Eric Embry + Brickhouse Brown vs Iceman Parsons + Gary Young

 

Ice is so great as a chickenshit opportunist. Embry's is good at getting slaughtered. Young is solid, but sometimes his facials aren't their and sometimes lacked fire. I thought he bumped well. Brown was just fun with an amazing dropkick. This starts out hot. The Parsons/Brown pairing was built up so well the crowd was creaming themselves.The double sleeper spot was great. Especially how Parsons helped Young escape. Overall I liked this a lot. The way the wrestlers worked here made for a compelling match. I'll put this up for nomination.

Brickhouse Brown & “Flamboyant” Eric Embry vs. Iceman King Parsons & Gary Young (1/6/89)

 

Here are your two hot angles in the promotion all in one match and everyone delivered here. Lots of fun action with the heels being great in their roles especially Iceman and the faces being really hot especially Brick who had his working boots on. TV time would run out but they would continue the next week where they left off with Embry being an awesome FIP and that whole sequence was really good. Super Black Ninja would run in for the DQ which sucked but the newly turned Jimmy Jack Funk would run in to make the save. Finish sucked but this match was great and a nomination.

Now this is what I've been waiting for from this feud. Great, white hot tag team action. Grade-A stooging from Iceman early on, as he really doesn't want to be in this match. Only gets tagged in when Young slaps him on the back of the head while Parsons is looking the other way, and then Young hangs off of the ringpost to avoid being tagged back in. Iceman looks like he's going to cry when he realizes he has to go toe-to-toe with Embry and Brickhouse. Also had that great segment where they were basically having parallel matches (Iceman vs. Brickhouse in the ring and Embry vs. Young outside), and Akbar getting on commentary talking about how the greatest American heroes were Benedict Arnold and Richard Nixon. This moves forward.