Posted October 22, 201410 yr comment_5634870 NWA World Tag Titles: The Fabulous Freebirds (Jimmy "Jam" Garvin & Michael "PS" Hayes) © vs. The Midnight Express ("Beautiful" Bobby Eaton & "Sweet" Stan Lane) (8/14/89) Lane has some broken fingers on his left hand from the War Games match at the Omni a week earlier and they are heavily taped. Lots of schtick early on highlighted by Corny bashing Hayes in the back with the tennis racket as the crowd goes wild for everything. The MX dominates early but the Birds would catch Eaton and they would take turns pounding on him and this was good stuff as Eaton did a good job working FIP. Lane gets the tag and he throws some kicks before Hayes takes a cheapshot on Lane's bad hand and the Birds are back in control working over the hand. Lane fighting to get to Eaton was good stuff using his right hand to punch his way there but Nick Patrick didn't see the tag although Eaton didn't care and worked over the Birds. Lane would accidentally clothesline Garvin with his bad hand and Garvin would get up and catch Lane in an inside cradle to get the win. Fun match with some really good psychology and this is a low-end nomination to me.
February 11, 201510 yr comment_5653873 I really thought this was a blast. The Freebirds working the hand injury was solid stuff. Low-end nomination sounds right.
