Best of Piper's Pit

[sek69]

I've been watching this off and on, and it's just amazing. Some of the VQ isn't great but it's the history of Piper's Pit from the first segment in 1984 up till the angle with Adrian Adonis at WM 3.

 

All the famous moments are included:

 

Piper slapping around jobber Frankie Williams (capped off by the famous "just when they think they have the answers" line).

 

Piper turning Snuka into a human fruit salad.

 

Piper and Captain Lou badmouthing Cyndi Lauper that turned into the birth of Rock N' Wrestling and the build to WM I.

 

Piper abducting midget wrestler Haiti Kid and shaving his hair into a mohawk because he was a fan of Mr. T.

 

The whole Pipers Pit vs the Flower Shop angle, including Piper destroying the Flower Shop set. (Ironically, Adrian "retired" his leather jacket and started the Adorable gimmick on a segment of Piper's Pit, which is also included).

 

One thing that really stands out, especially on the 84-85 segments, is how far ahead Piper was in terms of promo skills of everyone else in the WWF. He wasn't just being a heel, he was flat out making people look dumb. A great example was when he had WWF tag champs Rocky Johnson and Tony Atlas on the Pit. It immediately becomes clear that the Rock didn't inherit his promo ability from his dad, as the Soul Man tries to trade promos with Piper and fails miserably. Atlas almost scores by saying Piper reminds him of his wife wearing that skirt, which Piper turns around by saying "Man, if I remind you of your wife, I feel bad for you". I think part of the reason he was programmed with Hogan is Hulk was seemingly the only face who had the charisma to go face to face with Piper and not come off looking like a complete tard.

[Loss]

Piper was great, and it's sad that his life took the road that it did. I wish the young guys would watch his old promos, because we haven't had a heel in ages that knows how to get under people's skin like that. He fought a lot to become a major star. I love the story that when Vince Sr. saw him for the first time, he refused to bring him in because he was so scrawny. But that was part of what made him such a great heel in his younger days. Awesome babyface at times as well, but as a heel, he shined brightest. I think wrestling missed the boat in some ways by never doing a Piper/Savage blood feud in 1986-1987. The insanity of it all would have been overwhelming.

[sek69]

A Savage-Piper feud would have blown anything Hogan could do not only out of the water, but out of the atmosphere as well, which is probably why it never happened.