WWE - Born to Controversy: The Roddy Piper Story Reviews

• Terrible Documentary...EXCELLENT Extras!

  
  By A1IMPZYRB79DMS on 2006-11-14
  First, I want to say that Roddy Piper is the reason why I'm a wrestling fan today.
  With that said, I'm very disappointed with this DVD set. The extras, which I'll get to
  in a minute, are tremendous and it's worth buying this DVD set for them alone, but
  the documentary is easily the WORST ever produced by WWE. This documentary makes the
  Dusty Rhodes documentary look like pure truth. I was hoping to learn a great deal about Piper,
  his days in Portland Wrestling, his legendary feud with Ric Flair over the NWA United States
  Title and the truth surrounding his most controversial moments in wrestling. Instead, I get
  a documentary that offers no new info that I haven't already heard or read about, and it's almost
  entirely presented in kayfabe!?
  It's insulting as a fan that Piper and his opponents expect us to believe that they never really
  knew how the angles and matches were going to turn out and that they just unfolded. Come on!
  For example, both Piper and Snuka talk about their famous Piper's Pit segment as if it were a shoot.
  Most WWE documentaries do this from one degree to another, but this is the first that has done it
  for nearly the entire feature. Very disappointing. Also, Piper was at his BEST during his stint in Portland
  Wrestling and the NWA, but if you blink you'll miss the part about Portland and they only talk about
  Piper's Dog Collar match with Greg Valentine from the first Starrcade when talking about his time in
  the NWA. Piper came into the NWA and was so hot at the time that he quickly feuded with
  Ric Flair and they traded the NWA United States Title! No clips of these matches are even shown or
  talked about. Also, speaking of Portland Wrestling, they didn't even show Piper's infamous beer bottle
  promo, where he slammed a real and sealed beer bottle into his forehead. The bottle explodes sending
  beer and glass everywhere, as he proceeds to cut a promo on the Sheepherders, blood pours out of his head.
  THAT is the "Rowdy" Roddy Piper I remember, but all we get here is the watered down kids version of Piper
  that we saw in the WWF.
  
  However, with that said, I must say that the extras save this DVD set and the extras are tremendous!
  I would have loved to see more Portland and Mid-Atlantic matches, but they did include some
  classic moments here. Plus, they included some rare Piper matches from Saturday Night's Main Event
  which was a show were Piper really shined during his WWF stint. If that wasn't enough, the WWE has
  devoted the third DVD in this set to Piper's Pit! That's right, disc 3 is nothing but the BEST of Piper's
  Pit from the WWF and later the WWE. Here's the full rundown of the DVD and the extras...
  
  Disc One:
  1. The Documentary
  2. Piper Stories - 12 in all!
  3. Roddy Piper & Mike Popovich vs. Buddy Rose & Rip Oliver - Portland Wrestling
  4. Roddy Piper vs. Buddy Rose Northwest Heavyweight Title - Portland Wrestling
  5. Roddy Piper vs. Jack Brisco - Mid - Atlantic Heavyweight Title (Piper's promo after
  this match is classic!!!!)
  6. Roddy Piper vs. Greg Valentine - Dog Collar match for the NWA US Title Starrcade '83
  
  Disc Two:
  1. Roddy Piper & Paul "Mr. Wonderful" Orndorff vs. Hulk Hogan & Mr.T - WrestleMania I
  2. Roddy Piper vs. Paul "Mr. Wonderful" Orndorff - Saturday Night's Main Event (this was a
  great brawl for the time)
  3. Roddy Piper vs. Mr. T - Boxing Match from WrestleMania II, easily one of the worst
  blunders in WWE history, they even admit it on the DVD. Why it's on here is a mystery.
  4. Roddy Piper vs. The Iron Shiek - Saturday Night's Main Event. This is Piper's babyface
  turn in WWF
  5. Roddy Piper vs. "Cowboy" Bob Orton - Saturday Night's Main Event
  6. Roddy Piper vs. Adrian Adonis - WrestleMania III
  7. Roddy piper vs. Hulk Hogan - MTV's "War to Settle the Score"
  8. Roddy Piper vs. Rick Rude - Steel Cage Match from Madison Square Garden
  I'm so pleased to see this match here, it's surprisingly good.
  9. Roddy piper vs. Bad News Brown - WrestleMania VI
  10. Roddy Piper vs. Bret "Hit Man" Hart - IC Title match from WrestleMania VIII
  Bret carried Piper to his best wrestling match ever
  11. Roddy Piper vs. The Mountie - IC Title Match from the Royal Rumble '92
  12. Roddy Piper vs. Goldust - Hollywood Back Lot Brawl from WrestleMania XII
  13. Roddy Piper vs. Hollywood Hogan - Starrcade '96
  
  Disc Three:
  Piper's Pit, the guests are...
  1. Robert Debord
  2. Andre the Giant
  3. Frank Williams
  4. The Haiti Kid
  5. Jesse Ventura, Hulk Hogan & Andre the Giant
  6. Jimmy Snuka
  7. Mr. T, Hulk Hogan & Jimmy Snuka
  8. Salvatore Bellomo & Junkyard Dog
  9. Paul Orndorff
  10. Bruno Sammartino
  11. Jimmy Hart
  12. Harley Race & Bobby Heenan
  13. Hulk Hogan & WWF Executives
  14. Hulk Hogan
  15. Piper's last Pit before WrestleMania III (one of the best)
  16. Brother Love & Morton Downey - WrestleMania V
  17. Vince McMahon & Rikishi
  18. Jimmy Snuka - 2003
  19. Mr.America
  20. Eddie Guerrero & Tajiri
  21. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin - WrestleMania XXI
  22. Shawn Michaels
  23. Mick Foley, Randy & Bob Orton
  24. The Great Khali
  Not a bad selection of Pits, my only gripes are that they didn't show the rest of
  TNT after the Snuka Pit where Piper slapped the hell out of Lord Alfred Hayes and
  there are no Pits involving the Pit vs. The Flower Shop feud. Otherwise, these were
  the best Pits.
  
  There you have it, like I said, the extras really make this release. If the documentary
  had been better, this would easily be a 5 star release, but any "Rowdy" Roddy Piper
  fan, like myself, will still love this release regardless.
  One more comment... fans will be glad to know that Jesse Ventura's commentary
  during the Saturday Night's Main Event matches is intact and has not been edited out.
  
  

• Disappointing DVD set for an I.C.O.N.

  
  By AZ2YLC0GWTAH2 on 2006-11-15
  Without a doubt, one of the biggest icons in this business and one of the biggest originators in the business. Before Jake Roberts' Snake Pit, Carlito's Cabana, Jericho's Highlight Reel, The Brother Love Show...the original was Piper's Pit. Before wrestlers did movies...he starred in "They Live". I could go into more but I think you get the point. Roddy Piper was an innovator in this business and one of the men who just knew how to hold the crowd into the palm of his hand. With new comments from Piper along with some old clips (ala Wrestlers Of 80's DVD) along with comments from such performers as Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Jim Ross, Cowboy Bob & Randy Orton amongst others. Bottom line, "The Boss Is Back"...on DVD. And I just also happened to get the special 4 disc set from Circuit City with extra Piper's Pits as well.
  
  The documentry stars out with Roddy growing up in different cities all over the world & leaving home at the age of 13 and breaking into wrestling with his first match with Larry Hennig (Mr. Perfect's dad) that set a record that Roddy still brags about to this day. His travel from different wrestling territories including a territory in Mexico that saw a fued he had with Chavo Guerrero Sr. (Chavo Classic) that resulted in his first major wrestling fued is shown. Roddy Piper's first big break in Portland Wrestling is covered. Piper & others talk about his time in NWA Mid-Alantic wrestling that started his relationship with Ric Flair and the brutial Starrcade '83 Dog Collar match against Greg Valentine which resulted in 50% of his hearing damaged. Piper's venture into the WWF and the story behind him being a manager for a while is talked about next along complete with stories of his relationship with Cowboy Bob Orton, Mr. T, WrestleMania, and his greatest contribution to professional wrestling...Piper's Pit.. The story behind his retirement match at WrestleMania III and his acting role in "They Live" are talked about before his return to WWF two years later. The main fued talked about here was his fued with Bad News Brown and the discussion turned into Roddy Piper painting himself half black...which was never really answered. His run as a color commentator & the Intercontinental title run and his WrestleMania VIII match with Bret Hart are discussed before Piper's family talks about him being a family man. Piper's return at WrestleMania X, his fued against Jerry Lawler that resulted in a bad match to the point where Lawler or Piper didn't want to discuss it, and what O.J. Simpson had to do with the Roddy Piper vs. Goldust fued. His 3 year run in WCW was reduced to just the "icon vs. icon" fued between himself & Hogan in the Starrcade '96 match. His return to WWE (for the 3rd time now) in 2003 was discussed & how he really felt about his run & how Piper's Pit was being treated. The controversal HBO interview with Piper that resulted in his release is heavily talked. Piper's induction into the Hall Of Fame and talk his guest appearences in WWE with Piper's Pit close out this documentry. The only negative I can say about this part was that they tried to mix reality with "kayfaye" so it hurts it like it did with previous DVD's like Rey Mysterio's years ago.
  
  DVD extras include interview outtakes from Piper talking about such things as him sharing on-camera moments with his son Colt, his feelings about the "coconut" angle with Rikishi, more talk about Mr. T, how a rib involving two other wrestlers resulted in Harley Race almost shooting one of them, and how WM21 showed he was a man of his word. Other interview outtakes include Bruce Prichard (Brother Love) talking about his first meeting with Roddy Piper and both Mick Foley & Randy Orton talked about Piper giving back to the business.
  
  Along with the documentry includes 17 matches such as him against Buddy Rose in both a singles & tag match from Portland Wrestling, Jack Brisco, Paul Orndorff, Bob Orton, Iron Sheik, Bad News Brown, and Rick Rude in a steel cage. Other matches include him against Greg Valentine in the Dog Collar match from Starrcade '83, "The War To Settle The Score" match vs. Hulk Hogan, the WrestleMania I tag match, Mr. T in the WrestleMania II boxing match, his hair vs. hair retirement match against Adrian Adonis at WrestleMania III, his Intercontinental Title victory against The Mountie & his title defense against Bret Hart at WrestleMania VIII, the Hollywood Backlot Brawl against Goldust, and his "Icon vs. Icon" match against Hollywood Hogan at Starrcade '96 round out his matches.
  
  The last disc is completely full of Piper's Pit. This was really the biggest negative about the DVD because it ends the DVD set on a bad note because eventhough the Pit's start off great & were classics in comedy & drama...all the ones from his return in '03 & afterwards (8 total) were just horrible to the point to where Piper said that he thought they were tryin' to bury & kill it on purpose during the documentry. It wasn't the same type of Piper's Pit that they were back in the 80's as they all end with Piper getting either beat down or putting over a wrestler/storyline that didn't last long or that fans to this day want to forget. Anyways, these Pit segments include such moments as the Haiti Kid recieving a haircut, the infamous Frank Williams episode, the coconut episode with Jimmy Snuka, Andre The Giant challenging Hogan to the WM3 match, the Mr. T confrontation at MSG, his WM5 return with Brother Love & Morton Downey Jr. (this segment is clipped), and his goodbye speech before WM3. Other Pit's include such guest as Jimmy Hart, King Harley Race & Bobby Heenan, Vince McMahon & Rikishi, Mr. America (starting the Zack Gowen angle), Eddie Guerrero & Tajiri, Stone Cold & Carlito from WM21, Shawn Michaels, The Great Khali, and the RAW Homecoming episode with Randy & Bob Orton along with Mick Foley close out the Piper's Pit disc. If they just had to include some Pit episodes from his last two runs in WWE then I would have included WrestleMania 21, the McMahon episode but eliminate the Rikishi garbage afterwards, and the episode from early 2006 with J.B.L. & the Boogeyman since that was the funniest & most entertaining one since his 2003 return. And also, it wouldn't have been bad if they included the segments from the Flower Shop/Piper's Pit fued as well.
  
  The Circuit City bonus disc isn't much as it only last 10 mins. with 6 extra Piper's Pits featuring Kamala & Kimchee & Wizard, Hillbilly Jim & Uncle Elmer & Jesse Ventura, Mr. Fuji, Boxing Bob Orton & Hulk Hogan, and the debut of Adorable Adrian Adonis.
  
  Overall, the documentry didn't really go into the heavy details of Roddy Piper's career as other DVD's on other wrestlers did (Bret, ECW, Dusty) as they mostly just covered his most memorable moments. The overall match selection was great but they needed a Ric Flair match. And for Roddy Piper to be praised for being such a talker...they don't have any of Piper's promos outside of Piper's Pit. I mean, none of his mic work from the NWA is worthy of a DVD extra? And the extras at the end really knocked it down and seemed like they were just trying to full up space instead of doing his legacy justice like they did with Jake Roberts' DVD. For that alone, I wouldn't call this a five star classic such as I did with DVD sets like Bret Hart & Hulk Hogan but overall, I recommend for any professional wrestling fan but don't get it with high hopes.
  
  

• Don't know if this is official, but....

  
  By A9RGBX7M5XG1L on 2006-08-30
  I found these matches on another site. It looks really good.
  
  The Roddy Piper DVD has a 1 hour and 45 minute documentary on his career and ending with the Hall of Fame Ceremony. Plus bonus matches and Piper's Pit segments on extra DVD.
  
  Bonus Matches include:
  
  Roddy Piper & Mike Popovitch vs. Buddy Rose & Rip Oliver from Portland
  Piper vs. Buddy Rose from Portland
  Piper vs. Jack Brisco 7/7/82
  Piper vs. Greg Valentine dog collar match from the first Starrcade
  Piper & Orndorff vs. Hogan & Mr. T from the first Wrestlemania
  Piper vs. Mr. T from Wrestlemania II
  Piper vs. Iron Sheik from 10/4/86 Saturday Night Main Event
  Piper vs. Bob Orton from 11/29/86 Saturday Night Main Event
  Piper vs. Adrian Adonis form Wrestlemania III
  Piper vs. Hogan MTV special 2/18/85
  Piper vs Rick Rude cage match 12/28/89 MSG
  Piper vs. Badnews Brown (Badnews Allen) Wrestlemania VI
  Piper vs. Bret Hart Wrestlemania VII
  Piper vs. Mountie 1992 Royal Rumble
  Piper vs. Goldust Hollywood brawl Wrestlemania XII
  Piper vs. Hogan 12/29/96 Starrcade
  
  There is also a huge collection of Piper's Pits, including the Frankie Williams one .
  
  
  
  
  

• Silvervision Preview

  
  By A1NTJYFXEW75LD on 2006-10-05
  This three-disc set covers the extensive career of the 'Hot Rod', whose intense rivalry with Hulk Hogan highlighted the infamous War to Settle the Score and the first ever Wrestlemania. Sometimes hated, sometimes loved the 'Rowdy one' never failed to entertain, especially on his revolutionary popular interview segment, Piper's Pit. This DVD set features Piper's unique comments on his childhood, getting into the business at 15, working with Mr. T, wrestling promoters, his movie appearances, working in WCW, his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame, and much more. In addition, fellow Superstars Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, 'Cowboy' Bob Orton, Greg 'The Hammer' Valentine, and many more offer their personal takes on the 'Hot Rod'.
  
  This three-disc set is packed with amazing extras including:
  
  More than 20 years of Piper's Pit
  A collection of professional wrestling's most unique and entertaining interview segment.
  
  Some of 'Rowdy' Roddy' Piper's greatest matches:
  
  Roddy Piper & Mike Popovich vs. Buddy Rose & Rip Oliver
  Portland Wrestling
  
  Northwest Heavyweight Title Match
  Roddy Piper vs. Buddy Rose
  Portland Wrestling
  
  Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship Match
  Roddy Piper vs. Jack Brisco
  Mid-Atlantic Wrestling - 07/07/82
  
  Dog Collar Match for the NWA United States Championship
  Roddy Piper vs. Greg Valentine
  Starrcade - 24/11/83
  
  Roddy Piper & Paul Orndorff vs. Hulk Hogan & Mr. T
  WrestleMania - 31/03/85
  
  Roddy Piper vs. Paul Orndorff
  Saturday Night's Main Event - 05/10/85
  
  Boxing Match
  Roddy Piper vs. Mr. T
  WrestleMania 2 - 07/04/86
  
  Roddy Piper vs. The Iron Sheik
  Saturday Night's Main Event - 04/10/86
  
  Roddy Piper vs. Bob Orton
  Saturday Night's Main Event - 29/11/86
  
  Hair vs. Hair Match
  Roddy Piper vs. Adrian Adonis
  WrestleMania III - 29/03/87
  
  Roddy Piper vs. Hulk Hogan
  "War to Settle the Score", Madison Square Garden - 18/02/85
  
  Steel Cage Match
  Roddy Piper vs. Rick Rude
  Madison Square Garden - 28/12/89
  
  Roddy Piper vs. Bad News Brown
  WrestleMania VI - 01/04/90
  
  Intercontinental Championship
  Roddy Piper vs. The Mountie
  Royal Rumble - 19/01/92
  
  Intercontinental Championship
  Roddy Piper vs. Bret Hart
  WrestleMania VIII - 05/04/92
  
  Hollywood Back Lot Brawl
  Roddy Piper vs. Goldust
  WrestleMania XII - 31/03/96
  
  Roddy Piper vs. Hollywood Hogan
  Starrcade - 29/12/96
  
  

• Great footage. Somewhat sanitized story.

  
  By ADTZWVMMFTRAV on 2006-11-19
  I was a huge Roddy Piper fan in the 1980s and I'm glad to have this set. It's great to watch outrageous moments like the "Piper's Pit" interviews with Frank Williams ("maybe you should be making pizzas") and Superfly Snuka (the infamous coconut attack). I even enjoyed the more recent Pits.
  
  The biography is also an entertaining 95 minutes. But the bio and the bonus matches (mostly excellent, full of action and great story-telling) leave a gap in the story. At WrestleMania I and II, Piper is the WWF's number-one heel. At WM III he's a retiring hero. It would have been great to see the switch, but it's left out. In truth the storyline would be somewhat crass by 2006 standards. The WWF gave Piper a few months off and replaced Piper's Pit with The Flower Shop, hosted by a flamboyant "gay" character, Adorable Adrian Adonis. Due to his great popularity, Piper returned as the defender of family values (and of his Pit vs. the Flower Shop). It's a glaring gap in the story of Piper's peak-popularity years.
  
  Some minor censorship: A slur that Piper uses against Italian wrestler Salvatore Bellomo (and vs. Italian-American Bruno Sammartino) is bleeped out. It's crude but I think we viewers can handle it. (Both scenes are classic Piper--intense and funny.)
  
  
• Bonus features are great!! Documentary...not so much.
  By A2GTLD9UISI42Q on 2006-11-23
  I'm going to reiterate what another reviewer said about this DVD set. Let me start with the positive -- this DVD really captures Piper's most important moments in the WWE. Huge matches -- WM I-III, plus matches with Bad News Brown, Bret Hart, and the Backlot Brawl with Goldust. Plus a couple of early classics from Portland and mid-Atlantic.
  
  My problem with this set was the documentary. Not that it was bad, but they tried to work the viewer several times. Like a previous reviewer says, both Piper and Snuka talk about the coconut incident like it was legit. They also discuss Piper's worked ear injury in the dog-collar match as a shoot, using it to explain why he had to start off in WWE as a manager. And I'm sure Bruce Pritchard has some good insights, but he provides about 90 percent of the commentary on this DVD. Piper's been involved with the WWE (off and on) for more than 20 years, and no one else has anything to say?
  
  Still, the matches and extras make this worth the money. Piper's role in the early expansion of the WWE, its tie-in with MTV, and the birth of Saturday Night's Main Event, are all well-represented here. And thankfully, WWE left in Jesse Ventura's commentary. Documentary aside, over all I'd say this is worth buying.
  
  
• Good collector's item
  By A1QGJ2R3JENUAQ on 2006-11-20
  Roddy Piper was by far a breath of fresh air from Hulk Hogan's predictable, repetitive and unrealistic persona. I do respect Hogan's contribution as helping wrestling to be what it is today. If it wasn't for Hogan, wrestling would still be watched mostly by fat toothless truck drivers. Anyways, back to Piper.
  Piper was by far the most engaging and convincing if you were to put wrestling in terms of acting abilities.
  If you ask me, if Piper took a year & got on a strict fitness and nutrition program to get back in shape, he could still comeback as a major player. I wouldn't want him to juice up though like he did in the early to mid 90's.
  Get this disc! There's no one like Roddy Piper!
  
  
• You know this is going to be good
  By A13H1VE0M47ZXH on 2006-07-30
  Without a doubt, the best mic man in the business was Roddy Piper. I'm definately getting this when it comes out.
  
  
• No Piper Vs. Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka? What gives?
  By A1KI4NA08HL4CP on 2006-10-06
  Why are there no Snuka Vs. Piper matches on this? That was one of Rowdy Roddy's best feuds of all time. I'm sure this will include the infamous Piper's Pit w/ the Superfly, but they went on to have some good battles after that-why not give us those as well?. Other than that, this seems like a good set. Guess we'll have to dig up those old 80's vhs tapes.
  
  "1 coconut...2 coconut...3 coconut"
  -Roddy Piper '84
  (LOL)
  
  
• I love the Extras, could do with out the Kayfabe documentary
  By A117BXU7B8D4HP on 2006-11-24
  The extras are what makes this disk worth buying, however the documentary was not as good as the other WWE documentary style DVD's. Piper in some of the documentary stays in Kayfabe like the stuff is real. It does not go into detail in ways that the other dvd's do. It left me wanting more. The extras are awesome. I was laughing so hard at most of them. I would buy it just for that. I would recommend this disk.
  
  
• Left me wondering what might have been...
  By A2MD91S334K4XJ on 2007-01-06
  I'm 33 years old as I type this review. I was a HUGE WWF fan in the late 80's. Roddy Piper was easily my favorite wrestler. I saw him fight Orndorff in a steel cage match at the Baltimore Arena (One of my best childhood memories) when he was a heel. Later I saw him team up with George Steele vs Orton & Morocco at the Capital Center. I remember renting the old "Rowdy Roddy Piper's Greatest Hit's" from the local video store. I used to tape Pits and anything else Roddy off the TV. All that being said, I was pretty pumped to see he had a DVD release. For me it was more nostalgia, and wanting to have these moments on DVD as opposed to VHS. I bought this dvd the other day, and have watched the entire Pits dvd, and most of the matces on disc 2. Here are my gripes......Instead of seperating the pits and matches, they really should've let them lead into each other. Example, the old tape I mentioned earlier had the Bruno pit, followed by Piper vs Bruno from Boston Garden. I agree big time that the ball was dropped in omitting the flower shop vs Pit storyline. I vividly remember something where Piper limped out and demolished the flower shop set with a baseball bat. I also wish they would've included the infamous Pit with Rick McGraw, folowing it up with the match where Piper beat him to a pulp. It was the only time I remember Piper actually wrestling on the Saturday morning show. I wish they would've shown some matches from "house cards". I like the Sat Main Event matches because I remember staying up to watch them, but there was a certain way wrestling looked at the reg shows...Crowd darkened for the most part, ring bright, examples of this are the 1st Wrestlemania, and the War to Settle the Score. I would've likes to see him against Snuka absolutley. I honestly think they should've just put the original video as disc two (It covered early WWF heel Piper). They could've made disc 1 the stuff from Portland and NWA, which I've never seen but would love to. Disc 3 could be the Piper good guy crap I guess, although as far as I'm concerned he was the best as the heel. Honestly, I stopped watching wrestling after Wrestlemania 3, when he left, I left.....One last complaint, a few of the Pits they put on here are just plain awful. The crap from WM5 with Love & Downey is HORRIBLE, the only classic part is a bout 3/4 through, when he's talking to Downey, you can plainly here someone in the crowd yell "This is Stupid!". The Pit with HBK is a waste, and the one with the really big guy at the end sucks, because the guy beats Roddy down. Honestly, what I've seen so far feels really thrown together with not much thought. All this being said, It's great to see and hear Roddy, and the childhood memories came flooding back. Bottom line, there is enough to watch that I'm glad I bought it, but there is also quite a bit I'll skip over.
  
  
• Just when you think you got the answers, he changes the question
  By A2ZDKIS1FVKPOI on 2006-10-13
  His interview with Frankie Williams is the GREATEST MOMENT OF ALL TIME. Imagine if Merv Griffin or Oprah cold-cocked their guests. After 2 minutes!
  
  Roddy's the best thing to come out of wrestling.
  BAR NONE.
  
  
• Good but is still missing some big matches
  By A2A6NH6DPE0VXR on 2006-10-31
  These are the matches rumored to be on the dvd.
  
  Roddy Piper & Mike Popovitch vs. Buddy Rose & Rip Oliver from Portland
  Piper vs. Buddy Rose from Portland
  Piper vs. Jack Brisco 7/7/82
  Piper vs. Greg Valentine dog collar match from the first Starrcade
  Piper & Orndorff vs. Hogan & Mr. T from the first Wrestlemania
  Piper vs. Mr. T from Wrestlemania II
  Piper vs. Iron Sheik from 10/4/86 Saturday Night Main Event
  Piper vs. Bob Orton from 11/29/86 Saturday Night Main Event
  Piper vs. Adrian Adonis form Wrestlemania III
  Piper vs. Hogan MTV special 2/18/85
  Piper vs Rick Rude cage match 12/28/89 MSG
  Piper vs. Badnews Brown (Badnews Allen) Wrestlemania VI
  Piper vs. Bret Hart Wrestlemania VII
  Piper vs. Mountie 1992 Royal Rumble
  Piper vs. Goldust Hollywood brawl Wrestlemania XII
  Piper vs. Hogan 12/29/96 Starrcade
  
  These are big matches that needed to be on the dvd. Piper vs Ric Flair in earlier matches, vs The Million Dollar Man, Piper vs The Mounty (IC title), vs Jerry Lawyler, Piper and Savage vs Hogan and Bret Hart, Piper vs Bret Hart (U.S. Title), Piper with Flair and Kevin Greene vs Kevin Nash, Hall and X-Pac, Roddy Piper vs Hogan in a steelcage at Halloween Havoc, Piper vs Ric Flair in WCW where he gives him the sleeper to win the match, vs Bob Orton on Smackdown. I'm also pretty sure he teamed with Hogan once in the WWE in a rare tag match against Ric Flair and Psycho Sid.
  
  
• Disappointment
  By on 2006-11-07
  match wise it looks like anther WWE dud; Plus Pipper just won the tag title with Flair, wow that is good timing! Not really
  
  
• Where's the Georgia Footage!
  By A3K32UAM119AR7 on 2006-12-16
  This is a good DVD, the reason I'm only giving it three stars is the inexcusable complete lack of his color commentary with Gordon Solie and his classic feuds with Bob Armstrong, Tommy Rich and Dick Slater among others in his Georgia Championship Wrestling days, Oh well, I guess I'll have to dig out my old VHS tapes of GCW. Memo to Vince, Piper did have a career before the WWE, how about another DVD set of his early days in Portland, Mid Atlantic, and Georgia?
  
  
• Piper's DVD
  By A1H8E3VMP0E1FP on 2007-01-26
  It had a great main feature, good matches, the best of Piper's Pit (24 in all), and great story extras. What is everyone complaining about? You all were expecting more? Well, sorry but there can only be so much room on a dvd. My only complaint is that some matches and Piper's Pit's are placed out of order which can be confusing to newer fans. But all in all this is a terrific retrospective of the guy that had about as much to do with the 80s wrestling boom as Hulk Hogan.
  
  
• Very funny
  By A1C0EEBCJK6F38 on 2007-02-01
  Watching some of the clips from early Piper years brings back some great laughs from a long time ago!!!! A must have!!
  
  
• a roddy story
  By A2FPV4EIAKEGE1 on 2007-02-08
  this is a great dvd for older wrestling fans who remember roddy when he was off the wall and nothing was taboo for him.
  
  
• Anything Piper is better then none at all!!
  By A4J0Z1UNPHYHO on 2007-02-23
  I just ordered this set and along with all I've collected throughout the years will go great with this set.Piper is one of my all-time favorites so finally they give him a box set.Great.
  
  
• Well Done dvd set
  By A3O5T5VAQ3TD17 on 2007-03-02
  This is a very well done dvd set. I love how Disc 3 is nothing but Piper's Pit. The doc. is great, I learned somethings about Piper I didn't know. If your a fan of Pipers Pit and or his wrestling this is a must own dvd set.
  
  

• Ric Flair & The Four Horsemen (2 Discs)
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