Roddy Piper

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 3-First ever WWF Champion

## First ever WWF Champion(1985)

Roddy Piper's first canon match was losing to Junkyard Dog on the first ever Superstars in a qualifer for a fatal 4 way at SNME May to crown the first WWF champion, Piper warned Junkyard Dog that he should watch his back and at SNME May, before the match, Piper attacked JYD and took his spot, Piper defeated Hulk Hogan, Ricky Steamboat, Randy Savage and Terry Funk to become the first ever WWF champion. This led to huge controversy as people had been wanting to see real change coming with black people on wrestling and there was scheduled to be 2 people in this main event, when the match actually happened 0 black people were involved.

Junkyard Dog and Roddy Piper started feuding as JYD kept ambushing Piper, at SNME June Piper's reign would end at only 28 days as Junkyard Dog defeated him to become the first ever black world champion. Before Piper's rematch, he got into a short feud with Terry Funk who knocked him out backstage and would lose to him at King of the Ring. Piper unveiled a brand new match type for WWF at Superstars 13, the ladder match where JYD and Piper would fight at Summerslam, Piper failed to win back the title in his own stipulation, Heenan Family would attack both men turning Piper face

## Legendary feuds(1985-1987)

After G1 Finals, Heenan Family started making sure that there would be no contenders left, only Hulk Hogan as Paul Orndorff ambushed Piper and piledriver'd him. At Survivor Series Piper assembled a team of Big John Studd, Harley Race and Ricky Steamboat but they were defeated by Heenan Family. At Royal Rumble 1986, Piper defeated the newest Heenan Family member, Haku. Piper and Savage wanted a match against each other as they felt like they needed to prove themselves in the biggest stage of wrestling, at Wrestlemania 2 Randy Savage defeated Roddy Piper after cheating. Piper had a brief WWF title shot against Hulk Hogan at SNME June before taking some time off to film a movie.

Roddy Piper made his return at G1 Finals 1986 distracting Randy Savage so he lost the WWF title against Jake Roberts, Piper and Roberts formed an alliance as 2 great mic work talent, Randy Savage's team defeated Roddy Piper's team at Survivor Series. Savage and Piper couldn't be near each other without causing a huge brawl. Jake Roberts would eventually lose the WWF title and his rematch and he blamed Piper for not helping him, Piper called Roberts a pussy and their alliance fell out, at Royal Rumble 1987 Roddy Piper defeated Jake Roberts in a street fight match.

Randy Savage started calling out Piper yet again as both men want each other gone from the company and they agreed to a loser retires match, during the buildup Savage broke the Piper's Pit set and both men kept attacking each other in singles matches. At Wrestlemania 3 Piper made Savage pass out and ended his career.

Piper set his sights on the WWF title once more but Rick Rude debuted and attacked him, at SNME June Honky Tonk Man broke his losing streak of 0-18 beating Roddy Piper after Rude interfered, Rude called out the fact that Piper is just a movie star now, at Superstars 100 Rick Rude defeated Roddy Piper with a G1 spot on the line.

## Snake's Pit(1987-1990)

At Summerslam 1987, Roddy Piper and Jake Roberts attacked The Naturals and took their spot winning the World Tag Team Titles against Demolition in a shocking reunion. Snake's Pit would rapidly become the most popular tag team defending the titles against The Naturals and Demolition. Their reign ended at Survivor Series against The Islanders lasting 84 days.

Snake's Pit started taunting Tito Santana because his tag partner Rick Martel was injured, they tried to get Tito to join them and form a group but Tito respected Martel too much. When Rick Martel returned, they had a tag team match at Royal Rumble where Strike Force defeated Snake's Pit. Roddy Piper was scheduled to be in the Wrestlemania 4 WWF Title tournament but he was injured during an episode of Superstars and replaced by Jacques Rougeau.

Piper made his return at Summerslam 1988 squashing Honky Tonk Man to enter the G1, at SNME September Bad News Brown threw Roddy Piper through a table in a fatal 4 way tables match to gain 20 points and BNB, who was on a quest to beat every former WWF champion, put a chair on Piper's leg and hit it before Roberts could come out for the save, Piper was injured again and eliminated from the tournament. Piper returned after G1 Finals and at Survivor Series he, Jake Roberts, Hulk Hogan and Haku lost to Bad News Brown, One Man Gang, Harley Race and The Mountie. Piper still swore to get revenge on BNB and at Wrestlemania 5 he defeated him with Jake Roberts on his corner although BNB would get his win back just 3 weeks later at Superstars.

At King of the Ring 1989, Brainbusters wanted a legit challenge for the tag titles so they challenged Snake's Pit who were defeated, Piper went to film another movie and only returned at Survivor Series where him, Roberts and Demolition were defeated by Boris Zhukov, Nikolai Volkoff and Colossal Connection. Roberts and Piper mutually agreed to part ways but challenged a world class tag team for their last match together, at Wrestlemania 6 Brainbusters defeated Snake's Pit

## Intercontinental Champion and double turn(1990-1991)

Piper didn't do much all of 1990, he was squashed by Haku at SNME June and failed to win a battle royal at Summerslam, at Survivor Series he teamed with Jake Roberts, Ted Dibiase and Jimmy Snuka as the Old Generation defeating Rick Martel, Undertaker, Shane Douglas and Jim Neidhart, the New Generation, they won mainly because Snake's Pit still had really good teamwork. Due to the Survivor Series Lottery, Piper got a intercontinental title shot and things started to look up as at SNME December he defeated Koko B.Ware to become intercontinental champion and he turned heel in the process because Koko was a big fan favorite.

At Royal Rumble 1991, Piper defeated Koko on the rematch when Randy Savage made his shocking return saying he wants his career back but security throw him out, Savage kept showing up in matches and sometimes getting a shot in Piper and always being taken out by security, Piper finally gives in and gives Savage his match at Wrestlemania, if Piper won Savage cannot be seen anywhere near a wrestling ring until the end of times and no more chances but if Savage wins he gets his career back and the Intercontinental title. At Wrestlemania 7, we had the first ever historic double turn when Savage is close to losing and pushed away the ref and started hitting chairshots with Savage turning heel and Piper turning face, Savage got his career back and won the intercontinental title in the first ever 5 star match.

Roddy Piper tried to become a Ringmaster and was given a challenge by Mr.Perfect as he had to have a great match against Bushwhacker Butch, at Summerslam 1991 Piper defeated Butch in a decent match and Mr.Perfect and Texas Tornado showed up to shake hands with him as he seemingly has joined Ringmasters, later on the night Ringmasters turned heel and Bret Hart attacked Piper taking his spot in the group. Piper entered the G1 and defeated Bret Hart in the first episode of RAW. The midcard scene was filled with great talent like British Bulldog, Piper, Bret Hart, Texas Tornado, Mr.Perfect as they all feuded throught each other and at G1 Finals Bret Hart defeated Piper to end this midcard run

## Part-time appearences(1992-1995)

Piper was involved in the first ever Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal but failed to win. He was drafted as the 7th pick for RAW when the brand split started

During 1992, Piper was involved sporadically on RAW only having feuds for 1 show to set up matches for RAW and it wasn't mention anymore the week after.

Piper got a WWF title shot at RAW 58 against Ric Flair but he lost.

Piper's first real feud in 1 year and a half happened when he called out Owen Hart because he was tired of how he was acting cocky and he wants the european title, Owen accepts because Piper is an old man and no one knows when is gonna be his last match so this could be it and he'd be happy to retire him. At G1 Finals 1993 Owen defeated Piper to retain the european title, they continued this feud over the months with no matches but Piper always throwing verbal shots at Owen anytime he showed up, at Royal Rumble 1994 Randy Savage eliminated Piper and Piper got back in the ring to eliminate him.

Piper was announced as Smackdown's newest GM at Smackdown 81, Savage comes out pissed at this announcment as Savage wants to prove to Piper that he has changed and he's not the same man that attacked Piper with chairshots in 1991, Piper refuses at first but has a change of heart when Savage asks for Piper's respect apologizing for his attitude in the past years, and that he has a wife and a son coming in the way and just wants his possible final matches to be damn great. At Wrestlemania 10, Randy Savage defeated Roddy Piper on Savage's last WWF match.

After losing the european title and being taunted by his GM, Owen Hart attacked Piper even putting him on the sharpshooter, Piper says that if Owen keeps doing it, he'll make him leave Smackdown but Owen calls his bluff saying that Piper can't wrestle in their own shows anymore or they'll be fired, Piper finds a loophole and decides to fight Owen at RAW and if Owen loses, he'll leave Smackdown, if Piper loses, he can no longer be GM. At RAW 125 Piper had his last singles match on WWF as Owen defeated him.

He made a surprise appearence at number 22 at Royal Rumble 1995 and was eliminated by Yokozuna and Owen Hart in his last WWF match.

## Exposing the NWO(1996-1997)

In Nitro 124, NWO kicked off the show and were doing their usual promo when bagpipes hit and Roddy Piper made his sudden debut as he reveals that he has been spying on some of the roster to get some dirt, he exposes that NWO is not WCW's owner, Eric Bischoff still is, because Eric Bischoff is in the NWO. Piper's first match in 2 years was against Ric Flair for the NWO TV Championship but NWO beat him up and let Flair win, Flair refuses and a tag match is made as Scott Hall and Kevin Nash defeat Flair and Piper.

Piper reveals that he doesn't wanna wrestle, he wants to be the owner of WCW, Bischoff gives him the chance to be co-owner along with NWO, Eric Bischoff vs Roddy Piper main events Halloween Havoc and it ends in a no contest in the worst Halloween Havoc match ever. Piper was challenged again as he, Ric Flair and Randy Savage all wanted title matches so NWO put Piper in a handicap match against The Giant and Lex Luger to get those matches and Piper manages to win. At Starrcade Piper fails to win the WCW Heaviweight title in a match that also involved Hollywood Hogan, Ric Flair, Randy Savage, Kevin Nash and  Scott Hall.

At Nitro 156 in May, Piper returned storming into the NWO offices and destroyed it with a hammer, on the same show he defeated Hollywood Hogan clean in the main event. At Nitro 160, Snake's Pit had a shortlived reunion as Jake Roberts debuted to team up with Piper, they were supposed to be involved in the Cash in the Ladder tag match at Bash at the Beach but Roberts got drunk before the match and fired so they were replaced. At Starrcade 1997, Piper was the hardcore champion and was just involved in a segment where Meng superkicked him backstage and won the hardcore title

Roddy Piper was Goldberg's 100th win at Nitro 196.

## NWO Chaos(1998)

He finally had an important role in WCW again at Slamboree as he was hosting an open challenge and NWO Chaos leader Kevin Nash showed up, they pretended like they were about to fight but they just did a 2 sweet as Roddy Piper joined Chaos's side on the NWO Civil War, over the months Piper is treated like the co-leader and the mentor of the group as he always pulls them back together when Nash messes up. Right before Halloween Havoc The Mob ambush Piper and put a chair on his neck and injure him and NWO Chaos unleash a big attack on The Mob as Piper was the most respected member. Without Piper, NWO Chaos fell apart and they ended up losing the civil war.

## Career history

### Companies/Promotions

 WWF(RAW)
 WWF(Smackdown)
 WCW

### Face/Heel turns

 Face
 Tweener

## Championships and Accomplishments

* World Wrestling Federation
* WWF Championship(1 time)
* Intercontinental Championship(1 time)
* World Tag Team Championhips(1 time) - with Jake Roberts
* 24/7 Championship(1 time)
* Match of the Year(1991) vs Randy Savage at Wrestlemania 7
* Shocking Moment of the Year(1991) double turn with Randy Savage

* World Championship Wrestling
* Hardcore Championship(1 time)