Born Roderick Toombs on April 17th, 1954, in Saskatoon, Canada, Roddy Piper drifted around from city to city with his family. He would learn amateur wrestling and boxing in school before leaving home in his early teens after being expelled from school and falling out with his father. Roddy ...
NWA, California and some other during the seventies till 1987. Before getting into the most coveted platform of World Wrestling Entertainment, Piper had also served some other prominent wrestling organizations
Roddy Piper, 61, Mastered Role as Wrestling Bad Guy.An obituary for wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper is presented.STACKLIAMNew York Times
Wrestling legend "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, who trash talked his way to the main event of the first WrestleMania and later found movie stardom, has died. He was 61. The WWE said Piper died Friday. It had no additional details. Piper, born Roderick Toombs, was the second WWE Hall of Famer ...
We’ll see on Next Week’s Impact Wrestling!2015 - One of the greatest performers and talkers in the history of professional wrestling, Rowdy Roddy Piper, passed away at the age of 61 from cardiac arrest in Los Angeles, CA. If you enjoy PWInsider.com you can check out th...
On November 24, 1983, ‘Rowdy’Roddy Piperand Greg Valentine faced each other in arguably one of the most brutal and bloodiest matches in wrestling history. In a match type that’s origins preceded it, their dog collar match was the fourth recorded one in existence. ...
“I was 15 years old when I started wrestling full time and I know what I had to go through to get here,” Piper told the newspaper. “Wrestling saved my life.” Piper told CNN’s Larry King in 2000 that he got his wrestling name when very early in his career his took the place...