Gilbert vs Wayne Family Brawl - Tommy gets handcuffed, Eddie gets the beatdown (6-23-79)

[@moonbeamskies3346]

This may be the best old-school wrestling attack ever!

[@arkansoul]

Hey, we tear shirts off when we beat down here in Memphis!!! lol There were these kinds of attacks all the time in Memphis.

[@josephmoore1168]

Especially when the cop is standing right there

[@Desstrik]

@ josephmoore1168 Umm, well, the cops are for legal crowdcontrol, if needed. NOT for what is going on with the Production and entertainment. 🤣

[@michaelconnors7668]

The Gilberts get what's coming. They got what they deserved. Thank you Buddy and Ken Wayne for unwavering commitment to fair play and sportsmanship at the highest level.

[@GregoryWeagle]

I agree. Tommy claimed that he wouldn't lay a finger on Ken, but then admit that he was going to spank him. What a hypocrite?!

[@chrisbridges655]

"That's a great apology!" - Lance Russell

[@ronaldshank7589]

Too bad he didn't mean it!

[@michaelvaughn8864]

That was definitely an old school throwback🙂

[@heatherwaibel6361]

True ronald

[@nolafan7754]

The sons sold the shit out of that fight!!!!!!

[@AldenRDavis]

Ken Wayne later teamed with fellow wrestler Danny Davis and became a popular tag team, the Nightmares.

[@nicoleknight9412]

Later on, Wayne went rogue and then turned on Davis, starting another bloody feud.

[@dburse66]

Buddy Wayne actually had quite an impressive physique when he was in his 20's and 30's.

[@arkansoul]

Tommy Gilbert committed a cardinal sin in Memphis rasslin'...NEVER TURN YOUR BACK!!!

[@THAT8DUDEGUY]

R.I.P. Buddy Wayne , Tommy Gilbert & Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert

[@yardlet6]

+Scott G Damn.

[@saveus228]

And ken Wayne might as well be dead. Serving 20 yrs for kiddy diddling...

[@dr.smurpf6979]

@@saveus228 he'll be out by 2021 on parole for the rest of his life

[@madbrowniac7871]

And now of course Mr. Lance Russell. 😔B.W.

[@twirltalklive]

Lance was too calm,can we get somebody out here 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Desstrik]

he was always that way

[@AldenRDavis]

Eddie Gilbert later teamed with fellow wrestler Tommy Rich and became “the New Fabulous Ones” who were brought together by Jackie Fargo, but they have a very small success as a tag-team.

[@nicoleknight9412]

Then Eddie turned on Tommy, starting a bloody feud between the two.

[@AldenRDavis]

Tommy Gilbert who would later become Nightmare Freddy (a gimmick of the character Freddy Krueger of A Nightmare on Elm Street series) in 1989, and became a Memphis Wrestling crowd favorite throughout the late 1980s.

[@nicoleknight9412]

I remember that, with the Freddie mask and Freddie's iconic striped shirt and fedora. He was a hoot! But I didn't know that was Tommy Gilbert under the mask though

[@sandmantn77]

@@nicoleknight9412 Sometimes it was Eddie's brother Doug.

[@lastwolflord]

love the marks going crazy. Makes it so much more fun to watch.

[@nelsonporter8387]

Buddy Wayne went to the Phil Hickerson dietary seminar

[@AldenRDavis]

Eddie Gilbert later compete against Jerry “The King” Lawler in a fiery match in Memphis back in 1988.

[@ronaldshank7589]

Think about this:"Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert and Jerry "The King" Lawler are the two historical King's of the Fireballs! They both threw 'em, and, by doing so, put a real fiery burnmark on the careers of many a wrestler that dared to cross their paths!!!🔥💥🔥💥!!!

[@yardlet6]

Eddie looks like he's still in high school.

[@sandmantn77]

He was.

[@joegausch]

50 years later he's still handcuffed ..

[@djdonald243]

By the magic of KZbin

[@MrGeno502]

R.I.P. Tommy Gilbert

[@tonyarceneaux286]

And Eddie Gilbert too.

[@davidpaster2371]

I grew up watching this wrestling. To this very day, it still looks so real. This was the best wrestling.

[@aronraygetchapull42071]

😄😄 3:36 Blade job by Eddie Gilbert underneath the ring!!🩸🩸 I wonder if this was his very first time using a blade?? 🤔🤔 Btw...🤣😂 At @ 4:37 check out KoKo totally fuck up trying to jump over the top rope!😁👌

[@johnathanrush4666]

Eddie looks SO YOUNG

[@Tarantulisimo]

RIP Tommy & Eddie....

[@rickmcdaniel9685]

I grew up in Lexington Tennessee always liked tommy Gilbert didn’t know Eddie to well I’m sorry we lost them God bless Tommy and Eddie and their family

[@kimmypeal8953]

Rip buddy too 😔

[@dhornjr1]

Tommy Gilbert looked like Burt Reynolds.

[@mr.mirchenstein6549]

Great Stuff!!!

[@Zeekoso]

DAAAAMNN!! I NEED TO STOP WATCHING WWE...THIS IS THE REaL DEAL STUFF!

[@Ccolonrod]

I also remember Tommy and Eddie wrestled in Puerto Rico and same thing happened Tommy got handcuffed while the Moondogs beat the crap and bloodied Eddie

[@Bret_97]

Carlos Colòn Yes!!!!maybe 1981/82

[@josephclark4999]

Proves either he was a dumbass or this shit is fake.

[@Lovelygal71]

All I can say when watching this is..."OMG!" That was one hell of a beating Eddie took.

[@able76]

Now this is wrestling!

[@friedchickenicedtea]

Hogjaws! LOL

[@dirkdiggler6483]

I remember watching this

[@arkansoul]

That is one sorry security guard standing behind Tommy...

[@nicoleknight9412]

His key didn't fit?? I thought handcuff keys were universal!

[@gl6996]

@@nicoleknight9412 He probably had the keys to his Pinto trying to unlock hadcuffs!! 🤣😂😆

[@ownknow8161]

*KoKo B. Ware was a rookie in the year of 1979.*

[@halfdanthomsen2041]

Ahhh man but that was his best red shirt

[@Crusader7077]

What I loved about the angle was not seeing the heels performing a whip in the ropes and a fancy move, something vicious from the top rope, etc. Rather, it came across as someone getting bullied and battered as if someone got jumped in an unsafe neighborhood. What I didn't like about the angle was seeing a security guy in the background standing there like nothing happened. If he had to be there during the angle, he should have been out of any camera shot.

[@purdhupley7864]

Eddie did this to Tommy Rich in the Tag Team of the Year angle years later. Nothing new under the sun

[@heatherwaibel6361]

Wayne’s I don’t like you anymore

[@dustinolvey8877]

That cop though he was Margorie Stoneman Douglas High School.

[@joegausch]

Things move slower down South. Somewhere in an old run down t.v. studio an old skeleton is found mysteriously handcuffed to a wrestling ring post.....

[@mrgallagher7072]

brother that was pandemonium brother 🔥 was that cocoa beware?????

[@JA_WILL]

The old Memphis ring -- Looked like a mattress.

[@TheMontgomery333]

Lmao

[@khriscaplinger8691]

This must be way back Eddie Gilbert is so young there it's such a downer that Tommy Eddie and Lance Russell are all gone now

[@crow672008]

Eddie Gilbert had a better career

[@SallyLulu885]

Why didn't someone find some pliers at the time?

[@nicoleknight9412]

Or a bolt cutter.

[@jefferysteen1041]

Can't they afford a ring apron!!?

[@MrKARLHUNGUS1962]

How did eddie gilbert change shoes during the fight, if you watch the part where it starts, he's wearing doc martins, in the ring, he's wearing sneakers.

[@MrKARLHUNGUS1962]

oops I was wrong

[@heatherwaibel6361]

Emma Gilbert is so upset about this thinking if she got a Wayne with her shoe she would be good 👍 almost nailed her grandpa 👴

[@tonyrhoton6613]

They did everything but corn eddie

[@HemiVic]

I've never seen so many beer bellied out of shape wrestlers!

[@martindoll5884]

They were tough as nails and would anyone ass