Wrestling legend “Rowdy” Roddy Piper died Thursday night. He was 61.
Piper died of cardiac arrest in his Hollywood home, according to TMZ.
Piper (real name: Roderick George Toombs) rose to wrestling fame in the 1980s, and was admitted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005.
Piper was one of the wrestling league’s most popular villains, which played up Toombs’ Scottish heritage — he was actually born in Canada, though his character was billed as from Glasgow — with his signature kilt and the bagpipe music that would accompany him into the ring.
