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Colette on Terry Funk is what this country actually needs

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It’s been a year since Terry Funk passed, which feels impossible. Here’s the piece I wrote about his legacy from last year, archived on my personal blog. torturerackandhoney.com/2023/08/23/t...

Terry Funk hits Mr. Pogo with a flaming chair.
Terry Funk advanced professional wrestling the way poets advance language. His wild, improvisational leaps, the way he’d sell getting belted or pour motor oil on himself in the shower while cutting a promo or throw his arms up to the heavens as if to ask God why the ring didn’t blow up, all of it existed simultaneously as something antithetical to the unwritten rules of the business as it had been done to that point, something that justified itself in the moment by drawing money, and something that would inform the future. Call him a soothsayer or a prophet if you like – God knows he was right about the general direction of the industry to justify it – but I think that, more than being ahead of time, Terry Funk is time itself.
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FOREVER!

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IRtheangelremiel.bsky.social

Funk was such a beautiful soul and spirit. I don't know if he was the best wrestler of all time, but he was the most wrestler of all time.

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