OT: Hot Rod Rowdy Piper Dead at 61
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I have to wonder if these pro wrestlers of the 80's are paying for having grown up in the early days of steriod abuse. You have to believe a ton of those wrestling types were using steroids to look the way they did, and it might have been really hard on their bodies in the long run.
Or maybe they just were party animals and the liquor and drugs eventually wear them out.
Whatever it is they seem to have remarkably short life-expectencies.
and maybe drugs and booze. i hate to say it, but the next ones we're going to hear about are going to be my old bouncing buddies, scottie and robbie rechsteiner. robbie started on the juice back when we were freshmen and went from wrestling at 191 to superheavy in a flash. scottie wrestled at 177 and after graduation was absolutely sick with juice and assumedly HGH. good guys, exceptional wrestlers, but at some point we all have to pay the piper.
I'm sure painkiller abuse is rampant as well. They probably always have to perform though all kinds of injuries.
It's a sad day for pro wrestling and a shitty summer. First Dusty, now Roddy Piper: the guys who built the foundation for the current business are dying way too fast.
The mandatory drug testing by the WWE's wellness program has made the business a lot less risky for top level performers. I hope the next generation of wrestlers start living a lot longer than guys who were popular in the 80's and 90's.
RIP to one of the greatest perfromers who ever laced up the boots.
Couldn't we kinda say the same thing about NFL players?
Another taken too earlier. Heard him with the Sklar bros a week or so ago. Was hysterical. Great stories.
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....guess we are truely "outta bubblegum".
RIP
One of my favorites. Good Bye to another piece of my childhood. It is too bad because he was only 61, and it is reminder that I'm getting old.
Such an iconic figure in wresting. I grew up a huge wrestling fan and I saw a lot of cool Rowdy moments in wrestiling. Aside from what he did in the ring, who can forget the blockbuster movie "They Live". OK, maybe not blockbuster, but seeing Rowdy in a movie was pretty exciting for me. RIP Rowdy, you'll be missed.
Piper, Hacksaw, Ultimate Warrior and Sperfly Jimmy Snuka were my childhood. Throw in the Junk Yard Dog and we'd have a basketball team of childhood dreams. A dream team, if you will.
August 1st, 2015 at 10:28 AM ^
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Who earns his daily bread wrestling violent behemoths while wearing an itchy wool kilt "free Scotsman style" in public has my profound respect. "They'll never take our free-dom!" RIP Rowdy Roddy Piper, your bouts shall be remembered always.
All because of Rowdy.
George the Animal Steele is still going.
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I had a friend who was a big Rowdy Piper fan growing up and always had wrastlin on when went to his house.
out of his back hair.
is the deadliest employer per capita in American history.
Will never forget Piper beating Hogan with the sleeper @ Starrcade 96.
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass ... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
RIP.
Since I'm at Gen Con this weekend, I am now compelled to link to All Out of Bubblegum, the RPG.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/217187212/All-Outta-Bubblegum-The-RPG
Seriously, it's worth a read if you like RPGs. It's only a page long.
and didn't know who in hell Rowdy Roddy Piper was before I saw "They Live" and watched him deliver one of the iconic quotes in cinema history:
RIP BIG GUY!
That's sad indeed, especially considering I finally met him at Motor City Comic Con this year - his was one of the longest lines, and so many people in that line like me had grown up watching Piper and everyone else in that era of wrestling. He seemed like a cool dude too, even based on a few minutes of interaction. RIP Hot Rod.