January 13, 201312 yr Author comment_5527835 Lawler is in Philly, so this week's promo is done outside to cover for his absence. Funk and Eddie Gilbert may have won the title, but Funk didn't do it by himself. He references that Funk will be in Japan for 21 days. He promises to get Funk in the ring in a way where Gilbert can't interfere. He has double duty on Monday night. Lawler and Dundee are teaming against The Internationals on Monday night, where the winner of the fall must leave the USWA for six months. Then in the main event, Lawler faces Gilbert in a barbed wire match, which got ****3/4 in a fan report in the WON. Oh how I wish we had that. Classic promo.
January 13, 201312 yr comment_5527841 Lawler and Dundee are teaming against The Internationals on Monday night, where the winner of the fall must leave the USWA for six months.Loser of the fall...?
January 28, 201312 yr comment_5531336 This must be a fairly big roster crunch for Lawler to have to pull double-duty like this. Great promo to sum everything up, though. Funk's gone to Japan for 21 days, so Lawler has to go after the Southern title to ensure that he'll have first ups when he gets back. But he has to get through the Internationals in a LLT match first.
February 2, 201312 yr comment_5532568 Good promo by Lawler, dammit why cant we have full footage of the barbed wire match.
February 12, 201312 yr comment_5534732 Lawler says Funk has already taken the World Title on a tour of Japan. He’s hoping Funk keeps the title as he wants to take title back. Lawler is fed up and is ready to get mean and nasty. Oh, barbed wire match with Lawler and Gilbert.
March 17, 201510 yr comment_5658977 I have no idea why Lawler's wrestling twice. Anybody with any common sense knows that they wouldn't be promoting the barbed wire match so heavily if there was any real chance of Lawler losing in the tag match. At the very least, they could have said that the barbed wire match will take place even if Lawler loses because it was signed for the same night. Weren't there any other faces available to team with Dundee? Not even Brian Christopher? The Gilbert stuff is the meat of this promo, and the verbal war that's more intense than most physical feuds could ever dream of keeps on going. You get the feeling that Eddie in particular claiming to be the king of Memphis has Lawler even more upset than he would be if anyone else claimed the crown, as he promises to start the evening mean and nasty against the Internationals and go on from there. If any of the bad guys survive this coming Monday night in Memphis, it won't be because Lawler didn't try to cripple them. I like how he assured the fans that he wasn't turning heel again, like that's even possible. Why didn't Lawler acknowledge where he was going? He's taking on Gilbert at one Philly card and Funk at the other, so he could have thrown in a line about how neither one of their stinkin' hides may ever make it back to Memphis, and that he may already have the Unified title back by the time he's on TV again next week. Not a huge missed opportunity, but a noticeable one nonetheless.
August 20, 20178 yr comment_5811196 Loved this. Lawler vs. Gilbert in a barbed wire match and there is no footage??!? So wrong.
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