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Match # 33: Bill Dundee & Bobby Fulton vs. Bobby Eaton & Sweet Brown Sugar (11/15/82)

Interesting note is that this feature half of the future heel greats the Midnight Express (Eaton) and half of the less famous but solid babyface unit, The Fantastics (Fulton). Dundee and Fulton are your faces, and Eaton and Sweet Brown Sugar seem like one hell of a team while they lasted.

The early stuff is so fast and crisp, with Fulton getting the better of Eaton and SBS. Big dramatic bumps from the heels. Sugar takes a bump over the top rope that has to be seen to be believed. Dundee’s worked kicks could take out an eye. I’m reminded of the great tag team matches on the Mid South set, and even contemporary tag matches in ROH. These guys have it down pat. Dundee is a master. Eaton knows how to be a stooge and a ring general even this early. Sugar is a perfect bumper. Fulton holds up his end well.

I cannot believe I was not a huge Koko B. Ware fan as a kid. Sweet Brown Sugar – the future Koko – is awesome. Eaton and SBS as a team are pretty great. They gain the advantage on Fulton just before the ten minute mark. When it’s not Eaton or Sugar, it’s Hart who distracts the ref. It all works like clockwork. This match moves a lot more than other tags I’ve seen on this set that rated average to lower.

Odd ending as the heels get the heat on Bobby Fulton for a long time, Dundee chases Hart for interference, and the heels take advantage and win. Just like that. It was building so nicely and then just ended. Small bonus points for how great the First Family worked as a unit in this one though. 3 and 6.4/10.

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