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  • piper was hilarious

  • I love how he pushes the wall after piper cracks him with the coconut

  • This was back when you could do things like that as a part of the show without cries of racism. Hell, it was perfectly done, because that may have been the first time I ever had real feelings of hate for someone! Very effective, I wanted Piper to die after that! Haha!

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  • Pipers the best!!!!WWE is nothing like the good ol days the characters back then were just awesome...unforgettable thanx for posting this...took me back

  • One of the great moments in television history

  • oh my gawd! Look at McMahon!!! HAHAHAAA>. These were THE Days.. noon wrestling right after Bugs Bunny in the morning.. gawd I miss those days!

  • The two cultures where men wear kilts clash. The scot wants bar food but nooooo.

  • when I was a child I never realize how racist he was

  • @bville724 people who make a big deal about "racist" connotations are racist themselves

  • The crack heard around the world

  • Ya Wanna Banananaa?? :P

  • only thing missing is him calling the other guy a nigger

  • magaijinana boy.......classic fijian swear word...lol

  • Classic Piper !!!

  • Why didn't security come in and stop this assault? everybody just stood and watch.

  • The only thing that pisses me about this scene every time is how Snuka reacted to being hit upside the head by pushing over the set. Last time I checked if you get hit with a coconut your more than likely going to just go down, not do a running man then knock over a set.

  • Boy are people dumb. I see some complaints that this is "racist". it's supposed to be racist. Piper is supposed to be a bad guy, so part of being a bad guy is being a racist. It's all part of the script. This was specifically supposed to be racist. It's supposed to show what a bad guy Roddy Piper is. What's so hard to understand about that?

  • I can't believe pg-era WWF got away with this in the 80s.

  • MIS Men In Skirts

    After the nut to the face I was a bit unsure where the banana was going lol

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  • this segment was the smack responsible for making me a lifelong wrestling junkie....

  • Before there was Fox News, there was Piper's Pit.

  • Every time you think you know the answers i run out of bubble gum.

  • FunnyOrDie brought me here

  • "Ya wanna be a bigshot, huh?"

  • That.was.epic.

  • I thought that this took place at the Ag Hall in Allentown, but I think it might have actually been in the Fieldhouse in Hamburg, PA.

  • the best 5 minutes in tv history

  • Roddy piper is nuts!

  • Fuckin BOOM!!!!! 2:12

  • Ah!1984 was a time when Vince wasn't a complete but only half douche bag,lol!!Some 20 plus yrs later he finally became a total douche!Lol!

  • Fiji power..

  • This was funny back then but in real life Sunka would have kicked Pipers ass! Piper was a punk and still is.

  • @usmc6004 piper and snuka didn't get along at the time, i have even heard piper say the cocunut was legit!

  • It's called a door knob, Snuka!!!

  • piper, one of the best stickmen in the business

  • One of the finest moments in the history of our great sport.

  • piper was the best

  • Greatest Interview Segment in The History of Pro Wrestling

  • this was a classic

  • Remember the interview a week after this when Snuka got mad and started throwing the chairs? lol

  • That was epic.

  • This is a classic!!!!!

  • That must have been, by far.. the tastiest punch in wrestling history. banana and coconut sounds delicious.

  • I personally think if Snuka had stayed in the WWF past 1985, they would've turned him into a distant cousin of now-deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. 1986 was the height of conflict between the US and Libya and Hogan even crumbled a photo of Gaddafi in the Real American music video If you look at photos of Jimmy Snuka and Gaddafi and compare them, you will see they look very much alike

  • Snuka too big to called boy....

  • Before the emergence of Hulkamania, The superfly was more popular than champion Bob Backlund and could have had a title run. That humiliating piper angle took all the steam out of his popularity. Was that an accident? Fast Forwarding to 1997. Thank You Rock

  • angle or not, this was one of the most racist and there has been quite a few with wwf, wwe incidents ever. if this act was done against a jew, roddy pipers career would have gone down like John Rockers instead this makes him an even bigger star than he was and even though this helped snuka business wise for that , the last impact he had on the business was being in the corner of hulk hogan and Mr. T at Wrestlemania in a match that put piper right under hogan in popularity.

  • @superbexcellence Not sure if his career world've been over if he had done that to a Jew cuz liberals always trash on Jews and Christians but treat Muslims like endangered species.

  • Snuka did not even use the doorknob. (LOL!) When going after Piper...

  • Banana to the face is like when someone threw a pillow at Leslie Nelsons face (in a scene) and he screamed like he was in pain.......Its like pillows don't hurt, just like bananas........

  • Piper was so mean ! He was so mean that I can't help but piss myself laughing !

  • It is a great promo, it's etched in promo history, doesn't mean it wasn't racist. It was however, done with both of them. It isn't real. Piper was to make himself hated. He did it. Snuka got alot out of this too. It was racist on purpose. they play characters. it isn't real ffs

  • I loved Piper as a kid when he was a heel and when he was a face....now when i want to be entertained...I type Rowdy Roddy Piper!!!! It never gets old....love the guy!

  • Lol

  • i didnt get u a tree to climb up and down like a monkey. next time i'll get u a tree.

  • The problem is you can't say this type of stuff in this P.C. country now.. Somebody might get offended.. Not realizing after this is done backstage they are probably celebrating for nailing such a great promo..

  • hey,knuckleheads. piper was a nice guy outside of the ring. he was a businessman who earned millions from his career. if you believe his character was the real deal, then you are a mark for life.

  • roddy piper was a fuckin badass who'd stand up to anyone, inside and outside the ring, in the ring he's the fearless villain, outside he's a man who would help those in need no matter who the aggressor was

  • Jimmy Snuka = a scumbag piece of trash who murdered his g/f. he broke the skull of his g/f and murdered her.

    this skit here is probably a veiled reference to that incident, a little inside joke.

  • @gannable what???? ive never heard this :S

  • Damn that one lash at 3:10 sounded brutal.

  • Classic Piper's Pit moment !!!!

  • roddy piper is a piece of shit madafaka!

  • @2010619hell -its fake fool

  • @HIVisaLIE i know.... stupid slut;))))

  • 6 people who like wrestling do not what wrestling history is

  • Snuka the murderer, this fucking retard murdered his girlfriend, I used to like Snuka when I was a little kid but now I'm disgusted that this scumbag isn't in jail where he belongs.

  • This looked brutal

  • Wow, that uncomfortable viewing for the racially sensitive amongst us. That includes me. I like how Piper get's to rag on Snuka all he wants but the security only 'intervenes' when Snuka gets his senses back - a strange look back at a strange time.

  • hahahah have banana have a banana

  • ha ha, "One coconut, two coconut...four coconut"

  • The Field House Hamburg, Pennsylvania!!

  • @ope Yup Heal Side I Miss Those Days

  • the best ever man wow

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  • there was a "mark" or X on the one he hit snuka with.. he showed the others has hard, but the last one had a mark on it... :) classic top 5 moment in wwf history

  • they live

  • Imagine today Piper would have sentence to life in prison for those horrible nasty insults.What a joke Piper,Snuka,Hogan and the rest of them was nothing but great entertainment.Political correctness suck balls.

  • piper always played a good racist prick bastard. snuka beat his ass good after this incident.

  • Now only did Piper wallop Snuka hard with that coconut, he was hiding the living shit out of him with that belt. That had to hurt.

  • Things were never the same after this. Piper became the most hated man in wrestling and his fued with Snuka was the hottest of the year!

  • Just when you think you have all the answers, I CHANGE THE QUESTIONS!!!!

  • CLASSIC........

  • Coconut injuries are the leading cause of death among professional wrestlers. They're also known as "the slient killer" because they often manifest as strokes or drug overdoses at some later time.

  • @jsbarnesyt you think you're funny you're a douche jimmy suffered a concussion from this!

  • Piper rocks.

  • @JP5466 Thank you. I've heard arguments about the coconut not being cracked. Remember, these guys were great at what they did, and I think there is still a great deal of kayfabe with the old timers, even though they've come out and showed us how they made the magic happen. I've seen interviews where Piper talks about cracking a non-gimmic coconut and that he was afraid Jimmy would get up and kill him. He thought he killed Jimmy with the coconut, etc. I think there's still some kayfabe going on.

  • @JohnnyBakery it wasn't kayfabe i spoke with tito santana he told me there was serious heat there that night between them. piper really hit him hard!

  • Now that's entertainment !!

    My pals and I saw that on tv when it happened, but It was a different era with different rules though.

  • "EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE BIG TIME!" -lol

    Gotta hand it to McMahn here because this segment is marketing genius. Piper was the perfect bad guy. After this aired in 1985, every kid (and adult) on my block was talking about it... for weeks and weeks. IMO this is one of the most defining moments in tv wrestling history. This elevated Piper to a higher level and made average people pay more attention to pro wrestling and the WWF.

  • @JP5466 It did indeed elevate Piper. So much so that he became more popular than even Snuka and became Hogan's main nemesis until he turned baby face after Wrestlemania 2. Have you read Piper's book? It's very good.

  • im in the mood for a banana

  • What makes this "disturbing"?

  • 2:12 break the walls DOOOOOWWWWWWWN

  • Headshot

    +50

  • @GoblinGirl

    The way you could see it, they could of been trying to stop him from doing something he could of regretted later, trying to calm him down for the moment.

  • the greatest skit in WWF history

  • Jimmy Snuka and John Ritter??

  • A piece of wrestling history.

  • the wwwf/wwf/wwe was nothing with pipers pit. alot of ww? was from rp

  • a classic . all young wrestlers need to watch roddy piper's tapes if they plan on being a heel

  • Hilarious! There's a bunch of Samoans and other Pacfic Islanders in my neighborhood that absolutely deserve this. So do all of them for that matter!

  • probably the best feud beginning ever...you cant get away wit this shit now in wwe an its pg rating...miss the ol' sckool of wwf...racist an all!!

  • Are you making fun of me! Oh No Sir! Classic stuff!

  • Snuka was awesom, At 42 years old he was still huge and muscular

  • @Goldenchild795 I think that is called Anabolic Steroids

  • Funny how all the wrestlers come up to stop Snuka from breaking down the door and chasing Piper.

    I guess they were all OK when Piper was giving Snuka a beatdown.

  • LOL!! Memories!!!!

  • LOL!!

  • That is one of the greatest coconut smashes in the history of the sport.

  • @joelkazoo Okay, Schiavone!

  • Jimmy knows that you can not over talk Piper...... Awesome!!!!!!..

  • Piper dropped four real coconuts on the table but then hit Snuka with a fake coconut.

    If you watch closely, Piper's holding the coconut very gently in his hand and then hits Snuka in the face with it and it flew apart. So it was either a fake coconut or they did something to a real coconut to make it all soft and mushy.

  • @DaveJ721 Or maybe it was a real coconut and Piper smashed it against the side of Jimmy Snuka's skull.

    I just read on a web site that, in fact, it was a real coconut and Piper was counting on Snuka having a real hard head.

  • Yep,sometimes I'm a dumbass. I just found the page and it's a store-bought coconut. No other setup to it. He knew it was going to hurt Snuka a lot, but that it'd look cool. Piper says in the book, "The instant it hit I heard Jimmy give a moan...and he started falling back...I'm not positive, but I am pretty sure he was unconscious upon impact." Then later he says that Snuka just stared at the floor of his dressing room for a long time after that, not moving. Might still feel the repercussions.

  • @ocekit

    i know that's what he said in his book, but there is zero chance that the coconut was real. Impossible.

  • @alexander101207 if you watch closely you can see he picks the empty coconut...piper slams a real one down after the hit to make it look real....good job tho...my fav pit

  • @sjmmrcrdd

    You're right. My favorite pit as well. Piper was the best as a bad-guy in my opinion. Best mic skills of any wrestler I've seen.

  • i remeber when i seen this on tv when i was a kid..they dont make them like the rowdy one anymore ..shame :(

  • Take your little microphone - there you go - put it in the greasy little paws...

    Kind of like the women - long frosty hair on top, round on the bottom!

  • have a bannana

  • 1 coconaaaaaaat 2 coconaaaaaaaat

  • They called him Rowdy for a reason.

  • 4 people got hit in the skull by coconuts

  • @curriiz one of them is zack ryder

  • Piper was such a great heel that, eventually, he had to become a babyface because too many people thought he was so awesome.

  • @frrrrrunkis And that was the end of Piper as an awesome character.

  • Problem, Jimmy?

  • I remember this just like yesterday I was about 10yrs old when this first aired PIper was a heels heel he mastered the art of heel then reinvinted it. Lol

  • Piper was the best heel, he just generated heat like you wouldn't believe!! His promos were the shit,and they were coming off the top of his head. Too bad everything is scripted now. If they just let the superstars and divas cut their own promos the way it used to be WWE would be much better.

  • kuinka saisin rikki kookospähkinän

  • LOL IS OLD THAT BUT FOR ME WAS THE BETER EPOQUE

  • From here on in Superfly Jimmy Snuka fucking hates fruit salid!!! lol

  • Rowdy Roddy Piper is performing stand up at Comedy Works Denver April 14-16, 2011!

  • the wrestlers today can't cut a promo today. everything is written down. you can see them looking at the teleprompterwhen they are talking!!! this was all off the top of his head. piper was one of the greatest promo men of all time. with ric flair and dusty rhodes.

  • Los Angeles was where Piper developed his Rowdy character and became one of the most hated villains in Los Angeles since the days of Classy Freddy Blassie. During this time, he made continuous insults directed at the area's Mexican community; he later promised to amend by playing the Mexican national anthem on his bagpipes only to anger the fans further by playing "La Cucaracha" instead.

  • @TheDoomSquid Yep. In fact, he even wore a T-shirt saying I am a Mexcan, Chicano, Hispanic and all those words were crossed out with the word WETBACK in bold capitol letters. Piper definitely was a heat magnet.

  • epic heel promo that also got a face even more over. totally drew money.

    sucks that wwe needs to bring back rock & austin and won;t even get the same results....

  • Roddy piper isn't even scottish lol

    or trying to put on an accent? lol

  • @MsAlternativexxx Yes hes scottish, and yes thats a fake accent!

  • I miss the days when it was like this and not all PG.

  • BOOM!...... I wonder if at that moment is when jimmy snuka strated to REALLY hate coconut's and banana's lol. Piper is GOD!!!

  • BOOM!...... I wonder if at that moment is when jimmy snuka strated to REALLY hate coconut's!!! lol. Piper is GOD!!!

  • jim snuka was swearing in fijian when he got up.....crazy as hell

  • this is Classic,,,,,,,, wrestling is NOT like this anymore too bad.

  • BOOM! Coconut SPARRTTTTTAAAA

  • Holy Crap! Was that a real Coconut or was it gimicked up? Either way, that had to hurt like hell!

  • @TVfanfanatic 100% with you on that, I was in a fight on immingham docks 4yrs ago, and i got smacked with a solid iron bar that hurt!!!

  • I like how he smashed the door 3-4 times, but never tried to turn the knob to open the door.

  • 4 people will get a coconut smashed over their head by Mr. Piper

  • 2:14 so thats whats behind there

  • I'm surpised none of you stupid niggers aren't screaming racism.

  • @sickandtiredofmorons Well Snuka isn't black for one, he's Samoan.

  • @PowerUpPodcast You're wrong yet again. He's Fijiian. You stupid mark.

  • Piper Rocks.

  • HAVE A BANANA!

  • When PG WWE was da bombbbb

  • Best of all time Jimmy Superfly Snuka! Best Pipers Pit of all time... best sneek attack of all time screw you Piper!

  • Piper really could sell a routine.

  • holy shit, snuka got fukked up!! damn

  • Now that is an old school villain! Piper was the best, WWE just doesn't have heels like that any more.

  • NOW THAT WILL PROPLY BREAK YOUR HEAD!!

  • I've heard a lot of interviews with Piper and he always says this skit is his biggest regret because it gave Snuka permanent damage and pretty much ended his career. That's a terrible legacy, Snuka was a big public figure but he really was one of the very few idols for Asian kids in America.

  • @valdrich319 Asian?

  • @valdrich319 I met Piper at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2003. I asked him about this segment. He said the whole thing was staged and the coconut was pre-cracked to lessen the damage. The coconut was market so Piper knew which one to crack over Jimmy's head.

    I agree that Piper was awesome and very believable in this segment... don't forget, pro wrestling is fake.

  • @JP5466 YOU'RE A LIAR PIPER NEVER SAID IT WAS PRECRACKED HE ALWAYS MAINTAINS THIS WAS REAL!

  • @oldschool6804 why is piper ging towrite in his book it was real? and tell you it was fake, fuck you you lying piece of shit! wrestling isn't fake!

  • @oldschool6804 Yeah okay... it was real -lol

  • @JP5466 it was real and if you can prove he said it wasn't to you i will listens how me film or proof! why would he change the story he wrote in his book? why are you trying to make a fool out of piper?

  • @oldschool6804 Read what I wrote... Piper told me the coconut was real, but they cracked it so it would lessen the damage. There is no way you could hit someone in the head with that kind of force and not hurt them. Even though it was planned, Jimmy still got injured. All Piper's pit segments were pre-planned, just like everything else in wrestling. This is my last reply to you.

  • @JP5466 well piper said pipers pit was hardly ever preplanned you're a fucking  liar!

  • I have seen interview with Piper bout this he was scared to death of Snuka because the Coconut was real and hit Snuka square in the head and Snuka was pissed and really knocked senseless that why you see Piper walking away heading for the door because he knows when he gets up he gonna get his ass kicked that was real was going to kill his ass just like his girlfriend in Germany

  • Roddy rules he was a ruthless badass one of a kind.

  • lol, this is like jr. hs all over again! i used to hate/love roddy piper so much (even though i was more into NWA). piper's pit always used to make me so mad!!! i think i actually cried when this one was shown...supafly snuka was so awesome and roddy was just whipping him!...and then he escapes like a dog out the backdoor!...criminal!

    he did the piledriver too, which was the most awesome finishing move.

  • @GoldenArroWill

    I think The Rock might have something to say about that, but Piper is towards the top