What followed was weeks of tag team warfare between Piper and Brooks against Rose and Wiskowski. Never was there a decisive winner, with the chain becoming involved almost every time. Finally Killer Brooks had had enough. He challenged Rose to meet him in the most dangerous match of all, the Dog Collar match. Rose reluctantly accepted the challenge and in the Summer of '79, he met Brooks in the Dog Collar match. Wiskowski of course, ran interference and Rose was able to score the win. Brooks left Portland around this time after doing the rounds, losing the deciding pinfall in tag matches with Piper against Rose and Wiskowski. The feud that had originally centered on Buddy Rose and Killer Brooks would now revolve around Rose and Piper.

During a match with Ricky Hunter, Rose made his way to ringside and taunted Piper. When Piper was tied up with Hunter, Rose took Piper's treasured bagpipes and destroyed them on the arena floor. Piper was so broken up that he called for the Coal Miner's Glove match. The ultimate score settler in Portland. To the shock of everyone, Rose defeated Piper. Little did we know at the time that Piper was leaving the territory.

Piper would return for a cameo appearance in 1980 to referee a loser leaves town match between Rose and Adrian Adonis. Despite his hate for Rose, Piper had to do the right thing and make the three count on Adonis. Rose showed his gratitude by jamming a foreign object in Piper's eye. This would set Piper up for more wars with Rose when he returned to the territory full-time in the coming months.

In Piper's absence, Buddy Rose formed the infamous Army with the Kiwi Sheepherders (the Bushwhackers). Piper returned to join forces with Ron Bass and Red Bastein to battle the Army. The six-mans all ended in no-contests, with Piper challenging Rose to go one on one. Rose however refused. Rose would spend the next month interfering in all Piper's matches and insulting him on TV promos, all the while refusing to face Piper in the ring. But Rose would eventually go too far.

The straw that broke the camel's back was when Rose stole Piper's kilt. During a TV promo he ripped the kilt and set it on fire. Piper would leave the ring, where at the time he was teaming with Stan Stasiak against the Sheepherders, and charge up to the Crow's Nest and try to put the fire out. Ironically by shaking the kilt, he caused part of the "No Smoking" sign to be burned away. (At the time, Portland Wrestling aired on a delay at 8:30 PM. Several people watching the TV show called the fire department about the fire. When the fire department showed up nobody was there. From that time on every Portland Wrestling broadcast started with a "Pre-Taped" graphic on the bottom of the screen.)

Piper would return to the ring and finish the match himself, for Stasiak had been injured by the Sheepherders in Piper's absence. Rose ran out and busted open Piper's bad eye, the very same eye he injured months before. Finally, the commissioner stepped in and forced a match-up between Piper and Rose.

What followed was not one, but a series of brutal matches. In the first, the top turnbuckle broke. Both men used it as a weapon and the match was ruled as a no-contest. They then met in a no DQ match. The Sheepherders interfered, but they messed up and the Army was forced to retreat, so Piper got a count-out win. Next, was a cage match. Before the bell, Rose locked the door so Piper couldn't get in. That however did not stop Piper. He climbed up and over the cage. Piper won the match, but on his way back to locker room he collapsed. He was in no better shape than the loser.

The Army became obsessed with taking Piper's hair. They threw out countless challenges, none however interested Piper. So finally the Army ambushed Piper during a TV promo and cut some of his hair off. Piper had no choice but to accept the challenge. First, he did battle with Sheepherder Luke Williams. Rose tried to interfere to help his Army mate, but his interference ended up backfiring and Piper won the match. Over the next several weeks everything was calm. But as the saying goes, "there is always a calm before the storm."

Piper had joined forces with Rick Martel in attempt to wrestle the PNW tag team titles away from the Sheepherders. In one particular match, Piper was able to hold Butch Miller down and cut off some of his long hair. Butch was furious and demanded a hair match with Piper, despite the fact that Piper had taken his partner's hair just weeks before.

Once again Buddy Rose's interference backfired and Piper gained the win. This time however, the Sheepherders did not just accept Rose's blunder. They parted ways with Rose and eventually left the territory.

Piper and Martel had won the tag team titles, but Piper only had one interest and that was to take the hair of Buddy Rose. The only problem is, Rose was once again refusing to face Piper. Promoter Don Owen, however, had a trick up his sleeve. He produced an open contract that Rose had signed earlier in the year. Piper signed it and the match was made.

In the weeks leading up to the match, Rose became very confident. He began taking the hair of several mid-card wrestlers. Using underhanded tactics, he actually defeated Red Bastein and shaved him bald. Rose was so confident after that, he went as far to say that if he didn't take Piper's hair he would give him his brand new Lincoln Continental.

The match was so big that the Sports Arena couldn't hold the demand for tickets. Don Owen booked the much larger Portland Expo Center to be the location. It was one of the biggest, if not the biggest, gate in Owen Promotions history to date. The match took place inside a steel cage. Piper had his hair on the line. Rose had his hair and car on the line. Red Bastein was the special ref, to Rose's dismay.

The match was back and forth with both men bleeding. Then to the horror of the fans, Rose set up his finisher, the backbreaker. However, Piper was able to counter with a small package. Bastein hit the mat and made the three count. The fans went wild as Rose was placed in a folding chair and his bleached blond hair was shaved.

You would think this would be the end... but it wasn't. Rose donned a mask with a blond wig sewn to it. During a six-man tag not but a couple weeks later, Rose successfully injured the back of Piper. Piper would then leave the territory. But the feud would never die.

In 1982 Piper faced Rose in Seattle, WA. Piper was coming in from the Carolinas and Rose from New York. Several Buddy Rose interviews conducted by Vince McMahon from the WWF's old TV arena in Allentown would air on Big Time Wrestling to promote the match. Rose would not be joined by his then manager, the Grand Wizard, in Seattle. The match would have no decisive winner, and both men went their separate ways.

Three years would go by. Don Owen and other PNW promoters were planning the biggest show in the history of the territory to celebrate the Owen family's 60th anniversary in the wrestling game. This show could not happen without Roddy Piper and Buddy Rose.

At the time, Rose and Piper were both working for the WWF. Piper was fresh off the biggest wrestling card of the time, Wrestle Mania 1. He was the top heel in the sport, but upon entering Portland, the fans were behind him and against Rose. The event took place at the sold out Portland Memorial Coliseum in front of over 13,000 fans. The show featured NWA and AWA World title matches and an AWA World tag team title match, but Piper and Rose was the main attraction. This night Piper would finally triumph over Rose with a clean-cut win in the middle of the ring.

Buddy Rose would spend the majority of the rest of his career in Portland. Piper would not. However, whenever Piper would make a guest appearance for his good friend Don Owen, the magical feud between he and Rose would rise. To my knowledge however, they never had another match.