RIP Terry Funk and Bray Wyatt.
Terry Funk was a legend in All Japan, and was instrumental in the rise of one of my favourite promotions of my teen years, FMW. And this was when the Internet was still in its infancy, so I’d get FMW on VHS along with my friends. We were interested in the brutality of this style of Japanese wrestling. He was also popular in the West mainly via ECW, but also in WWE as a tag team partner with Mick Foley in the early days of the Attitude era (he’d been there earlier, in the 1980s, but I’d be too young to remember) where he did a bit of a Manhunter/Dragon inspired character named Chainsaw Charlie. Even when I was a young teenager, Terry Funk was the grizzled old veteran still going strong long after his time, and I had never seen a match from his time beyond the occasional clip package, I only imagined it.
Bray Wyatt, I have no need to introduce him here. I think we all saw matches and vignettes from most of his career, which was short but big.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
