[1991-03-02-USWA-Memphis TV] Team Texas and Eddie Gilbert

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Team Texas quickly attacks Eddie Gilbert during a squash until Jeff Jarrett makes the save. After this, Gilbert agrees to team with Jarrett to get revenge, giving up his shot. Together, they talk Lawler into being in their corner. Not crazy about this setup.

[shoe]

The set up doesn't bother me much .If anything I'm going to give it some slack because Memphis has earned my trust.

[PeteF3]

Maybe there's a higher plan, but...why would Team Texas blatantly instigate Gilbert into getting involved in their tag match? Why not force Jarrett into a 2-on-1?

 

So there are issues with this build, but Gilbert is so awesome here that it doesn't matter too much. As great as Gilbert the heel was, Gilbert the tweener might be even better.

[Kevin Ridge]

What was the point of even pretending to having a match with Gilbert getting attacked just seconds into it. Anyways, Gilbert is pissed off and pulls himself out of the tournament to be Jarrett’s partner. Jerry had offered to wrestle two matches in same night but Marlin denies this. Lawler agrees to sit in the corner of Jarrett in tag match. Lots of tension.

[soup23]

I liked this. Texas was too overconfident and underestimated Gilberts taste for revenge now overcoming his want for the gold. Gilbert as a bloody fired up babyface was great.

[garretta]

I liked how Marlin denied Lawler's request to wrestle twice. There's no way that even Lawler could wrestle two matches if one of them was a tag match in this out-of-control feud and the other was against Terry Funk for the Unified title; it would be like begging to be seriously hurt.

 

Gilbert's always great when he's fired up, and this is no exception. When he gives up a possible shot at the Southern title, which he's said in the past was even bigger to him than the Unified belt because he's dreamed about owning it since he was a little boy, you know that Embry and Prichard have him mad.

 

I'm not sure if I like Lawler's attitude here or not. On the one hand, Eddie's tried to kill and/or cripple him time and again over the years. On the other hand, so has Dundee, and they're as close to being bosom buddies as they know how to be, so why can't he be a bit more forgiving? It would be the royal thing to do!

 

Seriously, as fruitless as turning Lawler heel again in Memphis would have been, having to protect and be on the same side as Gilbert would have been a good catalyst for a turn, especially if he's "accidentally" hit by Gilbert while he's in Jarrett's corner (note the emphasis) for the match on Monday night. For those of you who might be wondering, Lawler's attitude here is proof positive that the Lawler/Gilbert issue is far, far from dead.

[dawho5]

Lawler saying he was only in Jarrett's corner, not Gilberts was the cherry on top that made this for me. Too much recent bad history to ignore and I'm liking the uneasy alliance a lot so far.