[1990-09-08-USWA-Memphis TV] Chris Frazier vs Nightstalker / Interview: Eddie Gilbert

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

The match barely gets started when Eddie Gilbert is out to attack both guys. He's banned from the building, but shows up anyway. He has a ton of heat and does an excellent interview. The studio crowd LOUDLY chants for Lawler to come out. I wish some complete matches were available from this run, because this stuff is great.

[PeteF3]

Gilbert is banned from the studio as a result of what happened in Missouri, so he hijacks his own interview time by taking out both Frazier and Nightstalker. Gilbert gets some SERIOUS heat when he proclaims himself the New King. Sam Lowe has now redubbed himself Sam Bass in a sort of twisted tribute to Lawler's first (and deceased) manager.

[soup23]

Gilbert is really able to rile up the studio crowd. Hot angle all around.

[Kevin Ridge]

Nightstalker making his debut match but the Gilberts show up. Eddie attacks both wrestlers in the ring. Eddie wasn’t suppose to be in studio but here he is. Eddie is really determined about getting Lawler’s spot as the king of Memphis.

[ajtroma]

Sam Lowe is also now dressing like Sam Bass did. Bass was never really a fashion plate-type.

[garretta]

We needed an answer from Eddie to make things even, and we sure got one. This may have been the clearest explanation I've ever heard as to why Eddie wants to get rid of Lawler; he wants the crown of Memphis and the respect that goes with it, and he'll go to any means necessary to get it. He may be the scariest foe Lawler's ever faced (outside of Dundee, of course) because he simply doesn't care what he has to do to get Lawler out of the way. Tremendous stuff.

 

Dave really shines here too; he's rarely offended by the heels like Lance was at times, but this is an exception. I loved his indignant "Don't call him (Eddie) king!" response to Sam Lowe, and his outrage at Eddie even being in the building really let the crowd know that a line was about to be (or had already been) crossed.

 

By the way, who was under the Nightstalker mask?

[drew wardlaw]

Wow Eddie's back with a vengeance. One of the biggest reactions of the year for the studio I think.

[GSR]

The Nightstalker isn’t Bryan Clark who I thought he might be. The match has only just started when Eddie Gilbert and Sam Lowe are out and Dave tells him they they’re not supposed to be here today. They’re not going to have an interview, there’s a match going on and Eddie Marlin has said that they’re not talking to them today. Gilbert questions that he can’t talk because there is a match going on? He then enters the ring and attacks both wrestlers putting a stop to the match. Sam Lowe starts calling Gilbert ‘The King’, to which Dave responds ‘don’t call him the King!’ He doesn’t want to do the interview but guesses that he hasn’t got much of a choice. Gilbert isn’t supposed to be in the building, but Dave tells him since he’s here, say his piece and get out of here. Gilbert says that he’ll talk for as long as he wants and about anything he wants to. There have been a lot of people who have come through here, said they were the ‘new’ King, and that they were going to take Jerry Lawler’s spot, his position. That position today belongs to him. He tells Lawler that he hates his stinking guts, he’s not obsessed being him, he’s obsessed with being ‘The King and ‘The King’ is ‘Hot Stuff’ Eddie Gilbert and he’s the new boss of wrestling. He’s like a bad nightmare, Jerry Lawler can try to get rid of him but he’ll always come back. He was trying to give him a way out when he attempted to break his leg, he should’ve just said he’s got to retire and Eddie Gilbert can be the new King. There is plenty more places like Missouri though, this is the week he’s going to take him out, and next week he’ll be stood out here with the crown on his head. Jackie Fargo was great, Jerry Lawler was great, but Eddie Gilbert is that little bit greater. It’s 1990, it’s his era! He calls out Greg Wayne and thanks him for his loyalty and says that he’s a much better man than his brother Ken! Gilbert says that it was his destiny to walk out in every arena with a crown on his head, a belt around his waist with his manager Sam Bass and his family being so proud of him. As they leave Dave tells them to get out of there, and that it’s Sam Lowe and not Sam Bass!

 

There was huge heat for this, probably the most heat we’ve seen in the studio all year. At times you could barely here what Gilbert was saying because the booing from the audience was so loud. He won’t be overtaking Lawler as the best promo for the year, but there is every chance Gilbert will be number two by the time I’ve finished December’s viewing. I really like Dave Brown hear too, his disgust with them both and that he’s almost obliged to let them speak even though Eddie Marlin has banned them from the studio for the day.

[dawho5]

Loved Eddie in this. Great recovery from the unfortunate need to rush the car angle.