6 Ups & 8 Downs From WWE WrestleMania VI

By Michael Hamflett / February 28, 2020

7. BAD. NEWS.

Roddy Piper has explained this away before as a complex commentary on race relations, but at no point should this appear as though it endorses either that argument or Piper's decision to make it.

Yes, retrospective reflection has with it the crucial benefit of hindsight - something the 'Hot Scot' probably could have done with by perhaps road-testing this on a house show - but he steered far too hard into other unfortunate stereotypes whilst parading in front of 67,000 people with half his body painted black.

Piper remains a WrestleMania legend - if only this had been a myth.