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Pro wrestler Roddy Piper dead at 61: report
.nydailynews. ^ | July 31, 2015, 6:18 PM

Posted on 07/31/2015 3:20:58 PM PDT by dennisw

Legendary wrestling champion Roddy Piper has reportedly died at the age of 61.

The WWE Hall of Famer died in his Hollywood, Calif. home of natural causes, TMZ reported.

Piper had been diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 2006 but last fall said that he was cancer free. Former professional wrestlers Ric Flair watches from outside the ring as WWE Superstar Chris Jericho gets pummeled on the ropes by Piper in 2009. Previous Next

HOUSTON, TX - APRIL 5: (L-R) Former professional wrestlers Ric Flair (seen outside the ring) looks on as WWE Superstar Chris Jericho gets pummeled on the ropes by "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat and Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka look on during WrestleMania 25 at Reliant Stadium on April 5, 2009 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Bill Olive/Getty Images) Exported.;

Enlarge Bill Olive/Getty Images Former professional wrestlers Ric Flair watches from outside the ring as WWE Superstar Chris Jericho gets pummeled on the ropes by Piper in 2009.

His unexpected death comes only month after fellow former pro wrestler “Nature Boy” Buddy Landel died at the age of 53 at his home in Virginia.

The Iron Sheik, who was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame with Piper in 2005, tweeted: “Roddy Piper. I love you forever. God bless you


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: obituary; piper; roddypiper; rowdyroddypiper; theylive; wrestling; wwe; wwf
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To: dennisw

Piper cutting a promo . . . by cutting open his head with a beer bottle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzvNPq_5P2g


41 posted on 07/31/2015 4:31:11 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: dennisw

We got you Roddy! Aliens rule. Just look at the White House.

Roddy Piper - RIP.


42 posted on 07/31/2015 4:34:10 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: vladimir998

I was witness to his early days with Portland Wrestling. He will be missed. RIP The Rowdy One


43 posted on 07/31/2015 4:37:24 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: GreenHornet

You realize that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson uncle right


44 posted on 07/31/2015 4:49:03 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: 21twelve

Oh, I don’t know about that. He was Hulk’s nemesis way, way, back in the day.


45 posted on 07/31/2015 4:52:17 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: atc23

Those indeed were the days (at least I get that feeling from the video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOrr2Wk7R8g


46 posted on 07/31/2015 4:57:04 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: dennisw

I named my red heeler dog after him. Rowdy was the best of the best. He was entertaining, not roided out and seemed like as regular a Joe as could be. Saw an episode where he was house hunting with his wife, also seemed very nice. This is a sad passing for me.


47 posted on 07/31/2015 5:20:10 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If God himself said every 50 years debt should be erased, and land returned, who am I to disagree?)
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To: dennisw

Haven’t worn my Hot Rod shirt in a few years...

Gonna miss his persona.

If you want to find out what a decent family guy that he was, look on YouTube when he was on Celebrity Wife Swap (swapped with Rick Flair).


48 posted on 07/31/2015 5:22:22 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Jonty30
The Bag Pipes are playing loudly in Heaven R.I.P. Rowdy Piper
49 posted on 07/31/2015 5:24:18 PM PDT by patriciamary (9)
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To: GreenHornet
And that incident happened to be my first time watching the WWF (a very solemn Mean Gene in the studio introduced the troubling segment). I was blown away by the sheer abuse and violence.
50 posted on 07/31/2015 5:29:41 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture (Tagline: (optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: dennisw

May God be with you, Roddy!


51 posted on 07/31/2015 5:34:34 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Rodamala

Wearing my Hot Rod tee shirt right now.

My all time favourite wrestler. The hype leading up to Wrestlemania was some of the greatest stuff in WWF history.

One story I remember hearing was when he was in LA back in the 70s. He kept tooling on the Mexicans. One match they were booing him and he apologized and said he would play the Mexican national anthem on his bagpipes to show his sincerity.

After the applause died down, he played ‘La Cucaracha’. Classic.


52 posted on 07/31/2015 5:38:11 PM PDT by mindburglar (When Superman and Batman fight, the only winner is crime.)
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To: dennisw

Another one from his era passed a few months ago. Ron Wright {Boot} mainly known in the southeast back in the 1960’s-80’s.


53 posted on 07/31/2015 5:54:51 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: dennisw

Piper’s match against Bert Hitman Heart for the IC title was classic RIP to a fine wrestler.


54 posted on 07/31/2015 6:30:59 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (MARANATHA)
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To: dennisw

Oh damn, not this $hit again, I remember this guy well, RIP man, had a blast watching you growing up back then.


55 posted on 07/31/2015 6:32:06 PM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: dennisw
“They Live” is an anti Obama regime propaganda"

Only with a different message than the original movie. It would be great to see a modern movie made with an anti-Obama or anti-liberal message. But considering the amount of lib movie-makers in Hollyweird, it's doubtful one will ever get made.

56 posted on 07/31/2015 6:55:04 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: dennisw

RIP


57 posted on 07/31/2015 7:35:28 PM PDT by erod (Chicago Conservative | Cruz or Lose!)
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To: driftless2; All

Regardless of the original intent, the movie comes through unerringly on the concept of control of the masses by a ruling elite whose weapons are appeasement of people’s baser instincts. Easy credit keeps most of the Republic in cheap highs and thrills...


58 posted on 07/31/2015 7:42:10 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Axenolith
So you think Carpenter's linking of Reagan-style economics lulled the masses into a consumerist stupor of some sort? Because that was the intent of the movie.

I'd rather live in a country where people are free to spend and consume than something like Carpenter would have us live in.

59 posted on 07/31/2015 9:12:25 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: driftless2; All

Carpenters “linking” didn’t do anything. I am just pointing out that the movie is prescient to today’s situation.

Look at now. Politicians and bankers just want tools for a face saving visit to the polls, but by ALL available evidence any one put in, even on the “conservative” side, continues to legislate against the interests of liberty and the Republic.

No one really, at this point puts up a stink because all of that “consumable” stuff keeping the herd animals happy is kept cheap not by our national free market policies but by offshoring the production away from the effects of the Republics labor, tax, and environmental policies. The money to purchase it is unsustainably cheap, and the historically resultant inflation from that type of policy is kept at bay by absorbing the excess in dark pool financial dealings and a [finite] use of it as many countries reserve currency.

Meanwhile a growing and soon if not already to be majority of the electorate only appears to be satisfied with “obeying”, “consuming” and “sleeping”. Anyone that falls out of the job market is essentially given enough to keep them in chips, brain numbing substances and entertainments (on the backs of the remaining productive no less).

Whether or not it was some “attack on Reagan and free markets” is irrelevant in 2015, today, it looks a hell of a lot like the skull aliens are our politicians, bankers and other policy elites and we are the generally out of it population grinding away under their construct.

I too would like to live in a country where people are free to spend and consume as they want, AND where the burden of those choices does not end up being foisted off on the responsible segment of the population and the market is structured to harvest those same responsible people and process them into the mindless class...


60 posted on 08/01/2015 11:33:31 AM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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