Macho Man Randy Savage Sues Kobe Over ‘Elbow’

Former pro wrestler Macho Man Randy Savage is suing Kobe Bryant, claiming the NBA superstar has illegally adopted his trademark move — “the Savage elbow” — as his own.

The suit accuses Bryant of trademark and copyright infringement as well as misappropriation of the move. Savage is seeking an injunction, unspecified monetary damages and a lifetime supply of Slim Jims.

Savage’s lawyer, Jimmy Hart, said the Macho Man brought the legal action against the Los Angeles Lakers guard in order to protect his livelihood. He just doesn’t dig it.

“People would come up to Randy and ask him if he was letting Kobe use it or if he had taught it to him, Daddy-O,” Hart said of the move, which he claims his client created in the early 80’s and copyrighted years ago.

Over the past six weeks, Bryant has appeared to use slight variations of Savage’s go-to move. On Monday, Bryant was assessed a flagrant foul by the league for elbowing Sixers’ guard Kyle Korver. Earlier in the season he received one-game suspensions for elbowing Manu Ginobili and Mark Jaric in the face.

Hart said he first took the matter directly to Bryant’s lawyers, but they were not receptive, saying that the real issue was how Anderson Varejao was “running wild.”

Hart said he provided Bryant’s people with magazine covers, various merchandise and video footage dating back to Wrestlemania VII showing Savage landing five consecutive “elbow drops” on the Ultimate Warrior.

Ohhhhh yeahhhh… Bryant’s attorneys could not be reached for comment.

NBA Reportedly Investigating Another Kobe Elbow [NBA FanHouse]

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By J.E. Skeets at 7:34 pm on 03.12.2007 — Tags: Police Blotter, Kobe Bryant, Lakers

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21 Responses to “Macho Man Randy Savage Sues Kobe Over ‘Elbow’”

  1. Howie at 8:12 pm on 03.12.2007

    The Rock says, “pay up Jabroni!”

  2. Tom at 2:52 pm on 03.14.2007

    I can only hope that during as these legal proceedings unfold there is no set of circumstances that finds Kobe and Ms. Elizabeth alone in the same room together.

  3. Kirk at 2:59 pm on 03.14.2007

    Good call Tom — Mrs. Elizabeth died several years ago….

  4. Ry-no at 3:06 pm on 03.14.2007

    Whatcha gonna do, brother? Whatcha gonna do when Black Mamba (allegedly) sodomizes you?

  5. sam g in sd at 6:39 pm on 03.14.2007

    whatch gonna do? what any low-life, opportunistic gold diggin’ beeootch would do—SUE SUE SUE!!!

  6. Meow at 6:51 pm on 03.14.2007

    I feel that I just might be witnessing greatness… now this is sport journalism! I haven’t been this awestruck since Dusty Rhodes beat Harley Race at the Omni in Atlanta back in 81′

  7. Ned Schnittt at 8:21 pm on 03.14.2007

    As long as Kobe doesn’t try to launch a rap career (like Savage did), it will always be Advantage: Kobe.

  8. LoCnEsS at 9:34 pm on 03.14.2007

    Is this article even for real? A life time supply of slim jims? Macho man needs to come back and wrestle for some real money, poor Kobe

  9. RtdRSprstr at 9:42 pm on 03.14.2007

    Advantage: Savage. I give him props for blaming someone other than Hulk Hogan for anything in the past 20 years. Now if we could get a clause in the lawsuit that says he gets to do his guillotine clothesline drop over the top rope on Kobe, that would be sweet.

  10. Steel Reserve at 9:44 pm on 03.14.2007

    He will forever be “too hot to handle, and too cold to hold” He’s “gonna end your career, oh yeahhhh”

  11. bostonlou at 9:51 pm on 03.14.2007

    i’d still bang ms elizabeth like a screen door in a hurricane

  12. Zach Everson at 10:33 pm on 03.14.2007

    I want to hire the Mouth of the South to write my prenup.

  13. Joe at 11:50 pm on 03.14.2007

    10% OF THE NBA is white, yet 100% of Kobe’s elbows hit white guys. Coincidence???

  14. Rahul at 10:36 am on 03.15.2007

    Uhh… Kobe did launch a rap career back in the late 2000s. “Hold Me (Remix)” Brian McKnight Feat. Kobe remains the single greatest song in the history of music. Listen to the second verse, it is the Mamba himself…

  15. Captain America at 11:53 am on 03.15.2007

    In a straight up fight I’d still take Macho at age 60 over Kobe…no matter how much “street cred” he’s got…

    btw–it is a little gross to want to “bang Miss Elizabeth like a screen door in a hurricane” since she is dead and all…I hear what you’re saying BostonLou, but maybe move onto to someone with a pulse (and larger funbags) like Candice Michelle.

  16. Big Cork Dog at 4:52 pm on 03.15.2007

    OOOHH YEAHH, brutha!!

    Hulk Hogan, I see the lust in your eye for Ms. Elizabeth!!!

  17. Chris at 5:47 pm on 03.17.2007

    Macho Madness OHHHHHHH YEAHHHHH DIG IT!!

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  19. Mikey at 2:31 pm on 03.21.2007

    “Be a Man, Hogan!”

    What? Am I the only one who liked Macho Man’s Rap CD?

  20. Yao Ming is sad at YAYsports! NBA at 6:03 pm on 03.26.2007

    […] However, the bad news didn’t stop there for Yao Ming. After a dreadful 7-22 shooting performance that would’ve made even the likes of Stephen Hawking mutter to himself that he could do better, the news was broken to him that his jersey is NOT the number one jersey sold in his native country of Chinaland. The most popular jersey there is…KOBE BRYANT! Apparently rape trials and flagrant elbows play out much better in the Asian market than previously believed. […]

  21. Badboy at 5:15 am on 01.17.2008

    Hulk Hogan is GOD!

    Macho Man is a Noooboody ooh yeaaah!

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