We are sad to learn that WWE Hall Of Famer/former NWA World Heavyweight Champion Terry Funk has passed away.
Funk got his start in professional wrestling in the mid-1960s for his father’s Western States Sports promotion.
Funk traveled all over the world, including wrestling for Championship Wrestling from Florida, All Japan Pro Wrestling, and Continental Wrestling Association, among other places. He had a short run in the World Wrestling Federation from 1985 until 1986 before leaving and trying his hand at making movies in Hollywood.
Funk returned to the national wrestling spotlight in 1989 for World Championship Wrestling where had a legendary feud with Ric Flair.
The younger generation will remember Funk’s run with ECW and many credit his selflessness for helping bring ECW to the next level. Funk won the ECW World Title at Barely Legal in 1997, the promotion’s first pay-per-view event, and then eventually returned to WWE for a run as Chainsaw Charlie where he worked with the likes of Mick Foley and the New Age Outlaws.
To summarize his career with a few short paragraphs would not do Funk any justice so we’ll have more up on him on the site soon. Needless to say, Terry Funk will go down as one of the nicest, kindest people you would ever meet and one of the greatest pro wrestlers of all time.
Funk battled dementia in recent years. RIP Funker. We send our condolences to Funk’s friends and family.
