That would have been a time."
Furthermore, Bruce Prichard feels that Randy Savage could have added to the WWE's presentation of the nWo, either as opposition to Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, and Kevin Nash or as part of their team, potentially replacing Scott Hall again "Stone Cold" Steve Austin at WWE WrestleMania 18
"Another time would have been right after the nWo came in, as an opposition to the nWo," said Prichard. "I think that that definitely could have been bigger. As you said, instead of Steve and Razor, Steve and Savage is huge."
The Rock noted that he had Randy Savage on a short list of names that he wanted to wrestle from WCW after WWE purchased the company. Learn more about that here.
Elsewhere on this podcast, Pritchard spoke about how names like Seth Rollins and Cody Rhodes would have fared with Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan in the 1980s. Learn more here.
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