Roddy Piper - Why Hulk Hogan Match Signaled the End of WCW

[@macattack14778]

I never get tired of listening to Mr Piper. RIP

[@moonbeamskies3346]

I get tired of it and frustrated. He never gets to the point.

[@joemomma3988]

Hot Rod RP just when you think you have the answers he changes the questions. RIP BIG GUY

[@fuzzfrancis435]

Wish he was still with us. I would have loved to have heard his stories about his time with Roy Shires and Moondog Mayne.

[@DrGreenthumb820803]

Never heard of him working with these dudes I'll check it out 👌

[@ZOMBIE_STOMP]

It's so strange watching these interviews of our favorite wrestlers telling stories and knowing they are no longer with us to tell new one's

[@overkill7990]

@KiLDiG Horror Movie Archive It was kind of shocking when Piper died b/c he seemed so full of life & looked fine.

[@scottbaker7104]

Piper is and will always be the greatest bad guy good guy icon legend you name it. He was a Man’s Man tough as nails

[@battosaijenkins946]

@ZOMBIE, I dunno bro. There was an interview with Nash and Xpac where he slapped the skirt off Roddy and he didnt do jack squat.. =(

[@franklinmardy8171]

🥺

[@JoshBruin77]

Right? And it makes me appreciate for the ones that we do have.

[@euroamerican5189]

looking forward to "Biography Rowdy Roddy Piper" coming on A&E tonight. he deserves it. sad he isn't here to enjoy it.

[@andrewmachado6988]

I was just about to post the exact same thing.

[@Njbear7453]

It was awesome!

[@Margie75]

I saw it last night. It was so good. Made me love and miss Roddy more but I look forward to meeting him in Heaven one day🙏🏽💖

[@euroamerican5189]

it was really good. very sad though.

[@Gunners_Mate_Guns]

I watched it and enjoyed it quite a lot. Not that it means anything, but I never knew his daughters were so pretty, especially Ariel.

[@ryanwilliams7987]

Piper does his interviews like he's doing a promo!.. He talks in codes! It's like I hear his words, but can never understand what he is talking about. 😄

[@darthroden]

He sounds like a more coherent version of Ultimate Warrior, LOL. Love Hot Rod! RIP Roddy!

[@brotherjuggernaut7299]

He is all over the place but he does tell the story, well all the pieces are there, you just got to put it together lol

[@williamcribb7552]

@@brotherjuggernaut7299 😂😂

[@williamcribb7552]

@@brotherjuggernaut7299 glad I checked comments. Now I know it was just me.

[@Live_Da_GOD15st]

Lmaoooo

[@rollandcurtis874]

RIP HotRod.

[@tonnage4u]

I've thought for a long time, how entertaining (or difficult) it would be to follow a face-to-face conversation between Piper and Robin Williams. These guys had more going on in their heads per second than either could speak.

[@cleech74]

😂

[@stephenmorton6764]

I love Piper calling The Giant "Sprout" 😂😂😂

[@Thor-Orion]

It seems affectionate, like he saw a young guy who really wanted to get himself over

[@angieperides7500]

I wish I had the opportunity to speak with Piper before he passed, I have so many questions. I met him at my father’s funeral, he gave the eulogy.

[@phillipmitchell2254]

I'm sorry for your loss.

[@schnarfschnarf5886]

If I was more like my dad I'd be a better man.. I miss him

[@OikPoinFive]

@@schnarfschnarf5886 grrrrr!

[@angieperides7500]

@@schnarfschnarf5886 are you Piper's son? I'm Adrian Adonis's daughter

[@markl5998]

Your Adrian Adonis daughter? Way cool thank you you for sharing😎

[@jaw-knee-5]

I was there for Hogan vs. Piper at Halloween Havok ‘97 at the MGM Grand in Vegas. Memoriesssss.

[@chadwickwhite6107]

Yeah. The fossils were gasping for air RIGHT after their entrances.

[@jaw-knee-5]

@@chadwickwhite6107 ziiing

[@johnsorto6737]

Lucky..

[@adammercer6004]

Oh the bright side you also got to see Mysterio vs Guerrero live too!!! 😅

[@NarquiseLawrence]

Piper was the only face they could’ve used for a while. While the group was tight.

[@guppy-dn4ky]

He. Would be relevant today his personality would allow it

[@killerjoe5628]

Six minutes later and I still don't know what signaled the end of WCW.

[@moonbeamskies3346]

Same! We need someone with knowledge of the situation who is kind enough to translate Piper's ramblings to a coherent narrative!

[@piehnoharmony]

Hot Rod and Scott Hall are possibly the only two on my list of wrestlers that are cool no matter even if they don't have any belt.

[@brianmcgee127]

Curt Hennig as well.

[@vcvortex6356]

@@brianmcgee127 Curt held the Intercontinental Championship.

[@brianmcgee127]

@@vcvortex6356 well aware.. I’m a huge Hennig fan. The comment was that they are cool even when they don’t have a belt, not that they are cool even though they’ve never held a belt. Hot Rod and Razor were both IC champs as well.

[@dingdong7610]

Mine are Hulk Hogan, Horace Hogan and Jean-Pierre Lafitte

[@codyguindon2090]

@@vcvortex6356 So did Piper and Razor 4 times

[@midwestmonster9886]

It's interesting. I had no idea that the basis of the rematch was Piper defending his son's honor. Piper's refusal to lose cleanly suddenly makes a lot more sense. It's an interesting thought. If you want the hero to lose cleanly, don't make the scenario such that he can't afford to lose.

[@BeeBumper]

Not just that, they were selling record houses and you milk it, if Piper loses nothing more to milk and it is over. That is old school way to make money and it works. It was why programs would last upwards of a year because they would make as much money as possible off of it.

[@michaelrubin9547]

Hogan was selfish and jealous of rod

[@MikeBadaoa]

​@@michaelrubin9547 Hogan has lost clean 12 times in his career .piper only has four clean losses. Yet you call Hogan selfish?. How come piper and Steve Austin get no Flack for there backstage politicas?. They refuse to lose to a lot guys .

[@MikeBadaoa]

​@@michaelrubin9547piper refused to lose clean Hogan many times. Scott Hall belittled him about it

[@Bigjizay]

I was there at Superbrawl 97 with Hogan vs Piper. The whole card was amazing! The biggest pop of the night was when Sting and Macho Man came out on the Piper/Hogan match.

[@selfiekroos1777]

Late 90s tv was 🔥

[@cubbyvespers6389]

I have no idea what he is talking about half of the time, but I love it anyway because it is Roddy Piper.

[@jeromelawler902]

Trying to understand Piper is like trying to understand Terrance Stamp in The Limey R.I.P. Hot Rod

[@toecuttre]

I understand that reference!

[@alexh8613]

That wasn't the reason for WCW beginning to fall. WCW fell, because of too many bloated guaranteed full-time contracts to wrestlers that were working part-time schedules. These bloated contracts not only made it impossible to make a profit, it prevented giving any normal contract and more publicity to up and comers.

[@ickbar]

Many reasons for its fall, too many to list. Takes more than one nail to seal a coffin.

[@scothays4354]

I agree!! With Hogan having a No Lose clause, it really screwed everyone else. Then when they made Mr. Courtney Cox the World Champion, that was a big sign of failure. But bringing in all the ex-WWF guys in was the biggest misstep. WCW was killing WWF without all the ex-WWF guys. Bischoff didn't know how to use Bret correctly. People got sick of Goldberg's 2 moves (Spear/Jackhammer). Then they would start a story and then the story would just disappear.

[@dnakatomiuk]

Also the fact that when WWE bought them out most of them sat at home still getting paid and refused to work at WWE. Why when they did come back they if not most got fired/laid off a few months after

[@Thor-Orion]

Creative control sunk the ship. You can't have wrestlers telling bookers "that doesn't work for me, brother!" All the time. Often deciding that on the day of the show. It's just too much anarchy to function properly.

[@ponrix]

He said it was the start. The bloated contracts was The end result of nash and hall wanting to be the main event every night. Bischoff just letting them cry and get their way was the catalyst.

[@scottyh.6992]

In my opinion the worst thing WCW did was not putting the world title on Piper when they had the chance to.

[@hubertgreen]

He was way out of his prime. No way he should beat wrestlers like goldberg, scott steiner or booker t for examplee

[@scottyh.6992]

@@hubertgreen He should have beat Hogan for the belt for sure though. It was a pretty good draw, and he would have fought to drop it to someone who deserved it. Remember this is a company that put the belt on David Arquette. They were putting the belt on Hogan, Nash, Sid, Savage, and Flair at the time. I don't think Piper would have been any worse.

[@johnreece5540]

@@scottyh.6992 Putting the World Title on Mr. David Arquette was the final nail in the coffin for the National Wrestling Alliance/ World Championship Wrestling!!!

[@johnreece5540]

The Classy thing to do was put the belt on Roddy "Rowdy" Piper. Piper drops the belt to "The Enforcer". "The Enforcer" drops the belt to "The Canadian Crippler".

[@scottyh.6992]

@@johnreece5540 I would have really appreciated The Enforcer holding the World Title at some point in his career.

[@TheSlashTraxNetwork]

One of my regrets is never meeting hot rod. I was a top heel in several southern independent promotions 2002-2013 before an injury and Roddy was my biggest inspiration

[@maxb4210]

Just like we got Rock vs Hogan, I wish we coulda got Austin vs Piper. Watching back to WM 21 Piper’s pit, there was definitely potential

[@ryanmiller8678]

@010010 010010 That is so false

[@muzzo23]

Austin vs Piper never crossed my mind until now but holy shit that wlda bn a dream match.

[@RickKoeppen]

He's quite a character, but when he starts mumbling like he assumes the listener already knows what he's saying (like at 5:00), he is hard to follow.

[@davebellefontaine1293]

True. 'Character' is a perfect way to put it, he talks like he is always in character and is a little cringe-worthy at times.

[@simplyhuman2213]

@@davebellefontaine1293 often times cringe worthy 😆 he doesn’t stop working

[@biggj21]

Wow that sounded funnier out of context , the best part of this shoot interview is when he thanks the fan at the end.🔥🍿💯🥊‼👏

[@dingdong7610]

I can understand Ahmed Johnson better than i can Piper.

[@sithsoldier98]

LMFAOO!!!Please don't go there!!!!!Great Googly Moogly!!!!!🤣

[@anthonycummins9558]

Same here. I find Pipers talk hard to understand. Shame as he was entertaining.

[@ronniemation]

lol

[@jkm49us25]

Did you see the A&E WWE Special last Sunday. The spoke to thus issue of his mental deterioration. He was shown on late nite with one of the talk show host. He was hard to understand. He even commented on it himself. His wife also spoke how he wasn't the same man she knew when they first met. Brain trauma over decades of harsh physical entertainment.

[@rousse387142]

BLM blackout profile pulling for a N? Imagine my shock 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@bendover2865]

Nash and Hall do love to be in a clique lol

[@SeamHead33]

Clique

[@alexteasdale4599]

That's why they are the "Clique"

[@jrmop0965]

That's why they are soft

[@bendover2865]

@@SeamHead33 sorry seam head

[@neilnackenzie4064]

Boy lovers

[@guyinacoffeeshop2239]

RIP Hot Rod I was born in 1988 and as a 5th grader in 1996, I loved Hot Rod vs Hogan at Halloween Havoc. Upstairs in my room I had an old black and white antenna TV. For whatever reason, one of the last channels you could turn the knob too was a PPV channel that looked like a busted up VCR recording. It was like the surface of Jupiter. You could barely make out an arm here or a foot there, abd you couldnt get any sound. So there I was as a 8 year old upstairs watching a silent Halloween Havoc. Then I went to the magazine section at the Walmart a few days later and looked at the results in WCW magazine. Ahhhh the days of 56k modems and beepers. RIP hot rod

[@murrayshekelberg9754]

It sounds a bit like the old scrabled premium channels on cable. We used to sit up late and wait for the picture to clear up enough to see a boob on Cinemax. My VCR tuner would pick up weird things in the upper frequencies if I played with the fine tuning, I could occasionally pick up my neighbors cordless phone and what I can only assume now was possibly shortwave radio. PPV is a new one on me but I always had fun poking around on those high channel numbers in the mid to late eighties. Haven't thought about that in years.

[@SmithCommaBenjamin]

Hogan did his WCW run good. He did the jobs he needed to do. BUT, the biggest stain on his WCW run will always be the Ultimate Warrior nonsense. They had a terrible match, and dropped the ball with the O.W.N. gimmick and angle w/ Sting.... but that's 99% to do with the fact that Warrior was impossible to do business with

[@stevenbrown6956]

I don't know what WCW was doing having Hogan job for Billy Kidman, Kidman even splashed him thru a table. If you are going to have Hogan lose, it needs to be something legitimate.

[@bugsyproductions3140]

😬

[@Thor-Orion]

Hogan didn't job enough when he was heel. Like I understand that it was drawing, but Hogan pulling strings to break up the Outsiders was a HUGE mistake.

[@Thor-Orion]

@TheVolourn maybe not, but if you look at the behind the scenes politicking, he really fucked up the company.

[@moonbeamskies3346]

It would help a lot if Piper would make his points clearly, as in "I beat Hogan in a shoot" or "I beat up every guy in the locker room." Even if it's a lie! Instead every time he gets close to the moment of truth he starts mumbling or using vague terms! Screw Piper!

[@gammasmash1924]

"The program was between me and Hogan" Both Hall and Nash have said that the dynamic of the NWO was that no one gets to Hogan. They're job was to protect Hogan.

[@HepCatJack]

What are Hall and Nash going to do that the finger poke of doom can't ?

[@kwrbt2979]

Piper isn't talking Kayfabe here! (Duh)

[@philchickenfingers1190]

His point went completely over your head. And the nwo was boring after awhile

[@joshs4594]

Miss ya, Hot Rod. 🙏

[@Number-oo8xq]

I love Hot Rod but his interviews are hard to hear and follow along sometimes he talks quiet and then gets really loud. RIP Rowdy One

[@frizzyred1292]

I alwys thought that as well. I think his brain was a bit fried from all the coke over the years.

[@Number-oo8xq]

@@frizzyred1292 very true! He did partake in activities outside the ring. The stories he never shared would be awesome to hear.

[@nickperkins8477]

One of the great ones. Complete showmanship and one of the most gifted talkers the business has ever seen.

[@AceGoodheart]

All respect for Roddy Piper, but man sometimes he's hard to follow in a conversation.

[@ilovecops5499]

hE HAD BRAIN DAMAGE FROM EAYS OF GETTING HIOT IN THE HEAD. THE DAMAGE PART OF THE BRIAN GETS TAKEWN OVER BY OTHER PART SUNTIL THERE I SNOTHIGN LEFT TO TAKE OVER.

[@AceGoodheart]

@@ilovecops5499 i think it's the years of cocaine he indulged in.

[@kwrbt2979]

Can someone explain this with a recap? I didn't really understand what was said or what the context was.

[@mikekrause3671]

yeah, i have a hard time following Piper .

[@SmithCommaBenjamin]

Piper was brought in to feud with Hogan. Hogan and Piper set PPV records. Nash and Hall got jealous when Piper didn't want to do proper jobs. Nash and Piper didn't get along. Piper left and apparently WCW began to fall apart soon after...

[@dramahawkpromotions9621]

Glad it wasn't just me

[@oliverpearson8361]

Just a tad too much thunderbird before his interview haha

[@ExperienceEric]

Piper uses a lot of that older insider lingo that is hard to follow, even for some of us who are modern smart marks. So he is hard to follow some times.

[@wjmciii887]

1985 piper / hogan fued I was too young 9yrs old to realize just cause how they painted the picture then...that piper was really the good guy in real life ...n hogan was the evil villain...

[@jd9119]

I believe Piper over Nash's version. Nash is a regular liar and relied on his size to keep him out of fights. Piper's been in a lot of them and would've mopped the floor with Nash's long hair. Kevin knew that too.

[@phildicks4721]

Chavo Jr once asked his Dad, Chavo Sr. if Roddy was a good wrestler. Chavo Sr replied, "Hell no! But he would kick yoir ass in a real fight!" Chavo told that story to Roddy on Roddy's podcast, and Roddy laughed like hell.

[@snellsman]

Lmao you think piper could have wiped the floor with Nash ? You just dislike kev Kev was a bouncer for years, 3 times his size It wouldn’t have been a fight

[@jd9119]

@@snellsman Kev was a big guy and that intimidates guys at bars. Piper on the other hand has beaten up a lot of people over the years. Especially fans that got too carried away back in the days of kayfabe.

[@hectormunoz6052]

I had never heard it told so clear how much Hall and Nash pretty much were the cause of WCW going down in flames

[@BigBadJerryRogers]

Not true. The company oversaturated themselves in the TV market and overdid concepts like putting people in the nwo who didn't belong, stupid gimmick matches, devaluing the title by flipping it too much and botching opportunities like having Bret Hart and instead made David Arquette a champion.

[@waxl121]

That's just locker room politics. The actual decision makers having nearly every important match be a DQ, and letting NWO and Goldberg hold the title hostage destroyed WCW.

[@BigBadJerryRogers]

@@waxl121 I disagree about that last part, a strong champ with a long run is more valuable than flipping the title repeatedly which devalues it, that's why nobody cares about titles anymore. This is one of the the things that has hurt the wrestling business overall. Could be attributed to shorter attention spans and more viewing choices in the world, but regardless, it was a tragedy.

[@userman44]

@@waxl121 What do you mean about holding the title hostage?

[@cflo1386]

All of you are wrong, the nail in the coffin for wcw was the match where Hogan was supposed wrestle Nash for the title, as they squared off Nash threw himself on the canvas so Hogan could pin him, which quickly happened, match over, Hogan wins the belt. I saw that garbage live and it was the biggest insult to us wrestling fans, from that moment on I never watched another wcw event. Hogan, Nash, and Hall buried wcw.

[@mothegrouch909]

Don't turn on closed caption...it will make even less sense. RIP Hot Rod

[@davidbreen6335]

I'm thankful that WCW didn't try to do their version of Pipers Pit. They wouldn't have been able to use the name but they could've done it and called it something else but knowing WCW they would've screwed it up.

[@Lynchfan88]

Piper's a real man, always enjoyed him. Hogan could have learned a thing or two.

[@rxtp17]

I always rooted for Piper back in the day... my all time fav. But looking back at what they built, Hogan was smart. And he was not as selfish as people claim. Him and Vince built a monster of an organisation. Mean Gene... the Brain... Bruno... Roddy... all played their roles.

[@LordSesshomaru86]

Jake the Snake: Piper pulled a gun on me one time. Joe Rogan: Why? Jake(casually): Snuck up behind him with a snake. lol

[@jodavey]

I love Piper with that said what is he talking about the end of the NWO during the Hogan Piper angle. The Malone Rodman angle hadn't even happened yet which beat that record

[@Mackdez]

If holy wanted to beat him with his son there he's right what's the point of that!! What's the comeback from that? There wouldn't be any comeback from that, I get with nasty saying he didn't look old at the time but it's Piper man come on!! That's Hogan's arch nemesis who never wrestled it was supposed to be a street fight fish hooks pokes in the eye punches in the balls.

[@BigBadJerryRogers]

@@Mackdez But Piper won their first WCW match. If you are Hogan would you then put over Piper twice in a row? No.

[@torchkit]

5:30 Kevin Nash tells the same exact story, but claims it was Piper yelling "I'll see you in Moline," while Nash was the one who said "I'm here right now." Piper says Nash wouldn't fight, Nash says Piper wouldn't fight.

[@BigBadJerryRogers]

Because neither of them wanted to actually fight.

[@allenglass3461]

Believe Nash. I love piper but he is a known BS artist.

[@TheJimmyClip]

@@allenglass3461 believe neither. Nash was a douche as well

[@JustinTyme33]

I loved Piper but I can’t understand what he’s saying. I hear the words but the sentences don’t make much sense. It might just be me.

[@lindseysullivan826]

I can't understand him either. I had to put the captions on and still...

[@lockedinnn]

It’s cause Nash punked him.. and he trying leave that point out...

[@JustinTyme33]

@@lockedinnn it seems like he’s telling a story avoiding part of the story.

[@RichardJones-qk4pu]

not just you buddy ,

[@Football__Junkie]

Rowdy looked the same age for 20+ years

[@crisdmt5479]

Eazy E , Hogan and Company ruined the WCW ,2021 and still true

[@petercastillo2752]

I miss this man

[@wingerfan1]

They thought they could carry the weight of the WCW on their shoulders and Piper knew better. I wish to this day WCW was around because I can't stand new WWE programming. Too many sexually driven story lines, feuds that go nowhere, PPV matches that are terrible, shitty gimmicks and overall bad booking.

[@gorillawhale1046]

The modern "fans" don't help either.

[@christoperburke8380]

Love Piper but hes hard to follow

[@ThePurogeo]

Because he is a liar.

[@euroamerican5189]

@@ThePurogeo says who?

[@wickerman26]

@@ThePurogeo, not a liar necessarily, but he wasn't very coherent a lot of the time likely from years of abuse.

[@ilovecops5499]

HE HAD BRAIN DAMAGE FRO DECADES OF GETTIN HIT ON THE HEAD AND PILE DRIVERS. THER WA SNOTHIGBN LEFT OF HIS BRIANT O TAKE OVER TEH DAMAGED PARTS,. IT IS QUITE TRAGIC HWO RODDED ENDED.

[@JMFSpike]

@@ilovecops5499 Are you dyslexic or just an exceptionally horrible speller?

[@garyleesjukejoint9510]

One of my favorites ever. Thank you for all the years of entertainment and thank you for not introducing the world to the cheesy and horrible Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Wrestling or The Wrestling Boot Band. You are missed Rowdy Roddy Piper. You are missed. R.I.P

[@dramahawkpromotions9621]

Omg I can barely understand what Piper was saying damn smh

[@michaelburt1370]

The words coming out of his mouth are English but I’m having a hard time following him.

[@jameslockwood1958]

He is a mess here.

[@mikekrause3671]

true

[@erickennedy5993]

Piper was smartest man in wresting, because he knew when to job and not to job. Make more money for long haul.

[@erickennedy5993]

@Damien Jones He did do the job , but got know your value. Something today's wrestler don't think about. It's know when to job and no when to job.

[@erickennedy5993]

@Damien Jones How was he jealous of Hogan when he did not need the belt. Had better movie career than the Hulkster. Without Piper Hogan would not been a big draw in the 80's. . Not jobbing to Hogan gave Piper value down the line. It's called the wresting business. Not get into your feelings like today's wrestlers.

[@icemike874]

@Damien Jones What are you talking about? They Live is a Cult Classic!

[@billhicks6449]

@@icemike874 amazing movie. One of my favorite John Carpenter movies (along with Big Trouble In Little China). As Carpenter says "it's not a movie, it's a documentary". Even "Hell Comes To Frogtown" was spectacular in its own preposterous way. Plus his cameos on "it's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"

[@BigBadJerryRogers]

@Damien Jones You are doing a good job of demonstrating how out of touch you are. Just say you are trolling so you don't look any dumber.

[@bigj6143]

This is a story of not knowing when to take a step back when your popularity dwindles. The NWO was a great faction and creation but it also included guys who came to work alot just to do spot interviews and then when the pay per view came they wanted to go over. Nash and Hall would say later that in a tag match with Piper and Flair, the latter went off script or something. WCW even brought in the Warrior for Main Event Matches with Hogan. Neither were ever great wrestlers in their younger days. The reputation preceded Piper, the Warrior, even Flair who had substantial history with Hogan so the build up was easy. Hall and Nash, while good performers, really had no history with these stars. Fans recognized though what a great wrestler Hall was but his best matches were with guys like Shawn Michaels. Michael's wasn't coming to WCW. Nash was decent but limited in that ring to a degree so in his later years the tags with Hall worked very well. Everything works to a point but knowing how to make the most of it and especially knowing when to move on is key. It is a business to make money period. The NWO grew, grew to a point the group put everyone over and went on until darn near everyone except for Flair and Arn Anderson had a run as a member. Every opponent in that match at Halloween Havoc when Hogan turned heel and that signaled the start of the NWO, everyone of those guys had a run as a member. Savage, Luger, even Sting. NWO Red, B&W, Wolfpack. It ran it's course. The Four Horseman proved you don't need a platoon of guys and an Announcer, Bischoff, to run a faction. I guess you adapt or die and that is what happened. Did the NWO ever really break up? Even Vince McMahon tried them in the WWE for a short period of time. I guess the WWE accepted the peaks and Valleys ultimately realizing that you develop and then push younger guys who are trying to make a name for themselves. WCW became spoiled by success to a point they could not transition to creativity in creating other talent. Goldberg was a nice idea, the streak he had, who though ended the streak? Hall and Nash with some dumb Taser gimmick. Not very creative and also was designed to get heat on guys that had already had it for so long. WCW even let Hall's demons, alcohol abuse, enter the show. Not good. A side of the business no one should be proud of. Greed and just ideas that ran their course and the inability to adapt plus they apparently just wasted so much money which was attributed to Greed and just being out of control. Guys wanting to just show up, run things, get paid huge amounts of money in the process, whether it was working or not, eventually didn't matter as long as certain guys were happy and running things. The stronger, more creative and innovative company, run by someone who knew what they were doing won out in the Monday Night wars eventually. The only thing McMahon did not have an opportunity to do with Hogan was to turn him heel after that long Hulkamania run he created in his company. He did it with Andre instead because that window was closing. That worked to the tune of 90 thousand fans at mania 3. Hogan would have eventually turned once that run dwindled. WWE created more stars to work with rather than a few factions. I could write about this for days.

[@Nazzlover38]

Nash and Hall, no disrespect to these guys, but they were still in that whole Kliq frame of mind.

[@jimmyolsen5897]

Thanks for entertaining us for decades Mr Piper

[@My19812011]

I absolutely loved Piper but lots of people have said Nash slapped Piper around and also Hogan/Piper was at the end of 1996 when the whole N.W.O storyline was 6 months in so hadn’t even peaked (that would be Sting/Hogan at Starrcade in 1997) let alone the end of the angle and let alone the end of the company.

[@ThorMaximus]

By spring of 97- WWF was better product. Ppl hadn’t changed over to watch yet, and when Shawn/Taker did Hell in a Cell-game was over. Austin was hottest thing in biz - DX got better than NWO. WCW was garbage going into Starcade and proof was what came out of that show. Piper was right.

[@My19812011]

@@ThorMaximus WWF definitely picked up by late 1996 and by mid 1997 was on fire all the way through to early 2001 but to say WCW was awful it wrong on every level, Starrcade in 1997 did the biggest buyrate in WCW history for a reason although post Starrcade is a different story as for me by mid 1998 they were going downhill rapidly. I’m sorry but Piper is giving a very biased opinion on it as he makes out everything post his main event run in WCW was awful and his feud with Hogan was the peak, it really wasn’t at all as WCW from late May in 1996 through to early/mid 1998 was must watch TV.

[@deanwalker6437]

Who is the lots of people?

[@My19812011]

@@deanwalker6437 have a search on KZbin, I love Piper but I tend to take the word of lots of people over one person who was the other person involved in the incident

[@deanwalker6437]

@@My19812011 I did a Google search, nothings there. Where is your info, I'd like to see it please

[@CreationsVibration]

The ICON

[@MrLuckytrucker21]

Great 80s heel, but i can't make sense out of his interviews!

[@UruseiYatsuraFans]

Roddy piper should have won the wcw world Heavyweight champion from hulk Hogan

[@jayg6222]

This was hard to understand. Still love piper tho

[@MrJjburgess11]

Alot of his interviews late in his life were like this. All over the place

[@jayg6222]

@@MrJjburgess11 oh really? Thanks for the info. Like I said, still love him but sheesh!

[@courtenaymckee7491]

Listening to Piper like listening to the local drunk... any complete sentences in there? 😳

[@bronzesolomon4453]

I thought it was just me. I love hot rod though

[@Bale4Bond]

Years of drug abuse and general insanity

[@SeamHead33]

Yeah most of his interviews are somewhat incoherent, which is sad because he does talk about some very interesting stuff.

[@SmithCommaBenjamin]

Pathological liars tend to talk in fragments

[@dramahawkpromotions9621]

Omg Thank U Glad it wasn't just m3. I could barely understand what he was saying. I hate people who talk like this

[@Al-ou3so]

A lot of mumbling and glossing over shit here it seems. I call bs, I believe Nash’s side of the story

[@jesseandrews2303]

So ironic when you disbelieve someone trying to remember details from (15 years ago?) and so mumbles through memories. And you believe someone talking through it so smoothly effortlessly like it only happened yesterday with no signs of memory reaching. That's why this is a shoot. Not a promo.

[@gammasmash1924]

I always take these shoot interviews with a grain of salt, especially with wrestlers who worked during kayfabe. These guys worked people for a living. They're masters in the art of deception and are usually more concerned with putting themselves over than anything else. (That being said, I agree that Nash's version of this story makes more sense)

[@blake7871]

I have a hard time believing anything Nash says.

[@Mechtrekica]

"I believe Nash's side of the story" LOL

[@douggambill5826]

Nash doesn't even believe Nash's side of the story

[@freespeechisdead1565]

Kevin Nash is surely a wrestling legend, can't take that from him. But Hogan and Piper became world wide pop icons. Kevin Nash will never reach that status, and I think he knew it then and knows it now. Which is why I believe he shit on a lot of other wrestlers. He would call people midgets or old, but many of those old midgets are icons inside and outside wrestling....not Kevin Nash.

[@MT-tu8dt]

Miss Piper.

[@selfiekroos1777]

That Canadian accent haha

[@nm7891]

Pipper while a superstar legend was difficult to work with. Eric bischoffs has said as much. Bischoffs was a friend to him but still found him to be ratty at times

[@wrlord]

I can never quite follow a Roddy Piper story.

[@stevenramirezmistersmokes6379]

RIP HOTROD#1

[@adamrichards2344]

"I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass and I'm all out of bubble gum." One of my favorite wrestlers as a kid. You are missed Mr. Piper

[@tamatihohepatekuru8782]

I always the loved the Rowdy one

[@ranjitchahal2440]

Thank you monires hot rod rip

[@islandclubtech]

It amazes me to hear how some of these guys (not Piper) were such marks for themselves not to mention just plain greedy that they were blinded to what was best for business. People get burned out of seeing the same thing over and over. They had something really great going and they ruined it, starting with Hogan having Sting's win at Starrcade 97 get tarnished. Heaven forbid you put over the guy who the crowd is loving. The nWo was an amazing faction whether they were winning or losing, but to see them do the same thing over and over and over... /golfclap You managed to make it stale. Meanwhile you got guys like Piper who wanted to do whatever was best for business.

[@Silo-Ren]

Just when Piper had the answers...now you can't understand them. Brother I love u, but wtf are you saying? I hope u brought bubblegum RIP.

[@Hayeshill]

You do not throw rocks, at a man who’s got a machine gun!

[@kuma1388]

I think I understood what he was saying or maybe I didn’t understand at all. I’m still not sure.

[@VictorLugosi]

Best wrestler ever..

[@chunky9791]

RIP Roddy, I knew you weren't calling Vince McMahon from hell!

[@jeremiahochoa1989]

Vince and God are homies now. Of course he has access to hot rod still

[@jasonjoseph6497]

Who's buying piper merchandise then? Hulk did business. There is only 1 icon. It's Hulk

[@snowblindu]

That camera should have been scooted back a little...

[@paulcarlin5181]

I always wondered by Hogan jobbed to Piper cleanly, but never Flair.

[@rickstalentedtongue910]

@TheVolourn The only had 6 matches in the WWF, Piper didn't want to do the job so he didn't get to go against him very much. In his prime, you had to put Hogan over. Hogan and Piper were ridiculously selfish.

[@jasonvoorhees6416]

Didn’t understand half of what he said

[@chasesutley7277]

Hell comes to Frogtown baby !!!!!

[@shelbyjanestaples8454]

Im surprised Hogan Nash and flair bischoff ain't in prison for stealing all that money from wcw

[@boyinthebar3584]

Nash/Hall are a nightmare, they were same in WWE.

[@lolriots7107]

Lol this is when Roddy put him to sleep the first time lol

[@dougfredricks2017]

Dain Bramage

[@davidmeichner8346]

They really, really mismanaged Piper's stint

[@1980Triumph]

Roddy is forever the top tier in wrestling but he could never stay at a promotion for long because he was short sighted completely. Not saying in this instance his instincts were right but in more situations than naught he is generally wrong about how to handle and plan out an angle

[@Nobodyofimportance2u]

I need what he is on!

[@raymeester7883]

He looks alot like Bill Paxton. RIP both of them.

[@shaunwebster8360]

Everyone who went to wcw credits hogan... What about sting?

[@frizzyred1292]

Man, I always thought Sting was the most overrated wrestler there was. The crow gimmick was cool for a while but, he wasnt anything special in the ring, he could cut a decent promo, take the face paint away or the gimmick and you had a very average wrestler.

[@shaunwebster8360]

@@frizzyred1292 surfer sting was my favorite

[@RespekfulFungus]

I think Starcade 97 was the true signal, either way Hogan buried Wcw, and I’m still as bummed about it as I was as a 12 year old boy.

[@marktyler9168]

Did he say that he stayed at Alcatraz?

[@topshotta657]

Why is the cam so close ? Is like a confession but is an interview.

[@selfiekroos1777]

Pipers deposition.

[@R.P.E-001]

Drugs and booze destroyed Rowdy

[@YENKOGT]

Imagine if this guy is barely understandable without a beer... Now drunk.. this guy must a real pain in the ass to understand

[@greyjedi6430]

So why do it twice

[@gregorywilliams8555]

IKR

[@iLLBiLLsRoastBeats]

It’s a work I never understand the guys obsessed with winning and losing and how they win or lose

[@rickstalentedtongue910]

Because it affects their careers

[@iLLBiLLsRoastBeats]

@@rickstalentedtongue910 these guys made tens of millions. Give me a break. It’s ego and being marks