Terry Funk

Terry Funk is one of those rare wrestlers where the word "legend" actually feels like an understatement. The guy from Hammond, Indiana — who learned the craft at West Texas A&M before spending over five decades bleeding and brawling across every corner of the globe — basically invented what we now call hardcore wrestling in his later years, and he did it with a reckless, almost beautiful abandon that nobody his age had any business pulling off. He retired and unretired so many times it became its own storyline, and yet every single comeback felt genuine, because Terry just couldn't stay away from the fight. His WWE and Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame inductions were long overdue recognitions of a career that influenced practically every tough-guy brawler who came after him. He passed in August 2023, and the wrestling world genuinely felt quieter for it.

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Name (English)

Terry Funk

Name (Japanese)

テリー・ファンク

Reading

てりー・ふぁんく

Born

June 30, 1944 – August 23, 2023

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Monkey

Origin

Hammond, Indiana, United States

Height

185 cm

Occupation

professional wrestler / actor / television actor / film actor / stunt performer

University

West Texas A&M University

Awards & achievements

• WWE Hall of Fame
• Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Funk
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q470019

Tags

• Indiana
• professional wrestler
• actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.