[1997-04-12-ECW-TV] Raven promo / Terry Funk vignette

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Raven quotes Fleetwood Mac while looking stoned and I tune out. This is followed by an all-time classic Terry Funk vignette on-site at his father's grave while the piano opening of "Desperado" plays on a loop in the background.

[WingedEagle]

That Desperado scene in the cemetery was amazing. If you weren't sold after that nothing was going to get you there.

[soup23]

I was fearful the copyright would come up with Raven blabbering on.

 

Instead we get the the amazing Desperado video.

 

Do not stand at my grave and cry,

I am not there; I did not die.

[Zenjo]

Using the dead to shill a wrestling show might be seen as crass and tasteless, but I'm sure Dory Funk would've approved.

[Kevin Ridge]

Funk and to a degree Richards are more interesting going into this PPV. Where’s Sandman? Anyways, it is anyone but Raven at this point.

[PeteF3]

For a grunge rocker Raven sure loved him some Fleetwood Mac. Generally I approve of wrestlers incorporating song lyrics into promos, but Raven isn't as good at it as guys like Jake the Snake. He does manage to turn it around and cut a different sort of promo by the end, actually grinning and changing up his catchphrase. B for effort.

 

Cut to Terry Funk in the Texas panhandle, the site of his father's grave. Thanks to not having to do this every month, Barely Legal has been the best-built-to PPV of the past 12 months, and will probably keep that title until Starrcade '97.