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Now, Piper, it's your turn to feel what Hulkamania feels like coming down heavy

on you, brother.

Hulk Hogan was the greatest protagonist you could have, and Roddy Piper was the

greatest antagonist you could possibly have.

This Hulkamania is going wild all over the place. Piper was the opposite of

Hogan. He was the bad boy.

I had no idea where it was going to go when he was on my screen.

Roddy Piper's just gone bananas!

There was legitimate heat between me and Piper. I think it was detrimental to us

really moving forward.

Oh, my God, I was going to have a nervous breakdown.

It was always a war.

Oh, and a shootout, ladies and gentlemen.

But, you know, I'm not a bad guy, okay?

I'm the reason you've got no hair.

We haven't had our last dance.

I'm the only guy you have never...

When two legends collide, their rivalry stays pinned in our minds forever.

This is where we break down the legendary stories behind the greatest

of all time.

I'm Freddie Prinze Jr.

And this is WWE Rivals.

You do not throw rocks at a man who's got a machine gun.

We're going way back in time on this one. And we're going to the early 80s.

was good guy and bad guy.

It was a simple story. And it was the birth of a beautiful rivalry.

It was with Hulk Hogan, who everyone believed in. And it was one of the

heels. Of all time, rowdy, rowdy, Piper.

Piper was an icon in the business.

Those two figures, you know, just bigger than life.

They're so different, but both of them had, you know, definitely crossed over

into mainstream popularity.

It was the birth of WrestleMania.

It was the birth of MTV.

It was the birth of pop culture, sort of, as we know it.

Everything's on the line.

There was this unwritten sort of rule within the wrestling industry that

owned certain territories.

And there was like this gentleman's sort of agreement, I guess, that you didn't

go into the other guy's territory.

You could work six months in Florida, six months in California, six months in

Portland, six months in Texas.

I wrestled in the AWA for like three years. And I had the Hulkamania thing

figured out. I was selling T -shirts, merchandise, headbands.

Started to Hollywood it up a little bit, really just defining that character and

really getting it dialed in.

When you're on

a roll and when you think positive, sometimes overconfidence can work for

And I know sooner or later, my time is going to come.

In this time frame, as cable TV is coming along, Vince sees that cable TV

coming, and he realizes national expansion in front of the world is

One day, we hope to be recognized as the premier sort of sports entertainment in

the world today.

He saw advertising.

He saw Hollywood. He saw everything that WWE could be and more.

Hello, everyone. Welcome to All -American Wrestling.

As soon as Vince had that cable signal.

To infinity and beyond, there was nowhere that Vince couldn't go with his

and what he wanted to do. He now had the vehicle to get there and do what needed

to be done.

And because of their nationwide audience, the World Wrestling Federation

been able to create coast -to -coast heroes and villains.

My dad recognized that America needed a hero they could believe in. And he

took one look at Hulk Hogan.

and knew that that was the hero that needed to be the beacon for fans all

the world.

And the next thing I knew, Vince McMahon came to my house, and he pretty much

laid his vision out of the WWE becoming an international phenomenon, you know,

taking over the whole world of the WWE.

The recognized symbol of excellence in sports entertainment.

It took me about two seconds to say, I'm in.

When I came to work for the WWE and for the McMahons, I had no idea what kind of

momentum we were going to get.

Vince wanted Hulk and made him run wild.

And the rest is history.

I feel the energy Hulkamania is running worldwide, and I felt everyone standing

behind me all the way, and it felt great.

Hulk Hogan, for me, was a comic book come to life. I couldn't fully grasp it.

You know, from my little kid brain, it was just everything awesome.

I've been training and praying to my parents to eat my vitamins, and

I go, man.

The people are training in the parking lots, posing in the gym.

Hulkamaniacs running wild all over the world. And every time I step in the

it's like there's a thousand people stepping in there with me. A thousand

Hulkamaniacs.

Have a nice day.

Go yourself.

Give me the microphone and get out of my way.

From Glasgow, Scotland, weighing 232 pounds, Rowdy.

Roddy Piper first made a name for himself outside of the WWE in the Mid

-Atlantic and Portland territories.

But right around 1984, Vince McMahon realized that Roddy Piper was the guy

he wanted to be his main antagonist.

This week, you have the opportunity of seeing someone, a very, very special

guest, the most intelligent man that I have ever met in my entire life.

A man who takes things into his own hands. A man who gets things done.

and gentlemen, I would like to introduce to you at this time.

Piper was the opposite of Hulk Hogan. He was the bad boy.

Ladies!

No, we're in New York, aren't we? There ain't none of those here.

Let me see if I can get this straight.

People!

To me, Roddy felt dangerous, and that's why I couldn't take my eyes off him. I

had no idea where it was going to go when he was on my screen.

And there was something really, really exciting and also scary about that.

Hulk was red, white, and blue and doing everything right, and Roddy Piper was

this cynical, just really nasty, evil man that despised everything that Hulk

Hogan stood for.

All of a sudden, this Hulkamania is going wild all over the place, and he's

becoming a legend.

There was legitimate heat between me and Piper.

Well, you know something, Piper? I didn't know how low a man could go, but

you've hit the bottom, brother.

Piper wanted the Hulk Hogan spot.

That's the nature of this business, is to be the number one guy and to be the

champ. And it was very verbal that, you know, Piper didn't like me. I mean,

really didn't like me.

Wrestling was approaching.

fever pitch at that time. Piper and Hogan were the two hottest wrestlers in

WWE.

Everywhere you go, everybody is talking about Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper.

And that's when MTV got in it.

In 1984, some of the WWE

superstars started appearing on MTV.

While at the same time, some of the heaviest hitters in the music industry

started appearing on WWE shows.

I have a gold and platinum record to give to the World Wrestling Federation

the fans.

Cindy Lauper showing her appreciation in presenting a gold and platinum record

to the World Wrestling Federation.

Roddy Piper at the time, his character was very anti -rock and roll.

you know, anti -fun.

I want to present you with this.

Oh, look out!

Captain Lou O 'Battle, Clover!

Look it, Roddy Piper's just gone bananas!

David Wong trying to come to the rescue, but he's no match!

Oh, he pound drives it right down into the canvas.

Roddy Piper's gone crazy here!

I have pictures.

The female vocalist of the year, Cyndi Lauper in the head.

I tortured Hogan.

The future of professional wrestling, the future of rock and roll is down the

toilet.

Vince was always looking for outside things to help bring new eyes, and MTV

one of them. And we get the rockin' wrestling, which will never be used

that term, but it was so perfect for the 80s.

The Rockin' Wrestling Connection was

a

marketing tool utilized by WWE and MTV to promote each other's stars.

You're seeing your favorite wrestlers on TV, and you're seeing them with these

rock stars, and you're seeing them with Cyndi Lauper.

All of a sudden, this became mainstream popular.

Hulk is going to put you down, man.

He's going to put you down so low, you're going to have to look up to see a

skirt. MTV was so invested in the rock and wrestling connection that they put

together their own WWE event.

It was the show that featured the first match between Hulk Hogan and Roddy

Piper. Two proud men with such different viewpoints, backgrounds.

It seems written in the stars that ultimately these two men would clash

This was the inception point. The psychology of these two men and the

tell their story all started at this moment.

Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, the war to settle the score.

We've talked about it. The Rocket Wrestling Connection, the hottest ticket

town, the biggest and the best. And tonight on MTV, live, ladies and

Hulk Hogan with the conference against challenger Ronnie Roddy Piper.

The war to settle the score, it was a whole different electricity.

But there was no teamwork whatsoever because the plan was to take over the

world with Hogan.

In the plan, you forgot that it takes two tangles.

That's when things really elevated as far as animosity.

Whenever I went in there against Piper.

It was always a war.

I used to beat the shit out of him, and he'd give it right back to me.

You had to take what you could get in there.

Oh, what a shootout, ladies and gentlemen.

I cannot believe it. The war to settle the score, I just

remember, like, it feeling like chaos.

And it really felt like New York was going to come over that barricade at any

second.

Oh, please.

Oh,

you've got to be kidding me.

Please.

Here comes Mr.

T, ladies and gentlemen.

When I first jumped in the ring, it was wild.

That's the only thing I can say. It was just wild.

Look at these two. Piper doesn't know what to do.

Hogan getting a clean pinfall or submission would have been the most

way to conclude the match.

But unfortunately, that didn't happen.

There was still that old school mentality to protect myself.

Back then, he didn't want to put me over. And that's why the finish was

up.

The winner of this bout, as a result of a disqualification,

Hulk Hogan!

Typically, a disqualification in a match in the form of storytelling.

leaves a very unclear, unsatisfying closure to that story.

Hogan was the face of business.

And I agree, he should have been.

But everybody was butting heads.

The only way this guy holds his title is he has this stupid guy with some

ridiculous haircut. All of a sudden, all these people are flooding the ring. If

you ain't got enough guts to fight me one -on -one, mister, then take a hike

leave the title with me.

Now we've got MTV on our side.

New demo, new kids, new audience, you know, plugged in.

It was just like throwing big tanks of gas on the fire. We knew once MTV got on

board, this thing was going to be a monster.

Anytime you need me, I'll be there, brother.

You're my man. I think you're the greatest. It was great to see Mr. T come

there and help the Hulk. I mean, it was incredible.

In the mid-'80s, Mr.

T was a huge star, celebrity, actor, household name. And so the WWE

brought him in to elevate the Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper rivalry.

That's why the rock and wrestling connection was so cool, because it was

blend of what was hot. It was hot. Yeah. That was the beginning of Hollywood.

transforming over to professional wrestling, opposed to professional

wanting to, you know, be Hollywood.

That brings us to WrestleMania number one, which was a spectacle, to say the

least. The biggest wrestling extravaganza of all time.

That big tag team match.

Mr. Controversy, Rowdy Roddy Piper, and Mr. Wonderful, Paul Orndorff, with ace

cowboy Bob Orton in their corner, to meet World Wrestling Federation

champ, Paul Kogan, his partner, Mr.

T.

Vince being the pioneer that he is, you say, wow, we're going to broaden and

bring it to the world. So you got Sidney Lauper there. You got the MTV crowd.

You got Mr. T from the A -Team.

That audience say, hey, now, people say, wow, Mr. T, you're going to be in

wrestling. Oh, wow.

So now you're bringing in the world to it.

It was a roll of the dice by Vince McMahon.

I mean, this was, he's trying to take over the world at this point. He

his home. He got everything into this. This had to be a success.

The whole world knows about this, man. Hulk Hogan and Mr. T. The dream team,

man. The dream team.

Check this out, dude.

Check that out. Check that out.

I have been brought up old, old school.

If you bring me somebody outside our business, I'm going to eat his lunch.

The children of America today must be sick to look at someone.

Mr. T ain't no powder puff, you have to understand, you know. But I guess his

ego, you know, would say, okay, we can't let this come in. I guess that's why he

had sour grapes going around.

Roddy was very protective of the business.

When it came to wrestling, he was a very serious guy and took his job very

serious, and that's why he was as good as he was.

So it was kind of left to Hulk Hogan to kind of be the go -between between Roddy

Piper and Mr.

T allowing this high -stakes story.

To be told.

The wrestlers at the time didn't have the mindset to understand how big this

going to be. And my focus was on trying to keep this thing together.

Please don't run this guy off. Please don't hurt him.

I'll tell you, you mess with me, D, I'll put an X on your name, brother.

The World Wrestling Federation presents the wrestling extravaganza of all time,

WrestleMania.

These were the two guys that hooked me on this thing, and now they're each

other's greatest rival.

And now they're the pieces to putting this thing on a national map.

Everything was on the line that night at WrestleMania.

I knew that Vince had given everything he had. His whole life was betting on

that one night, and I knew we better put on the best show we could and tear the

roof off the garden.

I'm pumped up. I'm pumped up.

WrestleMania, the greatest in wrestling history, is taking place right now.

Right now.

With the inception of WrestleMania I, it wasn't just wrestling fans that were

watching. It was people that watched MTV bring those two worlds together, and it

feels even cooler and more magnified than ever before. And that really

in a whole different demographic to WWE.

When you get in the garden, brother, it's like the Roman Coliseum for

And I've been there a million times already.

But for WrestleMania, whoa, goosebumps as big as pimples all over my arms. What

is going on in here?

The people knew the wrestling business was changing that night. That was the

highest vibration I've ever felt.

In the garden, it's just so packed. I mean, God, what a show.

It all hinges on Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper. And yeah, Cindy, Mr.

T. But without those two, quite possibly an entirely different conversation

we're having. Or maybe we're not having this conversation.

I came up with the ring and I pointed right at him as soon as I got in there.

knew he was lit. I knew he was ready.

So we're going to have a war tonight, boys.

Look at the look on Piper's face.

The fans are chanting, T, T, T, and they're going nose to nose. Look at nose

nose. Mr. T and Rowdy Roddy Piper, nose to nose in the center of the ring.

Oh, slap across the face, and a return slap by Mr. T.

Look at this, they're exchanging slaps.

Oh, Piper now goes behind quickly, takes him down to the canvas.

I was still trying to protect Mr.

T so that Orndorff and Piper wouldn't break him in half.

They were really having a problem with each other. It was like, and I'm here in

the middle trying to be like, you know, the mother goose between all these guys.

I'm like, oh, my God, I was going to have a nervous breakdown.

Here comes the hook, and all four of them are going at it in the corner, and

it's turned out already, and we're getting chaos five minutes into the

Geno Monsoon.

Piper giving us a sign for timeout here. They're headed for the dressing room,

Jess. I don't believe it. Al Corbin saying no way to referee Pat Patterson.

says get him back in the ring, and here they come.

Piper and Mr. Wonderful, Paul Orndorff.

Piper, he wasn't overpowered with muscles and all that stuff, but he knew

game. He could wrestle, and he could be tough.

He was tough.

The lookout.

Without a great antagonist, your protagonist means nothing.

And if Hulk didn't have Roddy Piper to play off of, I don't know how big it

would have been.

This place is sold out. It's the hottest ticket in town. We've got closed

circuit television, mainstream media everywhere.

The reason they came to WrestleMania was to see me get my butt kicked.

It was crazy.

One of the unique things about this rivalry is the way Piper would lose.

He didn't want to. The protection of his character was very, very important to

the man.

Of course, now this gives privilege for Piper to now blame Orton for the loss.

It's never Piper's fault. No, it's never Piper's fault. It's never Piper's

fault.

And the winners of the main event, Pop Hogan and Mr.

T.

And look at the champ, the greatest representation in the world of

wrestling, Jeff Hulk Hogan.

Roddy was a guy that was pretty strong on his positions in the sense that he

wasn't going to just lay down for Hogan. He protected himself.

I'd hit him with a cast to get somebody to stay down.

A premier event like WrestleMania, you want a clean winner and loser.

Everybody, Madison Square Garden, all the way around the world, now you know

what it's all about, brother.

But, you know, I'm not a bad guy, okay?

Don't be judging me here.

It's a tough business.

How do you stay on top?

He's the man that never got pinned.

I think because we didn't have an outcome. It was detrimental to us really

moving forward.

So many disqualifications, so many countouts. I mean, I think the fans get

of seeing that.

Where do you go from there?

The wrestling extravaganza of all time, WrestleMania.

As Piper was about to lower the book now.

Coming off of WrestleMania, the rivalry between Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper kind

of simmered down.

Without Hulk Hogan ever beating Piper by pinfall or submission, which left so

much on the table for fans.

All in all.

WrestleMania was a perfect springboard for what we needed to launch the WWE

the stratosphere.

We created a huge amount of positive momentum.

It parlayed into different TV deals and expanding the horizons beyond anywhere

we'd been.

But Vince and myself and the whole WWE, we were all sent in different

directions. And Vince was moving to younger wrestlers at the time.

And it just seemed like the perfect time for us to mutually part ways because I

just wasn't finished yet. So it made sense to dig in and try to reinvent

WCW, they were basically the number two company, not even in the same universe

as the WWE.

Figured if, you know, there were so many good wrestlers there.

And if I went to work there, I saw huge potential.

The deal was easy.

It was a good fit for him and it was a good fit for us because we needed that

kind of flagship character to let everybody know that we were really

about being a competitor in the space.

On their feet, the Hulkamaniacs!

His first match in WCW!

The first.

Night on a pay -per -view and won the belt from Ric Flair.

You know, Shaq was a ringside.

Right away, kind of like made everybody take a double. Whoa, what's going on

over here?

This guy that every night would pose.

You had the people that loved Hulk.

Hulk Hogan! Oh, man, this is going to be good. Yes, sir.

But all of a sudden, the act was getting a little stale.

I kept going to the buildings.

I didn't feel that same energy, you know, when Hulk and Manny was on track.

I had discussions with Eric Bischoff about me turning into a bad guy.

I had seen Scott come in. I'd seen Kevin come in.

I'd seen the edge they put on the bad guy.

If I can not be Hulk Hogan, but if I can do this thing as Hollywood Hulk Hogan,

you know, and come in with a really nasty edge on, I'll do it.

Hulk Hogan has betrayed WCW.

You can call this the New World Order of Wrestling, brother.

All the stuff that was thrown in the ring, the trash, the bottles, we have

pissed some people off. And I knew that we were off and running.

The following announcement has been paid for by the New World Order.

There's a new era of wrestling, and man, for him to flip the switch like that

and go bad guy, who would have thought the red and yellow would go black?

Everybody was getting pumped. Everybody was being disrespected.

Is there any question now?

What is the most powerful organization in professional wrestling?

While Hogan was becoming the new face of WCW, Piper continued to work for WWE

both in and out of the ring.

Rowdy, Rowdy Piper!

Rowdy, Rowdy Piper! One of the all -time greats here in the World Wrestling

Federation!

I'm the reason Hogan's got no hair. I pulled it all out.

I don't retreat, and I don't surrender.

But there was definitely some unfinished business between them.

We still needed a nemesis, and it was time to give WCW a shot in the arm.

I'm taking over the WCW.

Everybody that gets in the ring with the NWO or

Hollywood Hulk Hogan is going down.

Hey.

What is that? What's this all about? What's this music?

You know, I'll give credit where credit's due with Hogan. And when they

those bagpipes, Hogan's eyes got pretty big and white.

You know, Eric told me, you know, we had a chance to bring Piper in. What do you

think? I said, well, we haven't had our last dance.

The business wasn't finished for Hogan and Piper.

I'm the only guy that Hogan didn't conquer.

That's one man who had Pogan, Hogan.

He was still part of Roddy, Roddy Piper.

Over 10 years removed from WrestleMania, Roddy Piper and Hulk Hogan finally

met again to resolve unfinished business.

Why don't you shut up for a second? That's my turn.

I'm the only guy who has never been able to...

Piper never lost legitimately. He never got pinned. It was either always a

disqualification or a count out.

Now that I look in your eyes, maybe we need to have a war that didn't settle

score.

Piper and WCW, that's going to be so many more eyes.

This thing could get really, really big.

It just goes to show you how smart a guy like Hogan is to say, man, let me just

go back to the drawing board.

We kind of reverse roles at this point in history where Al Piper was the good

guy and I was the evil guy.

Hogan can't beat Piper by himself. He's got to have three or four people hurt

Piper. It added another dimension to the Piper character because now he was

against insurmountable odds.

You know something, Piper?

You're a loser fighting a losing battle.

And Roddy being Roddy, he was such a phenomenal performer.

He knew what that history meant to those fans.

Come on, get out here, Hogan.

Let's get it done.

I'm going for the fight of the century and who the icon is.

When you were my equal 10 years ago, you couldn't get it done.

There it is. Let me tell you, Piper, now that I've signed that contract, you, my

friend,

Are not going to have a leg to stand on.

Yeah, yeah.

The NWO isn't going to leave him alone.

Piper, I'm going to break you in half, you piece of crap.

And he'll fight the whole NWO.

There's never any question about that.

If that's the best you can do, you're in trouble.

Because there's no retreat, no surrender.

Wherever you are watching our telecast, we're glad you're with us for this

history -making event.

This place is going to erupt.

Rowdy Roddy Piper is one man Hogan's never beat, so let's just hook up our

seatbelts and see if he beats him tonight.

These were just two old, great legends that you just want to see.

The entire arena.

was chanting my name.

Holy cow, you couldn't hear yourself.

People standing with NWO t -shirts on, chanting Roddy's name.

The fact that you could have a rivalry between Roddy Piper and Hulk Hogan in

80s and have it again in the 90s speaks to their respective talents and their

relationship with the audience.

The bell sounded means this thing is on.

It was a test, you know, to stand your ground with Roddy because, you know, he

wasn't backing up.

It made for a good evening of fun -filled entertainment for me whenever I

the wrestling.

After all these years of Hulk Hogan being the top dog in the industry, it

striking to realize when the two met and a definitive victor was finally

announced, it was Piper who came out on top.

We made progress, you know, in WCW with the storylines.

So with the non -title victory, Piper earns a shot at Super Bowl.

for the WCW championship.

Whatever their personal feelings are, whatever their baggage is, whatever

histories are, whatever issues there were, once they step inside of the ring,

they put all that to the side.

This is for the title! Here you go, baby!

Bell sounds, and Hogan is walking away.

There he is!

There it goes!

at the end of that match with Piper, fans from 20 to 25 years ago could argue

about who was the greatest wrestler, who was going to win.

Hogan is in a fight of his life.

It's an art. It's an art to fighting.

It's like playing chess.

Hey, that's some more NWO.

Having a deal on all of them, baby.

Did the best I could to be the coward, be the bad guy.

Look at this. Turn it around now. It got Piper wheeling.

You get a gut feeling, you know, when you're out there. The fans get tired of

seeing it. Count out after count out after this full application.

Savage is putting something in Hogan's hand. He put something in Hogan's hand.

What happened here? What the hell's going on? One, two.

Twelve years in the making for Hulk Hogan to get this clean victory over

Rowdy Piper, and it still isn't clean.

He gets some brass knuckles, and that's how he gets the victory.

Of course, Piper protects his character at all costs.

That was Piper.

Piper definitely was unique.

And that fact, as far as taking care of his character, making sure he was

protected at all times, making sure that he stayed at that same level or even

bigger than a Hulk Hogan, that's what Piper was all about.

I thought when Roddy came in, I thought, this is going to be so hard to manage

these two because I've heard all the war stories. But I never got the sense that

there was anything but respect.

Partly because Roddy had matured.

I think coming to WCW was, for the most part, the end of his run.

Thinking, okay, this has been my last ride. I want to go out and have fun.

I think as you get older, you get wiser.

Piper realized that Huckster was never there to really take his spot.

And I think Huck realized Piper was not there to take his spot.

Yes, I admit, you're just as big a superstar as I am.

The drama that happens, it all dissipates.

I think those guys had a mega amount of respect for each other, but they both

wanted to be the man.

This didn't end the rivalry, because I honestly think the rivalry would still

going on if Piper was still with us.

But it ended that story.

After WCW ceased to be,

Hulk Hogan ended up returning to the WWE.

And once he put that red and yellow back on, all the Hulkamaniacs were right

back there with him.

There's an issue between you and me, McMahon, and it goes longer than 20

brother.

We get one more little shot of him at WrestleMania 19 when Hogan goes back to

the WWE.

And Vince is a very mean Vince McMahon at this point.

I created Hulkamania.

And by God, at WrestleMania, I'm going to kill it.

They're going to have a match. The head of the company is going to wrestle the

man who helped build the company.

It is 20 years in the making. Hulkman Hogan.

McMahon is down.

Hogan is down.

What the hell is he doing here?

That's Roddy, Roddy Piper.

No freaking way.

Roddy Piper is here.

What the hell is going on here?

All you got to do is walk in a trench coat and take it off and they go, ow.

That's how much credibility.

The entire situation has.

Roddy Piper flooring Hogan.

Piper gets a pipe and just goes to town on Hulk Hogan. And you feel as

a fan as if there was a little bit more than just story trying to be told in

that moment.

There's two guys out there that'll do anything, anything to keep this art form

alive. And we're so much alike.

It's scary.

You know, two old guys always want to get over on each other. I mean, you put

Jordan and Bird out there, I don't care what.

One of them is going to try to get over on the other one. And I think that's

what it is with Piper and Hogan.

Over the years, it felt like a bond formed between these two legends, and I

think that was most evident in 2005 when they were both inducted into the Hall

of Fame.

And I got to admit, I was jealous of Hogan.

Well, I had nothing to do with the hair.

My name is Rowdy Roddy Piper, and you ain't seen nothing yet.

The one, the only, the incredible Hulk Hogan!

Roddy Piper and I, we had a great time in this business.

And what you gonna do, brothers, when the WWE runs wild on you?

I gotta tell you, I heard you yelping all over again about you and Mr. T, how

you beat us at WrestleMania.

He got us! He got us!

Hey, big guy.

Wait a minute.

Be a man,

Piper. Bury the hatchet.

My word.

That's a WrestleMania moment.

Unfortunately, that sad day did come in 2015 for every wrestling fan in the

world when we found out that Roddy Piper had passed away.

Two days after Piper died, all of a sudden he gets a voice message. Bing!

I looked at it and I saw it from Piper.

I'm walking with Jesus today, my brother.

Walking with Jesus.

Loving you and praying for you.

Very strange.

I know there's been delays in Texas.

If it's raining here in Florida, the weather's weird. It may take an hour or

to get there. But two days after he passed to get that, you know,

it's crazy.

I still have it at home.

I've always thought, I don't know who belongs on the Mount Rushmore of great

heels, but I know it starts with Roddy Piper, and there's no one close.

Who are you supposed to be?

Hogan, Mr. Piper.

Who's he?

The last time I saw him, he was catching dogs for the service for the city. Are

you the candy?

You got candy in there?

The whole world's going to witness this when you feel the wrath of the officers.

There's two sides of a coin, a heads and a tails.

Piper and Hogan together, unstoppable.

If you think of Hogan, you know, don't you think of Piper?

It just was always a natural rivalry that people could relate to.

I am the legend killer.

All of a sudden, this Hulkamania is going wild all over the place, and he's

becoming a legend.

I'm so thankful that those two guys came together at the same time, and I was

watching at the age that I was.

I didn't know how the old man could go.

But you hit the bottom, brother.

It'll go down in history. There will always be a Piper Hogan connection until

the end of time.

Whatever animosity that we may have, I wouldn't have picked anybody else. I

would have said, to heck with that Hogan. I don't like him.

He's the guy.

He's the guy. So I got you. I got you locked in. Ring the bell.

Let's roll.