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The Genius is gone, wrestler "Leaping" Lanny Poffo, brother of Macho Man Randy Savage and son of Angelo Poffo passes away at 68 years old.

Will_H_69_9

Will_H_69_9

The wrestling world has lost a Genius today, as we learned through his friend Hacksaw Jim Duggan, that "Leaping" Lanny Poffo aka The Genus in WWE has died, he passed away at 68 years old today, he was the younger brother of Wrestling great "Macho Man" Randy Savage (real name Randall Mario "Randy" Poffo) and the son of wrestler and promoter Angelo Poffo, his brother Randy died in 2011 at the age of 58 after suffering a massive heart attack while driving his car which crashed into a tree, meanwhile his father Angelo passed away a year earlier in 2010 at the age of 84 from health problems and old age.

RIP to the Genius, who is now reunited with his dad and brother in heaven.

The story from TMZ:
Wrestling Star Lanny Poffo Dead At 68, 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan Mourns Loss
 
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First heard of this via Mick Foley's FB page. Got to meet 'Leaping' Lanny at a wrestling convention about 20 years ago. Spoke about his time with his brother Randy running IWC, an 'outlaw' promotion in the 1970's. Got a picture with him, on a Polaroid (before cell phones). Let's see if I can find it. Sad news, he wasn't all that old.
 
Will_H_69_9 said:
RIP to the Genus, who is now reunited with his dad and brother in heaven.
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I was never that big into wrestling, but the city where we lived didn't get cable until the mid-80s so as a kid I was stuck with whatever we could pick up OTA. On Sunday afternoons if there were no NFL games on, that meant wrestling was it. I remember The Genius. Often carried a book of poetry to the ring, was well spoken during interviews and "bits" and was pretty acrobatic in the ring. Again, I was never big into wrestling - aside from Vince McMahon and a few others, most everyone I'd remember have retired or departed - Gorilla Monsoon, Bobby Heenan, Roddy Piper, Mean Gene Okerland. Great actors, great athletes, all entertaining to watch.
 
Before he became The Genius, he was billed as the Poet Laureate of the World Wrestling Federation. The poems were hardly genius, just simple rhyming couplets, but the WWF was targeting kids and teens, so I'm sure no one minded.
 
That was ICW, which I remember watching as an 8th-grader in 1982.
 
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