gawd6sic6™
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" I cross the lines you love to hate "
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Post by gawd6sic6™ on Jul 31, 2016 17:00:53 GMT -5
Today marks 1 year after the passing of this legend.
Hated him as a kid, but as a teen when I started to appreciate all bad guys for how hard their job is. I fell in love with him. All heros are only as good as their Villian.
Piper crapping all over somba simba on commentary is gold....
What's some of your favorite piper moments?
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Post by marino13 on Jul 31, 2016 17:21:20 GMT -5
Piper is the only wrestler I've paid to meet. I really didn't want to spend the money, but then I thought of Randy Savage. And how sudden his death happened. I didn't want to pass on meeting Piper and have him suddenly pass away. I felt like I had to tell Piper how much of a fan I was.
He was such a great guy. I was trying to act cool, but I was mentally marking out something fierce. He told me I looked good, so that made me relax a lil. And he grabbed my hand and we did a pose for the pic. I told him how big of a fan I was and you could tell he was genuinely grateful.
So glad I got to meet him.
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Jul 31, 2016 17:46:34 GMT -5
Awesome, just awesome.
I can't think of anything else that could describe Roddy Piper, but the word 'awesome.'
Piper could do it all. He wasn't a great technical wrestler, but with what he did in the ring he did it well. He could talk anyone into coming to the wrestling shows. He wasn't afraid to go to the limit - and then some!
I have his old WWF Coliseum Video on display. One of the few I made sure to keep when I sold off a bunch of my old coliseum videos years ago. I am glad I kept it.
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Post by PJ on Jul 31, 2016 21:16:51 GMT -5
Always loved Piper from the moment I first saw him. It was in the WWF and he had debut as a manager for with Mr. Wonderful or Dr Death David Schultz. (I think it was Schultz first.) Like Marino said above Roddy is the only wrestler I ever paid money to meet. And besides Adam West he was the only celebrity that I was ever nervous to meet to the point that I became tongue tied when they asked me my name. And in both instances you could tell they knew how important they were to me and both were genuinely very friendly and thankful to me for being there.
As for favorite moments it has been often duplicated but never nearly as good...when he interviewed himself. That was classic as were pretty much all of his Piper's Pits as well as when he crashed the Flower Shop.
I still can't believe we lost him so soon and that it has been a year since his passing.
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Post by TheLastDude on Jul 31, 2016 21:22:16 GMT -5
I can't believe it's been a year already. I still miss the guy. He was a one of a kind.
I can't say enough good things about him. Always genuinely pleasant and happy to share time with you.
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Post by DeadlyGame on Jul 31, 2016 21:31:12 GMT -5
I miss him. I miss Savage and Warrior, too.
I grew up watching WCW as a little kid. So I was used to Piper being a face and at the time I did not know he was perhaps the most hated heel of all time.
Of course, like most WCW talent, they got underused.
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Aug 1, 2016 1:08:43 GMT -5
I am different than most as I started my WWF obsession with 1987. Piper was retiring at WM3. So I gave him NO thought. I thought...hey this guy is leaving...I will have my attentions to those that are staying. Loved Hogan etc. So when Piper returned 2 years later I still didn´t pay him any attention. His matches were not like my favorite Bret Hart. HE did nothing technical. Just punch etc. He had the eye poke. Which I thought a babyface really shouldn´t have. I felt a loss when he died. It was a surprise when he did die as he wasn´t known to be a huge partier...I have his LJN figure. But... I will really be upset if Flair, Hogan, or Hart go. Dude, you have no idea! The guy could drink like a mad man back in the day, and would do line after line of cocaine all night long. At the 2005 Hall of Fame, when Roddy Piper said he wanted to be like Hulk Hogan and took vitamins like Hogan, and then said, "and believe you me, I took some serious vitamins" he was referring to all the hardcore drugs he took in the 80s. |
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Aug 1, 2016 1:40:50 GMT -5
He was my favorite, no doubt about it. I loved it when he'd fight Andre. It wouldn't be a squash match. He'd keep on bouncing back & kept fighting.
Truly one of the best talkers in the business. Whether it was a rehearsed script or if he'd ad-lib.
Isn't there a book about his life being released by his family in October?
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gawd6sic6™
Main Eventer
" I cross the lines you love to hate "
Joined on: Jan 13, 2009 13:50:08 GMT -5
Posts: 4,868
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Post by gawd6sic6™ on Aug 1, 2016 13:14:01 GMT -5
I am different than most as I started my WWF obsession with 1987. Piper was retiring at WM3. So I gave him NO thought. I thought...hey this guy is leaving...I will have my attentions to those that are staying. Loved Hogan etc. So when Piper returned 2 years later I still didn´t pay him any attention. His matches were not like my favorite Bret Hart. HE did nothing technical. Just punch etc. He had the eye poke. Which I thought a babyface really shouldn´t have. I felt a loss when he died. It was a surprise when he did die as he wasn´t known to be a huge partier...I have his LJN figure. But... I will really be upset if Flair, Hogan, or Hart go. Thanks for the usual negativity. Keep it on par, you're so good at it! |
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dixol
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Post by dixol on Aug 1, 2016 13:51:43 GMT -5
He was always my fave as a kid in the 80s. I met him in 2002 or 3 when he did his book tour. We talked. He told me a Sgt Slaughter story that nobody else got that day. Later, he gave me a hug. Totally unexpected, but will remember forever. Got it on video. It's on Youtube. Saw him again at PWG January 2010 Legends Royal Rumble. Might have been his last match? He went out a winner. He replied to me on twitter multiple times, but I would delete every once in a while. Kept the last 1, about 2 months before he died.
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Post by Patrick Bateman (original) on Aug 1, 2016 14:06:44 GMT -5
I hated him growing up (which means he did his job). Then I saw him in They Live and grew fascinated by the Hot Rod. He was without a doubt the best mic man ever. He could get you so angry that you wanted to punch him one moment, and the next you are laughing and hating his opponent. The world is a little less Rowdy without Piper here, and that is a sad thing.
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Post by JC Motors on Aug 3, 2016 18:01:41 GMT -5
I still can't believe he's gone a year now.
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Aug 4, 2016 16:11:34 GMT -5
He was always my fave as a kid in the 80s. I met him in 2002 or 3 when he did his book tour. We talked. He told me a Sgt Slaughter story that nobody else got that day. Later, he gave me a hug. Totally unexpected, but will remember forever. Got it on video. It's on Youtube. Saw him again at PWG January 2010 Legends Royal Rumble. Might have been his last match? He went out a winner. He replied to me on twitter multiple times, but I would delete every once in a while. Kept the last 1, about 2 months before he died. Can you tell the Slaughter story? |
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Post by PJ on Aug 4, 2016 16:52:02 GMT -5
He was always my fave as a kid in the 80s. I met him in 2002 or 3 when he did his book tour. We talked. He told me a Sgt Slaughter story that nobody else got that day. Later, he gave me a hug. Totally unexpected, but will remember forever. Got it on video. It's on Youtube. Saw him again at PWG January 2010 Legends Royal Rumble. Might have been his last match? He went out a winner. He replied to me on twitter multiple times, but I would delete every once in a while. Kept the last 1, about 2 months before he died. Can you tell the Slaughter story? I can tell you a Sgt Slaughter story. Back in the early-80's I was working at the West Caldwell NJ Burger King and one afternoon while me and another employee were taking out the trash a camouflage limo pulled into the parking lot. It was Sarge's but he didn't get out of the car. He sent the driver in. The driver said he was Sarge's bodyguard which we replied..."he's Sgt Slaughter why does he need a bodyguard" And then we heard from the backseat that growly voice "To keep Maggots like you from bothering me!" That was about the time our manager made us get back to work. Supposedly he was a guest at some wrestling school in Pine Brook. |
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dixol
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Post by dixol on Aug 4, 2016 19:12:29 GMT -5
He was always my fave as a kid in the 80s. I met him in 2002 or 3 when he did his book tour. We talked. He told me a Sgt Slaughter story that nobody else got that day. Later, he gave me a hug. Totally unexpected, but will remember forever. Got it on video. It's on Youtube. Saw him again at PWG January 2010 Legends Royal Rumble. Might have been his last match? He went out a winner. He replied to me on twitter multiple times, but I would delete every once in a while. Kept the last 1, about 2 months before he died. Can you tell the Slaughter story? Piper's story also had to do with the camo limo. |
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Aug 4, 2016 21:08:01 GMT -5
I know Roddy Piper always told that story about him, Muraco and I wanna say Adonis, getting drunk and driving a car into the railroad tracks when a train came. Then going back to the hotel and luring a naked Bob Orton into the front desk clerk area and having Bob ending up getting arrested, along with Piper.
I believe he talks about it on Table For 3 with Mean Gene and Paul Orndorff.
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Post by ricflair4ever on Aug 4, 2016 22:02:45 GMT -5
Its been a year and it still hasn't sunk in. Neither has Dustys, Warriors ,or Savages really. Roddy Piper transcends his own death. Still not jobbing out. If anyones presence is THAT much larger than life that you have to remind yourself he's no longer on our mortal plane........he has left a mark that is untouchable. Roddy Piper is one such icon. The Rowdy one is one of the few in our favorite sports history, who could play the ultimate villain and do it so well that he could be loved as one of the most popular of all time just a few short months after being that villain. We talk about his heel run in WWF from 84-86 with great remembrance, and rightfully so, however take a look at his run in Georgia Championship Wrestling around 82. He was the most vile and hated guy in the territory during that time, but when he turned babyface by sticking up for Gordon Solie.....he was the areas greatest hero. People bought into Roddy because he came off as genuine. Whether as a good guy or bad guy, he was truly believable. No matter if he was the crazy guy going after the white meat babyface for reasons that seemed dubious at best, or he was the badass who targeted the other bad guys to prove he could out gun them, he came off in a way that made the viewer think he really believed what he was saying and meant it. A true gift that sometimes gets lost in todays product. Piper was real in an unreal world. And he still is even if hes not here with us now. R.I.P. Rowdy One.......its impossible to forget you
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Aug 5, 2016 1:50:29 GMT -5
I know Roddy Piper always told that story about him, Muraco and I wanna say Adonis, getting drunk and driving a car into the railroad tracks when a train came. Then going back to the hotel and luring a naked Bob Orton into the front desk clerk area and having Bob ending up getting arrested, along with Piper. I believe he talks about it on Table For 3 with Mean Gene and Paul Orndorff. Yes! And then Orndorff reminds Piper that he (Orndorff) bailed him out of jail that night. |
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Post by rowdy1971 on Aug 5, 2016 14:39:07 GMT -5
I had the pleasure of meeting Roddy a hand full of times and he was always just the greatest to me. The first time I met him he was signing autographs for the XWF. When it was my turn he had to take a cell call. A few minutes later he came back with a huge smile on his face and told me he just became a grandpa. He gave me such a great hug and held my face in his hands and said he loved me. lol that was just awesome. I met him a bunch and the last time he got me front row to his stand up comedy show. I was there with his son Colt. Roddy passing away hit very hard as he was the very first thing I ever saw in wrestling. Him beating up Frankie Williams. I followed him from that point on. He is the reason I got into wrestling and became an actor.
I was able to tell Roddy many times how much he meant to me and he always responded with a huge smile and a hug. We corresponded over Twitter a few times and I've been able to talk with his daughters Ariel and Fallon as well as his wife Kitty and Colt. Colt got married a few months after his death and it was just heartbreaking to see the pictures without Roddy there. Ariel and Colt did write a book and it will be out in October. Kitty appreciates all the well wishes. She moved out of their Portland OR. ranch and moved to a nice area in Las Vegas. It was just too rough being in that house.
Love him or hate him, you have to appreciate everything he did in the business and beyond. He had his demons and they didn't win this time. Hypertension and high blood pressure isn't something to take likely.
I drank an "All out of Bubblegum" pop in his memory and I'll always be looking to the heavens. Never forget. Just when you think you have the answers, Roddy changed the question.
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Post by The Brain on Aug 30, 2016 3:23:01 GMT -5
There will never be another Roddy Piper that's for sure. One of the greatest heels of all time in my book and not to mention one of the best talkers ever. A Legend in every sense of the word. We miss you Hot Rod.
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