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You know, good for nothing,
eggs sucking dumb. We did it our

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way because we love it that way. We love it that way, and

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I have this wonderful gut feeling and
I've had it all my life. When

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it's time to go, I think
it's now. There's time to go.

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We'll go back to the lapsed Funk
and it's time to go international one last

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time. Okay, one of a
kind delve into the most consequential career in

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the history of professional wrestling, that, of course, of Terry Funk and

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Boss. You thought the ECW antics
with fire and violence and bloodluss was one

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thing? Yeah, how about we
introduce C four explosives. How about we

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introduce panes of shattered glass. How
about we just introduced pain for me?

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I'm sure you remember as an Attitude
era watcher when mcfuley sat down for the

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Heart to Hearts with Jim Ross and
ended up putting the Mandible claw on him

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like any normal human being. On
a national basis, they aired clips of

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the nineteen ninety five death match series
between Terry Funk and mc foley and the

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IWA Japan, and we had to
bear witness to what the Funker thought it

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all came down to in nineteen ninety
five, traveling to Japan for a fat

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quick payday to fall on bombs.
Don't understand. I think by the time

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we're done with this leg of the
Lapsed Funk journey, you will understand.

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Do you think there's a chance of
that? No, No, I won't.

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I don't understand. I mean again, I have all the respect possible

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for for Funk and his willingness to
adapt to whatever, you know, to

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always adjust in order to be relevant. But I mean, come on,

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at some point, you just you
know, I think of something else,

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like why I guess I guess he
enjoys it. I mean, you know,

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I guess he enjoys it. Otherwise
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mean, it just you know,
And so far be it from me to

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say, you know, knock it
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don't know. I personally I could
not, I could not go to those

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depths. What if I I am
not familiar with much. I'm only I'm

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really only familiar with what was aired
on WTV back in the day, which

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I found fascinating because as much as
mcfoley came into his own as a promo

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and showed such amazing ability to have
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and became a great promo in ECW. What really was the thing they spotlighted

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in the segments we mentioned with Jim
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an on screen character was the Japanese
death matches, things that, according to

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mcfoley, Vince McMahon had a clear
distaste for and didn't think was an asset

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of mcfoley's when signing him in nineteen
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thing that, when showed to a
national audience and put in the context of

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how mcfoley, the former Cactus Jack
became the deranged Mankind, was all they

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needed for that magic extra touch.
Right, So, if shit, crazy

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shit like this was going on in
the wrestling business, there were no shortage

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of people willing to leverage it,
even if they weren't putting it on themselves,

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Vince McMahon, there would be an
example. But also like the Insane

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Clown Posse, for a lot of
people, these death matches in Japan.

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Their exposure in the United States came
from a VHS release. I think they

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called it Stranglemania. I think they
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got their hands on the IWA King
of the Death Match tournament from nineteen ninety

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five and released it with ICP doing
English language gimmicked voiceovers calling you know,

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they called Mick Foley Cactus Sack for
instance. That's funny and played around with

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the names and you know, their
big time marks of course, the ICP.

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And yeah, you could go into
your Sun Coast Video or your FYE

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or whatever it was, and you
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American VHS and it was a pretty
well selling VHS. It was my first

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time seeing the matches with them voicing
it over. As a matter of fact,

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I still okay the tune na nah
nin na. And so it was.

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It was kind of like an underground
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You know. I don't really know
how to describe it in terms of

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movie terms, but it would be
like if like The Room was a movie

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that everyone heard about but no one
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was kind of the case. Yeah, right, isn't that part of its

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legend. I'm not too familiar,
but yeah, yeah, yeah, like

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that's right. You know, for
a long time, the only place you

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could see it was on Sunset Boulevard. So so it'd be like if if

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it aired on like Japanese television and
some wacko like group in America got their

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hands on it and just shamelessly released
it on VHS without I don't think a

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lot of particular permission. I'm not
quite sure how that all worked out for

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that tape, but for a lot
of people in the United States that were

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wrestling fans and scanning the wrestling section
of your video store back in the Attitude

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era, this is how they became
exposed to it. In addition to what

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you mentioned that the WWE segments leveraging
the footage, but it's part of the

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Lapsed Funk journey that returns us to
his overseas presence and his overseas contributions and

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the things Terry Funk was doing internationally
between the major runs that we've outlined thus

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far on the Lapsed Funk, and
there was quite a bit of it.

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It sprinkled not only through the death
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a match against at Chushio Nita in
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was making a huge impact in Puerto
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We've been talking about m late eighties, Germany in the early nineties as

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well, which is of course his
his mother land, which is just hilarious.

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You know, we started the whole
Lapsed Funk thing about his ancestors coming

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to America in Indiana from from Germany
and Adam Funke and all the rest.

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That's right. Yeah, remember that
article we found where they said Adam surgeon,

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Adam Funk actually had a German accent. Wrap your head around that.

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Adam Funk here to take as the
criminals, I feel kill them and it

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kills them with pleasure, and then
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generations later, we'll go on ahead
and you know, going ahead and happen

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to kill myself. I'm gonna kill
myself with pleasure. Yeah, well,

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stay tuned as we go deathmatch,
we go International Exploits of the Funker here

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on the Lapsed Funk. And before
we get to business, of course,

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there's a lot of footage to enjoyed. Soak in a lot more if you

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can believe it. After all these
weeks dimensions to add to our understanding of

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what Terry Funk was to pro wrestling
across the world. We do want to

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thank folks in Earnest for the Patreon
support. Just drop the latest under the

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cinemat the first, I believe of
twenty twenty four, the first of twenty

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twenty four, kicking off TLFX in
style, and what did we plunge into

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a hole that wasn't big enough to
accept it? We were ready to rumble,

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the absolutely ill fated, atrocious,
I don't know, just piece of

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vomit. Brand extension Synergy release.
Yeah, it's right, that's what.

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It was, a brand extension Synergy
release. And if that doesn't have you

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gassed up, let me tell you
about all of our plaid dress Like he's

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going to ren fare. I mean
that's the truth. He really like,

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what a goofball? The fuck is
the matter with him? The whole thing

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about David ur Kitt winning the part
of this, it's all there. It's

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a wonderful episode. Yeah, it's
a it was a it was a lot

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of fun. And you know,
as I think, you know, just

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like with the with with the main
show, I think the the although I

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feel like the bad the bad movies
end up being a you know, a

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suffer to watch, but I do
always think we always have more fun with

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the bad ones at times. Well, this is like you know, when

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you hear the concept of under the
cinemat, you know, films featuring wrestlers

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are about wrestling. This is one
of the first ones. This one of

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the first ones. I mean,
this has been. This is one that

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you know, I think people have
have been surprised took so long to get.

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What was your strategy terms of when
to do it? Oh, it's

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I'm playing. I'm playing the David
Arqutte long game. Always have been from

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day one, I believe. When
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that long game, well, the
Scream movies. It started off with the

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Scream movies. I kind of kept
it within the Scream you know. I

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was like, so I wanted to
do one Scream per scary movie season and

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the and believe it or not,
he's in five of the Scream of the

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six Streame movies, so he uh
uh. You know. So I was

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like, Okay, well, if
we go year by year by year,

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we got to figure out I wanted
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know, came about. And then
it just also happened to serendipitous that it

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was, you know, t LFX
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Unbelievable episode, so much fun,
so much going on there, great

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to grapple with every frame of that
film. And what it said about a

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WCW that we talked about was,
you know, just starting to see the

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licensing deals come through after they had
cooled off. You know, that's nineteen

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right, Stuff's happening that you know
in place in ninety eight when people gave

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a shit, and by the time
these things came out, it's like,

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who is going to go watch a
w CW movie. I mean not only

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that, but like a goofy one
that makes it all look awful totally.

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You know, it's one thing if
you're going to do it and make a

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movie that you know might actually make
your product worthwhile. But Jesus Christ,

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and if you've been on the fence
about joining us on Patreon, first of

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all, that should have been your
New Year's resolution, yes, But second

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of all, this is the time
for many reasons. Not only is ready

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to rumble sitting there waiting for you. I have it on good authority not

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to spoil anything that there may very
well be an addendum a one of a

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kind addendum to that episode. That
is, you never know, perhaps a

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late breaking development that you want to
be front row to here when we're ready

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to unleash it under the cinemat of
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tier, and above, of course
the mote tier for the biggest swinging dicks

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in the solar system. And that's
a premium price. We understand if that's

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too much to stomach. But that's
all the goodies, that's all the considerations.

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Those are a ride or dies.
Those are the people that get the

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special void invites to lapsed events.
They get Russell Mammia. They get of

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course everything else and much more Rustle
Mammia too. They just watched this was

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kind of funny, So just dropped
Bushwhackers versus the Beverly Brothers watched by yep,

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watched by Mama sorrow On from Royal
Rumble nineteen ninety two. And what's

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funny is that if someone made a
comment too about you know, they're talking

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there. I think my mom maybe
asked about the Genius being married and I

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said no, and so someone was
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he's been dead, Like when when
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lot of these are recorded way in
advance, just to take advantage of of

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having you know, a window sow
the window, right, I always want

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to have a window going with that
because you just you never know, and

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and so yeah, some of them
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one I think I also switched up
because I decided to have as everyone will

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see, I decided to have a
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I got it, And so I
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a different time period originally and then
dropped it in January, just know.

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But as there are those in the
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much enthusiasm about getting value for your
dollar on the Moat tier, your access

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to Wrestle Mambia, because we know
it's coming and we know it only gets

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better, and we know it only
gets crazier yep, And so that should

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be reason enough as well as to
express support. I mean, you know,

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we can't forget upon the dawn of
a new year and our tenth year

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running here at TLFX, that we've
got members of the Solar system and we

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know you and we don't forget you
for a second. Who pledge much more

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than they have to to get access
to things. This whole Patreon thing started

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because you know, the only way
to be a responsible consumer of podcasts is

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to pay the hosts, because once
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CPM crunchers decide how much you're worth, then guess what you ain't worth shit.

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And you know you only can command
the high ad rates if you can

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prove independently that you can draw enough
money to have enough a base of support

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on your own in terms of direct
support to sort of turn things down or

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to sort of say that doesn't work
for me, brother. And it's the

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Solar system from day one, despite
the fact that they didn't get any exclusive

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content in the very beginning, right
that our a ride or dies and we

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keep you very close in our hearts
here on t LFX if you played much

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more than you need to. But
suffice to say, it's rocking over there

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and the Royal Rumble live call is
coming. This is always all long for

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us. Can't forget the VIP tier
and below ten AR tier. Everybody gets

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access to our live calls. The
three sixteen tier gets them on a three

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day delay, but that's of course
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live events. You don't have to
Yes, how about them premium live calls.

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That's right, that's right, we
got to have those plc's going,

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you got it? And another rumble
man, you specialize in rumbles. Just

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I do love the I do love
the rumbles, and I think, you

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know, given given the weird developments
of the current you know of you know

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what's going on, I am I
am intrigued by by the possibilities of a

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of a royal of this royal rumble, although I am disappointed that I am

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disappointed that that that La Knight's not
in the rumble and he's in that stupid

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match that I saw the fatal four
way. Yeah, yeah, and I

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came across my that came across my
Twitter feed. Yes, that's always a

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great gauge of what's getting across because
we come and you know, I don't.

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But the boss man comes in as
cold as it gets. He is

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your He is your stand in for
the lapsed fan. When you go on

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Twitter and say like or any social
media platform and say like, yeah,

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but you know, casual fans do
wouldn't be in everyone just you know,

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even though they're complete wrestling obsessives and
think about nothing else than wrestling for fourteen

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hours a day. Act like they
have some kind of insight into people who

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don't want wrestling at all or watch
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the boss Man is that very person. Yes he is. He is

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the He's the only one in captivity
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So enjoy that experience so much.
That's very true. It's actually very funny

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and even thought about like that.
But yeah, no, I I don't.

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I want nothing to do with uh
with the current products that we do

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with it. I mean, after
you hear about it, that tells me

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it got through somehow. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, I mean I also,

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I will be on I won't be
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I won't lie. I am you
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thought, you know, I've said
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he looks like he looks like this
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kid's dad, and and and he's
a salesman, and he annoys the fuck

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out of me. But and so's
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salesman too, for that matter.
But but you know, I started watching

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some of his stuff just you know, to see what the what the deal

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was, and he's he's very fascinating
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him. This is and he actually
feels like the most authentic you know,

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I wouldn't He's not. Let's be
on it. He's not an ass kicker

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like Joe is. All right,
He's not an ass kicker like Joe.

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about La Knight. But he's the most

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genuine, like non idiotic persona that
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think he's I think he's just I
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or what I've watched on YouTube and
you know, social media and stuff.

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I'm like, this guy seems more
authentic than anybody else in the fucking

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roster. I've been our WrestleMania last
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it. I get a question for
you, Yep. When the Rock goes

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out to eat after tonight's show,
should he sit at the bar, should

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he sit in a booth or should
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I think he's gonna sit. I
think there's only one place he can

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sit, and that is the head
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Cody, the story, let me
sell. The story's getting finished, just

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not with you, pal unreal.
So we're gonna watch it unfold another Mania

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season in one chocolate block with like
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be able to help you find the
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and hunter ways better than us.
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I can never remember saying as much
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saying, or use ten I remember
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of what was said, maybe that's
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your best assessment. Yeah, unbelievable, so much going on for TLFX.

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We're so excited to unload on you. Just just unload on you, you

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know, Yes, indeed, absolutely
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and hard in that ass all over
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gonna be a really messy year in
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it messy. Let's put Terry Funk
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But before we get there, where
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you have barbed wire and wrestling matches? Fire and wrestling matches? In a

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lot of ways, people point to
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heightened level of violence. Of course, Puerto Rico it's been always a very

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violent territory, and the likes of
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soon as the late eighties were lighting
the ropes on fire and putting barbed wire

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around the ring and around the ring
for some hyper violence. And at Chusho

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Nita, who created FMW which introduced
the idea of exploding bomb matches and all

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that high level spectacle, cut his
teeth in some degree in Puerto Rico and

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became acquainted with the business by being
a huge fan of Terry Funk's and also

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his exploits, not only in Memphis, but also you know, across the

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territorial system in the United States.
The legacy of the death match, Ambarillo,

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Texas, all of that that we've
talked about in our all japan episodes

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that meant so much to Japanese fans
of Terry Funk at Chushioita breaking into the

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business as a junior heavyweight in the
early eighties and al Japan Pro Wrestling was

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every bit the fan and every bit
is plugged in to what made the funks

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the funks here in America as any
other person in the audience at AJPW.

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And so the Puerto Rico is it's
a sensible time, That's what I'm trying

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to say. To look at Terry
Funk's Puerto Rican career, okay, because

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there is some connectivity there. There's
always connectivity, and if there isn't one

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off finding God and furthermore, one
loose end, if you can believe it,

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that we've left out there is what
happened to Terry Funk in terms of

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Japanese wrestling straight, not death matches, but just you know, continuing to

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wrestle in straight wrestling matches in nineteenth
thty three retirement. That's a very good

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point because he did return to the
Rings of All Japan, and we've made

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several references to it with the sort
of an awkward dynamic in the air.

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The fans, of course bought into
that incredibly heartfelt, tearful goodbye promo that

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Funk cut in August of eighty three
after the Tag League finals. But he

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did come back, and he came
back much sooner than I think the Japanese

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public was expecting, and didn't really
come back for any of the reason than

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because All Japan wanted him back and
the payday was there and they still needed

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a boost. But it left a
bitter taste in the fans mouths in terms

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of, you know, really believing
in what Terry Funk had told them and

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really kind of expending all of their
emotion about the guy. So what he

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does come back, it's sort of
like these one off attempts to keep All

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Japan afloat. We mentioned when we
did the WWF part of the series that

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Funk was one of the guys who
won special dispensation to go to Japan and

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work for BABA as opposed to WWF
Japanese promoter New Japan. We're Hogan,

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Andre and alike were kept, but
he was allowed and only to come into

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WWF but also continue to work for
All Japan, which is of course the

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office that his family was aligned in
from the very beginning nineteen seventy two when

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New Japan and All Japan were created
and began feuding with each other. So

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we're really looking here at a new
stage of international exploits for the Funker,

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picking up where we left off in
eighty three in Japan as well as going

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to some of these other countries we
referenced. And we turned to his book

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to set the table a bit.
All right, I'm going to share this

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with you, boss. This is
yep, the words of the Great Funker.

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Mm hmm. And he's going to
go ahead and when ahead and I

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just sat down, what a story? His account is? Going ahead,

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if you sit down. I went
ahead and decided to put pen to paper

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and didn't know what I was going
to do with it. Ended up drawing

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a tic tac togue game playing with
myself, and I lost the company I

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came back to in late nineteen eighty
four was somewhat different than the one I

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left. All Japan score. I'm
sorry he retired in eighty three and he's

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back in eighty four. Yep,
what's the problem, it's the fun there.

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All Japan scored what was considered a
major coup in nineteen eighty four when

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Ricky Choshu, one of Anoki's top
stars, and twelve other wrestlers from New

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Japan jumped to our side. Well, it was a coup, but after

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they got all go to All Japan, it became a chaotic, A chaotic

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coup, the chaotic coup. And
I mean that sincerely. That was another

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one I picked up on that funk
always says sincerely, I mean I mean

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met sincerely. The other stuff,
which you know I didn't mean sincerely,

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Well I meant that kind of sincerely. I didn't mean this one completely sincerely.

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And working with and what a worker, A worker, worker, that's

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all he is. What I said
right there, what I said right there,

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that was completely insincere. I really
don't think getting them was a smart

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thing to do, and never did. We ended up with too much of

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a crew, more than even Baba
could handle, but we got were more

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guys vying for main event positions,
and we had main event positions, not

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even counting the main event guys we
already had there. I don't know,

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I don't know why, but for
some reason, this is just I feel

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like he just seems like somebody just
making a bigger deal out of nothing.

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I know this is a big deal, you know, but like I feel

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like he's a guy who makes a
big deal out of nothing. Sometimes there

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is strengthen number out of something that's
right as well, there is strength in

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numbers, but Baba got the numbers
a little out of balance there. I

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think the proof of that is that
almost the whole group jumped back to New

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Japan a few years later. They
were a click, and clicks can cause

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chaos because they started from a stronger
position than a single individual. I was

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glad to have Choshu because of his
stature and Yoshiaki Yatsu, one of the

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wrestlers who jumped with Choshu, was
a good guy who I liked. But

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Choshu wanted more control over the matches
than Baba wanted to give him, so

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Choshu wasn't gonna be happy and when
Choshu wasn't happy, None of those guys

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were happy. In addition to the
seventy five hundred a week, yeah,

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in addition to the seventy five hundred
a week I got for Paradise, Ally,

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the movie also helped me in Japan
in terms of exposure. When I

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was filming the TV series wild Side
in nineteen eighty four four was it eighty

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four? Yeah? I think it
was. Actually, I think it was

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eighty four. I got ten thousand
dollars a week, and I was getting

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that huge money for not wrestling.
Compare that to the seventy five hundred a

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week I was making in Japan for
helping book and for killing myself every night

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in the ring. I loved Baba, loved Missus Baba, and loved Wally

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Yamaguchi, one of Baba's right hand
men. I also loved I also loved

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sushi, and I also loved taking
my time with what what. I loved

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taking my time with things. And
I also love just strolling down the street

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with a horse and say that I
thought you were reading that. Oh these

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are among the things he loved them. I can argue with the point,

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but the fact that I loved these
people. Didn't keep me from seeing that

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I wasn't getting everything from All Japan
that I probably could have there. It

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is so it's Funk returns to in
All Japan that is overflowing with acquisitions.

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You know, the war was so
pitched in eighty four that, as he

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mentioned, Boba perhaps overdid it with
the amount of headliners he brought in and

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created a head case locker room.
But at the same time, you know,

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he had seen going to work in
Hollywood that he could make more money

405
00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:29.559
easier than even he could make in
All Japan, which was far and away

406
00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:33.839
the most lucrative place Terry Funk worked, and most American wrestlers throughout the seventies

407
00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:37.119
and eighties, the Japanese pay days
were so good that they always went there

408
00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:38.880
if they could. So that kind
of, I don't know, that sort

409
00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:44.960
of illustrates the subtle distance that's being
created between Terry Funk and Giant Baba in

410
00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:49.480
four. Fast forward a decade and
Funk is that distance is so wide because

411
00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:52.960
Funk helped get at chus Sho Nita
started and FMW is a strong number three

412
00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:57.759
promotion situated very similarly to how ECW
was situated Visa v. The Big Two

413
00:28:57.799 --> 00:29:03.279
in America in the night. But
then he goes to Iwa and it's now

414
00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:06.519
they're now on such opposite ends of
the spectrum that Funk feels so in boldened

415
00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:10.039
to go ahead and work for New
Japan for a couple of shots, which

416
00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:12.319
was a gulf he never bridged before. You know, that was like a

417
00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:15.680
place he would not go. That
was an offer he would not entertain.

418
00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:19.000
But come a May of nineteen ninety
five, he's in Fukuoka Dom in front

419
00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:25.519
of forty eight thousand with Mudo and
Shinya Hashimoto in the headliner, and he's

420
00:29:25.559 --> 00:29:29.599
making his New Japan debut after spending
nearly his entire career being a booker and

421
00:29:29.640 --> 00:29:33.680
top star for AJPW, where he
teamed with shir Kushinaka to beat Masa Chono

422
00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:38.240
in here Mitchi Fayuki. So we're
about to sort of illustrate how the Funk

423
00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:42.799
took those incremental steps, how the
Funker took those incremental steps away from that

424
00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:48.000
that all Japan loyalty that in so
many ways defined his most successful early years

425
00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:52.400
of his career. He writes in
nineteen eighty five, Junior and I got

426
00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:55.799
to work with the two guys who
had become probably the top drawing tag team

427
00:29:55.799 --> 00:29:59.160
in the world, Mike keg Strand
and Joe Lorianidis, better known as Hawk

428
00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:03.000
and Animal the Road war So we're
going to sample the Funk Brothers versus the

429
00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:07.400
Road Warriors now boss as it took
Al Japan, but it also took place

430
00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:11.720
in Puerto Rico as well throughout the
eighties. So when we talk about Terry

431
00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:15.400
Funk turning right around after retiring eighty
three and coming back to Al Japan in

432
00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:18.880
eighty four, this was among some
of the more defining matches he had.

433
00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:22.640
They also wrestled against the British Bulldogs
in Al Japan. If you can wow,

434
00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.119
let that sink in a bit,
that's wild. So that exposed Terry

435
00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:29.200
to you know, dynamite kids working
style and got him all gassed up about

436
00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:33.279
going to the WWF and working with
them. A couple of other yeah,

437
00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:37.839
gassed up a lot of ways.
But as far as the Road Warriors go,

438
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:40.920
they had just you know, broken
into the business. The AWA,

439
00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:44.279
which of course had a strong relationship
with Al Japan in terms of talent sharing,

440
00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:47.599
had begun to feature them prominently.
They of course met each other and

441
00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:51.160
trained together under Eddy Sharky in Minneapolis
with so many of the other great from

442
00:30:51.160 --> 00:30:52.759
Minnesota like kennig Rude and Darsow,
and I can go on and on.

443
00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:57.160
Of course I keep a cool off. But the Road Warriors were now getting

444
00:30:57.200 --> 00:31:00.400
exposure in Japan all of a sudden, despite being still relatively green in the

445
00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:06.640
business, but really showing box office
spark for vern and so that meant Japanese

446
00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:11.640
exposure as well, and the Japanese
created this whole The Japanese promotions, fans

447
00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:15.480
magazines, i should say, and
promotions created like this whole mystique of how

448
00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:19.680
they like The Road Warriors were essentially
descended from a spaceship. Okay, they

449
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:23.359
did these vignettes where they arrived via
space ship on planet Earth. Oh yes,

450
00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:27.640
I remember, Yeah. I think
we watched them for something they almost

451
00:31:27.640 --> 00:31:30.160
definitely did, and they played around
with them. I bet we watched him

452
00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:36.839
paint off the Pacific when Road Warriors
fought Hogan and ten Reyu And maybe I

453
00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:40.440
also like, maybe we did it
for Art of war Games too, sure,

454
00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:44.079
and we depicted on the Road Warriors
episode a episode of Dark Side of

455
00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:47.039
the Ring as well. They show
them like walking the streets of Chicago and

456
00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:52.559
eating like roadkill and just raw chicken, and having they're aliens, right,

457
00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:56.039
which is just not too far from
not too far from what actually happened.

458
00:31:56.240 --> 00:32:00.839
They're alien monsters. So they're being
strongly biss with a big backstory and all

459
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:05.960
kinds of magazine coverage and being treated
like these exotic monsters with the big spiked

460
00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:08.599
shoulder pads. And these were the
Road Warriors that came to Altapan in nineteen

461
00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:12.599
eighty four to battle, you know, the most pretty much the most legendary

462
00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:15.119
tag team in AJPW history and Dorian
Terry Funk. And we're gonna get a

463
00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:19.880
taste of what the sort of post
Funk retirement Al Japan sense was, like,

464
00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:22.759
Funk writes in his book. At
that time, they were probably the

465
00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:24.559
best box office attractions in the world, aside from Hulk Coogan. I was

466
00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:28.319
left working with him except for one
thing, Mike Hegxtrand. Road Warrior Hawk

467
00:32:28.519 --> 00:32:30.839
loved to imitate me. So every
time I saw Hawk, I'd have to

468
00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:35.000
listen to thirty minutes of him doing
Terry Funk before we started talking about the

469
00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:39.519
match. I mean, I don't
know, I cannot picture my how would

470
00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:51.279
Hawks Terry Funk sound of Well,
I went ahead and I went to town.

471
00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:57.319
Did you make the town? Though? He really loved me, But

472
00:32:57.400 --> 00:33:01.079
I think that might have just been
because he could imitate me. So I

473
00:33:01.079 --> 00:33:04.200
don't know. I don't know if
he did it. I can't imagine him

474
00:33:04.200 --> 00:33:08.279
doing it really well. I know
Hawk had this whole like I don't know,

475
00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:13.480
he had this whole like reputation as
being a hilarious guy behind the scenes.

476
00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:15.440
And you can see a little bit
of it, you know, when

477
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:17.759
he does like the natural disasters,
we like to throw your weight around,

478
00:33:17.880 --> 00:33:22.319
sour and gory. You could tell
he's a guy the kind of total stuff.

479
00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:25.079
But I don't know. I cannot
picture him imitating Terry Funk. You

480
00:33:25.119 --> 00:33:29.920
know, no me neither being his
line, that seems so let's get situated

481
00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:32.960
here. Thanks to Joelry not its
animal, who of course wrote the Road

482
00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:37.359
Warrior's book and is going to hear
boss stuff. You can share it with

483
00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:40.960
the people. Walk us into the
AJPW they arrived in. I'm telling you

484
00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:45.759
having Baba as an ally with his
open door policy to the Road Warriors was

485
00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:49.920
an asset we took full advantage of. We were having big fund developing a

486
00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:54.640
classic international rivalry with Jumbo and Tenru. We were set to collide with them

487
00:33:54.680 --> 00:33:58.720
yet again on October twenty first,
on a card that featured Rick Flair and

488
00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:02.440
Rick Martell in an NW way a
w A Battle of World Champions. But

489
00:34:02.480 --> 00:34:07.400
the night before we could get our
hands on Jumbo and ten Room, we

490
00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:12.920
had a long overdue first encounter at
the Industrial Hall in Chizuoka. Hizuka is

491
00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:19.199
it? Chizuka is a woka?
Yeah? Chi's Anuka? What brother sheiz

492
00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:23.320
dude? She is? You know, brother hitting the shiz, double shiz,

493
00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:31.400
double shoes dude against another fabled American
team, El Funkis that's what they

494
00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:37.239
called them in Mexico. From what
that's right? Because uh Dorri Funk Junior

495
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:44.880
and Terry Funk were two of the
rowdiest Texan cowboys. I mean, Joe,

496
00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:52.679
Joe. The last thing Dori Funk
was was rowdy. I can't okay.

497
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:55.679
The man's the man. The man
is comatose, the man is lo

498
00:34:55.760 --> 00:35:14.800
bottomized. Oh what what huh?
Oh? I guess I'll do it if

499
00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:21.119
you say so. Terry uh the
rowdiest profess Texan cowboys entered the professional wrestling

500
00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:25.239
business, and I've been legends in
Japan since we were out of diapers.

501
00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:31.599
Okay, I don't think so.
Actually, no, I don't think so,

502
00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:37.320
pal, But okay, uh build
from the Double Cross Roads. Animal

503
00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:38.280
wore a diaper until he was twenty
eight. If we had got that,

504
00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:43.639
that's a good point. All about
that used to ship himself bouncing it.

505
00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:52.559
They said they pampered him and people
got the wrong idea. That's good.

506
00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:59.599
They build from the Double Cross ranch
in Texas. Dori and Terry had both

507
00:35:59.639 --> 00:36:02.320
been in the business since the mid
sixties, and we're both former NBA World

508
00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:06.840
Heavyweight Champions. For years, they'd
teamed on and off, winning every major

509
00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:13.119
tag team championship available in the territories. The Funks versus the Road Warriors was

510
00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:16.079
yet another showdown of the old regime
against the new, only this had the

511
00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:22.360
additional appeal of being on foreign soil. All of the American wrestling journalists were

512
00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:25.079
on the first flight over to make
sure they had it covered for magazines like

513
00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:30.920
Pro Wrestling, Illustrated, The Wrestler, and Inside Wrestling. Although we had

514
00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:35.800
nothing but respect for Dory and Terry
outside the ring, when we came shooting

515
00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:43.360
down the aisle, brother, what
that wasn't Terry, Brother, I just

516
00:36:44.119 --> 00:36:46.639
can we hold on, dude,
Let's call a figure it. What do

517
00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:50.079
you mean shooting down the aisle?
Brother? Right? Like, what if

518
00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:52.599
I'm not the asle to shoot with? Like, dude, what about what

519
00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:58.320
about? How about just kind of
working down the aisle? You know?

520
00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:01.840
How about that? Brother? We
just look back a bit and think about

521
00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:06.599
you guys. That's not you know, I understanding you guys have a thing.

522
00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:08.280
Brother, you have that, you
have an aura you got to keep.

523
00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:10.679
And I dig that, dude.
I totally dig that. Brother.

524
00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:14.719
But let's kind of dial this thing
back in, dude, and figure out

525
00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:17.920
exactly how this can benefit all of
us in the same scenario. Dude,

526
00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:28.079
And I think shoot up benefit we
go back. I was kind of dial

527
00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:30.920
this thing back in, brother,
and kind of you know, see how

528
00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:38.159
we how now all this can benefit
hul Hogan as well as the road Warriors?

529
00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:40.920
Are we? I mean? Brother? You know dude, we're talking

530
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:45.960
business, dude, business, Hey, Terry Brother. I don't think they're

531
00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:52.559
talking about you, pal. They're
shooting on us, brother, but brother,

532
00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:54.760
he's shooting I'm Terry, dude.
Do you see what's going on?

533
00:37:54.800 --> 00:37:59.360
Brother? Who knows which Terry's shooting
on right. He says, it's you,

534
00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:02.880
brother, But I'm sitting here,
you know, I mean, what

535
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:07.639
y'all here? I am, dude
in Tampa. Dude, you guys from

536
00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:10.320
Japan. How do I know the
road Warriors aren't behind me in my house?

537
00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:16.599
Dude? Do you hear Hogan popped
a airbag to save a teenager?

538
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:21.039
I did hear about that first pop. He's been a part of him sometime.

539
00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:31.000
Let's say it's a loud as poppies
heard in years, shooting down,

540
00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:37.760
Yeah, shooting down the aisle like
locomotives on the verge of derailment. We

541
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:40.960
dove under the ropes and treated them
as we did everybody else. Total blast

542
00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:50.440
load. The animal is just chock
full of like extreme sportsn he's He's just

543
00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:53.159
a fucking idiot, like you can
read his books describing an energy drink or

544
00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:59.400
his career. Were talking about a
porn here, Full blast load, Total

545
00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:04.719
blast load. Hawk chopped Terry right
out of the ring while I pushed Dorry

546
00:39:04.840 --> 00:39:07.000
back into the corner, letting him
go, letting him go in favor of

547
00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:12.400
a better idea that popped into my
head. I bailed out and ran around

548
00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:15.679
the other side to where Terry was
still getting up from Hawk's chop over the

549
00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:22.159
top. I grabbed him by the
head and whispered, press, then shut

550
00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:27.000
what a business give me? Then
shut him straight over my straight up over

551
00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:30.000
my head. Then I walked him
over to the bottom and second ropes and

552
00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:36.519
inserting him neatly inside the ring like
he was a quarter for a vending machine.

553
00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:39.800
He's got away with words, doesn't
he? You know what the other

554
00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:43.960
Terry had? Press whispered into his
ear. Yes, or he was about

555
00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:50.239
to step out of the fucking courthouse
for the thirtieth Every time he leaves a

556
00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:53.400
courtroom, Terry press nobody yet,
I mean he worked with Look, I

557
00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:55.719
got you, dude, all right, here we go, up we go,

558
00:39:55.880 --> 00:40:00.599
brother, hoof? I mean wo, I got my lawyer, Dude,

559
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:05.360
I got my lawyer. In other
words, there's Press on the other

560
00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:07.360
side of this door, Terry.
As much as they whooped at lod,

561
00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:17.159
nobody whispered press. And Terry's eer
more than David Houston. Oh good,

562
00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:23.519
um, I mean dropped him like
a quarter in a venting machine. It

563
00:40:23.599 --> 00:40:27.639
was the first time I ever did
that spot, and it became a permanent

564
00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:30.679
go to from that moment. On. As soon as he landed on his

565
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:34.400
ass, Hawk was there to greet
him. Their whole exchange ended with Hawk's

566
00:40:34.400 --> 00:40:38.840
favorite pile driver spot from Lawler Lawler
slash Idol, where Terry picked him up,

567
00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:44.440
picked him upside down, drove him
onto his head, only to see

568
00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:50.320
Hawk bounce bounce one more time before
no selling it and standing right back up.

569
00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:53.400
In hilarious three stooges fashion, Hawk
started slapping the top of his own

570
00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:58.800
head with both hands. Imagine that's
your spot, not selling the other guy's

571
00:40:58.800 --> 00:41:01.360
move. Pretty a good deal if
you can get it. Yeah, right,

572
00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:06.000
it worked for them. I mean
it's not like it was totally it

573
00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:13.199
was always epic, but it was
always kind of like, Okay, that's

574
00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:17.039
it, and so let's prepare ourselves
to toggle over to disc thirteen. Disc

575
00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:20.960
thirteen. At very beginning, this
is Terry and Dory Funk in All Japan

576
00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:23.840
against the Road Warriors, October nineteenth, nineteen and eighty five. As we

577
00:41:23.920 --> 00:41:28.719
get that sense of a post retired
Terry Funk in the Al Japan Ring,

578
00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:34.039
I can't from the beginning around the
block of the road Warriors right at the

579
00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:37.079
beginning. Yeah, we're right at
the beginning okay, and we're gonna take

580
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:37.920
this in. It's it's trunk it
it's not it's not a long thing.

581
00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:42.760
I'm not even sure it's an entire
match, but we're gonna now experience it

582
00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:53.480
in three two one play yep.
Here they come like fucking madmen. Jesus.

583
00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:59.000
Oh, head over, heels off
therek chop hits the deck. That's

584
00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:07.440
what he's talking about. And there
goes Animal leaving the ring ready to fucking

585
00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:09.079
knock him of his head off.
These guys there it is, here we

586
00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:15.280
go press Hi, yeah for the
press. That was the coin slot.

587
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:17.760
Yeah, that's a coin slot on
the floorid to the ring. Funking.

588
00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:21.800
So here we're going to get this
is w w F Terry Funk close,

589
00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:27.679
yes, totally elbow from the elbow, back and head. Where's the pile

590
00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:31.000
driver spot? Come on? Oh
yeah, I can tell with the go

591
00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:37.280
t too, Terry Funk with the
go to. Noah, he's uh,

592
00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:39.199
he's put on a little poundedge since
last time we saw him in Japan.

593
00:42:39.440 --> 00:42:45.719
Oh yeah, definitely been uh getting
those going ahead w W. He's going

594
00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:51.159
ahead and getting a burger is what
he's been doing. Up Here comes story

595
00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:54.320
in there. I guess uh,
I guess Animal forgot about all this other

596
00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:57.880
stuff that happened in between. It's
a wild and think of l O D

597
00:42:58.079 --> 00:43:02.239
doing this in Japan one, Yes, fucking funks, you know, Jesus,

598
00:43:04.719 --> 00:43:10.800
the un CO World Warriors. All
right, off doctor, Oh there

599
00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:22.440
it is. It goes Doctor comes
staring, dunk Ye seizing on boom and

600
00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:28.280
they go anyhead. He's not on
both mohawks, that's right. Dory stands

601
00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:34.320
there completely flummoxed. Oh, Terry, he's really hurting me. Terry,

602
00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:37.360
he hit me hard? Can we
stop? Can you tell him to stop?

603
00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:40.119
Please? Back suplex from the from
Dunk and now Terry tagged in double

604
00:43:40.119 --> 00:43:45.320
whip by the Funk Brothers. Hawks
set in and turned around but not quite

605
00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:51.840
dropped. Terry still the fucking you
know, he's still the cyclone in there.

606
00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:55.760
He's still the whirlwind. He's still
the action. Oh Jesus. Terry

607
00:43:55.800 --> 00:44:00.599
backdropped, caught his neck on the
rope. It in the apron tagging down

608
00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:08.119
Animal Big off the ropes Power Slam
Center ring by Animal Klauser. So it

609
00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:17.679
gets to, like I said,
this is the REMCO Road Warriors here.

610
00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:30.800
Yes, for sure, chance for
Terry who ducks, the lariat, snatches

611
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:36.119
of Sleeper still beloved. There's a
distance, but he still loved. You

612
00:44:36.159 --> 00:44:40.039
know. It's oh, come on, I mean he's kind of cheated these

613
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:47.920
fans out of his retirement totally.
It's like you couldn't have waited a year.

614
00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:53.079
There's Paul ella Ring up on the
apron. He was already the Road

615
00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:58.159
Wars manager in real life and in
on camera. Yes, it's a Dorian

616
00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:00.039
Hawk at the floor exchanging forearms.
I mean, while Animal sets in,

617
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:04.760
Terry to the ropes, Terry puts
an elbow in and all the road Warders

618
00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:07.079
are doing to sell is stumble around. I'll look at this Paul Ellering pushing

619
00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:12.960
Animal's ass on top of a Wow
Terry Funk for some illegal leverage, and

620
00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:15.960
the road Warriors in fact have to
cheat to defeat the Funks here in Japan,

621
00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:19.719
and Terry up from behind inside cradle
on Animal. I guess that wasn't

622
00:45:19.719 --> 00:45:22.599
a three rough as counting again two
count They hit Streamers in the ring and

623
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:27.760
everything. I thought that was the
finish brother. That's not peer four brawl

624
00:45:27.800 --> 00:45:34.000
breaking out. Now that ring cut
in half in a very clear, color

625
00:45:34.039 --> 00:45:37.599
coded way for the Road Warriors.
It really is. Actually that's really funny

626
00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:42.360
at Tag Team Psychology to the floor, go Terry and Animal while Dorian Hawk

627
00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:44.639
go to the other side. And
it's gonna I think it's gonna be one

628
00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:52.559
of those all Japan double count outs
boss that all the makings, but still

629
00:45:52.559 --> 00:45:55.519
the kind of selling from the funks
that I think these people are going to

630
00:45:55.559 --> 00:45:58.440
want to come back to see the
Road Warriors. You know what I mean?

631
00:45:58.920 --> 00:46:01.360
Yeah, totally. Oh it's Hawk
crowned the sood Oh here we go.

632
00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:08.039
They both got chairs. Here's the
bell yep, yep. It's like

633
00:46:08.079 --> 00:46:15.920
a sword fight duel here between Terry
Animal with chairs and Dory Ambush's Animal with

634
00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:21.639
a chair shot. Oh god,
back to the chic Abdullah Brody Hansen,

635
00:46:21.760 --> 00:46:24.559
you know what I mean, all
out, But I thought Terry just fell

636
00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:31.519
on the table. Idiot. This
is chaos ding ding ding ding ding ding.

637
00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:37.960
You know what's funny, Like as
much as much respect as I've gained

638
00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:44.440
for Terry Funk, I've lost whatever
I had for Dori Funk. Yeah,

639
00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:52.599
he's out there putting effort in No, he's out there just taking licks.

640
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:58.199
So Hawk and Dory locked up all
the way to the back while Animal puts

641
00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:04.960
Terry Funk across the announced table.
Ultapan personnel and their jumpsuits try to separate

642
00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:20.199
these guys. There we go and
there sucking wind like never before. My

643
00:47:20.239 --> 00:47:24.400
god, he is like exhausted.
And then he takes off again up the

644
00:47:24.440 --> 00:47:35.199
aisle after Terry, all everyone and
all these spectators standing trying to get a

645
00:47:35.239 --> 00:47:39.239
glimpse of what might be happening behind
the Isleway curtain. That'll do it for

646
00:47:39.320 --> 00:47:43.320
I believe the first collision between the
Funk brothers and the Road Warriors here,

647
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:45.719
that's wild. Ye. The Road
Warriors come back out. Arm Rays talk

648
00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:49.519
with his hands high like whatever happened
back there, he feels good about it.

649
00:47:50.800 --> 00:47:53.039
They're kind of booing him. They're
booing them. Oh yeah, they

650
00:47:53.079 --> 00:48:01.880
were definitely definitely heals. Lord James
Blear, is there belief? Oh they're

651
00:48:01.880 --> 00:48:10.280
going they're going back to the heel
dressing room. Oh god they want Yeah,

652
00:48:10.440 --> 00:48:13.840
that's a rule of wrestling. If
you if your heels, you brawl

653
00:48:13.880 --> 00:48:15.000
with the guys through the back end
of the babyface locker room, you have

654
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:19.199
to stop. Make sure you do
it in your in your room. We

655
00:48:19.199 --> 00:48:23.480
can pose it there. So there's
a glimpse. Sure, and the Road

656
00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:28.440
Warriors are well on their way to
make a sizeable impact in the rings of

657
00:48:28.480 --> 00:48:31.079
Japan as well as the United States. Things and no small part to the

658
00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:37.840
Funk Brothers and as animal rights,
the main objective of entertaining the a J

659
00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:42.079
p W crowd with NonStop action was
achieved and a decisive winner wasn't even needed

660
00:48:42.159 --> 00:48:45.480
in a match like that one.
Everybody came out shining. It's kind of

661
00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:50.719
short for that. But I get
what he's trying to say. I guess,

662
00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:53.719
I mean, no, I don't
know. I mean, I guess,

663
00:48:53.840 --> 00:49:00.400
I guess. I don't know.
I don't know if it one came

664
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:05.039
out shining. I think I think
that the Funks made the Road Warriors shine.

665
00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:07.280
Yes, that's right, that's right, you know. I don't think

666
00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:09.320
that the Funks came out shining.
I don't know if they needed to either.

667
00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:13.760
But that's that's the kind of thing
if you're the Road Warriors just bulldozing

668
00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:15.800
everybody you work with with like one
year in the business, that you have

669
00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:19.760
to tell yourself, is it right? Others are shining when really all they're

670
00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:24.039
doing is putting you over and letting
you do your stick. But it was

671
00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:28.960
it was to everybody's benefit at the
time, as the Road Warriors became really

672
00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:34.239
some of the top attractions in wrestling
internationally from eighty five on. So when

673
00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:37.800
you turned back to Animal's Book,
because the memories weren't done being made on

674
00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:43.920
this date, nineteen eighty five in
Japan, because we have plenty of postmatch

675
00:49:43.960 --> 00:49:46.679
celebrations to document as well that involve
the Funker in a very important way.

676
00:49:46.679 --> 00:49:51.239
Boss, we go back to the
Animal's Book. Later that night, when

677
00:49:51.239 --> 00:49:53.639
I told some of the other boys
the big news, they unanimously decided to

678
00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:58.599
throw me an impromptu bachelor party.
So right after the show, Rick Flair,

679
00:49:58.719 --> 00:50:04.280
Paul Hawk, and a Japanese he's
repped from AJPW named Wally Yamaguchi went

680
00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:08.280
to a restaurant known as the Hama
Steakhouse, one of the most exclusive in

681
00:50:08.320 --> 00:50:14.039
Tokyo. Usually closed on Sundays,
Hama Steakhouse opened up just for us thanks

682
00:50:14.079 --> 00:50:19.039
to a phone call from Baba.
That night was the first night I ever

683
00:50:19.119 --> 00:50:22.639
experienced Kobe beef, which, for
those of you who hadn't had the pleasure,

684
00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:29.239
is the most tender and juiciest meat
in all of Japan. Legend has

685
00:50:29.280 --> 00:50:32.840
it that Kobe beef cows are fed
a beer per day with their grain and

686
00:50:34.079 --> 00:50:39.320
also get daily massages with sake.
While we stuffed ourselves with every entree and

687
00:50:39.400 --> 00:50:45.519
piece of Sushihama could offer. We
also got hammered off our rockers on mugs

688
00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:51.920
of beer and flask after flask of
piping hot sake. The big kicker of

689
00:50:51.960 --> 00:50:59.199
the evening came when we got back
to the hotel at and Flair wanted to

690
00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:02.800
wake up Here we Go, who
was passed out in his room from a

691
00:51:02.840 --> 00:51:09.199
long day. Rick started pounding on
the door while laughing, open up,

692
00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:13.480
day. We know you're in there, and we won't take no for an

693
00:51:13.519 --> 00:51:17.039
answer. Terry never answered. That
was good enough for Flair, so we

694
00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:24.000
kept on pounding. This won't do
animal, This won't do animal. Three

695
00:51:24.079 --> 00:51:30.280
point stance. I know I knew
where he was going with this, so

696
00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:35.360
I got down in a football position
and waited for my orders. Rick raised

697
00:51:35.400 --> 00:51:42.039
his arm and then dropped it like
a firing squad captain, yelling go at

698
00:51:42.079 --> 00:51:47.280
which point I launched at the door, smashing right through. Guys, it's

699
00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:55.400
a hotel, like complete complete fucking
like this is yes, like come on,

700
00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:02.360
smashing right through the flimsy lock mechanism. The door was literally hanging off

701
00:52:02.360 --> 00:52:08.400
the hinges. When we cut inside, there was Funk naked and passed out

702
00:52:08.440 --> 00:52:13.719
with ice bags wrapped around both knees. It was hilarious. What was funnier

703
00:52:13.800 --> 00:52:15.920
was that he was so trashed himself
that he never woke up the entire time

704
00:52:15.960 --> 00:52:20.119
we were in there. He must
have had a great time explained trying to

705
00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:22.719
explain what the hell happened to the
door to management, let alone remembering for

706
00:52:22.840 --> 00:52:30.800
himself. Thanks Joe naked, passed
out, ice bags wrapped around both knees,

707
00:52:31.320 --> 00:52:36.039
witnessed the Funker upon his return to
All Japan post retirement. Oh,

708
00:52:36.119 --> 00:52:39.159
I want ahead, and he also
went ahead. And you know, more

709
00:52:39.199 --> 00:52:44.119
to come as it regards Dory Funk
and Terry Funk versus the Road Warriors as

710
00:52:44.119 --> 00:52:46.119
we get to Puerto Rico in the
eighties. But we're going to take a

711
00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:51.280
quick jaunt around the globe here,
all right, because we're going to get

712
00:52:51.280 --> 00:52:54.320
a taste of the Funker in Germany, in the Motherland. This is an

713
00:52:54.519 --> 00:53:00.599
underdocumented part of not only Terry Funk, but so many wrestlers careers. Auto

714
00:53:00.679 --> 00:53:04.039
Vantz, who of course ran to
catch Wrestling Association pretty much the lead prog

715
00:53:04.039 --> 00:53:07.239
wrestling organization in Germany for years and
years, kind of like the Big Daddy,

716
00:53:07.719 --> 00:53:12.000
you know, the big fat local
baby face on a European wrestling service

717
00:53:13.639 --> 00:53:15.760
would have all kinds of guys come
through, and it was for extended times,

718
00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:19.880
like you lived in Germany for months. I'm not sure Terry Funk did

719
00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:22.880
that, but I know Owen Hart
did and many others in the late eighties

720
00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:27.400
and early nineties, and it was
a great way to get exposure in front

721
00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:30.079
of crowds that really had no you
know, context. You just you either

722
00:53:30.159 --> 00:53:34.239
learned to get over with them or
you didn't. You know, you didn't

723
00:53:34.280 --> 00:53:37.559
have any advantages, you didn't have
any disadvantages. You just were able to

724
00:53:37.559 --> 00:53:38.719
figure out what gets over in front
of a crowd that's, you know,

725
00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:42.480
pretty cold to you and doesn't know
you, and what you can do in

726
00:53:42.519 --> 00:53:45.239
the ring to get over with them. And so Terry Funk got the call,

727
00:53:45.639 --> 00:53:47.880
I believe for the first time.
It was in nineteen ninety and we're

728
00:53:47.920 --> 00:53:52.840
about to get a taste of Auto
Vants, who we've never I don't think

729
00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:54.599
we've ever seen wrestle before on No, we have never. We've talked about

730
00:53:54.639 --> 00:53:57.800
him at nauseam. We've never seen
them. It's just, you know,

731
00:53:57.840 --> 00:54:00.519
when you think about all the mount
Rushmore tie that Terry Funk wrestled in every

732
00:54:00.599 --> 00:54:04.519
ring in every part of the world. Yeah, you know, it's just

733
00:54:04.519 --> 00:54:07.079
something that you can also add auto
moans to that list. He's got to

734
00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:10.519
be one of the few that has
that box checked as well. And we'll

735
00:54:10.559 --> 00:54:14.079
take a look at it. But
before we do, let Funk's books set

736
00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:15.840
a bit of context. Here.
Bob Junior, he's talking about Bob Barton

737
00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:20.199
Junior and I worked a tour of
Germany for promoter Atto Haunts, which turned

738
00:54:20.199 --> 00:54:22.039
out to be a nightmare for poor
Otto. I was always something of a

739
00:54:22.119 --> 00:54:25.239
nightmare for Otto, but I had
nothing on Bob Orton. He was just

740
00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:30.079
a maniac over there. Bob was
laying into Germans on the street, executing

741
00:54:30.119 --> 00:54:37.159
wrestling takedowns on them like you do. Yeah, they were left with just

742
00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:39.719
socks. The sandals went flying.
I imagine it was like he thought the

743
00:54:39.760 --> 00:54:43.679
Second World War was still going on. I liked Otto. I went forty

744
00:54:43.719 --> 00:54:46.599
minutes with Otto once. It won't
be forty minutes, don't worry. This

745
00:54:46.719 --> 00:54:49.920
must be what he's talking about.
Though. We did a big match right

746
00:54:49.960 --> 00:54:52.079
before he retired. Over there,
they did matches in three or five minute

747
00:54:52.119 --> 00:54:55.639
rounds. Did you know this boss
rounds? No, I was not aware

748
00:54:55.679 --> 00:54:59.840
of rounds. Gonna get a taste
of that as well. Here the last

749
00:55:00.440 --> 00:55:02.199
and I don't remember how many rounds
we went, Terry writes, but we

750
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:06.079
tore the house down because of Otto's
ability to get over to his fans as

751
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:07.880
an in ring performer. He was
just amazing. I'm not saying whether he

752
00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:12.960
was amazingly good or amazingly bad,
just amazing. But I'll tell you this,

753
00:55:13.239 --> 00:55:15.840
Big Otto was over like a son
of a gun over there, because

754
00:55:15.880 --> 00:55:17.880
he understood what he could do,
and he understood what the people wanted.

755
00:55:17.960 --> 00:55:21.760
He gave it to them. There
were some European workers like Tony Saint Clair

756
00:55:21.800 --> 00:55:24.159
and David fit Finley over there,
and there are also some real crowbars too,

757
00:55:24.199 --> 00:55:27.239
some guys who I thought shouldn't even
be there. I used to think

758
00:55:27.239 --> 00:55:29.599
the same thing about some of the
guys my dad brought into work, Ammilla,

759
00:55:29.719 --> 00:55:30.719
Dad, I used to say,
why do you keep that guy around?

760
00:55:30.760 --> 00:55:34.599
He can't do a thing. Son, It's my company, and I

761
00:55:34.679 --> 00:55:36.920
like the guy. I want to
re make a living, he said.

762
00:55:37.159 --> 00:55:38.719
He kept guys just for that reason, which was a perk of being a

763
00:55:38.719 --> 00:55:43.000
promoter, and it was something Auto
did to for the same reason. Even

764
00:55:43.039 --> 00:55:46.239
today you can see examples of Vince
McMahon doing the same thing. He takes

765
00:55:46.280 --> 00:55:51.199
care of people just because he thinks
they're good people. Not so sure about

766
00:55:51.239 --> 00:55:53.840
that. I love going to Germany. He usually takes care of him because

767
00:55:53.840 --> 00:55:58.159
they got something on him. I
loved going to Germany because I had relatives

768
00:55:58.159 --> 00:56:01.639
in the little town of Kroudhousen.
Okay, ladies, and gentleman Kraudousen.

769
00:56:01.960 --> 00:56:08.320
Who's Kroudhousen I mean he had relatives
in Germany still, Terry Funk. Oh,

770
00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:13.320
Croudhusen was a town. Oh,
I see, not dan House,

771
00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:19.480
crowd Frowhouse, German dan Housen.
They're gonna use that one on aw and

772
00:56:19.559 --> 00:56:22.440
act like they came up with it. It'll be fun. They treated me

773
00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:25.039
and like my family and never left
there. Two of them were teachers,

774
00:56:25.119 --> 00:56:29.760
and they had children who played the
cello and piano, who were highly educated

775
00:56:29.800 --> 00:56:32.719
and refined. Made me wonder the
hell happened when Adam Funk crossed the seas

776
00:56:32.760 --> 00:56:37.360
to get to America. I've been
worrying that exact same thing. Germany was

777
00:56:37.360 --> 00:56:38.960
a great place for guys to work. It's a real shame that the promotion

778
00:56:39.000 --> 00:56:42.880
isn't there anymore. Otto would bring
guys in and we'd work the same building

779
00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:45.480
every night the whole summer. They
changed the matches, but we were in

780
00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:47.760
the same building every night. It
really taught guys how to be creative because

781
00:56:47.760 --> 00:56:51.320
you had to be in that situation. You had to change up your match

782
00:56:51.400 --> 00:56:55.400
every night. Having to work that
more scientific German style and always adapting helped

783
00:56:55.400 --> 00:57:00.599
give a guy a sharper wrestling mind
because you always had to adapt and change.

784
00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:04.119
Plus you have to be real enough
that they came back the next night.

785
00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:06.679
So I want to see how Terry
Funk does that, what his interpretation

786
00:57:06.800 --> 00:57:12.079
is. I'm fine with that.
Disk seventeen. Disc seventeen. This is

787
00:57:12.119 --> 00:57:15.719
from right before Christmas nineteen ninety December
twenty second, to be exact Germany.

788
00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:22.519
Terry Funk expands his horizons and therefore
expands our horizons. Here Attolph hans By

789
00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:28.719
battling Autovhants in Germany. It's at
the one forty seven to ten time code

790
00:57:28.719 --> 00:57:35.159
mark two and the video quality is
horrendous. For some reason, it's so

791
00:57:35.239 --> 00:57:37.400
degraded that it looks black and white. Actually, but yeah, I can

792
00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:40.840
see that. That's what we get
Audovants stressed up in a kind of like

793
00:57:40.880 --> 00:57:45.880
a Vader singlet, but with sleeves. Okay, I'm ready. Here we

794
00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:51.719
go, three two one, play
gentlemen, good evening, and welcome,

795
00:57:51.920 --> 00:57:59.320
as we witness at the end of
Along the Way, Kid, Farewell Pie,

796
00:58:00.519 --> 00:58:07.760
the farewell fight in the history of
world wrestling, Auto vans on alongside

797
00:58:07.840 --> 00:58:14.320
me. I win Storm a w
A World wrestling champion, a w A.

798
00:58:15.599 --> 00:58:24.880
You must go to play opportunity to
look at Vance Invader, Yeah,

799
00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:28.679
right, was another world champion.
Remember he was saying he had like six

800
00:58:28.719 --> 00:58:34.920
world titles or whatever. This so
after a series of short splashes in the

801
00:58:34.960 --> 00:58:37.800
corner from Vance, Terry Funk hits
the floor. So this is rather historic

802
00:58:37.880 --> 00:58:43.239
being framed up here as Auto Vance's
final match. That's pretty wild. I

803
00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:45.400
did not realize that. You know, Funk talks about working Auto Vance,

804
00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:52.000
but I don't think he realized it
was a farewell bout. Look at Funk,

805
00:58:52.280 --> 00:58:53.960
you know, I mean we've seen
him in ec W. We just

806
00:58:53.960 --> 00:59:00.639
saw in All Japan. This is
a different THNK adapt into the purpose walk

807
00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:05.599
up to the corner. Funker hauls
off with open hand shots on atto fans

808
00:59:08.440 --> 00:59:13.719
getting the Schnitzel beat out of him
here and the spatsl too. Yeah,

809
00:59:14.639 --> 00:59:16.360
and there's plenty to come out by
the looks of things. Can you imagine

810
00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:23.039
the imagine the feast he had.
Oh god, so much food eating by

811
00:59:23.079 --> 00:59:30.800
this guy. It's unbelievable. Really, forget Dan House and more like leader

812
00:59:30.840 --> 00:59:36.320
Hosen as funk peppers and with lefts
in the corner of Vince looks to grab

813
00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:39.159
Funk. But I say, massive
man that this guy was like the big

814
00:59:39.199 --> 00:59:45.079
baby face that they came out for
it. She's so funny to me,

815
00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:52.480
what a man I love. I
always the Funker and shoots him into the

816
00:59:52.519 --> 00:59:55.880
corner, big pop for that.
Oh god, I mean he trots over.

817
00:59:55.960 --> 01:00:00.639
I wouldn't call that a running,
he doesn't definitely like. I mean

818
01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:05.519
he runs like me in the ring
for that matter. Whipped to the far

819
01:00:05.599 --> 01:00:13.440
corner. Yeah, fucking pumping up
over here. He's like an archie Bunker,

820
01:00:13.639 --> 01:00:15.000
I know he does. Like.
This guy's a fucking star. This

821
01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:22.280
guy's the guy. Yes, this
guy looks like a complete goof. Like

822
01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:25.760
he looks like a fucking brother of
PN News. It really is dressed exactly

823
01:00:25.800 --> 01:00:30.400
like PD News. He is,
yeah, Funk peppering him with shots on

824
01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:34.639
the canvas after shooting out of the
corner with the clothesline dropping the big man.

825
01:00:35.159 --> 01:00:37.519
Funk's kind of got those I don't
know, more like the crocket tights,

826
01:00:37.639 --> 01:00:43.960
you know, yeah, he should
say the WW tights. Yeah,

827
01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:49.840
long pants here. I think he
kind of lost confidence in the leg definition.

828
01:00:49.920 --> 01:00:52.199
You know that w w S nineteen
eighty five, all japan terry on

829
01:00:52.199 --> 01:00:59.480
the legs wasn't wasn't necessarily a pretty
sche Oh no, it is. It

830
01:00:59.519 --> 01:01:02.280
is interesting how they're how some guys
are just they get so self conscious about

831
01:01:02.800 --> 01:01:08.159
about certain things like between Funk and
his his long tights and his legs and

832
01:01:08.320 --> 01:01:15.119
savage and his fucking you know,
his his like full on suits in the

833
01:01:15.159 --> 01:01:19.000
in the early nineties. Yeah,
that was him, you know, getting

834
01:01:19.039 --> 01:01:22.840
off the gas so you can have
kids. So the bell just sounded,

835
01:01:22.880 --> 01:01:25.960
signaling the end of the first round. Oh, how judges were under a

836
01:01:27.000 --> 01:01:30.880
decision. There's a five minute break
here. See you look at that,

837
01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:32.960
Look at the auto just walked back
to the corner. It's just oh no,

838
01:01:34.480 --> 01:01:37.960
of course that creates all kinds of
opportunities for Heat. As Terry Funk

839
01:01:37.960 --> 01:01:40.800
completely blindsides Vaughan's as he looking to
return to his corner for his between round

840
01:01:40.880 --> 01:01:45.480
break, Funk nails him from behind
like a rascal. Look at Auto on

841
01:01:45.199 --> 01:01:50.119
the V on his I think when
Vader came back with that V on his

842
01:01:50.159 --> 01:01:53.000
shirt, remember that, Yeah,
I came out with I think it was

843
01:01:53.039 --> 01:02:00.199
Auto Van's inspired otto. Looks like
a fucking McDonald's happy meal toy. Oh

844
01:02:00.320 --> 01:02:10.119
God, absolutely caged lion, that's
what they're calling him. That was one

845
01:02:10.119 --> 01:02:14.960
of the Stalone flicks that never got
made. That he went out for Bunk

846
01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:17.920
bouncing on his toes, hands up, doing the boxing stance, peppering the

847
01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:22.960
big man and not the only thing
that Auto. Vince saw to the pepper

848
01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:28.880
on Yeah exactly. He called Pepper
many times that day and it just sit

849
01:02:28.960 --> 01:02:30.920
in the corner. It's a blob, looks like the blob from X Men.

850
01:02:31.400 --> 01:02:37.679
He does. He does Funk literally
standing on his face, grabbing the

851
01:02:37.679 --> 01:02:43.960
top rope and just planning both boots
on the Vince's Wow, substantial jowls.

852
01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:52.239
You imagine, imagine the fucking sausages
this guy ate that morning. He's twisted

853
01:02:52.320 --> 01:02:55.239
off several ah, but he gives
only meeting twisting off a fatty. Here

854
01:02:55.320 --> 01:03:01.960
he comes up bounce on forearms.
He's finally answering the Funker's assault Irish whip

855
01:03:01.960 --> 01:03:06.719
tarry off the strands, Whelariot puts
him down and the Funk goes head over

856
01:03:06.840 --> 01:03:10.639
heels on a bump. That one
brought to you by Nissan, according to

857
01:03:10.639 --> 01:03:15.119
the sponsorship. Oh and Funk stumbles
through the rope. Wood was it?

858
01:03:15.159 --> 01:03:16.840
What was it about this guy that
was so appealing? I don't know.

859
01:03:16.960 --> 01:03:21.280
It was just the local hero,
same thing as Big Daddy It. They

860
01:03:21.320 --> 01:03:24.840
were into like guys that were literally
larger than life. And I was like,

861
01:03:25.840 --> 01:03:29.360
as long as you had this kind
of like cartoonish size, it's it's

862
01:03:29.360 --> 01:03:32.360
exactly like Haystacks Calhoun and you know
what I mean, that whole thing.

863
01:03:32.760 --> 01:03:37.760
Yeah, I guess, I guess
see that. It's like before it freaks

864
01:03:37.760 --> 01:03:42.079
steroid bodies, this is this is
the biggest person walking the streets, you

865
01:03:42.119 --> 01:03:45.360
know, And so they make the
most easy resting attractions. The Funk put

866
01:03:45.360 --> 01:03:49.679
in his magic on, falling all
across the announced tables, creating a sense

867
01:03:49.719 --> 01:03:52.639
of chaos, and again takes Hilaria
flipping over the ropes, landing on the

868
01:03:52.679 --> 01:03:55.800
apron this time as out of Vant's
really taking it to the Funker. I

869
01:03:55.840 --> 01:04:02.199
mean he's like the Funk is like
is is playing Sean Michaels to Auto Vance's

870
01:04:02.239 --> 01:04:09.000
Hull Cogan precisely, but in just
enough of a way that it doesn't look

871
01:04:09.039 --> 01:04:14.320
absurd. The floor on the far
side of they are on their feet.

872
01:04:14.320 --> 01:04:19.960
They're loving that auto. It's like
a well dressed crowd. Ye looks like

873
01:04:19.960 --> 01:04:24.320
a Chase from the fifties. Almost
first say that they come to the matches

874
01:04:24.360 --> 01:04:32.320
they have respect. They're Spunk wandering
amidst amidst the seats, stumbling zombie like

875
01:04:32.440 --> 01:04:47.639
around the ring that they're taking a
pummeling from Auto Vance at Vance Automobile on

876
01:04:47.800 --> 01:04:56.199
the Auto from the Auto Auto Correct. We'll see about that from time to

877
01:04:56.360 --> 01:05:00.440
under the Fray and Vince just standing
on him. It's just wild that after

878
01:05:00.440 --> 01:05:03.840
the Rick Flair series in WCW like
this is what Funk does next, This

879
01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:08.440
is next stop. Nineteen ninety was
a wild year in nineteen ninety one for

880
01:05:08.559 --> 01:05:13.599
Terry Funk. He was everywhere.
He was a man with no base whatsoever.

881
01:05:13.679 --> 01:05:17.920
He was just taking paydays all over
the world so wacky. The same

882
01:05:17.960 --> 01:05:21.239
time period, he's doing like the
Jerry Lawler feud in the northeastern part of

883
01:05:21.280 --> 01:05:29.280
the United States for Joel Goodheart and
others, and so kept out of the

884
01:05:29.360 --> 01:05:32.440
ring entirely for the second round here
with Terry Funk as he comes up just

885
01:05:32.480 --> 01:05:38.199
swinging as spectators just he's treating the
crowd here in Germany like he would an

886
01:05:38.199 --> 01:05:41.199
all japan crowd, you know,
you spill into them and get them an

887
01:05:41.280 --> 01:05:45.440
up close view of you. And
he's got no idea where he is.

888
01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:54.679
He's almost backstage, and he's threaten
to he uses not only every square inch

889
01:05:54.719 --> 01:05:57.760
of the ring, he uses every
square inch of the arena. The arena,

890
01:05:57.880 --> 01:06:01.800
yes, right as you should.
It is like thirty feet from the

891
01:06:01.840 --> 01:06:08.519
ring at this point, just lying
down the aisleway. Oh my god,

892
01:06:09.199 --> 01:06:15.719
how about that? But I don't
like this music playing? Yeah, between

893
01:06:15.800 --> 01:06:18.639
rounds. What do you think of
that? Rounds and wrestling? Uh,

894
01:06:18.679 --> 01:06:24.639
it's interesting. I think, I
think I don't mind it. I feel

895
01:06:24.679 --> 01:06:30.039
like it can definitely lose people's attention
span. Yeah, it introduces a whole

896
01:06:30.079 --> 01:06:33.719
different sense of timing. But you
do it, and like I think Ring

897
01:06:33.760 --> 01:06:38.599
of Honor, pure style has that
has that has rounds. There's you know,

898
01:06:38.639 --> 01:06:42.320
it's existed in American wrestling, but
it's not it's not like the way

899
01:06:42.360 --> 01:06:45.400
it works like it is in Europe. Right, So Funk finally stumbles his

900
01:06:45.440 --> 01:06:48.039
way back in right into the European
uppercut of the Big Man. I believe

901
01:06:48.039 --> 01:06:54.079
this is round three, and Funk
is doing his damnedest to swing at ghosts,

902
01:06:54.119 --> 01:06:58.440
selling that he's been discombobulated, to
say the least by Big Otto Vants.

903
01:06:58.519 --> 01:07:01.880
This is like, yeah, that's
a uh, that's roadhouse Terry Funk

904
01:07:02.000 --> 01:07:09.639
right there. Yes, it is
just the hair and the mustache. Look

905
01:07:09.639 --> 01:07:15.320
at the fucking clubs the chest and
the clubs in the chest clubs in particular.

906
01:07:15.639 --> 01:07:18.119
That's true in side out. Funk
now hands over the top, sent

907
01:07:18.199 --> 01:07:21.519
down hard across the table. He
pulls the table at the top of himself.

908
01:07:21.639 --> 01:07:26.920
Oh my god, we get him
come up draped in fucking funk.

909
01:07:27.079 --> 01:07:34.119
Okay that he's coming through Germany and
pulled the table all over my ass.

910
01:07:34.719 --> 01:07:40.079
How said, fuck it, mama, let's go home. Well not quite.

911
01:07:40.119 --> 01:07:47.760
Yeah, I got a couple more
rounds, Darry, Yeah, that's

912
01:07:47.800 --> 01:07:50.400
what it was. The judges didn't
judge each round. It was just that,

913
01:07:51.039 --> 01:07:53.719
you know, if you hung on
you can get the break. But

914
01:07:53.800 --> 01:07:56.360
it still came down. I think
I don't think it was a limited rounds

915
01:07:56.440 --> 01:07:59.599
or if you reach the limit of
rounds, it was a draw. Gotcha

916
01:08:00.079 --> 01:08:00.960
that much time to get a submission
or a pin. Well, from what

917
01:08:01.039 --> 01:08:03.599
I'm gathering, this was this didn't
do. This was a pretty good draw.

918
01:08:03.679 --> 01:08:06.039
It looks like it. You can't
really see the crowd, but I

919
01:08:06.039 --> 01:08:11.400
don't know. So now Funk coming
back, repeated steady diet of head butts

920
01:08:11.400 --> 01:08:15.320
in the corner on auto vance,
the only steady diet he knew in nineteen

921
01:08:15.400 --> 01:08:18.399
ninety. Well, I'm gonna say, well, actually the auto vance was

922
01:08:18.399 --> 01:08:28.600
on a steady diet of noodles and
fried hroken off. Yes, or if

923
01:08:28.600 --> 01:08:32.920
they brought in Terry, you'd been
Hogan off Funk hugging the ropes, trying

924
01:08:32.920 --> 01:08:38.159
to stay up, which he exchanges
right hands and European uppercuts whenever whenever,

925
01:08:38.319 --> 01:08:45.680
uh, you know, whenever Hogan
wrestled in uh In like Russia or any

926
01:08:45.760 --> 01:08:51.159
kind of like that. Who did
go as hulk Hogan off? Oh and

927
01:08:51.279 --> 01:08:57.239
Terry dropped with a big right hand
and the sound of the bell again,

928
01:08:57.359 --> 01:09:00.960
signaling the end. If you had
another round here against Otto, vance away.

929
01:09:01.239 --> 01:09:03.479
Look at that Vonce retreats to his
corner and just like hunts that.

930
01:09:03.560 --> 01:09:05.680
I like that, you know,
taking a break. I did too.

931
01:09:05.960 --> 01:09:13.399
I think that that cornermn you can
incorporate. Yep, Terry Funk came to

932
01:09:13.439 --> 01:09:18.199
Germany alone. I don't see anybody
in his corner. Funk is doing his

933
01:09:18.279 --> 01:09:27.079
hump the canvas routine, of course, so knocked out that he's like thrusting

934
01:09:27.119 --> 01:09:32.239
onto the into the canvas. Such
peppy music between this blood Feud sounds like

935
01:09:32.279 --> 01:09:38.319
it's sounds like like Funk's Japan music. Look at at the white dancing at

936
01:09:38.319 --> 01:09:43.720
the Funker. He's a guy is
unbelievable. His feet are like three.

937
01:09:44.760 --> 01:09:49.119
He drops to his ass because he
can't stand up. Well, I want

938
01:09:49.119 --> 01:09:56.960
to add and dropped, I'll say, Terry. Look, he's screaming at

939
01:09:56.960 --> 01:10:00.560
Otto, come on new pastor,
come on, give me your head,

940
01:10:01.479 --> 01:10:09.000
give me your head. Oh boy, that's a big left. Funk comes

941
01:10:09.039 --> 01:10:12.399
up, swinging like a madman,
ready on the brink of the You know,

942
01:10:12.439 --> 01:10:14.920
it kind of looks like Jake Roberts. He does. That's true.

943
01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:21.079
Clubbing shots, windmill shots, his
neat. Funk is going hardcore here drilling

944
01:10:21.239 --> 01:10:26.920
him the color. But I think
Evans might have color. Wasn't uh?

945
01:10:27.039 --> 01:10:30.319
Didn't Donald Vance play a part in
Parks and rec isn't he in Parks and

946
01:10:30.760 --> 01:10:39.239
say? That? Kid? Yet
know m series of lefts. Finally,

947
01:10:39.239 --> 01:10:45.000
Auto switches the momentum, whips Terry
into the buckling and charges with the barge

948
01:10:45.039 --> 01:10:50.000
in the corner. Unk stumbles out
into the verticals, who play beautiful.

949
01:10:50.000 --> 01:10:56.199
It might be that might be after
Jim O'Hare. Actually, yeah, h

950
01:10:56.319 --> 01:11:02.239
e, I R yes. In
case you're wondering back up. Funk swings

951
01:11:02.239 --> 01:11:09.159
and drops with a clothesline. Here's
the cover by Vince two Got him.

952
01:11:09.199 --> 01:11:15.760
That's it? Auto Vance, Larryoto
for Auto, Larryoto Vans, Oh my

953
01:11:15.840 --> 01:11:28.800
god, Lariato Larryoto lar also Zubisco's
repair shop by the way, come on

954
01:11:29.000 --> 01:11:39.239
down a Larry Auto, okay,
where we specialize in vans for fans,

955
01:11:41.880 --> 01:11:46.960
also specializing in vans Larry's shoe store. And they're on their feet in Cologne

956
01:11:47.039 --> 01:11:53.399
or wherever this is sparklers. That's
it. That's a fucking fire hazard.

957
01:11:54.920 --> 01:11:57.720
Is that? Missus Vons's listen to
Auto here with the ringside interview. I

958
01:11:57.760 --> 01:12:08.880
need to hear this. Yeah,
you want all over? He was German

959
01:12:08.920 --> 01:12:15.840
all over. You look like one
too, pal Now, actually he looked

960
01:12:15.960 --> 01:12:18.720
like a state bomb. You look
like a mushroom cloud. Yeah you say

961
01:12:18.760 --> 01:12:26.399
that again and cheez a mushroom in
Swiss cloud. So yeah, mushroom,

962
01:12:26.800 --> 01:12:30.199
mushroom and munster cloud. I mean, if you didn't know when we announced

963
01:12:30.239 --> 01:12:33.039
the lapsed Funk that at some point
it would be Auto Vanz's turn, then

964
01:12:33.039 --> 01:12:36.680
I don't know what to tell you
exactly. You haven't been listening closely enough.

965
01:12:38.039 --> 01:12:42.279
Holy shit, that wasn't expecting Auto. Let's stay in Germany just another

966
01:12:42.359 --> 01:12:45.319
bit more because while that you know, the fact he wrestled the name the

967
01:12:45.359 --> 01:12:48.920
stature of Otto van certainly speaks to
how much Terry Funk's name reverberated across the

968
01:12:48.920 --> 01:12:54.880
global wrestling world in nineteen ninety It
wasn't necessarily the best display of him adapting

969
01:12:54.880 --> 01:12:58.319
to a new style because Otto Vans
was very limited in what he could do.

970
01:12:58.399 --> 01:13:01.560
However, Terry did run into an
opponent in November of nineteen ninety six

971
01:13:01.600 --> 01:13:06.239
by the name of Franz Schumann,
who didn't his who didn't have a whole

972
01:13:06.239 --> 01:13:11.039
lot of renown outside the rings of
Germany, but did work internationally and was

973
01:13:11.079 --> 01:13:14.239
a very good worker. I am
a very good worker, and there is

974
01:13:14.279 --> 01:13:19.760
absolutely zero chance we will ever talk
about Franz again. So let's go six

975
01:13:19.840 --> 01:13:25.760
years after Terry Funk, you know, helped see off Anse in the rings

976
01:13:25.800 --> 01:13:29.840
that he defined to take on,
the onion rings that he defined to take

977
01:13:29.880 --> 01:13:32.600
on. Fron Schuman, go to
just twenty eight. If you could trans

978
01:13:32.680 --> 01:13:39.520
Schumann, here we are. That's
Ron Schumann. Sounds like a law firm.

979
01:13:40.000 --> 01:13:42.840
Twenty eight. That's what you said. I said, yeah, yes,

980
01:13:42.920 --> 01:13:45.560
I said to him, it's very
good. Did we go to just

981
01:13:45.760 --> 01:13:55.800
twenty eight? But is his time
card? Chiz? It's one ten tim

982
01:13:55.960 --> 01:14:03.000
oh four. It's kind of like
handicam footage here. This must be a

983
01:14:03.000 --> 01:14:09.159
sponsor, the Gilda Brokwerie Browery.
It's like there's a banner above the ring.

984
01:14:09.279 --> 01:14:11.920
So now this is going to be
it. You know, we talked

985
01:14:11.960 --> 01:14:15.760
about the versatility of Terry. We've
seen him in nw A title Terry.

986
01:14:15.800 --> 01:14:20.159
We've seen him tag team Brawler Terry. We've seen e c W stunt Moon

987
01:14:20.239 --> 01:14:25.520
salting Terry. We've seen you know, technical catches, catch can Terry,

988
01:14:25.560 --> 01:14:29.920
and now We're about to see true
catch Terry here and John all right against

989
01:14:29.920 --> 01:14:38.680
Frands in ninety six, So let's
hit play in three two one play.

990
01:14:40.800 --> 01:14:56.680
It's hilarious, now, can King
King? Can I went ahead in the

991
01:14:57.000 --> 01:15:09.319
USA? Ahead in the USA?
Look at him, the funker fucking Goofei

992
01:15:09.479 --> 01:15:13.319
with the leather chaps and the leather
thing he's got, He's got the headband,

993
01:15:13.359 --> 01:15:15.079
he's got a flaming branding iron.
Look at him, oh man,

994
01:15:15.800 --> 01:15:20.039
led to the ring by two people
waving old glory. Yeah, this is

995
01:15:20.039 --> 01:15:25.279
like FMW Terry funk, this is
some And he puts the flame out on

996
01:15:25.319 --> 01:15:29.640
the end of the branding iron and
ready to do battle with fran Schumann here

997
01:15:30.439 --> 01:15:34.000
and his catch on, baby,
that's right, he's here to catch,

998
01:15:35.760 --> 01:15:47.039
and we're here to pitch. That's
right. We'll forget it. What but

999
01:15:51.159 --> 01:15:55.079
I'm trying jeers from the crowd.
Just yeah, ninety six. I mean,

1000
01:15:56.600 --> 01:16:10.319
just think of a Sid versus Sean
Survivors series. Bad France, what's

1001
01:16:10.319 --> 01:16:16.279
that France? What's his name?
Franz Schumann. Franz Schumann. Heah,

1002
01:16:17.960 --> 01:16:25.880
he's actually Austrian. Was fran Schuman
Austrian? Involve is Austrian. There's nothing

1003
01:16:25.880 --> 01:16:30.199
you can do. And the Professional
Alliance makes some sense because Howard Brody at

1004
01:16:30.199 --> 01:16:33.520
the time of the National Wrestling Alliance
was trying to recruit fran Schumann's w w

1005
01:16:33.560 --> 01:16:38.359
A promotion, which I believe we're
seeing here w w A in Germany and

1006
01:16:38.359 --> 01:16:43.800
Austria to join the n W as
they still try to be a thing in

1007
01:16:43.840 --> 01:16:51.039
the mid to late nineties, strong
driving techno for Franz Schumann going to the

1008
01:16:51.079 --> 01:17:05.640
disco tech. Apparently the disco tech
is that an observer reward back then best

1009
01:17:06.000 --> 01:17:14.439
disco technical wrestler. Believe yes,
best best disco technician. I believe frond

1010
01:17:14.479 --> 01:17:17.840
Schumann was Disco Technical Wrestler of the
Year in nineteen ninety six. Was he

1011
01:17:17.920 --> 01:17:24.840
also the disco tactician and tactical Oh
you'd be the judge here as he wrapped

1012
01:17:24.840 --> 01:17:28.760
as he locks horns with the Funker
and enters the ring with the Austrian flag.

1013
01:17:31.159 --> 01:17:42.720
This fucking Dennis corn Rody's promotional partner
is Butterbean. Funk's second Uh is

1014
01:17:42.760 --> 01:17:51.079
that butter Bean? So no,
what the fuck is that? I like

1015
01:17:51.119 --> 01:17:56.079
this? So they have the corner
men stand in opposite corners holding the flag

1016
01:17:56.159 --> 01:18:01.279
still while the introductions made sure.
It's pretty cool something a modern wrestling company

1017
01:18:01.319 --> 01:18:11.920
could steal other with Terry Wow,
I mean he was German. I mean,

1018
01:18:12.119 --> 01:18:14.319
you know, you gotta think that
is true. That is true.

1019
01:18:14.439 --> 01:18:26.239
Good point. Good point. Dell
Lastling either talking about him as the son

1020
01:18:26.279 --> 01:18:30.600
of Dori Funk senior. Yeh,
so Dennis Corluzo did at Eddie Gilbert Tribute

1021
01:18:30.600 --> 01:18:34.760
weekend in ninety six in Philadelphia,
and apparently that also saw Front Human come

1022
01:18:34.760 --> 01:18:44.439
in from Austin and Mussel. All
right, so some exposure in the States.

1023
01:18:46.279 --> 01:19:00.319
Terry Fung. This is truly something
we would never watch never. I

1024
01:19:00.359 --> 01:19:09.000
almost can't believe we're about to do
it. Just describe the scene for those

1025
01:19:09.000 --> 01:19:13.159
who can't. I mean, you
gotta. It's just a bunch of flags

1026
01:19:13.159 --> 01:19:18.319
in the ring. Such a flag
an elementary school auditorium stage. It really

1027
01:19:18.359 --> 01:19:24.359
does. I am very what is
I'm very curious what I got to look

1028
01:19:24.399 --> 01:19:29.439
up? Guilda brower? Yeah what
that the banner above the ring is about

1029
01:19:30.319 --> 01:19:32.920
a lot of ceremonials here. Let's
get the bell rong, folks. Yeah,

1030
01:19:32.960 --> 01:19:48.319
I know. Seriously, Terry Funk
was just simply the man for the

1031
01:19:48.439 --> 01:20:00.680
job in the nineties. Serves as
further evidence of that, frum unintroduced and

1032
01:20:00.720 --> 01:20:06.560
booed, in fact, what is
this? It's a d D D D

1033
01:20:06.920 --> 01:20:14.520
D D ding ding d ding ding
d D. It was Terry. That's

1034
01:20:14.520 --> 01:20:23.520
a brewery, the Guild brewery.
That makes sense. Tony Saint Clair is

1035
01:20:23.520 --> 01:20:26.359
the second of Front Showman, who
is also a great German wrestler. Are

1036
01:20:26.359 --> 01:20:30.279
you gonna say, boss, it's
a brewery? Okay, that makes sense.

1037
01:20:30.319 --> 01:20:36.000
I would have been one of my
first guesses pound little d Dean did

1038
01:20:36.159 --> 01:20:44.119
indeen Dean and that is that definitely
has that feel. Oh they're channing,

1039
01:20:44.159 --> 01:20:50.680
asshole? Is that what they're chanting? That's it sounds like that's just wild.

1040
01:20:53.039 --> 01:20:57.119
So let's get a real good look
at the well roundedness of Terry Funk,

1041
01:20:57.159 --> 01:21:00.880
even as late as nineteen ninety six
going to Germany and seamlessly. Are

1042
01:21:00.920 --> 01:21:05.239
they already they're already channing a boring
chant? Do you hear this? I

1043
01:21:05.279 --> 01:21:11.039
somehow doubt they're chanting boring, But
they're channing boring, They're ready, They

1044
01:21:11.079 --> 01:21:23.680
won't why they're wanting announcer are still
talking. It's instead of room by I

1045
01:21:23.720 --> 01:21:27.560
want ahead and locked it up a
front ship of I wanna I want ahead,

1046
01:21:27.560 --> 01:21:31.039
and uh I went to Germany and
UH said, uh, you know,

1047
01:21:32.119 --> 01:21:38.000
and I mean this sincerely. He's
a he's a he's a German guy,

1048
01:21:38.239 --> 01:21:40.920
right, I haven't thought about you
know, I throw the German souplex

1049
01:21:40.960 --> 01:21:43.520
in there, but I thought that
might be too on the nose. Yeah,

1050
01:21:43.920 --> 01:21:47.439
yeah, yeah, yeah, I
mean sincerely, I do. I

1051
01:21:47.479 --> 01:21:53.840
want ahead, and I want ahead
and men things sincerely. And this is

1052
01:21:53.840 --> 01:22:00.279
like an elbows fighting hard for the
leverage, working the ropes. It's telling

1053
01:22:00.279 --> 01:22:05.119
his repertoire if you always falling on
bombs, ducking his head through the ropes.

1054
01:22:05.159 --> 01:22:11.800
The funker seeking separation granted by the
yes, the clean catchman front human

1055
01:22:15.720 --> 01:22:23.239
almost like Tom Brandy a little bit, yeah sure, kindle see bulldog and

1056
01:22:23.319 --> 01:22:30.960
jeans a little bit. Yeah yeah, dynamite too, figgers and dynamite hair

1057
01:22:31.039 --> 01:22:35.439
elbows and funker grabs a front headlock
to the ropes. They go, fuck,

1058
01:22:35.479 --> 01:22:38.279
what's gonna do? Is gonna shot
him off? No, throws them

1059
01:22:38.319 --> 01:22:42.359
to the ropes out after him,
front slips right in, not playing that

1060
01:22:42.399 --> 01:22:48.359
game against the funker. No very
smart. The crowd applauds the the ring

1061
01:22:48.439 --> 01:22:54.159
awareness front shuman as do I bunk
would like nothing more than to get this

1062
01:22:54.239 --> 01:23:01.439
one on the floor and incorporate furniture
and all kinds of other externality elements.

1063
01:23:01.720 --> 01:23:09.439
Yes, Bunk her up out of
the apron, looking for some distance re

1064
01:23:09.680 --> 01:23:15.680
enter and he gets it. What
are they saying? I don't know,

1065
01:23:15.840 --> 01:23:18.640
man, it's some sure it German. You didn't learn German for this.

1066
01:23:19.279 --> 01:23:23.800
I don't think he knew any German. No you no, No, That's

1067
01:23:23.840 --> 01:23:27.880
one thing I couldn't get done in
time. Yeah. I wanted to go

1068
01:23:27.920 --> 01:23:32.800
to crowdhousing and see if I could
have moved any of his relatives. And

1069
01:23:32.880 --> 01:23:35.760
again Funk tries throwing Chuman into the
floor, go out after him, and

1070
01:23:35.840 --> 01:23:40.199
human gets right back into the ring. Very good psychology. I like that

1071
01:23:42.439 --> 01:23:44.920
Bunk's gonna have to wrestle this man
if he's going to beat him tonight.

1072
01:23:45.399 --> 01:23:46.680
I'm not here to you know,
I'm not going to sit here and do

1073
01:23:46.800 --> 01:23:51.119
your your your bullshit, not going
to brawl the stars and his trunks.

1074
01:23:51.159 --> 01:23:55.640
He looks like some generic guy you'd
picking like any s pro wrestling, right,

1075
01:23:57.720 --> 01:24:00.880
I'm not here to do your your
hardcore bullshit. Time here to wrestle

1076
01:24:00.439 --> 01:24:08.399
and to take things very seriously,
mister fun. The sound and the funka

1077
01:24:09.840 --> 01:24:20.199
hollering elbow, warn shipman now with
the risk control all right, clothesline duck

1078
01:24:20.279 --> 01:24:25.600
to get it, to get Please, could the announcer please shut the fuck

1079
01:24:25.680 --> 01:24:30.159
up? I mean he's been talking
the entire match, including he's annoying first

1080
01:24:30.239 --> 01:24:36.800
round underway Tony Sinclear and tending to
front Human cornerman as well. I don't

1081
01:24:36.800 --> 01:24:51.960
recognize, and didn't and didn't didn't
and didn't and and sounds like one of

1082
01:24:53.000 --> 01:24:57.319
those It sounds like one of those
time Life compilation commercials in the middle of

1083
01:24:57.359 --> 01:25:05.560
the night. It does in between
rounds in Germany Best of the Eat cow

1084
01:25:08.319 --> 01:25:12.119
on four compact discs, like White
Snake or whatever his name was. Yes,

1085
01:25:13.119 --> 01:25:26.640
is this love at him? Feeling
away a head? Second round out

1086
01:25:26.640 --> 01:25:30.159
away, Front Human takes the center
of the ring. What's a boot out

1087
01:25:30.199 --> 01:25:38.760
there? Funk or Snakes? What's
I think that's Front Human's definitely one of

1088
01:25:38.800 --> 01:25:44.920
those deep cinemat guys are gonna find
coming down ladies and gentlemen coming down to

1089
01:25:44.960 --> 01:25:49.479
the aisle. Being two hundred and
forty pounds from Kaiser Slandon, Jeremy,

1090
01:25:56.159 --> 01:26:00.760
Are you announcing him? What are
you calling him to dinner? I think

1091
01:26:00.800 --> 01:26:03.640
that's auto Van's right there, the
fat ass and suit there. Yeah,

1092
01:26:03.680 --> 01:26:06.520
it looks like him. Oh look
at that he's want of he's telling to

1093
01:26:06.560 --> 01:26:09.760
get back in the fucking ring.
Oh funk, I take a swing and

1094
01:26:09.800 --> 01:26:14.560
a spectator, give a fuck,
lower him up with the EU. It's

1095
01:26:14.600 --> 01:26:17.720
gonna start throwing fucking chairs at the
fans. Tossed Terry Funk out of the

1096
01:26:17.800 --> 01:26:21.079
ring. Funk now working the perimeter, looking in the ring like, how

1097
01:26:21.119 --> 01:26:24.399
the hell amna approached? The son
of a bitch? Now, what the

1098
01:26:24.479 --> 01:26:33.880
hell? How the hell Paul?
When the hellma closing the distance? I

1099
01:26:34.000 --> 01:26:38.520
went a home sitting in the middle
rope and just taking rights and clutching the

1100
01:26:38.600 --> 01:26:42.880
top rope doing this the the swing
back and forth and finally knocked to the

1101
01:26:42.920 --> 01:26:57.119
floor Schumann looking like a bad ass. That's all I heard. So tell

1102
01:26:57.199 --> 01:26:59.800
me, German listeners just funk a
German name. I mean, we spent

1103
01:26:59.800 --> 01:27:03.960
a lot of time talking about how
unusual a name it is. It is

1104
01:27:04.000 --> 01:27:10.439
that like a name in Germany that
people wouldn't better fun if you pronounce it

1105
01:27:10.479 --> 01:27:15.359
that perhaps like that it's I have, I have, it's cause for concern.

1106
01:27:15.159 --> 01:27:17.359
Yeah, just for this episode,
we're gonna rename it the labs to

1107
01:27:17.399 --> 01:27:25.039
funka Yeah, Terry re engaging from
the Colorado elbow, snatching a top wrist

1108
01:27:25.079 --> 01:27:28.319
lock that brings from Schumann to a
knee. Funk can workholds. It's very

1109
01:27:28.359 --> 01:27:32.600
simple DT and nowhere about the funker. Wow, oh, looks like he's

1110
01:27:32.600 --> 01:27:35.199
being admonished by the referees. There
something illegal about the D D T and

1111
01:27:35.279 --> 01:27:42.760
cash. Someone turned the radio station
on again. Let's run another break.

1112
01:27:42.920 --> 01:27:45.600
Dun dun dun, dun, dun
dun dun. No no no no no

1113
01:27:45.720 --> 01:27:47.640
no no no no no no no
no no no no no no no no.

1114
01:27:48.520 --> 01:27:50.319
I like the idea of rounds,
but these are way too short,

1115
01:27:51.520 --> 01:27:54.680
and they're doing rounds in NXT now
too. What do they call it?

1116
01:27:54.720 --> 01:28:09.800
The Heritage Cup has rounds like this
trumpus Maximus. No, no, no,

1117
01:28:10.119 --> 01:28:20.760
no, what a strange song look
like? So bizarre? During Christmas

1118
01:28:20.800 --> 01:28:26.279
time here in Germany, Many German
moms saying, I know it's Christmas,

1119
01:28:26.319 --> 01:28:32.479
but that's no excuse to be lazy. That's right, I know it's Christmas,

1120
01:28:32.520 --> 01:28:35.720
but this means no, it's no
excuse to be a cunt. Pretty

1121
01:28:35.760 --> 01:28:41.960
fun dropped hold by Schumann riding the
Funker. Now with the rear to chinlock

1122
01:28:41.960 --> 01:28:46.439
on was an stf position. This
is no chairs, this is no barbed

1123
01:28:46.479 --> 01:28:50.880
wire, this is no this is
terry. It's it's it's old school showing

1124
01:28:50.960 --> 01:28:59.760
up trunks and boots still in there. Even though that didn't define his ninety

1125
01:28:59.840 --> 01:29:03.439
nine. Still uh something the Funker
could do. That's what's on display here

1126
01:29:04.640 --> 01:29:09.880
a Schumann holding this uh in a
modified sleeper hole. He's got one arm

1127
01:29:09.960 --> 01:29:13.800
under the arm pit. He's got
the lock under the armpit of the Funker.

1128
01:29:15.520 --> 01:29:18.840
You know what. He's the love
child of Paul Roma and Rocky mya

1129
01:29:18.920 --> 01:29:27.640
Villa. It's quite a comparison.
Funker locates the hangman's noose neck breaker.

1130
01:29:27.680 --> 01:29:36.520
In that entanglement, you get counted
down like a boxing match. Another pile

1131
01:29:36.600 --> 01:29:46.439
driver, whoa we left on Japan. He just he just gave a tiger

1132
01:29:46.520 --> 01:29:51.800
driver ninety four drilled Frondz. So
Funk was going for the pile driver where

1133
01:29:51.880 --> 01:29:55.039
yanks in the trunks, but Franz
A leaped like it was going to be

1134
01:29:55.079 --> 01:29:58.199
a power bomb. So Funk just
dropped to his knees and it was massawakawata

1135
01:29:58.479 --> 01:30:04.239
and now there's a power bomb.
Funk. Franz too. Did the referee

1136
01:30:04.319 --> 01:30:08.479
just count without slapping the mat?
Did he just count by putting fingers in

1137
01:30:08.560 --> 01:30:12.439
the air? Do we have the
German bronco lubit? Listen? Can I

1138
01:30:12.520 --> 01:30:14.359
tell you to see it? I'm
not going to get on my knees.

1139
01:30:14.520 --> 01:30:21.199
Please a power bomb on order this
time? Wow Jesus and peppering the funker

1140
01:30:21.239 --> 01:30:30.159
with rights fron Schumann bringing the rana
to Germany. This time of Chumann putting

1141
01:30:30.159 --> 01:30:32.800
the fight on the floor, throwing
Funk through the ropes and Terry climbs the

1142
01:30:32.880 --> 01:30:36.479
nearest table. Of course, that's
what you do. Look at shirts in

1143
01:30:36.520 --> 01:30:43.840
Germany in the Oh my god,
that's fucking awesome. Like the the ten

1144
01:30:43.920 --> 01:30:51.279
addresses in Germany that our video would
ship to, one of them is probably

1145
01:30:51.680 --> 01:30:57.199
Oliver uh oh man. What was
his name, Oliver Copp? I think

1146
01:30:57.239 --> 01:31:00.680
his name was used to be a
He's like he used to write about wrestling

1147
01:31:00.760 --> 01:31:06.199
on Observer and stuff. And I
remember he was a translator for UFC fighter

1148
01:31:06.239 --> 01:31:10.159
Dennis Siver when he fought Connor McGregor. I was like, what the Observer

1149
01:31:10.279 --> 01:31:13.960
guy is doing translation for German UFC
fighters. Sure enough, that's very funny.

1150
01:31:14.800 --> 01:31:17.359
Now we're back in the ring Funk
are worse for wear as fron Schumann,

1151
01:31:17.760 --> 01:31:21.399
snapmar and sleeper hole. That's the
funk. The funker in the center

1152
01:31:23.560 --> 01:31:28.640
drills down an elbow to the Trapeziis
is that a German word? Trapezia?

1153
01:31:29.239 --> 01:31:36.399
The trapeze a trapezia. This announcer
has to shut the fuck up. Man,

1154
01:31:36.520 --> 01:31:40.359
He's he's the worst. This guy's
a fun something to say. Every

1155
01:31:40.399 --> 01:31:44.840
thirty seconds, here comes the funker
building up off his feet. But maybe

1156
01:31:44.920 --> 01:31:46.760
that's the thing. Maybe that's the
thing in Germany. You mean, yeah,

1157
01:31:49.880 --> 01:31:53.279
it's hard to get, you know, a real heat going. When

1158
01:31:54.199 --> 01:31:58.960
Funker Terry finds an excuse to just
fall through the ropes again like a trapeze

1159
01:31:59.039 --> 01:32:01.680
artist, Oh I have I don't
even have to hit him, He'll just

1160
01:32:01.760 --> 01:32:16.199
fall. There's no round anything,
little little lily oooh yeah, dirt dir

1161
01:32:16.520 --> 01:32:23.840
di. Time for another fucking uh
uh chewing gum commercial from nineteen eighty one.

1162
01:32:24.279 --> 01:32:38.600
Seriously, ham hum hey, is
that journey loving you? I forgot?

1163
01:32:41.520 --> 01:32:57.159
Unbelievable? Also got pig fied tour. Here he goes. Funk has

1164
01:32:57.159 --> 01:33:00.239
flipped the switch. He's decided that
he's been beat up so bad that he

1165
01:33:00.319 --> 01:33:12.119
can't stand on it's on two feet
big drop cake batons. They get a

1166
01:33:12.159 --> 01:33:16.279
lot more mileage out of blows in
Germany, don't they. Yep, referees

1167
01:33:16.359 --> 01:33:19.920
laying in a standing eight count like
boxing. Dropkick Funk spills over the top

1168
01:33:19.960 --> 01:33:30.239
to the floor. Do you need
a wrestler to come to your country and

1169
01:33:31.560 --> 01:33:36.560
clear the top rope like a motherfucker. Terry Funk, Terry Funk for you.

1170
01:33:36.920 --> 01:33:42.199
Terry Funk Enterprises knocked over the railing
into the front row. The e

1171
01:33:42.319 --> 01:33:45.680
CW fans there, the e c
W T shirt wearers clearing out some room

1172
01:33:45.760 --> 01:33:53.720
for Franz Schumann to follow up.
Oh Funker grabs a branding iron. Oh

1173
01:33:53.840 --> 01:33:59.800
boy, here we go. I'm
not sure the official even saw it.

1174
01:34:00.199 --> 01:34:03.880
Look at the photographers laughing, and
how fucking phony it is. It's so

1175
01:34:04.119 --> 01:34:19.199
fucking fake. This bullshit, just
see, this is all a fake bullshit.

1176
01:34:20.239 --> 01:34:25.960
Taking the center, kicking away at
that damaged knee, the damaged ahead.

1177
01:34:27.439 --> 01:34:32.039
Oh, when I head around,
had a Hannah when I hed my

1178
01:34:32.199 --> 01:34:42.319
mama's head, mama said, Well, needless to say, Terry Funk has

1179
01:34:42.319 --> 01:34:47.239
opened up a plan of attack here
after smacking front Shuman with a branding iron,

1180
01:34:47.279 --> 01:34:55.199
He's now attacking the knee viciously.
Schuman's having a difficult time standing alright,

1181
01:34:56.279 --> 01:34:59.000
alright, fling in the count Funk
with the Duke's up while he does

1182
01:35:00.439 --> 01:35:05.159
whom that fucking is? That?
Is that any assi there? The referee?

1183
01:35:05.279 --> 01:35:09.399
Oh my god, that'd be a
cardio challenge in the States. If

1184
01:35:09.399 --> 01:35:11.840
you couldn't stay down on the mat
for more than ten seconds at a time,

1185
01:35:12.439 --> 01:35:15.119
how would we do our double down
spot? So everybody knows to stand

1186
01:35:15.159 --> 01:35:20.560
in applaud I would come right out
of everybody's repertoire overnight. Funk just unloading

1187
01:35:20.600 --> 01:35:24.680
with a series of lefts in the
corner on a helpless fron Schuman and now

1188
01:35:24.760 --> 01:35:28.000
joh jacking with the official is the
funker? I don't think he likes uh

1189
01:35:29.600 --> 01:35:34.079
instruction. He just got Schumann stepping
to funk. But the worse for where

1190
01:35:34.159 --> 01:35:40.960
to say the least terry deposits him
through the ropes to the outside. And

1191
01:35:41.079 --> 01:35:45.520
no moon salts nothing like that here? Why not? They're not probably not

1192
01:35:45.680 --> 01:35:50.319
legal in Japan. I mean in
Germany you could, however, salt a

1193
01:35:50.359 --> 01:35:56.960
pretzel. That's very much that is
that is definitely encouraged and actually in some

1194
01:35:57.079 --> 01:36:00.199
places required. Could you go for
a pretzel right now, Oh my god,

1195
01:36:00.279 --> 01:36:06.239
a real fucking pretzel. It'll be
great like that like the rock salt,

1196
01:36:06.399 --> 01:36:11.760
those big yep yep yep. But
like I mean, like there's a

1197
01:36:12.560 --> 01:36:18.159
you know there, there's a tavern
nearby that just they make the best fucking

1198
01:36:19.239 --> 01:36:25.520
pretzels like they have yep, well
they have to. They had to two

1199
01:36:25.680 --> 01:36:30.279
different kind of you know, sauce
is either either the mustard or like a

1200
01:36:30.279 --> 01:36:36.720
cheese sauce. And but it's like
the the butter on to heavenly, it's

1201
01:36:36.760 --> 01:36:42.000
heavenly, it's fucking heavenly. So
Terry Funk punching front Schumann in the head

1202
01:36:42.079 --> 01:36:51.359
until van Halen starts playing Welcome to
catch and we'll be back exactly. S

1203
01:36:54.000 --> 01:36:59.520
Clair, for no reason, refuses
to be boring. Yes he does.

1204
01:37:00.359 --> 01:37:04.199
Announcer's still talking for those keeping score, Yeah, for those who give a

1205
01:37:04.239 --> 01:37:09.000
shit. It must be the fifth
or sixth round. At this point,

1206
01:37:09.039 --> 01:37:12.920
Schumann tries to get back and the
ring funker drops him again. So what's

1207
01:37:13.000 --> 01:37:15.640
the point of the rounds? Like, do they do they do? Points?

1208
01:37:15.760 --> 01:37:17.279
Is that it or it do?
I think it's just like you've got

1209
01:37:17.439 --> 01:37:19.800
enough, You've got this much time
to find a win and then it's just

1210
01:37:19.840 --> 01:37:24.239
like boxing, you know, the
guy gets a break. Yeah, but

1211
01:37:24.319 --> 01:37:26.800
they have points though, like they
have points, and I don't know,

1212
01:37:27.119 --> 01:37:29.840
I have to cut cop ignorance to
how it worked. I'm not sure.

1213
01:37:30.600 --> 01:37:33.000
Sure there's some catch fans out there
and the Solars just look and inform us

1214
01:37:33.039 --> 01:37:36.239
for the next episode. So now
Tony Saint Clair furious getting the ring in

1215
01:37:36.279 --> 01:37:40.039
the officials face that this guy's kicking
me. Meanwhile, that provides a distraction

1216
01:37:40.119 --> 01:37:45.279
for the Funker to again hit Schumann
in the head with the the branding iron,

1217
01:37:45.359 --> 01:37:50.399
to a somewhat muted reaction from the
crowd, not entirely furious with that.

1218
01:37:51.359 --> 01:37:56.680
Yeah, I when I had him
side in the ropes, I said,

1219
01:37:57.079 --> 01:38:03.680
Franz, take your time, I
think wow. Stands at six and

1220
01:38:03.720 --> 01:38:09.720
the Funk wrapping his left fist in
something and dropping Schumann with a hard punch,

1221
01:38:11.840 --> 01:38:20.680
and the standing eight count bunk just
punching the ship out of this guy.

1222
01:38:23.600 --> 01:38:27.600
What I had, what I had, when I had, when I

1223
01:38:27.640 --> 01:38:29.960
had I had went ahead and punch
him in the head, when ahead and

1224
01:38:30.039 --> 01:38:31.640
punch him in the head, when
I had, when I had on belly

1225
01:38:31.680 --> 01:38:34.439
and he was trying to cover him
the front shoom and I'll tied up in

1226
01:38:34.439 --> 01:38:39.159
the ropes. Terry doesn't know that
rule. All the forty years in the

1227
01:38:39.199 --> 01:38:42.640
business, I don't speak German,
your fucking pieces, no one thing they

1228
01:38:42.680 --> 01:38:45.239
do. And I'm serious about this. They don't explain the rules to Americans.

1229
01:38:45.239 --> 01:38:48.039
You know, you show up and
you should go ahead. You go

1230
01:38:48.119 --> 01:38:50.920
ahead, and you try to wrestle, but they say you can't wrestle that

1231
01:38:51.000 --> 01:38:54.840
way. And I said, well, what the hell am I supposed to

1232
01:38:54.920 --> 01:38:59.399
do? Wrestled the way that I? I mean that sincerely. Yeah,

1233
01:38:59.520 --> 01:39:04.840
what the Schumann coming back with chops
a drop kick whipped to the corner.

1234
01:39:05.000 --> 01:39:11.960
Funker hits a bloodied Fronz Schuman with
a kind of a battery. Yay,

1235
01:39:12.079 --> 01:39:15.079
that was supposed to be Fuck?
Was that Funk was trying to go for

1236
01:39:15.119 --> 01:39:20.720
a Canadian destroyer maybe and Franz didn't
know to go over. But this is

1237
01:39:20.920 --> 01:39:24.039
I'm going to come back. Looks
like a catch, ladies and gentlemen.

1238
01:39:24.199 --> 01:39:28.880
Yeah, snap neared the lateral press
human one two? Oh. I think

1239
01:39:28.920 --> 01:39:32.359
the ref counts one two of his
fingers and slaps the three. What is

1240
01:39:32.439 --> 01:39:39.479
going on here? So Franz,
how do we work the gimmick, hero

1241
01:39:39.640 --> 01:39:42.880
the referee hit the mat? Or
so what do we do with this damn

1242
01:39:42.960 --> 01:39:45.520
thing? How do we work the
gimmick? How do we work the mat?

1243
01:39:45.560 --> 01:39:49.239
How do we work the fans?
It's trying walking around his zombie again.

1244
01:39:49.239 --> 01:39:51.680
And I don't know about you.
I don't know about you, Franz,

1245
01:39:51.680 --> 01:39:55.119
but I like to go ahead,
and I like to work a few

1246
01:39:55.199 --> 01:39:59.119
things in the fans in the crowd. I don't know what this catch ship.

1247
01:39:59.199 --> 01:40:03.840
You guys do to catch a predator, maybe to catch a mama.

1248
01:40:09.319 --> 01:40:12.800
We will rock you now, Okay, Oh my god, I fucking can't

1249
01:40:12.880 --> 01:40:15.760
the other round and they're in the
crowd. Terry's gonna want to drink another

1250
01:40:15.800 --> 01:40:26.119
round by the time this thing's over. Kingan Anka even Nanda he not he

1251
01:40:26.520 --> 01:40:30.439
dashtigging. I'm sure all licenses,
all appropriate license is secured to play this

1252
01:40:30.560 --> 01:40:34.760
music for public display. Of course, Terry, he's just wind milling punches.

1253
01:40:34.800 --> 01:40:39.279
There's no one in sight. He's
just swinging. The women are running

1254
01:40:39.920 --> 01:40:45.119
from him. The fucker comes up
swinging. He's fans all in the place.

1255
01:40:45.640 --> 01:40:53.399
I want. I haven't said fuck
it. Whatever happens when Terry gets

1256
01:40:53.520 --> 01:40:58.680
up half dead and just starts swinging. I fucking love it never gets old.

1257
01:40:59.279 --> 01:41:01.640
I've been thoroughly convinced of that over
the course of the laps. Frock

1258
01:41:02.000 --> 01:41:05.520
because a chair. I think I
know who threw that. I didn't see

1259
01:41:05.560 --> 01:41:11.680
it, but I didn't do it. What happened? Who did it?

1260
01:41:14.000 --> 01:41:18.840
Throwing left? Snow? Did anyone
go home? Pretty soon? Is it

1261
01:41:18.920 --> 01:41:24.560
time to go home? Oh?
A big shove to the official from Terry

1262
01:41:24.600 --> 01:41:32.159
Funk because he works over front.
Schumann in the corner. Oh my god,

1263
01:41:32.239 --> 01:41:38.119
there we go. Official goes down, Funk going off. Tony sent

1264
01:41:38.159 --> 01:41:41.079
clear up on the ring apron not
o Vonn's standing. They can't believe that

1265
01:41:41.199 --> 01:41:48.079
Terry Funk is channing for Tony.
They wanted to do something about it.

1266
01:41:48.359 --> 01:41:51.079
Here goes Terry. Get ready.
He's on the floor of the chair in

1267
01:41:51.119 --> 01:42:01.560
his hand. Get ready, almost
a human Jesus. Oh, went ahead

1268
01:42:02.359 --> 01:42:09.079
and all through the chair at your
head, gets him right over the head

1269
01:42:09.079 --> 01:42:14.920
with it. Announcers still talking,
announce the referees on the floor. Tony

1270
01:42:14.920 --> 01:42:25.720
Sinclair getting tuned up now by the
Funker. This is absolute anarchy. Who's

1271
01:42:25.760 --> 01:42:31.279
this guy? That Berry Wyndham?
Is that Doc Hendricks? Is that ulf

1272
01:42:31.319 --> 01:42:43.680
Hermann? Maybe the referee ailing from
the left hand. He's hurting. Funk

1273
01:42:43.800 --> 01:42:47.119
leaves absolutely, It's like it takes
six people in a chair to like get

1274
01:42:47.199 --> 01:42:54.039
Funk out of here. Look at
him on the floor. He keeps going,

1275
01:42:54.239 --> 01:43:00.199
stumbling around. He's such an animal. He shows up, it's like

1276
01:43:00.640 --> 01:43:03.720
fucking like nobody knows what to do
when he fucking you know, he gets

1277
01:43:03.760 --> 01:43:09.159
there and it's like, oh oh, the very excited Terry Funk coming,

1278
01:43:09.239 --> 01:43:13.279
you know, is that my god
is from America is a legend. It's

1279
01:43:13.319 --> 01:43:19.239
aman won the match. Indeed,
indeed and deed INDEEDE actually look like dynamite

1280
01:43:19.319 --> 01:43:21.720
kid too. Yeah, I call
that dynamite too. Yeah he does.

1281
01:43:23.680 --> 01:43:27.279
He's like, he's like, he
looks like dynamite with Davy's frame. Yeah,

1282
01:43:27.720 --> 01:43:34.920
yeah, I guess he won.
And where where no head? Oh?

1283
01:43:35.159 --> 01:43:42.800
Where no heir? Where hed?
And I'm going a hair and still

1284
01:43:42.840 --> 01:43:46.720
out there, still pointing and gesturing
at the ring. I'm gonna go ahead

1285
01:43:46.800 --> 01:43:55.439
the bad there's the announcement of front
Showman is the winner. Oh he's at

1286
01:43:55.479 --> 01:44:13.319
the mic. Listen your piece of
ship. I'll give it my own kid.

1287
01:44:18.760 --> 01:44:26.800
As I flushed down the toilet,
he said, you were useless,

1288
01:44:26.840 --> 01:44:30.000
like my piss. That's fucking hilarious, and no one knows what he's saying,

1289
01:44:30.039 --> 01:44:32.039
of course, And look at looking
at my fans, look at this,

1290
01:44:32.239 --> 01:44:39.920
look at the back people up,
look at him. Friends. Come

1291
01:44:39.960 --> 01:44:48.680
on, mister an American werewolf and
Dusseldorf. Ah, hey, Franz,

1292
01:44:50.039 --> 01:44:57.239
you're like my piss that I flushed
down the toilet, he said, that's

1293
01:44:57.279 --> 01:45:01.840
amazing. He art and some ship
people are standing up looking in his direction.

1294
01:45:03.520 --> 01:45:15.079
Announcer still talking. What could the
announcer possibly be saying at this point

1295
01:45:15.119 --> 01:45:23.239
he's already announced the winner. He's
so fucking annoying this guy. Whatever it

1296
01:45:23.359 --> 01:45:29.399
was, it drew a round of
applause. I know we can kill it

1297
01:45:29.479 --> 01:45:32.520
there because do me a favor,
Do me a favor, do me a

1298
01:45:32.560 --> 01:45:34.680
favor, and shut the fuck up. Yeah right, So what do you

1299
01:45:34.720 --> 01:45:39.640
think Terry and Japan? Now Germany, it's a riot, man, I

1300
01:45:39.720 --> 01:45:44.720
don't know what to make of that. That's so fucking so different. So,

1301
01:45:44.880 --> 01:45:48.279
yeah, just another flavor of how
how international Terry Funk really got over

1302
01:45:48.359 --> 01:45:51.279
the course of his career in the
business. And so we're going to go

1303
01:45:51.319 --> 01:45:55.479
to Puerto Rico now where he is
really oranged. If you can believe it.

1304
01:45:56.000 --> 01:45:59.279
Uh a territory, sort of custom
made for who Terry Funk became in

1305
01:45:59.319 --> 01:46:01.079
the nineties, but he's doing it
in a lot of cases in the eighties.

1306
01:46:01.399 --> 01:46:05.920
And he's doing it right after the
WWF run, right after he does

1307
01:46:05.960 --> 01:46:10.640
the Saturday Night's main event match with
Terry and Dory against Junkyard and Hogan.

1308
01:46:10.760 --> 01:46:13.760
We talked about in the WWF portion
of the journey, he goes over to

1309
01:46:14.199 --> 01:46:17.479
Puerto Rico, and to set the
stage, we turned to Dory Funk's book,

1310
01:46:17.520 --> 01:46:23.199
who writes about this whole? I
guess you could say chapter in the

1311
01:46:23.239 --> 01:46:27.439
Funkers' Lives Puerto Rico is the is
the name of it. We haven't really

1312
01:46:27.800 --> 01:46:33.239
consulted Dory's tone in a while,
not really, but let's see here we

1313
01:46:33.319 --> 01:46:39.560
go. Okay, no, it
wouldn't be there. Pardon me, folks

1314
01:46:39.600 --> 01:46:45.279
for just a second. As we
get did I even did I even write

1315
01:46:45.279 --> 01:46:50.039
a book? I don't even remember
if I wrote a book. Sometimes I

1316
01:46:50.159 --> 01:46:59.079
do things that aren't necessarily, you
know, in the best interests of other

1317
01:46:59.199 --> 01:47:03.359
people or myself. I feel like
I should cut you off there. Can

1318
01:47:03.439 --> 01:47:06.159
you have any more to say about
that? Donk? I'm really interested by

1319
01:47:06.199 --> 01:47:14.560
what you mean by that? You
know, sometimes I just you know,

1320
01:47:15.600 --> 01:47:21.840
there there are things in this world
that you know, require a certain amount

1321
01:47:23.079 --> 01:47:29.760
of attention, and I I just
don't. I don't have it in me

1322
01:47:30.000 --> 01:47:36.159
to just stick to do that.
I I yeah, yeah, you're making

1323
01:47:36.239 --> 01:47:44.560
sense. And so when it when
it comes to things like this, I

1324
01:47:44.760 --> 01:47:54.199
just end up going home. We're
not talking about we're not talking about bachelore

1325
01:47:54.199 --> 01:47:56.640
party story. What do you mean
when it comes to things like this,

1326
01:47:56.720 --> 01:48:01.920
you just end up going home?
Well, well, I just you know,

1327
01:48:02.079 --> 01:48:06.960
they're they're here. He is entail. It was what we call grooming

1328
01:48:09.239 --> 01:48:15.479
grooming. It was what we call
grooming grooming for the World Heavyweight Championship.

1329
01:48:17.039 --> 01:48:20.279
There are a lot of things you've
got to consider. One is your parents,

1330
01:48:24.159 --> 01:48:29.479
and the other is my and the
other is my parents father. You

1331
01:48:29.560 --> 01:48:34.119
looked at Terry and said, hey, Terry looks like a champion. You

1332
01:48:34.199 --> 01:48:39.039
will leave out what he said about
you know, Terry looks like a champion,

1333
01:48:39.119 --> 01:48:43.880
and uh, Dorry looks like a
jackass. And I said, Dad,

1334
01:48:43.960 --> 01:48:46.520
I agree, Say Dad, I
say a word that you want to

1335
01:48:46.560 --> 01:49:04.600
hear, Dory funk say platypus,
a common word O hunger. I can't

1336
01:49:04.600 --> 01:49:13.560
help you there. How about beer? I'm beer, and you know I

1337
01:49:13.600 --> 01:49:17.159
can recall the match exactly. Yeah, yeah, the part where they had

1338
01:49:17.159 --> 01:49:21.439
a huge crowd baseball stadium. What
do we go so that everybody could see

1339
01:49:23.199 --> 01:49:30.840
that ring side? They put the
ring up on a huge stage because they

1340
01:49:30.880 --> 01:49:35.479
had so many ringside, they didn't
tell us the ring was sitting on a

1341
01:49:35.560 --> 01:49:39.680
stage. So to get in the
ring, it was to jump up.

1342
01:49:40.680 --> 01:49:45.680
You were in the ring back side? Oh, we just climbed up on

1343
01:49:45.760 --> 01:49:47.920
a platform over the front. Oh
yeah, I remember that into the ring

1344
01:49:48.079 --> 01:49:54.439
like normal, but on the back
side where there were no all The ring

1345
01:49:54.600 --> 01:49:59.079
was on the edge of the platform. We didn't know, but it was

1346
01:49:59.159 --> 01:50:02.560
fifteen feet to the ground off the
back edge. So the road Warriors were

1347
01:50:02.600 --> 01:50:08.960
in the ring. No, we
went to the ring first. Terry and

1348
01:50:09.000 --> 01:50:12.680
I were in the ring. You
know what, I don't think you know

1349
01:50:12.720 --> 01:50:15.640
what I remember. I don't think
I even was in there. So they

1350
01:50:15.680 --> 01:50:21.560
had beer in addressing room, it
is, that's bad. So Terry was

1351
01:50:21.560 --> 01:50:26.880
sitting here drinking a few beers,
and he decided he was going to piss

1352
01:50:26.920 --> 01:50:30.720
off all the wrestling fans and get
his heat first. So let's pick up

1353
01:50:30.760 --> 01:50:35.720
the book from there beer in the
dressing Roomy Funk's book. After going through

1354
01:50:35.760 --> 01:50:39.359
a six pack, Terry reached and
was wrestling bag and pulled out a sheet

1355
01:50:39.399 --> 01:50:44.039
rock knife like you did start.
I had no idea what to expect as

1356
01:50:44.079 --> 01:50:45.560
he turned it in his hand first, then flipped it in the air and

1357
01:50:45.640 --> 01:50:48.359
caught it. In an instant,
he was out of the dugout and racing

1358
01:50:48.479 --> 01:50:54.039
for the thirty foot tall rubber balloon
made in the image of a huge Miller

1359
01:50:54.199 --> 01:50:57.720
like can of beer. That wasn't
the only time he went he went looking

1360
01:50:57.800 --> 01:51:01.399
for a rubber A huge five thousand
dollars dollar light balloon was anchored at third

1361
01:51:01.479 --> 01:51:04.920
base position. This, of course, I gotta remember. I gotta remember

1362
01:51:04.960 --> 01:51:08.439
how to do Dorry's voice. This
is how you do it. Yes,

1363
01:51:09.239 --> 01:51:14.039
I figured you could use her refresher
hear him. That's really good. Actually,

1364
01:51:14.640 --> 01:51:16.640
you gotta remember. The biggest mystery
about the Funks is Terry's got the

1365
01:51:16.640 --> 01:51:21.960
biggest West Texas twang, and he's
knocked back in as Dorry grew up just

1366
01:51:23.039 --> 01:51:25.239
as much in Texas as he did, and he sounds like he's still from

1367
01:51:25.319 --> 01:51:29.039
him in Indiana. But I found
like a fucking answer when you hear me

1368
01:51:29.119 --> 01:51:33.199
speak, you got it so well. Yes, they have this huge Miller

1369
01:51:33.319 --> 01:51:38.199
Light balloon as a sponsorship feature on
the in the baseball stadium here in Puerto

1370
01:51:38.239 --> 01:51:42.479
Rico as the funks are coming out
to wrestle and at Hirom Bithhorne Baseball Stadium.

1371
01:51:42.479 --> 01:51:46.199
According to Dorry's book, in San
Juan and Terry caught everybody by surprise.

1372
01:51:46.279 --> 01:51:49.560
The wrestler, security guards, twenty
thousand Puerto Rican wrestling fans, Marty,

1373
01:51:49.680 --> 01:51:53.920
myself, and especially the sponsors of
the wrestling matches, Miller Light.

1374
01:51:54.159 --> 01:51:58.119
We were all aghast as Terry attacked
the big beer can, running around it,

1375
01:51:58.560 --> 01:52:00.439
stabbing at the base with the sheet
rock dyke. I mean, we've

1376
01:52:00.479 --> 01:52:03.800
all been there. We've all been
there with Terry. He always and I

1377
01:52:03.880 --> 01:52:06.399
don't even you know, here's the
thing about that, I don't remember.

1378
01:52:08.760 --> 01:52:12.479
I don't know what I did.
You know, I can remember what Terry

1379
01:52:12.520 --> 01:52:14.880
did. I don't remember what I
did. Somehow, even if he did,

1380
01:52:15.159 --> 01:52:16.680
I don't even you would remember.
I don't think I even was there

1381
01:52:17.159 --> 01:52:21.119
in just seconds, but I remember
seeing Terry there. Maybe I just heard

1382
01:52:21.119 --> 01:52:25.520
about this. Maybe I wasn't even
there. I don't know if I was

1383
01:52:25.560 --> 01:52:29.680
there or not it I remember,
but I do remember seeing Terry. I

1384
01:52:29.720 --> 01:52:33.399
remembered him doing what he did.
I remember seeing it happen, but I

1385
01:52:33.439 --> 01:52:36.199
don't remember actually being in Puerto Rico. We can't work with this, guys.

1386
01:52:36.279 --> 01:52:40.600
Can we just wrap this shoot up? In just seconds, the Miller

1387
01:52:40.680 --> 01:52:44.119
Lte balloon collapse into a heap of
useless rubber near the third base bag.

1388
01:52:44.840 --> 01:52:46.359
Sen Juan, Puerto Rico is a
great place to work. Marty and I

1389
01:52:46.439 --> 01:52:49.439
have traveled there many times together.
We would stay at the Holiday Inn on

1390
01:52:49.520 --> 01:52:54.039
the Condado, most popular resort beach
in San Juan. Daytime was spent on

1391
01:52:54.079 --> 01:52:57.880
the beach and in the afternoon we
would walk to the Latasca restaurant, just

1392
01:52:57.960 --> 01:53:00.399
besides the Caribe Hilton Hotel and have
them most delicious seafood in the world.

1393
01:53:00.720 --> 01:53:05.920
Whole baked red snapper was my favorite. Oh yeah, Shopping in the Condado

1394
01:53:06.159 --> 01:53:10.800
was the best in the Caribbean,
with gorgeous jewelry and imported goods from around

1395
01:53:10.840 --> 01:53:13.319
the world. For the better part
of ten years, Sen Juan was one

1396
01:53:13.359 --> 01:53:15.920
of my favorite places to work.
Then, of course, Brody got stabbed

1397
01:53:15.920 --> 01:53:18.039
and that was the Endternet Tonight was
the biggest show of the Year December twenty

1398
01:53:18.039 --> 01:53:21.119
first, eighty five. The main
event was Carlos Colone against Abdul the Pusher,

1399
01:53:21.159 --> 01:53:25.840
along with Terry and myself against the
Road Warriors. Ten matches and all

1400
01:53:25.880 --> 01:53:29.800
were on the card, including such
stars as Bruiser, Brody Invader interesting to

1401
01:53:29.880 --> 01:53:33.560
put those two together, Miguel Perez, Herculesiala, Chris and Mark young Blood,

1402
01:53:33.640 --> 01:53:38.479
Victor Jevika, and Bobby Jackers.
Capital Sports Promotion had even secured the

1403
01:53:38.520 --> 01:53:41.960
sponsorship of Miller Lite for the big
show. As a courtesy to the wrestlers,

1404
01:53:42.039 --> 01:53:45.159
Miller Lte had furnished both dressing rooms
with unlimited beer. As we arrived

1405
01:53:45.199 --> 01:53:47.840
at the stadium, I noticed Terry
sipping on a Miller Light and knew it

1406
01:53:47.840 --> 01:53:50.960
would be a long night as we
were on next to last of ten matches.

1407
01:53:51.279 --> 01:53:54.840
In order to add additional ringside seats
with a good view, and this

1408
01:53:55.000 --> 01:53:57.920
is what Dorry was talking about in
those shoot interview clips we just played.

1409
01:53:58.199 --> 01:54:00.079
The ring was set up atop of
five foot platter. There were steps up

1410
01:54:00.159 --> 01:54:03.800
to the platform and then you stepped
into the ring. This platform protruded to

1411
01:54:03.880 --> 01:54:08.560
the front and side of the ring. Another beer for Terry promoters like Heat

1412
01:54:08.640 --> 01:54:11.239
They want the fans to be able
to choose who to cheer for and who

1413
01:54:11.279 --> 01:54:14.039
to boo and hiss at. At
times, my brother can take things a

1414
01:54:14.079 --> 01:54:16.560
little far with the heat. Another
beer for Terry. Fans in Puerto Rico

1415
01:54:16.600 --> 01:54:19.479
are sometimes prone to throw things at
the wrestlers. Well, this night,

1416
01:54:19.600 --> 01:54:27.079
Terry would dart out of the dugout
armed with hamburgers, yeah, empty beer

1417
01:54:27.159 --> 01:54:30.840
cans and trash to throw at the
fans. Then he picked up some of

1418
01:54:30.920 --> 01:54:32.640
the pea gravel in front of the
dugout and threw that at the fans.

1419
01:54:33.880 --> 01:54:41.359
Sometimes I don't even know. From
that time on, any wrestler his a

1420
01:54:41.439 --> 01:54:47.359
shirt. From that time on,
any wrestler go into the bring, which

1421
01:54:47.399 --> 01:54:53.239
showered with crap thrown from the bleachers. As if that wasn't enough, As

1422
01:54:53.359 --> 01:54:57.039
Terry finished another beer, he goosed
one of the female security guards. Well,

1423
01:54:57.119 --> 01:54:58.760
Jesus, donk, you didn't have
to put that in the book.

1424
01:54:59.680 --> 01:55:02.279
In the as as she came a
little too close, but she turned down

1425
01:55:02.319 --> 01:55:05.640
to a goose is pisted to mean
there. Yeah, he you know,

1426
01:55:05.840 --> 01:55:10.359
he he used to goose people in
the ass. It was quite a uh,

1427
01:55:11.279 --> 01:55:14.880
you know, things happened like that
sometimes, and people got upset,

1428
01:55:14.920 --> 01:55:17.479
but I just said, hey,
that's Terry. You know what am I

1429
01:55:17.520 --> 01:55:20.960
supposed to do about it? When
she turned to scold him, he did

1430
01:55:21.000 --> 01:55:24.439
the old screw the headlight strick with
his hands to the three inches in front

1431
01:55:24.439 --> 01:55:28.720
of her well developed chest. Then
he cursed the other security personnel. Now,

1432
01:55:29.079 --> 01:55:31.560
not only did we have twenty thousand
Puerto Rican wrestling fans pissed off at

1433
01:55:31.640 --> 01:55:33.760
us, but as we were ready
to go into the ring, the security

1434
01:55:33.800 --> 01:55:38.039
walked out and he had another beer. Marty asked, is there anything you

1435
01:55:38.079 --> 01:55:40.760
can do to control him? I
said, I haven't been able to control

1436
01:55:40.840 --> 01:55:43.239
him since he was four years old
looking for Santo with a pipe in his

1437
01:55:43.319 --> 01:55:46.319
hand so he could beat Santa up
and take all his toys. All right,

1438
01:55:46.439 --> 01:55:49.640
picture Arry, You know sometimes I
don't even know what I'm saying.

1439
01:55:50.000 --> 01:55:53.439
There was a pipe, Okay.
There was nothing I could do to cool

1440
01:55:53.479 --> 01:55:56.720
my brother off. He was a
raving terror. I knew it was going

1441
01:55:56.800 --> 01:56:00.920
to be tough getting from the dugout
to the ring for our match against the

1442
01:56:00.960 --> 01:56:03.760
Road Warriors. As Terry got another
beer, okay, first main event,

1443
01:56:03.840 --> 01:56:06.560
let's go, I could hear the
call to make our way down the hallway,

1444
01:56:06.600 --> 01:56:10.279
through the dugout and into the ring
for the match. The first trick

1445
01:56:10.359 --> 01:56:13.000
don't let the fans know exactly when
you were going to come out of the

1446
01:56:13.039 --> 01:56:15.720
dugout. Try to fake them out
and quickly get twenty feet out into the

1447
01:56:15.760 --> 01:56:17.840
field so you have a chance to
dodge all the crap they are going to

1448
01:56:17.920 --> 01:56:21.399
throw at you. On this night, it was practically tough getting particularly tough

1449
01:56:21.479 --> 01:56:25.640
rather getting to the ring. No
security, but some of the wrestlers were

1450
01:56:25.680 --> 01:56:28.199
there to help. Terry and I
hit the ring first to the booze and

1451
01:56:28.279 --> 01:56:30.520
jeers of the partisan crowd. Next
came the music and the Road Warriors,

1452
01:56:30.560 --> 01:56:33.600
to the roar of approval from twenty
thousand people who wanted to see us torn

1453
01:56:33.640 --> 01:56:36.680
to bits and pieces. As the
Road Warriors stormed into the ring with their

1454
01:56:36.720 --> 01:56:40.600
spiked shoulder pads, Terry scooted out
of the ring on the far side.

1455
01:56:40.840 --> 01:56:44.560
He had failed to check out the
ring and didn't realize there was no platform

1456
01:56:44.600 --> 01:56:47.039
in the backside and it was ten
feet to the ground. Terry climbed up

1457
01:56:47.039 --> 01:56:49.960
to the apron of the ring and
said, Junior, I hurt my back.

1458
01:56:50.359 --> 01:56:54.840
You're gonna have to work this whole
match. And what did you say,

1459
01:56:54.920 --> 01:57:00.720
dunk I, Terry, I don't
know what's the match? Are we?

1460
01:57:02.199 --> 01:57:06.119
Well? What are you okay?
I mean, I don't know what

1461
01:57:06.199 --> 01:57:15.399
we're supposed to do? Terry?
What do you? What do I do?

1462
01:57:17.000 --> 01:57:25.880
Terry? Terry a UFO Terry Stadium, Terry, Terry. I'm going

1463
01:57:25.960 --> 01:57:34.279
home, Take me, family,
take me now. I'm going home,

1464
01:57:34.439 --> 01:57:45.760
Terry. I'm going to my home
planet. Dory Town, Oh ship,

1465
01:57:47.560 --> 01:57:53.319
they really missed. They really missed
that one for an Amarilla theme park,

1466
01:57:53.359 --> 01:58:01.199
didn't they. Dory Town, come
on through, gets as brisket. Fucking

1467
01:58:01.600 --> 01:58:11.680
brand your own cattle or brand your
brother. I'm not opposed to having a

1468
01:58:11.760 --> 01:58:15.680
brand for families. You know you
can. You can take it, heat

1469
01:58:15.720 --> 01:58:19.920
it up and then stab your family
member in the axe and say you been

1470
01:58:20.119 --> 01:58:26.560
branded. And roller coaster is the
lasso. And come for some of our

1471
01:58:27.000 --> 01:58:34.279
delicious chicken wings. Try our barbecue
and our boys ranch. Try you know,

1472
01:58:34.560 --> 01:58:39.640
try the noodle salad. Oh shit, that's that onid coming. That

1473
01:58:39.840 --> 01:58:42.840
is no pun to it at all. It's just just really good. It's

1474
01:58:42.840 --> 01:58:45.760
actually pretty good. It's a very
you know it's it's a very good noodle

1475
01:58:45.840 --> 01:58:53.960
salad. It's gonna come to Dory
Town. That's the local commercial roller coaster,

1476
01:58:54.439 --> 01:58:59.520
looking like I'm like an Alzheimer's patient. Come to Dory Town. Come

1477
01:58:59.600 --> 01:59:04.079
to door Town where the noodle salad
is excellent. So he went out on

1478
01:59:04.199 --> 01:59:14.000
the he had a center track.
Terry what but back in front of the

1479
01:59:14.079 --> 01:59:16.800
fans. Actually, when Terry Funk
walked out there, the fans had throw

1480
01:59:16.840 --> 01:59:20.039
a few things at him. So
he'd pick up the centers off the track

1481
01:59:20.079 --> 01:59:24.520
and throw him back at the fans. He calls his brother Terry Funk.

1482
01:59:24.560 --> 01:59:27.800
By the way, Well, you
know, Terry Funk would come out and

1483
01:59:29.680 --> 01:59:32.520
you know, he would do a
lot of things his own Way'd say that

1484
01:59:33.119 --> 01:59:39.479
I wasn't very familiar with all of
it, but I uh, I thought,

1485
01:59:39.800 --> 01:59:43.680
you know, this is a guy
I could get behind and then go

1486
01:59:43.880 --> 01:59:46.920
for the schoolboy roll up. I
didn't, you know, I remember the

1487
01:59:47.000 --> 01:59:53.479
first time I met Terry Funk.
It was when he was born and he

1488
01:59:53.760 --> 02:00:10.800
was You could you could put Dory
in a flotation device, fix it to

1489
02:00:10.880 --> 02:00:14.680
a jet ski gimmick the jet ski
so you didn't have a driver on it,

1490
02:00:14.760 --> 02:00:18.800
but it just kept going and he
would go about four hundred miles off

1491
02:00:18.840 --> 02:00:27.800
the coast before he realized something was
amiss. Oh, oh too late,

1492
02:00:27.880 --> 02:00:32.720
Dorri. You're Tom Hanks and castaway. Now I'm to dorry Town. I

1493
02:00:32.880 --> 02:00:39.880
can't I can't see that. Oh
oh, I don't see the land anymore.

1494
02:00:41.479 --> 02:00:45.199
Uh. Security was there that told
me don't do it. He cuts

1495
02:00:45.239 --> 02:00:50.079
the security out. Uh, I
guess we're going to Europe. Okay,

1496
02:00:51.680 --> 02:00:56.960
better take a nap. Got that
jet lag and that time change going on.

1497
02:01:00.039 --> 02:01:06.159
Falls asleep in the flotation device in
his letters and Jack, I guess

1498
02:01:06.199 --> 02:01:11.560
I'm better go to sleep. Got
that tit lag going on immediately, he's

1499
02:01:11.560 --> 02:01:24.119
asleep like that sleep at that huh
oh, I forgot my passport. Terry

1500
02:01:24.119 --> 02:01:26.119
climbed up to the apron of the
ring and said, Junior, I hurt

1501
02:01:26.199 --> 02:01:28.079
my back. I couldn't have to
work this whole match. Well, here

1502
02:01:28.159 --> 02:01:30.439
I am with two fired up road
Warriors, twenty thousand angry Porto Ricans,

1503
02:01:30.439 --> 02:01:33.439
a pissed off sponsor, a pissed
off promoter, no security, at a

1504
02:01:33.479 --> 02:01:36.920
worthless pile of rubber. Over at
third base, the bell rang and I

1505
02:01:36.960 --> 02:01:40.920
wrestled Honk an animal by myself for
the next thirty minutes. Now we're gonna

1506
02:01:40.920 --> 02:01:45.600
watch this match, and this is
not at all what happened. So two

1507
02:01:45.680 --> 02:01:47.560
days later, Marty and I were
sipping a morning cup of coffee at our

1508
02:01:47.600 --> 02:01:51.039
home then located in Charlotte, North
Carolina, the telephone rang. Marty answered.

1509
02:01:51.079 --> 02:01:54.640
It was Terry's wife, VICKI.
She said, poor Terry hurt us

1510
02:01:54.680 --> 02:01:57.399
back in Puerto Rico. He said
he had to do all the wrestling for

1511
02:01:57.560 --> 02:02:01.640
Dory Dorris. I tell you story
is such a bit. She is so

1512
02:02:01.920 --> 02:02:06.079
tired for all the work. He's
such an asshole. Who did all the

1513
02:02:06.159 --> 02:02:11.520
work? Boss? If you had
to take your guests, Terry did all

1514
02:02:11.600 --> 02:02:15.000
the work. Well, we're gonna
go on a little tour of Puerto Rico

1515
02:02:15.079 --> 02:02:19.079
with the Funker. Let's start a
disk fourteen, Disc fourteen. All right,

1516
02:02:19.199 --> 02:02:25.680
here we go, disc fourteen.
You know, Terry goes ahead a

1517
02:02:25.760 --> 02:02:30.199
lot. If you notice that,
if that was one thing we have money,

1518
02:02:30.199 --> 02:02:33.600
he does go ahead. And uh, you know, I do everything

1519
02:02:33.680 --> 02:02:38.159
I can to stay ahead or at
least stay right with him, but it

1520
02:02:38.199 --> 02:02:43.359
doesn't always happen. And Portant perhaps
to notice, you know, sometimes I

1521
02:02:43.439 --> 02:02:45.640
find myself just walking around in circles
and I don't even know where I am,

1522
02:02:47.800 --> 02:02:56.119
kind of like the lapsed funk.
What is the time code? Thirty

1523
02:02:56.399 --> 02:03:02.760
three oh six, And it might
be worth noting here that Gorilla Monsoon was,

1524
02:03:02.840 --> 02:03:08.199
of course in on the office in
WWC Puerto Rico. You know,

1525
02:03:08.279 --> 02:03:13.680
we've seen matches on coliseum home videos
from the earliest releases that were from Puerto

1526
02:03:13.760 --> 02:03:19.119
Rico because of that connection. And
so while Terry Funk did leave the WWF

1527
02:03:19.319 --> 02:03:23.359
right around this time period in nineteen
eighty five, I guess you could say

1528
02:03:23.399 --> 02:03:26.920
he didn't go too far because he
was still working for let's say, an

1529
02:03:26.960 --> 02:03:32.319
international affiliate of the WWF in the
World Wrestling Council, and he cuts some

1530
02:03:32.399 --> 02:03:39.359
promos to introduce the people to Terry
Funk and what he's all about. This

1531
02:03:39.479 --> 02:03:42.359
one we're going to watch here is
from September of nineteen eighty six, and

1532
02:03:42.439 --> 02:03:45.720
it's actually shot if I'm reading the
surroundings correctly, in his home, in

1533
02:03:45.800 --> 02:03:49.760
his office, because I just have
seen several times kind of how he decorates

1534
02:03:49.800 --> 02:03:53.560
the walls of his office, and
it's pretty clear this is shot in Amarilla

1535
02:03:53.800 --> 02:03:58.640
at the Double Cross, and I
think it's with a future WWF color commentator

1536
02:03:58.680 --> 02:04:02.880
Spanish language color common tator hugos of
individual Carlos Cabrera. I mean Carlos Cabrera.

1537
02:04:03.600 --> 02:04:06.640
So let's uh, let's get acquainted
as Puerto Rico did with the Funk

1538
02:04:06.720 --> 02:04:10.920
or Boss. What do you say? I love it to one place,

1539
02:04:14.960 --> 02:04:21.960
cruzes Ya Mario has. They're in
the mansion, in his house, an

1540
02:04:28.479 --> 02:04:32.279
helosenta. Okay. The moment of
truth just coming Friday in Pansa, September

1541
02:04:32.359 --> 02:04:36.920
nineteenth. The tournament starts your opponent, Barry Windom, who looks very confident

1542
02:04:38.039 --> 02:04:43.479
in that in that particular way he
referred to you about his vist interview situation,

1543
02:04:44.479 --> 02:04:47.359
most illustrious career, whatever they pace
Universe trophy to me, whenever I

1544
02:04:47.439 --> 02:04:54.119
won the n w A World Championship
is the old textures miner I stumped to

1545
02:04:54.239 --> 02:04:59.880
get in my teeth, cowboy boots
on I stamped Isabeth. It means nothing.

1546
02:05:01.640 --> 02:05:06.760
You realize all of these means nothing
to me. You know what means

1547
02:05:06.960 --> 02:05:12.439
something to mean Frankie the thumper rope, this means something. Yes, the

1548
02:05:12.600 --> 02:05:19.399
Double Cross brand and I am gonna
brand my way through the Universal Tournament.

1549
02:05:20.039 --> 02:05:26.159
I like that. Tell the people
of Puerto Rico it's a Terry funk ECE

1550
02:05:26.680 --> 02:05:39.199
Television principle com with you and Canada
National Wresting Alliance, Squats, Olympiada Mano,

1551
02:05:39.439 --> 02:05:46.239
No, this was but nothing.
Tomental Era looks Ifakara races double La

1552
02:05:46.319 --> 02:05:51.600
Cruz, La Cruz double Cross,
I get it, do La Cruz and

1553
02:05:53.279 --> 02:05:59.479
Verry window after Yes, damn right, you are random, the very windom

1554
02:05:59.560 --> 02:06:06.520
active Nampos Cross. I am gonna
brand Bruiser Brody. I am going to

1555
02:06:06.720 --> 02:06:17.760
brand Abdula the butcher her and I
am gonna brand Carlos Cologne. And I

1556
02:06:18.239 --> 02:06:26.560
am going to brand the world a
professional wrestling I don't know about that town.

1557
02:06:26.800 --> 02:06:45.399
He still less. I become the
Universal Champion cow Marc. I am

1558
02:06:45.600 --> 02:06:51.199
going to embarrass the wrestling world by
branding all of the people that are the

1559
02:06:51.399 --> 02:06:57.039
great because they will be in PONSI
every one of them will be. But

1560
02:06:57.199 --> 02:07:00.760
at the end of three days,
I will wear the belt around my waist.

1561
02:07:05.279 --> 02:07:17.640
Hell forque commis hell bas in toron
in toura Am. Wow, who's

1562
02:07:17.680 --> 02:07:23.840
the greater? Hello? Hello,
who's the best in the world? Hello?

1563
02:07:24.239 --> 02:07:35.760
And I think Marmundo Terry funk.
That was the promo. Okay from

1564
02:07:35.840 --> 02:07:40.319
September of nineteen eighty six. This
is a tournament for the World wrestn Council

1565
02:07:40.359 --> 02:07:44.760
World championship that Funk entered into taking
out Barry Windam. In Puerto Rico,

1566
02:07:44.840 --> 02:07:47.520
there was kind of an alliance as
well between the Puerto Rican office and Crockett

1567
02:07:47.520 --> 02:07:51.399
Promotions, which is kind of weird, but guys would get working out there,

1568
02:07:53.119 --> 02:07:57.640
including Wyndham. And this is vintage
window right here. I think this

1569
02:07:57.760 --> 02:08:05.680
is actually Windom in between the WWF
run, the US Express run h to

1570
02:08:05.800 --> 02:08:11.920
Crockett. Oh, big chop on
the Funker on the floor. Ever seen

1571
02:08:11.960 --> 02:08:16.680
Puerto Rican wrestling before? Boss,
I've never seen Puerto Rican wrestling big as

1572
02:08:16.800 --> 02:08:20.600
NWA logos except for the U except
for the uh, you know the stuff

1573
02:08:20.680 --> 02:08:24.000
that we saw. Always nice to
see basketball hoops in the background that a

1574
02:08:24.000 --> 02:08:28.960
wrestling built. Of course, big
pile driver from Barry Wyndham spikes the Funker

1575
02:08:30.159 --> 02:08:33.840
cover one two. We're going to
take you through this tournament as Terry Funk

1576
02:08:33.880 --> 02:08:37.239
made it all the way to the
finals, did he really feels like the

1577
02:08:37.319 --> 02:08:41.199
quarterfinals taking place in a smaller venue
but still packed. In the eighties in

1578
02:08:41.239 --> 02:08:43.640
Puerto Rico, man, there was
before Bruiser Brody was murdered in nineteen eighty

1579
02:08:43.680 --> 02:08:50.199
eight, it was a red hot
place to go to. Wrestle incredibly passionate

1580
02:08:50.319 --> 02:08:58.119
fans and have so much fun out
there. Wow. Oh, pile drives

1581
02:08:58.159 --> 02:09:01.479
funk on the floor. Wrestlers would
being their wives, you know, would

1582
02:09:01.479 --> 02:09:05.479
make a they'd make a resort vacation
out of it. You had, you

1583
02:09:05.520 --> 02:09:07.079
know, you got picked up in
the van by the promotion every day.

1584
02:09:09.039 --> 02:09:13.079
It wasn't it wasn't a drag like
the territories were in terms of travel logistics.

1585
02:09:16.880 --> 02:09:22.800
Terry, I don't even know where
I am standing on his head with

1586
02:09:22.920 --> 02:09:28.319
his ass in the air. It's
prime Berry Wyndam. He's lean, The

1587
02:09:28.399 --> 02:09:31.880
blonde locks are flowing, the right
hands are landing. Yeah, we still

1588
02:09:31.880 --> 02:09:35.520
got that fucking name though, So
I forget Terry sold. Oh, Terry

1589
02:09:35.560 --> 02:09:41.079
and Dorry sold Amberillo to Barry's father
and Dick Murdoch. Oh yeah, pile

1590
02:09:41.159 --> 02:09:45.520
driver on the floor with impact,
and uh, there's only so many palle

1591
02:09:45.640 --> 02:09:50.199
drivers on the floor. You would
think the Funker can take here. Super

1592
02:09:50.279 --> 02:09:54.039
Astres de Lucha Libre was the name
of the TV show Superstars of Wrestling,

1593
02:09:54.760 --> 02:10:09.439
Super Singing. Last check, it's
still called that. Really stumbling around Barry

1594
02:10:09.520 --> 02:10:15.399
lining up some heavy artillery here right
hand almost turns the funker all the way

1595
02:10:15.439 --> 02:10:20.359
around, and he's doing the full
weak needs cell knock need cell the right

1596
02:10:20.439 --> 02:10:22.840
hand. Funk twists in the air
lands on the canvas. Let's have he

1597
02:10:22.920 --> 02:10:31.760
sold for Jerry Lawler two in Memphis
Lade Prescotts two. Back up now,

1598
02:10:31.840 --> 02:10:35.760
the Funker snatches the side headlock and
Berry Windham lifts and dumps. The Funker

1599
02:10:35.800 --> 02:10:41.359
in the center of the ring high
back suplex, but Wyndham collapsing in exhaustion

1600
02:10:41.479 --> 02:10:45.760
as well. One arm drave for
referee down account. Doesn't take much to

1601
02:10:45.840 --> 02:10:48.600
kick out of that one. Almost
an inadvertent cover there. But from Wyndom

1602
02:10:48.640 --> 02:10:54.600
to the snap mare, all action
was Burry Wyndham back then man hi elbow

1603
02:10:54.680 --> 02:10:58.560
nobody home. I don't know about
that. What are the best in the

1604
02:10:58.600 --> 02:11:05.520
business? Mm hmm, I don't
know about that funker with the j y

1605
02:11:05.560 --> 02:11:11.840
D head button all fours so funny, the legs are spread wide. The

1606
02:11:11.920 --> 02:11:24.159
funker selling I got a ball,
sat going say that again? Backup.

1607
02:11:24.199 --> 02:11:28.399
Funk closes the distance looking for the
neck breaker on wind and Windham clutches the

1608
02:11:28.439 --> 02:11:33.840
top rope and Funk hits the canvas
nice counter by window drops the knee.

1609
02:11:35.800 --> 02:11:46.520
I want a hey head if as
audio, there's always like the anniversary show.

1610
02:11:46.600 --> 02:11:48.680
That's been a big show. Of
course, perto rica. That makes

1611
02:11:48.720 --> 02:11:52.680
sense, Sleig pickup Funk thinking spinning
toe hold your favorite inside Cradle countered by

1612
02:11:52.760 --> 02:11:58.239
Wyndham. One two Funk kicks out. I love it. I mean I

1613
02:11:58.319 --> 02:12:03.720
wish there were people shooting hoops,
people shooting just not hoops. Yeah,

1614
02:12:03.960 --> 02:12:07.159
harshop high beautiful sunset flip from Windom
pulls down Funk two and he kicks out.

1615
02:12:09.000 --> 02:12:11.199
This is Terry getting down and dirty
here. This is yeah, I

1616
02:12:11.399 --> 02:12:22.199
like it, work rate Terry.
This is definitely roadhouse Terry. Oh yeah,

1617
02:12:22.319 --> 02:12:26.920
for sure. He's well in his
way. He looks that's his look

1618
02:12:26.000 --> 02:12:31.359
right there. Yeah, this is
eighty six. So yeah, you gotta

1619
02:12:31.399 --> 02:12:37.039
think yep, yep, oh,
Barry Wyndham ramming Terry Funk on the top

1620
02:12:37.079 --> 02:12:41.399
bucklet curiously red white and blue ropes
here in Puerto Rico. Well, no,

1621
02:12:41.520 --> 02:12:52.720
not curiously, that's their flag colors. I shouldn't say that. And

1622
02:12:52.840 --> 02:12:58.319
again, you recognize Carlos Cabrera's voice, no doubt on you can't, fucking

1623
02:12:58.800 --> 02:13:03.159
I mean that's you can tell his
voice from all over the place. Look

1624
02:13:03.159 --> 02:13:07.640
at Funk selling up and down he's
just bending, he's leaning like a heroin

1625
02:13:07.680 --> 02:13:11.840
addict. He's oh ah, and
then he just tumbles his head first out

1626
02:13:11.880 --> 02:13:30.119
of the ring. Oh Funk comes
up somehow with the wooden chair around his

1627
02:13:30.279 --> 02:13:33.359
neck. Of course. He then
come on, oh are you surprised,

1628
02:13:33.199 --> 02:13:37.319
and he finds oh Jesus Christ climbs
up in the apron sticks his head between

1629
02:13:37.319 --> 02:13:39.359
the top and the middle of rope
with a chair wrapped around his neck.

1630
02:13:39.399 --> 02:13:41.359
But the chair on the far side, the seat of it is caught on

1631
02:13:41.399 --> 02:13:45.880
the rope, so he's like he
can't move forward. He's like, it's

1632
02:13:45.920 --> 02:13:50.319
like a dog with his head stuck
in the doggy door. Only the Funker

1633
02:13:50.600 --> 02:13:58.319
would come up on a chair necklace. The best luca in the world,

1634
02:14:01.720 --> 02:14:05.279
Terry Funk, Terry Funk, the
best loocher in the world. Yeah,

1635
02:14:05.479 --> 02:14:07.680
you could say that again. To
the corner clothesline. Oh Funk stacks him

1636
02:14:07.760 --> 02:14:16.439
up, feed on the ropes.
Rough caught him Rough, Cott Funk and

1637
02:14:16.520 --> 02:14:20.439
Wyndham staying in the game, coming
up, popping Funk in the face.

1638
02:14:20.520 --> 02:14:33.840
Irish whip Now Terry hits the ropes
Windom with the flying Foe arm and another

1639
02:14:33.880 --> 02:14:39.520
whip Funker hits window with a flying
lariat chops down the funker cover by window

1640
02:14:39.560 --> 02:14:45.119
one two. Now that foot's on
the bottom. Ref slap three, but

1641
02:14:45.199 --> 02:14:50.279
that's not nope. Ref realizes wow, and then the funk from Funker from

1642
02:14:50.279 --> 02:14:56.000
behind O'Connor roll blind siding window one
two three, headful of tides. Terry

1643
02:14:56.039 --> 02:14:58.840
Funk pulls the rug out from under
Berry Windom in the World Title Tournament here

1644
02:14:58.880 --> 02:15:05.880
in the WWC. That's what happens
when the fun doesn't cast has just started

1645
02:15:05.920 --> 02:15:15.479
here does Berry had the branding iron
in his hand? Uh oh, Barns,

1646
02:15:16.239 --> 02:15:18.079
Barns and and Terry now in the
baseball stadium about to do a promo

1647
02:15:18.199 --> 02:15:22.399
as we advance in the tournament.
Carlos Cabrera holding the microphone, the Funker

1648
02:15:22.439 --> 02:15:26.680
holding the branding iron. That fucking
hair that dude hours You're going for the

1649
02:15:26.720 --> 02:15:31.319
pineoffs against carl Thorn for a universal
title. This is fucking yelling. Do

1650
02:15:31.479 --> 02:15:39.319
you realize the group of people that
I had no wait hey for this opportunity,

1651
02:15:39.920 --> 02:15:48.680
this once in a lifetime champs against
Carlito Cologne. But I have been

1652
02:15:48.800 --> 02:15:54.680
Carlito this competition. I have beaten
Rick Martelle Hi, I've beaten Burry Window

1653
02:15:56.119 --> 02:16:01.520
he now, who, my god, I have got Carlo Cologne. I

1654
02:16:01.760 --> 02:16:07.840
said it before. Cut this island
here, there's nothing more than a giant

1655
02:16:07.239 --> 02:16:13.359
a big farm. That's right,
wow farm. Nothing but pigs live here.

1656
02:16:15.000 --> 02:16:20.479
So how could you possibly have a
world's class wrestler, ben Carlos Cologne.

1657
02:16:20.960 --> 02:16:24.079
I'm gonna go in there, show
him up and pay him out,

1658
02:16:24.560 --> 02:16:31.279
because why, I'm a Tuxan one
meter than a rattle state cover than see

1659
02:16:31.399 --> 02:16:37.280
leather, more dangerous and a hollowde
corpin, middle age than crazy for the

1660
02:16:37.920 --> 02:16:43.760
middle aid than crazy and the next? What ride done? Next Universal Champion?

1661
02:16:45.319 --> 02:16:50.559
I will never return to Puerto Rico
ever again? How do you like

1662
02:16:50.680 --> 02:16:56.840
that? Never? When I ever
return to Puerto Rico? Because you people

1663
02:16:58.280 --> 02:17:03.360
have absolutely and I gut your buddy. You're yellow, You're yellow slapping Carlos

1664
02:17:03.799 --> 02:17:13.840
Jesus Parah slapping them in the head. Oh my god, when I mean

1665
02:17:16.959 --> 02:17:30.399
you Now, he takes the thing
off the slie wearers, and I want

1666
02:17:30.440 --> 02:17:33.719
a hell. I want a hell's
following him around, stalking against such a

1667
02:17:33.799 --> 02:17:39.399
fucking maniac. I want to talk
their language, yes, if I know

1668
02:17:39.520 --> 02:17:46.600
a foreign language. If I want
to talk to your Porto Ricans like wow,

1669
02:17:46.079 --> 02:17:52.159
I'm sure you yellow pigs, I
understand that. Wow. Then I'm

1670
02:17:52.200 --> 02:18:01.440
when I show you what I slap, what puke fights that I need you.

1671
02:18:03.639 --> 02:18:13.639
Wow. That old lady looking at
Terry, she is not a dressed

1672
02:18:13.840 --> 02:18:26.239
She is not happy with that.
You can't and Brenda, they called him

1673
02:18:26.280 --> 02:18:33.280
Carlito. Carlito's dad was Carlino too, so it's Capital Sports. Look at

1674
02:18:33.319 --> 02:18:35.680
that. That's that's definitely and Gorilla's
outfit. So we're going a little out

1675
02:18:35.680 --> 02:18:43.360
of order and that The promo referenced
that Terry had defeated Rick Martel in the

1676
02:18:43.399 --> 02:18:46.760
tournament. Yeah, he was about
to face Carlos coloone in the final.

1677
02:18:46.799 --> 02:18:48.879
But here's the match. So it's
a little bit out of order, Rick

1678
02:18:48.959 --> 02:18:52.040
Martel and Terry Funk. This is
a fun match. That's I'm okay with

1679
02:18:52.120 --> 02:18:54.440
that. Didn't see much of these
two crossing paths. In terms of Bobby

1680
02:18:54.479 --> 02:18:58.520
eating a referee, I don't know
who that is familiar. Definitely not a

1681
02:18:58.559 --> 02:19:03.479
Puerto Rican guy. Definitely not Puerto
Rican. He's the most Milwaukee looking Puerto

1682
02:19:03.559 --> 02:19:13.239
Rican guy. So it's Terry funk
Folk Desperado with the tan hide cowboy hat,

1683
02:19:13.360 --> 02:19:22.120
the blue leather shawl, the chaps
September of nineteen eighty six. Reference

1684
02:19:22.159 --> 02:19:26.280
on commentary that are Rick Martel's a
w A title run and rain and here

1685
02:19:26.319 --> 02:19:31.280
we go. Funk goes for a
slap and Ricky Martell drops him with a

1686
02:19:31.360 --> 02:19:35.719
right hand. I think he even
dropped an elbow in the Funker's cowboy hat.

1687
02:19:35.440 --> 02:19:39.280
I think I think he did.
I think Rick Martel's losing his mind.

1688
02:19:39.399 --> 02:19:41.840
Always so weird to see a wrestling
ring in the middle of a baseball

1689
02:19:41.920 --> 02:19:46.319
field like the Shay Stadium shows.
I mean, yeah, it's it's weird.

1690
02:19:46.719 --> 02:19:50.399
Yeah, especially yeah, because they
don't fill the seats in you know,

1691
02:19:50.680 --> 02:20:00.399
that's the weird. There's no bleachers
or risers on the dirt. Rick

1692
02:20:00.479 --> 02:20:07.000
Martell fired up here. Of all
the guys, Rick Martell and Terry Funk

1693
02:20:07.040 --> 02:20:11.239
were never really in the same place
at the same time. Yeah, except

1694
02:20:11.280 --> 02:20:18.680
in Puerto Rico. Terry walking around
bringside around the baseball field with his chaps

1695
02:20:18.719 --> 02:20:24.719
falling off his ass. And this
is like a perfect playground for Terry Funk.

1696
02:20:24.760 --> 02:20:26.520
You know, he can go whole
hog heel and he's got all this

1697
02:20:26.639 --> 02:20:33.120
space to play around with. Don't
put a fucking inflatable sponsored beer can in

1698
02:20:33.159 --> 02:20:37.200
front of the guy. That's for
sure. He's actually selling getting out of

1699
02:20:37.280 --> 02:20:43.559
his chaps on the dirt. Here
on the infield dirt, I'm getting a

1700
02:20:43.799 --> 02:20:46.920
W A Wressell rock vibes, don't
you say that? And super clash,

1701
02:20:48.760 --> 02:20:52.760
that's what I meant. Yeah,
the Big Dome in Minneapolis. But here

1702
02:20:52.840 --> 02:21:03.440
we are, I believe, but
Torico plantains up ah, please don't get

1703
02:21:03.479 --> 02:21:07.200
me hungry, delicious fungal. Although
I'm not sure that's that's Dominican. I'm

1704
02:21:07.200 --> 02:21:15.959
not sure that's Porto Rican as well, with that baked snapper for dorinx yep.

1705
02:21:16.440 --> 02:21:20.959
So finally Terry Funk gets back into
the ring now just as trunks throwing,

1706
02:21:22.319 --> 02:21:31.479
punching, putting the boxing out there, Ricky Martial mending it just called

1707
02:21:31.479 --> 02:21:35.639
out Sylvester Stallone over the top and
over the top. Yeh. Look at

1708
02:21:35.680 --> 02:21:41.680
the jabs of Ricky Martel landing.
So I guess Puerto Rico had the announcers

1709
02:21:41.719 --> 02:21:46.879
piped in over the p a huh. Yeah, it's kind of weird,

1710
02:21:46.479 --> 02:21:52.120
fun taking repeated turnbuckles. Ricky Martel
just a fucking baby face house of fire

1711
02:21:52.200 --> 02:21:58.799
here, Yes he is. There
goes Funk, battling invisible opponents. Falling

1712
02:21:58.840 --> 02:22:01.120
on his seat. Nobody does that
better than Terry Foe, buddy, nobody

1713
02:22:01.159 --> 02:22:11.360
should even try. Honestly, nobody
does a better discombobulated Yes, said the

1714
02:22:11.399 --> 02:22:15.159
funker. I think that's one conclusion
we can reach out for all these weeks.

1715
02:22:16.479 --> 02:22:18.719
Bunker out to the apron, looking
to buy some time, clear his

1716
02:22:18.799 --> 02:22:31.920
head. The floor tremendous. You
can hear Cabrera over the hope that an

1717
02:22:31.000 --> 02:22:35.000
audience can hear everything has something behind
his back as he climbs up on the

1718
02:22:35.040 --> 02:22:41.159
apron. That's gotta be weird.
But the announcer can point out a guy

1719
02:22:41.239 --> 02:22:48.600
trying to chimp and the referee has
to procure say it right, that looks

1720
02:22:48.639 --> 02:22:54.879
like Fenway from certain angles, that
green that exact monster to the walls.

1721
02:22:58.680 --> 02:23:01.879
What a one of the rare countries
they could go to with baseball stadiums besides

1722
02:23:01.959 --> 02:23:09.280
Japan, you know, home of
Roberto Clementing. Definitely a baseball hotbed back

1723
02:23:09.319 --> 02:23:11.879
in the ring now, as the
funker solely, no baseball stadiums to work

1724
02:23:11.920 --> 02:23:24.680
in Germany, that's for sure,
got it. Walk up to the ropes.

1725
02:23:24.719 --> 02:23:31.440
Funk throws head butts and left hands
on Martel. So this was a

1726
02:23:31.520 --> 02:23:35.159
berth for the finals in the Universal
Championship Tournament. W w C was the

1727
02:23:35.200 --> 02:23:41.760
first with universal titles. Actually really
pretty sure, Yeah no, we were

1728
02:23:43.000 --> 02:23:46.079
damn it. Body slam top rope. Here comes Funk off the top.

1729
02:23:46.159 --> 02:23:48.959
We haven't seen much of this.
That's that's all. This is his foot

1730
02:23:50.000 --> 02:23:52.959
and lands on his deck and we
just found out what exactly right. He

1731
02:23:52.959 --> 02:24:03.920
shouldn't go to the world too many
times or ever. And here goes Funk

1732
02:24:03.239 --> 02:24:09.399
literally throwing wooden chairs into the audience. I think there's a net there,

1733
02:24:09.440 --> 02:24:13.600
though, that's stopped. Oh my
god, he's throwing wooden chairs into what

1734
02:24:13.680 --> 02:24:18.399
would be you know, the equivalent
of the first baseline seats, all the

1735
02:24:18.440 --> 02:24:24.040
refleys in the count One of the
w w C personnel. I'm not sure

1736
02:24:24.079 --> 02:24:31.799
who that is, looking like little
Ritchie in the Funker's face. Somebody with

1737
02:24:31.920 --> 02:24:35.479
enough authority to get Funker to back
off. Lionel Richard, That's what I

1738
02:24:35.600 --> 02:24:39.399
man. I'm sorry, little little
Richard. I'm so glad you knew what

1739
02:24:39.399 --> 02:25:00.440
I was talking about. Terry Funk
determined, if nothing else, to be

1740
02:25:00.520 --> 02:25:03.719
the wrestler you remember showing up and
throwing chairs into the audience. Yeah,

1741
02:25:03.799 --> 02:25:07.559
yeah, imagine work in him and
he just leaves the ring to take about

1742
02:25:07.600 --> 02:25:11.120
ten minutes to throw things at people. Well, he went ahead and did

1743
02:25:11.159 --> 02:25:15.479
it. He sure did. Back
in Coloradobo tie up. Now re engaging

1744
02:25:15.520 --> 02:25:22.360
with Rick Martel. Such a different
feel, such a different atmosphere. Yep.

1745
02:25:24.360 --> 02:25:26.920
Side headlocked by the Funker, push
off by Martell, tackle down,

1746
02:25:26.959 --> 02:25:30.479
goes Martel in the center of the
ring. Funk back off, the ropes

1747
02:25:30.520 --> 02:25:33.440
over the top and stumbles. He
did that against Hogan too, where he

1748
02:25:33.520 --> 02:25:37.040
goes over the top and loses his
footing. Flash forward. Look at the

1749
02:25:37.079 --> 02:25:43.159
baseball lights. It's wild. The
outfield lights shining brightly on the ring.

1750
02:25:46.239 --> 02:25:52.920
Only fans on like two sides,
not four yep, yep, as we've

1751
02:25:52.959 --> 02:25:56.639
seen on the coliseum video. Remember
the Killer B's match was pouring rain rain,

1752
02:25:56.879 --> 02:26:01.360
Oh god, if it wrestled in
these open air stadiums in Puerto Rico,

1753
02:26:01.399 --> 02:26:07.639
they if it rained, they still
went. Now suddenly fun after it's

1754
02:26:09.079 --> 02:26:11.040
shooting the up, yours arm signal
to the audience a hundred times, offers

1755
02:26:11.079 --> 02:26:15.680
his hand in a handshake to Rid
Martel. Rick, needless to say,

1756
02:26:15.719 --> 02:26:26.040
the veteran is not falling for that. Seeking to engage honorably, shaking hands

1757
02:26:26.120 --> 02:26:28.280
reference showing Rick this is how Look, this is what I would do if

1758
02:26:28.319 --> 02:26:31.120
you like to shake your hand.
You know what I'm sitting here and went

1759
02:26:31.159 --> 02:26:35.959
ahead and shake your hand. I'll
go ahead and went ahead. And why

1760
02:26:35.000 --> 02:26:50.360
don't you just let me do it? Famous last words, right and the

1761
02:26:50.399 --> 02:26:54.440
top wrist lock. Now it's a
top wristlock battle. And it looks like

1762
02:26:54.520 --> 02:27:03.440
Rick Martel is winning this test of
strength. Just a quick sense check.

1763
02:27:03.479 --> 02:27:09.479
I want you to consider. You
know what star K eighty six about to

1764
02:27:09.559 --> 02:27:16.120
happen? Wow, you know in
the building status and this is happening in

1765
02:27:16.159 --> 02:27:26.639
Puerto Rican Rick Martel cranking vigorously like
that's insane. Puerto Rico was a great

1766
02:27:26.639 --> 02:27:30.479
place to get cross sections of promotions. You know, you would get guys.

1767
02:27:30.920 --> 02:27:33.479
You saw Berry Wyndham in w A. You saw Rick Martell, a

1768
02:27:33.680 --> 02:27:37.959
w A funk who's coming off of
w w F Association. This is a

1769
02:27:37.239 --> 02:27:43.159
company owned in part by Gorilla Monsoon
Bruis of Brodie, the number one fucking

1770
02:27:43.760 --> 02:27:48.840
vagabond independent you know in the world
who never was locked down anybody contractually and

1771
02:27:48.000 --> 02:27:52.040
Abdul the Butcher. Much the same
would be regulars here. This is kind

1772
02:27:52.079 --> 02:27:56.440
of like a great place to see
wrestlers who otherwise, you know, be

1773
02:27:56.559 --> 02:28:01.680
kept away from each other compete colloeren
elbow. Of course, in the end,

1774
02:28:01.719 --> 02:28:09.520
everybody lays down for Carlito. Believe
Yeah, I'm mistaken that. So

1775
02:28:09.680 --> 02:28:13.200
Martell is aside headlock, and Funk
is just spinning around like a dog chasing

1776
02:28:13.239 --> 02:28:33.000
his tail. Flashed forward here.
I think we had a commercial almost they

1777
02:28:33.079 --> 02:28:37.120
heard that, Oh low blow by
the Funker. He tucked in a kick

1778
02:28:37.159 --> 02:28:41.239
to I don't know what. I
don't know what happened. I didn't do

1779
02:28:41.319 --> 02:28:45.360
anything. I want ahead and I'll
just step forward. I want to head

1780
02:28:45.399 --> 02:28:50.000
him. Just got out of the
hold exactly, Funk aggressively tossing Martel down

1781
02:28:50.040 --> 02:28:54.920
to the dirt. The guy.
The ring is so fucking filthy. Good

1782
02:28:54.920 --> 02:28:58.799
thing they didn't cut their arms.
God, the ring is full of dirt.

1783
02:29:00.120 --> 02:29:01.959
You gotta walk through dirt to get
in the ring. No and no

1784
02:29:03.200 --> 02:29:13.799
and no one. I'd got whoa
the damn fucking damn the ship. I

1785
02:29:13.840 --> 02:29:18.920
guess they don't. They don't.
They don't uh clean their feet before they

1786
02:29:18.920 --> 02:29:22.799
get in the ring. Huh,
all right, all right, Cabrera shut

1787
02:29:22.840 --> 02:29:26.680
the fuck up, or Savina Vitch
or whoever then is international events have an

1788
02:29:26.680 --> 02:29:31.399
announcers that talk the whole time,
to the to the to the fans,

1789
02:29:31.399 --> 02:29:37.959
so annoying, like, is it's
so nasal? Is that your dad down

1790
02:29:39.000 --> 02:29:48.040
there? I think so that's where
he was. He would hey, I

1791
02:29:48.079 --> 02:29:52.360
would think he was the one in
the box when Funk came out raw Remember

1792
02:29:52.440 --> 02:29:54.319
that? Yes, yes, I
can't wait to tell that story when we

1793
02:29:54.360 --> 02:30:01.239
get to the w w F second
run. That kind of symbolic that we're

1794
02:30:01.280 --> 02:30:05.639
here at a baseball field because we
are definitely rounding third in our lapsed Funk

1795
02:30:05.760 --> 02:30:18.680
journey forgiving that a military guy right
there. Yeah, they would have full

1796
02:30:18.760 --> 02:30:22.000
military security at these things. Wow, what that riot breaking? Now?

1797
02:30:22.079 --> 02:30:24.159
That's that's a big part of the
reason to have shows in a stadium like

1798
02:30:24.200 --> 02:30:26.000
this is you could keep the fans
far away enough from the ring that they

1799
02:30:26.040 --> 02:30:33.280
wouldn't be able to charge the ring
as easily or hit the wrestler project it.

1800
02:30:33.360 --> 02:30:35.559
Rick Flair talks about that, right. Rick Flair talks about how he

1801
02:30:35.559 --> 02:30:43.000
almost think killed right. Yeah,
that was actually Dominican that was against Jack

1802
02:30:43.079 --> 02:30:46.840
Venano, who was like their the
island's big wrestling hero, so afraid that

1803
02:30:48.000 --> 02:30:50.879
they would hit the ring and riot
that he just put Venano over and gave

1804
02:30:50.959 --> 02:30:56.120
him the NWA Championship just to get
out of there alive. Unauthorized title change.

1805
02:30:56.120 --> 02:31:03.000
Nobody even knew about it until you're
later months later, because he won

1806
02:31:03.079 --> 02:31:05.719
it back before he left the island. I think maybe he never won it

1807
02:31:05.760 --> 02:31:09.920
back. I don't remember that piece
of the story, but that's that comes

1808
02:31:09.000 --> 02:31:13.079
up a lot, because you know, people try to do Flair's cumulative title

1809
02:31:13.120 --> 02:31:16.360
reigns and right right, and he
says it's been like what fifty thousand title

1810
02:31:16.399 --> 02:31:20.360
wines. There's also one with him
in Hardley in New Zealand where they decided

1811
02:31:20.440 --> 02:31:24.559
just to give the people a little
something and called the title change in the

1812
02:31:24.600 --> 02:31:28.879
ring without the n w A knowing
about it. Snapmaar back in the ring

1813
02:31:28.959 --> 02:31:33.559
now after abusing Rick Martel on the
on the on the grass pile, driving

1814
02:31:33.639 --> 02:31:35.799
him out there, funker, Scott
Martel back in his clutches, centering sleeper

1815
02:31:35.799 --> 02:31:41.159
hole locked in, and Rick Martel
is fading. Ricky Martell, excuse me,

1816
02:31:43.399 --> 02:31:52.920
that's right? Arm dropped three times? Come on, Rick Martell's arm

1817
02:31:54.000 --> 02:31:58.479
to drop three times? Oh he's
gonna go for maybe it's more than three.

1818
02:31:58.520 --> 02:32:03.280
In Puerto Rico dropped a fourth time, dropped a referee. What do

1819
02:32:03.360 --> 02:32:05.760
you what do you need? He's
dead, he's not moving all it.

1820
02:32:05.920 --> 02:32:16.840
Ref Oh we got it five times
six rough refusing a referee Socca Rabba fight

1821
02:32:16.920 --> 02:32:20.479
in Japan, Like shot in the
head, yet he can come back.

1822
02:32:20.959 --> 02:32:26.000
It's like wait sometimes drops Yeah,
it's is not the finish guys, we

1823
02:32:26.120 --> 02:32:33.760
can't fucking do it. Martell rallying
to his feet. Rick Martell is a

1824
02:32:33.799 --> 02:32:35.399
baby face is very uncomfortable for me. Really, No, I think he's

1825
02:32:35.440 --> 02:32:39.520
fantastic. It's very uncomfortable for me. Well because I'm used to model,

1826
02:32:39.600 --> 02:32:48.840
and you know that's that's how right
right. My entire fandom with had Rick

1827
02:32:48.920 --> 02:32:52.399
Martel as a as a heel,
so it's very awkward. It's always been

1828
02:32:52.399 --> 02:32:56.319
awkwardwen to see him as a babyface. Yeah, a w A world champion.

1829
02:32:56.639 --> 02:33:01.000
Yeah yeah that was that was rough
because I was like, what the

1830
02:33:01.079 --> 02:33:03.920
fuck life? And yep on the
Wrestling for a Cure show he was the

1831
02:33:05.000 --> 02:33:09.159
champ. Yeah, funk. I
think using a bit of a wrist tape

1832
02:33:09.319 --> 02:33:13.040
to wrap it around Hortail's throat here
and now he's masking it with the sleeper

1833
02:33:13.079 --> 02:33:16.719
hold, and once again Rick Martel
fading fast in the center of the ring,

1834
02:33:16.639 --> 02:33:20.920
both men sweating. I'm sure it's
humid in September and Puerto Rico.

1835
02:33:20.479 --> 02:33:24.000
Oh god, I can't. I
mean, it's got to be brutal.

1836
02:33:28.520 --> 02:33:30.639
Looking at Ram Martel in the corner
buckling, he puts the foot up and

1837
02:33:30.639 --> 02:33:37.479
sends Funker in. Funk stumbling around. Martel turns the tide. He's got

1838
02:33:37.520 --> 02:33:39.719
something wrapped around Terry Funk's throat.
Now, referee, come on, ref

1839
02:33:39.760 --> 02:33:43.840
get in there, going nuts,
big Irish whip on the comeback as Martel

1840
02:33:45.120 --> 02:33:50.319
sleeper. Terry flailing trying to find
a way out of here, grabs the

1841
02:33:50.440 --> 02:33:54.040
ropes and throws himself out of the
ring to break it, and Rick Martel

1842
02:33:54.079 --> 02:33:56.799
tumbles out to the dirt as well. Oh look at those fans scrammed.

1843
02:33:58.000 --> 02:34:01.680
Here we go. Wow up into
the seat, goes to the funker.

1844
02:34:01.760 --> 02:34:07.799
Funk comes up where the chair he's
chair necklace and he's gonna pile with this.

1845
02:34:07.040 --> 02:34:09.920
No, he's not gonna do He's
not gonna do it. He is

1846
02:34:11.040 --> 02:34:16.799
he God man, No, look
at him. He's in Puerto Rico.

1847
02:34:18.280 --> 02:34:22.319
Fuck. Actually he's not in Puerto
Rico. He's somewhere else, right,

1848
02:34:22.399 --> 02:34:26.520
now that's for sure. Looking him
on the apron, you're the chair thing

1849
02:34:26.559 --> 02:34:31.680
you just did against Burry Windom too, playing the hits in the same fucking

1850
02:34:31.840 --> 02:34:39.639
territory, I know, same tournament. Yeah, centering Martell's slamming. Where

1851
02:34:39.719 --> 02:34:45.600
you going, Martella? This is
the splash, I'll say, Yeah,

1852
02:34:46.479 --> 02:34:50.799
that used to be white lettering on
that canvas. Oh, it's so gross,

1853
02:34:50.120 --> 02:34:56.079
the reality of it. After missing
the splash from the outside, end

1854
02:34:56.159 --> 02:34:58.879
Rick Martel and dire strait set into
the ropes by the Funker. But he

1855
02:35:00.040 --> 02:35:03.879
us hilariot. I imagine nobody's blading
in this fucking ring. Seah, I

1856
02:35:03.959 --> 02:35:11.399
hope not certainly bladed in this territory
all fucking day and night. Look at

1857
02:35:11.559 --> 02:35:15.680
is that a man or a woman? Then the in the shorts with the

1858
02:35:16.000 --> 02:35:22.079
with the pear shape, I mean, you know whatever I tell the sunset

1859
02:35:22.120 --> 02:35:24.360
Flip Funk sits on and grabs the
top rope and it's it. That's it.

1860
02:35:26.079 --> 02:35:28.959
Cheating with the top rope for leverage. Terry Funk is pinned Rick Martel

1861
02:35:30.559 --> 02:35:37.200
to advance in the Universal Championship Tournament. Hot action between these two Terry Funk

1862
02:35:37.399 --> 02:35:43.639
sort of sleeping the ring Martel beside
himself. Hell, you know, you

1863
02:35:43.719 --> 02:35:46.399
get no way to complain the ref. Let you continue after your arm dropped

1864
02:35:46.440 --> 02:35:54.040
seven times in the sleeper hole.
So it's sounding too there. We gos

1865
02:35:54.760 --> 02:36:01.520
Terry Funk to take on the one
and only Carlito co alone. Look at

1866
02:36:01.600 --> 02:36:05.959
him, Look at Carlito Colone looking
like look at look at like someone who

1867
02:36:07.000 --> 02:36:09.920
marched with M L K. I
mean he looks the same like he did

1868
02:36:09.959 --> 02:36:15.399
what years this eighty six, I
mean he looks like he did in ninety

1869
02:36:15.440 --> 02:36:18.079
three at the rumble. Oh totally, yeah, he never changed. He

1870
02:36:18.159 --> 02:36:30.120
looks no different. September twenty first, get that out of the way.

1871
02:36:33.239 --> 02:36:35.760
Billy Caputo is the ref. That's
his name? Who they said, Billy

1872
02:36:35.799 --> 02:36:39.000
Caputo? I don't know that it
is. This is packed stadium, man,

1873
02:36:39.079 --> 02:36:41.520
Look at this, Yeah, look
at it's crazy. It's crazy.

1874
02:36:45.159 --> 02:36:48.600
The teacher Low universe, you know
all those people. Now, let me

1875
02:36:48.680 --> 02:36:54.120
tell Carlito, I think it's better
if I go over in your territory.

1876
02:36:54.239 --> 02:37:07.639
Amigo happened? You Take a look, boss, and you see what a

1877
02:37:07.399 --> 02:37:11.920
stadium this is. In September twenty
first eighty six Funk first Cologne. Yeah

1878
02:37:11.479 --> 02:37:16.920
yeah, said Juan low breelst Bell
sounds, Carlia looking to close the distance.

1879
02:37:18.000 --> 02:37:22.000
Terry Funk trying to keep the official
between him and the top star,

1880
02:37:22.159 --> 02:37:26.520
the folk hero of Puerto Rican Professional
wrestling, Carlos Cologne. Funk trips over

1881
02:37:26.559 --> 02:37:31.639
his own breeches and scrambles the hell
out under the bottom rope. Not interested.

1882
02:37:31.680 --> 02:37:35.159
What was it? What was the
date? September twenty first, nineteen

1883
02:37:35.200 --> 02:37:41.000
eighty six, n w A on
the ring apron so still part of the

1884
02:37:41.079 --> 02:37:50.920
National Wrestling Alliance at the time.
Was the w w C. He keeps

1885
02:37:50.920 --> 02:37:54.200
showing panoramic shots at the crowd.
It is very impressive. The turnout here

1886
02:37:56.600 --> 02:37:58.200
is that just two rows on the
dirt like they had for the Martel match,

1887
02:37:58.239 --> 02:38:03.760
there's probably six exteen seventeen twenty rows
auditioned pretty well filled bleachers. This

1888
02:38:03.840 --> 02:38:05.879
Funk takes column to the corner,
a couple of elbows to the top of

1889
02:38:05.879 --> 02:38:09.760
the head, reversed whip, Funk
goes inside out, ammcked across the top,

1890
02:38:09.840 --> 02:38:15.559
and Carlitosen boots up the middle.
Now Funk hung out to dry in

1891
02:38:15.600 --> 02:38:18.120
the ropes, and you know what
time it is? Back and forth Teeter

1892
02:38:18.200 --> 02:38:22.280
Totter ass in the middle rope,
clutching the top. Let's have some fun.

1893
02:38:26.719 --> 02:38:28.959
Bunk scrambles to the and he launches
into the crowd. He's now,

1894
02:38:30.159 --> 02:38:33.680
he's leaped the guard rail. He's
tipping over their chairs. Why is he

1895
02:38:33.760 --> 02:38:50.559
doing that? Well, you know, I love these police following the guy

1896
02:38:50.639 --> 02:38:54.559
like he's fucking Castro arriving in the
Yeah, oh foreign country. Did you

1897
02:38:54.600 --> 02:38:58.840
get a stadium name? Sorry not
yet. No, I'm still looking bong

1898
02:38:58.959 --> 02:39:01.680
throwing chairs. And this is the
platform the dory was talking about. The

1899
02:39:01.760 --> 02:39:05.360
ring is kind of on a raised
which you do when you do a highly

1900
02:39:05.440 --> 02:39:09.879
attended baseball stadium show, right,
because if you have the ring right on

1901
02:39:09.959 --> 02:39:16.680
the ground, it can be hard
for him. Want to see? Wait,

1902
02:39:22.520 --> 02:39:33.079
the colosseo, the panchion vsins what
again? The colosseo Patson VCNS system

1903
02:39:33.200 --> 02:39:39.479
Never heard of that? P A
C H I N V I C E

1904
02:39:39.639 --> 02:39:45.280
N s interesting attendance of ninety five
hundred people, it's more than that.

1905
02:39:46.319 --> 02:39:50.680
It does. They're proud of it
because you can say how many times they've

1906
02:39:50.719 --> 02:39:54.000
panned to it. Oh wait,
I'm sorry, I was wrong. I

1907
02:39:54.079 --> 02:40:01.360
was looking on the wrong thing.
Sorry. The herem Bitthorn Stadium. Yeah,

1908
02:40:01.399 --> 02:40:05.399
that's what he's already called in the
book. Yeah, that's where they

1909
02:40:05.399 --> 02:40:09.280
are. They hearing Bihorn Stadium,
big head butt, jumping head butt by

1910
02:40:09.319 --> 02:40:13.159
coloone puts Funk on his back,
quick one two, Carlos Cologne absolutely handling

1911
02:40:13.319 --> 02:40:18.159
Terry Funk and realized that it was
a three night event. This one it

1912
02:40:18.280 --> 02:40:20.280
was. Yeah, the whole tournament
was like a weekend thing, I think.

1913
02:40:20.719 --> 02:40:28.639
Yeah, George Napolitano shooting at ringside
was always good for the magazines to

1914
02:40:28.719 --> 02:40:37.360
shoot Puerto Rico and you get these
dream matchups happening. Couler and Elbow.

1915
02:40:37.440 --> 02:40:39.920
Now funks back in Colonne to the
ropes, ref looking for the break and

1916
02:40:39.000 --> 02:40:43.440
Funk not granting it to say the
least, hauling off with big chops in

1917
02:40:43.520 --> 02:40:48.520
the chest to Cologne, fucking Fierce
Funk. Yeah, he was Fierce Cologne

1918
02:40:48.520 --> 02:40:52.319
and his Andre Singlet. That's kind
of funny, you know, like you

1919
02:40:52.399 --> 02:40:56.120
know, in all the journeys,
there's always somebody who, uh who we

1920
02:40:58.479 --> 02:41:01.639
who becomes kind of a hero and
in a weird I mean, I guess

1921
02:41:01.680 --> 02:41:05.600
it makes sense in Terry Funk's journey, it would be Terry Funk. Terry

1922
02:41:05.639 --> 02:41:09.079
Funk, Yeah, yeah, you
know, but he's really the guy,

1923
02:41:09.280 --> 02:41:15.559
like I've I've come to appreciate and
respect in a way I never I never

1924
02:41:16.000 --> 02:41:20.040
thought I was Terry Yeah, Terry
Yeah. Pile drives Carlo's cologne on the

1925
02:41:20.319 --> 02:41:30.040
wooden platform and propping up the ring, stopping. I'm sitting here thinking,

1926
02:41:30.079 --> 02:41:33.920
I mean, really, wouldn't be
anybody else. I mean, we've gotten

1927
02:41:33.920 --> 02:41:35.959
a fear of green exposure to Jack
Briscoe, but not enough to say he's

1928
02:41:37.000 --> 02:41:43.959
the hero of the journey. No, that's really interesting. I didn't think

1929
02:41:43.959 --> 02:41:50.399
about that till just now. Back
up to the apron, the funker hauling

1930
02:41:50.479 --> 02:41:54.159
off with left Carlos to a big
bump off the apron, good for him,

1931
02:41:56.680 --> 02:41:58.879
to the Miller logo. Everywhere this
must have been Dorry was talking about,

1932
02:42:09.319 --> 02:42:13.159
Oh big lefts on the floor by
the funker. Terry is the guy

1933
02:42:13.200 --> 02:42:15.079
you call, you know what I
mean, like you're gonna go do a

1934
02:42:15.120 --> 02:42:22.040
tournament. But the world title means
something. Jeez, headfirst into the post,

1935
02:42:22.360 --> 02:42:24.680
you know, with the nw A
logo on the apron, that means

1936
02:42:24.760 --> 02:42:28.040
that, you know, Terry Funk's
world title reign in the seventies still carries

1937
02:42:28.079 --> 02:42:35.200
cachet here. Yeah, we heard
when Terry wrestled a lot of Vans in

1938
02:42:35.239 --> 02:42:39.600
nineteen ninety and Fonds does the post
match promo. He calls out, you

1939
02:42:39.680 --> 02:42:43.040
know, Funk's bona fides is former
n w A World Heavyweight champions So that

1940
02:42:43.200 --> 02:42:48.280
win over Brisco that kept Funk book
for like thirty years. Yeah, I

1941
02:42:48.399 --> 02:42:50.639
think right. I was gonna say, I think that that's a thing that

1942
02:42:52.000 --> 02:42:58.559
you know, that's that's one of
the one of the the real benefits I

1943
02:42:58.639 --> 02:43:03.000
think of that of that age of
the NWA and stuff, is you know,

1944
02:43:03.200 --> 02:43:07.719
you win that championship, and you
know you're I mean, if you

1945
02:43:07.799 --> 02:43:11.120
get a I mean, yeah,
you win that championship, you're pretty much

1946
02:43:11.120 --> 02:43:13.680
set for life, like you're good. Well, it's an in point of

1947
02:43:13.719 --> 02:43:16.200
marketing no matter where you go,
right right, because wherever you go,

1948
02:43:16.319 --> 02:43:20.799
those fans have been told on television
that the NWA World's Heavyweight Champion is the

1949
02:43:20.879 --> 02:43:24.799
guy, right, even if they
never see him. Such a select group,

1950
02:43:24.799 --> 02:43:28.559
I mean you're talking like six guys, five guys in a decade might

1951
02:43:28.639 --> 02:43:33.680
hold it right back in the ring. Now, Funk has locked the sleeper

1952
02:43:33.719 --> 02:43:37.040
hold on Cologne and he's even yanking
at the hair. Yeah. Ref,

1953
02:43:39.479 --> 02:43:41.799
it's the same ref the Ledwick Martel's
arm dropped four hundred times, I know,

1954
02:43:43.399 --> 02:43:46.639
and he's were in a fucking what
is he like? We're in a

1955
02:43:46.719 --> 02:43:50.639
tugboat shirt? He's just like he's
we stand yeah, I know seriously,

1956
02:43:50.879 --> 02:43:56.479
or or in a barbershop quartet raf
finally, onto it, Billy whatever his

1957
02:43:56.600 --> 02:44:01.319
name is hip to what? Uh? Fox trying to hide the fact that

1958
02:44:01.399 --> 02:44:05.079
he's pulling on Carlo's fro. But
the only thing he's ever been hip to

1959
02:44:05.200 --> 02:44:20.280
this fucking clown right now, fading
is Carlito alone. Carlos looks very small,

1960
02:44:20.920 --> 02:44:24.760
like is he was he small?
He was small? Yeah? Small

1961
02:44:24.799 --> 02:44:30.719
instance, it's five for ten,
Yeah, arm falls twice, fall a

1962
02:44:30.799 --> 02:44:37.000
third time. It's funny his Carlito
is the same is the same height.

1963
02:44:37.559 --> 02:44:45.319
We didn't expect that like a commercial
break is that's right in the middle right,

1964
02:44:46.040 --> 02:44:48.559
His arm falls four hundred times,
just like Martell's. I don't know

1965
02:44:48.639 --> 02:44:52.120
why the refs bother and lift the
arm if he's not gonna call the match.

1966
02:44:52.239 --> 02:44:58.280
A little butt bumped there from Carlitos
gets him free. Hey, Daddy

1967
02:44:58.319 --> 02:45:05.760
Funk, not you just hey,
Terry Funk is holding Colito's cock in his

1968
02:45:05.920 --> 02:45:11.879
hand. Here he comes Carlito's back
on the attack. Here he comes,

1969
02:45:11.000 --> 02:45:16.879
Carlito coming at the hands of Terry. We're gonna work on translation, Carlos

1970
02:45:16.920 --> 02:45:20.760
for next time. They're saying things
you don't intend to say. Oh,

1971
02:45:20.879 --> 02:45:28.760
look at this. Funk's visiting every
corner. Funk took a fifth corner,

1972
02:45:31.360 --> 02:45:33.959
he read across the ring and threw
his own head in the buckle. I

1973
02:45:33.079 --> 02:45:39.280
think it's awesome just through cartwheeling there, jumping head bub here he is.

1974
02:45:41.760 --> 02:45:46.360
He's such Oh my god, such
a pleasure. The way he gets all

1975
02:45:46.559 --> 02:45:48.959
tangled up is so money. It
doesn't get old no matter what ring he's

1976
02:45:50.000 --> 02:45:56.079
doing it in. Nope, because
it still looks like a complete happenstance.

1977
02:45:56.559 --> 02:46:01.879
You're right, and and and it's
just it's magic. It's wrestling magic.

1978
02:46:03.840 --> 02:46:05.879
Just think about the sweep of the
places that Terry Funk has taken us over

1979
02:46:05.920 --> 02:46:07.879
the course of the laps. Funk
like, look where we are right now,

1980
02:46:09.399 --> 02:46:13.440
and he's got these people fucking going
nuts. I mean, every all

1981
02:46:13.520 --> 02:46:22.840
eyes are on everything he's doing.
Carlos Cologne got it, Giant Baba got

1982
02:46:22.879 --> 02:46:26.040
it, Otto Vans got it.
Paul Haymon and Todd Gordon got it.

1983
02:46:26.879 --> 02:46:31.280
A Chushio Nita got it. My
mom got Jim Hurd got it, and

1984
02:46:31.360 --> 02:46:35.399
Jim Ross got it or short amount
of time, Vince McMahon even got it.

1985
02:46:37.840 --> 02:46:41.639
Yeah, I'm gonna say nothing of
your mom, right. Jerry Lawler

1986
02:46:41.760 --> 02:46:52.399
got it yep, Eddie Graham got
it yep. So now they've hit the

1987
02:46:52.760 --> 02:46:56.639
the audience in Carlito is picked up
a whole row of chairs they were like

1988
02:46:56.680 --> 02:47:01.760
connected together, and he's like just
pushing it down on Terry Funk's prone cards.

1989
02:47:01.959 --> 02:47:11.719
Jesus Christ, and this has the
bakings of a building that you don't

1990
02:47:11.760 --> 02:47:16.200
want to be in If Carlos loses, No, not at all, and

1991
02:47:16.319 --> 02:47:18.639
you don't want to be in that
match, honestly, if you're a fucking

1992
02:47:18.719 --> 02:47:22.840
heel facing him, you got to
get out of dodge as fast as possible.

1993
02:47:22.879 --> 02:47:26.000
This is a country where Invader stabbed
bruise of brod you to death in

1994
02:47:26.040 --> 02:47:28.600
the shower and then went out.
How to match? Yeah, I went

1995
02:47:28.639 --> 02:47:37.760
home. File driver on the floor
by Carlo Cologne. Carlos Cologne driving Terry

1996
02:47:37.799 --> 02:47:43.600
Funk's head into the wood platform surrounding
the ring. Here we got food there?

1997
02:47:43.639 --> 02:47:46.680
What do we got yues? We
have sodas? I am interested,

1998
02:47:46.760 --> 02:47:54.319
Actually, I'm I imagine like you
know, some some you got like a

1999
02:47:54.440 --> 02:48:01.319
cardboard box of sure of you know, like you got some kind of rice

2000
02:48:01.360 --> 02:48:09.440
and beans going on and uh plantains
yep, yep, yep. Oh.

2001
02:48:09.479 --> 02:48:13.280
I think Terry just came up throwing
a handful of Henfield dart into the air.

2002
02:48:13.799 --> 02:48:20.159
Yeah, this is awesome. Some
kind of Puerto Rican chicken dish as

2003
02:48:20.200 --> 02:48:31.639
well. Just get this some po
brother, brother was what do you what

2004
02:48:31.760 --> 02:48:37.520
do you po? What do you
mean? Dude? Randy isn't good enough?

2005
02:48:37.559 --> 02:48:41.319
Now? Why open on this thing? Brother? What do you dude?

2006
02:48:41.120 --> 02:48:46.079
Wait a minute's style this thing back
the brother? Are you talking Randy

2007
02:48:46.239 --> 02:48:52.120
poff ol loco? Dude? Is
that what you said? Said yes,

2008
02:48:52.280 --> 02:49:09.360
Terry, That's what I said.
That's right. In the finals Terry Funk

2009
02:49:09.440 --> 02:49:13.760
finally yeah, crawling back into the
ring, but looks like he's trying to

2010
02:49:13.799 --> 02:49:16.040
conceal a gimmick. He's got something
in his hands. The fans are hitting

2011
02:49:16.079 --> 02:49:18.520
to it. Referee is not,
though you can see some fans shouting at

2012
02:49:18.559 --> 02:49:26.120
the official to take note. Funk
has a loaded left. He's hiding Carlito

2013
02:49:26.239 --> 02:49:28.479
looking to close in, but the
reft turn to keep them separated. For

2014
02:49:28.559 --> 02:49:45.879
some reason. Terry keeps switching corners. All these people running around crazy?

2015
02:49:46.520 --> 02:49:50.399
What is I know? What is
going on? Like attention, Yeah,

2016
02:49:52.000 --> 02:49:56.319
that's okay, let him go,
I thinks concealing something and Funks trying to

2017
02:49:56.360 --> 02:50:05.120
prevent him from discovering it. Finally, Cologne shoves the reft to the side.

2018
02:50:05.200 --> 02:50:09.920
Funk swings with the gimmick, but
it's ducked. Carlos hauling off with

2019
02:50:11.040 --> 02:50:13.600
heavy rights and Funks doing the full
turnaround. Cell look at look at those

2020
02:50:13.680 --> 02:50:20.200
kids in the back, like I
am a nice cartwheel, Carlos wheel and

2021
02:50:20.280 --> 02:50:26.920
he's setting up, dropping elbows across
the knee of the Funker, softening up

2022
02:50:26.920 --> 02:50:31.760
the wheel. Is Carlos Cologne looking
to take home another Universal title. A

2023
02:50:31.760 --> 02:50:39.200
little drops down a new figure four. I think I think Colone used to

2024
02:50:39.200 --> 02:50:45.159
figure four as his finish. Actually
it's locked out. Terry wind Millon punches

2025
02:50:46.120 --> 02:50:48.920
a motherfucker, but he can't read. He's gonna hit everybody and everything.

2026
02:50:54.879 --> 02:50:58.600
Got all the security showing up.
That's all must have told him to finish,

2027
02:51:01.200 --> 02:51:03.600
right. Finally, Funk gets to
the bottom rope hold is broken.

2028
02:51:07.520 --> 02:51:11.680
Dory Funk, Oh yeah, there's
Dory pre you sure is what he said?

2029
02:51:11.760 --> 02:51:15.239
Right? Wow? Suddenly Funk comes
alive, popping Carlito in the face,

2030
02:51:15.319 --> 02:51:16.879
goes for a suplex. Colone falls
across the top, gets a two

2031
02:51:16.959 --> 02:51:22.479
count on the crossbody. Terry.
I don't know if I should come in

2032
02:51:24.600 --> 02:51:26.120
there. He is? Is that
him? Hey, hey, Terry,

2033
02:51:26.159 --> 02:51:30.280
I'm here. I'm gonna beat him
over the head. How about if I

2034
02:51:30.319 --> 02:51:35.319
beat him over the head with a
leather shoe. Is that Dory Funk that

2035
02:51:35.440 --> 02:51:41.840
just struck Carlito with a cowboy boot? It looks a little big for Dorry.

2036
02:51:41.840 --> 02:51:48.520
I don't think that story, although
he does kind of his face though.

2037
02:51:48.239 --> 02:51:52.959
Dory sr cover by Terry One too. No, Carlodo kicks out.

2038
02:51:56.000 --> 02:52:01.120
Hey, the fans thought I should
do something. Seemed to be reacting to

2039
02:52:01.200 --> 02:52:03.959
somebody. I don't know what they're
reacting to. Do they know I'm a

2040
02:52:05.040 --> 02:52:07.239
former world champion. Stuffs hit,
I almost get thrown in the ring.

2041
02:52:07.360 --> 02:52:11.840
Now am I a former world champion? I don't really remember. I don't

2042
02:52:11.879 --> 02:52:16.239
know if I ever actually won the
championship. It's suddenly not no one's watching

2043
02:52:16.280 --> 02:52:20.559
the ring all of a sudden.
It's like all this activity because people have

2044
02:52:20.600 --> 02:52:22.120
found a way to get out of
the field. It looks like Yep.

2045
02:52:22.440 --> 02:52:30.680
It's so active in the background.
There's so much kiosk going on. They're

2046
02:52:30.760 --> 02:52:33.920
ready, they're ready to kill Terry
Funk if he wins. Seriously, that's

2047
02:52:33.959 --> 02:52:37.959
what it is. Funk can colone
exchanging headbuts in the middle satches and inside

2048
02:52:37.959 --> 02:52:43.280
Cradle two three they bring it home. That's it all right, Terry Funk

2049
02:52:43.280 --> 02:52:52.559
can live. Helone wins, Leaping
for joy and victory is Carlos Cologne and

2050
02:52:52.600 --> 02:52:58.920
Terry Funk comes to Puerto Rico and
does business. Yes, he does it.

2051
02:52:58.000 --> 02:53:01.000
Gets the hell out of there.
Look at look at the people,

2052
02:53:01.040 --> 02:53:03.680
look at the mob. Get the
fuck out of Dodge. Dude. He

2053
02:53:03.799 --> 02:53:07.879
is nowhere to be found. Wow. Lone handed the title and an anti

2054
02:53:07.920 --> 02:53:16.200
climactic ceremony. That's that the Funk
are there. And now we just have

2055
02:53:16.319 --> 02:53:20.760
one more stop in our Puerto Rico
tour. And this is the rematch against

2056
02:53:20.760 --> 02:53:22.879
the Road Warriors, and this is
in Puerto Rico. It's the match that

2057
02:53:26.040 --> 02:53:28.319
that Dory referenced in his book.
If we toggle over to disc fifteen,

2058
02:53:28.399 --> 02:53:41.879
Boss Disc fifteen, those Hermanos funk, Okay, yeah, Los los hermonos

2059
02:53:43.000 --> 02:53:50.559
funk. You know Terry Uh,
Terry Funk went ahead, and he he

2060
02:53:50.799 --> 02:53:56.920
likes to do. You know,
the thing about Terry Funk is that he

2061
02:53:56.879 --> 02:54:03.159
he enjoys little things in life.
And you know, I don't know if

2062
02:54:03.200 --> 02:54:07.799
I enjoy little things or littler things, but I think you'll have to find

2063
02:54:07.840 --> 02:54:13.200
out. What I do enjoy is
I like to get a nice nap in

2064
02:54:13.360 --> 02:54:16.440
about three times a day. Well, let's work on that. Hopefully it

2065
02:54:16.440 --> 02:54:22.840
doesn't put us to sleep. Here
against the Road Warriors September nineteenth, nineteen

2066
02:54:22.840 --> 02:54:26.200
eighty seven. Now we're in and
if you're ready, we'll hit plays at

2067
02:54:26.239 --> 02:54:31.200
the beginning. All right, three
two one? Play? Here comes Terry.

2068
02:54:33.000 --> 02:54:37.719
Hello, hell throwing shit in the
ring? Terry? Do you want

2069
02:54:37.760 --> 02:54:41.440
me to throw something into spitting at
people? Do you want me to spit

2070
02:54:41.559 --> 02:54:43.120
too? Terry? I can spit
if you want. I will work on

2071
02:54:43.159 --> 02:54:48.719
that. Do you like me to
spit something so that very oh they call

2072
02:54:48.799 --> 02:54:54.879
them Dory has funks coming up front? For sure, Terry, I don't

2073
02:54:54.920 --> 02:54:58.959
know do you want me to do? I don't know if you should be

2074
02:54:58.079 --> 02:55:05.840
hitting the people. He's swinging his
tall really hard at people. Saw that

2075
02:55:05.000 --> 02:55:07.479
steep step he had to get up
to the ring. This is definitely on

2076
02:55:07.520 --> 02:55:13.559
a higher platform than the one we
just saw in that baseball stadium against Carlos

2077
02:55:13.600 --> 02:55:18.000
Cologne. Look at the Funker.
He's here to fucking kiss people off,

2078
02:55:18.280 --> 02:55:22.239
iron Man. That could only mean
one team. Look at Funk grab people

2079
02:55:22.239 --> 02:55:26.120
by the lapel in the front road. Oh, that guy got up and

2080
02:55:26.159 --> 02:55:28.319
shoved him. Look at this incredible
he just wants he look at him.

2081
02:55:28.520 --> 02:55:39.760
He does. Terry is really asking
for him. He's I mean, I

2082
02:55:39.840 --> 02:55:50.559
mean, honestly, like you know, he could fucking die. Remember this

2083
02:55:50.680 --> 02:55:52.239
is the match where Dory said he
worked thirty minutes of it by himself.

2084
02:55:52.319 --> 02:55:58.399
Remember this, yep, Fun chasing
the wrap away. Look at all that

2085
02:55:58.479 --> 02:56:03.319
stuff flying at the ring. Oh
my, Terry Funk. I can't Terry

2086
02:56:03.360 --> 02:56:05.600
Funk, Can I ask you a
question? Yeah? Sure, Donk.

2087
02:56:05.639 --> 02:56:09.680
What's what's going? What's on your
mind? Well, you know, I

2088
02:56:09.799 --> 02:56:22.239
don't know. I don't know how
to use a chair. I'm trying to

2089
02:56:22.280 --> 02:56:26.360
look at the floor. It seems
like Terry. Yeah, Terry did take

2090
02:56:26.360 --> 02:56:28.840
the fall. Looking at him,
he came up. Yeah, I saw

2091
02:56:28.920 --> 02:56:33.200
him go down because they had to
bail when the the Warriors hit the ring.

2092
02:56:33.239 --> 02:56:35.600
And when they did that, I
think Funk bailed on a side where

2093
02:56:35.600 --> 02:56:41.920
the But he's right back up.
Yeah, he says, my back.

2094
02:56:41.959 --> 02:56:52.360
You hear him. Yeah, he's
telling people you better know what's on the

2095
02:56:52.399 --> 02:56:56.920
floor because you're launching yourself. Yeah. Belafonso is the referee, I believe.

2096
02:57:03.840 --> 02:57:05.280
But Terry's up on his feet,
man, and he's about to throw

2097
02:57:05.319 --> 02:57:11.000
more chairs at the people and throws
one to Hawk who catches it handily.

2098
02:57:15.680 --> 02:57:20.799
Rogue Warriors crazy. I went ahead
and broke my back pretty much. Man,

2099
02:57:20.840 --> 02:57:26.360
that's a long fall, Terry.
Do you need me? What do

2100
02:57:26.399 --> 02:57:30.840
you what do you need from me? Pal? I don't know. Do

2101
02:57:30.959 --> 02:57:35.600
you you should? We should we
call it and uh I'll just go we

2102
02:57:35.719 --> 02:57:41.959
can go home and uh maybe I
can. Uh I don't know we can.

2103
02:57:41.120 --> 02:57:45.280
We can we can get out of
here or something? Or do you

2104
02:57:45.360 --> 02:57:50.799
need something more than that? Uh? Terry, I can't hear you over

2105
02:57:50.920 --> 02:57:54.879
the over the announcer, he's so
fucking loud. I don't know what you

2106
02:57:56.040 --> 02:58:01.000
need me to do. They're talking
about it. Yeah, Terry, I

2107
02:58:01.079 --> 02:58:03.760
was a labored getting up on the
apron there. He definitely already tweaked his

2108
02:58:03.840 --> 02:58:16.440
back. Wow. Yeah. From
the Pilafonso from the Florida State Athletic Commission

2109
02:58:16.440 --> 02:58:22.520
they okay, you can start the
match. Dorry had to work thirty minutes

2110
02:58:22.520 --> 02:58:26.719
by himself. Here comes Terry.
I'll tell you. I just don't uh.

2111
02:58:26.600 --> 02:58:33.399
I don't think I got thirty minutes
in me. Terry Funk circle the

2112
02:58:33.440 --> 02:58:39.559
round just fine, alright, he
tags. It is more than meets the

2113
02:58:39.600 --> 02:58:43.520
eye. Here is Dory. Funk
enters. Hawk enters. Hey, ah,

2114
02:58:43.799 --> 02:58:48.120
oh god, ah, I don't. I don't like being touched like

2115
02:58:48.239 --> 02:58:52.920
this for ah, Dunk, fuck, that'll ring collision with the big Hawk.

2116
02:58:54.159 --> 02:58:58.200
Oh ship it goes. Dory goes
up for a press. Lamb,

2117
02:58:58.200 --> 02:59:03.719
you're kidding. Oh PLoP. He
goes. That sucks. Oh, I

2118
02:59:03.799 --> 02:59:07.360
don't know if that felt very good? I can I can answer that one

2119
02:59:07.440 --> 02:59:11.280
for you, Dunk. If you're
still stuck, you can't tag your partner

2120
02:59:11.319 --> 02:59:16.520
on the outside like that. That
doesn't count. It's fine important. Rico

2121
02:59:16.719 --> 02:59:22.399
got to good that Florida Athletic license
does for a Bill Afonso Coloraelo to corner

2122
02:59:22.440 --> 02:59:28.479
to corner of the went Funker hits
takes a buckling hard and the road war

2123
02:59:28.959 --> 02:59:35.879
fucking. They just went out there, did anything they wanted. Series of

2124
02:59:35.959 --> 02:59:43.559
chops whipped the corner. Funk goes
inside out. You know I I said,

2125
02:59:43.840 --> 02:59:48.719
I talked about it being thirty minutes. I mean he said thirty seconds.

2126
02:59:48.079 --> 02:59:52.600
So waiting for that that moment where
you're all on your own, dunk

2127
02:59:52.440 --> 02:59:56.000
Terry continues to do all the work. I just can't tell the difference between

2128
02:59:56.159 --> 03:00:01.920
between minutes and second. That's the
issue. Teetering on the strands, Juan

2129
03:00:01.159 --> 03:00:05.479
Ramond else estadio and buy a moan, Juan, Juan, don't call me

2130
03:00:05.680 --> 03:00:20.399
Razor from one stupid it's a fun
teeter totter spot in the and the rope

2131
03:00:20.479 --> 03:00:22.559
hits the floor. Road Warriors now
waiting pensively for one of the funks to

2132
03:00:22.680 --> 03:00:28.479
enter the fray. Terry slides back
in. That'll be Dory actually against animal.

2133
03:00:28.559 --> 03:00:41.200
Now, Funk's definitely fucked up.
Wow, Terry, I didn't do

2134
03:00:41.280 --> 03:00:45.440
it. I didn't do it.
For one time. It wasn't my fall,

2135
03:00:45.559 --> 03:00:50.120
Terryan. Uh, Terry, I
tell you, Terry, I didn't.

2136
03:00:50.120 --> 03:00:54.440
I don't think I hurt you this
time. I hope I didn't.

2137
03:00:54.879 --> 03:00:56.639
But if I did, I mean
it's very likely that I did actually hurt

2138
03:00:56.719 --> 03:01:03.280
you. But I don't think that
I did. Confused dunk Seri's European uppercuts

2139
03:01:03.280 --> 03:01:05.760
on Animal whipped to the ropes.
Now Animal off the ropes, flying shoulder

2140
03:01:07.040 --> 03:01:11.120
of down Dory as Terry just struggles
on the apron, but he gets tagged

2141
03:01:11.120 --> 03:01:13.079
in anyway, Thanks Platerry. I
think, Terry, I think I broke

2142
03:01:13.120 --> 03:01:20.239
your back brother coller and elbow.
Now it's hawking, Terry Funk. Deep

2143
03:01:20.280 --> 03:01:24.479
crotch lifted slam by the hawk.
Jesus climb Now, I mean he's taken

2144
03:01:24.840 --> 03:01:28.719
some serious bombs for not working the
mass. That was a big slam,

2145
03:01:28.920 --> 03:01:31.319
Oh Hawk, nobody home on the
top rope splash attempt Terry Funk moving out

2146
03:01:31.319 --> 03:01:37.479
of the way. Nice intimate scenery
here looks like nighttime for sure, and

2147
03:01:37.559 --> 03:01:52.399
buy a moan. Yeah, the
stadio lights and the outfields shining down Terry

2148
03:01:52.440 --> 03:01:58.959
Funk Dory Funk The Road Warriors nineteen
eighty seven Wrestling three. This has happened,

2149
03:02:00.879 --> 03:02:03.440
Yes it is, and it's a
happening. In the front row of

2150
03:02:03.559 --> 03:02:09.159
seats goes Animal courtesy of Dory Funk
Jr. Who is now picking up a

2151
03:02:09.239 --> 03:02:15.959
chair of his own, cracks it
across the back of the animal. Oh

2152
03:02:16.079 --> 03:02:20.079
talk, sorry, haw comes up, no selling, swatting the chair away

2153
03:02:20.200 --> 03:02:24.120
like such a wow. Oh no, no, no, no, no,

2154
03:02:24.280 --> 03:02:28.000
no, god, ship how fuck
fuck? Oh ship? Oh my

2155
03:02:28.159 --> 03:02:33.000
god. Oh. Terry gets stopped
in his tracks with half a chair shot

2156
03:02:33.040 --> 03:02:35.360
from hawkp Why was he? Why
was he doing that? Terry Funk?

2157
03:02:37.760 --> 03:02:41.520
How thin that platform is? What
the point? What's the point of it?

2158
03:02:41.639 --> 03:02:45.719
Now, let's elevate the ring,
but you put the you know,

2159
03:02:46.079 --> 03:02:52.000
you don't give any surface to work
with. Spike pile driver by the Funk

2160
03:02:52.040 --> 03:02:56.079
Brothers driving Hawk into the canvas.
Terry, Terry Funk. You you you

2161
03:02:56.280 --> 03:03:00.360
dive off the top rope and I'll
and I'll go right down with the spike

2162
03:03:00.399 --> 03:03:05.719
pile driver. Alright, I'm gonna
go ahead and jump, okay, oh

2163
03:03:05.920 --> 03:03:09.639
oh yea. I didn't know you
were going to jump like that. I

2164
03:03:09.680 --> 03:03:11.399
didn't know you were going to jump. Now, okay, here I go.

2165
03:03:13.239 --> 03:03:16.079
Pile drive. Hey, you got
to communicate in there, any great

2166
03:03:16.079 --> 03:03:22.000
team does. Although you know,
Animal would talk a lot about how there

2167
03:03:22.120 --> 03:03:28.239
was almost telepathy between him and Hawk. They could just, of course predict

2168
03:03:28.319 --> 03:03:30.440
what the other was thinking and what
the other was going to do next without

2169
03:03:30.440 --> 03:03:33.719
having to communicate. And Terry going
back to the bag of tricks that had

2170
03:03:33.799 --> 03:03:37.520
used in Puerto Rico, wrist take
It's amazing. It's amazing how you can

2171
03:03:37.559 --> 03:03:39.680
do that when you have a ship
ton of drugs in your sy. You

2172
03:03:39.719 --> 03:03:43.959
know, it's actually rather remarkable,
isn't it. Funcus wrapped some wrist taper

2173
03:03:43.959 --> 03:03:46.799
around the throat of Hawk and choking
him while simultaneously locking the sleeper to mask

2174
03:03:46.799 --> 03:03:50.600
at Bill a Fonso of course,
none the wiser, looking like he just

2175
03:03:50.639 --> 03:03:54.319
did sixteen lines of coke. Bill
a Fondo was never the wiser, right,

2176
03:03:56.840 --> 03:04:09.280
just cranking away on that sleepers the
funker out, This says, uh,

2177
03:04:09.680 --> 03:04:16.440
Skywalker's road warriors here, yes,
standing his hawks snapmars his way free.

2178
03:04:16.520 --> 03:04:20.840
Funk ticks kind of a tepid bump, and now it's Hawk doing the

2179
03:04:20.879 --> 03:04:24.520
same thing Carlitos just did. I
didn't. Actually, Rick Martel did it

2180
03:04:24.559 --> 03:04:30.120
where he gets the tape and chokes
him with with it himself over and over,

2181
03:04:30.280 --> 03:04:33.000
headfirst into the corner. Buckling goes
the funker. There we go a

2182
03:04:33.079 --> 03:04:46.840
stumble, a bumble, a reach
and takes an upper gu and he's trying

2183
03:04:46.879 --> 03:04:50.040
to tag animal who's not his partner, covered by Hawk one too. Terry

2184
03:04:50.079 --> 03:05:03.079
Funk kicks out, I don't know's
it man. Funk throws a head button.

2185
03:05:03.120 --> 03:05:09.159
He's the one who hits the deck
limp tag to Dory Funk, who's

2186
03:05:09.200 --> 03:05:13.479
now legal animal as well. And
here we go irish whip off the ropes

2187
03:05:13.520 --> 03:05:18.079
goes Funk, big drop kick animal
pulling out the high octane offense here and

2188
03:05:18.440 --> 03:05:24.000
buy him on the wet flying tackle. Down goes Dory, covered by animal.

2189
03:05:26.159 --> 03:05:31.600
Terry reaches over Yank's animal off.
Yeah at the first time, animal

2190
03:05:31.680 --> 03:05:41.360
got yanked off on the trip.
Herefore double whip by the warriors. So

2191
03:05:41.520 --> 03:05:48.200
wild to see Dory and Terry part
of to makes oh. There goes Funk

2192
03:05:48.280 --> 03:05:50.520
flying out of the ring. Terry
that is ref distracted, but it looks

2193
03:05:50.559 --> 03:05:54.680
like it's doom'sdate device, although they
do it like a heart attack. Boom

2194
03:05:56.479 --> 03:06:01.639
and goes Dory. Terryes into a
chair and he walk across the back of

2195
03:06:01.879 --> 03:06:11.319
animal. Rather Alfonso calls for the
bell. The Orientary Funk masters of the

2196
03:06:11.440 --> 03:06:24.479
disqualification finish and the tags. Both
Funk members over the head Terry going ahead

2197
03:06:24.520 --> 03:06:33.000
and stumble, oh my god.
The way he stumbles out of the ring,

2198
03:06:33.000 --> 03:06:48.719
it's it's fucking money and the road
warriors quication the animal on the hawk

2199
03:06:50.200 --> 03:06:54.600
the animal in the hawk. Terry
throws a chair at the chair wielding Hawk

2200
03:06:54.959 --> 03:07:03.200
and they're battling. They're dueling with
chairs smacking them. Wow, one of

2201
03:07:03.280 --> 03:07:11.200
them shattered. Oh shit, hawks
swing up, motherfucker. What the that's

2202
03:07:11.239 --> 03:07:18.120
what sounds like? He said,
what the fuck? Yeah, that's one

2203
03:07:18.159 --> 03:07:22.479
thing, man. The Road Warriors
were gonna come off strong, like look

2204
03:07:22.479 --> 03:07:28.200
at him, smash that chair.
Hawk is pissed. They We're not gonna

2205
03:07:28.280 --> 03:07:33.639
let you get away without them looking
strong. Animal and the Hawk Puerto Rico

2206
03:07:35.920 --> 03:07:39.719
from Ul Japan Pro Wrestling to w
w C. Here in Puerto Rico,

2207
03:07:39.840 --> 03:07:46.399
the Funk Brothers and the Road Warriors, one last real tag feud. I

2208
03:07:46.479 --> 03:07:54.719
guess you could say for Terry and
Dory Funk. So many teams, so

2209
03:07:54.799 --> 03:07:58.639
many countries. Yes, we're about
to close out our Puerto Rican leg of

2210
03:07:58.639 --> 03:08:01.600
the journey. It's Savio Vega.
Look at him. Oh my god,

2211
03:08:01.799 --> 03:08:05.760
look at that TNT against Terry Funk. And we have scaffolding on this baseball

2212
03:08:05.760 --> 03:08:16.719
field and Terry Funk is climbing the
scaffolo. Oh down the scaffold. Fuck

2213
03:08:18.639 --> 03:08:22.840
And I was rolling out of the
ring. What the fuck? This is

2214
03:08:22.920 --> 03:08:28.639
eighty eight? Now look at the
ring. So Terry Funk and tnt Aka

2215
03:08:28.719 --> 03:08:31.440
Savio Vega have both rolled under the
ring, and now from the other side

2216
03:08:31.479 --> 03:08:35.239
out Pops Funk. He's running along
the third baseline. Oh my god,

2217
03:08:35.719 --> 03:08:43.959
tnt giving chase Savio. Oh now
they're all the way in the bleachers.

2218
03:08:45.000 --> 03:08:50.360
Now they're actually in the people.
Look at what the fuck is going on.

2219
03:08:50.680 --> 03:08:54.399
Terry is standing on one of the
dugouts. He's getting his ass kicked.

2220
03:08:54.159 --> 03:08:58.639
He's a lunatic, he really is. Look at this guy, and

2221
03:08:58.719 --> 03:09:03.680
these bands are fucking loving it.
Oh my god, of course, get

2222
03:09:03.760 --> 03:09:11.920
license to go fucking ape ship hungry, hungry, hungry, And he's the

2223
03:09:13.040 --> 03:09:22.840
greatest thread Terry what Terry Funk's the
greatest things in sliced bread and swinging in

2224
03:09:24.000 --> 03:09:28.280
nothing is the funkers can look at
Look at Savia with face paint on.

2225
03:09:28.719 --> 03:09:31.159
I know he looks like I mean, he looks like a rotten road,

2226
03:09:31.360 --> 03:09:37.200
rotten road warrior. What what month
was Brody murdered Buss March? I think

2227
03:09:37.239 --> 03:09:41.239
it was marchh isn't it? I
wouldn't Terry didn't come back, and that's

2228
03:09:41.280 --> 03:09:46.879
gotta be the wrong date for this
match. October fifteenth, eighty eight in

2229
03:09:46.000 --> 03:09:50.639
the world today, I kind of
swore that was like, never came back

2230
03:09:50.680 --> 03:09:58.200
after that. He's going to make
an example that overrated. Well, it

2231
03:09:58.280 --> 03:10:03.360
never came back in ntil he got
a good payday. He always comes back

2232
03:10:03.399 --> 03:10:09.000
for a good payday. Now back
in the ring, Funk pumping the jabs,

2233
03:10:09.040 --> 03:10:11.840
still with the chaps on, throws
the big left, and Savvio starts

2234
03:10:11.920 --> 03:10:16.559
doing his karate thing. Oh my
god, look at him. Oh my

2235
03:10:16.719 --> 03:10:18.200
god. Well, hey, you
know what he does, he would have

2236
03:10:18.360 --> 03:10:30.079
some you know, there would be
some martial arts absolutely compatibility with with Kwang

2237
03:10:30.520 --> 03:10:33.319
after all. Yeah, that's definitely
what we see. Oh, Funk hit

2238
03:10:33.440 --> 03:10:37.959
the post on the outside and just
sprawled out on the grass, just a

2239
03:10:37.000 --> 03:10:46.479
whole movie. Oh he's humping the
Why is t n T covering Terry on

2240
03:10:46.559 --> 03:10:48.719
the grass? The refs in the
ring like, that's not that's no boy

2241
03:10:50.200 --> 03:10:56.120
ego. I don't know if that's
the thing. Pal, Oh my god,

2242
03:10:56.120 --> 03:10:58.120
why would they bring those scaffolds out
there for Terry to play? Oh

2243
03:10:58.319 --> 03:11:01.680
my god, do you think we
see Savio Vega on the laps Funk journey?

2244
03:11:03.959 --> 03:11:07.319
No, no, I really looks
like these people are charged with holding

2245
03:11:07.399 --> 03:11:11.879
this scaffolding so it doesn't tip over
or like so they don't use it.

2246
03:11:11.000 --> 03:11:24.040
It's for lighting, which is failing. Right, tnc comes back in,

2247
03:11:24.120 --> 03:11:26.120
Funk goes to the god Irish whipped
tn T shot off the strands, sleeper

2248
03:11:26.159 --> 03:11:33.879
hole he's got. It's this TNT
way before night troil Boss. Yeah,

2249
03:11:35.559 --> 03:11:39.520
airing down Savio with the sleeper hole. Now in the ring is the Funker,

2250
03:11:41.559 --> 03:11:48.280
dirty back and everything from hitting the
dirt on the outside. I'm not

2251
03:11:48.360 --> 03:11:50.120
sure why there's English language commentary in
this match. I don't know. It's

2252
03:11:50.280 --> 03:11:56.399
very weird. States. I've heard
of w w C being available on American

2253
03:11:56.440 --> 03:12:01.120
television. It's been because you know, it's a Spanish speaking station. Yeah.

2254
03:12:03.680 --> 03:12:05.639
It did have a couple of home
video releases in the eighties, like

2255
03:12:05.719 --> 03:12:13.600
Best of Caribbean Wrestling, and at
that collection, Funk cranking as a referee,

2256
03:12:13.639 --> 03:12:16.079
raises Savio's hands a couple of times
in the sleeper hold. Savio,

2257
03:12:16.159 --> 03:12:18.520
still alive, gathering his wits,
gathering his momentum back to his feet.

2258
03:12:18.520 --> 03:12:31.520
Of course, went ahead and pushed
him off one ahead a tackled by the

2259
03:12:31.559 --> 03:12:37.879
Funker. He side step takes the
blood head and where uh he on?

2260
03:12:39.000 --> 03:12:45.200
Soaring through the Puerto Rican evening is
the Funker and he's just lying in dirt,

2261
03:12:45.360 --> 03:12:50.200
like like the hogs and the pigs
that he uh yeah characterized the people

2262
03:12:50.239 --> 03:13:01.120
of Puerto Rico asked he wrestled them
all. He really did. Here he

2263
03:13:01.280 --> 03:13:07.440
is with Savio, fucking Vega.
I can't sav looks so thin compared to

2264
03:13:07.760 --> 03:13:11.879
what do you still look like?
Yeah? No, I know, yeah,

2265
03:13:11.040 --> 03:13:16.959
I mean going a whip. Savia
was closing and he didn't know Funk

2266
03:13:16.079 --> 03:13:22.600
was gonna take the inside out bump. He probably you know, he didn't

2267
03:13:22.639 --> 03:13:26.360
have his You know, he had
a lot of plantains between now and no

2268
03:13:26.559 --> 03:13:30.200
question about that. Then Funk back
to sitting in the middle. Here we

2269
03:13:30.280 --> 03:13:35.200
go. I wonder what he called
this move where Dylan did something similar.

2270
03:13:35.200 --> 03:13:37.479
He called it like the beluga whale
or something like that. We talked about

2271
03:13:37.479 --> 03:13:41.520
it during our award games. He
had a name for it one, but

2272
03:13:41.600 --> 03:13:48.399
I don't think it's exactly Dylan.
He looks like and then he picks up

2273
03:13:48.440 --> 03:13:52.760
a table, a little small like
table. What's he doing with this?

2274
03:13:52.079 --> 03:13:56.680
He's gonta throw in the ring.
Oh my god, he's such a fucking

2275
03:13:56.799 --> 03:14:01.639
knot. I love when he throws
stuff for the ring and he has no

2276
03:14:01.719 --> 03:14:11.079
intention of using it. No,
your hippo, damn raf your son of

2277
03:14:11.120 --> 03:14:13.639
a band. Oh, Terry's swinging
the table. Rep's calling for the bell.

2278
03:14:13.760 --> 03:14:20.159
You can't have that. You can't
bring a fucking yeah like a bar.

2279
03:14:20.680 --> 03:14:24.879
Oh my god. Scaffold again and
this personnel running over to stop it

2280
03:14:24.959 --> 03:14:33.680
from dipping over? What is he
doing? Scaffold? What is wrong with

2281
03:14:33.840 --> 03:14:50.879
him? What ad you see this? He goes to Puerto Rico to do

2282
03:14:52.040 --> 03:14:58.959
this. He's working his way rung
by rung down the other end of the

2283
03:15:00.079 --> 03:15:03.360
scaffold. T n T kicking him
in the head the whole time. Look

2284
03:15:03.399 --> 03:15:07.120
at him? Just what the hell
is going on? Folks? You gotta

2285
03:15:07.200 --> 03:15:13.719
go. I hope it's on YouTube. Terry Funk tn T is just working

2286
03:15:13.920 --> 03:15:20.000
every centimeter of this baseball stadium.
Oh my god, it's the funniest ship.

2287
03:15:20.159 --> 03:15:24.399
He just climbs whatever's in his way. What do you think we should

2288
03:15:24.440 --> 03:15:37.719
do now? Going to the dugout? Terry Fun? What exactly? Boss?

2289
03:15:37.200 --> 03:15:46.159
Did you see? The damn Terry
Funk is still my hero? Indeed,

2290
03:15:46.360 --> 03:15:54.639
ding ticket ding ding, ding,
didn't didn't didn't? That was fun?

2291
03:15:56.239 --> 03:16:01.159
That was fun. So Terry Funk
brings his unique brand of chaos to

2292
03:16:01.719 --> 03:16:07.680
Puerto Rico here as part of our
journey into his international exploits. And we

2293
03:16:07.799 --> 03:16:11.840
have to close this part by going
where we said we were going to go.

2294
03:16:11.520 --> 03:16:16.440
It's time to get explosive, boss
fun. Time to see We saw

2295
03:16:16.559 --> 03:16:20.799
Terry Funk kind of take it to
an extreme in front of an unfamiliar audience,

2296
03:16:20.079 --> 03:16:24.559
you know, to strike his stuff. But the FMW i W A

2297
03:16:24.680 --> 03:16:28.879
scene in the nineties was on a
whole new level in terms of leaving behind

2298
03:16:28.840 --> 03:16:33.440
flashpoints and memories for the people to
remember Terry Funk by Are you ready to

2299
03:16:33.520 --> 03:16:37.840
see him subject himself to three times
the punishment than anything you saw in ECW.

2300
03:16:39.840 --> 03:16:46.120
No, never been curious about these
death these these early proto death matches

2301
03:16:46.239 --> 03:16:52.840
that that's no tone for CZW stuff
from mar Games. No, definitely not.

2302
03:16:52.319 --> 03:16:56.280
I've never you know, because for
a number of reasons. Number one,

2303
03:16:58.040 --> 03:17:01.120
it is for me, it is
too much. It is too much

2304
03:17:01.159 --> 03:17:05.799
for me. Number one. Number
two, I just you know, there

2305
03:17:05.879 --> 03:17:09.799
gets a point where these fucking where
they're blowing shit up. I'm like,

2306
03:17:09.959 --> 03:17:13.040
I don't it just doesn't it Yep, it takes me out of it.

2307
03:17:13.319 --> 03:17:16.120
Yep. You know, I don't
have I don't, I don't. It

2308
03:17:16.200 --> 03:17:20.879
just don't get I don't enjoy that
well, get ready. Another person who

2309
03:17:20.959 --> 03:17:24.399
came through Puerto Rico around the same
period of time was that Shushi Onita who

2310
03:17:24.440 --> 03:17:28.639
came to the United States through Amarilla. Actually much like you know Antonio and

2311
03:17:28.760 --> 03:17:33.079
Oki before him and Jumbo Sharuda.
Remember we talked so much about Jumbo Oh

2312
03:17:33.239 --> 03:17:37.840
you in the journey to get you
know, his feet wet in American pro

2313
03:17:37.879 --> 03:17:43.399
wrestling territories and become familiar with that
way of working and then look to export

2314
03:17:43.479 --> 03:17:46.600
what he had learned into the rings
of Japan. It was his excursion in

2315
03:17:46.639 --> 03:17:50.159
so many ways, and spent a
lot of time in Puerto Rico as well.

2316
03:17:50.959 --> 03:17:56.479
And you know he uh, he
even ran into some difficulty working in

2317
03:17:56.559 --> 03:18:00.079
Latin America. On the Dark Side
of the Ring episode on Anita, they

2318
03:18:00.120 --> 03:18:03.079
interviewed Terry Funk and they were called
that at a certain point, Anita didn't

2319
03:18:03.079 --> 03:18:07.079
agree with what they wanted to do
with him and in terms of booking,

2320
03:18:07.239 --> 03:18:13.840
and he was basically pummeled by a
bunch of what Terry Funk described as a

2321
03:18:13.879 --> 03:18:16.479
Puerto Rican rat pack that just fucking
ganged up on Anida to teach him a

2322
03:18:16.520 --> 03:18:20.239
lesson and beat him up for real
in the Dominican Republic. So he was

2323
03:18:20.280 --> 03:18:26.399
getting a rude introduction to how things
were enforced on the Puerto Rican side around

2324
03:18:26.440 --> 03:18:31.520
the time that we've been watching these
matches. And yes, a new Japanese

2325
03:18:31.600 --> 03:18:37.479
Desperado, a Funk disciple, is
about to revolutionize Japan along with Terry Funk

2326
03:18:39.200 --> 03:18:43.120
and taking a lot of influence from
the Tennessee Memphis style and all the things

2327
03:18:43.159 --> 03:18:48.840
that influenced Extreme Championship Wrestling. Just
it's the Japanese version and turned up to

2328
03:18:48.920 --> 03:18:54.520
a thousand. It's FMW. So
let's start with Terry Funk here talking about

2329
03:18:54.239 --> 03:19:01.440
meeting Oneita Okay and kind of engrace
hting him into his inner circle. This

2330
03:19:01.600 --> 03:19:05.719
is back from dark side of the
ring. He had watched me and Bob

2331
03:19:05.799 --> 03:19:09.760
Wire matches. He really highlized me. That's why I came to Ambrella being

2332
03:19:09.879 --> 03:19:13.280
like Jerry Funk, you know,
and what a horrible thing to want to

2333
03:19:13.319 --> 03:19:22.799
be. What was your first impression
of him when you met nuts. I

2334
03:19:22.879 --> 03:19:28.879
spoke Japanese like he spoke English.
He spoke English like I spoke Japanese.

2335
03:19:30.360 --> 03:19:37.120
We both were lost, but we
got along. I was there for him,

2336
03:19:37.280 --> 03:19:41.559
I really was, and I bought
him a huge car, and I

2337
03:19:41.799 --> 03:19:46.120
got him a job and send him
on the road the Japanese team of mister

2338
03:19:46.239 --> 03:19:52.079
Ronita and Masa Fucci. After Oneita
recovers from his injuries, he and fellow

2339
03:19:52.159 --> 03:19:56.360
protege Masa Fucci traveled to Memphis,
Tennessee to battle in the infamous two below

2340
03:19:56.479 --> 03:20:03.079
Concession Stand Brad. He ended sas
stand after carrying down and return there it

2341
03:20:03.200 --> 03:20:09.360
is setting the stage there dark side
of the ring at she shared idolizing Terry

2342
03:20:09.440 --> 03:20:11.399
Funk. And here from Funk's book, if you can convey this, folks

2343
03:20:11.440 --> 03:20:16.120
to the Solar System boss a little
bit more detail on not only how what

2344
03:20:16.239 --> 03:20:20.680
she should needed drew inspiration from Terry
Funk, but also kind of drew lodging

2345
03:20:20.760 --> 03:20:28.479
and training and oversight from Terry Funk
in America as well. And you have

2346
03:20:28.600 --> 03:20:31.239
it right there. I got involved
in FMW. Okay, there we go.

2347
03:20:33.399 --> 03:20:39.680
I got involved in FNW after Onita
came out to the ranch and talk

2348
03:20:39.760 --> 03:20:43.799
to me about it. He didn't
have to ask for directions. He had

2349
03:20:43.879 --> 03:20:46.799
lived here for a month or two
more than a decade earlier. In nineteen

2350
03:20:46.879 --> 03:20:52.799
eighty, Masa Fucci and Onita had
a wrestled in the Dominican Republic for a

2351
03:20:52.879 --> 03:20:58.000
guy named Jack Venino. Banina was
also the champion, and Onita was brought

2352
03:20:58.040 --> 03:21:01.680
in to wrestle them. The office
there wanted Oneina to drop two straight falls,

2353
03:21:03.000 --> 03:21:07.840
but Oneita refused to do it and
stiffed the Nino in the ring with

2354
03:21:09.000 --> 03:21:13.280
a hard cock. What I was
just talking about, Yeah, When they

2355
03:21:13.360 --> 03:21:16.440
got back to the dressing room,
one of the promoters said they wanted to

2356
03:21:16.520 --> 03:21:20.959
talk to Fucci and Anita in the
office. When Anita went through the door,

2357
03:21:22.040 --> 03:21:26.319
about four Dominican wrestlers went in after
him and they shut the door behind

2358
03:21:26.399 --> 03:21:30.840
them, locking Fucci out of the
office. They beatn on Onita until they

2359
03:21:30.920 --> 03:21:33.520
got tired of beaten on him.
He was hurting when he called me,

2360
03:21:33.639 --> 03:21:39.040
and he and Fucci came here and
they stayed in Amarilla for a while in

2361
03:21:39.159 --> 03:21:43.360
nineteen eighty one. They didn't have
a pot to pee in or a dollar

2362
03:21:43.440 --> 03:21:46.319
to their names. They stayed until
Anita was feeling well, and I got

2363
03:21:46.399 --> 03:21:50.680
them booked in for one shot in
San Antonio and then for a stint in

2364
03:21:50.799 --> 03:21:56.639
Tennessee. While they were staying with
my family and me, Fucci insisted on

2365
03:21:56.799 --> 03:22:01.920
cooking as his way of making a
contribution to the household. Fuuchi would go

2366
03:22:03.000 --> 03:22:07.280
into the kitchen and drive my wife
raising. He'd get the biggest damn pody

2367
03:22:07.319 --> 03:22:13.440
could find, three or four gallons, and he'd fill it up with rice.

2368
03:22:13.159 --> 03:22:16.879
He cooked pounds and pounds and pounds
of rice with all kinds of other

2369
03:22:18.040 --> 03:22:20.280
things. It would take him all
kind of take him an hour and a

2370
03:22:20.360 --> 03:22:24.840
half, and he tore up the
kitchen every time. He made Japanese soup

2371
03:22:24.959 --> 03:22:30.680
with rice and all kinds of ungodly
things which we have had, which we

2372
03:22:30.799 --> 03:22:33.520
had to have every night for supper. But he was taken care of us

2373
03:22:33.920 --> 03:22:39.079
in his own way. My daughter
Brandy became the biggest fan of Nita ever

2374
03:22:39.239 --> 03:22:43.639
had in the States. During this
time, she was hospitalized with the measles,

2375
03:22:43.879 --> 03:22:48.719
and Onita had to go see her
at the hospital, so Vicki took

2376
03:22:48.799 --> 03:22:52.040
him. He asked her to stop
at the grocery store first, though,

2377
03:22:52.479 --> 03:22:56.799
he came out of the store with
literally a grocery cart full of candy and

2378
03:22:56.959 --> 03:23:03.360
brought it to her in the hospital. Oh hospital. Of course, Brandy

2379
03:23:03.399 --> 03:23:07.479
felt better after seeing that, and
Onnita got over with her like a million

2380
03:23:07.600 --> 03:23:13.399
bucks. I hunted around and bought
Fucci and Anita an old Chrysler. I

2381
03:23:13.600 --> 03:23:18.239
found it advertised for four hundred dollars. As you can imagine, it wasn't

2382
03:23:18.239 --> 03:23:22.120
a luxury vehicle, but it was
a usable car, and they drove it

2383
03:23:22.200 --> 03:23:26.799
for about a year and a half
until it was spent. Fuji had an

2384
03:23:26.879 --> 03:23:33.200
international driver's license and Anita didn't,
but Fuci was a horrible driver, so

2385
03:23:33.360 --> 03:23:37.799
I took Fuci's license in a picture
of Onita and used a copy machine to

2386
03:23:37.879 --> 03:23:45.319
make Onnita an international driver's license.
Fucking phenomenal. He used successfully for about

2387
03:23:45.319 --> 03:23:48.440
a year and a half in this
country, showed it to the police when

2388
03:23:48.440 --> 03:23:52.719
he was pulled over and everything.
He came back several times in the nineteen

2389
03:23:52.760 --> 03:23:56.120
eighties, like when he tore up
his knee in Japan and Baba didn't want

2390
03:23:56.159 --> 03:24:01.760
him anymore. Ironically, the match
where he got hurt was supposed to be

2391
03:24:01.959 --> 03:24:05.399
the start of his big push.
After he won, he did this huge

2392
03:24:05.479 --> 03:24:07.440
leap over the ropes and out of
the ring, like he had done every

2393
03:24:07.600 --> 03:24:11.920
night. On this night, though
someone had spilled some water on the floor

2394
03:24:13.840 --> 03:24:18.399
on the floor pads surrounded the ring. He slipped on the water and cracked

2395
03:24:18.440 --> 03:24:22.399
his knee. It tore ligaments,
blew out cartilage, and truly shattered his

2396
03:24:22.520 --> 03:24:28.000
knee cap. They wired it back
together at the hospital. I saw an

2397
03:24:28.120 --> 03:24:33.760
X ray of his kneecap and it
looked like a spider's web. He bawled

2398
03:24:33.840 --> 03:24:37.120
like a baby that night. But
I didn't realize the true reason for it

2399
03:24:37.879 --> 03:24:43.120
at first, true reason for it. At first, he was crying because

2400
03:24:43.120 --> 03:24:46.719
he knew his injury was so severe
that he would not be productive and Baba

2401
03:24:46.760 --> 03:24:52.040
would let him go. And Baba
did let him go. Onnita felt like

2402
03:24:52.159 --> 03:24:56.440
the true love of his life,
wrestling, was gone. What no one

2403
03:24:56.559 --> 03:25:00.840
knew was that injury would turn out
to be a major turning point in Japanese

2404
03:25:00.879 --> 03:25:05.520
wrestling history because of Onita, because
of what Oneita would end up doing.

2405
03:25:05.639 --> 03:25:11.040
Onnita stayed at my house and he
decided he wanted to import beef jerky,

2406
03:25:11.959 --> 03:25:18.879
but that didn't work out. O
good story. Then he tried to sell

2407
03:25:18.959 --> 03:25:22.360
me on going into business with him
selling portable telephones. I said, what

2408
03:25:22.559 --> 03:25:31.399
the hell is this? No one's
going to use these things over here.

2409
03:25:31.520 --> 03:25:35.920
You're out of your mind. That'll
never work. I guess I should have

2410
03:25:35.959 --> 03:25:39.239
listened to that son of a bitch. Hell, he had cell phones before

2411
03:25:39.280 --> 03:25:43.040
anyone did. The other time he
had one of my shotguns and told me

2412
03:25:43.120 --> 03:25:46.559
he wanted to go hunting. Well, I didn't give him any kind of

2413
03:25:46.600 --> 03:25:50.600
safety lesson or anything. What I
did was I took him out of my

2414
03:25:50.719 --> 03:25:56.440
property far enough that he wouldn't hit
the house and just let him go.

2415
03:25:56.280 --> 03:26:01.360
He was shooting up in the air
at ducks flying around and whatever else caught

2416
03:26:01.399 --> 03:26:05.360
his eye. I just went back
in my house and wouldn't let my wife

2417
03:26:05.440 --> 03:26:09.680
or daughters outside until oneita ran out
of the ran out of shells. Oh

2418
03:26:09.760 --> 03:26:15.000
my god. He was out there
for about thirty minutes and came in.

2419
03:26:15.840 --> 03:26:18.079
He hadn't hit a damn thing,
but he was very thrilled with getting with

2420
03:26:18.200 --> 03:26:22.239
getting to shoot a gun. The
times I went to Japan and he was

2421
03:26:22.319 --> 03:26:26.040
there as a young wrestler, he'd
always try to carry my back, carry

2422
03:26:26.120 --> 03:26:31.680
my back. Now he tried to
Carny the beef jerky. I always told

2423
03:26:31.799 --> 03:26:35.520
him, don't you carry my bags. Just leave him there. I can

2424
03:26:35.600 --> 03:26:39.399
carry my own damn bags. Now
he was running his own company and I

2425
03:26:39.559 --> 03:26:43.559
was working for him. Amazing.
Can Terry Funk be more intimately involved in

2426
03:26:43.719 --> 03:26:48.719
like more influential figures and pro wrestling
at this point, I don't know it's

2427
03:26:48.760 --> 03:26:52.840
reaching an absurd level. It really
is like everybody has an origin story where

2428
03:26:52.920 --> 03:26:56.239
if you take Terry Funk out of
it, they might not be superstars,

2429
03:26:56.280 --> 03:26:58.120
they might not have made it,
they might not have stuck up with it

2430
03:26:58.200 --> 03:27:03.680
long enough. And Heronita not only
is getting inspiration from Terry Funk, which

2431
03:27:03.719 --> 03:27:07.639
somebody have and encouragement, but like
I said, accommodations, he became sort

2432
03:27:07.639 --> 03:27:09.959
of a member of the Funk family, and that chis show Nita was just

2433
03:27:11.079 --> 03:27:16.559
like this one of a kind kind
of dare devil character in the nineteen nineties

2434
03:27:16.559 --> 03:27:18.399
in the Japanese wrestling scene because,
as he mentioned and as was reference there

2435
03:27:18.399 --> 03:27:22.799
in the dark set of the ring
piece, Onnida suffered an incredibly inopportunely time

2436
03:27:22.920 --> 03:27:26.200
knee injury when he was being featured
as a real junior heavyweight standout for Bob's

2437
03:27:26.200 --> 03:27:31.520
All Japan and that these were completely
derailed his career. So he had to

2438
03:27:31.600 --> 03:27:35.280
come back doing a style that wasn't
so reliant on super high flying and trying

2439
03:27:35.280 --> 03:27:39.760
to be part of that whole Tiger
Mass generation. And so he settles on

2440
03:27:39.879 --> 03:27:45.280
this you know, chain smoking,
leather jacket wearing rebel. Basically that would

2441
03:27:45.399 --> 03:27:50.440
just you know, lead basically the
equivalent of the ECW attitude in the Frontier

2442
03:27:50.479 --> 03:27:52.959
Martial Arts Wrestling FMW was a promotion
that also featured in the very beginning,

2443
03:27:54.719 --> 03:27:58.280
and I guess throughout its existence a
lot of matches that weren't just explosions and

2444
03:27:58.920 --> 03:28:03.760
heavy violence death style matches, but
also like martial arts versus martial arts,

2445
03:28:03.879 --> 03:28:07.360
you know, yeah, they would
present like a boxer versus a karate master

2446
03:28:07.520 --> 03:28:13.040
or whatever. And Onita actually did
that very early on. He challenged a

2447
03:28:13.159 --> 03:28:18.239
karate master by the name of Mashashio
Yagi in nineteen eighty nine. As Anita

2448
03:28:18.319 --> 03:28:20.920
tried to find kind of, you
know, a hook to draw people in.

2449
03:28:22.040 --> 03:28:24.520
He wanted to not just be a
wrestler. He wanted to promote.

2450
03:28:24.600 --> 03:28:28.000
He wanted to be behind, you
know, shepherding and new organizations in Japanese

2451
03:28:28.040 --> 03:28:31.440
wrestling. And it was this nineteen
eighty nine matchup that was a clash of

2452
03:28:31.520 --> 03:28:35.639
styles between the wrestler and the karate
master where he took a ton of stiff

2453
03:28:35.760 --> 03:28:39.120
kicks. There was blood, hardway
blood all over the place. She really

2454
03:28:39.120 --> 03:28:41.520
wanted to make a little like a
real fight, and power bombs that fold

2455
03:28:41.559 --> 03:28:43.840
people in half, like the way
you'd power bomb someone in the street if

2456
03:28:43.879 --> 03:28:46.799
you really wanted to hurt him,
you know, not not go opera.

2457
03:28:48.280 --> 03:28:52.319
Yes, absolutely, And the response
to that match, despite you know,

2458
03:28:52.479 --> 03:28:56.680
being outside the auspices of the big
two Japanese wrestling offices, gave him confidence

2459
03:28:56.760 --> 03:29:03.000
that his vision for a harder edged
presentation of pro wrestling in Japan could in

2460
03:29:03.120 --> 03:29:05.879
fact work. And apparently there was
some story that as a kid he had

2461
03:29:05.920 --> 03:29:13.079
been hurt by barbed wire and he
he always so regarded barbed wire as kind

2462
03:29:13.120 --> 03:29:16.280
of like this ultra dangerous thing that
had all these connotations to it, and

2463
03:29:16.760 --> 03:29:20.479
then he started to experiment with putting
explosives in the barbed wire, using,

2464
03:29:20.079 --> 03:29:24.520
according to Funk and Foley as they
talked about these times, actual stuntmen,

2465
03:29:26.079 --> 03:29:30.399
stuntmen, what's the word, special
effects people from movies. Yeah, Yeah,

2466
03:29:30.520 --> 03:29:33.040
to bring in what they would use
to recreate big explosions and introduce that

2467
03:29:33.120 --> 03:29:37.520
into the wrestling arena and book these
wide open baseball stadiums. Or he even

2468
03:29:37.559 --> 03:29:39.920
did a match one time on top
of a pool in the middle of the

2469
03:29:41.000 --> 03:29:46.000
water, so that there was plenty
of room for the Jesus, the explosion

2470
03:29:46.920 --> 03:29:50.159
and all the shrapnel, I guess
you could say, to travel without injuring

2471
03:29:50.159 --> 03:29:54.959
anybody. And it revolutionized, you
know, what we think of as that

2472
03:29:54.040 --> 03:29:58.479
kind of wrestling in Japan and created
a tremendous buzz in the United States that

2473
03:29:58.559 --> 03:30:03.799
there were these incredibly crazy, violent
matches that US notables like Terry Funk and

2474
03:30:03.840 --> 03:30:09.600
Mick Foley and Terry Gordy and leather
Face Dan Severn went over there, not

2475
03:30:09.680 --> 03:30:11.639
to participate in the death matches,
but he was part of the IWA scene

2476
03:30:11.639 --> 03:30:15.799
when they were having those kind of
matches. Tracy Smothers was over there as

2477
03:30:15.840 --> 03:30:18.120
well, just like this weird what
the fuck is going on out there?

2478
03:30:18.239 --> 03:30:22.000
Like we think what ECW is doing
is over at the top, and then

2479
03:30:22.040 --> 03:30:31.319
you start hearing about you know,
glass tax aquariums full of piranhasesus. I

2480
03:30:31.399 --> 03:30:33.760
mean, I was just fucking dumbfounded
by some of the things I was hearing

2481
03:30:33.799 --> 03:30:39.159
in the nineties about what was happening
in these promotions in Japan. And it's

2482
03:30:39.200 --> 03:30:43.280
all because you know, Terry Funk
took this kid in and you know,

2483
03:30:43.479 --> 03:30:46.440
just sort of let him be as
quixotic and weird and crazy as he wanted

2484
03:30:46.479 --> 03:30:48.959
to be, and it's it's wild
that he played such a key role.

2485
03:30:50.559 --> 03:30:54.239
So when it came time for the
phone to ring, as Shushanita had set

2486
03:30:54.280 --> 03:30:58.360
up Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling FMW was
a powerhouse in Japan as a company worth

2487
03:30:58.399 --> 03:31:03.159
reckoning, with a company very much
on the rise, it was time to

2488
03:31:03.200 --> 03:31:05.239
bring in Terry Funk. And the
question we always have at this point of

2489
03:31:05.319 --> 03:31:09.040
Funk's journey, right boss, is
why, yeah, why did he do

2490
03:31:09.120 --> 03:31:16.559
it? Here he gives an attempt, perhaps to explain why FMW. How

2491
03:31:16.559 --> 03:31:20.319
would you describe a typical fmwpark for
match where the things you'd see in it

2492
03:31:20.799 --> 03:31:31.200
a lot of guys that would go
to know and to self annihilation other bodies,

2493
03:31:33.680 --> 03:31:41.799
to have a better match than what
the opposition did, to have a

2494
03:31:41.840 --> 03:31:45.680
better match than the opposition did.
M That's why he did it. No,

2495
03:31:45.879 --> 03:31:48.520
that makes sense, Sam, or
at least to do something that would

2496
03:31:48.559 --> 03:31:50.680
stand out visa be the competition,
and you're not going to go out there

2497
03:31:50.719 --> 03:31:54.680
and do a Masawa style match in
FMW and get noticed. Not to say

2498
03:31:54.760 --> 03:31:58.760
Terry Funk had that in him anyway
at that point in his career, but

2499
03:31:58.920 --> 03:32:01.159
this is, you know, in
a world old where it's about standing out,

2500
03:32:01.319 --> 03:32:03.280
and in a country where it's so
much about the magazine coverage. It's

2501
03:32:03.319 --> 03:32:07.520
so much about doing things yes right, so true that could get you in

2502
03:32:07.559 --> 03:32:11.719
the cover of magazines. This was
something the photographers were not going to miss.

2503
03:32:11.280 --> 03:32:15.959
It's kind of reminiscent of the attention
the Road Warriors got in eighty five

2504
03:32:16.000 --> 03:32:18.000
that we were talking about, where
it's like, you got to see these

2505
03:32:18.079 --> 03:32:22.840
fucking costumes in this origin story and
this over the top looking thing. You

2506
03:32:22.920 --> 03:32:26.799
know, you know you're gonna get
magazine coverage if you look that flashy and

2507
03:32:26.879 --> 03:32:30.479
you're knowing a magazine coverage. If
you know Terry Funk, one of the

2508
03:32:30.520 --> 03:32:33.760
most beloved American wrestlers ever in the
country of Japan, is falling on fucking

2509
03:32:35.000 --> 03:32:37.760
exploding barbed wire boards, it's pretty
safe bet that they're going to cover that

2510
03:32:37.879 --> 03:32:41.680
closely in a way that otherwise FMW
might not be able to poke through the

2511
03:32:41.760 --> 03:32:46.079
noise of all Japan and New Japan. So nineteen ninety three comes along and

2512
03:32:46.120 --> 03:32:52.159
it's time for Terry Funk to venture
to FMW to battle a wrestler in many

2513
03:32:52.159 --> 03:32:54.399
ways, he mentored in net Shushio
Nita it's the super time Bomb match.

2514
03:32:56.520 --> 03:32:58.760
Do you remember when we did that
one aw live call where they had the

2515
03:33:00.000 --> 03:33:03.479
loading ring match and it went nowhere? Remember that, Yes, between Moxley

2516
03:33:03.520 --> 03:33:07.879
and Omega. Awful, It was
awful. It was all from here.

2517
03:33:07.399 --> 03:33:11.840
All those guys are like FMW marks
and John Moxley comes out to wild Thing

2518
03:33:11.879 --> 03:33:16.840
because that shoes sho Neda came down
to the ring to wild Thing in FMW

2519
03:33:18.200 --> 03:33:20.639
and in this match in particular,
and the idea of the end of that

2520
03:33:20.760 --> 03:33:24.600
match were like Eddie Kingston jumps on
John Moxley to protect him from the ring

2521
03:33:24.719 --> 03:33:28.479
exploding. I'm sure it comes from
here too, as we'll see as that

2522
03:33:28.520 --> 03:33:33.200
shoesho Nita has second thoughts about leaving
his mentor in the ring, defeated for

2523
03:33:33.280 --> 03:33:37.920
the ring to blow up with him
inside of it, and jumps in to

2524
03:33:39.040 --> 03:33:43.680
try to shelter Terry Funk from the
storm that was to come. So the

2525
03:33:43.760 --> 03:33:46.920
it's kind of weird that we end
up in a place in pro wrestling where

2526
03:33:46.959 --> 03:33:50.159
this is like stuff that's being recalled, stuff that's being reimagined. It just,

2527
03:33:50.319 --> 03:33:52.959
yeah, not the stuff that I
really wanted to be fucking reimagined.

2528
03:33:54.000 --> 03:33:56.840
Right before. Aw there wasn't really
a platform that was on national television at

2529
03:33:56.920 --> 03:34:03.399
least that would be willing to kind
of go here and consider this stuff classic

2530
03:34:03.520 --> 03:34:05.239
enough to resurrect. You know.
It's kind of like this is of its

2531
03:34:05.280 --> 03:34:09.200
place and time, and really,
you know, FMW was FMW and that

2532
03:34:09.319 --> 03:34:11.120
was it. It was the last
kind of thing I'd expect to get a

2533
03:34:11.239 --> 03:34:15.040
second lease on life through the lens
of a national promotion. But enough of

2534
03:34:15.079 --> 03:34:18.760
these guys that love this stuff and
were google ied over this stuff in the

2535
03:34:18.959 --> 03:34:24.559
in the nineties ended up under aw
contract that it doesn't seem so far in

2536
03:34:24.600 --> 03:34:28.360
the past, this kind of notion
of lips like this. So for Terry

2537
03:34:28.399 --> 03:34:31.200
Funk to come to FMW, it
changed the perception of what Onita was doing.

2538
03:34:31.559 --> 03:34:35.760
Well. It was quixotic and weird
and crazy and definitely drew a crowd

2539
03:34:35.840 --> 03:34:39.200
and drew attention. For Terry Funk
to come there was like, Wow,

2540
03:34:39.600 --> 03:34:41.520
these guys are here to play.
You know, the Terry Funk is a

2541
03:34:41.559 --> 03:34:45.520
big deal still to the Japanese wrestling
public, and for him to come to

2542
03:34:45.639 --> 03:34:48.959
FMW and not come back to All
Japan Pro Wrestling, it was a very

2543
03:34:48.000 --> 03:34:52.879
big thing. This was the first
non All Japan Japanese promotion Terry Funk worked

2544
03:34:52.920 --> 03:34:58.319
for, and it was for his
old friend at Chushio Nita. And yeah,

2545
03:34:58.360 --> 03:35:01.840
it seemed like according that Dark Side
documentary, was motivated more than anything

2546
03:35:01.959 --> 03:35:05.520
just to show Terry Funk how successful
he had become. You know, it's

2547
03:35:05.559 --> 03:35:07.559
kind of like a son trying to
show off for his dad, you know,

2548
03:35:07.879 --> 03:35:09.719
yea, and not more than anything. Was what motivated him to get

2549
03:35:09.799 --> 03:35:13.639
Terry Funk in the door was to
be able to show him the success he

2550
03:35:13.760 --> 03:35:16.200
was having and essentially to be proud
of him, as far as I can

2551
03:35:16.239 --> 03:35:18.959
read between the lines is what he
was saying. Because they actually were able

2552
03:35:18.000 --> 03:35:22.319
to sit down with Anita and through
a translator, interview him at length for

2553
03:35:22.360 --> 03:35:24.879
the documentary, which was really cool. Woo, yeah, that's cool,

2554
03:35:24.000 --> 03:35:28.360
very ambitious to take that on with
knowing he doesn't speak a link of English.

2555
03:35:28.520 --> 03:35:33.079
That they made it work. But
he was running his own company and

2556
03:35:33.120 --> 03:35:35.520
I was working for him, Funk
recalls. He told me about the company

2557
03:35:35.520 --> 03:35:37.840
and how it was doing, and
then he told me he'd pay me twenty

2558
03:35:37.879 --> 03:35:39.239
grand to work one match. That
was really all it took for me.

2559
03:35:39.399 --> 03:35:43.280
But I told Anita there was a
call I needed to make first. I

2560
03:35:43.399 --> 03:35:48.159
called Baba well, and though I
hadn't worked for him for quite a while,

2561
03:35:48.200 --> 03:35:50.680
I said, Baba, I'm going
in for Anita if you'll allow me

2562
03:35:50.760 --> 03:35:52.360
to. I knew he would,
but making that call was a part of

2563
03:35:52.440 --> 03:35:56.440
showing him respect, which was just
how business was done in Japan, graciously

2564
03:35:56.479 --> 03:35:58.319
and properly. I was always able
to stay on good terms with Baba because

2565
03:35:58.319 --> 03:36:01.280
I busted my as for him all
those years. I'd never screwed him around,

2566
03:36:01.479 --> 03:36:05.079
and I hope he never thought I
screwed him around. Well, that

2567
03:36:05.200 --> 03:36:09.000
means he definitely did. That's Terry
trying to address something. That's the un

2568
03:36:09.040 --> 03:36:13.079
actual thing you can tell. I
never jumped to a nook, which is

2569
03:36:13.120 --> 03:36:18.559
I guess true because when he went
to New Japan, it wasn't really Antonio

2570
03:36:18.600 --> 03:36:20.879
and Oke's shop anymore. I mean
he was around and still kind of wrestling,

2571
03:36:20.959 --> 03:36:26.319
but I don't know, I don't
know about that one. But no,

2572
03:36:26.440 --> 03:36:28.799
I mean this was still you know, it would be like Vince saying,

2573
03:36:28.840 --> 03:36:31.120
no, don't go to E CW. It's like whatever, right,

2574
03:36:31.159 --> 03:36:35.159
you know, it was still low
key enough that it wasn't considered a move

2575
03:36:35.239 --> 03:36:39.959
of aggression for Terry. Funk to
make this jump, and here he reflects

2576
03:36:39.040 --> 03:36:43.559
on coming into the match you're about
to watch next, the nineteen ninety three

2577
03:36:43.760 --> 03:36:52.360
no Rope Explosive barbed wire time bomb
deathmatch A third ninety three against Onita.

2578
03:36:52.600 --> 03:36:58.280
Here he is commenting on dark side
of the ring. It was Taedium Pool

2579
03:37:00.079 --> 03:37:05.319
thirty forty thousand, and they don't
charge fifty cents a ticket over there either.

2580
03:37:05.920 --> 03:37:11.399
There's the idiots as the front row
people. We're gonna have an exploding

2581
03:37:11.520 --> 03:37:18.040
ring match tonight. I want a
front road ticket. Bullshit. Did they

2582
03:37:18.079 --> 03:37:20.520
show you where the explosives were going
to be and stuff? Why? Hell

2583
03:37:20.639 --> 03:37:28.680
no, I had no idea.
I just went out to the damn right.

2584
03:37:31.040 --> 03:37:35.079
I'm a glutton for a crowd being
into a match, you know.

2585
03:37:35.840 --> 03:37:41.120
I was just out there ready to
capture that crowd, and we did.

2586
03:37:41.920 --> 03:37:46.920
Do you remember being satisfied with what
you were paid on that match? Well?

2587
03:37:48.040 --> 03:37:52.520
Hell no, I wouldn't satisfy.
Huh. Never saw. I don't

2588
03:37:52.600 --> 03:37:58.840
need it after a match either till
I came back the next time. I

2589
03:37:58.959 --> 03:38:05.120
think he ran. I'm made off
with the bag too. I think I'll

2590
03:38:05.159 --> 03:38:07.200
write ahead, I think you took
off. So let's go disc nineteen,

2591
03:38:07.239 --> 03:38:11.120
Boss, I hope you're ready for
this. No, get you, get

2592
03:38:11.159 --> 03:38:16.559
you more decidedly out of your comfort
zone. And you have been to date

2593
03:38:16.639 --> 03:38:20.639
probably on the whole history of the
show, with the exception I guess if

2594
03:38:20.680 --> 03:38:24.760
CZW in the Art of War Games
that one was that was off kind of

2595
03:38:24.840 --> 03:38:26.719
like that's what it's kind of like
the natural outgrowth of what we're about to

2596
03:38:26.760 --> 03:38:31.719
watch. Go to twenty nine fourteen, please and again it's the meeting between

2597
03:38:31.760 --> 03:38:37.479
Anita and Funk. The story's there, the mentor menee relationship. Anita goes

2598
03:38:37.520 --> 03:38:41.920
to Amarilla, learns the ways of
the ring under the tutelage of Terry Funk,

2599
03:38:43.000 --> 03:38:46.879
lives with the man, learns from
the man works. American Promotions comes

2600
03:38:46.959 --> 03:38:52.639
back forms FMW gets it to be
a hot promotion that's capable of paying Terry

2601
03:38:52.680 --> 03:38:56.200
Funk twenty grand to come in.
And Terry Funk comes in and now he's

2602
03:38:56.239 --> 03:39:03.479
working for this kid who was sitting
around, you know, joking around with

2603
03:39:03.520 --> 03:39:09.040
his daughter and trying to import beef
jerky. Are you ready yes, three,

2604
03:39:09.680 --> 03:39:26.799
two one play yes. So there
are explosives around in this ring.

2605
03:39:28.920 --> 03:39:33.239
The f m W ring announcer who
was handed the reins of the entire company

2606
03:39:33.319 --> 03:39:41.520
after Onita had to skip down.
We have a horrendous looking barbed wire around

2607
03:39:41.559 --> 03:39:46.840
the ring. Look at the shards
of wire and look at the explosion,

2608
03:39:48.399 --> 03:39:54.879
the explosives and nest in the wire. So when these guys hit the barbed

2609
03:39:54.879 --> 03:40:05.520
wire, there will be in the
locker room and his white uh bomber jacket

2610
03:40:05.600 --> 03:40:13.120
wristed fist's tape. Jesus Christ,
what a fuck, What a mind fuck

2611
03:40:13.159 --> 03:40:15.360
it must be to go out for
So there's the funker. Look at this

2612
03:40:15.440 --> 03:40:18.200
man. What is he doing?
Well, why is he going to do?

2613
03:40:18.360 --> 03:40:20.879
I don't know, I don't know
why he did. Why he's doing

2614
03:40:20.920 --> 03:40:31.399
this looks horrified. Nineteen ninety three. It built this up big time too.

2615
03:40:31.440 --> 03:40:41.000
It was a big story kind of
thing, you know. Cane,

2616
03:40:41.600 --> 03:40:48.680
cat cane. They hover on a
pensive Bonita sitting on a bench in the

2617
03:40:48.719 --> 03:40:54.360
locker room looking down at his fists. Got much space from the ring to

2618
03:40:54.440 --> 03:41:05.520
the foot row. Yeah, because
you could fucking die. Harry comes and

2619
03:41:05.639 --> 03:41:20.079
I love him like this is dubbed
over music. I don't and I am

2620
03:41:20.120 --> 03:41:33.559
paying. And then a funker is
back in Japan. After Now, let's

2621
03:41:33.559 --> 03:41:37.479
not forget this is before ECW went
extreme right like a full year before that.

2622
03:41:39.200 --> 03:41:41.040
I was kind of struggling when we're
doing the ECW leg of the journey

2623
03:41:41.120 --> 03:41:46.479
to not dive into this stuff because
e c W was becoming what it was

2624
03:41:46.520 --> 03:41:50.639
becoming in no small part because of
what was happening here in FMW and the

2625
03:41:50.760 --> 03:41:54.399
notions and the gimmicks and the ideas
and the vision for wrestling the Terry Funk

2626
03:41:54.520 --> 03:41:58.399
was bringing back with him going to
Japan to work this kind of stuff.

2627
03:41:58.079 --> 03:42:01.479
As it was always the case with
Terry Funk, he saw what was coming

2628
03:42:01.520 --> 03:42:05.280
around the corner precisely because he was
always booked in Japan, and Japan always

2629
03:42:05.399 --> 03:42:09.159
was five years ahead of what was
about to happen in American wrestling. It

2630
03:42:09.200 --> 03:42:13.799
says nineteen ninety three, and this
thing is filled with explosives. Think of

2631
03:42:13.879 --> 03:42:18.040
the how anadyne and childlike wrestling was
in ninety three to us. I mean,

2632
03:42:18.079 --> 03:42:24.040
that's Hogan winning the title at WrestleMania
nine. That's you know, comes

2633
03:42:24.079 --> 03:42:28.399
Onita on the big wild Thing entrance, Oxley reaching for this. To this

2634
03:42:28.600 --> 03:42:35.280
day, this magic Aornita full Goldberg
entrance right from the locker room. Yeah,

2635
03:42:35.680 --> 03:42:41.600
yep, it's just wild that this
was just a kid who lived with

2636
03:42:41.719 --> 03:42:54.200
Terry Funk. And now look at
this place. I think this is Kawasaki

2637
03:42:54.280 --> 03:42:58.239
Stadium. I think there's a big
baseball stadium in Japan. Sure you take

2638
03:42:58.239 --> 03:43:01.639
a look at that for me,
puts your mind Anita Verus Funk Stadium.

2639
03:43:07.559 --> 03:43:11.000
Taking a moment and slowing down his
pace. Halfway down the isleway is Onita

2640
03:43:11.079 --> 03:43:13.079
and he makes oh, he's facing
off with Funk halfway up the aisle.

2641
03:43:15.559 --> 03:43:18.360
Funk isn't even in the ring right
now. He slipped back out at Kawasaki

2642
03:43:18.520 --> 03:43:22.879
Stadium, thank you. That's a
very big stadium in Japan. So they

2643
03:43:22.920 --> 03:43:26.879
were getting noticed. You know that
the kind of crowds that would be drawn

2644
03:43:26.920 --> 03:43:30.440
in to see what would happen in
an environment like this were substantial. And

2645
03:43:30.559 --> 03:43:37.319
this this Terry Funk. We're forty
one thousand people and this is with no

2646
03:43:37.440 --> 03:43:41.559
TV. You know, this is
like it's like ECW doing forty one thousand

2647
03:43:41.600 --> 03:43:48.239
people. Pretty wild. In fact, DCW would actually go to Japan in

2648
03:43:48.399 --> 03:43:54.360
ninety seven in cooperation with FMW and
do some shows. All DCW guys got

2649
03:43:54.399 --> 03:43:58.920
to wrestle in Japan. The referees
dressed like a fucking knighted samurai and our

2650
03:44:00.040 --> 03:44:05.879
where and this Terry Funk here,
this outfit, this whole look. I

2651
03:44:05.920 --> 03:44:09.680
think this is the picture a picture
of him here that they put on his

2652
03:44:09.760 --> 03:44:11.639
the cover's book. What he looks
like on the cover of his book.

2653
03:44:16.159 --> 03:44:24.399
Oh, Nita, have you prepared
yourself? Boss? I mean, is

2654
03:44:24.440 --> 03:44:31.440
there can I is there? Is
it possible? I don't know? Oh

2655
03:44:31.840 --> 03:44:35.840
jesus, how fucking daunting is that
referee? Like it looks like I'm not

2656
03:44:37.000 --> 03:44:41.319
to enter like a nuclear power plant. I I feel like this maybe one

2657
03:44:41.760 --> 03:44:43.280
I got a watch with my mom. I think yeah, I think so.

2658
03:44:43.360 --> 03:44:48.719
I'd highly recommend it. I'll let
you be the judge though, after

2659
03:44:48.760 --> 03:44:54.200
all said and done, Like he's
wearing a fireman's hat, and why is

2660
03:44:54.239 --> 03:44:56.840
it all silver? Like he looks
like one of those creepy statues that uh,

2661
03:44:58.120 --> 03:45:01.600
you know in Europe, you know
where the the person just stands still

2662
03:45:01.680 --> 03:45:07.719
for three hours. Yeah, that
totally on. Plus look on the face

2663
03:45:07.799 --> 03:45:13.920
of Anita Funk kinda in his definitely
in the zone. He's like heavily concentrating.

2664
03:45:13.959 --> 03:45:18.000
He's not acting like a wild man. He's no, he's probably horrified,

2665
03:45:18.959 --> 03:45:22.200
probably saying to himself, you know
what, I might die tonight yep,

2666
03:45:22.639 --> 03:45:28.639
So possibility distant, but there l
sounds rounded applause. They're excited to

2667
03:45:28.639 --> 03:45:31.280
see what's gonna happen. That wire
is gnarly, just like the Saboo wire,

2668
03:45:33.280 --> 03:45:37.000
So think about it. Funk had
done this forty years before he did

2669
03:45:37.040 --> 03:45:41.760
that barbier match with Saboo. Yeah, but I'd like this that match and

2670
03:45:41.840 --> 03:45:46.680
many others that he fought in with
barbed wire. Funk is bare chested,

2671
03:45:46.760 --> 03:45:54.319
he does not have a T shirt
on. Pretty fucking nuts. And there

2672
03:45:54.360 --> 03:45:56.280
we go. Call her an elbow
center ring Anita locking up with the Funker,

2673
03:45:58.440 --> 03:46:01.040
and every inch you don't want to
give an this one. You want

2674
03:46:01.079 --> 03:46:05.959
to stay as far away from that
perimeter as you can. Yeah, from

2675
03:46:05.120 --> 03:46:11.840
w logo in the corner. This
so's so buzzed about at its time,

2676
03:46:11.959 --> 03:46:20.079
man Terry Funk is doing what So
it's a battle of wills, both men

2677
03:46:20.159 --> 03:46:22.879
fighting and just a collar and elbow
that's all this is. And people are

2678
03:46:22.920 --> 03:46:28.159
going nuts because you know when you
touch the wire, it's gonna blow up.

2679
03:46:31.479 --> 03:46:33.639
I like that story Funk tells about
pissing on an electric fence when who's

2680
03:46:33.680 --> 03:46:43.639
a kid. Yeah, get a
ton of mileage out of this lock up,

2681
03:46:43.680 --> 03:46:46.680
baby. Let me tell you a
lot of communication. You can hear

2682
03:46:46.760 --> 03:46:52.399
from shouting. Someone's gonna die.
Anita is being edged into the wire.

2683
03:46:52.520 --> 03:47:07.200
Boss audit a oh my god.
Oh he fights it off. Oh and

2684
03:47:07.360 --> 03:47:11.479
Funk breaks it with an elbow.
Whoa, they go. The crowd's going

2685
03:47:11.600 --> 03:47:15.959
crazy for that. Oh knife fetch
chopped by the Funker, brings that shoe

2686
03:47:15.959 --> 03:47:24.680
show needed to a knee. Us
what Funk boxing? And they applaud as

2687
03:47:24.719 --> 03:47:35.559
he lets the jabs go. Oh
Jesus Christ like he's smoking. Look at

2688
03:47:35.600 --> 03:47:39.760
his back. Oh my god,
let's just talk say things. Respond react.

2689
03:47:39.879 --> 03:47:43.920
I don't does I don't have a
reaction. It is. I mean,

2690
03:47:45.000 --> 03:47:48.760
it's like so we can get he
really a burn there our first explosion

2691
03:47:48.799 --> 03:47:52.719
of the match, as a big
left from the Funker sends Anita into the

2692
03:47:52.799 --> 03:47:58.440
exploding wire. What the fuck?
Back to the jabs goes to Funker.

2693
03:48:03.680 --> 03:48:07.399
Anita's like he's in a stand of
shock. Yeah, I mean you have

2694
03:48:07.559 --> 03:48:13.719
to be look at he's got Look
at that leg char like what was busted

2695
03:48:13.799 --> 03:48:16.680
open on his arm? Wire.
Funk's trying to drag him by the hair

2696
03:48:16.799 --> 03:48:26.360
of the wire again. He's a
little like small, almost egg shaped bombs

2697
03:48:26.559 --> 03:48:31.000
in the barbed wire. I just
don't even understand, like what it's supposed

2698
03:48:31.040 --> 03:48:37.879
to do. It's supposed to make
a loud noise. Oh, pile driver

2699
03:48:37.000 --> 03:48:48.639
by Terry Funk. I look how
busted up his arm already is a Terry's

2700
03:48:48.680 --> 03:48:54.440
gonna take you everywhere, everywhere?
Yeah, whether I want to or not.

2701
03:48:54.680 --> 03:49:01.440
Direct swinging neck breaker by the Funker
drops the knee right in the face.

2702
03:49:01.079 --> 03:49:11.719
Cover wants this overweight. Yeah,
me too. There we go again.

2703
03:49:13.600 --> 03:49:22.840
They're talking all the wiring in those
barbed wires. No Jesus, Anita

2704
03:49:22.879 --> 03:49:31.360
whipped in. Explosions go off,
and he lays back into the wire as

2705
03:49:31.399 --> 03:49:37.760
if conceding to the pain. Holy
shit, it's like it's like when you

2706
03:49:39.559 --> 03:49:46.120
when a fly hits the fucking exactly, you know, get him up,

2707
03:49:46.159 --> 03:49:48.360
your son of a bitch. Funk
screams as they chann Onita or a Kawasaki

2708
03:49:48.440 --> 03:49:54.600
stadium. No, Nita's acting like
he just like came out of a toxic

2709
03:49:54.680 --> 03:49:56.120
shock syndrome. I don't know if
he's acting like that, I don't know.

2710
03:49:56.239 --> 03:49:58.760
I think he might be feeling that
fuck you up to have that go.

2711
03:50:00.440 --> 03:50:05.120
It's I think it might be real
disorienting. Look at his his arm

2712
03:50:05.159 --> 03:50:09.239
as fucked. Anita snatches a side
headlock and they come alive, but Funker

2713
03:50:09.319 --> 03:50:16.360
goes to the shin breaker, bad
wheel and Anita. As we've established so

2714
03:50:16.559 --> 03:50:20.079
Terry pretty much unscathed. So far, it's been Oneita taking the brunt of

2715
03:50:20.159 --> 03:50:22.840
the explosive blows. Now do you
see why the ref is dressed like that?

2716
03:50:24.680 --> 03:50:26.280
Like it's about to start me?
I don't think. I don't think

2717
03:50:26.319 --> 03:50:31.600
he's worrying enough now, Terry dragging
Anita across the map. Look at that

2718
03:50:31.200 --> 03:50:37.959
wound on his arm. Is how
you like your pro wrestling boss, Not

2719
03:50:39.159 --> 03:50:43.040
at all. I do think my
mom would find this very funny, very

2720
03:50:43.079 --> 03:50:46.719
fascinating, though, I mean would
find it funny. I'll find it funny.

2721
03:50:50.719 --> 03:50:54.360
Funk dragging Anita by the hair as
close as he can get him too.

2722
03:50:54.399 --> 03:50:58.920
That wire set off another bomb.
Who gives a fuck? He's gotta

2723
03:51:00.079 --> 03:51:03.159
up the hair off his head.
I know he really is. Look how

2724
03:51:03.200 --> 03:51:11.840
close his eyes out of the wire. Oh my god, he's gradually moving.

2725
03:51:11.040 --> 03:51:20.239
He need his head closer to that
perverse fencing. Anita slowly lifts to

2726
03:51:20.319 --> 03:51:24.000
his feet, hooks the waist backdrop
driver attempt. No Funk blocks it by

2727
03:51:24.079 --> 03:51:28.920
holding out of the hair. It's
smart. Oh but he explodes. Oh

2728
03:51:28.079 --> 03:51:33.799
thank god the backdrop driver doesn't need
us Jesus planting Funk into the canvas and

2729
03:51:33.840 --> 03:51:37.239
buying himself some time. As he's
looking, he's looking around like he just

2730
03:51:37.319 --> 03:51:43.760
emerged from a car that crashed.
I need to stop wrestling watching this match.

2731
03:51:43.000 --> 03:51:48.760
That's right, Anita, I need
a lot watching I need I need

2732
03:51:48.840 --> 03:51:54.920
a stiff drink. Punk stays on
him with a Jay Whitey head button.

2733
03:51:54.920 --> 03:51:58.280
Now again, he's grabbing a need
about the hair and trying to throw him

2734
03:51:58.280 --> 03:52:03.959
into the barb wire. We Needa
grabs Funk's hand. Terry shirtless, Terry

2735
03:52:03.559 --> 03:52:09.000
unprotected, Terry man. I mean
you say that, but I don't think

2736
03:52:09.040 --> 03:52:22.319
Anita has at all. Oh my
funking the explosive wire fots thoughts, thoughts,

2737
03:52:24.399 --> 03:52:33.159
it's the lapsed Funk. I don't
have any I'm just this is I

2738
03:52:33.239 --> 03:52:39.079
mean, look at his arm.
Anita's arm is a complete Funker stands is

2739
03:52:39.159 --> 03:52:43.520
gonna stumble into the wire again.
What a way to incorporate the classic Terry

2740
03:52:43.600 --> 03:52:48.200
Funk cell yep Oh, these people
are like hanging on every single thing these

2741
03:52:48.280 --> 03:52:52.879
guys do. But once they obviously
once they hit the wire, the one

2742
03:52:54.000 --> 03:52:58.120
wire they you know, you can't
go back there because think how it worked.

2743
03:52:58.159 --> 03:53:03.959
Ye Anita Lance Funk with a wonderful
DDT Funk bleeding profusely from the forehead.

2744
03:53:03.159 --> 03:53:13.959
Jesus cover by Onita one two and
Funk kicks out. I just love

2745
03:53:13.040 --> 03:53:16.840
that. Polite rounds of applause for
kicking out of a DVT. In the

2746
03:53:16.879 --> 03:53:20.360
middle of this right side headlocked by
Anita, Funk trying to count again with

2747
03:53:20.440 --> 03:53:24.639
a shin breaker lifts Anita. You
can't quite get them up high enough though

2748
03:53:30.280 --> 03:53:33.239
that time he gets them. It's
interesting to watch a match. You can't

2749
03:53:33.280 --> 03:53:37.559
hit the ropes, you know,
yeah, I mean that's yeah. That

2750
03:53:37.760 --> 03:53:43.120
is a big gash in Anita's right
arm. Holy shit. Oh, Funk

2751
03:53:43.159 --> 03:53:45.600
comes up with the wild left and
they ooh and ah, that one is

2752
03:53:45.639 --> 03:53:54.319
the ref almost caught some of that
fucking shrapnel, the wires that hang top

2753
03:53:54.360 --> 03:53:58.520
to bottom, the explosives. That's
so creepy to me. I agree,

2754
03:54:01.760 --> 03:54:05.760
ad butts from Anita Funk with his
back to the wire. He's stumbling in.

2755
03:54:07.479 --> 03:54:09.479
He's stumbling in, he's losing his
fighting. One more, here we

2756
03:54:09.520 --> 03:54:20.239
go, two more now, Oh
my God Jesus, look at the wire

2757
03:54:20.280 --> 03:54:26.920
and his shirt. Terry snatched Anita
after forehead butts sidestepped him and threw Anita

2758
03:54:26.959 --> 03:54:30.440
into the wire. Anita didn't just
hit the wire, he hit the Look

2759
03:54:30.479 --> 03:54:37.280
at the The blood is all over
him. He's a master. This guy

2760
03:54:39.200 --> 03:54:43.000
had his hand pretty bad too.
It looks like fucking astronaut just wants to

2761
03:54:43.280 --> 03:54:46.040
get back in the ring. Look
at him. Look at Anita. Oh

2762
03:54:46.120 --> 03:54:52.120
his hands fucked. Something happened to
his hand. Man Like, I see

2763
03:54:52.200 --> 03:54:58.799
this is the thing, you know, Like what what the are the risks

2764
03:54:58.959 --> 03:55:03.360
worth this? God? Like,
he's completely cut up and his hands busted,

2765
03:55:03.440 --> 03:55:09.600
But we're gonna continue. Eda gets
in the rings, swinging on his

2766
03:55:09.719 --> 03:55:13.120
knees like a drunk man kind of
Oh, Funk gets up. This is

2767
03:55:13.159 --> 03:55:18.159
so brilliant, man, how he
works the stumble into almost tumbling into the

2768
03:55:18.200 --> 03:55:22.239
wire. Because you've been watching Terry
Funk, you know he falls out of

2769
03:55:22.280 --> 03:55:26.479
the ring all the time. Oh
no, a five minute countdown? Oh

2770
03:55:26.559 --> 03:55:31.799
my god, what happens at five
minutes? Oh they put those red lights

2771
03:55:31.799 --> 03:55:33.760
in the buck on the post.
I forgot about that. Listen to that,

2772
03:55:35.399 --> 03:55:37.680
and they're fucking punching each other in
the head like hockey, Like a

2773
03:55:37.760 --> 03:55:41.639
hockey fight in the middle of the
ring, Funk swinging for the fences.

2774
03:55:43.840 --> 03:55:48.200
Is that menacing enough for you?
Bops? What happens in five building?

2775
03:55:48.319 --> 03:55:54.559
Blow up? What the ring explodes? So they have to win? Supposed

2776
03:55:54.559 --> 03:55:56.680
to get pinned before the ring,
before the Yeah, you want to get

2777
03:55:56.719 --> 03:56:01.360
the wind before that time, otherwise
you're not gonna win. You just gotta

2778
03:56:01.360 --> 03:56:07.959
get out of there. Such a
menacing sound. So perverse the lapsed funk,

2779
03:56:07.159 --> 03:56:11.479
I mean, yeah, it's like
one of those uh air raid sirens

2780
03:56:13.040 --> 03:56:15.799
clacks on alarms or whatever, you
know. Funk with several head butts,

2781
03:56:15.799 --> 03:56:20.360
But Anita stands tall and answers.
Both men like two rams stumbling into each

2782
03:56:20.399 --> 03:56:26.239
other. Funk falls, Anita falls. Three point fifty six five left on

2783
03:56:26.280 --> 03:56:31.319
the countdown clock. Funk falls,
Anita falls, but no pin falls.

2784
03:56:31.399 --> 03:56:39.680
Yeah, a couple of ear falls
so far. I mean, come on,

2785
03:56:39.840 --> 03:56:41.959
I know for a fact that we're
not going to see a pin fall

2786
03:56:41.000 --> 03:56:48.600
before the five minute countdown. See
wild left from the Funker. This time

2787
03:56:48.680 --> 03:56:54.360
drops, Anita's gonna spinning told they
pop for it so over in Japan.

2788
03:56:54.479 --> 03:57:03.360
This move was so weird. He's
twisting these on Onita steps over twice with

2789
03:57:03.479 --> 03:57:09.719
it does Terry Funk three three point
fifteen left before shore doom? Oh no,

2790
03:57:11.120 --> 03:57:16.200
oh Jesus, Funk kicked off the
toe hold and stumbles bare back first

2791
03:57:16.239 --> 03:57:22.239
into the wire, which explodes and
Funk hits the mat, convulsing. Oh

2792
03:57:22.360 --> 03:57:28.959
my god, the burnt Yeah,
the ash at least nasty. Unk stumbles

2793
03:57:28.000 --> 03:57:37.760
into another DDT from Onita cover by
Adita two three Funk Wow takes the fall

2794
03:57:41.559 --> 03:57:45.319
with about two minutes and forty seconds
left. Why is the countdown still happening?

2795
03:57:45.600 --> 03:57:48.920
The ring blows up. No matter
what happens before five minutes before the

2796
03:57:48.079 --> 03:57:54.719
end, they're still fighting. Maybe
it's most falls. Oh no, that

2797
03:57:54.840 --> 03:57:56.920
was it. Yeah, they were
just playing his music, but Terry still

2798
03:57:56.920 --> 03:58:03.600
attacking him anyway. We announcer frantically
making announcements. Funk's arm is all jacked,

2799
03:58:03.639 --> 03:58:13.799
look at him and cuts he's got
in his arm. He is out

2800
03:58:13.840 --> 03:58:16.520
of his mind. And again this
is the Terry Funk that ECW already had.

2801
03:58:18.200 --> 03:58:20.559
Who did this? Ah? Funk
grabs the ref elbows in behind the

2802
03:58:20.559 --> 03:58:22.920
head, knocking his helmet off because
the ref is trying to get him off

2803
03:58:22.920 --> 03:58:28.360
of No Nita, well, Anita
grabs the helmet and crowns Terry Funk with

2804
03:58:28.479 --> 03:58:31.840
it. As this fight continues,
the bell sounds continuously. Is Anita plants

2805
03:58:31.920 --> 03:58:35.280
Terry Funk with another DDT? We're
at a minute forty five? People are

2806
03:58:35.319 --> 03:58:39.719
starting to stand here in Kawasaki Stadium. Oh no, the pat never need

2807
03:58:39.799 --> 03:58:52.120
a power bomb. Here it comes
Plants Terry still fighting. Anita's pulling Terry

2808
03:58:52.159 --> 03:59:01.719
Funk back up by his hair elapsed
Funk. Oh Jesus really got him up

2809
03:59:01.719 --> 03:59:11.639
for that pile power bomb. So
referee has got his witch back about him.

2810
03:59:11.639 --> 03:59:18.200
He puts his shock Master helmet back
on and at five and at four

2811
03:59:18.959 --> 03:59:22.000
they keep ringing the bell. The
ref's trying to get Anita out of there.

2812
03:59:22.799 --> 03:59:28.319
One minute to goo. Ref gets
the fuck out. Why don't they

2813
03:59:28.479 --> 03:59:31.840
leave now? Anita's on his knees
in the ring, still looking around.

2814
03:59:37.200 --> 03:59:39.719
Get out of the ring, for
fuck's sake, what's wrong with you?

2815
03:59:43.280 --> 03:59:46.239
Terry Funk flat in his back,
bloody forid, bloody arm, convulsing motion

2816
03:59:46.680 --> 03:59:54.520
other than that, motionless If he
wants to respond to this countdown to doom,

2817
03:59:54.600 --> 03:59:58.959
his body's not allowing. And finally, Anita slouches himself out underneath the

2818
04:00:00.000 --> 04:00:07.040
bottom strain of barbed wire the victor
eighteen seventeen sixteen. Terry left convulsing like

2819
04:00:07.120 --> 04:00:09.879
a fish in the middle of the
room. Wait a minute, Anita goes

2820
04:00:09.920 --> 04:00:16.719
back in. I need to try
to wake up Funk slapping my face by

2821
04:00:18.000 --> 04:01:13.680
four two? What m h?
And they play it like a movie.

2822
04:01:15.719 --> 04:01:24.840
Yeah, I was gonna say,
it's like fucking Anita collects that a bloody

2823
04:01:24.959 --> 04:01:35.239
carcass of Terry Funk shielding him from
the fucking napalm and they walk out,

2824
04:01:35.440 --> 04:01:41.200
arm in arm. Anita couldn't stand
to see that happen, Terry Funk,

2825
04:01:41.239 --> 04:01:46.760
boss. That was the message there. I guess we have storytelling and except

2826
04:01:46.840 --> 04:01:50.680
you guys could have left the ring
earlier. They could have left the ring

2827
04:01:50.760 --> 04:01:52.600
earlier. Yeah, he could have
dragged him out before it went off if

2828
04:01:52.639 --> 04:01:58.000
you cared about it. But I
think Anita has the microphone now kind of

2829
04:01:58.120 --> 04:02:01.840
was it conflicted about whether he wanted
to leave Terry to that fate or not

2830
04:02:01.040 --> 04:02:33.639
until the last minute, rying into
the microphone, is you? Anita throws

2831
04:02:33.719 --> 04:02:39.360
down the mic. Terry Funk arm
around. Nida led to the back.

2832
04:02:39.559 --> 04:02:54.920
Both men did some business here.
They collapsed in the aisleway Jesus, what

2833
04:02:56.040 --> 04:03:03.959
did you think of the explosion?
I mean, in what way? I

2834
04:03:05.000 --> 04:03:07.639
don't know anything you want to say
about it. I mean it was a

2835
04:03:07.719 --> 04:03:11.920
better explosion than the fuck a w
one. It was so much better that,

2836
04:03:13.120 --> 04:03:22.079
like everyone has failed trying to repeat
it since next time. I appreciate

2837
04:03:22.200 --> 04:03:26.799
everything you did for me out there. Thank you. I made it from

2838
04:03:26.840 --> 04:03:35.559
my heart, thank you. But
I cannot mean, Matthew, no,

2839
04:03:41.360 --> 04:03:48.079
next time my rules you wrestle were
match before you wrestle, blow up match

2840
04:03:48.159 --> 04:04:07.280
before next time, teachers rules,
you understand. He's like no, or

2841
04:04:07.280 --> 04:04:11.559
Anita left looking after looking at his
mentor like you're really going to make me

2842
04:04:11.639 --> 04:04:20.200
kill you dude. H. So
there you have it. I know you

2843
04:04:20.319 --> 04:04:22.879
loved it, boss, and I'm
glad to hear it. So the explosion

2844
04:04:22.959 --> 04:04:26.680
was better than the aw one for
sure. Yeah, what I just it's

2845
04:04:26.760 --> 04:04:37.799
like it's just so I just don't
I mean, I get it in a

2846
04:04:37.879 --> 04:04:46.760
way, like everyone's trying to do
something different, but it's not like they

2847
04:04:46.920 --> 04:04:54.840
really care about it being extremely safe. No, it's like it's a it's

2848
04:04:54.879 --> 04:05:03.000
like it's a weird. It's such
a weird thing cause it's like, you

2849
04:05:03.639 --> 04:05:09.760
know, they're trying to create movie
magic, yes, in real life,

2850
04:05:11.239 --> 04:05:18.120
and it just doesn't work. And
it's also dangerous, and it's like what

2851
04:05:18.399 --> 04:05:28.479
the fuck, Like, I mean, like you're not it's it's fake guys.

2852
04:05:31.000 --> 04:05:35.360
Ah, you know it's like you
don't you don't see major sports having

2853
04:05:35.399 --> 04:05:43.680
to introduce some fucking explosions to because
it's real, that's but wrestling it's fake.

2854
04:05:43.760 --> 04:05:46.719
So you've got to go this far
to draw people in to getting that

2855
04:05:46.840 --> 04:05:50.920
feeling in their gut like this is
actually dangerous. You know, this is

2856
04:05:50.000 --> 04:05:54.520
actually competition, or this is actually
risky. We're actually seeing something on the

2857
04:05:54.600 --> 04:06:00.200
line here instead of just you know, a performance playing out white some thing

2858
04:06:00.920 --> 04:06:03.520
Long said in this book. Spent
a week there for FMW nineteen ninety three,

2859
04:06:03.559 --> 04:06:05.200
and my last night in we did
the exploding ring match with the ropes

2860
04:06:05.200 --> 04:06:09.200
replaced by barbed wire would land mine
strapped in with at Kawasaki Stadium. I

2861
04:06:09.239 --> 04:06:13.200
had no idea how powerful or dangerous
these things were. I put my trust

2862
04:06:13.479 --> 04:06:16.600
in the dynamite man's hands. The
barbed wire didn't bother me, but the

2863
04:06:16.680 --> 04:06:20.840
explosions did. The First time Anita
whipped me into one of the explosives,

2864
04:06:20.040 --> 04:06:24.520
my first thought was how loud.
The thing was don't ask me what it

2865
04:06:24.680 --> 04:06:28.079
was that blew like that, but
the percussion from it also pounded me pretty

2866
04:06:28.120 --> 04:06:31.280
good. Those were some brutal matches, and I saw Ania take a lot

2867
04:06:31.319 --> 04:06:33.639
of stitches after they were over.
He had a lot of from other matches

2868
04:06:33.639 --> 04:06:37.479
too. The amount of stitches he
had done was just ridiculous. Hell,

2869
04:06:37.680 --> 04:06:41.040
I've glued together cuts or taped them
shut and just went on down the road.

2870
04:06:41.319 --> 04:06:43.360
I've saved tons of money doing that. The fans in FMW weren't like

2871
04:06:43.399 --> 04:06:46.399
the All Japan fans and all Japan
when I'd been there. Their fans would

2872
04:06:46.399 --> 04:06:50.479
politely applaud and only get really excited
on rare occasions. Although the clapping became

2873
04:06:50.600 --> 04:06:54.440
less as the crowd slowly got more
Americanized over the years, the FMW fans

2874
04:06:54.479 --> 04:06:58.920
were wild. They were in love
with Onita and the stuff he put on.

2875
04:06:58.520 --> 04:07:03.639
Evidently his promotional philosophy worked, because
you don't put forty one thousand and

2876
04:07:03.760 --> 04:07:07.479
fifty thousand people in Kawasaki Stadium without
having a good game plan. Are you

2877
04:07:07.559 --> 04:07:09.920
looking for a good booker, Kloeida? No one else in the world would

2878
04:07:09.959 --> 04:07:13.799
have done what he did to get
over at that time, and now he

2879
04:07:15.000 --> 04:07:18.000
was the celebrity and millionaire he'd always
wanted to be. Every time I would

2880
04:07:18.040 --> 04:07:20.159
arrive in Japan and see him,
the first thing he'd have to say to

2881
04:07:20.239 --> 04:07:24.920
me was, Terry, I am
big star. Now nowadays it's Terry,

2882
04:07:24.959 --> 04:07:30.559
I am senator. Senator. Well, no shit, you're a senator,

2883
04:07:30.719 --> 04:07:35.000
Funk wrote. I knew it before
he told me, just like I knew

2884
04:07:35.280 --> 04:07:37.959
he was a big star. But
that didn't matter. He had to tell

2885
04:07:37.040 --> 04:07:43.959
me every damn time we moved forward. Terry Funk would continue to wrestle in

2886
04:07:45.040 --> 04:07:48.639
FMW. Had a match, for
instance, in ninety three, teaming with

2887
04:07:48.719 --> 04:07:52.719
Tarzan Goto, another exponent of the
Japanese death Match, against the Sheikh and

2888
04:07:52.840 --> 04:07:58.000
Sabu, which was a bit of
a full circle moment for Funk and Sabu

2889
04:07:58.079 --> 04:08:01.040
and his uncle. So, of
course, the chic Terry Funk shared to

2890
04:08:01.120 --> 04:08:05.079
ring with in the formative days of
All Japan and those Wild Tag League finals,

2891
04:08:05.600 --> 04:08:09.319
so they imported that dynamic to the
death matches of FMW as well.

2892
04:08:09.840 --> 04:08:13.719
Nothing really, that match we just
watched with Onita was promoted as a hyper

2893
04:08:13.879 --> 04:08:18.840
special thing. It wasn't like every
match was filled with that kind of violence.

2894
04:08:18.719 --> 04:08:22.120
A lot of it was pretty straight
wrestling, but when they went hard

2895
04:08:22.920 --> 04:08:24.920
on the death match stuff, they
went harder than pretty much anybody else going

2896
04:08:26.520 --> 04:08:31.040
at the time. Another group sprouted
up trying to copy and kind of doing

2897
04:08:31.079 --> 04:08:35.440
in a lower budget way but with
a big talent budget still what FMW had

2898
04:08:35.479 --> 04:08:39.600
done. It was called IWA IWA
Japan, and it was IWA where the

2899
04:08:39.639 --> 04:08:43.680
Funk Cactus Jack King of the Death
Match Tournament happened, not FMW. So

2900
04:08:43.920 --> 04:08:50.399
FMW continues to go and IWA is
formed and Funk gets signed on to them

2901
04:08:50.680 --> 04:08:54.920
by ninety four. The match we
just watched with Anita was in ninety three,

2902
04:08:54.959 --> 04:08:58.920
and in ninety four he's in there
having rings surrounded by fire matches,

2903
04:09:00.120 --> 04:09:03.719
okay, and just generally, you
know, these fucking burning lanterns hanging from

2904
04:09:03.760 --> 04:09:07.719
the ring ropes while he's in there
punching the shit out of people. At

2905
04:09:07.760 --> 04:09:13.079
Kirohioo and sho Jinakamaki and Nobutaka Raya
and these sort of you know, Japanese

2906
04:09:13.120 --> 04:09:16.879
grown deathmatch specialists. There were wrestler's
boss that were coming up in the circuit

2907
04:09:16.959 --> 04:09:20.479
that, unlike Onita, they didn't
have pedigree in the major wrestling companies.

2908
04:09:22.000 --> 04:09:24.360
They were getting a go in a
business really because they were willing to do

2909
04:09:24.479 --> 04:09:30.280
these risky matches. We saw that
with the American backyard wrestlers of the nineties,

2910
04:09:30.319 --> 04:09:33.479
remember that I do. Some people
just showed up like willing to take

2911
04:09:33.520 --> 04:09:39.200
incredible risks and stunt bumps, and
there were places for them, There were

2912
04:09:39.239 --> 04:09:43.120
places for them to get work doing
that and doing that to themselves, and

2913
04:09:43.440 --> 04:09:45.879
that all started in so many ways
in the early nineties in Japan the mid

2914
04:09:45.959 --> 04:09:50.719
nineties with promotions like IWA Japan.
There was a huge event on April second,

2915
04:09:50.799 --> 04:09:54.280
nineteen ninety five, as Weekly Pro
Wrestling, a key publication in Japan,

2916
04:09:54.399 --> 04:09:58.280
put on a tokyotom show featuring participants
from like what was it, thirteen

2917
04:09:58.319 --> 04:10:01.559
different wrestling promotions under the same roof. It was a huge event. It

2918
04:10:01.639 --> 04:10:05.239
was one of the actually it's one
of the biggest events ever held in Japanese

2919
04:10:05.239 --> 04:10:07.680
pro wrestling, fifty thousand in attendance. It was called Bridge of Dreams I

2920
04:10:07.760 --> 04:10:11.239
think is the rough translation of what
it was called in Japanese. April second,

2921
04:10:11.319 --> 04:10:16.200
ninety five Tokyo Dome and Terry Funk
stepped onto that stage along with representatives

2922
04:10:16.239 --> 04:10:20.440
from all the major offices and there
was a there was a six man tag

2923
04:10:20.479 --> 04:10:24.760
where a leather face showed j Nakamaki. In Terry Funk defeated head Hunter a

2924
04:10:24.000 --> 04:10:30.079
Headhunter b Remember the head Hunters from
that Royal Rumble Boss, those big Abdul

2925
04:10:30.120 --> 04:10:33.159
the butcher looking guys. Yes,
yes, four hundred pounds with a cactus

2926
04:10:33.280 --> 04:10:37.600
jack And that was a barbed wire
board and barbed wire baseball bat bunk house

2927
04:10:37.840 --> 04:10:46.440
death match as Funk and Cactus share
a death match in Japan really kind of

2928
04:10:46.479 --> 04:10:50.200
for the first time in April of
ninety five and Pro Wrestling Tokyo Doom Show

2929
04:10:50.760 --> 04:10:52.879
and his book, Funk writes the
Headhunters were about the only guys who ever

2930
04:10:54.000 --> 04:10:56.479
did catch me the right way.
On Moon Salts, another match in Japan

2931
04:10:56.520 --> 04:11:01.479
involving Onnita, I did my courageous
moonsalt off the top o need a cactus

2932
04:11:01.520 --> 04:11:03.920
in Mike Awsam somehow missed me.
Remember we watched that. When we were

2933
04:11:03.959 --> 04:11:07.559
talking, yeah about that, nothing
was there for me except the floor.

2934
04:11:07.600 --> 04:11:09.559
I ended up with a hymotome on
the side of my head the size of

2935
04:11:09.559 --> 04:11:11.600
a softball, and for the rest
of the match, I wasn't sure where

2936
04:11:11.639 --> 04:11:16.600
I was or what I was doing
I need to try to toss me back

2937
04:11:16.639 --> 04:11:20.200
in the ring in Victor Quinonez Ridic
Quinonez was a big part of IBA two

2938
04:11:20.959 --> 04:11:24.559
and was a big part of convincing
Terry Funk to go work over there.

2939
04:11:24.760 --> 04:11:26.360
My manager came running down to the
ring to stop the thing because I was

2940
04:11:26.399 --> 04:11:28.680
out on my feet, just knocked
silly. After the show's over, I

2941
04:11:28.760 --> 04:11:31.399
ended up taking another trip to the
hospital. I'm grateful to this day for

2942
04:11:31.479 --> 04:11:33.920
Victor's help. I sure hope those
guys never get the idea to try to

2943
04:11:33.959 --> 04:11:37.760
play baseball, because they damn sure
it can't catch. But getting back to

2944
04:11:37.799 --> 04:11:39.760
the Tokyo match again ninety five,
here, Cactus and I came close to

2945
04:11:39.799 --> 04:11:43.799
getting to some real trouble. During
the match, Cactus was going to set

2946
04:11:43.840 --> 04:11:46.680
fire to a board. We had
talked about it earlier. This doesn't go

2947
04:11:46.760 --> 04:11:50.639
well with Terry Funk and Cactus Jack, and they don't. They don't do

2948
04:11:50.799 --> 04:11:54.680
well with this stuff flames. We
had talked about it earlier, and we're

2949
04:11:54.680 --> 04:11:56.479
both in agreement that we needed to
do something special to call attention to our

2950
04:11:56.559 --> 04:11:58.719
match, which was the only fifth
which was only the fifth match on the

2951
04:11:58.719 --> 04:12:01.600
Big One of the Japanese officials.
Apparently he had seen some of the things

2952
04:12:01.639 --> 04:12:05.440
we had done before because he said
to us, no fire, you'd use

2953
04:12:05.559 --> 04:12:09.559
fire. Fire Marshal closed down hold
dome, but Cactus and I felt like

2954
04:12:09.559 --> 04:12:13.719
we'd get some great publicity out of
this and decided to light the board.

2955
04:12:13.760 --> 04:12:16.559
Anyhow, we got to the spot
in the match and Cactus and I were

2956
04:12:16.600 --> 04:12:18.079
the only ones in the ring.
He squirted fluid all over the board and

2957
04:12:18.159 --> 04:12:20.479
got out the lighter. While we
were both lying on the mat. He

2958
04:12:20.600 --> 04:12:24.879
kept flicking and flicking the lighter but
wasn't having any luck, mainly because he

2959
04:12:24.000 --> 04:12:26.360
was holding his hand upside down and
was trying to light the board as it

2960
04:12:26.440 --> 04:12:28.639
lay on the mat. He kept
on burning his hand, and then he

2961
04:12:28.719 --> 04:12:31.920
dropped the lighter, pick it up, and repeat the whole process. If

2962
04:12:31.959 --> 04:12:33.079
he thought to raise up the board
and light it on its side, it

2963
04:12:33.120 --> 04:12:35.760
would have gone up beautifully, and
I guess we would have closed the show

2964
04:12:35.799 --> 04:12:39.879
because after his fourth filed attempt,
the fire department guy saw what he was

2965
04:12:39.920 --> 04:12:41.840
doing and started going nuts. The
referee was trying to stop the thing,

2966
04:12:41.879 --> 04:12:45.680
but all that kept it from happening
was that Cactus kept burning his hand and

2967
04:12:45.760 --> 04:12:48.879
dropping the lighter. If we'd closed
that show down, we'd have been immortal

2968
04:12:48.120 --> 04:12:52.799
in Japan. That's what he's going
for, boss. He wants to be

2969
04:12:52.840 --> 04:12:56.600
immortal in Japan. He already is. Did no one tell me he is?

2970
04:12:56.840 --> 04:12:58.639
Dude, he already was. That
was what we had in mind.

2971
04:12:58.680 --> 04:13:01.000
Of course, we never would have
been asked back to Japan to work for

2972
04:13:01.079 --> 04:13:03.920
anyone, but we weren't looking that
far ahead at the time. Between the

2973
04:13:03.959 --> 04:13:07.639
wrestlers and the fans. We also
might not have gotten out of the dome

2974
04:13:07.680 --> 04:13:11.440
alive. With fire department officials hopping
up on the ring. Apron Cactus finally

2975
04:13:11.479 --> 04:13:13.479
gave up and went on with the
match. When we got back to the

2976
04:13:13.559 --> 04:13:16.760
dressing room, Asano, who was
the promoter, was screaming, no fire,

2977
04:13:16.920 --> 04:13:20.280
no fire, You ruin me,
You ruin me. Then he grabbed

2978
04:13:20.280 --> 04:13:22.840
the referee and bitch slapped him.
He was slapping the referee, I guess

2979
04:13:22.920 --> 04:13:26.440
because there was no way he had
the balls to try to slap Cactus for

2980
04:13:26.559 --> 04:13:28.520
me. He didn't mind paint brushing
the poor referee about twenty times, though,

2981
04:13:28.760 --> 04:13:31.520
I guess it was supposed to impress
Cactus in me. That poor referee's

2982
04:13:31.559 --> 04:13:35.520
head was bobbing back and forth.
All told, though, we busted our

2983
04:13:35.600 --> 04:13:39.319
asses on that match. After the
referee slapping concluded, Masafucci came up to

2984
04:13:39.360 --> 04:13:43.000
me and said, Baba wanted to
talk with me. I went over to

2985
04:13:43.040 --> 04:13:45.879
Baba because you know, Al Japan
was on this big card as well,

2986
04:13:46.040 --> 04:13:50.600
so Baba was there backstage. It's
nineteen ninety five, this is what twelve

2987
04:13:50.719 --> 04:13:54.920
years after the retirement ceremony in the
Al Japan ring. I went over to

2988
04:13:54.959 --> 04:14:00.319
Baba funk rites and we smiled at
each other. He looked at me first

2989
04:14:00.360 --> 04:14:05.879
second and said, very good,
very good. That was about the highest

2990
04:14:07.079 --> 04:14:13.479
praise Baba ever gave someone. It
was the last time Baba and I ever

2991
04:14:13.920 --> 04:14:22.680
spoke. King of the Death Match
Terry Funk. In nineteen ninety five,

2992
04:14:22.719 --> 04:14:26.680
I went back to Kawasaki Stadium for
another group, the IWA. The group

2993
04:14:26.760 --> 04:14:28.719
run by Kyoshia Sano, did a
King of the Death Match tournament. The

2994
04:14:28.760 --> 04:14:33.040
official attendance was twenty eight seven fifty
seven, but it sure seemed like more

2995
04:14:33.079 --> 04:14:37.319
than that when we were out there. By that time, Anita wasn't working

2996
04:14:37.360 --> 04:14:39.120
that many shows, and I was
a free agent. IWA was willing to

2997
04:14:39.159 --> 04:14:43.440
pay what I wanted, so I
went where Anita shows were filled with top

2998
04:14:43.479 --> 04:14:46.120
attraction from top to bottom. The
IWA was a different story. There was

2999
04:14:46.159 --> 04:14:48.920
a whole lot of blood and a
lot of crazy violent matches from start to

3000
04:14:48.959 --> 04:14:52.520
finish. There were some weird deals
going on too. There was a doctor

3001
04:14:52.600 --> 04:15:01.239
in Tokyo who was doing circumcisions,
what offering two free King of the Death

3002
04:15:01.280 --> 04:15:03.079
Match Show tickets to anyone who came
in and got one done and their kid

3003
04:15:03.520 --> 04:15:11.079
or themselves. You know, I
want ahead and got a circumcision. I

3004
04:15:11.120 --> 04:15:13.680
already had one, But what's the
heart of having another? I said,

3005
04:15:13.799 --> 04:15:18.559
might as well cut it open again
the wrestlers, if one will do two

3006
04:15:18.639 --> 04:15:22.159
has got to be better. I
want ahead and got my dick skin cut

3007
04:15:22.200 --> 04:15:26.680
off for a ticket. Hey,
Terry funk, do you want me to

3008
04:15:26.719 --> 04:15:33.680
get a circumcision? Yeah? Dounk
you might have got some very fun,

3009
04:15:33.760 --> 04:15:41.639
awesome the places the lapsun brings us
h dunk. Yeah, you might as

3010
04:15:41.719 --> 04:15:46.000
well get it. Uh, might
as well get it cut all right.

3011
04:15:46.079 --> 04:15:52.360
I mean, I don't know if
I had one. I got a check

3012
04:15:52.239 --> 04:15:56.079
with my doctor. You know,
I don't know if I had one before.

3013
04:15:56.159 --> 04:16:00.079
I've looked, but I just I
don't know. I can't tell.

3014
04:16:03.120 --> 04:16:06.559
I might as well, maybe I'll
ask my doctor or I just you know,

3015
04:16:06.680 --> 04:16:10.719
I might as well just go through
with it like the doctors. Like

3016
04:16:10.799 --> 04:16:12.600
the doctor's just gonna do it,
you know what I mean, Like even

3017
04:16:12.639 --> 04:16:15.159
if he looks there and notices you've
already had it done and you didn't say

3018
04:16:15.159 --> 04:16:18.959
anything, so he's gonna do it
again. All that stuff is paid for

3019
04:16:19.079 --> 04:16:22.040
by the government, since Japan a
socialized medicine, which meant the guy got

3020
04:16:22.079 --> 04:16:26.319
paid by the government for everyone he
performed. I think he did pretty well.

3021
04:16:26.440 --> 04:16:27.840
What a business. He probably didn't
know what to do with all that.

3022
04:16:29.000 --> 04:16:36.600
Foreskin Terry funk what he's talking about. You have a little extra force.

3023
04:16:36.680 --> 04:16:44.639
Can you can put it in the
you can saw tey it fause that's

3024
04:16:44.719 --> 04:16:48.120
too much I saw tey it.
Yeah, you can use that instead of

3025
04:16:48.200 --> 04:16:52.959
pickle ginger for the sushi. The
deal with the King of the Death Match

3026
04:16:53.079 --> 04:16:56.879
was every match in the tournament was
a different kind of bloody stipulation match.

3027
04:16:56.879 --> 04:17:00.120
I worked the semifinals with Tiger Jeet
Singh, a big foux of Innoki in

3028
04:17:00.159 --> 04:17:03.639
the seventies. Our match was a
barbarre b broken glass match. I knew

3029
04:17:03.680 --> 04:17:06.079
Tiger well enough to know that even
though I was going over, I would

3030
04:17:06.120 --> 04:17:08.920
also be the one taking the bumps. That was funny about this death match

3031
04:17:08.959 --> 04:17:14.440
tournament. Only Cactus and Terry actually
take the big No, that's not true.

3032
04:17:14.440 --> 04:17:17.079
There were some Japanese guys in there
that took big bumps too, But

3033
04:17:17.159 --> 04:17:19.399
like Gordy doesn't do anything, Tiger
Jeet Singh doesn't do anything. They just

3034
04:17:19.440 --> 04:17:25.319
take the payday and let the other
guys hit the nartally shit. Tiger was

3035
04:17:25.360 --> 04:17:27.479
Tiger, and I knew and accepted
that before the match even started. As

3036
04:17:27.520 --> 04:17:30.319
long as I accepted that beforehand,
by God, we'd have a match.

3037
04:17:30.680 --> 04:17:33.959
After defeating Tiger, I moved into
the finals against my good friend Cactus Jack.

3038
04:17:34.200 --> 04:17:37.680
By that time, the show had
gone from afternoon to nightfall. It

3039
04:17:37.799 --> 04:17:40.639
was the Forever show. But the
fans were still there and still elated.

3040
04:17:40.959 --> 04:17:41.840
They had known it was going to
be a long one. Hell, some

3041
04:17:42.000 --> 04:17:47.879
of them brought their lunches and so
quickly. When we talk about how this

3042
04:17:48.079 --> 04:17:49.719
was distributed and how it reached fans
in the United States, I mentioned the

3043
04:17:49.840 --> 04:17:55.079
Insane Clown Posse video. Here's ICP
on stage at the first Star cast talking

3044
04:17:55.120 --> 04:18:00.079
about the difference between how Nick Foley
and Terry Funk reacted to their exploits in

3045
04:18:00.079 --> 04:18:04.920
the I w A deathmatch ring being
exploited for US commercial audiences. So yeah,

3046
04:18:06.000 --> 04:18:08.920
wait, so Stranglemanne came out.
It became legendary. Dope as ship

3047
04:18:08.959 --> 04:18:11.600
though Barbara is stuck in his arm, He's gotta rip it out of his

3048
04:18:11.719 --> 04:18:17.399
flesh, and it became iconic.
And of course when we saw when we

3049
04:18:17.479 --> 04:18:22.079
got to WW and we met Mickfoley, he wanted the money, and so

3050
04:18:22.399 --> 04:18:25.719
uh, it's just the same things
happened several times. He didn't just want

3051
04:18:25.760 --> 04:18:29.680
the money, he wanted it right
then in his hand. You know who

3052
04:18:29.719 --> 04:18:36.040
else wanted the monnay Terry Flunk.
But he didn't the money for the money.

3053
04:18:36.040 --> 04:18:37.879
He didn't ask for the money.
We gave it to him out of

3054
04:18:37.920 --> 04:18:41.399
good faith at the Double Ross Double
Cross Ranch and Amarillo, Texas. You

3055
04:18:41.479 --> 04:18:44.559
know what, I'm not gonna sit
here and lie and say Terry Flunk wanted

3056
04:18:44.600 --> 04:18:48.079
the money. That's not true.
The fact is Terry Flunk refused the money.

3057
04:18:51.479 --> 04:18:53.360
He's so fucking dope for that.
He would not take the money,

3058
04:18:53.799 --> 04:19:00.120
isn't that dope? We were sitting
at Terry Funk's house the fucking Double Cross

3059
04:19:00.239 --> 04:19:03.520
Ranch in Amarillo, Texas. You
know who else has been there? Thought

3060
04:19:03.600 --> 04:19:11.159
right, motherfucker. You know it's
weird saying that we were chilling at the

3061
04:19:11.200 --> 04:19:15.479
Double Cross Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, at Terry Flunk's house. Every time

3062
04:19:15.559 --> 04:19:19.680
that my face says those words,
I actually feel flushed with guilt like I'm

3063
04:19:19.760 --> 04:19:23.520
lying. I feel like I'm lying. That's how dope that is to us.

3064
04:19:23.840 --> 04:19:26.399
But here here goes what happened though, So we took the five grand

3065
04:19:26.520 --> 04:19:30.840
cash money. We put it into
a cookie jar in his kitchen, so

3066
04:19:30.120 --> 04:19:33.280
not him and his wife didn't see. And when we left, we're long

3067
04:19:33.520 --> 04:19:36.440
the fuck gone. The next day
we call him, We're like, go

3068
04:19:36.559 --> 04:19:40.440
look into cookie jar by Jee's in
their homie because he wouldn't take the fucking

3069
04:19:40.520 --> 04:19:44.319
money. But he but we stole
his footage and we ended up selling a

3070
04:19:44.360 --> 04:19:47.440
lot of strang lemanias. So we
felt like we owed him. But you

3071
04:19:47.520 --> 04:19:51.959
know, God blessed Terry Funk for
that got paid off it. Absolutely nobody

3072
04:19:52.000 --> 04:19:57.799
else Jesus so folly looking for that
money. You better fucking believe it.

3073
04:20:00.120 --> 04:20:02.920
And Terry oh taking him in,
I guess, you know, go ahead,

3074
04:20:02.920 --> 04:20:06.319
and I huh, might as well
go ahead and take a cash payment.

3075
04:20:06.319 --> 04:20:07.399
I think they told the story of
how they left it. Was it

3076
04:20:07.520 --> 04:20:11.319
him that did this. I think
they left it right. He just said

3077
04:20:11.399 --> 04:20:14.200
left it in the jar for him. Yeah, left it in the jar

3078
04:20:14.319 --> 04:20:18.280
forum on the on the countertop five
grand or whatever it was, because he

3079
04:20:18.319 --> 04:20:21.879
didn't want the money. All right, Well, we're gonna turn to mcfoley

3080
04:20:22.000 --> 04:20:25.200
for a perspective on I mean,
we spent a lot of time in the

3081
04:20:25.200 --> 04:20:27.479
ECW leg of the journey talking about
how, you know, Terry Funk and

3082
04:20:27.520 --> 04:20:32.719
mcfoley's bond was formed and the forged
in the crucible of e CW and the

3083
04:20:32.840 --> 04:20:37.280
flaming rounding irons and chairs and lawsuits
and all the crazy shit they did in

3084
04:20:37.360 --> 04:20:41.200
ECW coming out of a box,
all that stuff, Caine Dewey and really,

3085
04:20:42.040 --> 04:20:45.079
if you want to talk about the
heart of you know, Terry Funk

3086
04:20:45.120 --> 04:20:48.680
and mcfoley becoming blood brothers, it
really was the iw A King of the

3087
04:20:48.680 --> 04:20:57.159
Death Match tournament in nineteen ninety five
where they were uniquely motivated to create the

3088
04:20:57.280 --> 04:21:03.120
kind of memories that were specific to
the nineties in terms of what the wrestling

3089
04:21:03.200 --> 04:21:07.040
fan thirsted for and what sat in
their memories and so fully of course.

3090
04:21:07.719 --> 04:21:11.360
In very flowery and Great Pros and
his first book Have a Nice Day,

3091
04:21:11.440 --> 04:21:15.120
talked about this journey with Terry Funk
through the Deathmatch tournament in ninety five and

3092
04:21:15.920 --> 04:21:19.920
how it came together and what floated
through his mind is the many iterations and

3093
04:21:21.319 --> 04:21:22.959
perverse circumstances were presented to him and
the Funker. So, Boss, I

3094
04:21:23.000 --> 04:21:29.120
wish you could pick up here on
Victor Quinonez and share him in Folly's thoughts

3095
04:21:29.159 --> 04:21:33.920
with us. Victor Quinonez was a
longtime promoter from Puerto Rico who was booking

3096
04:21:34.040 --> 04:21:41.000
talent for a small blood and guts
group in Japan called IWA. I received

3097
04:21:41.040 --> 04:21:45.079
a call from him about coming to
Japan and competing in their death matches that

3098
04:21:45.200 --> 04:21:49.479
featured barbed wire and a variety of
other torture devices. I told him that

3099
04:21:49.600 --> 04:21:53.319
I'd pass at the time. At
that time, I was having fun in

3100
04:21:53.399 --> 04:21:57.200
ECW and was being booked around the
country, and I had no desire to

3101
04:21:57.280 --> 04:22:02.959
have my body torn to shreds.
I really had no idea just how shredded

3102
04:22:03.360 --> 04:22:07.639
I would become. In late November, I received word that Terry Funk had

3103
04:22:07.680 --> 04:22:11.639
signed a contract to wrestle for the
IWA in Japan, I picked up the

3104
04:22:11.719 --> 04:22:17.079
phone and called Victor Quanonas it was
the only time in my eighteen months as

3105
04:22:17.120 --> 04:22:21.040
an independent that I asked for work. I was booked to leave on New

3106
04:22:21.120 --> 04:22:26.760
Year's Eve for a ten day tour. My body would never quite be the

3107
04:22:26.879 --> 04:22:32.639
same. Before my trip, my
old partner Kevin Sullivan had spoken to me

3108
04:22:33.040 --> 04:22:36.799
and advised me to take shirts to
sell. I figured it would be a

3109
04:22:36.840 --> 04:22:40.399
lot harder for the promotion to say
no once I was there, so I

3110
04:22:40.559 --> 04:22:44.159
never called for permission. As it
turned out, I made more money in

3111
04:22:44.280 --> 04:22:48.079
Japan as a seller of T shirts
than I did in the King of the

3112
04:22:48.200 --> 04:22:51.959
Destoy. Had you better believe he's
looking for his cut of ICP? Yes?

3113
04:22:52.520 --> 04:22:55.479
Idiocy damn right? And he would
you know damn When he talks about

3114
04:22:55.479 --> 04:22:57.040
it in his podcast years later,
he's like, you know, ICP threw

3115
04:22:57.079 --> 04:23:00.440
me some bucks for it, so
that was great. As if he didn't

3116
04:23:00.559 --> 04:23:04.120
like, make them do it,
whether's the threat of whatever? Yeah.

3117
04:23:07.440 --> 04:23:15.479
We finally checked into our hotel,
where after dinner with a Japanese super fan

3118
04:23:15.680 --> 04:23:22.840
named Masa who still remembered me from
my trip in nineteen ninety one, wait,

3119
04:23:22.959 --> 04:23:25.719
I tried to sleep and after oh
I tried to sleep. As a

3120
04:23:25.799 --> 04:23:30.200
small promotion, Aiwa had to cut
corners to survive it, flew all the

3121
04:23:30.239 --> 04:23:33.200
wrestlers on coach, busted us for
hours every day, and lodged us in

3122
04:23:33.319 --> 04:23:37.680
some pretty crummy accommodations. At three
hundred dollars a day. I was,

3123
04:23:38.040 --> 04:23:45.760
with the exception of the Funker,
the most highly paid Guidjin wrestler by far

3124
04:23:45.799 --> 04:23:52.120
as a true Japanese icon terry had
a deal that was pretty lucrative, but

3125
04:23:52.280 --> 04:23:57.360
some of the South American wrestlers were
working for seventy five a day. The

3126
04:23:57.440 --> 04:24:02.959
next day, we headed for the
venerable old Japanese venue, Karukin Hall.

3127
04:24:03.479 --> 04:24:07.399
Karukin was a twenty two hundred seat
auditorium on the fifth floor of a Japanese

3128
04:24:07.520 --> 04:24:12.440
office building which was used by several
different promotions. It was not unusual for

3129
04:24:12.600 --> 04:24:17.000
three different promoters to use the hall
on the same day, and as I

3130
04:24:17.120 --> 04:24:19.719
walked in the dressing room, a
few women wrestlers were still in the process

3131
04:24:21.159 --> 04:24:26.239
of packing up. I came out
during intermission when the young boys who took

3132
04:24:26.360 --> 04:24:30.440
down the ring ropes and replaced them
with spools of barbed wire which they ran

3133
04:24:30.600 --> 04:24:37.360
in lines and zigzags to resemble a
set of four flesh eating Roman numeral tens.

3134
04:24:38.360 --> 04:24:45.399
My music was playing Unloaded my last
shirt. I could hear iwa boss

3135
04:24:45.559 --> 04:24:49.000
mister Asano calling my name, But
damn it, I had merchandised to sell.

3136
04:24:49.600 --> 04:24:53.159
It didn't matter that I was going
to get literally torn up out.

3137
04:24:53.239 --> 04:24:59.840
Their shirts came first. I often
imagined how ridiculous this would look if a

3138
04:25:00.000 --> 04:25:04.600
applied to a regular sporting event.
Frank, we're waiting for Holyfield's entrance,

3139
04:25:04.639 --> 04:25:07.799
but he doesn't seem to be ready. Wait. I've just got word that

3140
04:25:07.879 --> 04:25:11.879
he's at the gimmick table pushing his
T shirts. Don't worry. A few

3141
04:25:11.920 --> 04:25:15.840
more polaroids and the champ will be
on his way. I came down to

3142
04:25:15.879 --> 04:25:22.079
the ring and received a tremendous ovation. They were chanting my name in unison,

3143
04:25:22.239 --> 04:25:29.760
which in reality sounded less like cactus
cactus and more like Coctusa Coctusa.

3144
04:25:30.760 --> 04:25:34.079
It was flattering. Nonetheless, when
Nakamaki and Terry made their way to the

3145
04:25:34.200 --> 04:25:38.120
ring, they chanted even louder for
Terry, which sounded a lot more,

3146
04:25:41.239 --> 04:25:45.760
which sounded a lot more like Telly. Sure, thanks Mike. Yeah.

3147
04:25:48.159 --> 04:25:52.280
The hall was sold out and the
fans were primed for mayhem, which I

3148
04:25:52.360 --> 04:25:56.200
began delivering Funk and I climbed up
the first level of the stands and began

3149
04:25:56.600 --> 04:26:03.200
going punch for punch in front of
the Austras. The funker picked up a

3150
04:26:03.360 --> 04:26:07.440
chair and slammed it over my head. Japanese folding chairs were strange and that

3151
04:26:07.520 --> 04:26:10.959
they were not as heavy as their
American cousins, but were put together in

3152
04:26:11.120 --> 04:26:15.200
such a way that a good shot
could pop the seat straight up in the

3153
04:26:15.280 --> 04:26:18.120
air. The funker returned to the
ring and we fought to the dressing room,

3154
04:26:18.159 --> 04:26:22.680
where I had a special prop waiting. A young boy handed me a

3155
04:26:22.799 --> 04:26:27.600
lighter while I disposed of Funk.
I grabbed the lighter and reached for the

3156
04:26:27.719 --> 04:26:33.440
chair that had a towel strapped to
it that had been soaked in kerosene.

3157
04:26:34.479 --> 04:26:38.959
I put lightered chair, and presto, the fire chair was born. I

3158
04:26:40.120 --> 04:26:45.440
walked down the aisle accompanied by the
Japanese chorus of ooah, and slid into

3159
04:26:45.479 --> 04:26:51.200
the ring. I wound up the
chair and brought it down across knock Amaki's

3160
04:26:51.280 --> 04:26:56.479
back ooh. With the help of
the fire chair, Cactus Jack was victorious

3161
04:26:56.520 --> 04:27:00.879
in his return to Japan. Unfortunately, my trusty fire chair would almost cost

3162
04:27:02.079 --> 04:27:06.280
Terry funk his life ten months later. It is when they had the incident

3163
04:27:06.360 --> 04:27:08.600
in the ECW arena, which,
by the way, someone shared some crazy

3164
04:27:08.680 --> 04:27:14.079
images with me of I didn't realize
even existed of him swinging the chair.

3165
04:27:14.719 --> 04:27:19.159
No video though, of course he
had done it ten months earlier in IWA's

3166
04:27:19.239 --> 04:27:23.639
why in all the stuff that was
like revolutionary happening in ECW had already been

3167
04:27:23.680 --> 04:27:32.440
done in Japan, oftentimes by the
same wrestlers. That's crazy. Unfortunately,

3168
04:27:32.520 --> 04:27:36.559
our attendants reflected that lack of mass
humanity as well. For the next week,

3169
04:27:36.600 --> 04:27:40.040
we were lucky to draw one hundred
fans, even with the legendary funk

3170
04:27:40.079 --> 04:27:47.079
Er on the card. In truth, the fans never quite forgave Terry for

3171
04:27:47.239 --> 04:27:52.200
coming back after his emotional retirement tour
in nineteen eighty. He was still an

3172
04:27:52.440 --> 04:27:56.559
icon, but was not as revered
as he was in his heyday. IWA

3173
04:27:56.680 --> 04:28:00.159
had made the mistake of booking arenas
in the southern part of the country under

3174
04:28:00.159 --> 04:28:03.639
the premise that it would be warmer
there. Well, it was slightly warmer,

3175
04:28:04.079 --> 04:28:07.120
but the buildings weren't heated in the
south, and as a result,

3176
04:28:07.200 --> 04:28:12.280
the gage ins would all huddle around
a portable kerosene heater in an attempt to

3177
04:28:12.280 --> 04:28:17.319
stay warm. When our music played, we'd take off our winder coats and

3178
04:28:17.440 --> 04:28:21.319
hit the ring to entertain a very
small group of fans who had made little

3179
04:28:21.360 --> 04:28:26.200
noise, who made little noise and
were dressed in very warm clothes. Mister

3180
04:28:26.280 --> 04:28:32.959
Asano Muti had liked me right away. Asano was a multi millionaire whose value

3181
04:28:33.079 --> 04:28:37.479
ranged from fifty million to five hundred
million, depending on the Japanese real estate

3182
04:28:37.559 --> 04:28:41.840
and stock markets. Even with his
wealth, he threw around Nichols like they

3183
04:28:41.879 --> 04:28:47.959
were manhole covers. But he was. But he was a big cocktoose Jack

3184
04:28:48.079 --> 04:28:52.120
fan, and he made it clear
that he wanted me back on all his

3185
04:28:52.280 --> 04:28:56.399
tours. Asano also wanted to play
up my deathmatch image. He'd been impressed

3186
04:28:56.440 --> 04:29:00.799
by my barbed wire heroics, and
he wanted my name to become synonymous with

3187
04:29:00.959 --> 04:29:04.920
skin tearing metal. So for the
rest of the tour and for months afterward,

3188
04:29:06.000 --> 04:29:08.520
I wore a barbed wire necklace around
my neck. I wrapped the stuff

3189
04:29:08.600 --> 04:29:14.079
around my leg to drop legs and
around my arm to drop elbows. When

3190
04:29:14.120 --> 04:29:17.319
I talked to the press, I
sometimes had it wrapped around my whole body.

3191
04:29:17.440 --> 04:29:21.319
And no, I'm not talking about
the rubber tipped barbed wire that is

3192
04:29:21.399 --> 04:29:26.479
currently used in WCW. For a
while in the iwa it truly did look

3193
04:29:26.520 --> 04:29:30.120
as though I was born to be
wired. The final match of the four

3194
04:29:30.440 --> 04:29:33.280
of the tour took place in the
city of Guma, where Terry and I

3195
04:29:33.840 --> 04:29:41.120
were scheduled for another no rope barbed
wire deathmatch. We were booked into another

3196
04:29:41.200 --> 04:29:45.959
small venue which would again which again
would be void of both heat and human

3197
04:29:47.040 --> 04:29:51.879
bodies. This match was being filmed
for commercial videotape release in Japan, and

3198
04:29:52.120 --> 04:29:56.559
the fact that and that fact made
a great deal of difference. It was

3199
04:29:56.760 --> 04:30:00.719
not as if I'd been wrestling hard
on front of the frozen, minuscule crowds,

3200
04:30:00.760 --> 04:30:06.040
but video always up to the ante. Even if I knew I'd never

3201
04:30:06.120 --> 04:30:11.200
see a cent of the profits.
There is something about commercial video that represents

3202
04:30:11.760 --> 04:30:17.840
immortality, because I know that when
I'm done, commercial videotape will be the

3203
04:30:17.920 --> 04:30:26.280
greatest prison representation of what my career
stood for. Pride was another huge factor.

3204
04:30:26.879 --> 04:30:30.000
I had come over here specifically to
wrestle Terry Funk, and now that

3205
04:30:30.079 --> 04:30:34.200
I had my chance, I realized
the crowd would be small, but the

3206
04:30:34.319 --> 04:30:42.760
Japanese media presence would be large,
and several hundred thousand fans would read about

3207
04:30:42.840 --> 04:30:48.280
and see photos of the match.
I also had the belief that I could

3208
04:30:48.360 --> 04:30:52.159
help make this promotion to success.
Unlike WCW, the rug would not be

3209
04:30:52.239 --> 04:30:56.319
pulled out on me and the ball
would never be taken away from me.

3210
04:30:56.920 --> 04:30:59.879
I knew that when I handed him
the ball, when I went handed the

3211
04:31:00.639 --> 04:31:03.680
I would be given the chance to
run as far as I could. I

3212
04:31:03.799 --> 04:31:07.120
saw this match as the night I
took the handoff with fewer than two hundred

3213
04:31:07.159 --> 04:31:11.280
fans in attendance. I felt it
in my heart and in my mind that

3214
04:31:11.479 --> 04:31:15.440
January ninth, nineteen ninety five was
the most important match of my life.

3215
04:31:15.159 --> 04:31:18.879
And the wire went up. As
the wire went up, I listened to

3216
04:31:18.000 --> 04:31:26.360
a song called Winter toy Amos Tori
amos Amos, which is, in my

3217
04:31:26.559 --> 04:31:30.639
mind, the most beautiful thing I've
ever heard. I was all out of

3218
04:31:30.680 --> 04:31:33.440
T shirts, and in truth wouldn't
have sold them this night because I was

3219
04:31:33.520 --> 04:31:37.840
completely focused. As the song played, I became more and more intense.

3220
04:31:38.959 --> 04:31:42.719
As the beautiful images in her song
peaked, so did my ability to see

3221
04:31:42.840 --> 04:31:48.920
brutal images. In my mind,
I was practically flying on adrenaline, a

3222
04:31:48.000 --> 04:31:56.200
claim I can't make for many future
matches with audiences one hundred times as large

3223
04:31:56.200 --> 04:32:02.159
well conveyed Boss. So it's freezing
and he's about to get very warm in

3224
04:32:02.239 --> 04:32:06.159
the ring of the w A because
Funk's gonna light chairs on fire. Mcfoley's

3225
04:32:06.159 --> 04:32:10.040
gonna light chairs on fire, whatever
it takes. And as mcfoley paces around

3226
04:32:10.040 --> 04:32:14.239
the Kerosene heater with the other guy
Jins listening to Winter by Torri Amos,

3227
04:32:15.000 --> 04:32:18.639
he thinks about the chapter of his
career that he's about to embark on the

3228
04:32:18.920 --> 04:32:22.719
death match definition of Nick Foley.
As for Terry Funk's recollection, he writes,

3229
04:32:23.040 --> 04:32:26.360
Now you might ask why would you
do these things to yourself? Well,

3230
04:32:26.760 --> 04:32:30.879
yes, I do ask that question. We were with an independent promotion

3231
04:32:30.959 --> 04:32:33.239
and that meant very little coverage and
no TV. So Cactus discovered what I

3232
04:32:33.319 --> 04:32:36.600
had learned a long time ago.
In Japan, they have a great many

3233
04:32:36.680 --> 04:32:40.479
newspapers and magazines covering wrestling, and
if someone was entangled in barbed wire or

3234
04:32:40.520 --> 04:32:44.280
how to stick up their ass,
that guy was much more likely to find

3235
04:32:44.319 --> 04:32:47.200
his picture in one of those periodicals
than if he had a headlock on someone.

3236
04:32:47.920 --> 04:32:51.840
We endured the crazy spots, what
about a what about a headlock on

3237
04:32:51.959 --> 04:32:56.879
hunger? Go a headlock A go
a headlock on hunger exactly. We endured

3238
04:32:56.879 --> 04:33:00.639
the crazy spots to steal coverage and
the weeklies and dailies for what we were

3239
04:33:00.719 --> 04:33:03.400
doing. One thing that God iss
a fair amount of press was the fire

3240
04:33:03.479 --> 04:33:07.119
chair. Cactus and I were wrestling
on his first tour of the IWA when

3241
04:33:07.279 --> 04:33:08.759
he lit a chair on fire and
proceeded to wear my ass out with it.

3242
04:33:08.880 --> 04:33:11.000
Now, we discussed it, and
he was only supposed to hit me

3243
04:33:11.080 --> 04:33:14.720
once. He ended up pitting me
about six or seven times until I finally

3244
04:33:14.799 --> 04:33:17.040
just tackled his fat ass and told
him, Okay, Cactus, now that's

3245
04:33:17.080 --> 04:33:19.479
enough of that shit. That's enough. But damned if the flaming chair didn't

3246
04:33:19.520 --> 04:33:22.520
make it a few magazine covers,
and it should have. It looked like

3247
04:33:22.599 --> 04:33:26.799
Cactus was holding the goddamn Chicago fire
over his head. The other thing about

3248
04:33:26.799 --> 04:33:29.880
it that struck me, if you'll
pardon the pun, was that when I

3249
04:33:29.959 --> 04:33:33.880
walked by it on my way to
the ring for the match, I noticed

3250
04:33:33.959 --> 04:33:37.639
the thing had been completely doused in
kerosene. The rope is soaked in it.

3251
04:33:37.759 --> 04:33:44.200
Boss, I could I could see
it glistening. I could see it.

3252
04:33:45.759 --> 04:33:49.040
Cactus, you wear an aftershave?
No, Terry, I uh,

3253
04:33:51.520 --> 04:33:53.159
I could see it glistening, and
I could smell it. I thought,

3254
04:33:53.200 --> 04:33:56.880
you know, I was the one
who was supposed to soak that thing,

3255
04:33:56.000 --> 04:34:00.639
but I didn't soak it. That
damn much is it? I am Asano

3256
04:34:00.720 --> 04:34:03.959
trying to kill us? But the
more time passes, what the hell's going

3257
04:34:04.040 --> 04:34:10.599
on in this damn wa? That
was good? But the more time passes,

3258
04:34:10.680 --> 04:34:12.400
Funk rights, the more I think
my buddy Cactus might have been the

3259
04:34:12.479 --> 04:34:18.119
one to come behind me with an
extra gallon of gas. I went behind.

3260
04:34:18.200 --> 04:34:19.560
I did it. I went ahead
and went behind. I need to

3261
04:34:19.560 --> 04:34:23.720
go ahead and watch Terry and Cactus
in the freezing cold January April. I

3262
04:34:23.919 --> 04:34:29.880
w Japan, the precursor to the
Big One. I guess, so there's

3263
04:34:29.919 --> 04:34:33.680
another one? Oh yeah, because
this is this is the first tour,

3264
04:34:33.080 --> 04:34:37.479
It's not the tournament. The tournament
would be in the decidedly hot and humid

3265
04:34:37.799 --> 04:34:42.279
Tokyo August of nineteen eighty five.
Let's go to disc twenty five. If

3266
04:34:42.279 --> 04:34:47.159
you wheel, it's time for the
first death match style meeting, not the

3267
04:34:47.240 --> 04:34:52.639
first, but the first singles death
match style meeting between Mick Foley and Terry

3268
04:34:52.720 --> 04:34:59.200
Funk. It's a cold day and
out of reaches of Japan. What's the

3269
04:34:59.319 --> 04:35:11.520
time code twenty six and it's time
for a fully and Funk to be forged

3270
04:35:11.599 --> 04:35:18.080
in the crucible of barbed wire,
tax explosives and death. Great are you

3271
04:35:18.159 --> 04:35:23.400
ready? We're gonna start with a
fully ammo Okay, three two one play

3272
04:35:25.319 --> 04:35:30.040
Terry Funk. Terry Funk. When
we talk about the legends of the sport,

3273
04:35:32.279 --> 04:35:36.279
there's only two in my book.
One man is sitting right here on

3274
04:35:36.360 --> 04:35:38.840
my shirt, and the other man
will look me in the eye across the

3275
04:35:38.959 --> 04:35:44.279
ring, because Terry Funk, you
are what the sport is all about.

3276
04:35:45.119 --> 04:35:49.000
And tonight, right here, in
a barbed wire deathmatch, Cactus Jack will

3277
04:35:49.040 --> 04:35:56.119
show the world ain't two is what
the sport is all about. Funk,

3278
04:35:56.000 --> 04:36:00.599
you were my friend. When I
need a guidance, I called Terry Funk.

3279
04:36:03.000 --> 04:36:07.799
When I needed answers, I asked
Terry Funk. But when I need

3280
04:36:07.919 --> 04:36:12.400
to take my place in the support
of professional wrestling with the legends of the

3281
04:36:12.520 --> 04:36:18.520
business, I show up here and
I don't ask Terry Funk anything I tell

3282
04:36:18.639 --> 04:36:26.599
him. I say, Terry Funk, no friends anymore, because tonight this

3283
04:36:26.840 --> 04:36:36.840
is my friend. Tonight fire is
my friend. Tonight danger is the love

3284
04:36:37.000 --> 04:36:42.279
of my pathetic life, because Funk, sid, it is only when it's

3285
04:36:42.319 --> 04:36:48.919
at its most dangerous that I'm truly
alive. And people say, cactus,

3286
04:36:48.959 --> 04:36:52.479
does that mean you're not afraid of
anything? And I see no, it

3287
04:36:52.639 --> 04:36:59.119
means I'm afraid of everything. But
Terry Funk, can't you see? That's

3288
04:36:59.159 --> 04:37:03.720
what puts the in my eye,
that would put the flash in this smile,

3289
04:37:04.240 --> 04:37:08.919
because I've got nothing left the Lord. You can't take my teeth,

3290
04:37:10.439 --> 04:37:17.720
they're already gone. You can't take
my ear because that's gone too, And

3291
04:37:17.880 --> 04:37:22.360
Terry Funk, you can't take my
heart because it's too big for you to

3292
04:37:22.520 --> 04:37:26.759
carry. So the whole world will
stay unnoticed. When I leave Terry Funk

3293
04:37:27.240 --> 04:37:33.400
draped in pieces of flesh across the
barbed wire. The whole world will take

3294
04:37:33.560 --> 04:37:40.240
notice that there's a new king in
town. Ohneita. It makes me laugh

3295
04:37:41.000 --> 04:37:45.319
because where is he? He's not
in this gym. No, he took

3296
04:37:45.439 --> 04:37:49.080
that time and decided to retire,
he thought in that million dollar mind,

3297
04:37:49.159 --> 04:37:55.159
of his don't ruin the legend of
Onita, get out before it's too light.

3298
04:37:55.840 --> 04:37:59.759
So I got a one message for
Anita's son. It says it's too

3299
04:38:00.319 --> 04:38:04.639
demo. It's so demo. It
means wherever and whatever you want, if

3300
04:38:04.680 --> 04:38:08.479
you've got the guts. But I
know you don't. Because the only man

3301
04:38:08.639 --> 04:38:14.599
seek enough, the only man mentally
to rags enough to want to risk it

3302
04:38:14.720 --> 04:38:23.400
all with doctors Chuck, it's my
hero. See it matched very big man.

3303
04:38:26.799 --> 04:38:32.319
I think that the match tonight with
Cactus Jack is probably gonna be one

3304
04:38:32.360 --> 04:38:37.520
of the tougher matches that I've ever
had my entire life. And the reason

3305
04:38:37.639 --> 04:38:41.520
for it is is because this guy
actually likes he likes pain, and uh,

3306
04:38:42.279 --> 04:38:48.240
that's not a very easy person to
deal with inside of the ring.

3307
04:38:48.000 --> 04:38:52.159
I know it's gonna be in violent. I know it's gonna be tough.

3308
04:38:52.599 --> 04:38:56.040
I know it's gonna be buddy,
and uh, I just hope that I

3309
04:38:56.080 --> 04:39:00.119
can come out of the dog gone
thing walking all in one, in one

3310
04:39:00.200 --> 04:39:07.119
piece, and uh say a prayer
for me out there, and because I'm

3311
04:39:07.119 --> 04:39:11.639
gonna say one for myself, and
uh, I'm not gonna say a prayer

3312
04:39:11.680 --> 04:39:17.840
from Cactus check the way. I
certainly don't wish him luck, but I

3313
04:39:17.959 --> 04:39:25.680
hope that good luck is on my
side too. I'm and it's words from

3314
04:39:25.680 --> 04:39:32.759
the Funker. And again it's freezing
cold. There's like nobody there. Ugh,

3315
04:39:33.279 --> 04:39:40.279
I w a Japan and that's the
that's the all Japan. Terry Funk

3316
04:39:40.319 --> 04:39:45.279
there right, soft spoken, just
such a humble baby face about it,

3317
04:39:45.759 --> 04:39:48.319
even though he's about to go into
this fucking knocked out, drag out empty

3318
04:39:48.400 --> 04:39:55.119
chairs. As far as the eye
can see basketball hoops. Some passionate fans,

3319
04:39:55.159 --> 04:39:57.720
though, we're better believe it's Harey
comes. Cactus emerges with a massive

3320
04:39:57.759 --> 04:40:07.840
two by four with Barbara around the
tip. I've to ask, so Terry

3321
04:40:07.840 --> 04:40:14.040
Funk and Nick Foley bringing their unique
brand of violence here to the fledgling Japanese

3322
04:40:14.080 --> 04:40:18.119
Deathmatch circuit January nineteen ninety five.
And that's the vintage Cactus Jack T shirt.

3323
04:40:18.159 --> 04:40:22.040
This is where it started right here, because he didn't have that in

3324
04:40:22.159 --> 04:40:27.479
WCW. No, that's the T
shirt he would sell right up until match

3325
04:40:27.560 --> 04:40:33.319
time as he tests out the barbed
wire. And so when people would buy

3326
04:40:33.319 --> 04:40:36.240
that Cactus jackshirt in WWF and a
lot of times they'd be buying it you

3327
04:40:36.319 --> 04:40:38.840
know, well it was for sale
before that, yep, that they would

3328
04:40:38.840 --> 04:40:45.159
buy it in recognition of this era
of cactus. These matches were synonymous with

3329
04:40:45.279 --> 04:40:52.240
that iconography on his on his shirt
there, so ropes were placed with wire,

3330
04:40:52.439 --> 04:40:56.919
no explosives. But this weird blue
mat on the floor that like totally

3331
04:40:57.000 --> 04:41:00.479
blends in with the color of the
ring canvas, making the ring looks like

3332
04:41:00.479 --> 04:41:02.880
it's flat. It's kind of weird. Yeah, it looks like there's no

3333
04:41:04.240 --> 04:41:08.680
like there's no actual ring. Like
it's kind of weird, like it comes

3334
04:41:08.759 --> 04:41:18.080
Terry Funk. But look at everybody
wearing thick puffer coats, you know,

3335
04:41:18.439 --> 04:41:30.360
ah, some conspicuously wearing sunglasses in
January indoors. Yep, I can't imagine

3336
04:41:30.400 --> 04:41:37.240
why that would be. In Japan, there's the Funk are still with the

3337
04:41:37.520 --> 04:41:45.840
sparse crowd, completely surrounded like it's
a on all sides. What the fuck?

3338
04:41:47.959 --> 04:41:56.080
No, Oh that's already swinging that
fucking comically it really is, Oh,

3339
04:41:56.159 --> 04:42:03.279
Funk's clearing way among spectators trying to
keep a distance from the ring.

3340
04:42:04.599 --> 04:42:08.279
It shot him a bit, But
Don Morocco is Tom Morocco. I don't

3341
04:42:08.279 --> 04:42:15.599
think so, No, no,
just like a whole little arena here to

3342
04:42:15.639 --> 04:42:18.439
work with the whole. It looks
like a function hall or something like a

3343
04:42:18.560 --> 04:42:23.240
convention center hall. Yeah, tossing
chairs in the ring fully is just to

3344
04:42:23.319 --> 04:42:36.759
hell with the spectators at the ah. I think if Funk called for the

3345
04:42:36.840 --> 04:42:40.240
chair's ecw style here, I don't
think the crowd would throw the chairs in

3346
04:42:40.279 --> 04:42:49.639
the ring. Yeah, no,
I don't think so. So function the

3347
04:42:49.680 --> 04:42:55.279
ring gripping two of the chairs that
Fully threw into the fray, barking at

3348
04:42:55.279 --> 04:42:59.599
each other at a distance, Funk
launches a chair Cactus had his back turned.

3349
04:43:00.959 --> 04:43:03.720
He gets knocked off the apron.
Funk raining a chair down now on

3350
04:43:03.919 --> 04:43:07.119
Cactus on the outside out gives chase. Here we go, Boss, time

3351
04:43:07.159 --> 04:43:15.919
to sacrifice. I mean it's like, oh, jeez ah, buss the

3352
04:43:15.000 --> 04:43:18.080
back fully, Oh, try to
get back in the ring. Gets caught

3353
04:43:18.159 --> 04:43:23.360
the wire on the way in.
Imagine Boss climbing under that bottom rope of

3354
04:43:23.400 --> 04:43:30.639
wire. No nope, Oh reversed
whip and Funk holds up before taking the

3355
04:43:30.680 --> 04:43:34.639
wire like a rope, which makes
you wonder why people don't do that all

3356
04:43:34.680 --> 04:43:38.040
the time. That's all all of
a sudden an option, even if the

3357
04:43:38.119 --> 04:43:47.840
ropes aren't barbed wire. They have
like a fight club feel like ECW field

3358
04:43:47.840 --> 04:43:52.240
to the show. Yeah, this
is hard course here some people in suits,

3359
04:43:56.840 --> 04:44:00.560
a couple of headbuts. Funk backs
up Cactus, who looks blodes like

3360
04:44:00.720 --> 04:44:03.759
manically thinking he's let did you get? I mean they might as well be

3361
04:44:03.759 --> 04:44:07.479
an empty arena match. Yeah,
kind of has that feel to it.

3362
04:44:14.360 --> 04:44:17.680
Just think of Cactus, you know, like I think I'm how uncertain the

3363
04:44:17.720 --> 04:44:21.400
wrestling business was for someone like him, who was on national television WCW for

3364
04:44:21.520 --> 04:44:23.680
years and by ninety five, this
is what he's doing. You know.

3365
04:44:23.959 --> 04:44:27.279
The money's good, I mean relatively
speaking, I mean I think a four

3366
04:44:27.360 --> 04:44:32.119
grand on the tour of three grand. Here's the whip. Funk slides under

3367
04:44:33.439 --> 04:44:37.720
and spares himself with the wire.
He does a clean baseball slide underneath.

3368
04:44:37.759 --> 04:44:41.200
Funk goes for a chair and launches
it. That's one good thing about no

3369
04:44:41.279 --> 04:44:45.080
one being here. They can throw
chairs like footballs down the fifty yard line.

3370
04:44:48.279 --> 04:44:52.639
And in between launches of chairs,
Mick springs in action and cuts off

3371
04:44:52.279 --> 04:44:56.200
Terry Funk before he can pick up
another and brings him down with right hands

3372
04:44:56.319 --> 04:45:00.599
ringside bell table. Funk. He
eats that, Unk punches himself in the

3373
04:45:00.639 --> 04:45:07.240
head several times, trying to open
himself up. Undoubtedly h one of those

3374
04:45:07.319 --> 04:45:12.080
chairs Mick talked about in the book
raining across the back of Terry Funk.

3375
04:45:12.240 --> 04:45:15.319
I've been to a couple of shows
like this, not in Japan, of

3376
04:45:15.400 --> 04:45:18.200
course, but where you just feel
like you're just standing there watching the violence

3377
04:45:18.240 --> 04:45:22.400
happen around you, and it's like, mm hmm. No one even thinks

3378
04:45:22.400 --> 04:45:33.159
about sitting down or where their seat
is. And Funk could taste of the

3379
04:45:33.159 --> 04:45:41.240
wire full he gets back in now, single egg pick up by Funk looking

3380
04:45:41.319 --> 04:45:52.799
for the toe hold. What do
you think? Nope, Actors scrambling off

3381
04:45:52.840 --> 04:45:56.279
his back, adds the right hand
to break free Punk with a single egg

3382
04:45:57.000 --> 04:46:07.639
and again brings down cactus. Funk
punched himself in the head. See that,

3383
04:46:07.599 --> 04:46:14.680
Yeah, trying to open himself up
looks like it's working. It's always

3384
04:46:14.680 --> 04:46:18.680
funny because when, like I think
of wrestlers selling a blow to the head,

3385
04:46:18.880 --> 04:46:21.599
like they take the heel of their
hand and hit their forehead with it,

3386
04:46:21.759 --> 04:46:22.680
It's like, why do they do
that because they're trying to open themselves

3387
04:46:22.759 --> 04:46:26.400
up. It's not because that's the
natural reaction to getting hit in the face.

3388
04:46:29.799 --> 04:46:33.680
Funked Oh no, his throat's on
the wire, brought over to the

3389
04:46:33.759 --> 04:46:37.200
barb wire and look at it.
See how they're playing to the cameras.

3390
04:46:37.240 --> 04:46:41.840
They want those flash bulbs. Yeah, yeah, that's the idea. They're

3391
04:46:41.919 --> 04:46:49.720
going for practice now biting the face
of the funk or in the wire.

3392
04:46:53.599 --> 04:47:00.240
Oh no, Terry. Oh he's
ripping the wire across his arm. Oh

3393
04:47:00.279 --> 04:47:07.360
there's the squeal they make fully squeal
before he ever did it as mankind.

3394
04:47:08.840 --> 04:47:18.919
Look at funks flesh in the wire. Ah, everyone fucking clear out.

3395
04:47:18.040 --> 04:47:22.119
Oh yeah, they just they don't
want to stick around to find out what

3396
04:47:22.279 --> 04:47:33.119
mix up to ninety five Boss fucking
WrestleMania eleven. Think of this is like

3397
04:47:33.279 --> 04:47:37.479
Sean wins the first Rumble, his
first rumble. Yeah, and this is

3398
04:47:37.520 --> 04:47:41.639
going on. Terry's found a way
to tie his foot up in the barb

3399
04:47:41.680 --> 04:47:48.919
wire. Hang up side down?
What the hell? Yeah exactly how does

3400
04:47:48.919 --> 04:47:57.880
he himself? Oh the flaming chair, it's on fire. Oh the kerosene

3401
04:47:57.959 --> 04:48:07.080
chair that was mentioned. Terry.
Let's out of yelp and scrambles up the

3402
04:48:07.119 --> 04:48:15.279
aisleway. All these people just like
walking around like crazy. Chance for Terry.

3403
04:48:21.240 --> 04:48:27.919
Now let's mick up to Oh he
lit it on fire even harder.

3404
04:48:30.159 --> 04:48:33.799
That chair is flaming, fully bringing
up the isle land No across the funks

3405
04:48:34.680 --> 04:48:42.759
Funker's side. Is he on fire? I can't see no, look at

3406
04:48:42.880 --> 04:48:48.560
the chairs. Oh no, he
takes a hip toss on the flaming chair

3407
04:48:48.599 --> 04:48:51.919
on the floor. It's looking at
it's forest men out of rubber or something.

3408
04:48:52.279 --> 04:48:56.040
Look at that thing that is fucking
so they're throwing water, unfolly buckets

3409
04:48:56.080 --> 04:49:00.279
of water. Why these guy's right, the fucking minds. Look at this

3410
04:49:00.680 --> 04:49:03.799
fucking fire hazard. This is what
they brought to the ring. The rings

3411
04:49:03.840 --> 04:49:10.200
on fire, The rings on fire. The flaming chair has been slid into

3412
04:49:10.240 --> 04:49:18.000
the ring. Cactus grabs it and
oh, take it across Funk's back cover

3413
04:49:18.119 --> 04:49:26.200
by Mick gets to know the char
on Funk's white T shirt. Cactus lines

3414
04:49:26.279 --> 04:49:36.959
up a DDT here no a sup
lex locked, Ah don't know, fully

3415
04:49:37.040 --> 04:49:42.599
dropped gut first in the suplex position
across the barbed wire hung out too dry.

3416
04:49:45.599 --> 04:49:51.799
Yeah, my god, by the
water splashed in the ring to try

3417
04:49:51.840 --> 04:49:53.799
to stop that chair. Oh and
it causes the Funker to slit. Not

3418
04:49:53.919 --> 04:50:04.880
good, so Anita shattered his kneecap. Uncle grabbing a handful of follies long

3419
04:50:06.000 --> 04:50:08.959
locks and putting the head butts on
him now in the ring uncles busted open.

3420
04:50:11.520 --> 04:50:15.400
Oh no, fully, oh you
tried to take the wire around his

3421
04:50:15.520 --> 04:50:18.360
throat like he used to take the
ropes. Why would he do that?

3422
04:50:18.439 --> 04:50:21.680
He still want to kill himself,
right, I mean he comes here to

3423
04:50:21.880 --> 04:50:27.840
fucking murder himself. He talks about
how there was a moment there where he

3424
04:50:27.840 --> 04:50:33.400
had like a last minute hesitation about
actually doing the the choke thing and just

3425
04:50:33.560 --> 04:50:38.119
like sailed over and paid the price
there too. Funk pulling down on the

3426
04:50:38.159 --> 04:50:42.159
wire so it can reach Mick at
ringside and wrapping it around his fucking face.

3427
04:50:44.040 --> 04:50:55.560
Thoughts, boss, I just I
mean listen to the horror ah oh

3428
04:50:55.799 --> 04:51:00.720
mix hair being yanked because it was
stuck in the barbed wire. He went

3429
04:51:00.799 --> 04:51:03.560
to lunge at Terry Funk and he
was like stopped, his head jerked back

3430
04:51:03.599 --> 04:51:14.880
because it was all tied up in
the wire. Hey, Funk found a

3431
04:51:14.919 --> 04:51:27.880
table, What do you know?
Terry leans the table against the ring post

3432
04:51:27.959 --> 04:51:34.439
and hip hop ye holy face first
leads a blood splatter on it, like

3433
04:51:34.680 --> 04:51:38.680
his busted wide. You can see
it dripping down across his bicep. Ah,

3434
04:51:40.759 --> 04:51:42.000
that's not an arm. That might
be its own arm cut because he

3435
04:51:42.080 --> 04:51:48.319
had that. He has that famous
pink scar on his arm. Came from

3436
04:51:48.360 --> 04:51:59.319
one of these matches. I think, I shah shah, screaming Terry.

3437
04:52:00.200 --> 04:52:15.479
It's so weird. What is this? Oh? What do they there's a

3438
04:52:15.560 --> 04:52:21.200
stir? What they say? Oh
Funk's got flaming branding iron. Oh my

3439
04:52:21.360 --> 04:52:30.599
god, head butts Mick and here
comes the iron jabbed into his stomach just

3440
04:52:30.680 --> 04:52:37.159
a e c W. They did
the same thing, got him, jab

3441
04:52:37.319 --> 04:52:44.479
the thing and it was back.
Oh is it's rough flame? You know

3442
04:52:44.599 --> 04:52:49.200
hot? That thing is what?
OHI swings the fucking two by four Adam,

3443
04:52:51.479 --> 04:52:52.799
the torch still lit for the funker, who's going to the head with

3444
04:52:52.880 --> 04:52:59.560
it? Now? I didn't seeing
that thing pointed at your fucking head look

3445
04:52:59.599 --> 04:53:06.240
at knowing how unstable r rickety wrists
just can't hold it still in. If

3446
04:53:06.240 --> 04:53:11.439
you wanted to fully lifting for Funk
and dropping it with I think a back

3447
04:53:11.479 --> 04:53:18.599
breaker on the outside, all of
a sudden, you might not want to

3448
04:53:18.639 --> 04:53:26.360
pull up that much on the wire. Mac. I mean, that's o

3449
04:53:26.880 --> 04:53:42.720
big elbow off the apron into the
chest cavity of Terry Funk. I don't

3450
04:53:42.720 --> 04:53:52.360
know what they're saying. Tyson Bang
bang from Cactus jack Old Crimson mask now

3451
04:53:52.439 --> 04:53:55.400
on Mick, which would be a
signature to look for him in these death

3452
04:53:55.479 --> 04:53:59.240
match days. Wasn't their T shirt? They sold him with a totally bloodied

3453
04:53:59.279 --> 04:54:07.000
face. That's Austin, what's up? That was Steve Austin. I think

3454
04:54:07.080 --> 04:54:11.000
they they did a raw magazine cover
once with his bloody face and the death

3455
04:54:11.080 --> 04:54:15.479
match that they must have licensed the
photo or something. So Funks now on

3456
04:54:15.520 --> 04:54:21.040
the ground in the audience and Cactus
is completely covering him in chair and then

3457
04:54:21.040 --> 04:54:26.880
he bumps and he fell down.
These guys are nuts. It's just fucking

3458
04:54:26.919 --> 04:54:30.119
insane. I mean, it's like
these guys aren't even wrestling. It's just

3459
04:54:30.200 --> 04:54:37.680
like everything's happening on the outside.
Yeah. Uh, Funk comes up with

3460
04:54:37.720 --> 04:54:41.200
the chair necklace. That's his thing, man, he does that everywhere.

3461
04:54:41.040 --> 04:54:47.319
Look at them. Such went ahead
and put his head through the chair.

3462
04:54:47.400 --> 04:54:51.840
Oh he swung a fan. Did
you see that? Damn that gets like

3463
04:54:51.919 --> 04:54:56.200
ten years old. He goes hit
this fact into the head. I don't

3464
04:54:56.240 --> 04:54:59.319
get a damn. Who's gonna if
you're in front of my fast, you're

3465
04:54:59.360 --> 04:55:02.720
gonna get h funks having enough seizure. Now in the chairs, throwing them

3466
04:55:02.720 --> 04:55:10.680
around, it's fucking too much.
Look at he's such a goofball. He's

3467
04:55:10.759 --> 04:55:17.759
like a kid having a tank trum
fully just holding the bloodied face for the

3468
04:55:17.840 --> 04:55:23.479
cameras, see that, getting those
flash bulbs. Everything they do is why

3469
04:55:26.279 --> 04:55:34.279
try to create an impression for the
cameras a moment? Jesus, Now he's

3470
04:55:34.400 --> 04:55:42.000
choking. That's a picture, right, two bloodied heads. Oh that's always

3471
04:55:42.040 --> 04:55:45.159
what's so great about wrestling still photography
is it doesn't look fake at a still

3472
04:55:45.200 --> 04:55:48.759
photo, you know what I mean. It's a great it's a beautiful thing.

3473
04:55:51.560 --> 04:55:56.520
Finally they're back in the ring and
fully covers only two. I always

3474
04:55:56.520 --> 04:56:10.080
thought kickouts and death matches were so
fucking goofy ah ha, So what Bozz

3475
04:56:10.159 --> 04:56:12.040
your deathmatch fan? Yet? No, I waited to seek out more.

3476
04:56:12.119 --> 04:56:17.119
You wanted to know about mister Pogo, I don't. I don't want to

3477
04:56:17.200 --> 04:56:22.799
know about mister Pogo. I don't
want to know about mister you know Bogo,

3478
04:56:23.560 --> 04:56:29.479
Buy one, get one off,
no funk with a pardon me cactus

3479
04:56:29.520 --> 04:56:33.360
with the patented double arm DDT lazy
cover on Funk and he's able to lift

3480
04:56:33.400 --> 04:56:37.159
the shoulder. So much has been
taken out of these men, you don't

3481
04:56:37.159 --> 04:56:42.680
have to forgive them for half assed
covers and kickouts. Back up, vertical

3482
04:56:42.720 --> 04:56:47.200
soup play, floating with Cactus going
back to fundamentals in the middle of this

3483
04:56:47.319 --> 04:56:51.919
thing, and Funk rolls the shoulder
and we continue, coming back with headbots

3484
04:56:51.959 --> 04:56:56.240
on all fours. Now is the
funker Jesus, Oh, he's gonna go

3485
04:56:56.240 --> 04:57:02.959
ahead and do something oh the left
the rights rather peppering him with jabs.

3486
04:57:03.360 --> 04:57:07.040
Terry's shirt ripped at the chest,
but he falls and face plants before he

3487
04:57:07.040 --> 04:57:11.599
can drop fully fully quick to cover. Look on the leg nice and tight.

3488
04:57:11.639 --> 04:57:17.159
It only gets two Terry floats over
to the top of the come all

3489
04:57:17.200 --> 04:57:23.720
of a sudden, they're doing like
work rate here. Don't try to impress

3490
04:57:23.799 --> 04:57:29.319
me now, guys, as the
time has passed. Terry's got a ream

3491
04:57:29.400 --> 04:57:34.200
of wire and he's wrapping it around
his fist. It looks like Mick nails

3492
04:57:34.279 --> 04:57:44.080
him with the right hands. Such
a strange bonding experience between these two.

3493
04:57:55.080 --> 04:57:57.040
Do you think this is where we'd
be when we were watching him wrestle Jack

3494
04:57:57.080 --> 04:58:00.720
Briscoe for the world title. I
mean, I knew we'd get here.

3495
04:58:03.240 --> 04:58:07.560
It's just a shame that is the
same guy. Actus picks up Funk's like

3496
04:58:07.639 --> 04:58:15.439
he's gonna hot shot him in Funk
ddts him. Oh, Terry with a

3497
04:58:15.560 --> 04:58:21.119
flailing covering gets the three. It's
kind of rolled over. I kind of

3498
04:58:21.200 --> 04:58:23.159
like the way they did that.
Actually, yeah, it all played out

3499
04:58:23.159 --> 04:58:30.919
in the ring at the end there
Terry funked the victor, locating a DDT

3500
04:58:30.159 --> 04:58:47.080
on Cactus and rolling on top of
his carcass and dangerous effort. It's only

3501
04:58:47.200 --> 04:58:51.720
just begun for Terry Funk and Cactus
Jack and me rings of I w A

3502
04:58:51.919 --> 04:58:59.040
Japan. This match also featured on
the aforementioned ic Peach strangle Mania tape.

3503
04:58:59.080 --> 04:59:04.200
So many of them here with it. What is Terry covering Cactus again after

3504
04:59:04.279 --> 04:59:10.439
the bell might as well? What
does he know? What was that about?

3505
04:59:10.520 --> 04:59:17.119
I don't remember seeing that before.
Oh Terry is clamoring the referee,

3506
04:59:17.400 --> 04:59:23.880
kicking the reference ask for no reason, looking at him. He's he's covering

3507
04:59:23.959 --> 04:59:33.240
the referee cover he's grabbing some other
photographer, a photographer. He's like no,

3508
04:59:33.360 --> 04:59:34.919
no, please, love a god, He's like, horrify this.

3509
04:59:37.680 --> 04:59:41.840
It's like a predator on the fucking
process. I can't get out of the

3510
04:59:41.919 --> 04:59:45.599
ring either, because he's terrified of
the barbed wire. Oh shit, he's

3511
04:59:45.720 --> 04:59:51.319
fucking out of his mind. Jesus. He just grabs people and tries to

3512
04:59:51.400 --> 04:59:56.479
make a moment. You know,
it's like you're now a fucking unwilling accomplice.

3513
04:59:56.119 --> 05:00:00.959
As they take the barb wire down, snip it off the posts and

3514
05:00:00.000 --> 05:00:03.919
a bloody i mean blood soaked through
his shirt, boss, just filthy.

3515
05:00:06.400 --> 05:00:11.560
His shirt was white, look at
it, selling his ass off, crawling

3516
05:00:11.599 --> 05:00:17.639
around the canvas practice doing much the
same, having having taken the fall.

3517
05:00:23.040 --> 05:00:26.919
Bloody face, what a let me
look at him. He's just a fucking

3518
05:00:26.000 --> 05:00:32.319
mess. Such a battle, such
a weird stage of the business and of

3519
05:00:32.360 --> 05:00:37.479
their respective Really, someone there where
the rebar steakhouse? Yeah at the jacket

3520
05:00:37.479 --> 05:00:48.959
jacket? Was it part gun?
Speaking of Japanese legends. Look at that

3521
05:00:48.360 --> 05:00:52.360
whatever that rubber covering is on the
floor. Oh, it's such a mess

3522
05:00:52.520 --> 05:00:57.319
coming off. Terry Funk is just
on one knee amidst the people in the

3523
05:00:57.400 --> 05:01:07.479
audience selling his ass off. Oh
my god, what a fucking nightmare they

3524
05:01:07.599 --> 05:01:15.119
hear from these gentlemen. They're piping
down the music a bit. Performance is

3525
05:01:15.159 --> 05:01:29.639
never over for Terry. He's still
working right now, so weird crawling in

3526
05:01:29.720 --> 05:01:45.279
all fours, screaming coctus. Once
cactuses helped, both men crawling to each

3527
05:01:45.319 --> 05:02:00.919
other on all fours, extending hands
toward each other. Terry's crying, we'll

3528
05:02:00.959 --> 05:02:11.279
sho fans to a power. There
we go. Nick punches him in the

3529
05:02:11.360 --> 05:02:26.360
face. Yes, hang hang hang
hang, yes, do you son of

3530
05:02:26.439 --> 05:02:41.200
a bitch doing a crying cell seeking
a moment of mutual respect and honor with

3531
05:02:41.560 --> 05:02:48.200
cactus Jack used to be Terry Funk's
downfall as he's left in an a quivering

3532
05:02:48.360 --> 05:03:00.799
mass. Whatever fuck? Oh,
how on ahead? When I had and

3533
05:03:00.919 --> 05:03:14.200
I uh, what's taking an embrace
from some of his fellow Nobody knows what

3534
05:03:14.279 --> 05:03:41.880
he's saying. Go back to be
propped up and held up by Jesus members

3535
05:03:41.880 --> 05:03:55.400
of the I w a locker room. It's Terry Funk, just as oh

3536
05:03:55.599 --> 05:04:03.279
my god, arm backstage nafto very
Funk was crazy. Not to damn,

3537
05:04:03.360 --> 05:04:14.560
she was crazy. You say,
I catch what. I was gonna shake

3538
05:04:14.599 --> 05:04:18.240
his hand out of respect. I'm
gonna shake his hand out of respect.

3539
05:04:19.279 --> 05:04:22.799
I'm gonna just shake his hand out
of respect. He came over and shook

3540
05:04:22.840 --> 05:04:27.880
my hand hell, I don't he
shake his mind out of respect. He

3541
05:04:29.000 --> 05:04:32.919
just wanted to go ahead and get
the last lick on me. Well,

3542
05:04:32.919 --> 05:04:37.720
I'm not true. He wants fire. I'll give him fire if he wants

3543
05:04:37.799 --> 05:04:41.119
fire. If you want him,
well, fire, I'll give it to

3544
05:04:41.200 --> 05:04:45.159
him. That's what he wants.
Does he want fire? He wants to

3545
05:04:45.279 --> 05:04:51.000
run around with fire all the time. Fire. I like hire his eyes.

3546
05:04:52.279 --> 05:05:07.319
He's a kook. A gym floor, backstage, a hardwood floor.

3547
05:05:08.319 --> 05:05:14.240
Jesus wants to play rock, Terry
Funk, Oh my god, you want

3548
05:05:14.279 --> 05:05:22.319
to play rob for you want to
walk up to the tree, can bite

3549
05:05:22.400 --> 05:05:26.360
out of the bat oft topple of
them all. No, Terry Funk.

3550
05:05:29.680 --> 05:05:42.479
The taste well, thank god,
the fuck only no to words in this

3551
05:05:42.720 --> 05:05:52.599
language, Terry Funk. And it
did so demo any time. And I'm

3552
05:05:52.639 --> 05:05:57.319
not putting you down because I know
you're the only man sticking up to walk

3553
05:05:57.400 --> 05:06:04.680
in there with me mentally deranged enough
to leave your flesh on the park wire.

3554
05:06:04.840 --> 05:06:11.000
Bye bye. Or you can beat
Cactus Jack, and you did,

3555
05:06:14.159 --> 05:06:17.560
but I want all of you to
go back, find someone who speak English

3556
05:06:17.840 --> 05:06:22.360
and tell this to Terry Funk.
You can beat me, but you can't

3557
05:06:22.520 --> 05:06:44.880
ever, ever, stop, dot, just dot, there's a shot for

3558
05:06:45.040 --> 05:06:51.319
you, Jesus, look it,
look into his eyes. It's all smeared

3559
05:06:51.400 --> 05:06:56.560
on the hard floor, on thenolean
floor backstage. This battle must continue bus

3560
05:06:56.720 --> 05:07:00.759
quickly if you could share with us
mcfuley's inflictions. On the aftermath of this

3561
05:07:02.360 --> 05:07:07.080
vicious spout, I wanted to shower
off the blood that seemingly ran from everywhere,

3562
05:07:07.159 --> 05:07:11.400
and in truth, I was cut
in over fifty places. My hands

3563
05:07:11.439 --> 05:07:15.959
were especially a mess, and the
chunks of flesh that peeked up at me

3564
05:07:15.119 --> 05:07:21.040
from my fingertips were grim and painful
reminders of the price we pay for doing

3565
05:07:21.119 --> 05:07:26.639
what we love. A large gash
on my forehead continued to pour as I

3566
05:07:26.720 --> 05:07:30.959
reached for the comfort of a hot
shower. No such luck, however,

3567
05:07:32.360 --> 05:07:34.360
as in addition to the lack of
heat in the building, there was you

3568
05:07:34.520 --> 05:07:42.279
guessed it, no hot water.
I felt like I'd already been already endured

3569
05:07:42.400 --> 05:07:47.560
enough pain, and I just didn't
feel up to exposing my naked, bloody

3570
05:07:47.599 --> 05:07:51.479
body to a stream of ice cold
water. Instead, I took a quick,

3571
05:07:51.720 --> 05:07:56.200
hoarse bath, rinsing my hands and
face as best I could, before

3572
05:07:56.279 --> 05:08:00.840
throwing on a set of clean clothes. I sanitized my forehead and liquids with

3573
05:08:02.040 --> 05:08:07.159
liquid new skin and wrapped it with
gauze before looking to my hands. Most

3574
05:08:07.200 --> 05:08:11.840
of the cuts were not that bad, a few were even superficial, but

3575
05:08:11.560 --> 05:08:18.360
my pinkies were a mess. I
surveyed the situation and made my fist my

3576
05:08:18.520 --> 05:08:25.000
first aid move. I put about
five drops of the new skin into each

3577
05:08:25.159 --> 05:08:32.319
wound and then packed the meat back
into its hole with my fingertips. Tracy

3578
05:08:32.400 --> 05:08:34.880
then wrapped athletic tape around it,
and we walked out to the waiting bus.

3579
05:08:36.319 --> 05:08:38.000
We drove for an hour and then
stopped at a rest area to eat.

3580
05:08:38.680 --> 05:08:41.319
Terry had driven the first leg of
the trip with a group of fans

3581
05:08:41.360 --> 05:08:49.000
known as Funk's Army brother. The
rest stop menu was real basic when it

3582
05:08:49.520 --> 05:08:53.479
comes to Western food, and most
of the time I just opted for spaghetti.

3583
05:08:55.159 --> 05:08:57.119
After the meal, Terry rejoined us
on the bus. We sat there

3584
05:08:57.159 --> 05:09:03.240
reminiscing fondly about our match and wondered
about marketing the video in the US.

3585
05:09:03.159 --> 05:09:08.759
It was a definite blending of the
thrill of victory with the agony of defeat,

3586
05:09:10.520 --> 05:09:14.680
as our talents of the past,
tales of the past, and ambitions

3587
05:09:14.720 --> 05:09:18.599
for the future were tempered only by
the stale iron stench of our own blood.

3588
05:09:18.880 --> 05:09:22.439
You for that, boss, Yeah, that's a He jacked up his

3589
05:09:22.520 --> 05:09:26.080
pinkies, taking that failed attempt to
wrap his neck in the wire on the

3590
05:09:26.279 --> 05:09:30.080
on the whip, and uh yeah
we shot that hit the ground, and

3591
05:09:30.279 --> 05:09:33.959
he said he was determined to give
mister asana was three hundred dollars worth.

3592
05:09:33.000 --> 05:09:36.639
I took flight and caught my head
and neck between the second and third strands

3593
05:09:36.680 --> 05:09:38.319
of wire as the rest of my
body sailed over the top. The timing

3594
05:09:38.400 --> 05:09:41.279
was perfect, but the wire gave
way, leaving me sitting on the arena

3595
05:09:41.360 --> 05:09:48.200
floor with sharp barbs still lodged deeply
and both my pinkies. I gave a

3596
05:09:48.279 --> 05:09:52.479
firm tug from my seated position and
became free, but in doing so exposed

3597
05:09:52.599 --> 05:10:00.479
huge chunks of flesh. I don't
know, I don't know what. I

3598
05:10:00.520 --> 05:10:03.119
don't know what nirvana they're chasing.
But I suppose here we are, all

3599
05:10:03.119 --> 05:10:07.400
these years later talking about it,
much to your delight, no doubt,

3600
05:10:07.880 --> 05:10:11.959
Ugh, I mean Jesus Christ.
Then the tournament, The King of the

3601
05:10:12.000 --> 05:10:19.759
Death Match August nineteen ninety five.
I w a Japan. Nick Foley wrestles

3602
05:10:19.840 --> 05:10:26.319
Terry Gordy in the first round.
The advances Gordy not agreeing to do any

3603
05:10:26.880 --> 05:10:30.880
death match. Bumps in fact fully
tells the story rather humorously in this book

3604
05:10:30.919 --> 05:10:33.040
that he's not quite sure Terry Gordy
even understood it was a death match tournament

3605
05:10:33.119 --> 05:10:37.759
until he got to Japan and it
was asked about thumb tacks and knew nothing

3606
05:10:37.799 --> 05:10:40.680
about this, but fully takes a
power bomb in of the tax. He

3607
05:10:40.720 --> 05:10:42.720
gets his head stomped in the tax, but he wins when he throws a

3608
05:10:42.759 --> 05:10:47.919
handful of tacks in Gordy's face and
double arm ddteas him Wow. Terry Funk

3609
05:10:47.919 --> 05:10:51.680
wrestles Tiger Jeet Singh, the aforementioned
Japanese legend, in the semifinal as well,

3610
05:10:52.200 --> 05:10:56.040
and in that match they put out
a bed of broken glass at ringside.

3611
05:10:56.799 --> 05:11:00.360
And again this is in a stadium
with an open ceiling. It's daytime

3612
05:11:00.439 --> 05:11:04.200
for these early matches with Cactus and
Terry Gordy and Tiger Jetzing and Terry Funk,

3613
05:11:04.599 --> 05:11:07.520
and I guess you could say Summer
Slam ninety two style. It becomes

3614
05:11:07.639 --> 05:11:11.680
nighttime as things drag on and Terry
Funk takes a bump into the glass.

3615
05:11:11.720 --> 05:11:15.000
It makes a very nasty sound.
It's not much of a bump. He

3616
05:11:15.080 --> 05:11:18.880
kind of just like sits down on
it. But the cameras, for whatever

3617
05:11:18.919 --> 05:11:23.520
reason at the IBA show totally missed
that that bump that Terry Funk took,

3618
05:11:23.560 --> 05:11:26.040
which is the big thing of the
match, but eventually ends up winning the

3619
05:11:26.119 --> 05:11:32.240
thing and advancing. And so we
turned to his book, The Final Match,

3620
05:11:32.360 --> 05:11:34.599
Funk writes build as a barbed wire
explosion ladder match turned out to be

3621
05:11:34.720 --> 05:11:37.880
not at all. It was cracked
up to be kind of like an electrified

3622
05:11:37.919 --> 05:11:41.720
cage match from Hollywood Havoc ninety eighty
nine. The idea was we'd have all

3623
05:11:41.759 --> 05:11:44.119
this stuff in the ring, which
would be surrounded by explosives, and at

3624
05:11:44.119 --> 05:11:45.319
the ten minute mark in the match, they would all go off, causing

3625
05:11:45.520 --> 05:11:49.240
an incredible explosion of the ring.
Before the match, Cactus and I went

3626
05:11:49.279 --> 05:11:52.599
to talk to Asano. We didn't
care about the explosive force, the dangerous

3627
05:11:52.639 --> 05:11:55.599
to our own bodies, or any
of that. We just wanted to know,

3628
05:11:55.799 --> 05:11:57.720
is this going to work? Asano
said, Oh, going to work

3629
05:11:57.840 --> 05:12:00.919
very well. I spend twenty thousand
dollars on this. We said, okay,

3630
05:12:02.520 --> 05:12:03.759
oh my god, it's good.
Then we figured if he was spending

3631
05:12:03.759 --> 05:12:07.040
that much on the damn thing,
it would work. They also had some

3632
05:12:07.200 --> 05:12:11.439
explosive boards with barboya around them,
and those weren't any pleasure Asano had huge

3633
05:12:11.439 --> 05:12:15.479
amounts of barboire rolled up onto the
board and hitting those was just atrocious.

3634
05:12:15.599 --> 05:12:22.599
Terry Funk reports. Now, uh, you know, while Terry kind of

3635
05:12:22.639 --> 05:12:27.279
says that it wasn't that big of
a deal and everybody felt pretty confident with,

3636
05:12:27.439 --> 05:12:32.279
you know, going ahead and doing
this once you know, he heard

3637
05:12:32.279 --> 05:12:34.799
that twenty thousand dollars figure, I'm
not sure, not so sure. McK

3638
05:12:34.880 --> 05:12:38.599
foley totally agreed with Terry Funk's quick
assessment that it'll be fine. Yeah.

3639
05:12:38.639 --> 05:12:42.159
Here's McK fuley from the roast of
Terry Funk, which is we've excerpted several

3640
05:12:42.200 --> 05:12:45.520
times here in the Lapsed Funk that
was put together by the folks at kfab

3641
05:12:45.599 --> 05:12:51.360
Commentary's commenting on on this exact moment
in their history together and what we were

3642
05:12:51.400 --> 05:12:55.080
in Japan were preparing for a little
goodie that they called the Kawasaki Dream,

3643
05:12:55.119 --> 05:13:03.279
which has become better known as the
King of the Death Match, and the

3644
05:13:03.439 --> 05:13:08.840
two finalists in this tournament would face
off in a little match where they would

3645
05:13:08.880 --> 05:13:14.959
take down the ring ropes and put
up these a jagged razor sharp barbed wires

3646
05:13:15.000 --> 05:13:21.040
instead. They also had barbed wire
boards boards laced with barbed wire, and

3647
05:13:21.159 --> 05:13:23.560
to kick it off, at the
ten minute mark, the ring was set

3648
05:13:23.639 --> 05:13:30.759
to explode. In addition, these
barbed wire boards had ce four explosives hooked

3649
05:13:30.840 --> 05:13:33.720
up to them. Now, it
was supposed to look like when we landed

3650
05:13:33.479 --> 05:13:37.040
on the explosives, we would cause
them to detonate. We didn't know at

3651
05:13:37.040 --> 05:13:40.840
the time. There was a guy
up at like the second level with a

3652
05:13:40.959 --> 05:13:44.279
button and he would push that thing, and we wanted to they wanted,

3653
05:13:44.319 --> 05:13:47.759
the promoter wanted to show us,
do you remember the starting what those explosives

3654
05:13:47.840 --> 05:13:52.840
look like? And they detonated those
explosives and it sounded like a cannon going

3655
05:13:52.959 --> 05:14:00.360
up. Smoke was everywhere. And
even though I had this reputation as being

3656
05:14:00.400 --> 05:14:03.680
this hardcore, fearless guy and I
thought that was running through my mind,

3657
05:14:03.840 --> 05:14:11.159
was you gotta be fucking kidding.
And I didn't care that it was by

3658
05:14:11.279 --> 05:14:15.400
far the biggest crowd I ever worked
in front of. I turned to Victor

3659
05:14:15.520 --> 05:14:18.279
Canonis and I said, no,
there's no way we can't do that.

3660
05:14:19.000 --> 05:14:22.240
And then Terry said, no,
no, it'll be fine, but what

3661
05:14:22.400 --> 05:14:26.360
we need we need just a few
more explosives right there in the day,

3662
05:14:30.000 --> 05:14:33.919
Terry, where the hell are we
going to land doing the mathematics there?

3663
05:14:33.959 --> 05:14:37.680
And it doesn't seem to be anywhere
to land that we wouldn't be severely injured.

3664
05:14:38.319 --> 05:14:47.080
Famous last words, Now, practice
will be fine. Neither one of

3665
05:14:47.159 --> 05:14:52.560
us was fine acause I thow God. I mean, I came home,

3666
05:14:53.759 --> 05:14:57.919
and unlike Terry, who had a
business class seat, I was in twenty

3667
05:14:59.000 --> 05:15:06.319
sixty by the and I got a
call front of the desk there on Air

3668
05:15:06.439 --> 05:15:11.680
Japan or Northwest Airlines, and they
had bumped me up to business class because

3669
05:15:11.720 --> 05:15:15.680
they felt sorry for me. And
I looked at the woman next to me,

3670
05:15:15.759 --> 05:15:19.439
and she was looking at me,
and try to imagine what I would

3671
05:15:19.479 --> 05:15:26.639
look like if I was this fourteen
years younger, with forty two stitches and

3672
05:15:26.959 --> 05:15:30.720
six different parts of my body.
And for those of you guys who've been

3673
05:15:30.799 --> 05:15:33.400
to the doctor and had those stitches, you know you can't wash your hair

3674
05:15:33.639 --> 05:15:38.759
immediately, which is really great news
when your hair is burned and bloody.

3675
05:15:41.560 --> 05:15:45.840
And not only that, the skin
on my left arm began to fall off

3676
05:15:45.919 --> 05:15:52.880
of me as the flight was en
route. The woman, looking nervously at

3677
05:15:52.959 --> 05:15:56.240
me, got up. I guessed
to use the restroom and didn't come back

3678
05:15:56.319 --> 05:16:00.720
for quite a while. And when
I look to the back, she was

3679
05:16:00.799 --> 05:16:06.279
sitting back there, somewhere around twenty
sixty where I would have been. She

3680
05:16:06.479 --> 05:16:11.159
was just almost in a fetal position. And all I don't know her religion,

3681
05:16:11.240 --> 05:16:14.799
or even if she was religious,
she appeared to be thanking God that

3682
05:16:14.919 --> 05:16:18.400
she was no longer with that guy
in business class. I remember those words.

3683
05:16:18.720 --> 05:16:26.520
Now what we need is two more. So it's all uh, fun

3684
05:16:26.599 --> 05:16:30.400
and games in retrospect, But how
do they get to that point where someone

3685
05:16:30.439 --> 05:16:33.439
could even stand to sit next to
mcfoley in first class because he was such

3686
05:16:33.439 --> 05:16:38.080
an appalling visage? Yeah, the
conclusion of the King of the Death Match

3687
05:16:38.200 --> 05:16:42.840
tournament here quickly is Terry Funk just
on the whole notion of things in a

3688
05:16:42.840 --> 05:16:48.919
shoot interview. That was an insane
That was an insane scenario, It really

3689
05:16:48.159 --> 05:16:52.599
was. Yeah, the whole idea
of it was just obtured, you know,

3690
05:16:53.080 --> 05:17:00.000
and the you know, there is
no gimmicks in those matches. I

3691
05:17:00.040 --> 05:17:06.040
mean they are just as I mean
glass as glass and barbed wires, barbed

3692
05:17:06.080 --> 05:17:11.240
wire and up the wall twenty feet
on some kind of deal like that.

3693
05:17:11.520 --> 05:17:14.759
That's that's the way it is,
you know, you just and that's why

3694
05:17:14.799 --> 05:17:18.040
it was over there, you know, and and fires fire and everything else,

3695
05:17:18.119 --> 05:17:23.159
you know, And it was it
was it's not as controlled at all

3696
05:17:23.319 --> 05:17:27.040
that it is over here, and
it is extremely dangerous, you know.

3697
05:17:27.200 --> 05:17:32.599
And and went through that whole night
and that whole series of matches, and

3698
05:17:32.720 --> 05:17:37.080
it was it was a rough day, tough, tough way to make a

3699
05:17:37.159 --> 05:17:41.520
living. Now a lot of a
lot has come out after that said that

3700
05:17:41.599 --> 05:17:45.000
there were problems with the bombs during
going off during the main match. That

3701
05:17:45.479 --> 05:17:52.840
absolutely, yeah, bomb and that's
you know, I think they paid twenty

3702
05:17:52.959 --> 05:17:56.240
thousand dollars for the setup or something, you know, equivalent American money,

3703
05:17:56.279 --> 05:17:59.680
which is not that much, but
I mean, you should get a decent

3704
05:17:59.720 --> 05:18:04.439
little blow up in twenty and uh
they said ten nine eight seven, six

3705
05:18:04.840 --> 05:18:11.040
five four three, it's gonna blow
up two one, And I stood up

3706
05:18:11.080 --> 05:18:17.520
and the win and it was very
funny because all the fans, I mean,

3707
05:18:17.759 --> 05:18:21.959
they were really upset and I just
turned around. It was a very

3708
05:18:22.040 --> 05:18:25.040
strange thing that night because I went
ahead and did and I just kind of

3709
05:18:25.040 --> 05:18:30.759
looked at the fans. I said
why, And I was serious and see

3710
05:18:30.799 --> 05:18:34.240
that I said why, and they
came seemed to kind of understand that that

3711
05:18:34.400 --> 05:18:37.959
I was. I was disappointed as
they were, and we you know,

3712
05:18:38.080 --> 05:18:41.759
and still went through it and had
had a good match, you know,

3713
05:18:42.080 --> 05:18:47.000
but but they understood, like you
know that they understood me whenever I said

3714
05:18:47.000 --> 05:18:49.080
why that I mean, it was
nothing that I was in control of,

3715
05:18:49.360 --> 05:18:53.639
nor anyone else that was in control
over that ring, and had been wrestling

3716
05:18:53.720 --> 05:18:57.159
their ass off all day long for
eight hours, you know, and all

3717
05:18:57.200 --> 05:19:03.919
of us Cacus night took quite a
strange feel there. It is, well

3718
05:19:03.959 --> 05:19:07.759
we head in ready disc twenty seven, Boss if he could all right?

3719
05:19:08.159 --> 05:19:12.560
As we read this final passage from
mcfuley's book, Heading into the finals of

3720
05:19:12.599 --> 05:19:15.799
The King of the Death Match August
twentieth, nineteen ninety five. When I

3721
05:19:15.840 --> 05:19:18.159
went into the ring, I was
still scared, but filled with a feeling

3722
05:19:18.240 --> 05:19:22.119
of power that was not unlike my
feeling of being on top of the scaffold

3723
05:19:22.159 --> 05:19:25.840
and fort Worth six years earlier.
Some of the fans were chanting cock Tusa,

3724
05:19:26.680 --> 05:19:29.759
but most of them were physically and
mentally worn out from hours of sunshine

3725
05:19:29.759 --> 05:19:33.400
and bloodshed. The Funker arrived in
the ring to his decades old the music

3726
05:19:33.439 --> 05:19:36.720
and chance of Telly Telly. He
looked old and worn out. Hell,

3727
05:19:36.799 --> 05:19:40.279
he was old and worn out.
His shirt was spattered with blood from his

3728
05:19:40.360 --> 05:19:44.479
previous matches. Tumble into the plate
glass. It went without saying that Terry

3729
05:19:44.680 --> 05:19:47.680
would be the guy taking the bump
in the glass. It wasn't Tiger's style.

3730
05:19:48.080 --> 05:19:56.200
Once again, Terry had given and
Tiger had taken this twenty seven twenty

3731
05:19:56.279 --> 05:20:11.880
seven seven fifty six three two one
play. They are the brackets so Mortal

3732
05:20:11.959 --> 05:20:23.360
Kombat screen yeah right, finals wire
everywhere, Jesus Christ as night, barbed

3733
05:20:23.360 --> 05:20:30.400
wire boards in all corners of the
ring, explosions, They're ready to detonate

3734
05:20:30.439 --> 05:20:37.080
it inside. Why this is the
match? The Terry Funk Cactus Jack battle

3735
05:20:37.119 --> 05:21:00.439
in Japan? You up, you
gotta say e that this is where Terry

3736
05:21:00.479 --> 05:21:04.959
Funk, this remarkable, one of
a kind career would end up in nineteen

3737
05:21:06.040 --> 05:21:21.319
ninety five. So bizarre have ever
seen this one at all? No Foley's

3738
05:21:21.400 --> 05:21:26.319
arm extensively taped on the left,
Funk's T shirt completely hued brown with blood

3739
05:21:26.400 --> 05:21:33.040
splatter on it a bandage almost like
a sweatband around his forehead, the blood

3740
05:21:33.400 --> 05:21:38.560
poking through even that bandaging, and
the bell sounds. It's the Finals August

3741
05:21:38.599 --> 05:21:44.040
twentieth, nineteen ninety five. Only
on his way to w w F of

3742
05:21:44.080 --> 05:21:56.560
course, right Terry starts pumping the
jab, landing over and over and only

3743
05:21:56.639 --> 05:21:59.000
able to do little bit. Offer
his face up. Oh, they're trying

3744
05:21:59.040 --> 05:22:02.919
to bust him open. He just
wanted Terry to bust him open to the

3745
05:22:02.959 --> 05:22:07.799
eyebrow hardway got that done. Coloring
elbow cactus backing Funk up into the wire.

3746
05:22:11.479 --> 05:22:14.840
So again like the O need to
match. Once they reach a certain

3747
05:22:14.880 --> 05:22:18.279
time limit, the bombs go off. Oh he's gonna whip funk in,

3748
05:22:18.599 --> 05:22:25.880
and Funk nicely puts the king the
wire. That's funny, points to his

3749
05:22:25.959 --> 05:22:34.279
brain like it takes a genius to
stop yourself from running into borrowing up hog

3750
05:22:34.400 --> 05:22:40.720
pen like some of the cattle down
to the ranch. That collar elbow.

3751
05:22:40.799 --> 05:22:45.680
Funk throws the head butt. Ah, those big lefts. Neck breaker on

3752
05:22:45.880 --> 05:22:51.919
order. Nope, Oh he got
it, he got it. Nice camera,

3753
05:22:52.439 --> 05:22:56.400
nothing but a shot of barbed wires. Funk lands of the neck breaker

3754
05:22:56.759 --> 05:23:07.639
and ever comes folly into the wire
oh heat baseball slide underneath. It's obviously

3755
05:23:07.680 --> 05:23:11.959
a much bigger scale than the match
we just watched between these two from January

3756
05:23:11.040 --> 05:23:18.119
of that year. What else you
gonna do to draw forty thousand people to

3757
05:23:18.200 --> 05:23:22.840
a show if you're not New Japan
or all Japan in nineteen ninety five,

3758
05:23:23.680 --> 05:23:33.119
you promise the possibility of death.
That's absolutely correct. Fire wire boards in

3759
05:23:33.200 --> 05:23:36.200
play. I mean they never say
this in their books, but did they

3760
05:23:36.279 --> 05:23:38.639
either of them feel like they,
you know, maybe will die tonight.

3761
05:23:40.000 --> 05:23:44.360
I didn't say it in as many
words, but pretty intimidated. Yeah,

3762
05:23:45.919 --> 05:23:48.639
you can hear Mick his uncertainty about
the bombs and stuff. He didn't like

3763
05:23:48.720 --> 05:23:53.880
that. He hadn't done that before. Terry had done it against Oneita,

3764
05:23:53.919 --> 05:24:00.799
so probably felt a little more comfortable. I don't know, not death,

3765
05:24:00.880 --> 05:24:07.200
but definitely disfigurement. One thing I
didn't know until researching is that those bombs

3766
05:24:07.279 --> 05:24:11.759
don't go off, you know,
upon impact. They go off when somebody

3767
05:24:11.919 --> 05:24:19.080
presses a detonator. That's where in
the building a fully lines up a DDT.

3768
05:24:19.240 --> 05:24:23.840
But he shoved asked first into the
wire. That old satchel ass that

3769
05:24:23.919 --> 05:24:30.119
Terry Funk always teases MC Foley about
watch where you step Terry. There's essentially

3770
05:24:30.240 --> 05:24:33.520
land mines in there, and is
well he was talking about were were gonna

3771
05:24:33.560 --> 05:24:37.279
land you know, put for of
these exploding barb wire boards in the ring.

3772
05:24:37.360 --> 05:24:45.040
It really limits our ability to take
some flat back bumps. Here fully

3773
05:24:45.119 --> 05:24:48.919
piling up the right hands, and
Terry is about to lose his balance teetering

3774
05:24:49.000 --> 05:24:56.080
on one of those boards. Now, Jesus, look at a flame.

3775
05:24:56.680 --> 05:25:00.240
There's a flame. Oh my god, Terry's shirt stuck to the fire.

3776
05:25:00.279 --> 05:25:04.639
He bumps the board. It explodes, screaming from some female patrons. Actually

3777
05:25:04.680 --> 05:25:10.000
I think she's getting fingers. But
Terry rolled mercifully off the board, covered

3778
05:25:10.000 --> 05:25:15.680
by cactus jack and gets too.
It's crazy. If you hit that,

3779
05:25:15.720 --> 05:25:18.959
you hit your back and you feel
that explosion like that, I know.

3780
05:25:22.159 --> 05:25:25.759
And there is one mic takes later
where he suffers a pretty bad burn to

3781
05:25:25.840 --> 05:25:32.040
his arm. Oh, Mick Foley
getting injured And imagine, I don't believe

3782
05:25:32.080 --> 05:25:37.720
it, Ah wrecking his arm on
the wire. Look at look at the

3783
05:25:37.759 --> 05:25:45.840
stick. Look at the stick.
Oh my god, essitioned Funk across the

3784
05:25:45.919 --> 05:25:48.279
middle wire, took off with an
elbow. Funk moved out of the way

3785
05:25:48.360 --> 05:25:53.319
and there goes Foley's arm. Flesh
Funk now moving in on foley double arm

3786
05:25:53.400 --> 05:26:00.799
underhooks this old school funk at Japan. Uh score. I don't know what

3787
05:26:00.919 --> 05:26:04.520
he hit, but Butterfly suplex no
explosions there back up now in a whit

3788
05:26:04.880 --> 05:26:15.479
Folly takes the wire Jesus all the
way. It's a nasty looking barbed wire.

3789
05:26:17.119 --> 05:26:25.919
Jesus, look at it stuck to
his fucking arm. Awful head butts

3790
05:26:26.000 --> 05:26:30.560
Now I Funk looking to return in
the favor. Dropped fully on one of

3791
05:26:30.599 --> 05:26:41.520
those exploding boards moving it into position
is Terry Funk. There we go,

3792
05:26:41.639 --> 05:26:44.560
hip tops full. He's about to
burn his arm here on this one,

3793
05:26:44.639 --> 05:26:56.959
right, ah, Jesus. Actually
that one he kind of cleared, he

3794
05:26:57.200 --> 05:27:02.560
remembers noticing that it didn't even he
didn't feel that one that because he bumped

3795
05:27:02.639 --> 05:27:04.720
off the canvas as it went off, so it didn't really like see him.

3796
05:27:04.720 --> 05:27:07.840
There's one of these coming up where
he gets his arm pretty bad.

3797
05:27:10.360 --> 05:27:14.880
Oh, big pile driver in the
middle of the ring by Terry Funk and

3798
05:27:15.000 --> 05:27:22.319
they blew two of the sons of
bitches up. Unbelievable. It's absolutely ridiculous.

3799
05:27:22.479 --> 05:27:26.080
And there was thing too I heard
along the way where now Funk positions

3800
05:27:26.119 --> 05:27:30.400
one of the boards, pile drives
mixed through it by leaning it up against

3801
05:27:30.439 --> 05:27:34.439
the the barber ropes. I'll look
at that arm. That arm's wrecked on,

3802
05:27:34.639 --> 05:27:40.080
Mick. So yeah, seriously,
what a fucking It's like a chunk

3803
05:27:40.119 --> 05:27:41.439
of flesh has been taken out.
It might be, in fact, that

3804
05:27:41.560 --> 05:27:48.840
might be the burn. I don't
know a bitch laughs and rights Funk going

3805
05:27:48.880 --> 05:27:56.599
to work with the box. Left
hand drops fully. So there's like a

3806
05:27:56.639 --> 05:28:02.479
difference. They said. The FMW
bomb effects were done by like special effects

3807
05:28:02.520 --> 05:28:06.919
people from the movies, whereas these
were handled more from like people that dealt

3808
05:28:06.959 --> 05:28:10.759
in munitions and people who dealt in
like pyrotechnics as opposed to doing it for

3809
05:28:10.840 --> 05:28:18.040
the screen. And so it was
kind of like, oh, I can't

3810
05:28:18.319 --> 05:28:22.200
well, he smashed into a board
that's leaned up in the corner of barbed

3811
05:28:22.200 --> 05:28:29.159
wire board Funk going for the cover
gets too. Just think of how perverse

3812
05:28:29.240 --> 05:28:33.599
you have to be to sit there
and think of these these exploding boards,

3813
05:28:33.240 --> 05:28:38.639
Like where does your mind go to
come up with this? Right? And

3814
05:28:38.759 --> 05:28:42.200
I mean how and not only let's
do it, let's do it with Terry

3815
05:28:42.240 --> 05:28:49.439
Funk. The floor they go.
Terry Funk throwing a barbed wire board down

3816
05:28:49.599 --> 05:28:53.479
on the floor, plenty of space
from the front row to ringside. I'll

3817
05:28:53.520 --> 05:29:04.319
tell you this guy's yet you're throwing
a brick fully drops his nailbow and Terry

3818
05:29:04.360 --> 05:29:11.360
on the outside, covering Terry Funk
in a barbed wire board and dropping another

3819
05:29:11.840 --> 05:29:19.560
bow. All right, look at
what's become of Terry Funk. I mean,

3820
05:29:19.680 --> 05:29:27.560
look at the man. Look at
he is a living disaster and in

3821
05:29:27.599 --> 05:29:33.439
destruction is his middle name. Yeah, the verse whip fully finds a guardrail

3822
05:29:33.520 --> 05:29:41.159
to sail over, even if it's
three hundred feet from ringside. Get a

3823
05:29:41.159 --> 05:29:45.360
glimpse here at some of the front
row spectators. Terry Funk going ahead and

3824
05:29:47.279 --> 05:29:57.919
loading. Terry movings fast, swinging
hard left and right, just smack and

3825
05:29:59.040 --> 05:30:04.000
mick upside the head. So awesome, bunches, it's betting, told by

3826
05:30:04.080 --> 05:30:11.799
the Funker. When I had look
at him, couldn't. When I had

3827
05:30:11.880 --> 05:30:15.840
two, I had three, I
had four, I had tagger. Jeet

3828
05:30:15.919 --> 05:30:21.119
Sing hits the ring terrified of the
barber, what the fuck, and uses

3829
05:30:21.159 --> 05:30:25.520
his sword to drop Terry Funk.
Sing was, of course, the person

3830
05:30:25.599 --> 05:30:30.599
Funk eliminated earlier in the tournament.
But it was what was he a fucking

3831
05:30:32.680 --> 05:30:38.840
like like mid a dad coming in
like chasing away? Uh, what's that?

3832
05:30:40.799 --> 05:30:44.240
It's like he looks like a dad
coming in to chase away his daughter's

3833
05:30:44.279 --> 05:30:52.919
older boyfriend. Barbier board in the
corner. Dah oh Jesus Funk with face

3834
05:30:52.040 --> 05:30:59.159
first into the explosion and it's stuck
in his hair. Me oh, those

3835
05:30:59.240 --> 05:31:04.119
up. The perverse teaming teamwork of
Cactus Jack and Tiger Jeet singing swinging neckbreaker

3836
05:31:04.159 --> 05:31:08.040
by Cactus hook of the leg on
Funk gets two and a half Wow,

3837
05:31:08.360 --> 05:31:11.720
lifts the shoulder. Remember that countdown
still on for the exploding ring. By

3838
05:31:11.759 --> 05:31:17.520
the way, this fully hooks the
double arm DDT planning. Terry hooks the

3839
05:31:17.680 --> 05:31:26.040
leg again here one, two,
not enough started to hear some of the

3840
05:31:26.080 --> 05:31:41.840
shrieks from the female spectators. They
realize his countdowns on here it is oh

3841
05:31:41.919 --> 05:31:48.520
if and the laughter, what the
what the fuck? Listen to these people?

3842
05:31:49.720 --> 05:31:53.799
Yes they should laugh? And here
goes Terry. What what happened?

3843
05:31:55.880 --> 05:31:59.520
What the hell? Where do we
go? What do we do? And

3844
05:31:59.759 --> 05:32:06.759
where? Yeah? What happened?
I want? I hadn't got my ass

3845
05:32:06.840 --> 05:32:11.439
blowed up? That was before the
show, so Now they go in and

3846
05:32:11.439 --> 05:32:14.959
they got to call audibles, and
that's where Mick takes the burn on his

3847
05:32:15.080 --> 05:32:19.479
arm right there. Immediately try to
get the crowd back fully re enters the

3848
05:32:19.560 --> 05:32:22.400
ring, Funk snatches him in the
back suplex and drops him on a bomb.

3849
05:32:23.880 --> 05:32:26.200
See, this is the problem.
This is why you don't do these

3850
05:32:26.279 --> 05:32:32.439
kinds of matches, because it's a
it's a complete you know, it's it's

3851
05:32:32.680 --> 05:32:36.639
never gonna look that good because you
can't kill the guy. You know,

3852
05:32:36.680 --> 05:32:40.479
the only thing people really want out
of an exploding match is to see the

3853
05:32:40.560 --> 05:32:44.279
ring blow up and the guys with
it. Yep, you know, but

3854
05:32:44.439 --> 05:32:55.680
you can't have that because you know, legal purposes. Oh, Terry Cactus

3855
05:32:55.759 --> 05:32:59.919
grabbing a ladder. I kind of
got the impression hearing Mick talk about this

3856
05:33:00.040 --> 05:33:04.959
is that everything after the explosion was
kind of like added in. Oh look,

3857
05:33:04.959 --> 05:33:10.560
I'm not sure they've not use the
latter if the explosion look better if

3858
05:33:10.560 --> 05:33:17.200
they spring in action realizing that the
oh Jesus factus suplex is a ladder down

3859
05:33:17.240 --> 05:33:19.680
under the funker and hits just his
knees, which I'm sure it can only

3860
05:33:19.759 --> 05:33:32.119
help the the historic new problems too. Terry still kicks out. Still going

3861
05:33:32.200 --> 05:33:34.680
here in the King of the Death
Match tournament final, as Mick fully folds

3862
05:33:34.720 --> 05:33:41.319
out the ladder now to take flight, Cactus is so bloody that like his

3863
05:33:41.479 --> 05:33:48.919
face looks black from a dis Funk
prone in the canvas, Cactus with his

3864
05:33:48.080 --> 05:33:52.759
back to Terry Funk climbing the ladder. You get him. Look at how

3865
05:33:53.080 --> 05:33:59.000
why? Oh, what a fucking
mess. Totally covered. He takes off

3866
05:33:59.040 --> 05:34:03.040
and drops the elbow. The Funker
from nearly the top of the ladder cover

3867
05:34:03.599 --> 05:34:18.799
one two. Funk lifts the shoulder
again. Bang bang, motherfuckers. How's

3868
05:34:18.799 --> 05:34:22.520
that? I said? Bang bang, motherfuckers? Is going up again,

3869
05:34:23.119 --> 05:34:30.080
but this time to fuck a.
Stirring to his feet, fully trapped up

3870
05:34:30.119 --> 05:34:33.400
there, Terry knocks over the ladder
and fully takes the wire. Oh my

3871
05:34:33.599 --> 05:34:52.240
god, ah, just chaos.
But still despite that, Flurry fully covers

3872
05:34:52.119 --> 05:34:59.520
one two. It's over. Oh
my god, thank god. Terry lifts

3873
05:34:59.520 --> 05:35:23.159
the shoulder, but it's too late. What a fucking shit show. Wasn't

3874
05:35:23.159 --> 05:35:32.479
it worth it just for people to
like groan and shit? No. Thirteen

3875
05:35:32.560 --> 05:35:37.159
minutes Cactus Jack the first time in
his career, I believe pins Terry Funk

3876
05:35:37.240 --> 05:35:41.040
to win the iwa King of the
death Match tournament, and from this date

3877
05:35:41.159 --> 05:35:45.680
forward, Cactus Jack known as the
King of the death Match, the King

3878
05:35:45.720 --> 05:35:49.119
of Hardcore, all those flags.
He flew into a multimillion dollar career with

3879
05:35:49.159 --> 05:35:56.439
the World Wrestling Federation. No small
part accelerated when he brought the Cactus character

3880
05:35:56.520 --> 05:36:02.279
over in December ninety seven and Powdrow
triple h put the table and on madithon

3881
05:36:02.319 --> 05:36:07.159
Square Garden, both men taking an
assessment. Terry Funk laying on the canvas

3882
05:36:07.400 --> 05:36:12.680
in apparent agony after an exhausting slate
of punishing matches throughout this entire day.

3883
05:36:12.759 --> 05:36:29.840
It's probably ninety five degrees and this
environment there comes from a the RWA wrestlers

3884
05:36:29.840 --> 05:36:37.560
again trying to lift the Funker off
the canvas. Just fucking chaos. It's

3885
05:36:37.560 --> 05:36:41.560
to be a Sano San handing Mick
Foley, the King of the death Match

3886
05:36:41.639 --> 05:36:45.439
trophies to get the Born to Be
Wired t shirt on, fully hoists the

3887
05:36:45.479 --> 05:36:48.880
trophy high. He would later put
the trophy down and then never see it

3888
05:36:48.919 --> 05:37:00.840
again. Wow, know what happened
to it. But right his knees extends

3889
05:37:00.880 --> 05:37:22.720
the hand. Terry, don't go, he says, Terry, barely able

3890
05:37:22.759 --> 05:37:40.560
to stand at ringside. Yep,
stay the funk away. Funk says,

3891
05:37:41.639 --> 05:37:48.799
yeah, Amy, don't you go
ahead and stayed the funk away from me?

3892
05:37:57.720 --> 05:38:15.240
What a visual? Yep, it's
something, all right. There's Funk

3893
05:38:15.319 --> 05:38:22.200
with his arms crossed in front of
him, limping up the aisle, fold

3894
05:38:22.200 --> 05:39:03.439
into the bike. Come on there, he has made a maid man now

3895
05:39:03.520 --> 05:39:07.599
in Japan, for better if for
worse. Yeah. Look fully clutching the

3896
05:39:07.680 --> 05:39:18.680
King of the Death Match trophy,
exits the arena, fucking carnage left in

3897
05:39:18.759 --> 05:39:26.159
his way. I think that's Victor
Quindona is there to the left. Oh

3898
05:39:26.240 --> 05:39:33.599
really, that's a famous picture.
He relics the trophy with his blood soaked

3899
05:39:33.639 --> 05:39:42.479
shirt. Yeah, on his way
to the back. I hope you enjoyed

3900
05:39:42.479 --> 05:39:47.840
this tour of death match Japan.
Boss ah, none at all. Some

3901
05:39:47.959 --> 05:39:56.959
postmatch thoughts peep my stomach because I
was happy in the United States. I

3902
05:39:56.200 --> 05:40:03.119
was happy there. Terry Funk signed
with i w A. Terry Funk signed

3903
05:40:03.159 --> 05:40:08.240
with i w A. The Japanese
press has called me the American on need

3904
05:40:08.319 --> 05:40:14.720
It for the past five years,
and that's great. But when Terry Funk

3905
05:40:14.799 --> 05:40:18.720
came to the it w A,
I didn't see a chance to make money.

3906
05:40:21.040 --> 05:40:26.400
I saw a chance to find me
sleep at night because the name Terry

3907
05:40:26.520 --> 05:40:30.840
Funk is in away in my cuts
for the last three years. Because no

3908
05:40:30.000 --> 05:40:34.639
matter how good I won, no
matter how dangerous I was, Tiger,

3909
05:40:34.959 --> 05:40:45.119
that's right. I knew in my
heart I's never pating Terry Funk. But

3910
05:40:45.279 --> 05:40:53.119
in my heart I didn't know if
I cut it was a quass and no

3911
05:40:55.080 --> 05:41:00.639
with my body patter ut less.
Maybe I can find peace, Tigger,

3912
05:41:03.759 --> 05:41:08.840
because I've beaten Turry Phone. I'm
getting Terry Phone. Give me many many

3913
05:41:08.880 --> 05:41:12.959
more time. You know there's not
if you only one ye, give me

3914
05:41:14.040 --> 05:41:21.840
many many more times. The death
patch I don't feeling came. I felt

3915
05:41:21.919 --> 05:41:29.360
like shaking Turry Punk's hand walked.
He was hurt. Was all my Terry.

3916
05:41:38.360 --> 05:41:56.639
There is standing screaming, lifting his
wounded arm outside the arena, adoring

3917
05:41:56.799 --> 05:42:04.599
throngs, screaming out to the Funker
one more time, in some way similar

3918
05:42:04.639 --> 05:42:10.360
to his nineteen eighty three All Japan, Goodbye, no way, he's infinitely

3919
05:42:10.439 --> 05:42:14.599
more perverse empathetic. Oh for sure. This is loaded in the back of

3920
05:42:14.680 --> 05:42:34.680
a medical van. Lord shut and
a weighed an ambulance business done goose.

3921
05:42:34.759 --> 05:42:42.880
The funker it was fucking cheery,
like industrial video fucking music with these credits.

3922
05:42:44.959 --> 05:42:49.479
Jesus, there you have it.
So what does he hope he accomplished

3923
05:42:51.439 --> 05:42:53.360
at the stage of his career?
What does he hope this all amounts to?

3924
05:42:53.599 --> 05:42:57.599
Funk spoke to it in a shoot
interview on the death match. What

3925
05:42:57.680 --> 05:43:00.159
were some of the injuries that you
had out of that dead match? The

3926
05:43:00.279 --> 05:43:04.240
tournament altogether? Oh gosh, I
was so burned up. But when from

3927
05:43:04.319 --> 05:43:12.560
that last match with Cactus, just
burned up and just just really cut up

3928
05:43:12.599 --> 05:43:17.240
from the glass on the earn of
the match with one guy. Yeah,

3929
05:43:18.919 --> 05:43:22.200
just it was a long, long
day. Yeah, hopefully that does people

3930
05:43:22.240 --> 05:43:30.919
look at that someday and it's pretty
nice. It fully realizes that what might

3931
05:43:30.000 --> 05:43:34.279
not have been everyone's cup of tea. He likes to think that the sacrifices

3932
05:43:34.319 --> 05:43:40.159
we just witnessed him and Terry Funk
make set in motion a movement. It's

3933
05:43:40.200 --> 05:43:42.080
not everybody's cup of tea, but
it is some people's cup of tea.

3934
05:43:42.360 --> 05:43:47.240
And I find that the people who
are drawn to it watching it are a

3935
05:43:47.319 --> 05:43:51.080
lot like the horror fans, where
you know, you would think on paper,

3936
05:43:51.279 --> 05:43:57.119
and I've seen actresses specifically the actress
who played Jason Voorhees's mom went to

3937
05:43:57.200 --> 05:44:02.599
a first convention and she was a
little bit I've already used trepidacious once,

3938
05:44:02.680 --> 05:44:06.279
so I'll just say, you know, a little bit hesitant. And then

3939
05:44:06.319 --> 05:44:07.840
she realized, you know, how
kind of art of the people are.

3940
05:44:08.159 --> 05:44:15.040
And it's just been my history that
the people who watch it are good people

3941
05:44:15.400 --> 05:44:23.959
who you know, like to see
consenting adults to weird stuff. And I,

3942
05:44:26.040 --> 05:44:29.439
man, again, I don't condone
it, but I understand it,

3943
05:44:29.759 --> 05:44:34.520
and I feel like the people who
take that step and do it for more

3944
05:44:34.599 --> 05:44:40.639
than the money are worthy of our
admiration, even if it's not your saying

3945
05:44:41.240 --> 05:44:48.720
speaking to how much more incredibly dangerous
and gory and wild and vicious these death

3946
05:44:48.799 --> 05:44:52.240
matches would become in the wake of
the kind of displays we just saw from

3947
05:44:52.599 --> 05:44:56.520
Nick Foley and Terry Funk. Funk
says in his book, my family wasn't

3948
05:44:56.599 --> 05:45:00.759
riddled about my hardcore wrestling endeavors in
Japan. My wife and both my daughters

3949
05:45:00.799 --> 05:45:04.000
were worried about me doing more dangerous
things as I got older, but it

3950
05:45:04.119 --> 05:45:07.080
was my choice, as it has
always been. They were not happy with

3951
05:45:07.159 --> 05:45:11.159
me doing those things, but a
man's got to do what a man's got

3952
05:45:11.240 --> 05:45:12.840
to do, and what I have
got to do is provide. The way

3953
05:45:12.919 --> 05:45:17.360
I provided was to be home as
much as I could and perform as few

3954
05:45:17.400 --> 05:45:21.840
times as I could while making us
a good living. The pain and sacrifice

3955
05:45:21.880 --> 05:45:26.799
of a couple of violent matches was
not as bad to me as the pain

3956
05:45:26.959 --> 05:45:32.520
and sacrifice of being on a wrestling
tour and away from home for weeks for

3957
05:45:32.639 --> 05:45:37.880
the same amount of money. Fully, one closing thought from his book,

3958
05:45:40.319 --> 05:45:42.159
took me a while to get up
after this match we just witnessed, and

3959
05:45:42.240 --> 05:45:45.720
when I did, Terry still wasn't
moving. He was still down on his

3960
05:45:45.840 --> 05:45:51.639
back and was obviously too hurt to
continue. I crawled over and draped my

3961
05:45:51.799 --> 05:45:56.000
arm over him for a somewhat anticlimactic
victory. The audience was confused, but

3962
05:45:56.200 --> 05:46:00.560
not disappointed. I had wrestled way
too long and hard that day by victory

3963
05:46:00.599 --> 05:46:03.680
to be questioned, I was the
King of the death match. Cameras flashed

3964
05:46:03.720 --> 05:46:07.200
continually for the next several minutes,
since the press followed my every move.

3965
05:46:07.360 --> 05:46:10.279
I tried to shake Terry's hand in
accordance with mister Rosano's wishes, but he

3966
05:46:10.319 --> 05:46:12.319
was hustled out by the young boys
before I got the chance. I was

3967
05:46:12.360 --> 05:46:15.799
handed a huge trophy, which I
held high overhead for all of Kawasaki to

3968
05:46:15.880 --> 05:46:19.360
see. By the way, Maggie, he wasn't hustled out. He said,

3969
05:46:19.599 --> 05:46:23.319
leave me the fuck alone. We
heard that, put the trophy down

3970
05:46:23.360 --> 05:46:27.159
and haven't seen it since. While
I celebrated, Terry was placed in an

3971
05:46:27.159 --> 05:46:30.959
ambulance and rushed to the hospital.
It was a truly touching scene as the

3972
05:46:32.040 --> 05:46:34.479
adoring crowd reached out to just touch
him and chanted his name. Terry had

3973
05:46:34.520 --> 05:46:38.680
done me a gigantic favor. Terry
had only lost a couple of matches in

3974
05:46:38.720 --> 05:46:42.240
the last decade in Japan, and
a victory over the Funker was a huge

3975
05:46:42.319 --> 05:46:48.119
milestone. Terry Funk, who had
spent his entire career giving had just given

3976
05:46:48.200 --> 05:46:52.439
me a hell of a gift.
I guess after all those years, maybe

3977
05:46:52.479 --> 05:46:57.560
he really did see shit in me
after all, And upon his passing,

3978
05:46:59.159 --> 05:47:03.959
may fully reflect on this and everything
else that Terry Funk meant to him and

3979
05:47:04.159 --> 05:47:10.520
in some ways to all of us. Here he reads from a heartfelt note

3980
05:47:10.799 --> 05:47:14.840
that he penned and published to Terry
Funk upon learning that his death was eminent

3981
05:47:15.400 --> 05:47:19.479
as read on his podcast with Conrad
Thompson. It's been a little over twenty

3982
05:47:19.560 --> 05:47:25.479
four hours since Terry Funk's daughters shared
with me the news that their legendary father

3983
05:47:25.639 --> 05:47:30.639
had passed away. When his daughter
Brandy's caller ID came up on my phone,

3984
05:47:30.240 --> 05:47:34.319
I had this immediate feeling that Terry
had suffered a bad fall or something

3985
05:47:34.360 --> 05:47:38.040
of that nature. Up until a
few months ago, I don't think I

3986
05:47:38.159 --> 05:47:44.439
ever conceived the world without Terry Funk
in it. He began his professional wrestling

3987
05:47:44.520 --> 05:47:48.439
career in nineteen sixty five, the
same year that I was born, and

3988
05:47:48.520 --> 05:47:52.560
he just seemed like someone who was
always going to be here, someone who

3989
05:47:52.680 --> 05:47:56.639
was somehow tougher than death itself.
Even though I'd been fearing the worst for

3990
05:47:56.799 --> 05:48:02.360
several weeks, the news still came
as a shock. His daughters gave me

3991
05:48:02.520 --> 05:48:06.479
permission to mention this terrible loss to
the world, and I guess my post

3992
05:48:07.000 --> 05:48:11.319
became the way that many of you
found out about Terry's passing. In the

3993
05:48:11.439 --> 05:48:15.799
last couple hours, I kept coming
back to a great George Jones song nineteen

3994
05:48:15.840 --> 05:48:21.799
eighty five's Who's going to Fill Their
Shoes? Lamenting the loss either past or

3995
05:48:21.880 --> 05:48:26.439
future. Some country music's most iconic
stars over and over. I heard it

3996
05:48:26.479 --> 05:48:30.599
in my head. Why, I
wondered, was I stuck on a song

3997
05:48:30.720 --> 05:48:33.720
from almost forty years ago, one
I have heard only a few times in

3998
05:48:33.799 --> 05:48:38.240
the past handful of years. Then
it hit me, I was thinking about

3999
05:48:38.360 --> 05:48:42.799
Terry Funk. So when it comes
to Terry, I will paraphrase George's song

4000
05:48:42.959 --> 05:48:48.479
just a tiny bit and ask the
question, Lord, I wonder who's going

4001
05:48:48.560 --> 05:48:52.680
to fill his shoes? Little did
I know that the very first time I

4002
05:48:52.759 --> 05:48:56.799
watched a Terry Funk match back in
nineteen eighty six on a VHS tape against

4003
05:48:56.840 --> 05:49:03.479
Brewiser Brody in Tokyo, this wild
man with the best wrestling punch ever would

4004
05:49:03.520 --> 05:49:06.919
go on to play such a large
role in my life. In time,

4005
05:49:07.080 --> 05:49:10.959
he would become my idol, my
mentor, and one of the very best

4006
05:49:11.040 --> 05:49:15.000
friends I've ever known. My friend
Brian Hildebrand, later known in Smoky Mountain

4007
05:49:15.040 --> 05:49:18.680
and w CW as Mark Curtis,
gave me the tape and the hope that

4008
05:49:18.759 --> 05:49:22.599
it might improve my punches in the
ring. But it did more than that

4009
05:49:22.799 --> 05:49:27.560
for me, far more. That
Funk Brody match was the epitome of the

4010
05:49:27.639 --> 05:49:32.880
brawling style I enjoyed the most,
and though I knew I could never have

4011
05:49:33.040 --> 05:49:38.279
the presence of a Funk or Brody
in time, through inspiration borrowing an outright

4012
05:49:38.439 --> 05:49:45.119
thievery, I became a pretty darn
good Terry Funk ripoff. Jake Roberts once

4013
05:49:45.240 --> 05:49:49.000
told me that a wise man knows
where to steal his material. For wrestlers

4014
05:49:49.040 --> 05:49:52.279
old and new, you can do
a whole lot worse than borrowing a thing

4015
05:49:52.400 --> 05:49:56.520
or two from Terry Funk. He
was the greatest wrestler I have ever seen,

4016
05:49:57.080 --> 05:50:02.360
and I've seen a lot of them, the foundation for my Mount Rushmore

4017
05:50:02.400 --> 05:50:06.520
of wrestling. It wasn't just the
quality of his matches that earned him this

4018
05:50:06.680 --> 05:50:11.040
accolade, but also his ability to
reinvent himself as the years went by,

4019
05:50:11.639 --> 05:50:15.040
to change styles, have good matches
with just about anybody in any style,

4020
05:50:15.720 --> 05:50:19.639
and to raise the profiles of those
he shared the ring with. There were

4021
05:50:19.720 --> 05:50:23.360
times he was in so much pain
before matches that he could barely move,

4022
05:50:25.240 --> 05:50:30.080
but he would find a way to
steal shows through fear source through sheer force

4023
05:50:30.159 --> 05:50:34.360
of will. In a business with
its fair share of takers, Terry Funk

4024
05:50:34.520 --> 05:50:40.799
was a giver, setting an example
of unselfishness and professionalism for everyone who crossed

4025
05:50:40.840 --> 05:50:45.040
his path was an example. I
tried my best to pay forward. My

4026
05:50:45.240 --> 05:50:48.840
wife was almost too upset to talk
when I gave her the news yesterday.

4027
05:50:49.680 --> 05:50:52.959
Later in the day, she sent
me a video, tears running down her

4028
05:50:53.040 --> 05:50:57.400
cheeks, telling me how sorry she
was because she knew how much Terry meant

4029
05:50:57.439 --> 05:51:00.840
to me. A few hours yars
ago, she sent me a text message

4030
05:51:02.360 --> 05:51:06.840
reminiscing about the many hours I spent
each day on our first apartment in nineteen

4031
05:51:06.959 --> 05:51:11.000
ninety with my screens, with my
eyes glued on our thirteen inch TV screen,

4032
05:51:11.720 --> 05:51:15.759
taking in those old Funk and Brody
matches from Japan, in addition to

4033
05:51:15.959 --> 05:51:21.520
just about every classic all Japan match
and a fair amount of new Japan of

4034
05:51:21.680 --> 05:51:26.400
that era. I met Terry in
November nineteen eighty nine, just a few

4035
05:51:26.439 --> 05:51:30.759
weeks after as I quit Match with
Rick Flair, still my favorite match of

4036
05:51:30.799 --> 05:51:34.919
all time. I had been completely
enamored of Terry's heel run in WCW in

4037
05:51:36.000 --> 05:51:38.759
nineteen eighty nine, and to this
day, I've never seen an individual just

4038
05:51:38.880 --> 05:51:42.799
take over a TV show and seemingly
make it in his own in such a

4039
05:51:42.880 --> 05:51:48.720
short time. I was amazed to
see the psychological transformation he underwent from his

4040
05:51:48.840 --> 05:51:53.720
All Japan days, where he was
a blood and guts brawling babyface, winning

4041
05:51:53.799 --> 05:51:59.439
over a stoic culture like that of
nineteen eighties Japan by wearing his heart on

4042
05:51:59.520 --> 05:52:03.880
his sleeve, ignoring all the societal
conventions of the day, both in Japan

4043
05:52:04.319 --> 05:52:08.799
and in pro wrestling, by weeping
openly, by digging deeper into his own

4044
05:52:08.880 --> 05:52:14.799
well of emotions than any wrestler I'd
ever seen. Thousands of fans quote one

4045
05:52:14.840 --> 05:52:19.200
of his most iconic All Japan promos, a promo that consisted of one single

4046
05:52:19.319 --> 05:52:26.360
word, repeated several times, each
time with increasing intensity. Barry Blaustein,

4047
05:52:26.360 --> 05:52:30.880
who became close with Terry during the
filming of nineteen ninety nine's Beyond the Mat,

4048
05:52:30.439 --> 05:52:33.360
told me Eddie Murphy, one of
the biggest stars in the world,

4049
05:52:33.439 --> 05:52:38.400
would walk around movie sets just randomly
quoting the promo, yelling that one word

4050
05:52:38.919 --> 05:52:45.919
forever, over and over. But
the Terry Funk I saw a takeover WCW

4051
05:52:45.119 --> 05:52:49.400
in nineteen eighty nine was not the
Terry Funk from All Japan just a few

4052
05:52:49.520 --> 05:52:53.840
years earlier. He didn't wear his
heart on his sleeve in WCW. He

4053
05:52:55.000 --> 05:53:00.720
was heartless, remorseless, so believable
in an on screen hatred for Rick Flair

4054
05:53:00.799 --> 05:53:04.159
that I, along with many of
his colleagues, wondered what was and wasn't

4055
05:53:04.240 --> 05:53:10.080
real. My deep dives into his
Memphis feud with Jerry Lawler and his Florida

4056
05:53:10.159 --> 05:53:15.759
feuds with Dusty Rhodes only deepened my
belief that he was both the best babyface

4057
05:53:15.360 --> 05:53:21.000
and best heel I'd ever seen.
To see him throwing those big left hands

4058
05:53:21.040 --> 05:53:26.279
at Lawlor, squealing out the word
pig with every punch he through, then

4059
05:53:26.400 --> 05:53:30.840
turning wild eyed toward the Memphis crowd, sent a set a bar for heelwork

4060
05:53:32.000 --> 05:53:36.319
so high that I've never seen anyone
quite reach it. I tried and failed

4061
05:53:36.479 --> 05:53:41.439
many times, even with my funk
inspired borrowed an outright stolen bag of tricks.

4062
05:53:41.279 --> 05:53:45.479
I encourage all of you to delve
into the funk auvoa over the next

4063
05:53:45.520 --> 05:53:51.599
few years weeks. It's much easier
now than it was in nineteen ninety when

4064
05:53:51.639 --> 05:53:56.159
I would wait weeks to receive a
fifth generation VHS tape and hope to catch

4065
05:53:56.200 --> 05:54:00.319
as much action as I could amidst
the squiggling, waving lines. Just go

4066
05:54:00.439 --> 05:54:03.840
on YouTube. Type in Terry funk
and prepare yourself to go down a magical

4067
05:54:03.959 --> 05:54:10.279
rabbit hole. Watch the matches,
experience the feuds, listen to the promos.

4068
05:54:10.680 --> 05:54:14.799
It's an experience you will recall for
quite a while, maybe forever.

4069
05:54:15.959 --> 05:54:18.599
I wish I'd done a better job
keeping in touch with Terry these past couple

4070
05:54:18.759 --> 05:54:23.479
years. I visited anytime my travels
took me within a few hundred miles of

4071
05:54:23.560 --> 05:54:27.560
Amarillo in later Phoenix. He called
me last summer when I was in my

4072
05:54:27.680 --> 05:54:32.880
final hour at the C two E
two convention in Chicago, just a few

4073
05:54:32.919 --> 05:54:36.680
hours before my flight to Australia.
Terry, I'll call you as soon as

4074
05:54:36.720 --> 05:54:40.040
I get to the airport, I
said. An hour later, I walked

4075
05:54:40.080 --> 05:54:44.240
through airport security and realized I'd left
my phone behind in the car service.

4076
05:54:44.959 --> 05:54:48.840
When I finally got my phone back
a month later, Terry's speech pattern was

4077
05:54:48.959 --> 05:54:55.400
noticeably slower, more forgetful. My
calls became fewer and farther between. I

4078
05:54:55.599 --> 05:54:59.680
realized that in looking at Terry,
I was quite possibly looking at my future

4079
05:54:59.759 --> 05:55:03.959
self. The last time I saw
him, in January twenty twenty three,

4080
05:55:03.479 --> 05:55:07.520
he was no longer using a walker, but was instead confined to a wheelchair.

4081
05:55:08.240 --> 05:55:12.080
His daughter Stacey told me he had
good days and bad days. I'm

4082
05:55:12.159 --> 05:55:15.360
so glad I caught him on a
good web day, when smiles and laughs

4083
05:55:15.439 --> 05:55:19.240
were plentiful, and he was surrounded
by family and a few close friends.

4084
05:55:21.279 --> 05:55:25.319
The photo posted here is from that
day and the final photo we'd ever take

4085
05:55:25.400 --> 05:55:29.840
together. At the end of June, I saw photos from Terry's birthday party.

4086
05:55:30.400 --> 05:55:33.279
I pulled over and wept in my
car. The toughest man I'd ever

4087
05:55:33.400 --> 05:55:37.599
met was now so frail and weak. About that time, Terry lost the

4088
05:55:37.639 --> 05:55:42.080
ability to use his phone, so
I told his daughter Stacy to start checking

4089
05:55:42.159 --> 05:55:45.400
the mail because I was going to
write her dad a letter. A few

4090
05:55:45.479 --> 05:55:49.240
days later, I sat down by
a river with my writing tablet and thanked

4091
05:55:49.319 --> 05:55:53.360
Terry for everything he'd done for me, how profound his impact on my life

4092
05:55:53.439 --> 05:55:57.840
had been. I told him that
I loved him. Yesterday, when Terry's

4093
05:55:57.919 --> 05:56:03.599
daughter Brandy broke the news was passing, she told me her dad had received

4094
05:56:03.639 --> 05:56:07.240
my letter that it made him cry. I'll be internally grateful for that time

4095
05:56:07.439 --> 05:56:12.200
I spent by the river writing that
letter, knowing that I brought this amazing

4096
05:56:12.319 --> 05:56:18.680
man some joy in his final days. So Who's going to fill his shoes.

4097
05:56:18.639 --> 05:56:22.439
My guess is that no one ever
will. Terry Funk was one of

4098
05:56:22.520 --> 05:56:41.560
a kind, you know, good
for nothing agge s sucking dumb man.

4099
05:56:45.799 --> 05:56:52.119
We did it our way because we
love it that way. We love it

4100
05:56:52.319 --> 05:56:59.439
that and I have this wonderful gut
feeling and I've had it all my life.

4101
05:56:59.639 --> 05:57:03.799
When time to go, I think
it's now, there's time to go. Sh