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Eddie Gilbert (Wrestling)

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Thomas Edward Gilbert Jr. (August 14, 1961 – February 18, 1995) was an American professional wrestler, 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 Jerry Lawler. He also was the original booker for NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling. After a run in Jim Cornette's Smoky Mountain Wrestling in 1994, he left to book in Puerto Rico, where he died on February 18, 1995. He also competed for WWE in the early 1980s as a Jobber, for WCW, for the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico, for the Global Wrestling Federation in Dallas, TX, for the hardcore W*ING and IWA promotions in Japan, for various National Wrestling Alliance territories, for New Japan Pro-Wrestling and for "Cowboy" Bill Watts' Mid-South Wrestling/UWF promotions. Among his achievements, he is a former NWA ECW Tag Team Champion with his brother Doug (under a mask as the Dark Patriot), a former 4x USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champion, a former NWA United States Tag Team Champion with Rick Steiner, and a 2x UWF World Tag Team Champion with Sting. He also had a famous three-match series with Cactus Jack in 1991 for the Tri-States Wrestling Alliance in Philadelphia.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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Captain Ersatz: As Michael Myers, with Doug as Freddy Krueger in the hardcore W*ING promotion in Japan. See below under Screw This, I'm Outta Here.
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Arch-Enemy: Jerry Lawler, Terry Funk.
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Food Fight: In the Tupelo Concession Stand Brawls in Memphis
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Game-Breaking Injury: 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. 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.
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Foreign Wrestling Heel: In Japan. Also managed the Russians (Ivan Koloff, Nikita Koloff and Kortsia Korchenko) in Mid-South and took part in the famous angle where they buried "Cowboy" Bill Watts under a Soviet flag.
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Finishing Move: The Hot Shot (ring-rope clothesline, later known as "Stunning" Steve Austin's Stun Gun)
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Car Fu
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Car Fu: To Jerry Lawler in the parking lot of the TV studio in Memphis, after Eddie and brother Doug had been "fired" from the promotion.
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Bash Brothers: with his father Tommy and/or brother Doug, with Ricky Morton, with Tommy Rich
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