This week, the Voice of Wrestling, www.voiceofwrestling.com, went live again with special guest, Terry Funk. You can hear this interview along with many others including Stone Cold Steve Austin, Ric Flair, Kurt Angle, Rob Van Dam, Chris Jericho and more by visiting Voiceofwrestling.com and checking out the "Archives" section. The Voice of Wrestling can be heard live every Sunday evening from 6-8 EST by joining the live feed located on the site.
Now, to the Terry Funk interview:
Talk began with Terry giving advice about the cattle business and all it entails. "Well, I don't know what it entails. I've been trying it all my life; I buy em' skinny and sell em' fat," he explained. Fortunately, the cattle market's up and Terry is doing okay this year.
Subject quickly changed to wrestling as hosts Chris Chisum and Doc Young took some questions from the live chat. A bold chatter questioned his mental capabilities and asked if he became unstable after losing the NWA title to Harley Race and never winning it back. "I'm definitely mentally unstable," he replied, but it wasn't due to losing to Harley. "I think if it [the NWA title] would have gone on to Flair at that time, I don't think that we would have ever had Harley Race as champion".
He laughs about how hard Tennessee was to make "a buck" in when a question arose about who he made more money with - Dusty Rhodes or Jerry Lawler. "The money wasn't great in either place for the amount of money we were drawing," he said after proclaiming he probably made more money with Dusty.
"I wish em' all the luck in the world," Terry says referring to TNA. "TNA is basically a 2004 concept and I really do - I wish em' all the luck in the world, but I think they'regoing to have to change that concept a bit as time goes by". Later on in the show, Funk explained why he feels they need to change to one PPV a month to get out of the red, money wise, and into the black.
April is the date set for his autobiography to come out and that quickly changed discussions to the comments Flair made in his book about Foley, a good friend of Funk's. "Personally, I don't think there's a better guy on the mic than Ric Flair (whom Funk called Old Banana Nose), [but] I think that Mick Foley did something - it's very rare that somebody does something like that," he continues, "with his physical, and I'm not knocking him physically, but his physical capabilities, the guy has done wonders".
He went into more depth speaking about Foley, even joking about never reading Foley's book. "What the hell do I want to read about Foley for?"He spoke more on Flair as well: "I would say he's predictable, but I would say also he's damn well successful". Longevity wise, Funk would say Flair was the best draw, but wouldn't necessarily say he was the best professional wrestler of all-time. "Hell, I've seen some phenomenal guys in forty years of wrestling, damn near".
Chisum brought up that although Terry made jokes and had funny names for wrestlers such as Flair, Foley, and Dusty Rhodes (egg-sucking dog); he seemed like a guy that everyone could get along with. That led to question of who he didn't get along with in the past. "At times, I didn't get along with a lot of people," he proclaimed, "I'm a professional and a very competitive individual. Believe me, competitiveness and jealousness is very hard to separate. Being competitive makes you jealous."
Terry also discussed the rumors on the 'net about him returning to the WWE, his dream matches if he did return, and even compares his reasons to why he doesn't watch WWE television often to that of a retired plumber! Also on the show, Jimmy Hart gets "Rib'd" as Mark Myshack attempts to convince him that there's going to be a wacky festival put on in honor of Hart's former band, The Gentry's! Plus, the two hosts discussed two hot topics including Eddie Guerrero's title run and whether it helped or hurt his career in the long run, and TNA's need to convert to one PPV a month.
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