He wrestled and retired and wrestled and retired and wrestled and retired so often it became almost comical.
Funk, whose death was announced this week at age 79, didn’t quit for good until he’d wrestled for 52 years, his last time in the ring coming Sept. 22, 2017, when he teamed with famed The Rock N’Roll Express duo of Robert Gibson and Ricky Morton in a six-man tag team match to defeat Doug Gilbert, Jerry Lawler and Lawler’s son Brian Christopher via disqualification.
Terry Funk was born in Hammond, Ind., in 1944, and grew up in Amarillo, Texas. His father, Dory, was a professional wrestler and promoter, and by the 1960s Funk was already dominating the National Wrestling Alliance . He was an early proponent of hardcore wrestling — loosely defined as anything goes — and eventually he earned the nickname “The Hardcore Legend.”
He held the NWA World Heavyweight, the USWA Unified World Heavyweight and the ECW World Heavyweight championships. Funk is one of six wrestlers inducted into five hall of fames: WWE, NWA, WCW, Professional Wrestling and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
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