TMZ Sports: ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper dies of cardiac arrest at 61

Wrestling legend “Rowdy” Roddy Piper has died at the age of 61, TMZ Sports has learned.

Piper — born Roderick George Toombs — died from cardiac arrestin his sleep at his home in Hollywood on Thursday night. He was discovered on Friday.

Piper was a wrestling icon — one of the biggest stars in the WWE back in the ’80s, and even wrestled in “Wrestlemania I” back in 1985 … squaring off against Hulk Hogan and Mr. T.

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