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Post by elliott on Dec 10, 2017 22:31:34 GMT -5
Kerry Von Erich vs Michael Hayes (Loser Leaves Town Cage Match - WCCW - 11/24/1983)
Awesome match that is blowoff of the original Freebirds vs Von Erichs run. This is a short match but is an all out war with both guys punching the shit out of each other. People who like Dibiase vs Duggan All Gimmicks or Hashimoto vs Tenryu 98 should watch this. It is just like that.
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Post by problematic on Jan 10, 2018 2:48:51 GMT -5
Second. This is an incredible sprint. I think I had it 2nd or 3rd on my Texas Set ballot, and why I think that is hands down the weakest of the DVDVR sets this match still stands out in the memory. Hayes was such an awesome shit kicker heel when he was unleashed, he could preen but still stand toe to toe as he does here. Total "feels like a fight" match which is my favorite kind of match. I actually prefer this to Duggan v. Ted. Sue me.
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Post by superstarsleeze on Sept 10, 2018 23:50:08 GMT -5
Third this. This and the 7/4/83 six-man are the two best World Class matches. Kerry and Hayes are made for each other. Thanksgiving Loser Leaves Town Cage this belongs in the same breathe as DiBiase/Duggan and Magnum/Tully.
Kerry Von Erich vs Michael Hayes - 11/24/83 Loser Leaves Town Steel Cage Match
Off the top of my head, I can't think of a better sub-ten minute match! Absolutely electric match that pays off the entire angle in one incredibly climax! They met in the very structure that caused this blood feud a steel cage and after a year it is time for the ultimate blowoff, a Loser Leaves Town match. Kerry and Michael play their roles to perfection and cut a terrific pace. Michael never once backs down from Kerry and this makes for one helluva fight, Those fists were flying early and love the early attempt at the Claw. Hayes throwing Kerry into cage and choking him with the bandage was perfect heel wrestling, Even better was Kerry using these tactics against Hayes and Hayes is busted wide open. I love the Sleeper in the 80s it is such a BIG move in the sense of a titanic struggle. Hayes applies it first to break Kerry's momentum only to see Kerry power up and apply his own. I love this tit for tat, taste of your own medicine wrestling. Here comes the big Hayes push for victory, suplex, bulldog and piledriver in succession, but Kerry gets foot on ropes. I think thats lame in a cage match. It is Loser Leaves Town just hotshot everything BABY and kick out of the piledriver BABY! Kerry nails a suplex out of a suplex struggle. Here comes BAM BAM! The very man that slammed the door into Kerry's head in shot heard round the world. Head collision and both are out. Buddy Roberts scales the cage and tosses in knux. Hayes catches them, but Kerry nails a discus punch and the knux go flying. Fritz slams Gordy into the table. Kerry obliterates Michael Hayes. Buddy climbs to the top to save Michael, but crotches himself on the cage and falls pathetically to the ring. Love it! Kerry 1-2-3! Banishing Michael from Texas! Fritz slams the door on Gordy to tie up that loose end and finally Von Erich vengeance is achieved!
The match is a little too short and there are a couple details I did not like that keep this from being absolutely perfect like DiBiase/Duggan. In terms of blowoffs and paying off multiple elements of a blood feud, this is hard to beat and it is like the DiBiase/Duggan of World Class! Really fucking awesome and not talked about enough! ****3/4
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Post by mvz on Mar 13, 2021 2:26:46 GMT -5
I loved how in the early going Kerry kept giving back what he got from Hayes. Hayes bulldog and strut looks great.Good point by Sleeze on the pile driver, have Kerry kick out! Regardless, great way to end this feud with a couple of callbacks leaving the birds humiliated.
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Post by KB8 on Jun 20, 2023 5:13:34 GMT -5
Yeah, bonkers sprint. Hayes is one of the greatest cornered animals in wrestling history and he was damn near feral here. It had been over a decade since I last watched this (along with 90% of the DVDVR Texas set) and I couldn't remember a thing about it, but that payoff at the end was fantastic. An amazing way to cap off a year's worth of one of the best feuds ever.
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