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Pretty cool story I found about Piper.
Wrestler Stabbed
(Syracuse Post-Standard; August 5, 1982)
RALEIGH, N.C. – Professional wrestler Roddy Piper was stabbed in the chest Tuesday night by a fan of another wrestler who had defeated Piper earlier in the evening, police said.
Piper, 31, who police said often plays the role of “bad guy” in the ring, was treated for the chest wound and a hand injury and released about 2 a.m., according to Wake County Medical Center officials.
William Isom, 43, or Hartsville, S.C., was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, police said.
Piper said a man confronted him in a stairwell at the Raleigh Civic Center and began shouting obscenities while slashing at him with a pocket knife and that he picked up a pipe to defend himself, police said.
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