During the primary wrestling growth within the ’80s, Roddy Piper and Jake Roberts had been thought-about by many followers to be the gold normal of wrestling heels within the WWF. Their approaches could not have been any extra totally different, nonetheless, with Piper being loud, brash, and in your face, whereas Roberts was quiet, calculated, and intense.
Roberts obtained to know Piper very effectively earlier than he died in 2015, each out and in of the ring, and when requested concerning the “Hot Rod” throughout the latest episode of “The Snake Pit,” Roberts said there have been two Roddy Pipers — the man exterior of the ring, whom Roberts was keen on, and the man within the ring, who may very well be troublesome.
“I liked Roddy man,” Roberts mentioned. “In the ring, he may very well be arduous to take care of. He simply had some issues he would not let occur. He was form of humorous like that. Like Hogan beating him wasn’t going to occur, anyone beating him wasn’t going to occur. That’s simply … to me, that is simply unsuitable. If you may beat whoever, and now you may’t flip round and do the identical for them? It’s simply unsuitable. That’s only one instance.
“Outside of the ring, love him to dying, man. I solely had the touring with Roddy expertise three days one time, and it was an expertise as a result of Jake was a foul boy again then. We went from San Diego to some place, I do not know man, however we hadn’t slept for 2 days.”
Despite being co-workers in WWF for a lot of years, the 2 legends solely wrestled collectively on 4 events, all home present matches, with most of their in-ring encounters occurring earlier than WWF in Jim Crockett Promotions.
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