RIP Roddy Piper

[Ricky Jackson]

Thanks for sharing that. Great read

[Ricky Jackson]

Just read Meltzer's bio and wondered what is out there of Piper's 1983 tour of All-Japan, which looks like may have been his only work in Japan

 

http://wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=bios&wrestler=275&bild=1&details=7&liga=14&jahr=1983

[khawk20]

Did he not work over in Japan as "The Canadian" under a hood at some point?

[conker8]

Did he not work over in Japan as "The Canadian" under a hood at some point?

 

In 1977, he loses a Loser Leaves Town Match in L.A. territory and goes to New Japan. He came back to L.A. as the Masked Canadian. He works the second tour with that gimmick.

[Jingus]

Just read Meltzer's bio and wondered what is out there of Piper's 1983 tour of All-Japan, which looks like may have been his only work in Japan

 

http://wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=bios&wrestler=275&bild=1&details=7&liga=14&jahr=1983

That's fascinating. Does anyone know if ANY of those matches made tape? A quick bit of Googling doesn't turn up any Japanese matches for Piper available for online viewing in the usual places. The closest I found were a match or two of him working The Canadian gimmick in Los Angeles; although one match against Tatsumi Fujinami shows Piper working a bit more grappling-based style than he did in years afterwards. (He also gets pinned, but does that annoying "kick out at 3.1" deal; what was WITH Piper refusing to EVER lay down, until he got to WCW and suddenly decided his pride wasn't worth more than Ted Turner's money?)

[khawk20]

I may have a match or two, I'll check tonight.

[Ricky Jackson]

Yeah he worked New Japan in 77 as Piper and 78 as Masked Canadian. Lost pretty much every match on both tours

[Ricky Jackson]

Dp

[PeteF3]

There is some Piper-in-NJPW, both as himself and the Masked Canadian, on the '70s New Japan set. Some of Piper's AJPW stuff did make tape, but the only list I've ever seen that has it is Friedlander. There's a Piper/Slater vs. Jumbo/Baba tag match that I liked--not in an '80s set-worthy way, but it was a good match.

[jdw]

Just read Meltzer's bio and wondered what is out there of Piper's 1983 tour of All-Japan, which looks like may have been his only work in Japan

 

http://wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=bios&wrestler=275&bild=1&details=7&liga=14&jahr=1983

 

These aired per Dan:

 

05/19/1983 Dick Slater/Roddy Piper vs. Hara/Inoue

05/26/1983 Baba/Tenryu vs. Slater/Piper

06/03/1983 Baba/Jumbo vs. Slater/Piper

 

The last one was a Int'l Tag Title, and one of only two matches on the tv show. It's probably complete or mostly complete. The other two might be JIP given what else was on the TV shows.

[DGinnetty]

5/19 match aired complete (10:15), 5/26 airs just under 5 minutes of the 12:06

 

Dan

[Ricky Jackson]

Stumbled on this earlier. Pretty awesome collection of 122 Piper's Pit's (complete?), conveniently in chronological order. This channel was linked earlier-big time Roddy fan.

 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhREHzJ0Z0rX72wWub2b3fX637Yntj26z

 

Also, myself Johnny Sorrow and Marty "Superstar" Sleeze are planning to put together an epic career retrospective podcast on Piper later this week. Stay tuned

[flyonthewall2983]

Nice that they added the tease to the Pit that never happened in 1992.

[conker8]

Stumbled on this earlier. Pretty awesome collection of 122 Piper's Pit's (complete?), conveniently in chronological order. This channel was linked earlier-big time Roddy fan.

 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhREHzJ0Z0rX72wWub2b3fX637Yntj26z

 

Also, myself Johnny Sorrow and Marty "Superstar" Sleeze are planning to put together an epic career retrospective podcast on Piper later this week. Stay tuned

 

If you need help for LA and SF footage, I have 17 DVD of Roddy Piper. It might be a Goodhelmet comp.

[flyonthewall2983]

https://smile.amazon.com/Rowdy-Roddy-Ariel-Teal-Toombs/dp/0345816226/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1474812284&sr=1-1&keywords=roddy+piper

 

A book is coming out next Tuesday, written by his two children, about his life. Really, really looking forward to this one even if I take the claim that it's as great as Bret's book with a little salt.

[Ricky Jackson]

That looks like it could be great

[JKWebb]

That does look good - Did you guys ever come out with the third Piper Podcast (@RJ)? I might have missed it... definitely want to check it out if you did. The Portland footage I've been watching has been awesome.

[Ricky Jackson]

No, we never got around to doing a third part looking at Piper's later years, and probably never will but you never know. It's kind of hard to get excited about those years, but I'm sure we would've had a blast talking about it.

[flyonthewall2983]

I'm on the last chapter now. Reading about his childhood, and his time in Los Angeles and Portland was eye-opening.

[flyonthewall2983]

[peachchaos]

Looks fantastic.

[iamthedoctor]

How do people rate Piper's matches with Flair in 91/92?

 

It's something I had wanted to see with the buildup on TV with the Survivor Series match, Rumble confrontation & the tag match on CHV, I know they did a match at MSG but can't remember if it was any good. I have a Cage match book where it showed pics of matches between the two in a steel cage so wondered maybe WWE filmed it.

 

Years later I read about the two having matches against each other in NWA, no idea how much is out there but I recall watching one of their matches and the promo.

[cheapshot]

How do people rate Piper's matches with Flair in 91/92?

 

It's something I had wanted to see with the buildup on TV with the Survivor Series match, Rumble confrontation & the tag match on CHV, I know they did a match at MSG but can't remember if it was any good. I have a Cage match book where it showed pics of matches between the two in a steel cage so wondered maybe WWE filmed it.

 

Years later I read about the two having matches against each other in NWA, no idea how much is out there but I recall watching one of their matches and the promo.

 

I know there are handhelds on YouTube of some Cage Matches between the pair from early 1992, not sure if any were ever pro shot however.

[iamthedoctor]

 

How do people rate Piper's matches with Flair in 91/92?

 

It's something I had wanted to see with the buildup on TV with the Survivor Series match, Rumble confrontation & the tag match on CHV, I know they did a match at MSG but can't remember if it was any good. I have a Cage match book where it showed pics of matches between the two in a steel cage so wondered maybe WWE filmed it.

 

Years later I read about the two having matches against each other in NWA, no idea how much is out there but I recall watching one of their matches and the promo.

 

I know there are handhelds on YouTube of some Cage Matches between the pair from early 1992, not sure if any were ever pro shot however.

 

 

If WWE had their own team who did the magazine with some excellent photos does that guarantee that they were also filmed as I believe some took place at TV tapings. I know a Warrior/Slaughter one did and recall the mag mentioned 2 Piper/Flair ones.

[flyonthewall2983]

I watched their first MSG match, which was Flair's return to the Garden 15 years after the Pete Sanchez match. Nothing significant as a match beyond that, but the crowd response to him coming out was cool. Lots of Flair/Horseman signs in the crowd which the camera tries but fails to avoid.