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Notsam Wrestling

SRW 041 - Roddy Piper Tribute

Notsam Wrestling

Sam Roberts

Notsam, Sam Roberts, Sports, Wwe, Wrestling

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Sam talks Roddy Piper, plays an older interview with him, and Katie Linendoll joins for the State of Wrestling. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Sam Roberts Wrestling Hubcast!

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Introducing your host from New York, here is Sam Roberts!

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Welcome to Sam Roberts Wrestling Hubcast!

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Welcome to Sam Roberts Wrestling Hubcast!

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Welcome to Sam Roberts Wrestling Hubcast!

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Welcome to Sam Roberts Wrestling Hubcast!

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The NXT talent promos and wrestling and psychology and all this stuff that he did so well.

3:36.0

Piper on the other hand was not teaching, but he did teach through his performance.

3:42.0

There's no doubt about it that anyone who has ever wanted to be a bad guy wrestler, anybody who is not 6'6' or taller, anybody who is under 240 lbs, all were influenced at some point or another.

3:59.0

Anybody who is really under the age of 30, was almost certainly influenced by the hot rowdy rowdy piper.

4:09.0

He was the first guy who, even though he wasn't an average sized guy, he was a big guy in colloquial terms.

4:19.0

A guy that you would meet on the street, he was a big guy, but in terms of a wrestling locker room in the mid to late 80s, early to mid 80s, he was not a big guy.

4:29.0

He was an average sized guy, but he came on so strong and so undeniably that there was no stopping him.

4:41.0

He was Daniel Bryan before there was a Daniel Bryan. He was this guy and not that he had this underdog thing going for him, but he was the atypical performer aesthetically.

4:55.0

He did not look like the other guys looked. Even the villains, they all had crazy outfits, they looked like monsters, they were the things that were in your nightmares.

5:07.0

Whereas Rady Rady Piper just was a guy with nothing left to lose. He was a guy that came to the ring with victory being the only thing on his mind.

5:19.0

All he wanted to do was cause pain to his opponents and he had nothing left to lose. He didn't care about the fans.

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