Part of Violent People’s FUNKIN’ FALL series: View the full index. Dan Rice, a master project manager of Funkin’ Fall, assigned Jon and myself to 1981. So I’m coming to this piece with about 72 hours’ notice. Noting both that I am approaching an entirely different context to Terry Funk, as well as it being […]
Part of Violent People’s FUNKIN’ FALL series: View the full index. Now, you’re probably wondering how a piece like this even comes together, especially considering that Terry Funk has literally 0 to do with the Rocky franchise. Well, I stumbled upon this segment from a 1979 episode of The Mike Douglas Show featuring both Terry […]
Part of Violent People’s FUNKIN’ FALL series: View the full index. Terry Funk was a better actor than most of the people who made their living acting. He just happened to do most of his best work in a wrestling ring. In 1978, he finally got the chance to take that talent to the silver […]
Written by Jonathan SnowdenPart of Violent People’s FUNKIN’ FALL series: View the full index. An imaginary conversation with Terry Funk about Houston, July 1, 1977. You want to know what I was thinking? I’ll tell you what I was thinking. I was thinking I was going to beat Harley Race and take my world championship […]
Written by Tony Richards Part of Violent People’s FUNKIN’ FALL series: View the full index. 1976 was a remarkable year in American professional wrestling, a year in which the United States celebrated its bicentennial, the National Wrestling Alliance continued to serve as the sport’s most influential pro wrestling organization, and Terry Funk carried professional wrestling’s […]
Written by ColePart of Violent People’s FUNKIN’ FALL series: view the full index. 03/13/1975 2/3 Falls match for the NWA International Tag Team Titles This was an incredibly intimidating project to approach compared to our feature on Danielson from a couple years ago. Terry Funk’s career is an absolute behemoth to try and look at, […]
Written by Barbara Rocca Part of Violent People’s FUNKIN’ FALL series: view the full index. AMARILLO, TEXAS — 1974 I’ve been a good ol’ boy from Amarillo my whole life and Western States Sports is the territory I grew up with. IIt’s the promotion my daddy took me to as a boy, and one that […]
Part of Violent People’s FUNKIN’ FALL series: view the full index. When Tanner began putting together FUNKIN’ FALL, by which I mean declaring we should do it and then not mentioning it again for months, he divided Terry’s career into pre-1975 and everything after. This makes sense. There is considerably more Terry Funk footage available […]
Terry Funk is the greatest wrestler ever. That’s not my opinion. It’s a mathematical fact. Every ten years, the Greatest Wrestler Ever (GWE) project asks wrestling fans to submit ranked ballots based largely on the wrestling they’ve actually watched. After previous editions in 2006 and 2016, Funk emerged from the 2026 project at the top […]