The Mountie: Roddy Piper Was Such A Nice Guy, Such A Good Worker, But Not A Fun Guy I Enjoyed Working With

The Mountie admits Roddy Piper was someone he didn’t enjoy working with in the world of pro wrestling.

In January of 1992, The Mountie would shockingly win the WWE Intercontinental Championship when he defeated Bret Hart. Just days after his title win, The Mountie would face off with Roddy Piper with the gold on the line at the Royal Rumble. Piper would take the belt, with the pair rematching several times after with Piper once again retaining the championship.

While speaking to Wrestling Then And Now in a new interview, The Mountie discussed working with Piper.

“Piper was a- he was such a nice guy in the dressing room, such a good worker, great charisma, great worker, but not a fun guy I enjoyed working with. Because I am the type of heel that likes to get my babyface down and then interact with the crowd and get my heat. You can’t do that with Piper. Piper, I try to get some heat up on him. He was like a machine. I’d punch him, punch him, and he’d fight back. Boom. I’d punch him, punch him, and he’d fight back, and everything I did to him, he’d always fight back, fight back. So he never got the best part of me out there when I worked with him. So it was like- a great worker. Not a word to say about his work. Loved the guy to death. He’s just a guy who knew how to get himself over more than the other guys, and he had the pen behind him, so the office was behind him, so he could work like that. Because if he wasn’t so powerful with Vince behind him and wanting him to be like that, some guys would have probably sat him down and said, ‘hey, listen, it’s a give and take here when we go in the ring. But it’s a two-way street.’ But it was very much one way when you worked Piper in the ring. He wasn’t a big, big ‘dyer’, if you want. He could sell a bit, but he wouldn’t die. He would never die in the ring, and me, my best heat that I would get with heel babyfaces is when I had them dying, when I had them hurting bad so I could interact, go up the second rope, and then do my stuff. But I could never do it with Piper. But I love the guy today.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Piper spoke about finding out about his short championship victory. You can read more about that here.

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