I met Roddy at an Axxess meet in greet the weekend of Wrestlemania 31 in 2015, only a few months before he died. He and Ted Dibiase waited extra time to make sure more fans got a chance to meet them when the line got longer than expected. When I talked to him, I asked him if he went back to Alcatraz since he was back near it in San Francisco. He laughed and said something like, "I didn't think anybody remembered that!" I thanked him for staying longer for us, and he thanked me for being a fan. A class act until the end.
That’s so cool love when you hear stories about celebrities saying wow I’m surprised people actually remember that about things they did early in their career
The visual of Piper running and screaming in a prison yard while A Thousand Miles plays may be the funniest thing I’ve seen in quite a while. Seriously, I had a genuine belly laugh.
I dont get why people hated WCW. they produced so much gold like this, sid screaming Goldberg, a pack of dogs attacking sting, chucky feuding with rick steiner, ric flair getting buried in the desert, goldberg nearly making himself an amputee trying to be a tough guy, every single scott steiner promo, San Francisco 49ers gold rush match, Bret Hart concussing goldberg by hiding a metal plate in his torso and David Arquette. what an amazing company. wrestling should be more circus like it's so entertaining to watch.
"Your apology that you didn't give me, for the mistake that you made, was very very weak" May be my favorite line from Savage ever. It's for sure in the top 5 of Randy Savage lines.
Piper always astonished me with his ever changing physical appearance. He could go from 6 pack abs to 12 pack of Coors in 3 months and still make everything believable.
Roddy Piper vs Keith David in They Live >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hogan vs Warrior rematch at Halloween Havoc!
Dude! Piper was nothing but the same lines and catch phrases for his entire career...when they find the answers i change the questions...while they were paving the road,I was driving it,being chased by the cops...if they didn't hate me so much,would they love you...where were you when I was taking on all comers in a garage.. playing the bass guitar in a bar?!..I am king of the frat house...I mean..again and again and again! Lol
The fact piper was on screen commissioner and booked himself into the main event of Starcade96.. beat hogan clean.. but never made the match for the WCW title.. was the beginning of the end for piper.. and he was there only a couple of months at the time.
True he wasn't commissioner at the time, but it was still clunky booking by WCW leading into the Starrcade. They never said the match wasn't for the title or that it was a non-title match. Dusty Rhodes even says on air during the PPV that isn't Piper the WCW World Champion now to which Tony and Bobby don't respond lol
In the Death of WCW book when they're talking about the storyline where despite bringing up the contract for the match himself Piper didn't make it a title match they say "We hereby nominate Roddy Piper as the dumbest babyface of 1996."
"Boy, for a show we keep referring to as WCW's biggest show of the year, they sure found a lot of ways to fuck it up." In hindsight, this has been pointed to as a major reason WCW lost the war. At the time, WWE always built major feuds to culminate at WrestleMania, not always blowing off at WM but making sure the feud paid off properly there. WCW would build towards Starrcade, but the payoff would come on a random Nitro or at a B-Level PPV like Slamboree. Case in point; Starrcade 1997. Sting doesn't go over clean, Giant doesn't get his hands on Nash, meaning 2 of your hottest feuds from the year didn't culminate at the show they were building up to. Not a good way to keep fans interested.
You look at the card for Starrcade in 98, and it looks more like an episode of Thunder besides Goldberg vs Nash for the title, and we know what happened with that match.
These series are really helpful to people like me who didn’t grow up during the WWE WCW Era and I need history lessons on this kind of stuff so thanks Zman
I’ve learned so much wrestling in the 90’s all from BZ’s videos... my wrestling knowledge began in 98 strictly for WWE... anything outside of that I’ve seen/learned from his vids. Lol
@@DiabolikSilhouette You really wouldn't understand any of the NWO storylines or the Monday Night Wars in general ifyou hadn't been following since the 80's
Roddy Piper: I GOT SIX KIDS!!! >Years later Da Maniac (Roddy Piper): You remind me of one of my kids. Dennis Reynolds: Oh you got kids, Maniac? Da Maniac: Nah... Not anymore.
I know the plan all along was for Sting to beat Hogan for the Big Gold Belt at Starrcade but it would have been more logical for Piper to win the title and drop it back to Hogan a couple of months later due to the reasons Brian listed. It's not as if it would have hurt the SC '97 plans to do that.
I love these videos of “insert name here” in wwe or wcw. I wasn’t really watching during the Monday night wars so it’s always a treat for me to learn about people who switched sides and either did great or not so great. Thanks for all these videos Brian
same i like listening to things about wrestlers i never even knew.. i was 1 when this happened so i cant remember much about it and how pretty much wcw was hit and miss during the wars
There's a channel called "Wrestling Bios", and he has just recently started a video series about the Monday Night Wars I'd highly recommend! It's called "Reliving The War" or something!
I was honestly thinking something similar. Not that it inspired it but it was very similar. That it would be very Mox to lock himself up for a week in Alcatraz to get in the mindset to want to take someone out. Book it now AE-Dub
@RyuHayabusa751 or Flying double axe hammer or w.e it was, regardless the point is the Big Whiff....and how he didn't snap his leg or ankle/ankles. Must be those Slim Jims oooooooo yeeeeeeeaaa
Also, hard to believe that a majority of this crazy and goofy shit took place BEFORE Vince Russo arrived in WCW. While he should get some big blame for helping kill WCW, the company was doing a fine job of being chaotic before he got there.
Most of it wasn't goofy before Russo, just executed poorly in the finish because Hulk couldn't lose unless he wanted to do so. Thus, Roddy would beat him but never lose to title. Hul had creative control and refused to lose the title.
Whenever Brian talks about the booking in WCW, my question to the writers is always "Did ANYBODY turn in a Second Draft??" cuz it seems like every not named Hogan wasn't allowed to have a brain
These WWF guys in WCW videos give me a whole new appreciation for Vince McMahon. Say what you will about him but these guys in WCW is a clear example of what happens when you don't have someone with a strong personality and some degree of quality control unquestionably in charge to keep them in line. It's like these guys were always like this but Vince just didn't put up with it. That man deserves a frickin' gold medal for being able to do that when clearly no one else could.
True the creative control in WCW let them do whatever they wanted while they were in the wwf vince kept them in line love or hate him I’m glad vince didn’t let legends that were past their prime continue hogging airtime he wanted to build new stars (granted they didn’t draw) but vince (at that time) knew when a wrestler was pass his time
I think Vince had a confidence in himself and a conviction in his vision that no one else had. He also surrounded himself with a group of premier mentors in Briscoe and Patterson, and some other top guys. like even bucky beaver, may not have had two grains of sand to roll around in his head about talent, booking, and finishes, but the guy understood Vince's vision and delivered. Vince wanted to own wrestling. All the others just wanted some good ratings.
Brian...I didn't think the reveal was clunky. They had been alluding to it. Weeks prior, The Outsiders were talking about the mole they had in the org, who could tell them who would be where. Then there was another episode where Eric was missing from the booth, but then he called in saying he was trying to find Piper. So in the ring, they were trying to burn just a bit slower for all those who hadn't yet caught on.
I think what was clunky was the whole stuff where Piper tried to expose Bischoff for a liar by saying things that didn’t really resonate with the audience when he could have come out and said “you never once tried to contact me, you never once came to my home, etc”
i was old enough to follow it. Luckily, though, I gave up on WCW the night of the fingerpoke, so there was a lot of WCW 99-2001 that i missed.. thank the gods.
maxdecphoenix me too. I was a fan of the wolfpac, so I was super disappointed with the finger poke and the reunion of the nwo. Stopped there and then quit watching wrestling, WWF was only on pay-tv where I live, so that wasn’t an option. I do remember watching the beginning of the new blood angle with Sting and Vampyro and immediately quit watching again.
i have pretty fond memories, warts and all, until the russo era. Even then some of my favs like vampiro mike awesome and lance storm got decent air time
Powers That Be was a good idea on paper, but when executed, it seemed like Russo was just trying to recapture the magic of WWF’s Corporation angle and do it in a poor manner.
Someone call Webster ask him to put that word in the Dictionary Russofication verb meaning - Something that's good but being screwed up by someone who has no business being in a position of power Bro.
(rewatching in a fit of Piper nostalgia) You know... Piper knew how to work Hogan in a way that most bookers never could. Being willing to let Hogan keep the championship belt was the key to getting Hogan to do the J O B.
find the pod-cast where Stevie Ray talks about the fall out of Arn Anderson burying Tenta on live t.v. apparently that was all improv. Tenta and the crew walked to the ring expecting one thing, and then the Horsemen came out there and buried them, and that was that. Tenta apparently destroyed a trailer backstage venting his rage.
Just a reminder that during "Age in a Cage" Piper was 43 and Hogan was 44. Gosh darn spring chickens compared to some of WWE's main eventers these days.
16:09 It was actually Renegade who played with the fog machine. :P 18:45 I feel this is also an attempt at cashing in at WM15 Brawl for All match, although WCW's match was a total work.
I fell for Roddy Piper in '83 and loved everything he did. He is the greatest as far as I am concern and my heart is still breaking is he is gone. 4 EVER HOT ROD!
Met Roddy at Fanboy expo in Knoxville a couple months before he passed. Legit one of the nicest people. Was damn cool and didn't rush me off and was just so humble. Will always love Piper.
Piper was great, I got to meet him before I started training for pro wrestling and he was so encouraging. I'll never forget how nice he was when he didn't have to be, when he could've just said that's cool.
The six kids is a reference to a time he tried to tell a joke to an interviewer who I think was visiting his home in rural Oregon. He said "I have six kids!" and meant to follow up with a terrible dad joke about having 1 boy, three girls and two baby goats, but the TV interviewer cut the tape too early. So from then on, it tickled him to claim he had six kids.
This is the video I have been waiting for! I find myself still watching old hot rod videos to this day he was so entertaining in any role. They lives is a masterpiece and I even love him in all his direct to video films I could watch this man in anything and be entertained. Great work brian I have been here since the beginning and also find myself watching videos I have seen of yours over and over again. You also are a true professional and the best wrestling channel on UA-cam . Keep up the great work Z-man!
They Live is literally the single best movie starring a wrestler, ever made. Hell, it's one of the greatest sci-fi/horror/social commentary movies ever made. It goes right up there with Dawn Of The Dead and John Carpenter's The Thing in terms of legendary classics that will never be forgotten and rarely matched. Hogan has NEVER been in any movie that even APPROACHED the near perfection of They Live. Hell, nothing that John Cena or even The Rock has ever been in, can touch that movie. I'm DEAD FUCKING SERIOUS and anyone who has EVER seen that movie will agree with me.
You five thirty in the morning looking drag queen"🤣🤣🤣💀💀 I reversed the decision the next day what did you want me to do give you a gift from Rupaul LOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
12:37 Man that reminds me of the landing Jim Cornette took when he blew out both his knees! Remember that one? At least her Savage sort of collapsed down right away instead of letting the full force go straight to his knees like Jim did.
Brian really deserves more credit for these videos on WCW. Between Bret Hart, Randy Savage, and now Piper, it's becoming more and more clear just how many expensive signings WCW was taking on but not using the talent in any meaningful way.
One of my favourite (to the extent that you can use that word considering what I'm going to describe next) Piper moments was when he took a glass beer bottle, smashing it against his head, and then cut a promo as the blood slowly oozed down his head. Probably one of the most intense moments I've ever seen in wrestling.
Piper is my fav wrestler of all time. My favorite storyline in his career was when him DDP and Sting formed a small faction to fight the NWO. Right around the time they put the belt on DDP.
ALL MY WRESTLER RETROSPECTIVES!
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I met Roddy at an Axxess meet in greet the weekend of Wrestlemania 31 in 2015, only a few months before he died. He and Ted Dibiase waited extra time to make sure more fans got a chance to meet them when the line got longer than expected. When I talked to him, I asked him if he went back to Alcatraz since he was back near it in San Francisco. He laughed and said something like, "I didn't think anybody remembered that!" I thanked him for staying longer for us, and he thanked me for being a fan. A class act until the end.
That’s so cool love when you hear stories about celebrities saying wow I’m surprised people actually remember that about things they did early in their career
The visual of Piper running and screaming in a prison yard while A Thousand Miles plays may be the funniest thing I’ve seen in quite a while. Seriously, I had a genuine belly laugh.
Same, I'm surprised it hasn't become a meme
I dont get why people hated WCW. they produced so much gold like this, sid screaming Goldberg, a pack of dogs attacking sting, chucky feuding with rick steiner, ric flair getting buried in the desert, goldberg nearly making himself an amputee trying to be a tough guy, every single scott steiner promo, San Francisco 49ers gold rush match, Bret Hart concussing goldberg by hiding a metal plate in his torso and David Arquette. what an amazing company. wrestling should be more circus like it's so entertaining to watch.
"what went wrong in the match?"
" Well for starters, the bell rang" 😂😂😂
"Your apology that you didn't give me, for the mistake that you made, was very very weak" May be my favorite line from Savage ever. It's for sure in the top 5 of Randy Savage lines.
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooh Yeeeeeeeaaahh! DIg It!
"I was a little green" _shows a picture of Oz_ this is the type of quality content you can expect from B. Zane.
Welcome to Oz!
Welcome to Oz!
Welcome to Oz!
That's not Oz! That's one of those shitty Master Blasters!
FOUR FUCKING STARS! YOU HEARD ME! Haha
Have gave Oz match a 4 star rating. Who could forget the absolute classic
djpegao timestamp?
Piper always astonished me with his ever changing physical appearance. He could go from 6 pack abs to 12 pack of Coors in 3 months and still make everything believable.
Really it’s crazy.
Hmmmmmm.......
unbelievable indeed
Lol I know. He constantly went up n down through the years
Party 7
They live was a better film than all the Hogan films all together
Exactly!
Roddy Piper vs Keith David in They Live >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hogan vs Warrior rematch at Halloween Havoc!
Better than most Movies in general.
"W-What's that smell?!
*Sh...Shadeeeeeee*
Shade😑 "
Without a doubt They Live was a good movie
I will say, even in WCW, Roddy Piper was still a great trash talker.
+Venomous Nate
#FACT
Imagine a promo battle between WCW Roddy Piper and The Ultimate Warrior.
Just picture a feud between Piper and Bray Wyatt. They'd have us hyped for it before they even swung hands....
Dude! Piper was nothing but the same lines and catch phrases for his entire career...when they find the answers i change the questions...while they were paving the road,I was driving it,being chased by the cops...if they didn't hate me so much,would they love you...where were you when I was taking on all comers in a garage.. playing the bass guitar in a bar?!..I am king of the frat house...I mean..again and again and again! Lol
@@johnnysizemore5797 Roddy Piper Would've Squashed A Fat 265-270 Pound Bray Wyatt.
Loved the line by Brian about Virgil winning all of his matches in 1991 by accident.
"You 530 in the mornin lookin drag queen" is too perfect.
I think he should have done stand up instead of movies lol
"Did he adopt Jason Jordan at some point and I missed it?" I think I just woke my roommate up with my laughter. Thanks Brian!
To be fair, that “I taught you how to fight” line directed to Virgil was one of the coolest Piper moments ever.
How has that clip of Piper running out of Alcatraz not been turned into a gif??
I just posted something similar without seeing this lol, it's fucking epic.
The fact piper was on screen commissioner and booked himself into the main event of Starcade96.. beat hogan clean.. but never made the match for the WCW title.. was the beginning of the end for piper.. and he was there only a couple of months at the time.
He wasn't commissioner going in to Starrcade 96.
He wasnt commissioner in 96
I think that was Hogan's doing. Only way he would agree to losing a match cleanly, was to still keep the tittle belt.
True he wasn't commissioner at the time, but it was still clunky booking by WCW leading into the Starrcade. They never said the match wasn't for the title or that it was a non-title match. Dusty Rhodes even says on air during the PPV that isn't Piper the WCW World Champion now to which Tony and Bobby don't respond lol
In the Death of WCW book when they're talking about the storyline where despite bringing up the contract for the match himself Piper didn't make it a title match they say "We hereby nominate Roddy Piper as the dumbest babyface of 1996."
"Boy, for a show we keep referring to as WCW's biggest show of the year, they sure found a lot of ways to fuck it up."
In hindsight, this has been pointed to as a major reason WCW lost the war. At the time, WWE always built major feuds to culminate at WrestleMania, not always blowing off at WM but making sure the feud paid off properly there. WCW would build towards Starrcade, but the payoff would come on a random Nitro or at a B-Level PPV like Slamboree. Case in point; Starrcade 1997. Sting doesn't go over clean, Giant doesn't get his hands on Nash, meaning 2 of your hottest feuds from the year didn't culminate at the show they were building up to. Not a good way to keep fans interested.
Hogans creative control and egotistical narcissism didn't help in that regard
@@215jmo that doesn’t work for me brother.
You look at the card for Starrcade in 98, and it looks more like an episode of Thunder besides Goldberg vs Nash for the title, and we know what happened with that match.
These series are really helpful to people like me who didn’t grow up during the WWE WCW Era and I need history lessons on this kind of stuff so thanks Zman
Same.
I’ve learned so much wrestling in the 90’s all from BZ’s videos... my wrestling knowledge began in 98 strictly for WWE... anything outside of that I’ve seen/learned from his vids. Lol
Damn... That's really unfortunate. I couldn't imagine growing up without 80's-90's era WCW/WWF. I look back at that time so fondly.
@@DiabolikSilhouette You really wouldn't understand any of the NWO storylines or the Monday Night Wars in general ifyou hadn't been following since the 80's
Same here
"Is that a bird?!"
Is it a plane
LOL!! Hilarious!!! I was so weak when that clip showed up
Is it some kind of karate?
@@themarkiscookin No! It's Superman!
Roddy Piper: I GOT SIX KIDS!!!
>Years later
Da Maniac (Roddy Piper): You remind me of one of my kids.
Dennis Reynolds: Oh you got kids, Maniac?
Da Maniac: Nah... Not anymore.
WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?!?!
@@funandyvideos Go watch Always Sunny in Philadelphia
@@comixproviderftw_02 lol, no, that's the next line, I'm familiar with the show.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@funandyvideos I like how you say Mac's line and everyone is explaining it to ya... Oh teehee. I eat charcoal
Spike haired Hogan always made me laugh.
It looks like a photoshop of Hogan face with early Sting hair. Just looks dumb.
He looks like a really old used toothbrush.
Hogan had a lot of weird looks in WCW.
It kind of works as a heel who is trying to look "cool" while looking like an idiot, which was sort of Hulk's gimmick as Hollywood Hogan
The midlife crisis was real for Hulk Hogan
Hey, They Live is better than anything Hogan ever starred in.
the rock too!
Disagree. Hogan has the funniest movies
Word
@@SuperPeterok I came to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I'm all out of bubble gum,beat that line Hogan lol
@@TheLoStBoYs89 ok here's one *squeezes a melon and accidentally explodes it "Wow...I found a good one!" -Shep Ramsey Suburban Commando
Roddy Piper's Run in WCW
Started Halloween Havoc 96
Ended Superbrawl 2000
Won US Title
Uncrowned WCW Champion
I know the plan all along was for Sting to beat Hogan for the Big Gold Belt at Starrcade but it would have been more logical for Piper to win the title and drop it back to Hogan a couple of months later due to the reasons Brian listed. It's not as if it would have hurt the SC '97 plans to do that.
@@tempestfennac9687
True
@@tempestfennac9687 They made Lex Luger beat Hulk Hogan for the world championship outta nowhere.
Honestly, a nearly 4 year run in WCW was pretty good for him since most other wrestlers didn't last that long.
Damn it's already been 5 years since piper passed.. time really does fly 🥺
+Brandon Burke
Yep.
RIP legend
" They Live" IS a classic bro. Piper and Keith David shiitttttt that movie is ageless and more relevant today than ever no joke
Exactly!.
College political science classes have been known to use "They Live" to show how f***ed up our late stage capitalist world is
Until the end of the video, I'd forgotten that Roddy tried to be a singer.
So...thanks for that, Brian.
SinfulBehaviors I met him on a promo tour for his single 😅
@@RyKells What's next? Did Bret Hart tried to be singer?
Just imagine a collab between Rowdy Roddy Piper & rapper Randy Savage. They’d have the stroke to screw M.C.M.I.Z & Johnny Drip-Drip out of a Grammy :P
@@IanNewYashaTheFinalAct the Be A Man Remix would be 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I can Piper being a great value Nate Dogg
I love these videos of “insert name here” in wwe or wcw. I wasn’t really watching during the Monday night wars so it’s always a treat for me to learn about people who switched sides and either did great or not so great. Thanks for all these videos Brian
Same here. It’s honestly fascinating, and hoping for a future Classic PPV Review
The Monday Night Wars produced some of the greatest moments...however it also produced some of the 💩💩 moments also!
same i like listening to things about wrestlers i never even knew.. i was 1 when this happened so i cant remember much about it and how pretty much wcw was hit and miss during the wars
There's a channel called "Wrestling Bios", and he has just recently started a video series about the Monday Night Wars I'd highly recommend! It's called "Reliving The War" or something!
Dillon White thanks I’ll check that out!
I met him an Indy event at my old high school and he was one of the nicest wrestlers I met
Now that I think about it, I think Piper’s time in Alcatraz inspired Jon Moxley’s Prison Break vignette in 2019.
I was honestly thinking something similar.
Not that it inspired it but it was very similar. That it would be very Mox to lock himself up for a week in Alcatraz to get in the mindset to want to take someone out.
Book it now AE-Dub
@Wesley Parsons okay then you do something better
They brawl outside in a cage match
*They brawl outside in a cage match*
*ThEy BrAwL oUtSiDe In A cAgE mAtCh*
*THEY BRAWL OUTSIDE IN A CAGE MATCH*
Maximus4587 what?
@@lazarussoul8221 It's a _BotchaMania_ reference.
Maximus4587 ......what!?!
Forget it, Maximus. It's WCW.
They Brawl -In- Outside The cage Match
I never knew Randy Savage tried to Sid Vicious himself at Halloween Havoc O.O
He got the other half of his brain that he do.
lolololol. What a WHIFF on that flying elbow.
@RyuHayabusa751 or Flying double axe hammer or w.e it was, regardless the point is the Big Whiff....and how he didn't snap his leg or ankle/ankles. Must be those Slim Jims oooooooo yeeeeeeeaaa
The Flair Piper stuff was some of the funniest/best stuff they had near the end of wCw
Was hilarious
6:12 Did Roddy do this often, or have I finally found the origin of that taunt from WCW/nWo Revenge on N64?
Also, hard to believe that a majority of this crazy and goofy shit took place BEFORE Vince Russo arrived in WCW. While he should get some big blame for helping kill WCW, the company was doing a fine job of being chaotic before he got there.
Most of it wasn't goofy before Russo, just executed poorly in the finish because Hulk couldn't lose unless he wanted to do so. Thus, Roddy would beat him but never lose to title. Hul had creative control and refused to lose the title.
Whenever Brian talks about the booking in WCW, my question to the writers is always "Did ANYBODY turn in a Second Draft??" cuz it seems like every not named Hogan wasn't allowed to have a brain
Sid had half of one 😂
I know you were being sarcastic, but "They Live" actually is a classic.
I think the film itself is ridiculously overrated.
@@Bale4Bond you are obviously like 10 if you think that
I recently watched it. I found it kind of boring.
@@drewphilly3886 maybe you just don't like this kind of movie, it is a classic! Fucking casuals...
@@drewphilly3886 You wouldn't say that if you weren't trying to parrot Brian.
Roddy Piper: says icon
Macho Man: IZ DaT A BiRD?!
BONESAW IS... PUZZLED..!
Hogan never been in a movie as great as They Live...
@ZCS fair point!
Rocky 2.
@@tmerchead1 3*
~RIP Roddy Piper~
Thanks for the GREAT memories. I'm honored for the wonderful opportunity to meet you in person in 2002...😎👍
Piper was the greatest mouth in the sport. For better or worse. Truly one of a kind.
These WWF guys in WCW videos give me a whole new appreciation for Vince McMahon. Say what you will about him but these guys in WCW is a clear example of what happens when you don't have someone with a strong personality and some degree of quality control unquestionably in charge to keep them in line. It's like these guys were always like this but Vince just didn't put up with it. That man deserves a frickin' gold medal for being able to do that when clearly no one else could.
True the creative control in WCW let them do whatever they wanted while they were in the wwf vince kept them in line love or hate him I’m glad vince didn’t let legends that were past their prime continue hogging airtime he wanted to build new stars (granted they didn’t draw) but vince (at that time) knew when a wrestler was pass his time
I think Vince had a confidence in himself and a conviction in his vision that no one else had. He also surrounded himself with a group of premier mentors in Briscoe and Patterson, and some other top guys. like even bucky beaver, may not have had two grains of sand to roll around in his head about talent, booking, and finishes, but the guy understood Vince's vision and delivered. Vince wanted to own wrestling. All the others just wanted some good ratings.
Brian...I didn't think the reveal was clunky. They had been alluding to it. Weeks prior, The Outsiders were talking about the mole they had in the org, who could tell them who would be where. Then there was another episode where Eric was missing from the booth, but then he called in saying he was trying to find Piper. So in the ring, they were trying to burn just a bit slower for all those who hadn't yet caught on.
I think what was clunky was the whole stuff where Piper tried to expose Bischoff for a liar by saying things that didn’t really resonate with the audience when he could have come out and said “you never once tried to contact me, you never once came to my home, etc”
Classics as They Live...and that’s about it.
He didn’t need to do much else! That movie made up for an entire movie career!😁
I remember liking 'Hell Comes to Frogtown' when I saw it some 15 years ago
Im too "young" to have followed WCW but oh man, this looks like the tele novela I never knew I wanted.
i was old enough to follow it. Luckily, though, I gave up on WCW the night of the fingerpoke, so there was a lot of WCW 99-2001 that i missed.. thank the gods.
maxdecphoenix me too. I was a fan of the wolfpac, so I was super disappointed with the finger poke and the reunion of the nwo. Stopped there and then quit watching wrestling, WWF was only on pay-tv where I live, so that wasn’t an option. I do remember watching the beginning of the new blood angle with Sting and Vampyro and immediately quit watching again.
i have pretty fond memories, warts and all, until the russo era. Even then some of my favs like vampiro mike awesome and lance storm got decent air time
It's so awful but I can't stop watching and rewatching.
What will WCW management fuck up on next weeks Nitro? I have to know!
'5:30 in the morning drag queen-looking' is an A+, world class insult. Good enough to be used at a drag show tbh.
I have to admit .. you do have one of my favorite channels.. I wouldn’t mind some more Top 8 .. you haven’t made one in a while
WrestleMania: Where stars are made and stories are finished
Starcade: where stars are buried and stories are prolonged
I actually liked the powers that be angle, but Russofication should be a more utilized term for bad booking.
Powers That Be was a good idea on paper, but when executed, it seemed like Russo was just trying to recapture the magic of WWF’s Corporation angle and do it in a poor manner.
more like Corrnettify.
Someone call Webster ask him to put that word in the Dictionary Russofication verb meaning - Something that's good but being screwed up by someone who has no business being in a position of power Bro.
Roddy Piper: I GOT SIX KIDS
Heath Slater: I GOT KIDS
Vince the _Russoficator:_ Custody Papers on a Pole Match for ALL THE KIDS, BRO
@@IanNewYashaTheFinalAct With a run in from the Insane Clown Posse or Beetlejuice
(rewatching in a fit of Piper nostalgia)
You know... Piper knew how to work Hogan in a way that most bookers never could. Being willing to let Hogan keep the championship belt was the key to getting Hogan to do the J O B.
Lowballing Earthquake as just “the future Golga” hurts, man
Golga deserved better than that....
SHIT
find the pod-cast where Stevie Ray talks about the fall out of Arn Anderson burying Tenta on live t.v. apparently that was all improv. Tenta and the crew walked to the ring expecting one thing, and then the Horsemen came out there and buried them, and that was that. Tenta apparently destroyed a trailer backstage venting his rage.
He's not an earthquake, he's not a Golga, he's not a fish. HE"S A MAN!!!!
I found that odd
I know i hated that reference
4:25 : Actually as a kid in 1991, I remember a promo where he told Flair "I got 6 of them. You fight for money, I fight for my family". :)
Just a reminder that during "Age in a Cage" Piper was 43 and Hogan was 44.
Gosh darn spring chickens compared to some of WWE's main eventers these days.
Dustin Rhodes is 51 and having classics in AEW.
I might think it's fair to argue that a lot of WWE's talent are somewhat if not much healthier in their 40s than Piper and Hogan.
It's staggering to me they're only a year apart. Hulk Hogan is this weirdly ageless eternal fifty year-old. It's like he was never young.
1. (12:37-12:40)
That hurt me, and I'm not even a wrestler!
2. (20:06-20:09)
*Another rare f bomb by Brian Zane*
The World champion not defending his title on the biggest show of the year ... -,-
16:09 It was actually Renegade who played with the fog machine. :P
18:45 I feel this is also an attempt at cashing in at WM15 Brawl for All match, although WCW's match was a total work.
I fell for Roddy Piper in '83 and loved everything he did. He is the greatest as far as I am concern and my heart is still breaking is he is gone. 4 EVER HOT ROD!
Met Roddy at Fanboy expo in Knoxville a couple months before he passed. Legit one of the nicest people. Was damn cool and didn't rush me off and was just so humble. Will always love Piper.
Words simply cannot express just how on-the-head you hit that nail with the music while he ran through the courtyard.
I really enjoy these looks at big stars in other companies to see how differently their runs go, keep up the good work Brian.
Piper was great, I got to meet him before I started training for pro wrestling and he was so encouraging. I'll never forget how nice he was when he didn't have to be, when he could've just said that's cool.
The six kids is a reference to a time he tried to tell a joke to an interviewer who I think was visiting his home in rural Oregon. He said "I have six kids!" and meant to follow up with a terrible dad joke about having 1 boy, three girls and two baby goats, but the TV interviewer cut the tape too early. So from then on, it tickled him to claim he had six kids.
This is the video I have been waiting for! I find myself still watching old hot rod videos to this day he was so entertaining in any role. They lives is a masterpiece and I even love him in all his direct to video films I could watch this man in anything and be entertained. Great work brian I have been here since the beginning and also find myself watching videos I have seen of yours over and over again. You also are a true professional and the best wrestling channel on UA-cam . Keep up the great work Z-man!
Piper is a legend
I love the way Hulk sold the eye gouge, and how nonchalantly Roddy gave it at 5:07 mark
Piper to Savage: That's a cute outfit! Did your husband give it to you?😂
“You call yourself an icon I don’t even know what that means is it a bird?” LOL
Anyone else noticed how LA Parka is just chilling in the background at 20:18
They Live is literally the single best movie starring a wrestler, ever made. Hell, it's one of the greatest sci-fi/horror/social commentary movies ever made. It goes right up there with Dawn Of The Dead and John Carpenter's The Thing in terms of legendary classics that will never be forgotten and rarely matched. Hogan has NEVER been in any movie that even APPROACHED the near perfection of They Live. Hell, nothing that John Cena or even The Rock has ever been in, can touch that movie. I'm DEAD FUCKING SERIOUS and anyone who has EVER seen that movie will agree with me.
I agree, it's great
For me, it's Jesse Ventura, he was in Predator which is simply one of the best movies ever anyway.
It is really good. Carpenter was a great director making a decent difference also
You know, you look like your head fell in the cheese dip back in 1957.
Night Star, i for damn sure, agree with you!!!
1:39 Hogan's haircut always makes me laugh 😂😂😂
IDK why he chose to wear that wig that night lol
@@adaptivegaming5794 it almost looks like stings hair from the early 90s but I don't know how that has anything to do with hogan
The humor in this video was on point. Genius. Great work, Brian.
(Me alone in prison cell screaming at imaginary camera)
MISTER SPANDEX!!
The promo were he exposed the Disciple as Brutus the barber beefcake was the best thing ever lmfaooo
I've got a million dollar idea - a UA-cam series featuring Bret Hart being shown late 90's-early 2000's debya cee dubya angles, filming his reactions.
I'd watch it. If something like that ever happens, that is.
Piper had six kids, one of them became UFC and WWE women's champion Ronda Rousey
You five thirty in the morning looking drag queen"🤣🤣🤣💀💀 I reversed the decision the next day what did you want me to do give you a gift from Rupaul LOL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think Piper running in the prison courtyard with the background music is the greatest thing I've ever seen, this is what the internet is for.
Love this stuff dude, honestly rather watch this than skim through network
12:37 Man that reminds me of the landing Jim Cornette took when he blew out both his knees! Remember that one? At least her Savage sort of collapsed down right away instead of letting the full force go straight to his knees like Jim did.
Love the you being the tour guide thing lol.
Zane: You really outdid yourself with the Vanessa Carlton. Nicely done.
Brian really deserves more credit for these videos on WCW.
Between Bret Hart, Randy Savage, and now Piper, it's becoming more and more clear just how many expensive signings WCW was taking on but not using the talent in any meaningful way.
4:49 that chairshot looked DEVASTATING
Scott Hall complaining about Piper for backstage politics is kind of rich coming from a guy friends with Kevin Nash, Shawn Michaels & Triple H.
3:11 "first of all I taught you how to fight, now get out of my way" LOL
One of my favourite (to the extent that you can use that word considering what I'm going to describe next) Piper moments was when he took a glass beer bottle, smashing it against his head, and then cut a promo as the blood slowly oozed down his head. Probably one of the most intense moments I've ever seen in wrestling.
They Live was a legit classic
2:09 Yeah I was watching that live & I called bullshit too when Piper told Hogan he was the one guy he never beat lol
Ikr. I saw Hogan beat Piper on MTV with Cyndi Lauper in his corner lol
Between 8:05, 14:54, and 17:12, everyone was going insane in WCW.
I never heard anything bad about Roddy. I know someone who met him at a show, and Roddy was an amazing human being.
roddy piper was just as hilarious as ever in this phase of career gotta love this man
But even through his crazy stuff, I still was a fan of Piper until the end. He had the charisma. And his reality check t-shirt was awesome
whats funny in the "i taught you how to fight" promo who is next to virgil Ted Dibase the guy piper helped virgil against
I love Randy Savage, "is that a bird?!?!"
Piper never had his hair primped but he had it highlighted.
I still blame Hogan and his backstage politics.
That is why Piper never won the WHC.
@@PierzStyx and neither Ted dibiase
Holy crap, Piper's vignettes in Alcatraz are friggin' comedy gold. 😂😂😂👍👍👍
11:42 that ref is having too much fun
Lol.....that clip of Piper running out of Alcatraz will never get old!
Rowdy in TNA: one shoot promo on Vince Russo
But it was a good one
this was released one day after my birthday and it is about one of my favorite wrestlers.
Thanks Brian!
Piper is my fav wrestler of all time. My favorite storyline in his career was when him DDP and Sting formed a small faction to fight the NWO. Right around the time they put the belt on DDP.