2005 WWE HOF ROWDY RODDY PIPER PASSES AWAY YESTERDAY IN HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA!

YESTERDAY, NEWS BROKE THAT WWE HOF ROWDY RODDY PIPER PASSED AWAY FROM AN APPARENT HEART ATTACK AT HIS HOME IN HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA!  A TRUE ENTERTAINER IN THE WWF/WWE AND TRUE LOSE AT THE AGE OF 61 YEARS OLD!  SO MANY MEMORIES, AS HOT ROD PLAYED THE "BAD GUY" ROLE TO A TEE!!  FROM HIS FAMOUS PIPER PIT'S TO SEEING A LIVE PIT IN BALTIMORE AS AN 11 YEAR OLD!  A FAN TRIED TO JUMP INTO THE RING AND ATTACK PIPER!  HE LAID THE BOOTS/KNEES ON THE UNRULY FAN!  THEN BALTIMORE CITY COPS CARRIED THE FAN OUT AS THEY WERE PUNCHING/USING THEIR WOODEN BATONS ON THE FAN!  SEARED IN MY MEMORY!  I ASKED PIPER IF HE RECALLED THE ENCOUNTER?!  HE SAID, THAT HAPPENED SO OFTEN AND HE PROCEEDED TO TELL ME HE WAS STABBED 3X BY UNRULY FANS!  A GREAT STORY!  IN MAY OF THIS YEAR, PIPER APPEARED IN LANCASTER, PA @ CLIPPER MAGAZINE STADIUM!  I FINALLY MET THE LEGEND AND HE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN NICER TALKING TO FANS LIKE HE WAS YOUR LONG LOST FRIEND!  THANKS HOT ROD FOR THE MEMORIES AND REST IN PEACE!!!

 ABOVE IS A SIGNED LJN WRESTLING FIGURE OF HOT ROD!  ONE OF HIS ORIGINAL FIGURES MADE IN THE MID-1980'S!!

 ABOVE IS A SIGNED PHOTO FROM HOT ROD ALONG WITH A SIGNED CARD INSCRIBED WITH HOF 05

 A CONGENIAL PHOTO WITH THE HOT ROD!!!

 TALKING TO HOT ROD AND CREATING MEMORIES!!

 HOT ROD "SQUEEZING" A SIDE HEAD LOCK ME!  I ASKED FOR IT, AND HE DELIVERED!  THANKS FOR CREATING A MEMORY FOR ME HOT ROD!!!

 HOT ROD TALKING TO MY DAUGHTER!

 TALKING TO HIM ABOUT AN INCIDENT WITH HOT ROD AND AN UNRULY FAN IN BALTIMORE FROM 1984!