Ep. 369: The Lapsed Funk, NWA World Champion (Part 1)
The Lapsed Fan
The Lapsed Fan
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🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 205 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You know good for nothing, egg-sucking dog. We did it our way because we love it that way. We love it that way. |
| 0:27.0 | We love it that way. |
| 0:30.0 | I have this wonderful gut feeling and I've had it all my life when it's time to go. |
| 0:36.0 | I think it's now it's time to go. It's the lapsed funk and it's time to talk about Terry as NWA World's Heavyweight Champion |
| 1:01.8 | Boss. I know a great curiosity of yours over the years knowing about fun. |
| 1:06.0 | Oh, absolutely. |
| 1:08.0 | I mean, he's, again, you know, I mean, this all goes back to the same fucking thing that I've said since we started this one |
| 1:16.1 | is that I just I think of funk as the guy from you know ECW the guy from |
| 1:21.7 | well not ECW but you know the the D even the D w the w w e version of him at the end of his towards the end well not |
| 1:28.2 | even towards the end of his career but you know what I'm saying like late 90s |
| 1:31.6 | late 90s early 90s, early 2000s, that guy, and so that guy to me is is not world champion material. |
| 1:40.0 | The guy we talked about last week in concluding Funkin in Japan with his 1983 all |
| 1:46.3 | Japan retirement ceremony after the emotional tag match against Terry Gordy and Stan Hanson |
| 1:51.0 | that Terry Funk alone is a Hall of Famer. Oh my God absolutely and now we're going to add no question |
| 1:57.0 | another resume in his NWA world title win and run that would also qualify him for the Hall of Fame if it happened in dependent of all the things we talked about last time. |
| 2:06.6 | So I think we're really now we're starting to get a sense of why this was such a remarkable career in pro wrestling. |
| 2:13.0 | Because you're layering on accomplishments and resonance |
| 2:17.0 | that no wrestler could hope to achieve |
| 2:21.0 | even in a third of the measure that Terry Funk achieved. |
| 2:24.7 | And just coming off last week's show, where Funk walks off into the sunset as far as anybody in |
| 2:30.7 | Aldr Pan-New in 1983 1983 that was really his first retirement. |
| 2:34.4 | It wasn't a punchline yet to suggest that when Terry Funk retires he'll be back soon. |
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