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About Rowdy: The Roddy Piper Story
Product Description The biggest pro wrestling bio since Bret Hart's Hitman: legendary Rowdy Roddy Piper's unfinished autobiography, re-conceived and completed by his children, actress/musician Ariel Teal Toombs and wrestler Colt Baird Toombs. In early 2015, Roderick Toombs, aka Rowdy Roddy Piper, began researching his own autobiography with a trip through Western Canada. He was re-discovering his youth, a part of his life he never discussed during his 61 years, many spent as one of the greatest talents in the history of pro wrestling. Following his death due to a heart attack that July, two of his children took on the job of telling Roddy's story, separating fact from fiction in the extraordinary life of their father. Already an accomplished wrestler before Wrestlemania in 1985, Roddy Piper could infuriate a crowd like no "heel" before him. The principal antagonist to all-American champion Hulk Hogan, Piper used his quick wit, explosive ring style and fearless baiting of audiences to push pro wrestling to unprecedented success. Wrestling was suddenly pop culture's main event. An actor with over 50 screen credits, including the lead in John Carpenter's #1 cult classic, They Live, Piper knew how to keep fans hungry, just as he'd kept them wishing for a complete portrait of his most unusual life. He wanted to write this book for his family; now they have written it for him. Review “The real-life stories of wrestlers have proven great literary fodder, and this memoir-biography of wrestling’s greatest heel confronting his demons is one of the subgenre’s best.” — National Post “[W]hile the plethora of stories and information about his impressive in-ring career and time in the spotlight should be more than enough to satisfy wrestling aficionados, Rowdy also chronicles Piper’s rough-and-tumble early days growing up in Winnipeg and other parts of Canada. . . . [T]he book also shows a softer side.” — Calgary Herald “[This] revealing but touching biography . . . completes the record of a man fans just loved to hate, and to whom they hated to say goodbye.” —Miami Herald About the Author ARIEL TEAL TOOMBS is an actress and singer in Los Angeles, California. She is the middle daughter of Roddy Piper. COLT BAIRD TOOMBS was an undefeated amateur MMA fighter, who has turned his attention toward professional wrestling. He is the son of Roddy Piper and lives in in Portland, Oregon. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. WCW had absorbed the old Mid-Atlantic Wrestling and turned Jim Crockett’s Starrcade into its own premier annual event. It took place in December, far from McMahon’s early spring WrestleMania. In the 1996 edition, Roddy Piper settled the old score once and for all. He caught “Hollywood” Hulk Hogan in a sleeper and won Starrcade’s main event. During the bout, Hogan had put him in an abdominal stretch, which made Roddy’s large hip-surgery scar fully visible to the cameras. Roddy had asked him to do that, and also to hike up his trunks to show it off clearly. At another moment, Roddy hopped around on that leg to further make an important point. Not McMahon nor any other promoter could ever cast doubt on Roddy’s ability to wrestle on that titanium hip. Before Roddy put the sleeper on Hogan, an imposing new member of the NWO had tried to interfere in the match, attacking Roddy and lifting him several feet off the mat for his signature chokeslam. The Giant was the biggest wrestler to hit the big time since Andre (in fact, Roddy escaped his grasp by dipping into his old giant-fighting toolkit, biting him on the nose to make him let go). Behind the scenes, the seven-foot rookie and the much smaller veteran had made fast friends. “There’s a story Big Show tells in front of God and everyone,” said Roddy (The Giant would change his name to Big Show when later wrestling in the WWE). Big Show told us the story himself. “I was green as grass. I was driving in on a Sunday night into Wisconsin and I got i
