Fabulous Freebirds
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The Fabulous Freebirds |
The Fabulous Freebirds were a
professional wrestling tag team that usually consisted of three wrestlers. They were famous in the 1980's and wrestled into the 1990's.
The Fabulous Freebirds started wrestling together in 1979 when
Michael "P.S." Hayes,
Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy and
Buddy "Jack" Roberts started teaming. They were heels and were among the first to come to the ring to music in the
United States; one of the few known to have used music before them was
Gorgeous George. They first came out to
Lynyrd Skynyrd's song "
Free Bird" and then Hayes recorded the other song that they made famous in wrestling,
Badstreet USA. They wore the colors of the
Confederate States of America and had rebel flags everywhere.
They always told people that they were from "Badstreet, USA" and that the street they lived on was the toughest and that they got tougher as you went down the street, and they lived on the last house on the right.
They wrestled in
WCCW, where they had a legendary feud with the Von Erichs (
David,
Kevin,
Kerry and
Mike).
They also wrestled in the
NWA's
Jim Crockett Promotions,
Georgia Championship Wrestling, the
American Wrestling Association,
Universal Wrestling Federation and
World Championship Wrestling. They had a very brief run in the
World Wrestling Federation in 1984, but left when they wanted to split the Freebirds up. The Freebirds were last together when Hayes, Gordy and Garvin teamed up in the
Global Wrestling Federation in 1994.
During the Freebirds run in NWA they captured the tag team championship. While holding the title they operated under the (unofficial) "Freebird Rule" which allowed any two members of the team to actively defend the titles on any given night. This "rule" has since been adopted by a number of other companies when a three- (or more) man
team captures a tag team title. Examples of this include
Triple X in
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, the
Jersey Triad in
World Championship Wrestling, and in
World Wrestling Entertainment both
Demolition and the
Spirit Squad.
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Michael Hayes - the leader and talker of the group, called "P.S." which stood for "Purely Sexy".
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Terry Gordy - the big brute of the group, called "Bam Bam". The most successful of all Freebird members.
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Buddy Roberts - the veteran of the group, called Buddy "Jack", due to his penchant for
Jack Daniel's whiskey.
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Jimmy Garvin - a member in WCW and a friend to the group in WCCW & AWA.
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Badstreet - the masked member in WCW and the group's light heavyweight/cruiserweight. Originally appeared as "Fantasia", but WCW changed the name to Badstreet to avoid a legal confrontation with
Disney.
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Big Daddy Dink - Freebird alias of Sir Oliver Humperdink and "tour manager" in WCW, 1990-91.
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Little Richard Marley - WCW Jobber Rocky King, who as "Little Richard Marley" served as a ringside pest to Freebird opponents in 1990.
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Diamond Dallas Page - WCW manager in 1991.
"My momma always told me, 'Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat!'" - Hayes
*1-Time
NWA World Tag Team Champions (Hayes & Garvin)
*3-Time
NWA National Tag Team Champions (Hayes & Gordy)
*1-Time NWA Georgia Tag Team Champions (Hayes & Gordy)
*1-Time
NWA United States Heavyweight Champion (Hayes)
*1-Time
WCW World Tag Team Champions (Hayes & Garvin)
*2-Time
WCW United States Tag Team Champions (Hayes & Garvin)
*1-Time
WCW World Six-Man Tag Team Champions (Hayes, Garvin & Badstreet)
*1-Time
WCCW American Tag Team Champions (Hayes & Gordy)
*5-Time
WCCW Six-Man Tag Team Champions (Hayes, Gordy & Roberts)
*1-Time
WCCW Television Champion (Roberts)
*1-Time
UWF Heavyweight Champion (Gordy)
*1-Time
UWF Television Champion (Roberts)
*1-Time
Mid-South Tag Team Champions (Hayes & Gordy), (Gordy & Roberts)
*2-Time Mid-American Tag Team Champions (Hayes & Gordy)
*1-Time
GWF Tag Team Champions (Gordy & Garvin)
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Pro Wrestling Illustrated ranked them #
3 of the 100 best tag teams during the "PWI Years" in 2003 (Hayes & Gordy).
*They won the 1981 PWI Tag Team of the Year Award (Hayes, Gordy & Roberts).
Blackbirds
The
Blackbirds were formed in
1988 in
World Class Championship Wrestling by
Iceman Parsons. He had just teamed with
Terry Gordy and
Buddy Roberts as the "Blackbird" in their feud with
Michael Hayes. He teamed up with
Perry "Action" Jackson and
Harold T. Harris to form the Blackbirds. They also wrestled as The Blackbirds in the
Global Wrestling Federation in
1992.
Extreme Freebirds
The
Extreme Freebirds were formed in
NWA Wildside and the NAWA by the son of Terry Gordy,
Ray Gordy. He teamed up with Tank and Iceberg in
2004 to form this group.
