"Rowdy" Roddy Piper shared a special bond with a young up-and-coming fighter who would soon become the international star, Ronda Rousey, in this WWE Biography clip. | A&E

SNEAK PEEK: WWE’s Mr. McMahon, Ronda Rousey, Mr. T & more pay tribute to the “ultimate bad guy”, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, during his Biography special TONIGHT at 8/7c. #WWEonAE | A&E

POV: it’s 2003… and Roddy Piper just shattered one of WWE’s unspoken rules by calling Vince McMahon “Junior” — live on the mic. This wasn’t a promo. This was tension you could feel. The return of Piper’s Pit turned nuclear fast. Piper dragging out Vince’s past failures, Vince firing back with personal shots — and suddenly the script didn’t matter anymore. When two larger-than-life personalities who genuinely dislike each other share a live microphone, that’s when WWE becomes must-see television.