[1993-06-15-ECW-TV] Interview: Eddie Gilbert

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Gilbert does an interview outside. Typical old school heel promo to hype a match in a local market -- in this case the chain match with Funk -- and Gilbert was a great promo anyway, so I enjoyed this.

[Kevin Ridge]

Eddie must have just bought that Phillies baseball hat as it is barely broken in.

[PeteF3]

Eddie finally gets a chance to rebut Terry Funk. His ragging on the Phillies for being so terrible is rather funny--they would go to the World Series four months later.

[soup23]

We get the final sell job for a match that has been hyped up quite a bit. This was a good promo by Eddie but not one that will be in his top 25 of all time or anything. Still, I am excited to finally see the match between these two.

[...TG]

The baseball nerd in me is amused that Eddie calls the 1993 Phillies team their worst ever - they went to the World Series that year, and were in first most of the season. And doubly amusing because the Phillies are the worst of the original MLB franchises.

[garretta]

The Phils were actually up on the Cardinals by a whopping ten and a half games on the night this promo was first seen. Believe it or not, that fact hurts it in my eyes. For heaven's sake, Paul, either tell Eddie to read a sports page or get a flunky to do it before Eddie starts cutting cheap heat promos based on lies of this kind. This just reinforces the fact that Eddie neither knows nor cares much about the town he supposedly wants to be king of, and I mean that in a legitimate non-wrestling sense.

 

More importantly, I think Eddie's been lapped by Terry in the promo department throughout this feud. I've heard Eddie do better than this in Memphis and for Watts practically in his sleep. He's at his best when he's logical, sarcastic, and humorous, not as a blustering blowhard. I'm surprised that he's forgotten that, especially since he knows that he's going against a master talker like Terry. He doesn't look like anything special at all here, and his mouth is what makes him who he is, not his ringwork (although he's not a bad physical worker by any stretch).

 

This whole angle better really be going somewhere, especially since it looks from the match listing like Eddie's going to beat Terry and claim the crown. Personally, I'd hop the first thing moving back to Memphis and be content to be Lawler's main foil from now until the end of time, but now that the Kingfish has attacked Bret, that role seems to be more than capably filled both in Memphis and the WWF.