Storylines featuring Roddy Piper
Clear filterRowdy Roddy Piper vs. Superfly Jimmy Snuka (Mar 1984 – Mar 1985)
Roddy Piper smashed a coconut over Jimmy Snuka's head on Piper's Pit in 1984, launching the WWF's hottest grudge of the year, making Piper the promotion's top heel, and setting the table for the main event of the first WrestleMania.
Roddy Piper · Jimmy Snuka
Hulk Hogan vs. Rowdy Roddy Piper (Jun 1984 – Mar 1985)
Roddy Piper's contempt for the WWF's new MTV-driven Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection escalated from talk-show insults into an assault on Cyndi Lauper, pulling in champion Hulk Hogan and building to the first WrestleMania, a closed-circuit gamble Vince McMahon nearly went bankrupt staging.
Hulk Hogan · Roddy Piper
Hulk Hogan vs. Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff (Jul 1986 – Mar 1987)
Paul Orndorff spent a year as Hulk Hogan's tag partner and closest friend in the ring, then piledrove him on live television because Hogan was too busy squatting weights to take his phone call. The payoff filled Toronto's Exhibition Stadium with a then-record wrestling crowd and ended, months later, with a steel cage restart so contested it helped invent a corrupt referee angle nobody had planned.
Hulk Hogan · Paul Orndorff · Bobby Heenan · Adrian Adonis · Roddy Piper
Rowdy Roddy Piper vs. Greg The Hammer Valentine (Apr 1983 – Nov 1983)
Greg Valentine cracked Roddy Piper's ear open with the NWA United States title belt on a Greensboro TV taping, then spent the summer calling it the Year of the Ear. The two of them settled it at the first Starrcade, chained together by dog collars for sixteen minutes of real blood, and Piper came out of it with permanent hearing loss he carried for the rest of his life.
Roddy Piper · Greg Valentine