Another wrestling icon is gone. Cite.
BONG
“They” finally caught up to him. 
Didn’t he just do an interview on the Rich Eisen show?
I wonder if he ever got more bubble gum.
RIP
Oh man. He was unique in the world of wrestling. This is sad news. Good night Roddy, wrestling heaven just got a lot more entertaining.
Awful , awful news. Was one of my favorites in mid Atlantic, Georgia , and finally the WWF. It’s a case of mind over matter, I don’t mind and you don’t matter.
I hate to hear this. Goodbye, Mr. Piper. Despite any personas you adopted, you were truly one of the good ones.
Very shocked and saddened to hear this. I genuinely liked Hot Rod.
Even Jimmy Snuka is sad.
Frogtown has gone to Hell.
I guess he can finally take off those glasses.
RIP, Mr. Toombs; you totally fucking rocked!
RIP Roddy.
We’ll always have They Live.
I loved how he would stick his finger in his ear right before he belted someone.
I hadn’t thought about Roddy Piper in decades. Thanks to Ted Turner, back in the early 80s I used to watch Georgia Championship Wrestling as a pre-teen living in Wisconsin. I didn’t follow pro wrestling much past age 12, but I still have great memories of those small-time matches and watching Piper.
61 used to seem old but now seems young. RIP Roddy.
He doesn’t have any more questions… he has all of the answers.
He was wrestling to me. The sass, the moves… the body.
(I like a muscled for everyday use body… with a little bit more… no spending hours pumping need apply. Just… don’t be flabby all over.
Oh, guess I chose my hubby of 20+ years for that physique.)
My long-winded way of saying… Roddy was the Body who I looked for, the Mouth I listened to… . and, well, he made a few time sensitive gaffs but no-one’s perfect… not even Mr. Perfect.
He was awesome as a down on his luck wrestler on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Rowdy Roddy…
I was first introduced to Roddy Piper doing color for Gordon Solie on Georgia Championship Wrestling on TBS in the late 1970s or so. The first feud I saw him was against Bullet Bob Armstrong, though he rarely, if ever, wrestled for ‘free’. So many iconic lines and moments. He made Hogan as much as Hogan, if not more.
“Just when you think you have all the answers, I change all of the questions.”
Bye, Hot Rod.
Aw, I remember watching “They Live” on … what, Joe Bob Briggs Drive-In Thee-yay-ter, or Up All Night, in better days. I read where they picked Roddy Piper to star because they liked his face. I did, too. RIP.
I’m too young to remember his career in the territories and I only vaguely remember his WWF run (him dropping the IC title to Bret Hart stands out), but I do vividly remember his WCW run when he came in as a free agent to challenge Hogan and the nWo. He was past his prime by then, but he could still put on a great show.
I’m telling all my coworkers to kick ass and chew gum in his memory this weekend.
I just watched Piper saving Gordon Solie from Magnificent Muraco and subsequently knocking out Muraco with a roll of quarters. They turned Piper in the Mid-Atlantic and Georgia territories after he was knifed by an irate fan (the magazines claimed he’d saved a group of kids from a knife wielding maniac).