The Viceland Wrestling Documentaries

[Cobra Commander]

it feels like they jumped over a few stops of Eddie and presented Memphis as his first booking, when I'm pretty sure he booked in Alabama (which I guess didn't have people to interview or footage)

Missy wasn't there because it was either her or some others, so Madusa was the ex-wife of choice

enough of the ECW people are around to spend time on this, although Tod really does the lifting here

Doug Gilbert looking like Storage Wars Dave Hester these days

Yeah, I could see Puerto Rico being a place allowing a Wrestling Bear in 1995

"If" would have to do a lot of work in the question of "If Eddie Gilbert was alive today" because we're close to having more time since he died than time that he lived

[odessasteps]

It’s possible Eddie contributed ideas earlier in Memphis than when he booked continental. I would believe Eddie came up with the Tag Team of the Year angle with Tommy Rich.

He also booked late era UWF before the sale to JCP. 

[Cobra Commander]

I did like the look of the Eddie shoot interview since it was a "what if you ended up in a motel room with a wrestler" sort of look...

[odessasteps]

Cheap Plug: here's Greg and I discussing the Russian Flag angle. 

https://www.odessasteps.co.uk/podcast/2023/4/30/episode-120-may-day

[hammerva]

9 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:

I did like the look of the Eddie shoot interview since it was a "what if you ended up in a motel room with a wrestler" sort of look...

I found it interesting that Cornette didn't mention the person who conducted the interview.  Like we know it is Bob Barnett.   Maybe Jim didn't know that although that is surprising if so

I feel like the end of ECW for Eddie is a lot more complicated story then what was explained.  I know there was podcast explaining ECW 1993 in more detail.  

 

[Cliff Hanger]

On 4/28/2025 at 12:17 PM, Cobra Commander said:

Superstar really gave up on hair much quicker than all the other balding dudes who were doing Superstar tribute gimmicks

although I could see Hogan talking about how shaving his hair off would have doomed him as a face and the combo of balding hair and the black beard in WCW made heel Hogan look really scuzzy so that was perfect

Take with a mine of salt and all, but I remember Hogan telling Leno the night he "announced his run for POTUS" and "retired" that Vince Sr. asked him to go red as Incredible Hulk Hogan and he said no because he was paranoid about it causing him to go bald faster (which raises the question of why he was willing to bleach it)

[twiztor]

18 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

Realistically, Superstar would have probably made an awesome manager if he'd ever wanted to. Maybe his family was right and he should have just went into the ministry, but the pro-wrestling kind of ministry. 

Billy Graham as the higher power? if i was on my home PC i'd photoshop a pic, so just use your imagination here.

[Hamhock]

51 minutes ago, twiztor said:

Billy Graham as the higher power? if i was on my home PC i'd photoshop a pic, so just use your imagination here.

Old Man Graham in the monk's robe, locking on the full nelson as he shouts "IT WAS ME, MY MAN!"

[Cobra Commander]

IT WAS ME DADDIO, IT WAS ME ALL ALONG

[Cobra Commander]

4 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:

IT WAS ME DADDIO, IT WAS ME ALL ALONG

that might be the "Boogie Woogie Man Jimmy Valiant is the Higher Power" speech though

[Peck]

The Higher Power of coffee tables.

[Nice Guy Eddie]

35 minutes ago, Hamhock said:

Old Man Graham in the monk's robe, locking on the full nelson as he shouts "IT WAS ME, MY MAN!"

It'd have to be a tye-dye robe. 

[odessasteps]

6 hours ago, hammerva said:

I found it interesting that Cornette didn't mention the person who conducted the interview.  Like we know it is Bob Barnett.   Maybe Jim didn't know that although that is surprising if so

I feel like the end of ECW for Eddie is a lot more complicated story then what was explained.  I know there was podcast explaining ECW 1993 in more detail.  

 

I didn’t remember it was Bob. I figured it was prob Feinstein and that’s likely why they didn’t mention it. 

[Cobra Commander]

when did Feinstein go from "ECW tape guy" to "shoot interview" guy.. closer to 95/96?

[odessasteps]

And BWO member. 

[WebConn89]

I figure I can’t be the only one who watched this episode and said wait Eddie Gilbert wrestled Tiger Mask well here’s the match and it’s pretty good actually really good

 

[Pete]

On 4/28/2025 at 1:13 PM, twiztor said:

the '70s were ripe for a Karate gimmick. But he's really going to need a mullet as well.

Paging Speedball Bailey...

[The Natural]

19 hours ago, Peck said:

The Higher Power of coffee tables.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d5/ea/d8/d5ead85146001741a48f8610b864cf0f.jpg

[SovietShooter]

On 4/29/2025 at 11:01 PM, Cobra Commander said:

"If" would have to do a lot of work in the question of "If Eddie Gilbert was alive today" because we're close to having more time since he died than time that he lived

Here is the one thing that is interesting... Gilbert died in 1995, which was basically right before the Internet became a big thing, and any semblance of Kayfabe was out the window.  With the landscape of the business shortly after that, there would've been a spot for him somewhere.  I mean, look at how Russo/Cornette/Bischoff/Dusty/Taylor/Heyman all were recycled and given lots of chances between WWE/WCW/TNA/ECW... someone would've given Gilbert the book somewhere. 

 

[odessasteps]

Gilbert and JC were born only a month apart. 

both Eddie and Paul were early adopters on being online. Gilbert posted using burner accounts on AOL and maybe Compuserve when he was Global Booker. 

[Ace]

I tried watching the Hollywood Demons Von Erich episode on Max. But gave up after 20 minutes because it was just as bullshitty as all the rest. Drew Pinsky is just as much a carny fuck as the old promoters were.

 

[Cobra Commander]

Take your pick on who has had a rougher last decade between Dr. Drew and Adam Carolla (both 2000s LoveLine guys)

[odessasteps]

Where is Diane Farr these days?

[SovietShooter]

2 hours ago, odessasteps said:

Where is Diane Farr these days?

She is on a CBS show called "Fire Country" or something.

[Cobra Commander]

not sure how many Wikipedia pages have a photo of someone's signature but no photo of that person, but the Diane Farr entry is one of those pages