10 WWE WrestleMania Matches That Had To Follow Something Infamously Terrible

7. Roddy Piper Vs. Bad News Brown Follows Roddy Piper's... Reveal (WrestleMania VI)

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I mean.

Okay, in the interest of not going for anybody's throat here, 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper explained this away on the night and after the fact as a complex and important commentary on race relations. But even if those were his intentions (and they're a hell of a stretch), it's still rather tough

Yes, retrospective reflection has all-important hindsight - something the 'Hot Scot' probably could have done with by perhaps road-testing this on a house show rather than saving it for what he probably thought would be a cracking popper on 'The Grandest Stage' - but he steered far too hard into other unfortunate stereotypes whilst parading in front of 67,000 people with half his body painted black.

He knew what he was doing, just as he knew to try and blur what he was doing with semantics after the fact.

Preserved in amber thanks to the WWE Network, Roddy's work alongside Hulk Hogan, Mr. T, Adrian Adonis and Bret Hart has ensured that Piper remains a WrestleMania legend. If only this horribly misguided bit of his legacy had been a myth.

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