[1993-05-18-ECW-TV] Terry Funk vignette

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Funk does a more somber promo compared to his other Double Cross Ranch vignettes, saying he has a score to settle with Eddie Gilbert and he will settle it. Another nice segment.

[Kevin Ridge]

More serious Funk explaining the Texas chain match with the four corner touching. He’s expecting a bloody affair and mentions he wants to be the King of Philly.

[PeteF3]

Holy shit, Funk heard my complaints about the last vignette. I swear I did not read ahead when I made that post. This was great.

[WingedEagle]

Funk now giving the straight, hard sell on the dangers of the Texas Chain match and mentions prior ones with Race and Boris Malenko. It'd be tough for anyone to match the build his promos have created.

[soup23]

Looks like the match is coming as this was serious Funk doing a money promo for the big match . Sign me up.

[garretta]

We needed a serious promo for this match somewhere along the line, and boy, did we ever get it. Terry explains the rules and puts over the danger brilliantly. I'm not sure if Harley actually lost fifteen percent of the vision in his eye after he wrestled Terry in one of these matches, but after seeing this I ​believe ​t​hat he did, which is exactly the point.

 

One minor nitpick: They didn't have to run their hype crawl over this promo. It was saying the exact same stuff that Terry was (except for Heyman being in Eddie's corner) and it divided my attention. If you have to run something like this, run it during a squash, where it really doesn't matter if other stuff's on the screen or not.

 

I'm wondering how many in the ECW fanbase knew who Boris Malenko was. I appreciate Terry's thought, but I wouldn't have blamed him if he'd said that someone like Nikolai Volkoff had invented the match instead; at least the vast majority of the Philly fans knew that name.