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

I never get tired of listening to Mr Piper. RIP

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

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

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. 😄

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

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

RIP HotRod.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Nash and Hall do love to be in a clique lol

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I can understand Ahmed Johnson better than i can Piper.

Mr.Piper, I bet Heaven never runs out of bubble gum, and down here you still kick ass......

Holegan lmao, I remember the ultimate warrior and the ol “hoke kogan” 🤣

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

Miss ya, Hot Rod. 🙏

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...

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.

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

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.

"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.

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

Love Piper but hes hard to follow

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

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

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

I miss this man

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

Omg I can barely understand what Piper was saying damn smh

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.

Rowdy looked the same age for 20+ years

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

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.

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

That Canadian accent haha

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.

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

This was hard to understand. Still love piper tho

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

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.

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!

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

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.

The ICON

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

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

I need what he is on!

I always the loved the Rowdy one

Thanks for entertaining us for decades Mr Piper

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

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

Thank you monires hot rod rip

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

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

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.

Dain Bramage

Miss Piper.

RIP HOTROD#1

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.

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

Hell comes to Frogtown baby !!!!!

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

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

So why do it twice

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

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

Drugs and booze destroyed Rowdy

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

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

I can never quite follow a Roddy Piper story.

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

Didn’t understand half of what he said

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

"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

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

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

Did he say that he stayed at Alcatraz?

The third

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.

They really, really mismanaged Piper's stint

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