" Showtime" Eric Young, Part 4

On the Genesis 2006 pre show Eric Young beat the odds defeating Robert Roode. This infuriated Roode and on the following Impact Roode cut a promo against Eric Young. The match started a long time rivalry between the two.

The "Paranoid Pied Piper of TNA" would soon be challenged to a bikini contest by Roode's associate Ms. Traci Brooks. Eric accepted and beat Ms. Brooks in a bikini contest at the Turning Point 2006 pay-per-view on December 10, 2006, by wearing a Spongebob Squarepants bikini. Eric Young continued his feud with Robert Roode and Ms. Brooks with Ms. Brooks trying to get Young to join "Robert Roode Inc." Finally, at Against All Odds 2007 Ms. Brooks successfully seduced Young into signing a contract with "Robert Roode Inc." This consequentially sent him into an odd angle, in which he is systematically humiliated every week by Roode, in such horrid acts as cleaning toilets for Roode's own personal use, and getting illegally involved in Roode's matches. He eventually beagn to fight back the orders of Roode, in part due to the advice of a mysterious "friend". On the April 26, 2007 episode of TNA Impact, the "friend" was revealed as Jeff Jarrett. Young eventually broke free of his contract by defeating Roode at Slammiversary 2007 via an inside cradle, after Gail Kim took out Ms. Brooks. At Victory Road 2007, Eric Young & Gail Kim would defeat Robert Roode & Ms. Brooks in a Mixed Tag Team match. Around this time, Young would be billed as from Freedomville, USA, a reference to Young being free from his contract with Roode.

On the August 2, 2007 episode of IMPACT!, Roode had Young tarred & feathered on national television in the Impact Zone. On the August 8 edition of TNA Today, Eric Young commented on the humiliation of being tarred and feathered, and then challenged Robert Roode to a "Humiliation Match" at Hard Justice. Roode would eventully go on to accept the challenge. Roode won the match, but Gail Kim came to Young's aid. Roode attempted to attack her, but accidentally knocked Ms. Brooks out instead. Roode retreated up the ramp, leaving a semi-conscious Brooks to be tarred and feathered by Young and Kim.

When Adam "Pacman" Jones joined TNA, Eric Young was desperate to get an autograph, but ended up getting attacked by Ron Killings and spray painted by Pacman. Lately, Young has been teaming up with Shark Boy on a consistent basis, nearly winning the number one contenders spot to the Tag Team Titles. Young was Judas Mesias's opponent in his official debut match, and was badly injured despite Shark Boy's rescue attempt. On the 4 October edition of Impact, Young faced and successfully defeated "Tennessee Cowboy" James Storm in a Gauntlet match when he reversed Storm's sleeper into a pin. At Bound for Glory 2007, Eric Young won the 15 men Fight for the Right Battle Royal by pinning Robert Roode with a small package to win the first round. He was eliminated from the tournament in the second round after being pinned by James Storm, who would go on to give him a beer at the urging of Jackie Moore. From there, Young and Storm have been appearing in promos where they are having beer drinking contests, most recently at Genesis 2007 where Young took Storm's World Beer Drinking Championship belt (a decorated WWE Championship toy belt) after Storm passed out before they could call the contest a truce. Young defended that strap on the last Impact before Turning Point 2007 in a 60-second speed drinking contest, which he won before Storm would viciously assault him. He would go on to defeat both Storm and the Angle Alliance (the latter done as Samoa Joe and Kevin Nash's replacement partner for the no-show Scott Hall) in matches at Turning Point.



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