Michael was the talker/showman, Terry was the enforcer and buddy was the whiskey drinking technician. Great team!

Freebirds were magic.@@toma.4808

Him turning his head to each side was cooler than anything going on in professional wrestling today

Buddy got old quick.

amen

I remember it also. I thought who is that Buddy guy.

Buddy is my all time fave wrestler

I think Terry Gordy was a GREAT heel and was NOT underrated. Do you REMEMBER his pile driver, used to "injure people" ? Then he went to Japan and returned with the SPIKE... I thumb to the throat. I hated Gordy but [spoiler alert] in THIS match... Kevin "Big Sexy" Nash and The "Last Ride" Undertaker... THAT move is what Gordy used to FINISH HIM long before anyone every HEARD of Nash or The Undertaker... Gordy was just before his time. His only flaw... he was not good on the mic. Just my opinion...

A lot of great wrestlers of yesterday still are giving no respect.

Just to think he was only 19 in this video

@@ptdennis1906 He had other flaws . He was a hard drinker and it effected his reliability , he had to do things to excess including drugs , he was a great throwback wrestler but that was not selling tickets , and he was often overweight . I liked Gordy but The Freebirds had run their course and he kept returning to it out of loyalty to Michael Hayes who needed him a hell of a lot more than he was needed by the other two .... Buddy Roberts was as solid a performer as Gordy but he did not have the physical presence . Buddy sold as many tickets as a singles wrestler as he did in The Freebird ...He and King Parsons were selling out towns with no Von Erich on the card . Smaller towns true but he was over for being a heat magnet

Terry Gordy was a larger version of Dick Slater‼️👍

The past six years is more like it...

I love the way some people feel the need to mock the WWE for any reason.

You got that right... also CWF, too

@@MrSniperfox29: It’s not an insult. Many, if not, all of the talent in many of the Regional territories of professional wrestling back before Vince McMahan decided to do a takeover were the pioneers of what wrestling is today. A good example was The Road Warriors. These guys were popular within The NWA and The AWA in the early 80s. Then a couple of years later, WWF made Demolition. I called them FATolition. Anyway you call them, they were Brand-X of pro wrestling. And it was always like that. Anytime the NWA/WCW made a story or a new niche where it became popular within the masses, WWF would follow along with it.

100% WWE is full of personalities but no compelling storylines or wrestling talent.

Hayes had a habit of misusing words showing he wasn't as worldly as he'd have you believe . Example In the opening interview that most teams are " compromised " by two members when he meant that most teams arecomprised of two members .

He meant compromised. Reasoning is two members are easy to form a strategy against whereas three are harder to strategize against.

@@whizztelevision4112 A team being compromised is at a disadvantage ...comprised is the right word .

I had the privilege of being an employee of my hometown coliseum back in the day. One of the best parts of the job was when wrestling came . I had the honor of meeting and chilling with just about every big name you can imagine from the 80s and 90s . Terry Gordy even dedicated a forearm crush to Kerry Von Erics chest to me during one of their matches . Years later i took my then 3 year old daughter to the matches . Although i was not an employee anymore i still knew some folks and they let me take her backstage to see her favorite BIG SHOW . after a few minutes of guys like Dusty Rhodes and Jerry lawler rubbing her head BIG SHOW and Jim Neidhart came out of the back . She freaked out and started screaming DAD , its BITCHO ITS BITCHO !!! He looked a bit annoyed and reached WAAAAY DOWN and slowly picked her WAAAAY up to his face and said in that deep as hell voice ... BIG SHOW . She was all excited about getting picked up by Big Show . He best part though was when Neidhart looked at him and said “bitcho“ lol. I wonder how long he kept that name behind the scenes .

Hayes could win a match with his mouth and a microphone...a rare skill

Pork Beans hey Pork beans we are getting old life was so much easier back then we was kids not a care in the world we didn't even understand life

We watched this on Saturday afternoons, and WCW from Fort Worth Saturday nights. The best rivalry in wrestling was Von Erichs vs Freebirds.

Those were good days damn good days.

Yeah and Brad Armstrong as Fantasia/Badstreet was just pitiful. But it was hilarious when he interfered in the Freebirds vs Young Pistols title match for both teams, first as himself for the Pistols (his brother was a member) and then for the birds as Fantasia. Good memories.

And Terry was not yet called "Bam Bam".

I didn't like or dislike Gravin as a free bird.

Indeed

I might be wrong, but I think The Kangaroos were first

They weren't first with music. They were first to use Rock music. Look up Gorgeous George matches in the 50s. He used classical. People falsely just say first to use music.

Only the coolest know what the Freebird Rule is.........

No that was Super Star Billy Graham

Superstar Billy Graham was the best on the mic. Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Jesse Ventura, Dusty Rhodes and Austin Idol have all used stuff from the Superstar. And have all said he was the best. 💯💯💯

Ur dad was a great man! Mine.... Not so much

Ray Bee Prissy Sissy.

Look how skinny Tim Horner was!

Debut in Georgia.

Robert Fuller Jr he was Dale Valentine back in the southwest championship days and had a feud with Ricky Steamboat . He was Promoted by Joe Blanchard ( father of Tully Blanchard) and Johnny valentine as Johnny’s brother and toured between PAC west , New York , deep south and Joe Blanchards SCW. After that he changed to Buddy Roberts and was a big part of the wrestling world . The man will be missed by us old hardcore rasslin’ fans

Thanks to both of yall for recognizing the brutal brilliance of Buddy Roberts!

Yes Buddy Roberts and Jerry Brown.The Hollywood Blondes.

I bet they had to stop using it once they got to be a household name. I'm sure the Skynard estate put out a cease n dismiss order is why they stopped using it. They probably thought this would happen sooner or later, but wanted to run it until then. Worked!

I can see that. Hayes and Gordy originally teamed up in Tennessee and then went to Mid-South. As Hayes was barely out of his teens and Gordy still in them, Bill Watts put Buddy Roberts with the duo to help them along as they were still pretty green.

That's EXACTLY who he WAS imitating. He loved Jim Dandy and BOA!

@@LadyDragonsblood except there’s no mean bone in Jim’s body.He’s a real nice old man.

@@bigroy38 Oh I know.... I met him a few times. He is a chill dude.

@@actionsub Hayes and Gordy actually first teamed in the short-lived Mississippi territory run by the Culkin family, local promoters who split from Leroy McGuirk. Both of them were primarily jobbers before that. That territory folded in early 1979 and Hayes and Gordy then went to work for Nick Gulas.

Whats the name of their song on this video??

Freebird

Curious who is your dad?

No. He popped on out at one age and just stuck with it.

hell yes he did!

lou thez used a powerbomb in 1950

Gordy greatest big man ever!

When he drops his knee pad, he is covering his shin which is what he is actually hitting his opponent with

google bullet bob armstrong! That's who Michael PS Hayes got his style from

jvinson totally

he looks horrible now w/that pencil mustache

Same here,it's weird,he looks like a totally different person here, didn't see them at this time when they started it, too young or we didn't get that show here in Texas, don't remember seeing it, first saw him when the Freebirds were in World Class in the 80s during their fued with the Von Erichs, still had that attitude but he seemed way more gruff and savage there, they all did, that was some kickass shit to watch as a kid, great period in wrestling!

He looks like a kid without his beard. The Freebirds were great , they new what it took to get the crowd all spun up and excited. Thank you Micheal PS Hayes , Terry Gordy, and Buddy Roberts for all the memories and good times .

I still loved Flying Fred Curry and Tex McKenzie, though!!!

Firpo oh yea!

The ref is Sonny "Rough House" Fargo, one of the Fabulous Fargos along with Jackie Fargo.

Beats hanging out with the missus at the Regal Beagle.

Horner was always a scrub.

EnforcerX71 That was because some matches took place in a different area from where he was commentating.

Gordon did get around over the years. He was simultaneously doing commentary for Georgia Championship Wrestling and Championship Wrestling from Florida, and off and on he'd also pull duty for Ron Fuller's various promotions.

Solie was closely tied to Eddie Graham and influential in the development of his television programs. When Ann Gunkel split from the Georgia promotion and started her own group, she took almost everyone, including announcer Ed Capral. Graham, being a part owner of the Georgia promotion, brought Solie in to Atlanta because his credibility would help solidify the NWA position, and Solie ended up sticking around for years afterward. His work for other promotions came about mostly in the mid-to-late 1980s when the business changed dramatically and promoters were looking for a certain presentation on television, which as helped by Solie's credibility and reputation.

You never know ,maybe they had a robot of him made ,like the terminator only this one doest harm anyone.

@@actionsub who worked for ron fuller in u.s.a knoxville? Gordon?

That is a cool line

Agree with you 100 percent

15:00. Word: Dick Slater was Stone Cold in Georgia,but it seemed he was always a heel for CWF. RIP Gordon and Dick.

Kurt Seery They really are

Kurt Seery Lord Lil Brook 😂😂😂😂😂

"verbal judo" I am just cracking up........ good one. 😄😁😃

wrestling has had those moves for 1000s of years. bjj is just copycat

@@kevinbbadd yea, and Eddie Bravo is still kicking about claiming he invented it.

He had a busy schedule

Damn....he looked about 35

It makes me think that jobbers are just low paid "dick-jackin" toys for the heels to use in the ring...jobbing dick jackers? hmm, seems about right, paid a few bucks to be beaten-up while being inconspicuously roughly dry-humped on by cocky, horned-up, mean, bully-like heels...

drofmadness wow just noticed that lol

Good eye!