RutgersJetFan Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Truly one of the greats. Maybe the best heel of all time and a notoriously amazing father. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JoeC36 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 I hope Raw does right by him on Monday. RIP Rowdy "Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeC36 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 THE best Piper's Pit ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RutgersJetFan Posted July 31, 2015 Author Share Posted July 31, 2015 THE best Piper's Pit ever If I'm ranking best moments from the 80s I'd have the coconut as top 3 no doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTM Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 no sh*t? HA i guess RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewilly12 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawn306 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 First the American Dream and now the Hot Rod. Very Sad Most folks remember him for the coconut on Jimmy Snuka but his matches with Greg Valentine in the Carolinas were classics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BP Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 If I'm ranking best moments from the 80s I'd have the coconut as top 3 no doubt. RIP. The best skits were 1) the coconut. 2) him handing out rotten apples to kids on halloween on a tuesday night titans skit and 3)Throwing Gene okerlund to the street after he found their secret training facility for wrestlemania 1 ''Okerlund, we told you not to come'' ''why you gentelman wouldnt threaten me with physical violence, would you?'' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BP Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 RIP. The best skits were 1) the coconut. 2) him handing out rotten apples to kids on halloween on a tuesday night titans skit and 3)Throwing Gene okerlund to the street after he found their secret training facility for wrestlemania 1 ''Okerlund, we told you not to come'' ''why you gentelman wouldnt threaten me with physical violence, would you?'' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RutgersJetFan Posted July 31, 2015 Author Share Posted July 31, 2015 RIP. The best skits were 1) the coconut. 2) him handing out rotten apples to kids on halloween on a tuesday night titans skit and 3)Throwing Gene okerlund to the street after he found their secret training facility for wrestlemania 1 ''Okerlund, we told you not to come'' ''why you gentelman wouldnt threaten me with physical violence, would you?'' I think I remember like 3 things tops from before I was 6 years old. Roddy Piper kicking Cyndi Lauper in the head is one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RutgersJetFan Posted July 31, 2015 Author Share Posted July 31, 2015 Also can you imagine the WWE trying to pull off that bit with Snuka and the bananas today? There'd be a billion DID WRESTLING GO TO FAR?? articles within 5 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faba Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 RIP Roddy- the legends of wrestling are all going lately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pac Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Paved the way for wrestlers as leading men in Hollywood with They Live. Awesome movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolot Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 I was 12 when the coconut skit went down, me and my friends watched it 10 times a day every day for a month, classic. The only thing funnier was Rudy Diamand getting pile driven 20 times by Orndorff for wearing Paula tights…don't ask me why I remember this stuff…RIP Roddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor99 Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 RIP. He was just making the rounds on several podcasts. He had some amazing stories. My favorite wrestler of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrissey Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTM Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 61, heart attack. Weird cause he never looked like a steroid freak like Ultimate Warrior and others. But i guess it's not just the steroids that do in these wrestlers early, all the pain meds and stuff NG either Sad. Was a big part of my childhood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munchmemory Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 One of the guys who changed the face of pro wrestling. Roddy was always funny and entertaining. Plus, he was in one of my favorite movies from that era, "They Live". The flick was completely over the top, which I loved. The fight sequence between Roddy's character and Keith David's is a classic and completely insane. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CotcheryifyouCan Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 RIP. Gold on the mic and funny as hell on its always sunny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rillo Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTM Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 One of the guys who changed the face of pro wrestling. Roddy was always funny and entertaining. Plus, he was in one of my favorite movies from that era, "They Live". The flick was completely over the top, which I loved. The fight sequence between Roddy's character and Keith David's is a classic and completely insane. lol Ever see Slavoj Zizek's analysis of that movie in a perverts guide to ideology? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klecko73isGod Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 If I'm ranking best moments from the 80s I'd have the coconut as top 3 no doubt. It's the single greatest moment in wrestling history. At that moment, Piper was the embodiment of evil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeC36 Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I'm really hoping for some kind of tribute on Raw tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klecko73isGod Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I'm really hoping for some kind of tribute on Raw tonight. I can't imagine there won't be. Hulk Hogan gets so much credit for wreslting's popularity in the 80s but without a great villian, Hogan would have been too annoying to be that big a star and carry the company. Piper was the perfect foil for Hogan. He was fearless in his heeldom. The guy literally came out against rock and roll of all things. But he knew he had to be as hateful as possible because otherwise Mount Baldy (as Piper once memorably referred to Hogan) would have been a less popular John Cena. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munchmemory Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Ever see Slavoj Zizek's analysis of that movie in a perverts guide to ideology? Had not seen this. Very interesting take. Thanks, CTM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor99 Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I can't imagine there won't be. Hulk Hogan gets so much credit for wreslting's popularity in the 80s but without a great villian, Hogan would have been too annoying to be that big a star and carry the company. Piper was the perfect foil for Hogan. He was fearless in his heeldom. The guy literally came out against rock and roll of all things. But he knew he had to be as hateful as possible because otherwise Mount Baldy (as Piper once memorably referred to Hogan) would have been a less popular John Cena. He was such a good heel, he was the first to blur the lines between heel and face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klecko73isGod Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 He was such a good heel, he was the first to blur the lines between heel and face. He and Rick Flair were the best at that. The two of them could slip effortlessly from heel to face and back. The only guy in recent years who has been close to that level with that has been Jericho. Rock and Stone Cold were pretty adept at it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RutgersJetFan Posted August 3, 2015 Author Share Posted August 3, 2015 He and Rick Flair were the best at that. The two of them could slip effortlessly from heel to face and back. The only guy in recent years who has been close to that level with that has been Jericho. Rock and Stone Cold were pretty adept at it too. Rock was way better as a heel. The problem is he was just so ******* entertaining that you couldn't help but love him. Piper was the most hateable guy ever. Can you imagine the WWE trying to put up a heel like that now? I don't think they could even if they wanted to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munchmemory Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Rock was way better as a heel. The problem is he was just so ******* entertaining that you couldn't help but love him. Piper was the most hateable guy ever. Can you imagine the WWE trying to put up a heel like that now? I don't think they could even if they wanted to. I'll counter with "Classy" Freddie Blassie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klecko73isGod Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Rock was way better as a heel. The problem is he was just so ******* entertaining that you couldn't help but love him. Piper was the most hateable guy ever. Can you imagine the WWE trying to put up a heel like that now? I don't think they could even if they wanted to. He got away with it because he was pure evil. When Piper went heel, he went all in. He was just a vicious a$$hole. Like I said earlier, the guy said he hated rock and roll to sell an angle. Only he didn't just say it. He would go on 10-minute diatribes about how awful rock and roll was and how much he preferred bagpipe music and it was totally believable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klecko73isGod Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 But everything was done with a bit of a wink and a nod. Almost as if Piper was saying "you and I know this is all bullsh*t but can you imagine how much you'd hate someone who acted this way?" that made it somehow not only weirdly acceptable but funny as hell. It's why he also made a great face that people wanted to root for. Because he could be just as funny only now you got to laugh with him. The man had an insane level of charisma. The strangest ever was his angle as a face to Hollywood Hogan's heel turn in the nWo. It was bizarre. But I was finally rooting for Piper to beat Hogan and not looking like the crazy person rooting for the heel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor99 Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 He and Rick Flair were the best at that. The two of them could slip effortlessly from heel to face and back. The only guy in recent years who has been close to that level with that has been Jericho. Rock and Stone Cold were pretty adept at it too. A friend of mine was in WCW for a while (I never dunked on him, though), he told me that Jericho was the nicest, hardest working guy in the business. He, like Piper, was funny. Even as a heel, you wanted to root for him because he made you laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeC36 Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Rock was way better as a heel. The problem is he was just so ******* entertaining that you couldn't help but love him. Piper was the most hateable guy ever. Can you imagine the WWE trying to put up a heel like that now? I don't think they could even if they wanted to. They cant make a heel hateable now. They tried with Rollins and everyone loves him. They're trying with Kevin Owens and everyone loves him. People love heels more than they love faces now and I blame it on them never forcing Cena to make a heel turn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor99 Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I'll counter with "Classy" Freddie Blassie. Blassie never got close to the hatred of Piper. That whole Lauper bit was nationwide news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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