Rowdy Roddy Piper Predicted He'd Die Young

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf-sNmLjzz0&feature=youtu.be&t=4m33s Rowdy Roddy Piper predicted he'd die young. "My pension plan I can't take out until I'm 65. I'm not gonna make 65, just face facts guys," he said in a 2003 documentary about pro wrestling deaths. He proved right in his assessment, aware of the fact that his lifestyle wasn't conducive to a long life. In his prime he'd been a huge drinker and Ric Flair had compared him to the rock band The Rolling Stones. All night drinking sessions, followed by all day wrestling gigs, was a normality for Piper. He had a legendary stamina for partying hard. On Wrestling Observer Radio this weekend, Dave Meltzer offered a little more thought on Piper's lifestyle catching up with him. "Roddy himself didn't expect to live long. He lived a really wild life, he had a rep going back into the mid seventies, that's forty years. He was pretty wild, through the seventies, through the eighties. It is a lot of stuff." Unfortunately, excess of youth often has a way of catching up with people in their advancing years. Piper had also suffered a cancer battle in 2007, but had beaten the illness and was reportedly cancer free at the time of his death. At least he lived a full life, with experiences that most people couldn't fit into ten lifetimes.