9. Roddy Piper
As a teenager, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper hated his father. I’m not talking about that usual teenage angst with the loud music and the slamming doors; I mean Roddy Piper hated his father. In fact, the relationship between Piper and his father was so toxic that the young Roderick Toombs packed up his bags and left home an the tender age of 15.
Though Piper usually stopped short of explaining just what his father did, it must have been fairly terrible as he chose to spend the next couple of years moving from youth hostel to youth hostel rather than returning home. At one point, he even wound up living on an Indian Reservation, such was his determination to stay away from his dad.
Of course, Roddy went on to becoming one of the most deserving WWE superstars to never hold the title, and probably the greatest heel of all time. You have to wonder just how much of his father did Piper use when crafting his villainous persona.
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