Jim Cornette on The Freebirds
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- From Episode 212 of Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
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As a thirteen-year-old I remember getting cable for the first time and getting to find Georgia championship wrestling wow what a day that was!
With Gordon Solie on WTBS!
Incredible time. The Fabulous Freebirds, The Von Erichs, Ronnie Garvin ‘Hands of Stone’, and so many great wrestlers. I could listen to these stories all day.
Hands of Stone*
Were they great wrestlers or just great characters?
@@BUPMY1 both
Garvin couldn't wrestle his way out of a wet paper bag.
@@Rockhound6165 Speaking of Wet, whatever happened to RG's valet Precious?
The Freebirds vs Von Erichs was one of the greatest and most entertaining feuds in the history of wrestling. Watching it as a kid back in the early/mid-80s was everything to me. Just awesome.
Some of my first wrestling memories (other than Ric and Dusty) were the Freebirds and Von Erich fueds. Loved watching them!!!
Yesssssss sirrrrree
I’m 45 and remember those days. Plus I later got Smokey Mtn. Wrestling
Only the dude that left the first comment is telling the truth the other two of you are tag alongs of him cornette
@@mikescott8903 what bro
@@CertifiedHuSTLer were not bros but you're the only one who makes sense around here
Grew up a huge Freebird fan, went to school with Ray Gordy, Terry’s son. Great guy.
Did Ray Gordy ever consider following in his dad's footsteps? That would've been awesome.
@@dagokolloff7999 ...Ray was in the WWE system for like 6 years and was all over their TV 2007-2009. They gave him a hillbilly gimmick and paired him with the big goofy guy from the bullet club.
@@douglaspatrick868JESSE?!?! FROM JESSE & FESTUS?!?! PLEASE TELL ME JESSE IS A FUCKING FREEBABY 😂😂
@@player1connected Yep, that's Bam bam's kid!
I saw him and his sister on the Gordy episode of Dark Side of the Ring episode. Sad what happened to Terry
Thank you, Jim, for an accurate timeline! I've met too many people who don't know they weren't originally a 3 man team with Roberts. Hayes and Gordy were a regular 2 man team at first.
They had incredible chemistry and everybody knew their role and was perfectly fine playing it. What many younger fans don't realize is that Michael Hayes is a top-5 ever on the mic. And in many senses, I would prefer him working on the mic than somebody like The Rock because he could put over the opponent and talk on the mic as a heel or face and you completely bought into it. Terry Gordy was more or less 'the enforcer' who was one of the greatest big men ever. And Buddy Roberts was there to provide the viciousness in beatdowns, bu t look the fool and do the job when they lost.
They were the perfect foil for The Von Erichs, consisting at that time of David, Kerry and Kevin. This led to creating the 6 man tag team belt which really meant something. And because it was a 6 man tag match, it was much easier to create great, exciting matches than if you were doing just singles matches. And that's perhaps one of the greatest legacy of the Von Erichs and Freebirds...nowhere else could you get a feud that revolved around 6 man tag matches.
Quite a few groups have tried to replicate The Freebirds, but none of them have been successful in doing so.
Lived in Fort Worth from 1967-1999 and remember well the Von Erich DYNASTY and the Freebirds wars......I went to ONE match in my life in FW and saw all six wrestle....it was awesome. RIP Von Erichs and Bam Bam.......
Always loved watching the Freebirds. The intro to the Movie Highlander with the Freebirds strutting into the Arena is cinema gold!
Even Connor McLeod wanted to watch The Freebird.
YES! Amazing.
People in Mid South wanted to kill the Freebirds. So how did Connor McLeod smuggle a sword into the stadium???
Different part of the country I know...
Thanks for saying that. I though i was the only one who noticed 😂
When Jim said everybody who was a wrestling fan got cable to watch Georgia championship wrestling he is 1,000,000,000% spot on
The WCW version with Jimmy Garvin & Bradstreet was pretty cool but nothing beats the original 😎🤼🤼💪
Terry Gordy was at his best in 1981 when he split from Michael Hayes and started teaming with Jimmy Snuka. There is a classic promo where Snuka smashes three cinder blocks over the chest of Ken Patera using a sledgehammer. Terry Gordy proceeds to tell everyone watching at home to "go get a twelve pound sledgehammer and try it on yourselves, maybe put it on your heads and knock a little sense into you, and recognize some class when you see it". Gordon Solie deadpans his response by saying "no, no, Terry Gordy's comments are not well taken, and you sir are excused". It is my all time favorite promo and can be found on RUclips by searching (GCW August 1-2 1981). Edit: also search RUclips (Bob Roop explains his version of the sleeper hold to Gordon Solie. WCW February 1983) Gordon tells everyone at home to not try the sleeper hold yourselves. Bob Roop interrupts and says "unless it's on someone you don't like, like your sister or somebody". Gordon looks horrified. Classic.
That's what I tell people now if you never got a chance to see the late great Gordon solie RUclips is a wonderful thing because his commentary his interviews and his calling the matches were so spot-on that there will never be another
Corny's told that story about the o-z in the boot a few times and it makes me laugh every time.
"And the crowd popped for it!"
I was an east coast kid but thanks to TBS and syndication, I grew up in Georgia Championship Wrestling and also World Class… the Freebirds, Von Erichs, Tommy Rich, Mad Dog Buzz Sawyer. Those are the guys I grew up on. I loved this segment Jim!
My favorite Freebird era was 1986/87 UWF Bill Watts. Man they were in their prime.
That Georgia Championship Wrestling with the Freebirds and Austin Idol, was the first time I had ever watched pro wrestling back in 1980. So freakin cool.
I hated the Freebirds when they were in Mid-South, back when it was just Lord Michael Hayes and Terry Gordy. Their main rivalry was Cowboy Bill Watts, Colonel Buck Robley, and Junkyard Dog. Then they added Buddy Roberts. I was young!
By the time I was able to catch World Class a few years later. My mindset changed, I rooted for the Freebirds.
I was at that huge Superdome show w The Freebirds taking on - as I recall - a blind JYD, Bill Watts and Dusty Rhodes inside a cage w bullwhips. I remember local media being stunned that there were so many people at that Superdome show. The Freebirds generated serious heat.
Wasn't it Rhodes/Col Buck Robley in the double bullrope cage vs Gordy/Roberts ? Also Andre/Hogan on that card if it's the same one I attended. We had floor bleacher seats on the babyface entrance side, Andre & P Orndorff came out next to us to watch Paul's brother Terry's match. Andre even 'chatted' a bit with us.
When I was little, I watched Georgia Championship Wrestling in Ottawa, Canada in 1980 on TBS. Freaking fantastic! Made me a life-long wrestling fan.
Heaven help the person who touched Terry Gordy's van.
I do not think many people now will get what you are talking about but I love that promo!
Poor Bill..lol.Theyll never be another great 3 man tag team like The Fabulous Freebirds.ruclips.net/video/Fo9MGFg-4Ys/видео.html
I didn't like the Freebirds version with Hayes, Jimmy Garvin & Gordy. That version stayed beating the Midnight Express & Dr. Death Steve Williams a lot back in 1989. Cornette talked about it in his past episodes especially when he talked about Dr. Death beating the shit out of Jimmy Garvin with a wooden chair
was Gordy still with them then, memory is fuzzy but I thought it was down to just Hayes and Garvin
Happened at Boston garden . I was there and Gordy would have kicked dr deaths ass
Gordy was splitting his time with the Freebirds and WCW and All Japan. He eventually showed up in USWA/Dallas by the end of the year and early 1990 to feud with Lawler.
I was there that night in July of 89 in Boston when Doc and Garvin went at it with chairs. I was 14 at the time and I remember thinking to myself, what kind of drugs Garvin was on trying to go at it with Doc. It clearly turned into a shoot and Garvin wasn’t a big man even on steroids.
@@philipclarke9696
From what Corny was saying in the clip, Garvin was on the supplements & he was trying to wrestle like the Road Warriors. He didn't want to sell anything for Doc, so Doc took a wooden chair, hit Garvin so hard with it, Garvin shouted "FUCK!!!" Doc retorted: "FUCK WITH ME!!!" & hit him again.
The Midnights from Fall 1988-Winter 1989 were getting over as babyfaces. I was 10 years old & marked the hell out when they teamed with the Road Warriors in that War Games match against the Freebirds & the Samoan SWAT team. Also the Freebirds not putting the Midnights over for the NWA World Tag Team titles along with some shitty booking (I forgot who Corny said was screwing with the ME's booking as faces) really killed them
I remember DDP and Johnny B Badd doing the 4 flat tires gimmick on WCW Saturday Night in 95 lol.
I grew up on watching the Freebirds vs the Von Erichs. Those were the days!
I would buy a Freebirds BLU-Ray as soon as I saw it. They were great against everyone- especially the Von Erich’s.
That picture of Cornette looks like Herman Munster
🤣 wonder what Jim's thought of Rob Zombie rebooting the Munsters?
I first seen the 'Birds on GA CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING, very early 80's, piledriving DiBiase, blinding JYD, Robert Fuller losing his Cadillac to the 'Birds. The Freebirds at the time was the best ever.
People forget Freebirds had some great runs with the Road Warriors, AWA and NWA
I remember Jim Cornette back in the day when he carried around the tennis racket in Mid South Wrestling, if I remember correctly he managed the midnight express and they had a lot of battles with the Rock n Roll Express here in my hometown at the Alexandria Coliseum in Alexandria Louisiana.
2 and the Freebirds were my first fave wrastlers. I was 10. To this day Terry's Piledriver is one of the all time great finishers. Poor Million Dollar Teddie when he took 6 lmao
I grew up in Abilene Tx was in the world class championship wrestling and freebirds vs von erichs were the best feuds ever.
Bad street
The Freebirds were featured in the greatest movie ever made.
What movie devils rejects?
The Highlander
@@goodfellas2994 DR comes in 3rd after Highlander and Red Dawn.
4th is Die Hard. 5th is Predator. 6th is My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic!
@@z216ghost My first five were serious. I just threw MLP in there so I would have something that wasn't blood and guts.
I was a 100 percent Free bird fan. Loved them Michael Terry and Buddy and then Jimmie
On Terry Gordy: "He was a wildass f'n country boy who didn't know his own strength and would kill you playing with you." He makes him sound just like Lennie from "Of Mice and Men". 😂
In a way, he was.
It was Sullivan teaming with job guy Mike Davis. Davis won his first match the week prior against Rocket Monroe. The Freebirds picked Davis as Sullivan's partner. That was part of the angle in order to get a shot at the tag titles. The Freebirds would pick Sullivan's partner and Idol was the supposed to be the referee. I remember seeing it when it first aired.
My favorite tag team of all time, well them and of course the 4 horsemen with Ole and Arn!
I was a big fan of the Freebirds. I was like 4-5 during their awa run and thought they were so cool.
Bad street, Atlanta GA
Loved the free birds it was normal to see Terry Gordy in stores here in Soddy daisy TN just North of Chattanooga great guy
When Austin Idol didn't show, Mike Davis, who was later one of the Rock & Roll RPMs substituted for him. He did well, but got pinned and carried out of the ring. I believe they piledrived him. That got them more heat by hurting this guy that had the heart and guts to go up against them with Sullivan.
That initial letter was signed Michael Hayes
I always thought Michael Hayes’ gimmick was more based on Jim Dandy Mangrum and less on Ronnie Van Zant.
I low key want that PS Hayes art as a tat
Most promos were better when cocaine was involved
Most things are better with cocaine involved.
@@natebaxter9551 couple bumps
Not really. You'd be unintelligible like the Ultimate Warrior if you were hopped up on coke.
@@eiephants Maybe, but this one is an all time classic :)
ruclips.net/video/2v7HLzYVWF0/видео.html
I forgot who said it but one time someone compared the Freebirds to those relatives you were always glad to see, but after a while you were ready for them to leave. He explained because when they first show up you knew the territory was going to draw money but after a few months guys were ready for the Freebirds to leave because of their backstage antics. Especially Michael because he became too much to deal with. He knew the Freebirds were good and wouldn't let anyone forget it.
The key. ...... They were real . That's the problem now. They all think they are actors..
I'm so glad I was around to watch the epic freebird/von erich feed from the beginning. I hates the freebies with a passion! But I am older now and respect the work they did
Excellent matches. i recall on netflix interview with Hayes and Roberts. Roberts had a throat problem. Interview was awesome. WOuld love to hear more stories, scandar agbar awesome interview. agbar had a piece of the dallas sportsatorium memorabilia. incredible talent. wwe will never do that. so sad. thank you for the memories.
The Austin Idol flat tire thing was redone in Mid South with Terry Taylor. Part of his heal turn.
love the history segments.
Georgia Championship Wrestling with Gordon Solie was IT back then
Grew up watching GCW and Gordon Solie on TBS as a teen in Northeast Alabama. And to me the "Freebirds" were the original antihero, way before the NWO. Me and my buddy were always Terry & P. S. When we wrestled on the trampoline
Terry and Michael were the Freebirds.... Buddy was just there to get his ass best every match
one of the best tag teams/stables of all time.
Can't Forget Jimmy Garvin
Maybe have a segment every show to educate younger fans. This was fun to learn more about a group I never got to see.
I just love the ad Segways 🤣👏🏿
I was listening as I got ready for work so I didn't Skip to the next clip. Corny made me spit out coffee so it didn't go out my nose with the filthy ear bud commercial. You are the man, JC..
When I was a kid, I'll admit Terry Gordy scared me.
The promo at the end is amazing...
😂 @ the ounce of weed falling out of Roberts' boot.
That's the kind of stuff we're missing today.
Had no idea Gordy started wrestling that early
takin them marijuana pills!?😂
Explain to the folks at home to the fabulous Freebirds are
Hey I’m living in Lake Charles 🤣 I can see it. I remember the first time I saw the birds they were in Georgia. Then I saw them against the Von Erichs. I hated the Von Erichs lol
Jim, I love the Cartoon on this one.
"Freebird" by Lynard Skynard is still my Favorite Freebird Ring Entrance Music.
This art guy makes everything look like king of the hill get Travis back please
Conrad stole him too!
We need a Freebirds omnibus!
By the time they came to World Class, Michael Hayes was a GREAT worker!!!
I don't know what you're selling, but the way you've described it (SOLD)
In 1983 I was 8 years old and my uncle and my uncle tells me bout these guys on southern wrestling called the Road Warriors. He just got this thing called cable.
I saw my first show and after never seeing anything but the WWWF, I was hooked
Superstation TBS was Chanel 28
It was an 8:05 am and 6:05 pm on saturdays
I hated the Braves for playing on Saturday nights lol
I was 13y.o. in '83 and me and my buddy was the Freebirds and we let his little brother be Gordon Solie. That is until we saw The Road Warriors, then we became Hawk and Animal on the trampoline 😁
My story is the similar. Got in to Wrestling in the Fall/winter of that same year (83') when my folks moved into a bigger place & we were finally able to afford cable . Wildfire Rich/the masked "Mr. R", Dibiase, Jake "the snake", King Kong Bundy, Road Warriors, Buzz Sawyer, Bret Wayne Sawyer, Sweet sugar brown/Skip Young, Pistol Pez Watley, Brad Armstrong, the Spoiler, & Ronnie Garvin to name a few! Great memories indeed! Up until then i would have to rely on magazines & that one friend that everyone had because he seemed to have EVERYTHING (including cable of course) in order to get my Wrestling fix lol. I always HATED gone fishing with Orlando Wilson show that preceded GCW myself as well as Braves baseball too..(or Hawks basketball) ...Thx for sharing.
@@brainspin7518 that is so awesome
I was a big wrestling magazine guy foe years
I remember when Dibiase unmasked Mr. X and Tommy rich was smiling and waving from the podium to reveal Brad Armstrong
Great memories lots of great names on your list pistol pez becoming Shaska lol
Been waiting for jim to comment on one of the most overall talented wrestlers of all time. Michael Hayes
Hayes actually beat Luger for the U.S. belt in 89
My gosh a 16yr old Terry Gordy vs Ernie Ladd?
The Freebirds vs the Von Erich s
Buddy looks like Dave from Scooby Doo
The Fabulous Freebirds of Hayes, Gordy and Roberts were the best 3 man heel team of that time period. The 1990's version of the Freebirds was just the worst. Reason being was because of Jimmy Garvin being on supplements trying to be a badass which failed and also Michael Hayes had this idea in his head that the Freebirds were gonna be how they were in the 80's but by that time, Buddy Roberts was retired and Terry Gordy was doing dates in between with All Japan.
They we're DX before DX
Waaaayyyyy better (IMO)! But still a good comparison Alex.
freebirds were my favorite group when I was 9 years old and just discovered there was other shows besides wwf
I worked in lake Charles
RUclips was SO MUCH BETTER in the territory days.
I don't remember a slimmed down Jim Duggan in the Freebirds but I won't question this artist.
*I think he kind of looks like Will Ferrell in a wig.* 😊
@@CoyoteDuran1 willem dafoe
My dad used to get drunk with the freebirds in cobb County ga.
Corny totally missed a great opportunity to mention how bad Otis Sistrunk was when he had a sip of coffee in Georgia. I love how he called Hayes “Rick” in his promos.
Jim Cornette breaking down the details of The Freebirds….
Fact check time:
When the Culkins split off and started their own territory, Leroy McGuirk was still in charge. Bill Watts was his booker. The Culkin territory went kaput around January 1979. Mid-South didn't start until more than six months later. The strong relationship Watts had with the executives of WGNO (their New Orleans affiliate) and certain political players in Louisiana allowed him to break away from McGuirk. However, the Culkins filed an antitrust lawsuit against McGuirk, which led him to decide their dealings were through. McGuirk told Watts "If you're gonna take Louisiana, you're also gonna take Mississippi and deal with that lawsuit yourself".
When the Freebirds were in Mid-South, the booker was Buck Robley, not Watts. Watts may have booked for a brief while during their tenure after firing Ernie Ladd, however.
I couldn't find the clip right away and it's been a while since I've seen it. Did the "decency vs. filth" line really come from Kevin or was it actually David who said that?
Also, seeing as how Corny was around when the Freebirds began in 1979, he should have mentioned that they were billed themselves from California in those early days.
FOUR flat tires!!!!
They drew Corny like Pepe.
Lmfao I see jim Cornett talking about the free birds and have to click.
IT'S CORNETTE YOU GAYLORD
Friday night videos man, I think it was NBC? 23:03 to 23:23 is very on the nose! lol
THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE THE FREEBIRDS. IT'S LIKE LYNRYRD SKYNRD HAD A BABY WITH THE HEART FOUNDATION.
The freebirds was always my favorite..But as much as people mention the von erichs...I enjoyed the Georgia days more.They were popular but great heels...Unfortunately..later..WCW ruined them..
No. Michael did. He was on the committee and pushed himself and Jimmy cause he thought it was still 1982
@@kevindouglas5333 Facts! It was lightning in a bottle then ...Like trying to catch your shadow or smoke in you hand.
They was great
Omg I remember watching the JYD and DiBiase against the freebirds and DiBiase got pile driven 4 times on live tv
The first true great heel stable IMO! The Horsemen came later & were great too in a different way. But the Birds were ahead of there time IMO.
Them ‘ Mississippi DeltaBoyee’s Roam Far An Wide From Home’ Brian ‘ Like 🛩#3000MilesFromGraceLand ‘
One of the greatest of all times the freebirds just like the road warriors AKA legion of Doom The horseman the Von Eric's the Heenan family NWO I would love to see them be on today's stage I was born in 77 Chicago and watch awa wrestling to start off with and NWA and went to WWF and watched UWF but the best was NWA and the freebirds was on all of them whipping ass
Jim Cornette really is the Forest Gump of wrestling isnt he 😂🤣
Yes they were the first....but I a sorry, when you hear the single bas drum of Black Sabbath's Bill Ward....and then here the power chord Iommi riff..and Ozzy through electric microphone..."I AM IRON MAN..." and then the LEGION OF DOOM, The Animal, The Hawk...The ROAD WARRIORS....then metal and the perfect tag team made for that metal era....the best entered the bulding....THE ROAD WARRIORS and sure there was the Precious on but we all know that Hawk and Animal took tag team ...hell wrestling to another level. The Freebirds began rock n wrestling and they will always be known for that but The Road Warriors, like metal - WILL NEVER DIE.
Man said Reggie instead of Reggae LMMFAO 😂
That feud was still good after Lance Von Erich was inserted to round out the 3 man team. Lance could work too. Probably better than Kerry and maybe even Kevin. And sometimes they'd throw Brian Adias in a Von Erich match too.
Best Tag Team group of all time
Well, I can’t fault the kid for not knowing they WROTE “Bradstreet USA”. Last did state the subject of the email was “YOUNG FAN…”