Roddy Piper's 15 Most Memorable Moments

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6. A Fitting Sendoff

There€™s no retirement like your first retirement, at least it seems that way in professional wrestling. Ask Mick Foley if he should have stayed retired longer than he initially did. When €œRowdy€ Roddy Piper decided to step away from wrestling in 1987, he did it in grand style, going out in a hair versus hair match against €œAdorable€ Adrian Adonis at WrestleMania III. Piper was a massively popular babyface at this point, and his destruction of Adonis€™ Flower Shop (after Adonis and his cohorts assaulted Hot Rod) only made things hotter.If you saw the match even once, you know exactly what happened: Adonis locked in the sleeper hold but released early, allowing Brutus Beefcake to revive Piper. Roddy then slapped on his own sleeper hold, winning his €œretirement€ match and saving his locks. The match sent Piper off to a 20-month retirement on the grandest stage of all, turned Beefcake face and gave fans a moment they€™d never forget.