Roddy Piper -- Best Memory of Dusty Rhodes ... Donkey Smugglin'!
Roddy Piper Best Memory of Dusty Rhodes?! ... Donkey Smugglin'!
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Dusty Rhodes was a "national treasure" ... the human embodiment of 24-karat gold ... so says his former ring-mate Rowdy Roddy Piper who's honoring his friend with a HILARIOUS memory.
Piper was clearly emotional about the death of the wrestling legend when we saw him out in L.A. Thursday -- so we asked him to share a memory of Rhodes that would make him smile.
What we got was AWESOME -- a tale of smuggling a donkey (or a zebra) to the 12th floor of an apartment in Minnesota.
"He was in a league of his own," Piper says.
R.I.P.