Cows in the Fog

turning the page in the Piper scrapbook…

Taken from the September 1984 Wrestling Scene we see that Roddy has switched from the Most Popular rankings to the Most Hated side of things, coming in at #2 right behind Kevin Sullivan.

We also have a brief clip listing the wrestlers he was managing at the time:

Big John Studd

Dr. D David Schultz (remember him?  he’s the guy that beat up the ABC reporter in an interview about whether wrestling is fake… what happened to him anyway?  Google here I come!)

Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff

Cowboy Bob Orton (yeah Randy’s dad)

Dick Murdoch

Adrian Adonis (oh how the world turns in the soap that is pro wrestling, as Piper would end up having a fantastic rivalry with Adonis down the road)

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turning the page in the Piper scrapbook:

Here we have the feature article from the Wrestler Annual Fall 1983 edition, entitled “Ric Flair vs. Roddy Piper: The Feud  with No Past and no End”. 

Contained within this article are some of Piper’s “insults” that apparently pushed Ric Flair over the edge (These are bad…)

1. “Ric Flair couldn’t figure out which end of a bagpipe to blow.”
2. “Ric Flair’s the only guy I know who needs a map to get out of a phone booth”
3. “Ric Flair’s head looks like mashed potatoes.”
4. “Ric Flair is so ugly that he could scare back a tidal wave.”
5. “I’ve known ant hills smarter than Ric Flair.”
6. “A good Scotsman can handle 25 Ric Flairs with both hands tied behind his back.”

Next page in the Piper scrapbook:

Cut from the Fall 1983 Wrestling Sports Review we have a fan mail from a chap named “Esaw” who writes in to voice his concern over how dangerous a wrestler Greg Valentine is ( I shit you not, read it for yourself). 

He closes with the question, “Is there anyone in professional wrestling who can hurt Greg Valentine?”  Yeah it was definitely a different era of wrestling, huh?

The other clip shows Roddy Piper climbing the “Most Popular” rankings getting to #3 overall behind Dusty Rhodes (#2) and Andre the Giant (#1). 

And so I finally get back to what I started a few months back.  Today I give you page one from my 80’s Piper scrapbook.  I just ran down the tale of the tape to get the book started.  235 pounds.  Hmmm, even back then they were exaggerating wrestling weights. 

Now my challenge is to keep up with this book review on a more regular basis.  I think I can, I think I can…

manhattanusual:

Catch and release only, Grandpa. Put that back.

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