Stewart_Aberdeen Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Deid. http://m.tmz.com/#Article/2015/07/31/roddy-piper-dead-dies-wwe-wrestler-cancer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunchy Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Loved hearing is entrance tune. The sound of the pipes always gets me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robroysboy Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stapes Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Always remember him for THAT fight scene. Not sure if it's the longest ever, but it can't be far off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 A Wrestling Legend. RIP Roddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Anyone remember when he half 'blacked up' and spoke 'jive' when he was wrestling Bad News Brown?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Return of Yermaw Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Thought this might have been related to illness but see it was a heart attack - he was never huge nor ripped and therefore didn't fit the bill of the 80/90 steroid abusing wrestler. Maybe a 'natural' heart attack. Sad anyway. Never liked him as a wrestler and never cared for his recent involvement in WWE but They Live was fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louch Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 He was a very heavy coke user in the late 70s into early 90s, probably a big factor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenneth Farrington Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 His match with Bret Hart at Wrestlemania was brilliant & They Live was a superb film. He was about as Scottish as Morris Dancing, but sad news all the same! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunchy Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 His match with Bret Hart at Wrestlemania was brilliant & They Live was a superb film. He was about as Scottish as Morris Dancing, but sad news all the same! Ye was born in canida but had a very strong Scottish ancestry he could also play the pipes. He might not have been born here but I'll happily claim him as one of our own Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunchy Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Wonder if Ronda rosso will do something in her ufc fight tonight in tribute to him. Her pals used to call her rowdy and ufc wanted to use that in her promo name but she refused out of respect for Roddie piper. When they met Roddie was more than happy for her to use the title and they became friends after that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 He was about as Scottish as Morris Dancing He died of a heart attack at 61, that's aboot as Scottish as you can get! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Och Aye Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 I reckon he's faking it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 A sad day for Scotland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JECK Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 "From Glasgouw, Scotland". Massive lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Rowdy Roddy PiperVerified account @R_Roddy_Piper @ohchristopher FREEDOM FOR SCOTLAND Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Good Scottish lad, I've always liked him Rowdy Roddy PiperVerified account @R_Roddy_Piper @ohchristopher FREEDOM FOR SCOTLAND Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zappafan Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 State funeral? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watsoniansfan Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 (edited) He always annoyed the baps off me -- his jingoism in events in his commentary during Gulf War 1 really grated. Also referred to Mr Fuji as "Wax On, Wax Off" at the 1990 Survivor Series. Cut a ridiculous figure as a Canadian pretending to be an American pretending to be a Scot. Edited August 2, 2015 by Watsoniansfan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parklife Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Cut a ridiculous figure pretending to be a Scot. And you'd certainly know all about that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 (edited) Anyone remember when he half 'blacked up' and spoke 'jive' when he was wrestling Bad News Brown?! WWE/F was notoriously racist back then..... watching back, and right up to 92'ish a lot of the stuff (especially Piper and Jessie Ventura would say in commentary was a tad iffy... especially in matches that involved Tito Santana or Mr Fuji.... both say though that this was under orders of Vince... Ventura says his "downing" of Santana was to talk him up and not meant as offence). Piper is suppose to have gave Mr T a hard time, but not due to racism, but because he had not done his time as a wrestler, and was just there for the one off pay day. The Wrestlemania 6 match would not have bothered Bad New Brown as him and Piper were friends through the Harts (Stamped Wrestling), but Piper tells a funny story about that match that the make-up artist had ordered the wrong paint for Piper, so had to use proper wall paint for him on the day.... after the match no amount of showers and scrubbing could get it off and Piper had to go through the airport back to the USA the next morning still blacked up Edited August 3, 2015 by wanderer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan Blackheart Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I can't believe they allowed Virgil's treatment at the hands of Ted DiBiase to go unpunished. All the evidence of institutional racism you need is right there. Gorilla Monsoon called it, but Heenan shouted him down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louch Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 It didn't go unpunished, Virgil turned against him and had a good run against him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 I can't believe they allowed Virgil's treatment at the hands of Ted DiBiase to go unpunished. All the evidence of institutional racism you need is right there. Gorilla Monsoon called it, but Heenan shouted him down. Virgil was actually not treated that bad.....Remember he was originally a Bodyguard to DiBiase, and they did a slave story line involving Hercules (white guy) in 1989..... Virgil being treated as a dogs body did not start to happen until the start of 1991 when they started the story line to make him a face. By most accounts Virgil was actually viewed as a long term investment.... when he came to WWE in 1987 he was very raw, but had played a Apollo Creed style character in the territories and was very over, but his skills were still very basic.... so the idea was to stick him with DiBiase, spend a couple of years training him up and then have him turn face and be one of the solid upper-mid carders (ie like Macho Man and Ultimate Warrior before their title pushes)...... Got his push in 1991, but fans grew tired of him very fast because he was so one dimensional, and you had the emergence of natural talent like Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels at the same time. Also come to light over the years the reason Virgil got such a undeserved push was because he "satisfied" Pat Patterson................. A much worse racism card played by WWE at the time was turning One Man Gang into the African Dream Akeam..... 500 pound white guy turned into a guy from "Darkest Africa" who would speak Jive and spend the whole time doing tribal dance/Michael Jackson moves...... all the time managed by the Dr of Style Slick.... a 1970's tv style pimp who would do interviews while doing things like eating fried chicken and stuff.... to watch back on it now you do think "someone must have got fired for that?" then you think "oh wait, it was Vince"............... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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