There was little doubt as to whether Roddy Piper would wind up in the WWE Hall of Fame, it was just a question of when. The company resurrected its Hall of Fame in 2004, and the following year, it welcomed Piper in what was arguably the most star-studded year to date. Piper entered the Hall with several of his contemporaries: Hulk Hogan, Cowboy Bob Orton, Paul Ordorff, Jimmy Hart, Nikolai Volkoff and the Iron Shiek. If you came of age as a wrestling fan in the 1980s, this class has no peers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB7iXWzBbe8 Piper delivered a heartfelt and emotional speech about how his wrestling family gave him the financial stability to have a successful family of his own. It was a fitting cap on what then was 20 years since the first WrestleMania.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.