This is to crown the first ever World Class Six-Man Tag Team Champions. David and Kevin Von Erich cut a promo before the match lamenting that they won't be in the match because of Kerry's World Title shot later that night, but as it turns out, Buddy Roberts couldn't make it to the arena due to weather problems, so David offers his services as a replacement. If nothing else, this match needs to be on the set because with all the Freebirds matches with Michael Hayes as a great scuzzy heel that will inevitably make the cut, this match stars Hayes as the hidden great babyface of the 80's. Faces control the first part of the bout, and that is all about Hayes as energetic dancing babyface throwing a lot of kicks. He sort of looks like the best possible missing link between Mr. Wrestling II and Kofi Kingston. It really makes you wonder how he ever developed a rep as a poor worker. He throws a lot of kicks and has all kinds of fruity embellishments. If he were working today, dudes on the internet would be fawning all over him. Then he spends most of the rest of the match as face-in-peril, and he's awesome doing that, too. He gets put in chinlocks and bearhugs and whatnot, and he really frantically tries to fight out instead of just lying around doing nothing. He really gets over the struggle. There's one great part near the end where he's in a rear chinlock, and he's brought all the way down to the mat, but in desperation he manages to turn it over so he's on top and just starts wailing on his opponent. Gotta give the assist to Iron Mike Sharpe and Tom Steele, both of whom weren't afraid to bring the hurt here. For a guy I've never even heard of before, Tom Steele really impressed me, and while I haven't watched a ton of this stuff yet, I already feel like doing a "Texas Stock Picks" post where I can pimp Iron Mike Sharpe. There was a $10,000 on a pole battle royale before this (don't ask), and while I wouldn't nominate it in a million years, when it got down to the last three guys, Sharpe was one of them, and he was just vicious trying to get that check. Terry Gordy was Terry Gordy. Whenever he was in the ring, he laid a hurting on people. David and Ben were the obvious weak links of their respective teams, but not enough to hold this match back significantly. Just crazy action from start to finish, and an amazing babyface performance from Hayes that you probably wouldn't expect. I think it's a slam dunk nomination.

 

(WCCW X-Mas Star Wars 82)

SLL, don't put ?s or hearts in the side yet. I'll edit those in once the crew starts chiming in. That is how I divide the matches for discussion.

 

With that said, I almost feel like this is a mortl lock just form the paragraph you wrote. Good deal.

SLL, don't put ?s or hearts in the side yet. I'll edit those in once the crew starts chiming in. That is how I divide the matches for discussion.

 

With that said, I almost feel like this is a mortl lock just form the paragraph you wrote. Good deal.

Ah, gotcha. My bad. And yes, this should be a mortal lock.

I've talked about all of these except.

 

 

3. NWA World 6-Man Tag Team Titles Decision Match:

David Von Erich, Michael Hayes, & Terry Gordy vs. Mike Sharpe, Ben Sharpe, & Tom Steele

 

I thought this was a good solid bout & 2nd all that is said about P.S. His face work was great. I thought the heels were solid. The finish was good. I don't feel this is a slam dunk; but feel people should view this bout. I feel it's more of an extra.

Decision Match for the vacant World Class Six-Man Tag Titles: The Fabulous Freebirds (Terry “Bamm Bamm” Gordy & Michael Hayes), & David Von Erich vs. Ben Sharpe (Johnny Mantell), Iron Mike Sharpe, & Tom Steele (Kelly Kiniski) (12/25/82)

 

It sucks we don’t get the pre-match promo by Hayes talking about David joining them. I wonder why Iron Mike’s partners used fake names here and how did they get this match since they weren’t regulars. I totally agree with SLL about Hayes as he was fucking awesome as a babyface which he doesn’t get the credit for because of his legendary heel routine. Gordy was of course great here looking fired up hitting some high impact moves on Kiniski. David was fine here but wasn’t the focal point of course as they had to get the Birds over for later in the night. Steele isn’t a factor here although funny to see him in this gimmick before he became Johnny Mantell. Kiniski showed some charisma here as Steele which is more than he did as himself and had some decent offense. Iron Mike was the total MVP of his team by stooging around and hitting some hard-hitting offense especially on Hayes who was great as the FIP of course. It would break down into a wild brawl at the end featuring David hitting his high kneelift on Iron Mike for the win and a great celebration after the match to some great crowd heat. The promo after the match was key with David handing over his part of the titles to the Birds for Buddy. Hayes’ actions through all this is interesting as he was in sorta disbelief over David’s decision. This definitely moves forward as it was a very good match.

David Von Erich, Michael Hayes, & Terry Gordy vs. The Sharpe Brothers & Tom Steele, WCCW Star Wars 12/25/82

- All the faces get their shine against Iron Mike but he gets the tag in the corner and it looks like David might be FIP but he isn’t attacked for long before the faces go back on offense. This actually happens twice but the 2nd one felt more like a hot tag even though we are only 6-7 minutes into the match. Eventually the heels are able to take control of Hayes and by far, Hayes has been the MVP of this match. The heel offense isn’t anything to write home about but Hayes’ energy is enough to keep me entertained. I mean, his fighting out of an Iron Mike bearhug was good stuff, thinking he would make the hot tag only to get caught in a sleeper, fighting out and then get stuck again. Hayes is milking this for all it is worth. Gordy coming in only to ram his shoulder into the ring post and tagging in David who gets the pin on Iron Mike to further the impending VE-FB feud. Man, I am torn on this match. On one hand, Hayes was a one man show here and it was a great showcase from him. On the other hand, the heels weren’t really exciting, they didn’t really show any of the viciousness I want out of my 6-man teams like you would get from the heel Birds or Choshu’s Army. It was just three stiffs. I am going to keep this in doubt but Hayes was really fun in this. This is the kind of match I can se eputting on if we need to add a match to even out the personal picks or something.