UWF Tag Titles: “Genteleman” Chris Adams & Terry Taylor © vs. “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert & Iceman King Parsons (3/20/87)

 

They battle in two rings because there was going to be a battle royal later. Adams starts a buckwheat chant before the match for Iceman since he called him jailbird and the crowd obliges. Iceman then calls Taylor a thief and his mother a ho-bo, which is hilarious. Adams decides to chase Iceman around the ring but it didn’t last long and the match finally started with Gilbert & Adams in the ring. Jesus, Gilbert & Iceman are fucking awesome as a chickenshit stooging heel team, their mannerisms are great and it’s even more amazing that Iceman wasn’t a heel earlier. Gilbert’s selling here of Adams’ offense is also great and I loved that when Gilbert got to his corner when Adams was in the ring, Iceman conveniently moved out of the way but told Eddie that he loved him. We go to a commercial break and returns with Iceman on offense on Adams hitting a diving axehandle off the second rope. Iceman immediately tags Gilbert when Adams starts to make a comeback and Gilbert doesn’t want to come in either. Gilbert then tells Adams that he is going to make him pay for his treasonry against Iceman and eats a punch to the face for his trouble. Taylor would finally tag in and would stomp a mudhole in Gilbert who sold this like a fuckin champ. Adams & Taylor would take turns beating on Gilbert doing the old switcharoo behind Carl Fergie’s back with Iceman’s selling of this hilarious. Iceman would finally have enough of this and hit his ASS BASED OFFENSE on Taylor then tagged in to start the heel control section. Gilbert & Iceman were relentless on Taylor and everytime he tried to fight his way to Adams, they cut him off immediately. Taylor would finally hit a desperation backdrop suplex on Gilbert and got the hot tag on Adams conveniently with Iceman in the ring and the war was on. Adams came in and took care of Iceman then hit a Superkick on Gilbert in the ribs but Gilbert recovered enough to hit Adams in the back as he backdropped Iceman. Gilbert then tried a cross body block but Adams caught him and they both went over the top rope with Gilbert taking a great bump that results in a double countout finish. The finish sucked but god damn did this match kick fucking ass and a definite nomination.

Iceman was completly awesome here, Gilbert is great too, I am not in love with Adams and Taylor as a team, but Parsons and Gilbert are kingsized. I actually didn't mind the finish as both guys took a big enough bump, that I bought a double count out