The OTTB RIP Thread - R.I.P. Bobby "The Brain" Heenan

[Broddie]

https://twitter.com/VinceMcMahon/status/627251759610789888?lang=en
https://twitter.com/VinceMcMahon/status/627251879702044672?lang=en

 

[dalyricalbandit]

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brethitmanhart: I can't find the words to describe the sorrow in my heart upon learning the news of my dear friend, Roddy Piper, passing away. He was my closest friend in the business, a man that schooled me and guided me throughout my career. In fact, if it wasn't for Roddy Piper reaching out to help me, I'm sure I would've been a mere footnote in wrestling. He was always there for me. He was family to me, a brother who loved me and was there for me through my darkest days. He was the only wrestler to come visit me when I suffered a stroke in 2002. He totally made me at Wrestlemania 8 in our classic match. Passing a torch that many from that era couldn't conceive of doing. We always called each other "cuz" because we were so close. I loved you Roddy, and I'll miss you and your laugh for the rest of my days. I'm stunned and the hole in my heart will widen as it sinks in that I lost a brother of such great worth. What a tragic loss to all that knew him.

 

[dalyricalbandit]

^That shit sad

 

[Broddie]

Roddy Piper like Jesse Ventura & Macho Man Randy Savage was one of the few wrestlers that always stood up to Vince.

He used to also fight for the rights of minority wrestlers, women wrestlers and everybody in between behind the scenes in 80's WWF even though he portrayed a racist heel on screen.

 

[infamous114]

 

[sobek]

RIP Piper. I know Ronda Rousey probably gonna do something to honor him tonight

 

[Angeles1son85]

Rip rowdy that match vs bret at mania i still got it on vhs sgit is classic

 

[Angeles1son85]

RIP Piper. I know Ronda Rousey probably gonna do something to honor him tonight

I k.ow.late but she tweeted before her match that this ones for u rowdy

 

[VIBE]

RIP Piper. I know Ronda Rousey probably gonna do something to honor him tonight

She mentioned him right off the bat after the fight.

 

[StoneColdMikey]

I'm gonna get a hot rod shirt

 

[iron man1]

https://instagram.com/p/51PHuIsQgs/

brethitmanhart: I can't find the words to describe the sorrow in my heart upon learning the news of my dear friend, Roddy Piper, passing away. He was my closest friend in the business, a man that schooled me and guided me throughout my career. In fact, if it wasn't for Roddy Piper reaching out to help me, I'm sure I would've been a mere footnote in wrestling. He was always there for me. He was family to me, a brother who loved me and was there for me through my darkest days. He was the only wrestler to come visit me when I suffered a stroke in 2002. He totally made me at Wrestlemania 8 in our classic match. Passing a torch that many from that era couldn't conceive of doing. We always called each other "cuz" because we were so close. I loved you Roddy, and I'll miss you and your laugh for the rest of my days. I'm stunned and the hole in my heart will widen as it sinks in that I lost a brother of such great worth. What a tragic loss to all that knew him.

This is fucked up smh

 

[Mister B.]

ALL my childhood heroes/villains are goin down.

Piper during the nWo/WCW days were awesome as shit.

 

[BangEm_Bart]

Roddy Piper like Jesse Ventura & Macho Man Randy Savage was one of the few wrestlers that always stood up to Vince.

He used to also fight for the rights of minority wrestlers, women wrestlers and everybody in between behind the scenes in 80's WWF even though he portrayed a racist heel on screen.

This I did not know, in that case R.I.P.

 

[willhustle]

I didn't know he actually fought for minorities within WWF in the 80's (which is rare with the industry he was in)

RIP to the Hot Rod

 

[Broddie]

He used to work regularly with minority opponents (Ie: Jimmy Snucka, Ricky Steamboat, Rocky Johnson, Tony Atlas, Bad News Brown etc.) so they could eat and get regular TV time and there's a reason he inducted Wendy Richter into the HOF and along with Captain Lou helped Cyndi Lauper of all people find something endearing in such an upside down industry.

He was a victim of that business (remember him accusing Patterson of molestation?) and I guess he felt obligated to stick up for those who he felt were victimized behind the scenes.

 

[infamous114]

 

[Delphas]

 

[dalyricalbandit]

WWE tribute videos>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[Broddie]

Aw shit I spotted Hogan in that tribute video.

 

[Broddie]

I will say this though. I remember Bad News Brown shoot before he died where he said that when he did the WM angle with Piper he saw Vince and Piper's true colors. He was like "ah that's how they are" but according to Piper he was painted half black due to a rib from Andre

"First of all, you know, I was born in Saskatoon. There are no Black people that I know of that are dumb enough to go to a place that cold. [Laughs.] So, there's no racism in me at all.

"At the time, I was walking down the hall of some arena. Maybe the Hoosier Dome -- some place. I'm not sure. Vince McMahon says, 'Hot Rod, I need to speak with you.' I walked into a room and you could have cut the air with a knife. It was Bad News Brown, Pat Patterson and Vince McMahon. I said, 'What's going on?' He says, 'I want you to wrestle Bad News Brown at [WrestleMania VI].

"I'm looking at Bad News, who was a really good judo player and just a so-so professional wrestler. And here's what's going through my mind. I'm looking at him and I'm going, 'I'm going to have 45 interviews about this guy.' And I'm thinking Nelson Mandela at that time had said something that really stuck with me.

"Nelson Mandela was put in jail for 20-some years for political crimes. Every morning, he was the first man when the guard came to extend his hand to the guard. What a hell of a man. At the same time, Cindy Lauper had 'True Colors' out. In my mind, what I was trying to do -- there is no difference. I needed material on Bad News Brown. I did something where I sang 'True Colors' and I did a thing about Nelson Mandela. But, they don't seem to remember that. [Laughs.] The thing I didn't do so well was when I came down, I pretended to be Michael Jackson. I don't quite dance like Michael does, I guess. [Laughs.]

"So, [I got] just about the same reaction from you as I came out. Nothing. So, I had the match. I came back and the stuff they had painted me with, Vince had made special. So, when I broke a sweat, it wouldn't come off. There was a special clear solution to take this special black off. When I got there, the lady started rubbing my cheeks and in about five minutes, I started bleeding. Andre The Giant had taken that solution, poured it out and put water in it.

"Now, I'm in Toronto, half-Black. I decided that's there nothing much to do other than to go out drinking. So, I go and I'm drinking and I'm half-Black in the bar. Next morning -- and don't judge me -- I wake up and the door of my hotel room is blown completely off and there's a cowboy hat in the middle of my room. I don't know who's. [Laughs.] I wake up and I'm half Black. I got to go from Toronto to Portland, Oregon. I got a four foot Mickey Mouse with me that I bought for my daughter.

"So, because I didn't know -- I put the hat on, and I've got a four foot Mickey Mouse, a Halliburton and a hang over. And I'm half Black. ... I'm completely half black other than the scar under my eye. So, I'm going through Chicago and I'm going through customs. When you're half black and half white, they just go, 'Go right ahead.' They part like the Nile. In Chicago, I had to change planes and the flight attendant -- that I later called waitress, which really gets over -- wanted me to check Mickey because it was too big. So, I bought Mickey a first class seat and me and Mickey drank all the way to Portland, Oregon.

"The way I got it off was that I had to sit in the sauna. Took me about a month of rubbing this stuff off. But, what am I going to do? Go beat up Andre? [Laughs.] But the reason I painted myself half Black was more the meshing. I did the Nelson Mandela, I did the 'True Colors'. Bad News Brown didn't take it that way. So, I'm glad you asked me."

Only other time I heard someone imply or say that he was racist was Ahmed Johnson. But he pretty much calls every white wrestler a racist lmao so who even knows what was really real at this point.