"I wish I could go out and rope him and bring him back." -Terry Funk, referring to the fact that the horse of kayfabe has left the barn. Me, too Terry, me, too.
Rich,I hope you get the chance to meet him sometime. I've had the pleasure of meeting him twice and he's the best ever. Wonderful guy....was great with the fans. Happy to be there,joking,having fun with everyone. He was supposed to be sitting down signing autographs,but he was up and in front of the table,talking with everyone,shaking hands,hugging everyone. I have a great pic with him and he puts me in a headlock. Awesome.
Get out and do it while you still can brother, Terry is so worth it! Absolute treasure, every bit the character you would expect from following his wrestling career but also one of the most kind, compassionate, and beautiful people you'll ever meet. Also, man, does he have stories. Just the best...
welcome2havoc he wrestles every style and in every territory from classic to ECW. I can't think of anyone else who was successful and integral in all three major promotions in the nineties. Bam Bam Bigelow was a top star in WWF and ECW but wasted in WCW. Shane Douglas was wasted in WWF and Scott Hall flopped in ECW before it went under. Terry Funk was a top star in all three including his run as NWA champion decades earlier.
Maybe the greatest all round talent ever, and my all time favorite on the microphone. Absolute diamond of a guy too, just too good for words, you gotta watch him...every bit of stuff you can find.
To each their own but I stand by that statement, Terry is just head and shoulders above most other performers ever, and I struggle to think of anyone else as good as an all round talent. Heenan pops in my head as being up there, Steve Austin, Brody, Lawler, Arn Anderson... That's about it. Adrian Street popped in my head too but he wasn't as charismatic a talker as you would like IMO
One of the best ever...Terry was a master in the ring and on the mic. Great psychology. A legend in every regard. Happy to have met him in person twice....couldn't have been nicer,more friendly,or better with the fans when he was there. Was out in front of his table that he was signing at,hugging the fans,taking pics,talking old school wrestling. Awesome.If you ever have a chance to meet him,dont pass up the opportunity.
"I'd love to go out and rope him and bring 'me back." So do I Terry, so do I! Wrestling was so much better before the fans got to know what happened behind the curtain. Terry is such a treasure and one of the best talents wrestling ever saw! Wrestling wouldn't be alive today if it weren't for Terry, Dory Jr and of course Dory Sr. i definitely want to see this!
Terry is so smooth when he gets an interview if you listen to what he says you'd be amazed but he actually can do it and it's so commonplace to him🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😉
My grandmother actually saw Dory Funk Jr in Amarillo in or around 1961. My mom was a little girl and my grandmother had the TEMERITY to boo the Funks! O.O
Terry Funk when it’s all said and done might just be the greatest ever!!! He got OVER!!! In every era he competed in!!!!!! (And that is a LOT of eras!!!!)
Frank Noel Lenny for sure! Such a great storyteller and one of the last guys with real insight on the territory from multiple perspectives that people would gladly pay to see. It's a bummer Buddy Rose isn't here for it, or Piper, they would be great too!
Douglas Patrick I got to thinking that Barry Owen, Don Owen's son, could also be a good candidate. I would not want to see Raven. He's too self severing imo. Kind of like Billy Jack Haynes.
All roads led to Amarilo folks! It sounds like if you could get under Funk, Sr. work hard and play by his rules you could make it out alive and go on somewheres else with his blessing. File this one under: The More You Know and Don't Screw With A Cowboy.
Terry looks so much like his father...if you put facial hair on that old b&w photo of Dory sr, they'd look the same...god bless Terry Funk...somebody you'll never hear a bad word about...
one thing that non wrestling fans should note... dont ask guys like terry funk, dory funk, dave finlay and steve regal that wrestling is fake because you will be sorry that you did say it.
I've always known that wrestling was fake fighting. These guys were so awesome at making what they did look so real and genuine. Many people make the mistake of thinking these guys can't fight and they are very mistaken.
coming from st. Louis mo. my memory of the funks.. dory vs jack brisco, gene kiniski, pat , O'Connor, the dick the bruiser, von raschke, black jack lanza, the crimson knight, ..(gene kiniski, big bill miller...now terry funk, the briscos, pat o'connor, bruiser, johnny valentine... Harley race...luv the funks... greatest nwa champions, after lou thesz... no slight to Harley race
Can the horse be put back in the stable...? I believe it could, I watched a great match on wwe fairly recently involving a little Russian fella and someone else and it was almost a proper wrestler match, I actually started watching thinking wow this is like the old days and I couldn’t turn away. Then they screwed it up, helped each other balance on the top rope so they could some circus move and it completely ruined the whole match. What I do t understand is if the matches are recorded why are they not editing them so we don’t see the camera angle that exposes the move. I think Kevin Dunn or whoever is the editor has lost their passion and quality control
terry, your son larry funk is runnin amok on the joe cronin show raw and smackdown reviews and monetize this. he's way outta control drinkin and swearin, doin drugs and givin raspberry whip cream swirls to wwe divas.
I have masses of respect for both these guys, yet Cornette is man who (rightly) decries ECW and its fans for destroying credibiility and believability and putting wrestlers' bodies at needless risk, but apparently loves the man here who persuaded Mick Foley to let him blow him up with C4 and who was set on fire by same in response.
SuperJimUK because unlike a lot of hardcore guys, Funk and Foley can actually wrestle. Cornette loves Funk because Funk is more than just a hardcore wrestler.
Also remember, what when Funk and Foley did something, they were the ONLY guys doing it. Mick himself stated that he was incredibly pissed when he was in ECW and he was going to have what was sure to be a bloody match with Funk (Might have been Dreamer or Sandman though, I can't remember exactly) and he asked Paul E to tone things down a little so their match would mean more....then he looks out the curtain and the first match of the card is a "last blood" match where the Last person not bleeding wins.
jaajaja you would think that his father was going to have a serious talk with him about pro wrestling being fake? but instead beat the shit out of his brother hahaahaha!
one thing you don't do is tell terry that wrestling is fake, and dont be fooled by that soft texas drawl, he will put you in a spinning toe hold and rip your tendons in your legs!!
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"I wish I could go out and rope him and bring him back." -Terry Funk, referring to the fact that the horse of kayfabe has left the barn. Me, too Terry, me, too.
And After All Those Times Terry Treated the Horse When It Was Sick ...
"I'd love to go out and rope him and bring him back" is one of the best quotes I've ever heard.
Terry Funk living legend and a last of a dying breed.
I'm 38 & Terry has been an old man ever since I can remember. Such a lovable old badass.
ECW doing dives off the balcony in his 50's lol
I love Terry Funk he's one of the few guys I still want to meet.
Rich,I hope you get the chance to meet him sometime. I've had the pleasure of meeting him twice and he's the best ever. Wonderful guy....was great with the fans. Happy to be there,joking,having fun with everyone. He was supposed to be sitting down signing autographs,but he was up and in front of the table,talking with everyone,shaking hands,hugging everyone. I have a great pic with him and he puts me in a headlock. Awesome.
Get out and do it while you still can brother, Terry is so worth it! Absolute treasure, every bit the character you would expect from following his wrestling career but also one of the most kind, compassionate, and beautiful people you'll ever meet. Also, man, does he have stories. Just the best...
grew up in Amarillo watching these guys when I was little awesome memories
Terry Funk, along with his family, is what was so good about this business. God bless him.
Terry is underrated. The most dynamic, prolific professional wrestler of all time
welcome2havoc he wrestles every style and in every territory from classic to ECW. I can't think of anyone else who was successful and integral in all three major promotions in the nineties. Bam Bam Bigelow was a top star in WWF and ECW but wasted in WCW. Shane Douglas was wasted in WWF and Scott Hall flopped in ECW before it went under. Terry Funk was a top star in all three including his run as NWA champion decades earlier.
Jim Bob You obviously dont remember his run under his real name from 85-86
Jim Bob Much like a trauma victim, I put Chainsaw out of my memory lol
Maybe the greatest all round talent ever, and my all time favorite on the microphone. Absolute diamond of a guy too, just too good for words, you gotta watch him...every bit of stuff you can find.
To each their own but I stand by that statement, Terry is just head and shoulders above most other performers ever, and I struggle to think of anyone else as good as an all round talent. Heenan pops in my head as being up there, Steve Austin, Brody, Lawler, Arn Anderson... That's about it. Adrian Street popped in my head too but he wasn't as charismatic a talker as you would like IMO
One of the best ever...Terry was a master in the ring and on the mic. Great psychology. A legend in every regard. Happy to have met him in person twice....couldn't have been nicer,more friendly,or better with the fans when he was there. Was out in front of his table that he was signing at,hugging the fans,taking pics,talking old school wrestling. Awesome.If you ever have a chance to meet him,dont pass up the opportunity.
How is this guy still alive??? Man, Terry could live until 100 and might tell some stories.
He's awesome.
"And that's one of the first time, I've ever seen anybody just...beat the living shit out of somebody."
Oh, that's so perfect.
Terry Funk is one of the greatest...
I had the honor of seeing Dory Sr. towards the end along with the boys and im better for it !
"I'd love to go out and rope him and bring 'me back." So do I Terry, so do I! Wrestling was so much better before the fans got to know what happened behind the curtain. Terry is such a treasure and one of the best talents wrestling ever saw! Wrestling wouldn't be alive today if it weren't for Terry, Dory Jr and of course Dory Sr. i definitely want to see this!
Wonderful knowledgeable series
Two of the best in wrestling right here. A must have!
Terry is so smooth when he gets an interview if you listen to what he says you'd be amazed but he actually can do it and it's so commonplace to him🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😉
2:47 Terry still looks like a wrestler. I imagine he’s in his 60s or 70s,his arms look great.
I remember watching a match between Dory sr. against Fritz Von Eric. bloody match.
it looked that way. it was a way different era. I think it was in early 70s. like 70 or 71. I was just knee high to a grasshopper then.
“I’ve got such a stupid life” no terry you have an awesome life!
Long live terry funk. Forever forever forever
Is Terry funk in the hall of fame
my pops worked on dory sr. ranch as a teen.
Immense respect for Terry.
The funks and vonerichs are texas wrestling royalty
Old wrestlers are fun to listen too, phoney or not there was a lifestyle they lived back than that will never be matched now
I used to go to the fair grounds sports arena just about every Thursday night.
"I should have taken the money."
Terry funk god bless him
Terry always put on a good show for the fans !
My grandmother actually saw Dory Funk Jr in Amarillo in or around 1961. My mom was a little girl and my grandmother had the TEMERITY to boo the Funks! O.O
Jacob Land if they were heels, she did exactly what she was supposed to do and the Funks wouldn't have it any other way
in Amarillo in the 60s? they weren't heels :D
Terry Funk "Hey Roman.... Why don't you start the match on top of the cell."
I wish I had more money so I could buy some of these.
Found my next purchase!
Rip the GOAT Terry Funk
Terry Funk when it’s all said and done might just be the greatest ever!!! He got OVER!!! In every era he competed in!!!!!! (And that is a LOT of eras!!!!)
i'd love to see one of these programs on portland wrestling
Aaron Fields I agree. Question is, who would be interviewed? Part of me says Billy Jack Haynes & part of me says The Grappler Len Denton.
Frank Noel Lenny for sure! Such a great storyteller and one of the last guys with real insight on the territory from multiple perspectives that people would gladly pay to see. It's a bummer Buddy Rose isn't here for it, or Piper, they would be great too!
Douglas Patrick I got to thinking that Barry Owen, Don Owen's son, could also be a good candidate. I would not want to see Raven. He's too self severing imo. Kind of like Billy Jack Haynes.
@@Fnoel98356 Probably Ed Wiskowski (Col. DeBeers/Mega Maharishi/Etc.)
great stuff
4:39-4:43 explains everything
Ordering asap
The Funk Family - pro wrestling royalty ...
God almighty I miss those days!!!
All roads led to Amarilo folks! It sounds like if you could get under Funk, Sr. work hard and play by his rules you could make it out alive and go on somewheres else with his blessing. File this one under: The More You Know and Don't Screw With A Cowboy.
Terry looks so much like his father...if you put facial hair on that old b&w photo of Dory sr, they'd look the same...god bless Terry Funk...somebody you'll never hear a bad word about...
is it just me? evertime i've ever heard Terry talk he sounds like he'd getting ready to cry.
The heat that this guy could pull was ridiculous! Terry could get the people to hate him...
Dory Sr. did 4 hours and 10 mins that’s amazing talk about hour broadways
"I'd love to go back and catch that horse and bring it back".
I shoulda took the money 😂😂😂
I've signed up man haha i sent them the samurai cop 2 dvd
What is name of move Cornett asked about at 5 minutes?
🕯rip the funk
one thing that non wrestling fans should note... dont ask guys like terry funk, dory funk, dave finlay and steve regal that wrestling is fake because you will be sorry that you did say it.
Taker's retirement match should be against Terry Funk. The only man to ever beat death.
I live 60 miles from Amarillo. Around here, Terry Funk is more well known than Elvis.
Terry Funk doesn't even remember doing this interview
God Bless Terry Funk.
Terry I totally agree about keeping the business secret! I hate that everyone thinks they know the business.
I've always known that wrestling was fake fighting. These guys were so awesome at making what they did look so real and genuine. Many people make the mistake of thinking these guys can't fight and they are very mistaken.
RIP Hardcore Legend
coming from st. Louis mo. my memory of the funks.. dory vs jack brisco, gene kiniski, pat , O'Connor, the dick the bruiser, von raschke, black jack lanza, the crimson knight, ..(gene kiniski, big bill miller...now terry funk, the briscos, pat o'connor, bruiser, johnny valentine... Harley race...luv the funks... greatest nwa champions, after lou thesz... no slight to Harley race
Awesome
Can the horse be put back in the stable...?
I believe it could, I watched a great match on wwe fairly recently involving a little Russian fella and someone else and it was almost a proper wrestler match, I actually started watching thinking wow this is like the old days and I couldn’t turn away.
Then they screwed it up, helped each other balance on the top rope so they could some circus move and it completely ruined the whole match.
What I do t understand is if the matches are recorded why are they not editing them so we don’t see the camera angle that exposes the move.
I think Kevin Dunn or whoever is the editor has lost their passion and quality control
Middle aged and crazy!!!!
He’s been middle age since the 80s, lol.
true fans quote Terry and New Jack they were real and felt it, and we all felt it when in mattered
Terry funk vs stone cold Steve Austin I'm taking terry funk the guy was in a match with dynamite he would do anything for the win
I should've taken the money
genie is out of the bottle... cant put it back in
Jonah Hill as Dusty Rhodes and Seth Rogan JJ Dillon. It could work. Who would play Flair and Crazy Terry?
@Karl Peterson My same answer too
Eddie Graham shot on Ray Gunkel and had his ass handed to him again . The guy was not the tough guy the he thought he was .
terry, your son larry funk is runnin amok on the joe cronin show raw and smackdown reviews and monetize this. he's way outta control drinkin and swearin, doin drugs and givin raspberry whip cream swirls to wwe divas.
4:53
I have masses of respect for both these guys, yet Cornette is man who (rightly) decries ECW and its fans for destroying credibiility and believability and putting wrestlers' bodies at needless risk, but apparently loves the man here who persuaded Mick Foley to let him blow him up with C4 and who was set on fire by same in response.
SuperJimUK because unlike a lot of hardcore guys, Funk and Foley can actually wrestle.
Cornette loves Funk because Funk is more than just a hardcore wrestler.
Also remember, what when Funk and Foley did something, they were the ONLY guys doing it. Mick himself stated that he was incredibly pissed when he was in ECW and he was going to have what was sure to be a bloody match with Funk (Might have been Dreamer or Sandman though, I can't remember exactly) and he asked Paul E to tone things down a little so their match would mean more....then he looks out the curtain and the first match of the card is a "last blood" match where the Last person not bleeding wins.
"Terry Funk vs. Cyclone Negro" man, where's that guy? Cyclone Negro needs to come out of retirement.
Bummer. :/
Cooter brown!!!
Whole Lotta cuts in this interview...
It’s a trailer
jaajaja you would think that his father was going to have a serious talk with him about pro wrestling being fake? but instead beat the shit out of his brother hahaahaha!
one thing you don't do is tell terry that wrestling is fake, and dont be fooled by that soft texas drawl, he will put you in a spinning toe hold and rip your tendons in your legs!!
Corn y. Funk. Sounds like a curse word
wrestlings fake
so r movies and about 95% of all tv