For months, Rick Rude was frustrated by the insults and manic ring style of Roddy Piper. The "Ravishing One" lusted to meet Piper in a steel cage bout, figuring it would be his best chance to humiliate his foe-but it would be Rude who would suffer the worst embarrassment! IT ALL STARTED with a full moon... Roddy Piper's full moon, that is.  For many argumentative weeks last summer, Rick Rude and his manager Bobby Heenan, locked up with Piper in a war of words on the set of the USA network's Prime Time Wrestling. One time, their verbal salvos became so intense that Rude and Piper had to be pulled apart by several cameramen and production people. "That was the worst thing I've ever seen in all my years in this business," said one crew member. "We really thought that Piper and Rude were going to tear each other apart right there. It took all of our resources just to quiet them down and get them out of the studio. Right then, we all knew that with a man like Piper involved something big was going to happen." It was only about two weeks later when Rude locked up with The Ultimate Warrior during SummerSlam'89 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Rude was the Intercontinental champion, and he was in full control of the match... until Piper ambled out to ringside, lifted his kilt, bent over, and exposed his rear  to Rude.  Piper thought it was hilarious. Rude was shocked, and he lost complete control of the match. Moments later, with Rude angered and confused, the Warrior easily captured the victory-and the Intercontinental belt. Rude put full blame for the loss on Piper, buy Piper seemed pleased just to have gotten under Rude's skin. The two men started a feud that quickly become the WWF's hottest, as they warred in arenas all over the country. But the more Rude became angered, the more Piper seemed to enjoy it.  Once, Rude got the better of Piper by attacking him on the set Brother Love's interview segment. But for the most part, the "Rowdy Scot" has taken a great deal of pleasure in provoking Rude. "That's the way Piper likes to operate," said Don Muraco, a close friend of Piper's.  "If he doesn't like you, it's not enough for him just to beat you.  He's got to insult you and humiliate you like nobody else can.  Throughout the Rude-Piper matches, there wasn't any clear-cut winner as far as pin falls goes, but you could just see that Rude was getting more and more frustrated.  With every match that he couldn't put Piper away, he got more flustered." Tired of wrestling Piper to draws, count outs, or double-disqualifications, Rude petitioned WWF officials for a match against Piper in a steel Cage.  Locked alone in a cage with Piper, Rude believed he would defeat his tormentor and drive him from the sport-forever. gaines auto insurance texas Piper, however, got the last laugh, as he always seems to do.  Instead of marking the occasion when Rude would defeat and embarrass Piper, the cage match went entirely the other way around. Piper once to a game of one-ups-man-ship, no one is better.  After the Cage was assembled, Rude came out to the ring first.  He had a noticeably different look on his face.  As usual, he grabbed the ring microphone and insulted the audience, but he did it in a quick, brusque fashion. outside the ring, Heenan smiled. It was clear that the duo had planned a rough night for Piper.  "It's not the smartest thing to get Rude really angry like that." said Manny Fernandez, Rude's partner when they held the NWA World tag team title in 1986 and 1987.  "When Rude gets really frustrated he'll do just about anything.  And in a steel cage, where there's no disqualification, he knows he can get away with anything." Which is just what he tried to do with Piper.  Unfortunately for Rude, his first attempt at brutality backfired.  He went on the attack as soon as Piper got into the ring, but the Scotsman was ready for him.  Piper whipped Rude into the bars of the cage, bringing up some ugly welts up on his back.  Taking the belt off his kilt, Piper then whipped Rude and gnawed ferociously at his forehead.  Within two minutes of the opening bell, Rude was already bleeding profusely. Rude courageously fought back and nearly had his man unconscious when he tried to stroll through the cage door for a quick victory.  But Piper recovered, ran to the door, and pulled Rude back by his tights.  In the process, to the fans' delight, the tights came down.  With his backside nearly fully exposed, Rude scrambled back into the ring to try to cover himself up.  Piper wouldn't give him the chance. Rude climbed the cage wall to try to escape again, but Piper repeatedly pulled him back into the ring. Frustrated and humbled, Rude knew that he was coming within inches of one of the most through defeats of his career.  Heenan handed Rude a pair of brass knuckles through the cage door but even that didn't help. Piper snatched the knuckles from Rude belted him across the face with them, and walked out of the cage laughing all the way. "Isn't that just like Piper?" reflected Muraco. "The guy just has a knack for really rubbing it in against his opponents.  Rude never had a prayer in that cage.  Once Piper embarrassed him, Rude got flustered, and he totally lost his game plan.  If you ask me it might have been one of the biggest wins of Rod's career."  As well as one of the biggest humiliations of Rude's.