Post by Stevo on Jul 24, 2007 18:27:51 GMT -5
I'm no professional reviewer, but here it goes . . .
I picked this up not too long ago, haven't seen or heard almost anything about it (like the case of most of my VHS wrestling tapes). Its a video about "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, and it includes match clips, promos, and famous angles. Some of the smaller promos include Eddie and Unibomb (a young Kane) celebrating their battle royal win for $5,000, many Paul E. Dangerously promos, Eddie's "Cain and Abel" promo on his brother (highly entertaining), the bait and switch Eddie Gilbert and Tommy Rich angle, and lots and lots of Fireballs. Now, for the complete match listings:
Bunkhouse Brawl: Tommy Rich and Eddie Gilbert vs The Spoiler and Phil Hickerson, CWF
Match: Rich and Gilbert, also known as Fargo's Fabulous Ones, get an early advantage. Rich and the Spoiler trade shots, while Eddie beats down Hickerson. Eventually, Hickerson steals Eddie's cowboy boot and uses it to bloody Eddie. Phil and the Spoiler spend a little time working over Rich, until Eddie takes Hickerson to the outside. Meanwhile Rich is seemingly indestructible, taking boot shots to the head and remains standing. Gilbert piledrives Phil on the floor, and re-enters the ring, throwing a foreign object to Rich. Eddie and the Spoiler go at it, meanwhile Rich puts the object in a mask, "loading it", climbs to the top rope, and Gilbert holds the Spoiler for a flying Headbutt. 1, 2, 3, and Rich and Gilbert pick up the win at 8:28.
Thoughts: A pretty good match. Not too long, but long enough for some good offense to be delivered from both sides. I'm not in love with the ending, but it worked.
Rating: **1/2
"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert vs Jerry "the King" Lawler, non-title match (Lawler is Southern Heavyweight Champion), CWF
Match: This is right after Eddie developed his "Hot Stuff" moniker. Both men lock and back off two or three times. Eddie taunts the crowd, Jerry gets impatient and walks right into a cheap shot. Both men trade armdrags. Eddie leaves the ring after being outsmarted, re-enters, and the same situation happened again, only with Lawler leaving. Gilbert gains the upper hand and gets a little bit of offense in before Lawler takes control. While he's beating down Eddie in the corner, Jimmy Hart and I believe Rick Rude interfere. They through Lawler out, who grabs a chair and clears the ring.
Thoughts: This wasn't either man's best day. They've had many great matches with each other over the years, but this wasn't one of them. They mostly hit one spot, then the other man re-created that same spot. The interference ending doesn't help it either.
Rating: *1/2
"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert w/ Missy Hyatt vs "Hollywood" John Tatum, UWF
Match: This match occurs during the famous Love Tri-angle. Gilbert dominates the early part of the match, ramming Tatum into the post. He works Tatum over with body slams, elbows, a little top-rope offense, and a clothesline. "Hot Stuff" goes for a suplex, but Tatum reverses into a picture perfect vertical suplex. Tatum gets his own licks in, but Hyatt tries to distract him. Dark Journey runs down to take Hyatt out, and Gilbert actually takes Missy's handbag (loaded) and knocks Dark Journey out! Hyatt pulls out a spray can, and she and Gilbert paint Dark Journey until Terry Taylor and the Missing Link make the save.
Thoughts: Nothing too special in the match. The ending was supposed to draw more attention than the actual match, which it did of course. (Eddie Gilbert knocking out a women then spray painting her?)
Rating: **
"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert w/ Dick Murdoch vs "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, UWF
Match: Dick Murdoch is a "surprise" by Gilbert, who said Murdoch has been training him. Williams overpowers Eddie through the first minutes of the match, but an eye rake and a whip into the turnbuckle change all of that. Gilbert goes to work on Williams, focusing on the neck area. Eddie brings Williams down with a sleeper hold, but the crowd keeps "Dr. Death" going. Williams fights back, but gets locked right back into the sleeper. After the whole "arm lifting" phase is done, Williams rallies back with elbows and a hip toss. Eddie tries to work him over with elbows to the back of Steve's head, but Williams pops Gilbert with a haymaker. "Dr. Death" hits a devastating clotheslines, but can't put "Hot Stuff" away. He almost hits the Oklahoma Stampede, but Eddie reverses into a roll-up for a near fall. Eddie whips him into the turnbuckle, and almost hits Murdoch's old Brainbuster on Williams, but Williams reverses into a bridge. Gilbert kicks out, then climbs up to the top where he hits a crossbody. However, Williams rolls through for the win. Eddie hangs onto him after the three, and Murdoch comes in and brutalizes "Dr. Death" with a chair! They work over Steve's arm, taking out all the guys who try to enter the ring to help. It takes half the entire roster to finally get Gilbert and Murdoch out of the ring.
Thoughts: A really good match-up. Eddie Gilbert vs Steve Williams doesn't sound like the greatest match in the world, but there were some very good spots. I was impressed with the match, and loved the ending.
Rating: ***
"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert vs Terry Funk, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, ECW
Match: This is a basic Strap match, but with a chain. Both men go at it, trying to maul each other with the chain. They are more interested in killing each other than tapping turnbuckles. The action spills outside, and the men fight through the crowd, using everything at their disposal, including the chain. They take it back into the ring where Terry Funk rakes Eddie's face repeatedly. He tags two turnbuckles before Eddie fights back. Terry wraps the chain around Gilbert's head and lifts him over his back, trapping him in a Hangman's Chokehold. Gilbert fights out, and brings the chain to the back of Terry's head. Gilbert nearly gets three turnbuckles before Terry stops him. Gilbert sends Funk to the outside, where Terry pulls him out with him. Eddie slams Funk against the apron, then drops the timekeeper's table on him. Eddie sends him back in the ring, where he goes to piledrive Terry, but gets backdropped instead. Terry looks for a Piledriver off his own, but gets a low-blow. Eddie tags three turnbuckles, but Funk tries to Irish Whip him to the opposite corner of the 4th. Eddie reverses the Irish Whip and knocks Funk upside the head with the chain. Gilbert tags the fourth turnbuckle for the win. After the match, Terry and Eddie brawl throughout the crowd.
Thoughts:
ing brutal! Both men knew what to do in the match, and they did it well. The Hangman's Chokehold was especially hardcore. Terry and Eddie were bleeding buckets at the end of it.
Rating: ****
"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert vs Cactus Jack, Tri-State Wrestling, Falls Count Anywhere Match
Match: Cactus and Eddie go at it at the very start of the bell. Cactus Jack flips Eddie to the outside, and both men brawl to the back of the building, where the entrance curtain is. Eddie hides behind the curtain, and Jack starts throwing a chair blindly at him. Gilbert grabs a piece of wood, and he and Cactus start swinging the wood and chair at each other. Jack throws Eddie through a whole row of chairs, and Eddie heads back to the ring. Cactus follows him, but walks right into a chair shot. You can see that Gilbert is busted open. He flips Cactus back over the barricade for a near 2. Back in the ring, Eddie goes for a piledriver, but gets a backdrop instead. Cactus Jack hits the Double Underhook DDT for a 2. Eddie rakes his eyes, and tries to slam him into the turnbuckle. Jack reverses and throws "Hot Stuff" to the outside. He scales the apron and hits a diving clothesline onto Eddie on the floor for the win.
Thoughts: A very good brawl. There were a few awkward spots, like Cactus swinging at a curtain to try to find Gilbert or the wood and chair connecting like the two were in a swordfight, but it was still a very good brawl.
Rating: ***
"Your King of Philadelphia" Eddie Gilbert vs Cactus Jack, ECW
Match: The two men waste no time fighting outside the ring. They fight throughout the crowd, hitting each other with chair shots and occasionally finding a wall to slam each other in to. Cactus tries to suplex a table onto Gilbert, but Gilbert moves. The cameras lose them for a second, and when they find them again, Eddie has a sleeper hold on Cactus, who is carrying Eddie on his back throughout the aisles. Jack goes to work on "Hot Stuff", slamming him on the floor and hitting a backbreaker. Gilbert isn't one to back down, as he finds a stand or a podium, couldn't really tell, and hits Jack several times with it. The fight back to the ring, where Cactus knocks Gilbert down and hits the elbow off of the apron for a 2 count. Jack goes to piledrive Gilbert through a table, but gets backdropped off of the table. Gilbert puts the table in the ring, and drives Cactus' head through it. He exits the ring, but Jack kicks him in the head on the way out, stalling him. Then, Cactus jumps from the apron and hits a sunset-flip onto Eddie for a very near 2! He picks up momentum, and runs straight at Gilbert, who Hotshots him onto the guardrail! Cactus somehow kicks out. Gilbert brings him back to the ring, where Jack pulls a foreign object out of his tights and hits a spinning punch onto Eddie for the win! After the three count, Gilbert attacks Jack, piledrives him, and cuts a short "I'm the King!" promo.
Thoughts: I'd call this the definition of extreme. There were some amazing spots, from the backdrop off of the table, to the sunset flip, even the Hotshot. I thought the match was over about 3 times. Very, very impressive.
Rating: ****
"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert vs "Too Sexy" Brian Christopher, USWA
Match: In a shocking turn of events, Gilbert is a face. The men hit a series of counters which end with Gilbert popping Brian in the face with a right hand. They do this about three times, with every right getting the crowd more pumped up. "Too Sexy" gains the upper hand with a cheap shot when Gilbert was going to hit a backdrop. A backdrop by Brian onto Eddie. Brian charges at Gilbert, who picks him up and drapes him over the ropes with a Hotshot! When Eddie goes for the pin, his brother Doug Gilbert interferes, attacking him and causing a DQ. Brian locks Eddie in the ropes and starts pummeling him. Jeff Jarrett makes the save, attacking Brian, while Eddie frees himself and beats down Doug.
Thoughts: It was very short, couldn't have been longer than five minutes. However, the was some very good action in the time it was given. Brian and Eddie had their reversals down. The DQ ending wasn't too bad, considering how they played it out.
Rating: **
"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert w/ Jeff Jones vs "Golden Boy" Jeff Jarrett w/ Jim Cornette for the USWA Unified Heavyweight Title, Texas Deathmatch, USWA
Match: For those of you that don't know, a Texas Deathmatch involves a wrestler getting a pin, a 30 second rest period, and then the wrestler who was pinned having to answer a 10 count. In the start, Jeff Jarrett and even Jim Cornette get shots on Gilbert. Cornette distracts Gilbert so Jarrett can roll him up for the first pin. Gilbert answers the 10 count easily, but walks into a big right hand by Jarrett and is pinned again! Gilbert answers the count, and knocks Jarrett upside the head with a big haymaker. When he goes for the pin, Gilbert thinks the ref is counting too slowly so he confronts him and gets rolled up again! After answering the 10 count, Gilbert looks over at Jones who passes him a chain. Cornette tries to tell the ref about the chain, but distracts him. Jarrett sees the chain, avoids a punch, steals the chain, and knocks Gilbert out with it for another pin! Eddie answers the count at 8, but gets hit with another big right hand and is pinned again! 5 straight falls on Gilbert! He answers the count at 7, and this time grabs the chain and throws it towards the ref. The ref picks it up, but Jones passes Gilbert brass knuckles and Eddie knocks Jarrett out for his first pin. Jarrett answers the count, but Eddie is handed a chicken-wire by Jones, who distracts the ref. Gilbert literally clotheslines Jarrett with the wire. Eddie pins Jarrett, and Jones distracts the ref during the rest period. Gilbert takes advantage, piledriving (illegal in the USWA) Jarrett! Somehow, Jarrett answers at 9. Cornette distracts the ref, and Jarrett piledrives Gilbert for another pin. Gilbert answers at 9, but Jones and Cornette yell at each other, distracting the ref, allowing Jarrett to hit a Tombstone Piledriver for a pin! Finally, tensions explode and Cornette and Jones go after each other outside the ring, taking the ref with the them. Out of nowhere, "Dirty" Doug Gilbert intereferes, using chloroform to take Jarrett out! The ref returns, and Eddie answers the 10 count, but Jarrett does not! Eddie retains his title by the skin of his teeth.
Thoughts: I don't quite know how to rate this match. There was no great wrestling, but the two definitely told a story. It was very enjoyable to watch, and it seemed like the match was over after certain pinfalls, but the two kept going.
Rating: ***
Overall thoughts: As if I didn't think it before, I know once again that Eddie Gilbert is one of the most underated wrestlers in history. He cut some great promos, had some pretty technical matches, and he had some very, very brutal hardcore matches. RIP "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, still in some fans' memories.
Overall rating: ***1/2
I picked this up not too long ago, haven't seen or heard almost anything about it (like the case of most of my VHS wrestling tapes). Its a video about "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, and it includes match clips, promos, and famous angles. Some of the smaller promos include Eddie and Unibomb (a young Kane) celebrating their battle royal win for $5,000, many Paul E. Dangerously promos, Eddie's "Cain and Abel" promo on his brother (highly entertaining), the bait and switch Eddie Gilbert and Tommy Rich angle, and lots and lots of Fireballs. Now, for the complete match listings:
Bunkhouse Brawl: Tommy Rich and Eddie Gilbert vs The Spoiler and Phil Hickerson, CWF
Match: Rich and Gilbert, also known as Fargo's Fabulous Ones, get an early advantage. Rich and the Spoiler trade shots, while Eddie beats down Hickerson. Eventually, Hickerson steals Eddie's cowboy boot and uses it to bloody Eddie. Phil and the Spoiler spend a little time working over Rich, until Eddie takes Hickerson to the outside. Meanwhile Rich is seemingly indestructible, taking boot shots to the head and remains standing. Gilbert piledrives Phil on the floor, and re-enters the ring, throwing a foreign object to Rich. Eddie and the Spoiler go at it, meanwhile Rich puts the object in a mask, "loading it", climbs to the top rope, and Gilbert holds the Spoiler for a flying Headbutt. 1, 2, 3, and Rich and Gilbert pick up the win at 8:28.
Thoughts: A pretty good match. Not too long, but long enough for some good offense to be delivered from both sides. I'm not in love with the ending, but it worked.
Rating: **1/2
"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert vs Jerry "the King" Lawler, non-title match (Lawler is Southern Heavyweight Champion), CWF
Match: This is right after Eddie developed his "Hot Stuff" moniker. Both men lock and back off two or three times. Eddie taunts the crowd, Jerry gets impatient and walks right into a cheap shot. Both men trade armdrags. Eddie leaves the ring after being outsmarted, re-enters, and the same situation happened again, only with Lawler leaving. Gilbert gains the upper hand and gets a little bit of offense in before Lawler takes control. While he's beating down Eddie in the corner, Jimmy Hart and I believe Rick Rude interfere. They through Lawler out, who grabs a chair and clears the ring.
Thoughts: This wasn't either man's best day. They've had many great matches with each other over the years, but this wasn't one of them. They mostly hit one spot, then the other man re-created that same spot. The interference ending doesn't help it either.
Rating: *1/2
"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert w/ Missy Hyatt vs "Hollywood" John Tatum, UWF
Match: This match occurs during the famous Love Tri-angle. Gilbert dominates the early part of the match, ramming Tatum into the post. He works Tatum over with body slams, elbows, a little top-rope offense, and a clothesline. "Hot Stuff" goes for a suplex, but Tatum reverses into a picture perfect vertical suplex. Tatum gets his own licks in, but Hyatt tries to distract him. Dark Journey runs down to take Hyatt out, and Gilbert actually takes Missy's handbag (loaded) and knocks Dark Journey out! Hyatt pulls out a spray can, and she and Gilbert paint Dark Journey until Terry Taylor and the Missing Link make the save.
Thoughts: Nothing too special in the match. The ending was supposed to draw more attention than the actual match, which it did of course. (Eddie Gilbert knocking out a women then spray painting her?)
Rating: **
"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert w/ Dick Murdoch vs "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, UWF
Match: Dick Murdoch is a "surprise" by Gilbert, who said Murdoch has been training him. Williams overpowers Eddie through the first minutes of the match, but an eye rake and a whip into the turnbuckle change all of that. Gilbert goes to work on Williams, focusing on the neck area. Eddie brings Williams down with a sleeper hold, but the crowd keeps "Dr. Death" going. Williams fights back, but gets locked right back into the sleeper. After the whole "arm lifting" phase is done, Williams rallies back with elbows and a hip toss. Eddie tries to work him over with elbows to the back of Steve's head, but Williams pops Gilbert with a haymaker. "Dr. Death" hits a devastating clotheslines, but can't put "Hot Stuff" away. He almost hits the Oklahoma Stampede, but Eddie reverses into a roll-up for a near fall. Eddie whips him into the turnbuckle, and almost hits Murdoch's old Brainbuster on Williams, but Williams reverses into a bridge. Gilbert kicks out, then climbs up to the top where he hits a crossbody. However, Williams rolls through for the win. Eddie hangs onto him after the three, and Murdoch comes in and brutalizes "Dr. Death" with a chair! They work over Steve's arm, taking out all the guys who try to enter the ring to help. It takes half the entire roster to finally get Gilbert and Murdoch out of the ring.
Thoughts: A really good match-up. Eddie Gilbert vs Steve Williams doesn't sound like the greatest match in the world, but there were some very good spots. I was impressed with the match, and loved the ending.
Rating: ***
"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert vs Terry Funk, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, ECW
Match: This is a basic Strap match, but with a chain. Both men go at it, trying to maul each other with the chain. They are more interested in killing each other than tapping turnbuckles. The action spills outside, and the men fight through the crowd, using everything at their disposal, including the chain. They take it back into the ring where Terry Funk rakes Eddie's face repeatedly. He tags two turnbuckles before Eddie fights back. Terry wraps the chain around Gilbert's head and lifts him over his back, trapping him in a Hangman's Chokehold. Gilbert fights out, and brings the chain to the back of Terry's head. Gilbert nearly gets three turnbuckles before Terry stops him. Gilbert sends Funk to the outside, where Terry pulls him out with him. Eddie slams Funk against the apron, then drops the timekeeper's table on him. Eddie sends him back in the ring, where he goes to piledrive Terry, but gets backdropped instead. Terry looks for a Piledriver off his own, but gets a low-blow. Eddie tags three turnbuckles, but Funk tries to Irish Whip him to the opposite corner of the 4th. Eddie reverses the Irish Whip and knocks Funk upside the head with the chain. Gilbert tags the fourth turnbuckle for the win. After the match, Terry and Eddie brawl throughout the crowd.
Thoughts:
ing brutal! Both men knew what to do in the match, and they did it well. The Hangman's Chokehold was especially hardcore. Terry and Eddie were bleeding buckets at the end of it.Rating: ****
"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert vs Cactus Jack, Tri-State Wrestling, Falls Count Anywhere Match
Match: Cactus and Eddie go at it at the very start of the bell. Cactus Jack flips Eddie to the outside, and both men brawl to the back of the building, where the entrance curtain is. Eddie hides behind the curtain, and Jack starts throwing a chair blindly at him. Gilbert grabs a piece of wood, and he and Cactus start swinging the wood and chair at each other. Jack throws Eddie through a whole row of chairs, and Eddie heads back to the ring. Cactus follows him, but walks right into a chair shot. You can see that Gilbert is busted open. He flips Cactus back over the barricade for a near 2. Back in the ring, Eddie goes for a piledriver, but gets a backdrop instead. Cactus Jack hits the Double Underhook DDT for a 2. Eddie rakes his eyes, and tries to slam him into the turnbuckle. Jack reverses and throws "Hot Stuff" to the outside. He scales the apron and hits a diving clothesline onto Eddie on the floor for the win.
Thoughts: A very good brawl. There were a few awkward spots, like Cactus swinging at a curtain to try to find Gilbert or the wood and chair connecting like the two were in a swordfight, but it was still a very good brawl.
Rating: ***
"Your King of Philadelphia" Eddie Gilbert vs Cactus Jack, ECW
Match: The two men waste no time fighting outside the ring. They fight throughout the crowd, hitting each other with chair shots and occasionally finding a wall to slam each other in to. Cactus tries to suplex a table onto Gilbert, but Gilbert moves. The cameras lose them for a second, and when they find them again, Eddie has a sleeper hold on Cactus, who is carrying Eddie on his back throughout the aisles. Jack goes to work on "Hot Stuff", slamming him on the floor and hitting a backbreaker. Gilbert isn't one to back down, as he finds a stand or a podium, couldn't really tell, and hits Jack several times with it. The fight back to the ring, where Cactus knocks Gilbert down and hits the elbow off of the apron for a 2 count. Jack goes to piledrive Gilbert through a table, but gets backdropped off of the table. Gilbert puts the table in the ring, and drives Cactus' head through it. He exits the ring, but Jack kicks him in the head on the way out, stalling him. Then, Cactus jumps from the apron and hits a sunset-flip onto Eddie for a very near 2! He picks up momentum, and runs straight at Gilbert, who Hotshots him onto the guardrail! Cactus somehow kicks out. Gilbert brings him back to the ring, where Jack pulls a foreign object out of his tights and hits a spinning punch onto Eddie for the win! After the three count, Gilbert attacks Jack, piledrives him, and cuts a short "I'm the King!" promo.
Thoughts: I'd call this the definition of extreme. There were some amazing spots, from the backdrop off of the table, to the sunset flip, even the Hotshot. I thought the match was over about 3 times. Very, very impressive.
Rating: ****
"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert vs "Too Sexy" Brian Christopher, USWA
Match: In a shocking turn of events, Gilbert is a face. The men hit a series of counters which end with Gilbert popping Brian in the face with a right hand. They do this about three times, with every right getting the crowd more pumped up. "Too Sexy" gains the upper hand with a cheap shot when Gilbert was going to hit a backdrop. A backdrop by Brian onto Eddie. Brian charges at Gilbert, who picks him up and drapes him over the ropes with a Hotshot! When Eddie goes for the pin, his brother Doug Gilbert interferes, attacking him and causing a DQ. Brian locks Eddie in the ropes and starts pummeling him. Jeff Jarrett makes the save, attacking Brian, while Eddie frees himself and beats down Doug.
Thoughts: It was very short, couldn't have been longer than five minutes. However, the was some very good action in the time it was given. Brian and Eddie had their reversals down. The DQ ending wasn't too bad, considering how they played it out.
Rating: **
"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert w/ Jeff Jones vs "Golden Boy" Jeff Jarrett w/ Jim Cornette for the USWA Unified Heavyweight Title, Texas Deathmatch, USWA
Match: For those of you that don't know, a Texas Deathmatch involves a wrestler getting a pin, a 30 second rest period, and then the wrestler who was pinned having to answer a 10 count. In the start, Jeff Jarrett and even Jim Cornette get shots on Gilbert. Cornette distracts Gilbert so Jarrett can roll him up for the first pin. Gilbert answers the 10 count easily, but walks into a big right hand by Jarrett and is pinned again! Gilbert answers the count, and knocks Jarrett upside the head with a big haymaker. When he goes for the pin, Gilbert thinks the ref is counting too slowly so he confronts him and gets rolled up again! After answering the 10 count, Gilbert looks over at Jones who passes him a chain. Cornette tries to tell the ref about the chain, but distracts him. Jarrett sees the chain, avoids a punch, steals the chain, and knocks Gilbert out with it for another pin! Eddie answers the count at 8, but gets hit with another big right hand and is pinned again! 5 straight falls on Gilbert! He answers the count at 7, and this time grabs the chain and throws it towards the ref. The ref picks it up, but Jones passes Gilbert brass knuckles and Eddie knocks Jarrett out for his first pin. Jarrett answers the count, but Eddie is handed a chicken-wire by Jones, who distracts the ref. Gilbert literally clotheslines Jarrett with the wire. Eddie pins Jarrett, and Jones distracts the ref during the rest period. Gilbert takes advantage, piledriving (illegal in the USWA) Jarrett! Somehow, Jarrett answers at 9. Cornette distracts the ref, and Jarrett piledrives Gilbert for another pin. Gilbert answers at 9, but Jones and Cornette yell at each other, distracting the ref, allowing Jarrett to hit a Tombstone Piledriver for a pin! Finally, tensions explode and Cornette and Jones go after each other outside the ring, taking the ref with the them. Out of nowhere, "Dirty" Doug Gilbert intereferes, using chloroform to take Jarrett out! The ref returns, and Eddie answers the 10 count, but Jarrett does not! Eddie retains his title by the skin of his teeth.
Thoughts: I don't quite know how to rate this match. There was no great wrestling, but the two definitely told a story. It was very enjoyable to watch, and it seemed like the match was over after certain pinfalls, but the two kept going.
Rating: ***
Overall thoughts: As if I didn't think it before, I know once again that Eddie Gilbert is one of the most underated wrestlers in history. He cut some great promos, had some pretty technical matches, and he had some very, very brutal hardcore matches. RIP "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, still in some fans' memories.
Overall rating: ***1/2
