Lord Alfred Hays

[bobbyryates]

anybody here beside me, like the term he had as colour commentator on MACW with bob caudle? i thought he added some flavour to the show.
what about his time as a manger? he was with the team of chris markoff-nikolai volkoff during his feud with johnny weaver. he also managed billy robinson and the short lived gimmick of King James I of Wrestling, the great forgotten gimmick before jimmy valiant became the boogie woogie man.
some of my best memories of the time period ("81) are from hays and his men.

[Flair81]

Lord Alfred could talk in 81. I remember alittle about
his fued with Johnny Weaver. Love to see some
house show footage of these two from 1981. Two
veterans who could still work.
Summer of 81 was really hot for MACW. I think they
knew they would lose Flair from the everyday roster
and turned up the angles a bit.
Is it just me but looking back wasn't the mid card
talent during this time pretty good? Many tag teams
with Weaver around.

[bobbyryates]

yeah, there was a lot of good mid card teams and singles put together to make the makeshift teams. look at this:
george wells
dewey robertson
sweet ebony diamond
mr fuji
tenryu
johnny weaver
paul jones
jake roberts
jay youngblood
chris markoff
nikolai volkoff

that is some good talent to put into some teams. i know i'm forgetting some mid to upper card names here, but that is still a good list. and some good jobbers too at the time.

[Flair81]

I did not go to many shows back then but the shows I
went to where mostly in Bluefield WV. These where
good solid shows with pretty good crowds. They ran
Bluefield about every 3 months. The bread and butter
of house shows then was the mid card guys. Look at
some results from the 70's early 80's. Some shows
had a jobber match, 2 mid cards and a main event.
I think Johnny Weaver was on every show I saw or
seemed to be. Some regular towms like Ashville
and Greenville sometimes got weak cards. Seems like we always got the main event they had been run
everywhere else on the circuit.

[lobo]

Good old Alfred hayes

Anybody read "In The Pit With Piper" ?

Roddy puts over the size of Al's *cough* manhood !!!

[MacWRichmond]

I thought Hayes was great as a commentator in 1981. He came in for a number of weeks as a "babyface" commentator with Bob Caudle, and then the promotion slowly turned him heel by having him take shots at Johnny Weaver, who at the time was doing commentary with Rich Landrum on the World Wide Wrestling TV show. A couple of the confrontations between Hayes and Weaver during this time period were hysterical...I break out laughing just thinking about them!

[ralphsnart]

" A couple of the confrontations between Hayes and Weaver during this time period were hysterical...I break out laughing just thinking about them!"

I was at the house show when Johny Weaver and Jay Youngblood defeated The Russians (Markoff and Volkoff) for the Mid-Atlantic Tag Straps. For an old guy, Weaver still had quite a few good moves; he was as over as Flair, Mulligan, Steamboat, etc. The blowoff was when other wrestlers came from the back and held the Russians at bay, and threw Alfred Hayes into the ring. Weaver got a solid 10 minutes of revenge, even to the point of bloodying Hayes.

To say that the fans went home feeling that they got their money's worth is an understatement. The heat was great, and only true veterens like Weaver and Hayes could make a match work that well.

[greatbologuy]

"Weaver still had quite a few good moves; he was as over as Flair, Mulligan, Steamboat, etc."

JOHNNY WEAVER was and still is THE MAN!

[phinney]

Yeah, from what i've seen, Hayes was one of the best. Really enjoyed him.