Michael Hayes Reveals Who Came Up With “The Freebird Rule” In honor of WWE celebrating its tag team week, Kayla Braxton, host and panelist for WWE’s The Bump, sat down with Michael “P.S.” Hayes, former leader of the symbolic team, The Fabulous Freebirds, to discuss his instrumental group and their profound effect on the industry as a whole. They started by talking about how their partnership began in 1979. “Well, Terry Gordy and I were wrestling as teenagers in a territory in Mississippi. We were the only boys in a man’s world,” Michael Hayes began. “He [Gordy] always had the wrestling talent, and I could always run my mouth.