Shoot Interview With Eddie Gilbert February 1994

[@bigvanpapi]

Dark side of the ring should do an episode on the life of Hot Stuff! Not really a slander but a rise, fall & legacy type of episode.

[@bb-gc2tx]

Little known fact Eddie was wwf 1983 rookie of the year

[@WyattHolliday]

I remembered him from when I was a kid, didn’t see a lot of his work, but I’m currently going down an Eddie Gilbert rabbit hole. He seemed so cool.

[@lodi70005]

Eddie would be on his 4th or 5th run booking a major company like WWE, if he didn’t die early. I say 4th or 5th, because Eddie would have told Vince to go fu*k himself, and gotten fired a few times. It’s possible that if Eddie doesn’t die, Vince Russo is never heard of, and the history of wrestling is changed a lot.

[@Snakeman612]

This is considered the very first ever wrestling shoot interview

[@davestuddaman8127]

1st official. 2nd ever!!

[@mike04574]

@@davestuddaman8127 2nd?

[@SpeedyDePalma]

@@mike04574 I think the 2nd is supposed to be that tape known as "plan B" that never actually aired basically it was several wrestlers going on camera to talk about how it was all fake and this was in the event their company got bought out some of the names involved were Bob Roop, Ronnie Garvin, Boris Malenko and Bob Orton.

[@jetgold]

A Icon who was gone way too soon.

[@HH-pk2wh]

I remember reading the pwtorch newspaper learning about his death. RIP Eddie.

[@billyjay9167]

The one shoot that started the whole shoot interview tape revolution

[@Plexpara]

first wrestling shoot interview ever

[@mdhotstuff]

I remember a young Eddie and Curt in WWWF - never understood why they didnt form a tag team. Mostly read about him in mags until I moved from MA to DE - then thank god, I was there for the transformation of Mid South into UWF. Though I never met Eddie - Joel Goodhart had a radio show, and I was able to call into it and speak to Hotstuff for about 10 minutes. Then there was that fateful day when I turned to the last page of PWI Magazine and saw the headline - Eddie Gilbert - dead in PR - One of the few times pro wrestling made me cry. He was always at his best when he was a big fish in a small pond, and not the reverse

[@DIESEL0759]

Considering Eddie was about five-foot-nine, and Hennig was around six-foot-three, it would just look bad with the two of them standing together. It would really emphasise how short Eddie was.

[@jasonpdsi]

I thought Eddie and Curt were a tag team briefly

[@hezamachine]

They were a tag team briefly and even wrestled each other in WWF.

[@mistermike1420]

This is really intriguing. Ive never seen eddie gilbert..ive only read about him on pwi as a kid. I even remember him on the old wcw video game on nintendo. Thanks for the post!

[@Kayfabe-226]

Eddie was so great at all aspects of in ring work...I remember that portrait angle as classic Eddie..For me That angle that led to Gilbert and Russians attacking Bill Watts bloody was Awesome!!!...When Crockett bought out Watts WCW never pushed Eddie they way he deserved...I remember how great Gilbert and Paul were together in CWF....

[@TroystonB]

the original shoot interview that started it all.

[@georgemaranville3305]

“Searching for Eddie Gilbert”

[@johnathanrush4666]

Been looking for this, thanks for uploading 🙏

[@chadk890]

A year after this interview he unfortunately passed away. That's crazy.

[@kpllc4209]

On the infamous angel where he hits Lawler with his car. "Eddie Marlin was still there and I remember thinking I am gonna hit him too, but it's live TV and I can't stop" 🤣

[@ExpensiveSwan]

holy crap. i've always wanted to see this!

[@danielmoore503]

Thank you for this amazing upload! What a smart guy he was, r.i.p

[@levimcdaniel]

eddie most underrated wrestler of all time. was great

[@giarichards8379]

I didn’t even know shoot interviews existed in 1994. 😂

[@frenchtoast9926]

MemphoWrasslin1 makes sense cause this was right after the big booking fiasco with him and Paul so seems like a good topic to be on the first shoot

[@justinmagwood6855]

This was the very first shoot

[@chandlerdarius6380]

Dunno if anyone gives a shit but if you guys are bored like me during the covid times you can stream pretty much all of the new movies and series on InstaFlixxer. Have been streaming with my brother these days :)

[@markusalexzander5891]

@Chandler Darius Yea, have been watching on instaflixxer for months myself =)

[@FunkSwaggMusiK]

This is the first one

[@johngroves9828]

So fascinating! I so hate that his life was so short. His mind for the business was brilliant. He seemed like a nice person. Good sense of humor and personality.

[@leannegallimore2380]

Wow, thank you so much for uploading this! I’ve been wanting to see it for a long time.

[@christopherhughes5729]

That is the sexiest thing I've ever heard a woman say about pro wrestling. 😆

[@bryanelam7431]

In the 80's I was in elementary school in East Tennessee so I was a huge Crockett NWA mark. I stopped watching wrestling completely in the late 80's & didn't start watching again until the start of the Monday night wars. So, I didn't see much of Eddie Gilbert until KZbin & how tragic it is that he died young!! He is definitely one of the best wrestlers, best wrestling minds, & one of the best people ever in the wrestling business!!! It sucks I didn't see him much during his career but at least I have KZbin!!!

[@wolfieform9514]

Eddie Gilbert r.I.p

[@chrisbolton6598]

Could listen to a lot more of this. Always liked the Gilberts. Crazy to think about what could have been if Eddie was still with us.

[@citizenbeeswax7985]

A piece of brocolli was used to light the room.

[@nyyterp]

I really enjoyed Gilbert's insight and behind-the-scenes look at his greatest hits. What Gilbert did is still far more memorable and griping than anything else post-old school era -- whether it was the Tag Team of the Year with Tommy Rich or the Russian flag angle in the UWF, or anything else he reminisces here. His absence to this day is still greatly felt as he had a keen wrestling mind on the machinations for *both* sides (i.e., booker and wrestler) of the business.

[@kevincampbell5785]

Loved Eddie, even when he was at his dirtiest in the ring. Saw him wrestle The Great Muta live during his WCW face run. Really miss him not being involved with the business. RIP

[@czwrefsteven]

HEY ROB!!! THE LIGHT WENT OUT AGAIN!!!!

[@kingsports1113]

Paul Heyman mentor was sitting by Eddie Gilbert pool with Missy Hyatt

[@christopherhughes5729]

Miss you Eddie.

[@SammyVideoPlex]

I loved Hot Stuff if he would have lived longer he would have had a wonderful career. Jeff Jarrett and Eddie Gilbert was the best young talent in the USWA had. Rip Eddie Gilbert ❤

[@CatsClaw44]

Eddie seemed like a great guy and very smart. It is strange to know that he was still alive during Jim Cornette's Smoky Mountain Wrestling.

[@angelacallaway5910]

Wonder if this was the only sit down he ever did talking about the wrestling world.

[@carlosdanger947]

Sad that just one year later to the month he would die. Feb 1995

[@grawakendream8980]

didn't realize ed did a shoot interview, thought he was gone before this stuff rose up

[@jonathanturbide2232]

Obviously he was gone long before these shoots became fashionable and marketable, but it doesn't mean they didn't exist back then. It was one of the very first of its kind, I think only Brody had done one before that.

[@stevep4574]

Unfortunately, a real talent like Eddie will probably never get into the WWE HOF. But a guy like Drew Carey and William Shatner will though.

[@davestuddaman8127]

I believe this was the 2nd ever shoot interview! There's one with fkn Bruiser Brody, of all people to break kayfabe, that precedes this one. And that's it. We miss ya Hot Stuff!

[@danielmoore503]

Are there any shoots with Art Barr?

[@GregS-1981]

Eddie was unfortunate in that his prime was during the era where size was everything. Had Gilbert been alive and in shape in the mid to late 90s, he would have had tremendous success. He was very similar in size to Shawn Michaels.

[@jonathanturbide2232]

Not true at all, plenty of smaller guys were having tremendous success in the business even though they weren't giants. I mean just look at Macho, he wasn't that much bigger than Gilbert right? Eddie had a great mind for the business and had great wrestling IQ but he wasn't a stellar performer inside the ring, and wasn't the most reliable out of the ring. Even Bill Watts saw him more as a manager than wrestler, that says a lot.

[@brentw4975]

Is there a 2nd part it seemed like they wasn't finished when missy was talking off camera

[@NLaBar]

We were robbed of some great shit in wrestling when we lost Eddie Gilbert. Had he lived, I assume we’d now have a large library of great content that he booked in some promotion. RIP. Drugs work the same w/everyone.. fun at the beginning, death in the end.

[@raymondmma51]

Eddie doesn’t seem messed up here, I was expecting that he might be. Too bad, he was a great performer.

[@christopherhughes5729]

Awesome 😎

[@GunToting]

Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert.... I remember him Dusty Rhodes the 4 Horseman Rick Flair Diamond Dallas Page Diamond Cutter Terry Funk Lex Luger the Fabulous Free Birds Midnight Express the Road Warriors Tony Schiavone Jim Cornette and Sting off the top of My head.

[@whatndafukdadog3635]

Midsouth wrestling was a staple in Louisiana. Saw Eddie in a Walgreen's in Alexandria Louisiana. #1 he was a prick to the cashier. #2. He was a small guy for a wrestler. about 5'6" maybe 170lbs.

[@johnathanrush4666]

He lived his gimmick, brother (that story bums me out, though, don't be dickish to service workers)

[@whatndafukdadog3635]

@@johnathanrush4666 You are a moron.

[@johnathanrush4666]

@@whatndafukdadog3635 lmao and you're a bona fide Internet Tough Guy, fuck outta here, coward

[@whatndafukdadog3635]

@@johnathanrush4666 I can fuck you up equally internet tough guy.

[@johnathanrush4666]

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[@curtiswilliams5223]

Same interviewer video of Chris Benoit

[@user-zq5eb2hj9o]

Who did this interview? I saw the one bob Barnett did in ‘94 but this seems like a different one that I never saw

[@pooddescrewch8718]

Sound ?

[@Emeraldgem-fc8fh]

broady did the first shoot interview !

[@furnitureconsortium]

I wouldn't consider it as the first as Brody sat down for what? 15 minutes? I'm not taking anything away from the importance of it as Frank never discussed business openly like that.....but Eddie Gilbert's was 90 minutes....that's a long time to discuss one's career. If memory serves, Brody didn't discuss his whole career, just bits and pieces about how matches go. If we're being this anal about exposures of the business.....You could go all the way back to the early 1970's with the famous Mario Galento radio interview which he exposed the business or later on in the 70's when "Plan B" was hatched out by Bob Roop and the rest of the crew that broke away from Ron Fuller and tried to take over his territory. Although the Plan B video was never made public until a couple of years ago.

[@mikeberry9404]

Emerald gem 4906 who the Hell is BroAdy?Big wrestling fan I presume?

[@bodhi8297]

I can’t find much on the death of Eddie Gilbert other than he was found dead in his apartment in Puerto Rico. Makes me wonder due to Brody

[@leannegallimore2380]

Wicked King Wicker I read that it was a heart attack. His heart apparently was really damaged after his car wreck that also hurt his neck.

[@bodhi8297]

Leanne Gallimore the wrestling industry lost one of a kind in Eddie Gilbert. Imo his best was still to come. There’s certain guys that are great in ring but contribute just as much maybe even more back stage. Guys like Jake Roberts, Raven, Scott Hall, Jerry Lawler, Kevin Sullivan and many more. I believe Gilbert belongs on that list. RIP Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert

[@garymercer5253]

There was talk that maybe it was coke gimmick that was tainted. Again, there was talk. Not sure if true or false.

[@bodhi8297]

Gary Mercer where I’m from they call it a hot pack. Easy way to get someone close to you.

[@danielmoore503]

@@garymercer5253 I heard it was the dope

[@dlg2429]

Eddie Gilbert never drew a dime.

[@davidqueppet1406]

Great interview. TERRIBLE lighting job.

[@billxmas889]

John Gilliam , was that Killem Gilliam son .

[@royce1041]

Bruiser Brody did a shoot video in 1987

[@carl5381]

@Metropcs Metropcs kzbin.info/www/bejne/anucYqWQnZ5ofMU

[@Emeraldgem-fc8fh]

@Metropcs Metropcs its on you tube

[@roccoz2231]

As far as I know, Brody's interview was never released on video, as the market for shoot interviews really didn't exist during Brody's lifetime. Also, Brody's "shoot video" appears to be raw footage from an interview with a journalist. How much of it was even broadcast?

[@javierortegon4425]

BAD LIGHTING !

[@angryoperatorcrazybob8998]

Classic🍻 #bobperator

[@corletone8916]

Young phil Mitchell

[@MattHall05]

41:52 did he just say Miz?

[@deanlarkins5858]

This is terrible. The lighting sucks, the volume is low it's unorganized and too many people yacking... I've lost interest in the first 3 minutes.

[@rowds]

Firstly, put a shirt on. What the hell are you trying to show? And two..you should be able to overlook all that, because of the fact this is EDDIE GILBERT, and it is from 1994...

[@karmaisreal261]

Bro your life is terrible, nobody cares in real life or in youtube commernts what you think about anything

[@donkeyd1540]

Crap sound

[@DIESEL0759]

You'll find most of these so-called "shoot interviews" are of shitty video and sound quality. They're cheaply produced by people who have no business filming anything because they have no idea how to use a video camera, lights, or microphones.

[@karmaisreal261]

Its vhs from 94 what did you expect? And you paid zero dollars for this, you sound like a brat with your snotty attitude

[@ToxicAvengerCleanYourMind]

I remember when this dude came out making fun of Goldberg...shit was hilarious, called himself Gilberg, lol

[@Lucybgirl]

It is so sad about his death. I think he only wanted to be loved and admired. Neither did he receive. And him hooking up with Missy Hyatt was probably the worst thing he ever did

[@davidqueppet1406]

Great interview. TERRIBLE lighting job.

[@roccoz2231]

My first reaction was that it looks like it was filmed with a 1994 camcorder. But then you realize it probably literally was filmed with a 1994 camcorder. LOL!