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TexasTowelie

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Fri Jul 31, 2015, 07:25 PM Jul 2015

Wrestling legend 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper dead at 61

TMZ is reporting that wrestling legend Roddy Piper has died. He was 61.

Variety confirmed the news via Piper's agent.

Piper, born Roderick George Toombs, was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma in 2006 but in 2014 he said he was cancer-free, according to TMZ.

It is being reported that Piper died from cardiac arrest in his sleep.

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/entertainment/reports-wrestling-legend-roddy-piper-dead-61/nnBBM/

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Wrestling legend 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper dead at 61 (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2015 OP
First Dusty Rhodes and now Piper. I'm sad. El Supremo Jul 2015 #1
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