We all know Roddy Piper the legendary wrestler is dead. TMZ has learned that the wrestler born Roderick George Toombs died from cardiac arrest in his sleep at his home in Hollywood on Thursday night. He was discovered on Friday morning.
Piper was a wrestling icon -- one of the biggest stars in the WWE back in the '80s, and even wrestled in "Wrestlemania I" back in 1985 ... squaring off against Hulk Hogan and Mr. T.
