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Gordon Solie continues to try and talk to Butch Reed who is still livid from the slap in the face. Flair attempts to leave with his lady friend and as he turns to head out with his friend in front, Butch grabs him from behind and starts tearing into him, literally! Gordon calls the actions. “Wait a second! Reed got the champion. Reed got Ric Flair. Flair is trying to make it to the ring. Reed, wait a second, Reed!” Flair is on the ring apron as Kerry and David Von Erich desperately try to pull Ric into the ring. Reed tears Flairs jacket and rips off his trousers leaving Ric in his red briefs.
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Flair makes it into the ring where David is tending to him on the
mat. Butch hops up on the ring
apron where Kerry attempts to throw a wild right but Butch ducks and flips Kerry
over the ropes and out of the ring. Gordon
continues calling the action. “Kerry
Von Erich after him (Reed) and now David Von Erich (who Reed tosses over the
rope right away) and Butch Reed has decimated both of those.”
Ric Flair struggles to mount some offense against Reed but Butch
floors him with a beautiful high drop kick.
Between Reeds punches and drop kick, he continues tearing Flairs suit
from his body. “Well, Reed is
tearing Flair apart”, shouts Gordon Solie.
“Butch Reed is absolutely tearing Ric Flair, the NWA World Heavyweight
Champion apart here. He goaded Reed
to a point in my opinion of no return here.
He is out to take everything he got away from him.
And, I mean take it all away!”
Flair’s last offensive attempt is in vain as Hacksaw Butch Reed
presses him over his head in the middle of the ring. David and Kerry make it back to their feet outside the ring
and Reed walks towards the ring ropes with Flair still over his head.
He tosses the NWA Champion onto the Von Erich brothers as Gordon reacts
with a “WOW”. As Flair lies on
top of the Von Erichs Gordon Solie comments on what has just happened.
“I never thought I would see the Champion hiding behind a woman.
Butch Reed has demolished the Champion’s clothing and the Champion’s
pride.”
Reggie Parks, who was the referee in the ring during this melee
continues picking up torn pieces of Flair's clothing in the ring and gives it to
Reed who rips at them more. The TV
audience’s reaction to what was taking place was deafening.
Gordon continually had to shout into his microphone in order to be heard.
This feud catapulted Reed into stardom thanks in part to Ric Flair.
Flair was in his prime and he made
all his challengers look great. Then
again, that was part of what being an NWA World Champion was all about, making
your opponent look like at any given moment, he could be the next World
Heavyweight Champion. Also, this
was the only time Kerry Von Erich (David along with Dory Funk Jr. would assist
Flair in a match with Reed later that year) aided Ric Flair in anyway.
What made it more remarkable was the fact that he and Flair would engage
in a feud during 1982, which would end with the infamous Christmas Night Steel
Cage match. That match touched off
one of the truly epic feuds of the decade, The Freebirds vs. The Von Erich
Brothers!
NEXT
MONTH:
We take a ringside look at Jim Garvin vs. Mr. Wrestling II on CWF TV in a Loser Leaves the State match!