>>6549168>Wrestling Observer [9th June 1997]Nash & Piper got into a backstage fight in a locker room after Nitro in Boston, Mass. After the disaster of a match with Nash & Hall facing Piper & Flair, Nash was upset. Piper had agreed to the details of how the match would play out just minutes before going to the ring, once he got to the ring Piper broke script entirely, leading to an embarrassing mess in the ring where at one point everyone was standing around looking at each other. Then the time-cue to end the match came earlier than expected, leaving no time to fix the mistakes or get across the storyline they wanted to. After the match, Nash stormed into Piper's locker room kicking the door in. Nash exchanged words with Piper & gave him an open palm to the face, knocking him to the ground. Piper got up & threw a kick at Nash. Flair & Piper's bodyguard held back Piper. Hall & Syxx held back Nash. Nash told Piper he better not pull the improvisation stunt at the PPV on Sunday. Backstage Bischoff met with both Nash & Piper regarding the circumstances that led to the altercation - no disciplinary action was taken.
>Dave Meltzer [20th April 2014]The gist of the story is that there was a backstage incident at a Nitro where Nash got into it with Piper. Piper's bodyguard decided at the moment he didn't want to be a bodyguard anymore. I don't know Piper well, but I did speak with him & even years later he brought it up out of nowhere & was very bitter about the incident. I think he brought it up on his podcast but in telling the story, told it in a way more favourable to how he did in the skirmish. Nash's version was pretty much how I heard it the next day.
