The pro-wrestling world lost one of its best known personalities on Friday with the death of Canadian "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, he was 61.
The WWE posted on its website that Piper, whose real name is Roderick Toombs, died on Friday, but there was no immediate word on the cause of death.
Piper was born in Saskatoon and rose to prominence in the 1980s, battling the likes of Hulk Hogan in what was then the World Wrestling Federation.
