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  • supes
    For the love of Mego's!
    • Jan 19, 2004
    • 2070

    Rowdy Roddy Piper.. broken neck, needs surgery

    WWE's "Rowdy" Roddy Piper Goes Under the Knife for Broken Neck
    Email Story Print Josh Grossberg, eonline
    37 minutes ago

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    Rowdy Roddy Piper

    "Rowdy" Roddy Piper 's gonna teach that pain is a four-letter-word all right—in the N-E-C-K.

    The wrestling icon and sometime film actor is in a world of hurt after an MRI recently revealed he had a broken neck.

    Piper checked into the UCLA Medical Center and will undergo surgery today to fix the problem, which was discovered after he experienced some neck pain—nothing unusual really in his line of work...until doctors looked at the X-rays.

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    "Well Tweets. In 5 hours I'm being taken on a hard battle. I'll be 10 days in hospital, Doctors told me," he wrote on his Twitter page . "So I figure give me a day!"

    Hot Rod explained that the injury apparently occurred when he was doing Fantasy Factor and WWE Access, but he never knew what hit him.

    "I hurt all the time. I just thought the neck injury will go away. But after couple months my neck is hurting worse. No sleep from pain," he tweeted , before adding , "So I got to best Doctors in Country. When Doc saw the MRI's he went into 911 attitude fast. So now at 10 a.m. there cutting me open!"

    Piper took the news of the operation in typical stride.

    "So just for the record, I beat, The Miz, Terry Funk, and 2 other guys with a brikrn neck!! And the Raws and WM where I broke it!" he noted .

    Despite the seriousness of the surgery, leave it to the They Live star to chew bubble gum, kick *** and crack jokes at the same time.

    "There's a bright side of geeting neck cut off," he told his devoted fans. "You get to wear bumless house coats. Great jello...help me out here!"

    And just before heading into the OR, the 57-year-old Piper held his head high like the indefatigable Scottish warrior he's known to be.

    "GOT TO GO AND GET CUT NOW! THERE USING ALL THE SMARTS THEY HAVE AT UCLA. I SAY, BRING IT ON!! CUT DEEP!! I'M NOT AFRAID ONE BIT!!! he

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  • JediJaida
    Talkative Member
    • Jun 14, 2008
    • 5675

    #2
    I'm speechless....

    The man walks around with a broken neck, and is laughing about it????

    He could have DIED!!! Broken necks are no joke!

    He could have snapped his spinal chord and ended up a quadraplegic for the rest of his life!

    I understand about maintaining an upbeat attitude, but this smacks of denial and stupidity to me.

    He makes it sound like he had a mild sprain.

    DUDE! YOU'RE NECK IS NEARLY BROKEN IN TWO! TIME TO GET OUT OF WRESTLING! YOU'RE GETTING TOO OLD FOR THIS CRAPOLA!
    JediJaida

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    • Mikey
      Verbose Member
      • Aug 9, 2001
      • 47258

      #3
      Doesn't he have some kind of bad disease ?

      I heard that a few years ago but I forgot what he has.

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      • 4NDR01D
        Alpha Centauri....OR DIE!
        • Jan 22, 2008
        • 3266

        #4
        Piper is a legit tough guy.

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        • EMCE Hammer
          Moderation Engineer
          • Aug 14, 2003
          • 25766

          #5
          It's only broken a little.

          I'm just glad the guy's still alive, there aren't many of that generation left.

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          • CrimsonGhost
            Often invisible
            • Jul 18, 2002
            • 3610

            #6
            He had cancer, but he apparently beat it. Smashed it in the head with a coconut, so I've heard!

            Unfortunately, wrestlers are expected to work thru pain. They are constantly in pain, so I'm not surprised Piper didn't worry too much and waited for it to get better. I imagine that's how he usually handles it.

            Also, the "quotes" in the article were actually tweets, and Roddy always tweets in character.
            Expectation is the death of discovery.

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            • Cmonster
              Banned
              • Feb 6, 2010
              • 1877

              #7
              Here's to a quick recovery HOT-ROD!!!

              SC

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              • TEXASFETT
                #1 Bounty Hunter
                • Aug 29, 2008
                • 1473

                #8
                Piper is the man no doubt see him every year and fun to chat with. May you have a speedy recovery.

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                • toys2cool
                  Ultimate Mego Warrior
                  • Nov 27, 2006
                  • 28605

                  #9
                  wow that sucks, he's such a great guy...never met a nicer celeb
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                  • Nostalgiabuff
                    Muddling through
                    • Oct 4, 2008
                    • 11424

                    #10
                    I love this guy. I had heard he was dying from cancer as well. glad to hear he beat it. He was on the local rock station recently and he said that the reason he did movies like They Live was so he and his wife could afford to have another child. it seems everything he did was for the benefit of his family. he also said he refused to take any of vince McMahons **** and did his own thing, even though it was to the detriment of his career in the WWE

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                    • toysrus
                      Persistent Member
                      • Aug 23, 2007
                      • 1247

                      #11
                      Wow! Hope Piper heals well!

                      Anybody remember this?

                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw47gXsDwjw

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