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How wrestling’s biggest bad guy became the hero of John Carpenter’s ‘They Live’
How wrestling's biggest bad guy became the hero of John Carpenter's 'They Live',Back in 1988, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper was primarily known as one of the most conniving, sniveling, backstabbing bad guys in all of WWF (now WWE) wrestling. Sure, he had changed allegiances now and again, but deep down, anyone who’d been paying attention knew that the bane of Hulk Hogan’s existence was up to no good in the wrestling ring.

How wrestling’s biggest bad guy became the hero of John Carpenter’s ‘They Live’

Back in 1988, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper was primarily known as one of the most conniving, sniveling, backstabbing bad guys in all of WWF (now WWE) wrestling. Sure, he had changed allegiances now and again, but deep down, anyone who’d been paying attention knew that the bane of Hulk Hogan’s existence was up to no good in the wrestling ring.