RODDY GETS RUMBLED : Wrestlemania 2 PART 2 !! - Wrestle Me Review WWF WWE WM II

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[@StairwellTheCat]

Piper was sooooo obviously Canadian without hiding it yet as a kid there was no question in my mind that this guy was a Scot.

[@nosajdabeno]

My Mom is from Scotland. I was in my mid twenties when I realized he didn’t have a Scottish accent! I had been watching since I was around 6. 🤦🏼‍♂️😂 If that isn’t an endorsement for how believable Roddy was I don’t know what is!!!!

[@dildonius]

​@@nosajdabenoMore of an endorsement for how kids will literally believe anything that The Telly Tells Them.

[@nosajdabeno]

@@dildonius not really. As a kid I saw other shows on telly where the actor would put on a terrible Scottish accent, and I knew the character may have been a Scottish character, but the actor, not so much.

[@nosajdabeno]

@@dildonius Christopher Lambert in the original Highlander (1986) comes to mind.

[@ryandonovan5205]

Western Canadian yeah if he was an Eastern Canadian he would of been 'The Whining Bitch' Pierre Papier

[@You_Are_A_Tube]

Your videos have the best intro/outro music on KZbin!

[@relentlesslycheerful]

Pete saying "silver lady" at 9:24 made me laugh a lot. Lovely old job :)

[@capri8225]

7:18 Piper lmfao this man was special. We love u Roddy

[@theweejoke9850]

Jake the Snake... Owner Roberts hahaha

[@JamesMMcCann]

At that point in time, Piper takes T in a shoot.

[@meatyoakergeorge]

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, Roddy was definitely an energetic bad ass and in just as good a shape or better than Mr. T, not sure why they figured T would beat him in a shoot

[@nman2]

Chet Coppock was definitely known here in the Chicago sports broadcasting community at the time. Great voice

[@JosephJamesScott]

Piper did live near the New Brunswick/Nova Scotia border for a bit, and Nova Scotia is Latin for New Scotland. So that's a bit Scottish I guess.

[@stalfithrildi5366]

Its like the bizarrely specific Hometown of Mantaur being Crete. Someone behind the scenes at WWF was classically educated and got listened to about once a decade.

[@stalfithrildi5366]

Loved the Ted Bovis reference, especially after noting how dated the Where's The Beef Lady was. Pail Shane's brother lived on my road growing up. He were a reit chuffin Flash Harry when he visited, always come in his Rolls Royce and revved the engine all way up road so people would look.

[@Charleshudspeth]

You should do a video of Mark when he had his first match at the Sportatorium in Dallas,Tx. I was a kid then and my family never missed going to WCCW in Dallas. He was called "Texas Red" in his debut ans had on a mask. Lol they threw him to the wolves literally because his first match was with Bruiser Brody. I sure miss those days. Back when the Sportatorium and WCCW were huge. And the Von Erichs were Dallas royalty. Not long after his first match Gentlemen Chris Adams started a wrestling school at the Sportatorium and my neighbor paid to join. I got to go sit in and watch and also did waterboy duties and what not. He had only one Wrestler that actually graduated and became Stunning Steve Austin. And back then my neighbor had to go pick up Iceman King Parsons and take him to the Sportatorium. Im pretty sure we took him to buy some Crack a few times lol. I remember having my head explode when I went there and met Abdulah the Butcher. He was a very sweet man and always had Butterscotch or Cinnamon Disc candy to give to me when he seen me. Another very nice man was Percival Pringle III. He later became Paul Bearer when Mark became the Undertaker. You could do a ton of videos on WCCW. Especially the Von Erichs vs. The Freebirds, Gino Hernandez, Chris Adams, Steve Austin (who eventually married Chris Adams ex and it was used in a storyline in WCCW almost like Edge, Lita,And Mat Hardy love triangle).

[@stalfithrildi5366]

🎼To the town of Sportatorium rode a stranger one fine daaaaay

[@gimmethepinkelephant3685]

This channel is absolutely hilarious. I just came across it. I love it.🤣👌🏻

[@funforalgernon]

Herb got the biggest pop of the night!

[@lemurgecko1513]

i watch Wrestle Me

[@trelard]

Piper got the ring name, I think the story goes, when he walked down to early matches playing a set of Bagpipes. The rest is just the gimmick for the name.

[@adamdavis2760]

Gorilla wore those dark glasses all the time because he was short sited but was always watching the matches through those little monitors and it bothered his eyes. I actually heard that from a Heenan interview a few years back

[@dirkstuff5820]

Roddy Piper had a boxing background as a young adult, probably thought he had an edge. But Roddy was also of Scottish descent. Anyway.

[@seabassmcgee3367]

Scotch is what a Scotsman drinks

[@BuJammy]

Canada is basically Big Scotland, with a few French people thrown in.

[@t.jefferson6365]

I loved Jake back in the day, but yeah he was horrid to his snakes.

[@danielgallagher3270]

I dug around on Cagematch and found that George Wells tagged with Bret Hart early in Bret's WWF career. When he turned heel and formed the Hart Foundation, their first matches seemed to be against George +1. Heard somewhere else that he had a bit of a blow problem, which may be why he didn't progress in the biz.

[@blacknapalm2131]

03:11 *Very nice slightly evil Elvirahausen*

[@BBall0027]

To answer how Jake Roberts became "The Snake", he took the nickname from Ken "Snake" Stabler, an NFL quarterback who was Roberts' favorite player. It went full circle in the late-1990's when NFL quarterback Jake Plummer earned the nickname "The Snake" as a nod to Jake Roberts.

[@wisesthuman2824]

mm a sneaky What Bar for Monsoon

[@stevep4574]

George Wells threw up mashed potatoes after the match w Jake when the snake was on him.

[@luther1546]

Hot Rod was actually a pretty good amateur boxer.

[@N17Stu]

That was a work

[@meatyoakergeorge]

​@@N17StuA work?... so winning the golden gloves championship was a work?... lmao

[@N17Stu]

@@meatyoakergeorge the story was. He never did.

[@meatyoakergeorge]

@@N17Stu You don't say, lol

[@N17Stu]

@@meatyoakergeorge so why did you question me?

[@jimmyplenderleith9471]

Roddy Piper, straight up, would have beaten up Mr. T....if that was a real shoot. Piper was tough as nails. Missed opportunity at Mania 2 to have Savage vs Santana rematch as Savage had just won the IC Title a month or so earlier. Bret Hart vs Steamboat could have been an early Mania match remembered for years

[@nosajdabeno]

Piper’s Mother is/was Scottish, and, at least as kayfabe is concerned, he spent some of his childhood over there.

[@hatednyc]

3:13 WWF used the worst and barely recognizable photo of Elvira. 4:12 If nothing else, don’t get Cab Calloway wrong, guys.

[@monsieurdubitatif8567]

Piper's dad wasnt " a mounty" (😂) but was in fact, Stu hart, EVERYBODY know that.

[@LembeckIsStaying]

😳 I didn't!!!

[@monsieurdubitatif8567]

@@LembeckIsStaying look at their faces, they do look like sibling.

[@ryandonovan5205]

Jake single handedly brought back the skullet!

[@AdamBurton-sw1xw]

Love it.

[@sonanderson6351]

I heard they genuinely tried to get Nixon to appear

[@ChrisHopkinsBass]

Ted Bovis could have been Saraya's dad

[@CCFC1878]

Doesn't George Wells present Homes under the Hammer?

[@dildonius]

Jake "The Snake Owner" Roberts!

[@Eidenhoek]

8:35 What Bar?

[@rgwebb5165]

George Wells is wearing football pants.

[@zetetick395]

Mr T has like A WHOLE WEEK to put up his guard, but just stands there.......Thrilling. 5:41 \🙄/ Friggin Rock em Sock em gives better boxing than these two, good _grief!_

[@paulthompson2231]

Ted Bovis looks like Rick Rude's dad

[@nichhodge8503]

Roddy Piper would’ve kicked Mr T’s ass as Piper had a golden gloves background in boxing and I think Mr T did have some training in boxing (and I’m not talking about training for Rocky 3) but Piper knew amateur wrestling as well and had more endurance too as Mr T would gas himself out leaving himself open for Piper to finish him off

[@meatyoakergeorge]

My thoughts exactly, lol.

[@ghostbusterguy20011]

I got to meet Jake the Snake Roberts Way Back I forget the exact year but it was early 2000s and he was wrestling in Junior High Gym along with some other big names like CM Punk before he got big and CM Punk actually asked me for a cigarette that was one thing another story for another time Jake The Snake was really nice except he touched me girlfriend's bum at the time I didn't find out till after the event but I got his autograph on a wrestling card that I had since I was a kid and a t-shirt like I said really nice guy but kind of off and he didn't even have his snake with him not going to lie I was kind of disappointed

[@jamesmcgeachy5433]

🎉

[@braddelisle6902]

George wells looks great. Sucked he didn't get a real gimmick and used more.

[@tonypine3434]

tonne bridge - should have made him a workman. the pontiff.

[@set1237]

Only Vince McMahon would give a Nixon stooge like Liddy a stage.

[@dildonius]

Seriously! This is the man who had a Bill Clinton impersonator to sit in the crowd at WrestleMania X and had "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase & Irwin R. Shyster aka I.R.S. sit behind him and then did a segment where DiBiase goes "Everyone's got a price for The Million Dollar Man, right Mr. President" and IRS go...idk something ridiculously hamfisted like "Yeah! We like Clinton because he's corrupt like us! We're bad guys and President William Jefferson Clinton is one of us!" If Hulk Hogan hadn't gone to WCW at the time, they'd probably have fake Clinton go "I hate Hulk Hogan! He sucks! Bobby 'The Brain' Heenan is right!"

[@hatednyc]

7:33 To say Piper is just Canadian would be wrong. Many many families in North America are from Scotch-Irish descent. You’re ignoring the gross majority of Anglo Americans with that statement.

[@samorpeterenpretene9184]

Jake the snake, it’s bit because he has a huge….

[@mrnaughtycat]

They berate dynamite kid but Jake is worse by far

[@set1237]

Didn't dynamite kid break his niece's legs?

[@thunderwarrior1759]

Roddy Piper not only made more movies than Hogan he made better movies than Hogan. When i watch Hell Comes To Frog Town, They Live or any of his other movies I’m into what I’m watching but put any Hogan movie on apart from Rocky III like say Suburban Commando and Hogan’s performance is worse than cringe.

[@trinityj1]

He's still the only wrestler to ever be the lead in a film that garners serious critical attention as legitimate art, one which has stood the test of time (They Live). And also the only one to do proper acting, imo. As fun as the Rock is, he's never given a genuine performance and I don't think he ever will. Batista is passable and that's the best than can be said. Hogan, of course, was hilariously bad even at the genre fluff built specifically around him and only gets away with Rocky III because he's just doing his wrestling shit.

[@dildonius]

I love how all of Hogan's greatest enemies turned out to be shoot babyfaces and great people who did great stuff outside wrestling, while Hogan turned out to be a shoot heel and a genuine scumbag who made nothing but unwatchable crap outside wrestling.

[@dildonius]

​@@trinityj1He wasn't even properly Hulk Hogan yet when he did Rocky III. In fact him doing Rocky III is what caused Hulkamania to start off in the first place. Before Rocky he was some random midcard nobody in Vince McMahon Sr's WWWF. Doing Rocky caused him to be fired from WWWF so he went to Verne Gagne's AWA and they started a marketing campaign that....well....you know what happened. Eventually Vince McMahon Jr lured him back to the now WWF and made him WWF Champion his first day on the job in January 1984. About 1 year later WrestleMania I happens. Year after that is WrestleMania 2 and this video.

[@thunderwarrior1759]

@@dildonius agreed

[@mehallica666]

​@@trinityj1'They Live' is more relevant today than it ever has been.

[@thunderwarrior1759]

Lord Alfred Hayes voice actually makes me feel uncomfortable,he’s creepy af

[@dildonius]

Roddy Piper gave himself the Scottish guy gimmick long before he came over to WWF.

[@youkoa5201]

It was his very first trainer who gave it to him. He had no ring name, but he had some pipe band friends play him in to his first real match and on the fly the trainer announced him as 'Roddy the Piper'. Which stuck and was shortened into his kayfabe surname. It just came about because he really did play the pipes and then he made playing part of his shtick. Until WWF, where they weirdly only used it as a bit on TNT (they showed in the video) in which Vince challenges him to play because the rumour is he's lying about being able to. Him being a heel, you'd think the point of this would be that the bluff would be called and he'd be humiliated- and they build it up like that's where it's going, but of course... he wasn't lying. Vince then says he's still not convinced. Bizarre segment.

[@dildonius]

8:35 OMG! Wrestle Me playing a round of _What Smokes?_ 😱 *GIMMICK INFRINGEMENT!*