Line #29 Wrestling/EddieGilbert


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3	->''"Sons often find themselves living in the shadows of their fathers. Sometimes those shadows shield. Sometimes those shadows swallow. From time to time a son steps out of those shadows and when he does, the shadows he casts often reach beyond the point of measuring."''
4	-->--'''Tim S. Dills''', speaking about Gilbert, ''Kayfabe Memories''
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6	Thomas Edward Gilbert Jr. (August 14, 1961 – February 18, 1995) was an American {{professional wrestl\|ing}}er, manager and booker from Lexington, TN as '''"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert'''. He was best known for his work in the Memphis area, usually feuding with Wrestling/JerryLawler. He also was the original booker for [[Wrestling/{{ECW}} NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling]]. After a run in Wrestling/JimCornette's [[Wrestling/{{SMW}} Smoky Mountain Wrestling]] in 1994, he left to book in Puerto Rico, where he died on February 18, 1995. He also competed for Wrestling/{{WWE}} in the early 1980s as a {{Jobber}}, for Wrestling/{{WCW}}, for the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico, for the Global Wrestling Federation in Dallas, TX, for the [[GarbageWrestler hardcore]] [=W*ING=] and IWA promotions in Japan, for various Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance territories, for Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling and for "Cowboy" Bill Watts' Mid-South Wrestling/UWF promotions. Among his achievements, he is a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-t.html NWA ECW Tag Team Champion]] with his brother Doug (under a mask as the Dark Patriot), a former 4x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tn/uswa/uswa-uh.html USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champion]], a former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wcw/wcw-us-h.html NWA United States Tag Team Champion]] with Rick Steiner, and a 2x [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/midsouth/uwf/uwf-t.html UWF World Tag Team Champion]] with Wrestling/{{Sting}}. He also had a famous three-match series with [[Wrestling/MickFoley Cactus Jack]] in 1991 for the [[http://www.twawrestling.com Tri-States Wrestling Alliance]] in Philadelphia.
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8	!! "Hot Trope International":
9	* ArchEnemy: Jerry Lawler, Wrestling/TerryFunk.
10	* BashBrothers: with his father Tommy and/or brother Doug, with Ricky Morton, with Tommy Rich
11	* CaptainErsatz: As [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], with Doug as [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] in the [[GarbageWrestler hardcore]] W*ING promotion in Japan. See below under ScrewThisImOuttaHere.
12	* CarFu: To Jerry Lawler in the parking lot of the TV studio in Memphis, after Eddie and brother Doug had been [[{{Kayfabe}} "fired"]] from the promotion.
13	* FinishingMove: The Hot Shot (ring-rope clothesline, later known as [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin "Stunning" Steve Austin]]'s Stun Gun)
14	* FoodFight: In the Tupelo Concession Stand Brawls in Memphis
15	* ForeignWrestlingHeel: In Japan.
16	** Also managed the Russians (Wrestling/IvanKoloff, Wrestling/NikitaKoloff and Kortsia Korchenko) in Mid-South and took part in the famous angle where they buried "Cowboy" Bill Watts under a Soviet flag.
17	* GameBreakingInjury: In a car crash while he was working for WWE in the early 1980s. It's believed that this caused the painkiller addiction that ultimately killed him.
18	** {{Determinator}}: He suffered from a bad neck for much of his career and so he would take very dramatic bumps, throwing his whole body into them in order to protect his neck.
19	* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor
20	* HumiliatingWager: He and Madusa beat Cactus Jack and Wrestling/LunaVachon in a tag team hair vs hair match while touring Japan.
21	* ItRunsInTheFamily
22	* ItsAllAboutMe: Once during a match in ECW between [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/ecw/ecw-h.html NWA ECW Heavyweight Champion]] Don Muraco (w[=/=][[Wrestling/PaulHeyman Paul E. Dangerously]]) vs. [[Wrestling/JimFullington the Sandman]] in 1993, he was doing commentary and said that "ECW" stood for "Eddie's Championship Wrestling."
23	* {{Jerkass}}: As a {{Heel}}.
24	* PartsUnknown: "Every Woman's Dream"
25	* PlayingWithFire: Used fireballs as weapons.
26	* PowerStable: Had a few, most notably the First Family in Mid-South, which became Hyatt and Hot Stuff International and featured a young Wrestling/{{Sting}} and Rick Steiner.
27	** He had a First Family in the GWF in Dallas with Wrestling/BarryHorowitz and [[Wrestling/{{Raven}} Scott Anthony (Raven)]].
28	** He also had a Hot Stuff International in the early days of ECW, with Doug (as the Dark Patriot), Wrestling/JimmySnuka and Wrestling/DonMuraco, which merged with [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman Paul E. Dangerously]] to become the Dangerous Alliance, adding Wrestling/ShaneDouglas.
29	** He was a member of Wrestling/JimmyHart's the First Family in Memphis.
30	** Gilbert's Army in Memphis, with the Phantom of the Opera (Tommy Gilbert), Jerry Bryant and Lt. Frazier (Stan Frazier, aka WWE's Wrestling/UncleElmer among a million other names.) It didn't last long, as Gilbert left for Mid-South and Frazier went up to WWE.
31	** The Memphis Mafia in the USWA (Gilbert, "Dirty White Boy" Tony Anthony, Joey Maggs, Billy Joe Travis, Brian Christopher and Doug Gilbert.)
32	* RedBaron: "Hot Stuff"
33	* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Worked as a booker for Bill Watts' UWF, in the Continental Wrestling Federation in Alabama, in Memphis and in ECW. He won ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'''s "Best Booker" Award in 1988.
34	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Walked out on ECW after a dispute with Tod Gordon right before ''[=UltraClash=] 93'', but [[TenMinuteRetirement did a surprise run-in]] during the Wrestling/TerryFunk[=/=]Wrestling/StanHansen vs. Wrestling/KevinSullivan[=/=]Wrestling/AbdullahTheButcher Bunkhouse Brawl match, leading to a DQ. ECW announcer Wrestling/JoeyStyles [[LampshadeHanging explained]] this by saying how, in Eastern Championship Wrestling, wrestlers can use weapons but you can't have outside interference.
35	** While wrestling for W*ING, he and Doug felt they were being misused, so they pulled a shoot in the middle of a match. Doug, wrestling as "Freddy Krueger", let Eddie, as "Michael Myers", roll him up for the pin in a match that Doug had been booked to win. They unmasked, said that they were really brothers and verbally buried the promotion and pledged their allegiance to the mainstream Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling.
36	* TagTeam:
37	** With Ricky [=Morton=]
38	** With Tommy Rich
39	** With Doug.

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