In the Pit with Piper (Paperback, Berkley Boulevard trade pbk. ed)

Roddy Piper, one of wrestling's most notorious – and popular – players, rose to fame quickly in the 1980s, the time when pro-wrestling enjoyed its largest fan-following.  Now, with over 30 years of wrestling experience under his belt, he's written his tell-all autobiography In the Pit with Piper: Roddy Gets Rowdy with Robert Picarello.

Piper's bad-boy reputation precedes him.  From punching Cyndi Lauper to clobbering the mayor of Cincinnati, sucker-punching Mr. T and picking fights with men twice his size, Piper brought wrestling into the headlines and himself into the spotlight.  But, as pro-wrestling requires its players to play their specified roles, few people could really know the real Roddy, the man behind the red plaid kilt and bagpipes—until now.

Piper was the youngest World Wrestling Champ at age 19, has held over 25 titles, and has been a main event feature for 25 years.  He has an enthusiastic worldwide following, from the U.S. to Canada, to Mexico, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, and Australia.  Piper openly discusses his personal life, his professional life, and his views of the wrestling industry today.  This book is not only Piper's life story; it is also a historical perspective of the last 30 years in the American pro-wrestling scene.

From a man who joined the game long before it emerged as big-time entertainment comes a story that tells it like it is—and that's filled with as much excitement as the jam-packed arenas where he fought his fiercest foes.