Pro wrestler 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper dead at 61

Legendary wrestling champion "Rowdy" Roddy Piper has died at 61, World Wrestling Entertainment has confirmed.

The WWE Hall of Famer passed away in his Hollywood, Calif. home after suffering a heart attack in his sleep Thursday night. He was discovered on Friday, TMZ reported.

Piper, who also went by the name "Hot Rod" which was often seen blazoned across his shirt, had been diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 2006 but last fall said that he was cancer free.

In his monumental career, he was named Intercontinental Champion, World Tag Team Champion, WCW U.S. Champion and inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005 in Los Angles.

He also acted in a number of Hollywood films and TV shows, his most successful film having been the 1988 sci-fi cult classic, "They Live," directed by John Carpenter.

Piper’s own Cinderella man story began at the age of 15 when he took on Larry “The Axe” Hennig but spectacularly lost in just 10 seconds.

The determined fighter rose up from that defeat to battle it out in rings in Winnipeg, Canada to Los Angeles before earning a place within the National Wrestling Alliance, the world's oldest wrestling organization, in the 1970s.

When he started his WWE career in 1984 he was regarded as "one of the most-hated villains ever to step between the ropes," according to the organization.

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