Loss Posted June 18, 2011 Report Share Posted June 18, 2011 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glea diddy Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 As a match this pretty much nothing but the post match celebration is legitmately a great feel good moment. Piper seems genuinely happy to have won his first title in the wwf and the crowd response as the announcement is made is one of my favorite wwf moments. It comes across as a real nice thank you to Piper for his work in that era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted July 10, 2011 Report Share Posted July 10, 2011 One could argue that was as much Piper's night as it was Flair's. He not only had this match, but put on a pretty good performance during the actual Royal Rumble, lasting a little over half the match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glea diddy Posted July 10, 2011 Report Share Posted July 10, 2011 Totally agree, Flair was certainly the mvp but Piper was clearly 1A for the night. Flair being alone in the ring as the buzzer goes off and Piper enters is one of the best booked moments in rumble history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted July 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2011 Interesting that they showed footage of the Mountie beating Bret to win the IC title. I don't think I've seen that before, and they didn't show it in the Update on Superstars. I can never keep the story straight with Bret negotiating with WCW and there being rumors of him showing up at the Clash with the IC title, because there are so many versions of the story. I've heard that it both did and did not play into the decision to take the belt off of him. Agreed that the match isn't much, but yes, the post-match celebration is a memorable feel-good moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Evans Posted July 10, 2011 Report Share Posted July 10, 2011 The thing with the shockstick is just so corny it's funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLIK Posted July 10, 2011 Report Share Posted July 10, 2011 Always loved that moment when Piper revealed he was wearing a vest to protect himself from the electrocution Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cox Posted July 10, 2011 Report Share Posted July 10, 2011 I think that was in their SNME rematch (or was it TME?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dooley Posted July 10, 2011 Report Share Posted July 10, 2011 I think that was in their SNME rematch (or was it TME?). It was SNME. The one where Sid turned on Hogan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted August 3, 2011 Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 It was a pretty nothing match, but damn did the crowd pop for everything Piper did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted August 3, 2011 Report Share Posted August 3, 2011 You know what's sad? It seemed like the biggest thing in the world, the idea someone would win the IC and WWF belts in the same night. If they did that today it wouldn't mean anything at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunning_grover Posted August 4, 2011 Report Share Posted August 4, 2011 You know what's sad? It seemed like the biggest thing in the world, the idea someone would win the IC and WWF belts in the same night. If they did that today it wouldn't mean anything at all. Makes me even more happy that I'm watching 1992 WWF from this wonderful 1992 Yearbook DVD Set and that I'm not watching current WWE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 Finkel's announcements of new champions always sound great. Agreed that match wasn't much but a cool moment to see Piper win in the IC Title. I like how they were putting over him having the chance to win both titles in one night by winning the Rumble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeCampbell Posted August 27, 2012 Report Share Posted August 27, 2012 The match itself is alright, nothing great, but the aftermath is outstanding. I forgot about the corny sound effect that went with the cattle prod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingedEagle Posted February 11, 2013 Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 Finkel's announcements of new champions always sound great. Agreed that match wasn't much but a cool moment to see Piper win in the IC Title. I like how they were putting over him having the chance to win both titles in one night by winning the Rumble. Fink's announcement probably is the highlight here. Looked like the ref did a shoddy job calling the finish but still a fun moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 Rare footage of the Mountie's title victory, which I believe only appeared on the Coliseum Video version of the Royal Rumble and on the Anthology. Piper's pre-match promo is one of my favorites of his, one of his few outwardly comedic promos that's actually funny. Nothing match, but Piper's victory celebration (and Fink's announcement, of course) is a legitimate chill scene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danish Dynamite Posted May 25, 2015 Report Share Posted May 25, 2015 This was just as it was supposed to be. Silly, but a total feel good moment :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted December 15, 2015 Report Share Posted December 15, 2015 The match itself was a squash, almost like 1989 Piper versus the Fabulous Jacques Rougeau would have been on Superstars or Challenge. if Jacques had more than ten seconds of sustained offense at any point in the match, I must have missed it. As everyone else has said, this was about the moment: the leadup to it, the match itself, and the posrtmatch. Piper seems legitimately happier to get the IC belt than anyone I've ever seen, and the crowd is just as happy for him. Meanwhile, Jacques is ignominiously sent back to midcard hell, which he never really left in the first place. I saw the footage of the Mountie's title win, and I noticed that the ring announcer (who was the regular Boston Garden ring announcer; they never identified him by name, but it wasn't Mel Phillips or Finkel) never announced Jacques as the new IC champion. Was that just an oversight, or were they afraid of fan backlash? You'd think that Piper's appearance would have taken care of that, but maybe not. Is there anyone more useless in the WWF right now than Jimmy Hart? Even Jamison serves more of a purpose. As for Jacques, he's a rare case of being able to perform a character in the ring a thousand times better than he can on the mic. Either one of my dead grandmothers sounds more like a Mountie than he does. He'd have been better off not even doing promos. Something tells me that the commentary for this was redone in the studio, because Gino and Bobby don't sound live at all here. I think I remember reading something about there being too much crowd noise for the commentary to be heard well during the live pay-per-view, so maybe Vince wanted it re-recorded for Coliseum Video. At any rate, they pay almost no attention to the match whatsoever; Heenan's more concerned with finding out Flair's number for the Rumble and complaining about being stuck with Gino all weekend, while Gino happily guzzles him at every turn. My favorite line comes after Bobby reasserts his First Amendment right to free speech, to which Gino replies, "When you're with me, you don't have any rights!" As much as I liked the line, it symbolizes the deterioration of their act. I liked them a lot better when Heenan would say the most outrageous things in the world and Gino would simply say, "Give me a break, Brain!" When Gino started fighting back in the late eighties, they started going downhill, and now Gino's outright bullying him most of the time. The only reason I can still listen to them is because I know they were best friends outside the ring. If they weren't, they'd be even harder to listen to than JR and Heyman. I thought that the WWF was just retconning when they said that Piper was the first man to have a chance to win both the World and IC titles in the same night, but then I realized that most of the other guys who had a chance to end a given night with two belts already had one to begin with, such as when the IC champion challenged the World champion. Piper really was the first man who could have gone from no belts to two in the same night. This was truly Piper's last big pay-per-view moment in the WWF; he'd be a special attraction against Lawler and Dustin, among others, but he'd never be a major player again after he dropped the IC title to Bret at Mania VIII. Thanks for a ton of memories, Hot Rod! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 Always a great moment when Piper wins and the crowd takes a second to realize whats happened and then does a "holy shit he did it pop". The match was exactly what it needed to be and this felt like a great WWF nod to someone that had helped the promotion reach incredible heights with Piper still having a little bit left in the tank to give some compelling performances. **1/2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawho5 Posted March 10, 2018 Report Share Posted March 10, 2018 The celebration was definitely the highlight here as Jacques never gets much of anything going. I like Piper finally getting a title win and he seems like he's really enjoying the reaction he gets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cactus Posted May 25, 2020 Report Share Posted May 25, 2020 Either to cover up Piper's weakness as a worker or to save his energy for his appearance in the Rumble match, this only goes a few minutes, but I had a massive smile etched across my face whilst watching this. Piper comes across as a complete star toying with Mountie. Mountie does the 'skin-the-cat' spot years before Shawn Michaels perfected it. Piper very rarely got a clean win on PPV and this being his first ever title win, created a feel good moment that the crowd ate up. ★★½ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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