Terry Funk

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 3-Debut on ECW

## Funkowboys(1985-1986)

Terry Funk's first canon match was at Superstars 2 where he defeated Roddy Piper. At Superstars 3, Funk was involved in a triple threat against Hogan and Bob Orton Jr, him and Bob started working together but failed to defeat Hogan but after the match Funk gave his hand to Bob in the formation of an unlikely team. Terry Funk was in the fatal five way WWF title match at SNME May to crown the first champion but didn't win.

Funk's next feud was against Roddy Piper as he knocked him out backstage after Piper beat up Bob Orton Jr. the week prior, at King of the Ring Funk defeated Piper.

Terry Funk and Bob Orton's team were called the Funkowboys as they got a tag title shot at Summerslam but lost to Tito and Brutus Beefcake. At SNME September Hart Foundation defeated them in a momentum match.

During a house show in the 8 week break, Terry Funk was scheduled to face a new guy named Adrian Adonis when Bob Orton low blowed Funk and joined Adonis himself. At Wrestlemania 2, they challenged Funk to get a tag team partner and he got former WWF champion Junkyard Dog as they won. Terry left WWF after as he wasn't happy about the direction WWF was going seeing how he was the only man who was in WWWF since 1963 and stayed after it rebooted.

## WCW and first retirement(1989-1990)

Terry Funk was brought into WCW by Ricky Steamboat to help on his fight against Four Horsemen, Steamboat brought him as well as Warrior and Junkyard Dog. At Halloween Havoc 1989, they defeated Four Horsemen in a wargames match in 1989's MOTY. Terry Funk was found laid backstage leading up to Starrcade and he figured out it was Ole Anderson, at Starrcade 1989 Terry Funk defeated Ole.

After this, Terry became the NO1 contender to the WCW Heaviweight title but he failed to defeat Ric Flair at Wrestlewar, Funk agreed to one last match against Flair where the winner would actually quit WCW, it would be an "i quit" match, at Capital Combat, it was an extreme match as Flair tried to break Funk's legs and since Funk knew just one figure four would be enough to break it and end his career, he chose to quit WCW and give Flair the win. Terry Funk would retire for 2 years after this and stay as a backstage trainer befriending one of his closest allies, Mick Foley

## ECW(1995)

On Hardcore TV 1, Paul Heyman disbanded Eastern Championship Wrestling and in its place would be Extreme Championship Wrestling as he encouraged any wrestler in the world to come to ECW to challenge ECW Heaviweight champion Shane Douglas, Terry Funk showed up to accept the challenge but he was defeated by Shane Douglas as Sabu and Taz helped him out. At Return of the Funker, he was scheduled to team with Tommy Dreamer and The Sandman to face this new group called Dangerous Alliance when Terry Funk revealed that this would be a handicap match as his brother Dory Funk Jr. was on his team, Terry Funk pinned Shane Douglas.

On the following Hardcore TV, Dory slapped Terry on the face as he tried to shake hands with his brother, at Return of the Funks Terry defeated his brother in a brutal texas deathmatch to become NO1 contender to the ECW Heaviweight title. Dory and Terry returned shortly after because they needed time off and they buried the hatchet as they shook hands. Funk got his title shot at Fuck Mania 1 in an overbooked match against Shane Douglas full of interference by Taz, Sabu and Dory Funk but in the end Douglas managed to retain.

After this, Funk was more used losing to younger talent for them to rise up the ranks as Funk was close to retiring. At New Dudleyz, Terry Funk and Dory Funk Jr. teamed up with each other one last time being defeated by the new team Dudley Boyz as a big rub to them.

## Tag Team Champions with Rob Van Dam and second retirement(1996)

The 6 men tag titles were introduced and Terry Funk randomly teamed up with Roadkill and Kid Kash, at Cyberslam they were defeated by Dangerous Alliance. At Hardcore TV 62, Terry Funk and RVD teamed up randomly and they managed to defeat Samoan Killers, they shook hands afterwards even if RVD is a self named "lone wolf". They worked surprisingly well together as at A Matter of Respect, they defeated Taz and Sabu. Whipwreck starts saying that RVD has a secret but gets shut down by RVD himself, Terry demands to know the secret and Whipwreck reveals that ever since RVD was a child, he has looked up to Funk and the only reason RVD came to ECW was to become Funk's protege and the "lone wolf" moniker was just a gimmick. At Heatwave, Terry Funk and Rob Van Dam defeated Mikey Whipwreck and Spike Dudley to become ECW tag team champions, they held the championships for 137 days with 2 defenses vacating it by the end

When ECW invaded WWF, WWF challenged them to get someone that could face their WWF Champion Vader, a gauntlet match was made where Terry Funk appeared in the 5th match, defeated Raven and ended up defeating ECW Heaviweight champion Taz in the 6th and last match, at In Your House 21 Funk managed to defeat Vader in an unsanctioned match. ECW vs WWF was shortly after announced and Terry Funk made an appearence on RAW wanting to face a legend of the business at the PPV, he challenges longest reigning intercontinental and WWF champion of all time Bret Hart. At ECW vs WWF, Rob Van Dam attacked Paul Heyman revealing himself to be a mole within ECW sent by WWF, Terry Funk comes out for his match confused and RVD beats him up ending their tag team, Terry Funk still defeated Bret Hart right after.

Rob Van Dam says he still loves Terry Funk as a mentor, he just wants to end his career, Terry Funk accepts this challenge shaking hands with RVD who lowblows him. At ECW's first ever PPV, Barely Legal, Terry Funk tried to get RVD back to his side but RVD's goal since the start is to take out as many ECW talent as he can, he frog splashes Terry Funk and ends his career, in his retirement promo Terry Funk unleashed on Rob Van Dam beating him up when he showed up but Funk still ends up down through a table

## Return to WWF, feud with Ministry of Darkness and short-lived TAKA alliance(1997-1998)

Terry Funk was announced to be a participant in the 1997 Royal Rumble match, he came out at number 11 getting 1 elimination before being eliminated by the returning Jake Roberts.

After a 3 month absence, vignettes started airing for Terry Funk as he would address his fans if he had signed with WWF or not, he returned at RAW is WAR 251 to confirm his signing and call out Undertaker who was gloating that he had ended Vader's streak but he didn't, Terry Funk did. Vader challenged him to an actual sanctioned match as he never truly beat him which was a showing of how extreme WWF was getting with lots of chairs and tables and Vader defeating Terry Funk powerbombing him into a flaming table.

Terry Funk's first challenge was Undertaker and Ministry of Darkness, at Canadian Stampede Taker defeated him chokeslamming Funk from the top turnbuckle into the announcer's table outside of the ring.

Funk defeated Undertaker and Vader in a triple threat match to become NO1 contender to the WWF Championship, after the match he was dragged out by Ministry of Darkness who, a week after, tried to sacrifice him to the gods but Mankind betrayed Undertaker and saved Terry Funk. At Money in the Bank, Terry Funk grabbed a chainsaw trying to kill Owen Hart in the ring but Owen lowblowed Funk and sharpshootered him to retain the WWF Championship.

Terry Funk tried to support anyone who went against Ministry of Darkness aligning himself with Mankind, at Summerslam 1997 Terry Funk was one of the people who tried to stop Mankind from returning to the hell in a cell match against Taker but couldn't stop him. Terry Funk entered the G1 but continued his feud against Undertaker saying he isn't like the rest of the locker room who's scared of him and he will have his revenge for what he did to Mick Foley, at Ground Zero Undertaker yet again defeated Terry Funk.

The feud officially ended in the episode of RAW before Survivor Series where Terry Funk, Vader, Brian Pillman and Sycho Sid defeated 4 of MOD's guys: Sammael, Lucifer and Legion of Devils

At RAW is WAR 272, Terry Funk defeated Taka Michinoku in what was a competitive match, Funk was surprised and wished good luck to TAKA because he could be the future of the company, they started teaming up with Funk doing another mentor relationship.

Terry Funk entered the Survivor Series tournament for the vacant WWF Championship but was eliminated by Stone Cold in the quarter finals.

Because of his Survivor Series Briefcases win, Terry Funk gained another WWF Championship shot, at Badd Blood Bret Hart defeated Funk to retain the title.

Because of his alliance with TAKA, Funk and him began a feud against "The One" Cold Scorpio with Scorpio calling Taka, Funk's pet but this never went anywhere as after Royal Rumble, Terry Funk stopped showing up with Taka for 0 reason

## Tag team with 3 faces of Foley(1998)

He entered 1998's Royal Rumble match at number 11 as he saw Cactus Jack, the former Mankind and tried to see if he remembered him, the two just came to chairshot blows but it's all in good fun as they then give the chair to each other and they chairshot themselves.

Over the weeks, Terry Funk introduced himself to Dude Love as well and they had a couple of matches against each other but Funk and Cactus Jack began teaming up in the tag team division but they had a problem within it as when Cactus Jack turned into Dude Love or Mankind, he forgot his tag team matches and his alliance with Funk and Terry Funk would have to do it alone, Terry Funk tried slapping Mick Foley into reason saying he's all 3 but he doesn't understand it, he even tries chairshotting him a couple of times in the head to see if he goes back to normal but it's worthless. They entered a tag team turmoil at Wrestlemania 14 where Cactus suddenly turned into Dude Love, Funk ran backstage, dragged Animal to the ring after a chairshot for Foley to see him and this triggered Mankind, Foley and Terry Funk won the tag team titles lastly defeating New Age Outlaws.

Dude Love tried becoming NO1 contender to the tag titles while Cactus Jack was champion but all this mixup led to them losing the tag titles to New Age Outlaws in an episode of RAW, Dude Love got Val Venis as his tag partner as they tried defeating NAO for the titles but Terry Funk attacked Val yet again telling Foley that he's all 3 personalities, Dude Love attacks Funk for costing him a title opportunity

## Feud with the 3 faces of Foley and third retirement(1998)

Terry Funk grew more and more disappointed on his friend even leaving Cactus Jack alone in tag team matches, he decided to take it to the next level ambushing Dude Love after a WWF title match and chairshotting him until he's unconscious and a bloody mess as he screams trying to get Love to admit he's all 3 personalities.

Funk showed no remorse and challenged Dude Love to a hell in a cell match on an episode of RAW, Terry Funk pushed Dude Love off the top of the cell through a table just like Undertaker did, the show ended with Dude Love convulsing on the table and doing the Undertaker situp.

Funk is not done with his plan of "get a mentally unstable man to become stable again" and challenges Dude Love to a barbed wire last man standing match at Summerslam, Love accepted but in his promo showed resemblances of both Love and Mankind. At Summerslam, Mankind showed up for the match and Funk has one clear goal which is to clothsline Foley onto the ropes so he gets caught on barbed wire and he achieves it, at first Mankind is enjoying the pain but when he starts screaming for Funk to get him out, he does so, Foley gets a mic having finally realized that he's not just Dude Love, Mankind or Cactus Jack, he's Mick Foley, he's all of them, Terry Funk hugs him as he reveals that his plan was to make Foley relieve past traumas of each persona so his brain could connect again.

## Post-retirement appearences(1998-)

In the last ever show for ECW, Tommy Dreamer won the ECW Heaviweight Championship for the first time and out came Terry Funk raising his hand as the official ending of ECW

## Championships and accomplishments

* World Wrestling Federation
* World Tag Team Championships(1 time) - with Cactus Jack

* World Championship Wrestling
* Match of the Year(1989) with Warrior, Ricky Steamboat and Junkyard Dog vs Ric Flair, Sting, Barry Windham and Ole Anderson at Halloween Havoc

* Extreme Championship Wrestling
* ECW Tag Team Championships(1 time) - with Rob Van Dam