Bobby Eaton

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He rarely got any interview time, especially later with Cornette, so I found this funny when I came across it:

 

Bobby Eaton, Tojo Yamamoto, The Great Togo with TV announcer Harry Thornton, 1980 on Harry’s final TV show, promoting an upcoming Chattanooga card in which Eaton & Yamamoto would face Jerry Barber & The Bounty Hunter and Togo would face Tony Atlas:

 

Eaton: “I hate to see you go, Harry Thornton but I’ve got a few things to say. First of all, what happened to Rocky Brewer? What happened to Rocky Brewer?”

 

Thornton: “I, I can answer that. He has a dislocated shoulder.”

 

Eaton: “Yeah, you know why? Because my man right here gave him the big powerslam Harry Thornton and I came down with that elbow on him. He can not take it. And now, you’re seeing the new NWA, managed by Tojo Yamamoto, the Mid-America tag team champions, Harry Thornton, the Mid-America tag team champions. Right now, I want to say to everybody in Chattanooga, tonight, you’re gonna get to see some first class, some first class you ain’t never seen right here in the Japanese Connection. Jerry Barber and the Bounty Hunter. Jerry Barber, you’ve been down at Dyersburg, Tennessee on a one year drunk. A one year drunk, he’s been on.”

 

Thornton: “Now, Bobby, come on.”

 

Eaton: “He hasn’t been on no journey. He’s been on a drunk. He’s a lowdown sot. And that Bounty Hunter, he don’t look like no bounty hunter. You know what he is? He’s a women’s purse snatcher. That’s what he is, a purse snatcher. (Thornton rolls his eyes) Tell ‘em Tojo.”

 

Thornton: “Now that, that’s pretty low to call a man those things.”

 

Eaton: “He’s a low down drunk.”

 

Yamamoto: “Harry, I tell you, I back up Bobby-san one hundred percent because what Bobby says is true because Bobby don’t tell liar. Bobby just like the Japanese and the Japanese, you know, we don’t tell liar, we tell the truth. And Bobby…”

 

Thornton: “You’re just telling one right there when you say that. You’re telling a lie right there.”

 

Eaton: “Hey, Harry, don’t you call him a liar.”

 

Yamamoto: “Don’t call me a liar.”

 

Eaton: “Don’t call him a liar.”

 

Yamamoto: “Don’t call us a liar.”

 

Thornton: “I’ll call you a liar if I want to. Don’t threaten me with either one of your punks.”

 

Eaton: “Just because you’re leaving, today’s your last day, you can’t run over my man right here.”

 

Thornton: “I can get a chair and run over him though.” (Crowd cheers.)

 

Yamamoto: “I tell you, if this is your last day…”

 

Thornton: “I’ve put up with you…(points at Yamamoto)

 

Yamamoto: “I tell you what, I put you in a funeral home.”

 

Thornton: “I’ve put up with you for years and I’m glad this is the last time I have to see your ugly face.”

 

Yamamoto: “My ugly face? Harry, I want to tell you something, today’s your last day. I wish you all the luck and I want to send you sympathy card. You understand? And I tell you, you can tell Jerry Barber, too, that hog jaws, and that Bounty Hunter, the carrot nose. I tell you what, me and Bobby-san, we’re gonna beat them up. And I wanna talk about the Great Togo. Great Togo told me to tell all the Japanese, all his family. He’s gonna get Tony Atlas and he’s gonna really bleed.”

 

Eaton: “Tony Atlas, Harry Thornton, all Tony Atlas needs is a one between his nose Harry Thornton.” (Eaton holds up fist.Togo grabs the microphone and begins a tirade in Japanese. Thornton looks at the camera and shrugs his shoulders.)

 

Yamamoto: “You know what he said Harry? He said you’re ugly and stupid and he said he wants to give you a sympathy card, too.”

 

Thornton: “If I was as ugly as he is, I’d walk backwards.”

 

Eaton: “We wanna say Tony Atlas, you come over here with your big muscles and everything but all the muscles you got is your mouth. (Thornton pulls the microphone away and begins to turn from Eaton, Yamamoto and Togo.) Bye, Harry. (Eaton pats Thornton on the back as Harry sits down.)

 

Thornton: “Good luck.”

 

Eaton: “See you later, Harry.” (Eaton shakes Thornton’s hand.)

 

Thornton: “Okay, Bobby, good luck. Sorry to see you in such bad company. (Thornton rings the bell. Tojo and Bobby Eaton continuing talking but are inaudible.) Get on back there in the back where you belong before I lose my temper you little slant eyed. I’ve put up with him for twenty years and I’m glad that’s over.”

 

 

That was a typical, old-school, heel interview..insulted the faces, got the crowd riled up. Harry Thornton was a long time local announcer, not just for wrestling, for other local news shows and that gave the wrestling some "realism".

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That's a pretty good interview, thanks for posting it.