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RODDY PIPER PASSES AWAY

By Mike Johnson on 2015-07-31 18:02:01
TMZ.com is reporting that WWE Hall of Famer and all-time great "Rowdy" Roddy Piper passed away earlier today in his home in California. TMZ's report is citing that Piper, 61, passed away of cardiac arrest in his sleep.

We will have much more on this as the evening develops.

Personal Note from Mike: I am literally about to walk into the Mid-Atlantic Legends Fanfest's Hall of Heroes dinner as this news broke. I will have more as soon as I can. I cannot even begin to state personally how sad I am. My very first memory of pro wrestling, which made me an immediate fan, was Roddy confronting Mr. T on a "movie set" when I stayed up late one night trying to watch Saturday Night Live and instead woke up to find Saturday Night's Main Event. Roddy was one of my all time favorites and when my partners and I ran the first Pro Wrestling Film Festival, we were lucky enough to cap it off with Roddy appearing as an unadvertised surprise during our screening of "Pro Wrestlers vs. Zombies" where he was every bit of class that you would expect, in front of the fans and behind the scenes and even did a completely improvised Piper's Pit on stage. I am beyond sad and stunned and wish his family nothing but the best during this horrible time. To me, we lost one of the greatest performers ever.

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