Rotting Rowdy Piper

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In the Next Piper's Pit

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They Don't

(Props to Peter)

 

Or

Piper Down

(Kudos to Don)

 

Or

They Die

(Can I Get a Whoop Whoop for JQ?)

Rowdy Roddy Piper is all out of bubble gum, dying of a pulmonary embolism at the age of 61. The Canadian turned fake Scottish wrestler was one of the most interesting personalities to inhabit the wobbly squared circle. He held 34 belts in his career, which given the legitimacy of the WWF/WCW and WWE is about as impressive as doing the same thing at a Target. Outside the ring, the kilted menace badgered other wrestlers on his show-within-the show Piper’s Pit, once hitting Jimmy Superfly Snuka with a coconut, and on another occasion insulting Bruno Sammartino, leading to a steel cage match that Piper lost despite Bruno being 20 years older. Such antics helped Piper earn the title of Worst Villain in WWE history. Away from wrestling, he dabbled in acting, starring in the cult classic They Live, and playing Sam Hell in Hell Comes to Frogtown, one of the lone fertile men left in a post-apocalyptic world where mutant amphibians have captured women to use as sex slaves, with Hell out to rescue the girls and then set to repopulating the planet. But it’s not porn.