Loss Posted October 10, 2012 Report Share Posted October 10, 2012 Talk about it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted December 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2012 Check out those Freebirds outfits. Wow was WCW really being booked like a regional outfit at this point. Good to see Buddy Roberts though. They do show a clip of them visiting Hollywood a few months earlier and being mobbed by fans, which has a great payoff later on the yearbook. Hayes and Garvin are entertaining, and they live the gimmick, but I have no idea why they'd invest so much in them this late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteF3 Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 Holy shit, it's BUDDY ROBERTS. I had no idea this actually happened. Check that, it's GENERAL BUDDY LEE ROBERTS. They're back in Confederate gear and this is as close to the UWF/World Class 'birds as we'll ever get in WCW, I believe. Jimmy and Michael cavort around Hollywood and naturally wear their wrestling gear while doing it. It's too bad they were pretty much zeros in the ring at this point because from a strict personality standpoint both guys had a lot to offer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 The stars and bars are back. I do think this may be the closest the birds got to UWF days as this was effective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted February 6, 2013 Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 Nice outfits. Video of the Freebirds being swarmed by five fans in Hollywood. They are the greatest rock and roll band in the world. Indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackToBionic Posted March 16, 2013 Report Share Posted March 16, 2013 If they're "the greatest rock and roll band in the world" how come they're staying at a Holiday Inn? Kidding aside, I'm a big Freebird mark and agree that this is as close to "old" Freebirds as we get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted March 16, 2013 Report Share Posted March 16, 2013 Check out those Freebirds outfits. Wow was WCW really being booked like a regional outfit at this point. Good to see Buddy Roberts though. They do show a clip of them visiting Hollywood a few months earlier and being mobbed by fans, which has a great payoff later on the yearbook. Hayes and Garvin are entertaining, and they live the gimmick, but I have no idea why they'd invest so much in them this late. They keep investing and investing and investing over the next two years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted March 17, 2013 Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 If they're "the greatest rock and roll band in the world" how come they're staying at a Holiday Inn? Kidding aside, I'm a big Freebird mark and agree that this is as close to "old" Freebirds as we get. We are not the greatest rock and roll band in the world but we did stay at a Holiday Inn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garretta Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 The Hollywood vignette was pretty good, though Hayes can stop with the mascara any time he wants to. The interview I could have done without, mostly because Smothers and Armstrong should be feuding with the MX instead of these guys, even if Stan and Bobby aren't the US champions anymore. The Confederate facepaint wasn't as inappropriate here as it would be somewhere else; remember, this show was in North Carolina, where the Stars and Bars mean something to almost everyone, be it positive or negative. Nice to see Buddy Jack, but I don't think he was with them for long this time. Ideally, WCW would have paid enough for Gordy to join the group at least for Clashes and pay-per-views, but Ole was never one to spend that kind of dough, and considering how well Bamm Bamm was doing in Japan by then, he wouldn't have come cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drew wardlaw Posted May 24, 2016 Report Share Posted May 24, 2016 The Freebirds look insane. Even ignoring what's painted on their faces, just them with the full paint and Jimmy Jam going for it is a wild scene. Then them as the Hollywood rock stars diving into the limo actually is pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSR Posted February 9, 2017 Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 The Freebirds are in full on confederate flag gear, complete with confederate flags painted on their face (although it looks like Hayes’ has sweated off) and have Buddy Roberts with them. Tony Schiavone says that the match which has had everyone buzzing here was the Southern Boys victory over the Freebirds, although he’s sure these men would disagree! Jim Garvin tells him that I’s a good job he’s shut his mouth now before General Buddy Lee shoves his fist down it! They’re sick of being treated like garbage and if these people can’t respect them, they’ll teach them how to respect them! Nobody messed with the Freebirds before and nobody is going to mess with them now. Roberts says that they’re going to get the Southern Boys out of here, these people may think they won the battle, but they will win the war. Hayes tells ‘Bullet’ Bob that he was step number one and there will be many more to follow. They’re still the greatest Rock & Roll band, still kicking butt, still taking names and still raising chaos! He then has a video of when they went to Hollywood and were mobbed by fans wherever they went. I had no recollection of Roberts being with the Freebirds as late as this in the NWA at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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