Luckily Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon were able to talk Mr. T, actually attempted to walk out on the day of the show, thinking Piper was going to try to legit injure him in the ring. Was so convincing in his promos that his opponent in the tag team main event, Mr. He could be convincing too, even with his “co-stars”. But people still loved him cause he was “Hot Rod”. But on bad days, he would wing it and could come off incoherent at times. Piper, on his good days, was one of the best all time promos in wrestling history, being able to be serious and tell jokes, a line not a lot of wrestlers can balance. The pilot wasn’t the worst TV show of all time but it wasn’t picked up for series either. In 1990, he and future Governor Jesse “The Body” Ventura filmed a TV pilot called “Tag Team” about two blackballed wrestlers who become police officers. Other than “Hell Comes to Frogtown”, there’s not much else of note. His Hollywood resume includes starring in one of the best cult films ever, John Carpenter’s “They Live” where he got to utter one of the all time great catch phrases “I’m here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. But that really didn’t happen, and in 1989, he returned.Īfter that, Piper went back and forth between movie gigs and wrestling.
Piper’s last match, at the time, at Wrestlemania 3 against Adonis was short and sweet, going less than 10 minutes and ended with Piper saying goodbye to his thousands of fans in the Silverdome that night. Piper as a good guy wasn’t all that different from Piper as a bad guy just that the fans were cheering him instead of booing him. I didn’t have cable so I had to learn my wrestling history thanks to NBC’s Saturday Night’s Main Event and Coliseum Home Video’s many “Best of the WWF” tapes released around the time of Wrestlemania I. I started watching pro wrestling around late-1986, around the time of Piper’s baby face turn (going from bad guy to good guy, in wrestling terms) after being attacked by his former bodyguard “Cowboy” Bob Orton, manager Jimmy Hart and former friends Don Muraco and Adorable Adrian Adonis. The man who would say “Before you know the answers, I change the questions.” Even though he was one of the smaller superstars on the WWE (then WWF) roster, he was always one that stood out of the crowd. It was the “Hot Scot” or “Hot Rod”, Rowdy Roddy Piper. The bagpipes would start to play and you knew who was coming out next.
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