Tully Blanchard Teamed with Glacier in 2006, Apparently!

Tully Blanchard/Glacier vs. The Heartbreak Express (Sean Davis/Phil Davis) WORLD-1 3/11/06     Pt. 2

ER: I would love to hear an explanation from the WORLD-1 booking committee about why they chose to team Tully Blanchard with Glacier in a tag title tournament, and then have them work three matches together, into the finals. A Tully/Glacier team is weirder than any combination of any of the weirdest WAR teams, and WORLD-1 clearly saw the opportunity to out-weird WAR and ran with it. Blanchard barely worked in the 2000s and here he is working three matches on a random Friday night in Georgia, teaming with Glacier, because sometimes we do deserve good things. The Heartbreak Express were a great 2000s Florida team, really the perfect kind of opponents for a legendary team like Tully/Glacier. Phil Davis works like Mitch Ryder, and Sean Davis works like Mitch Ryder if Mitch Ryder were 325 lb. They have a great shtick, know how to constantly show ass, and are really good at accidentally hitting each other on miscommunication spots. They're the kind of team I'd love to see working today, specifically on shows that I am attending. 

There's a hilarious moment where Sean attempts to climb to the middle turnbuckle to raise his arms for the fans, and Phil has to stand underneath him, back to back, power squatting his boy up to the middle rope. I have never seen this done before, and it's the kind of thing that would have gotten a great crowd reaction no matter the decade they did it. After, Sean takes a big back bump off the middle buckle, once Phil was no longer supporting his weight. Tully goes for the win by immediately trying a schoolboy on Sean, then jumps him with a babyface cheapshot. Face or heel, Tully will always work heel. They tangle, and there's a great spot where Tully tries to armdrag and then fireman's carry Sean, but the weight is far too much, and Tully tags out for the rest of the match. Glacier is serviceable, and The Heartbreak Express are excellent at working around a broom so he didn't need to do more. They know how to run into each other, throw an elbow strike at Glacier, miss the next one and hit each other. Sean tries to break up a pin and winds up elbowdropping Phil, Glacier fights out of a 2 on 1 corner situation with some nice strikes, and this whole thing was very fun. It did feel incomplete, as you keep expecting to see Tully tag back in, and that doesn't happen. It probably does not happen because someone decided that Tully still had two more matches to get through tonight, for some reason, but the match we got is a super fun 8 minutes spent at your local indy.