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I do believe that if you think of the entire essence of pro wrestling, in totality, however you choose to believe it, Terry Funk embodied that more than any other wrestler who ever did it. I never saw anyone do all the things he did. I saw some folks do certain things maybe better, but Terry did it ALL. And GREAT. There will never be another. 
 

Rest in power. 

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I don't think there have been two wrestlers as dramatically different, just polar opposites, as face Terry Funk and heel Terry Funk. They just happened to be the same person. What a fucking legend 

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What always impressed me about Terry is that, while we are mostly posting stuff from mid-90s in the USA, he was already so damn big to the point where Kinnikuman, a wildly popular Japanese comic book series, was modelling a central character around him in 1979.

He's just one of a kind. 

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Just yesterday, I was rewatching the time he got kicked by a horse while wrestling Chris Candido in a stable. What a career he had.

Truth be told, the writing was on the wall with the announcement that he had been placed in assisted living with dementia. And by all accounts, he wasn't the same after his wife died. Relieved isn't the right word, but I can take a measure of solace in the fact that his suffering is at an end.

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Terry Funk was one of those wrestlers you truly felt was perhaps immortal - in the physical sense of the term. But no matter what, The Funker will forever be immortal with the body of work and legacy he's leaving behind in a broad spectrum in pro wrestling.

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Effortlessly charismatic and captivating. A guy who makes wrestling fun because he was always fun to watch. I mean, there's just a joy that one can have watching his work - especially personal favorites (the Flair matches in 89', for example) - that so very few other wrestlers have. 

He's on the very, very shortlist of best to ever have done it and, the older I get, the more and more I think he really might be the best. He made every feud, every story, every victory, and every loss feel REAL, like it really mattered, like it was always deeply personal. That didn't always result in great matches, but they still mattered because he was in them, even in the most ridiculous of circumstances like his last WCW years or the Chainsaw Charlie stuff. 

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If there ever was a standard of what a complete performer is, Terry Funk is your guy. I'm completely stunned and sadden by this news. He's one if the reasons a nine year old me fell in love with ECW. My earliest memory of Funk was his barbed wire match with Sabu at 3am with my brother and mama then flowed to his older stuff, no surprise he was great with everything he did.

Rest In Paradise Funker. 

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