Terry Funk and Dory Funk Jr.

Dory Funk, Jr.

Birthdate: February 3rd, 1941
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 240 lbs.
Debut: 1963
Background: Trained by Dory Funk, Sr.
Ring Attire: Blue trunks

Terry Funk

Birthdate: June 30th, 1944
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 240 lbs.
Debut: December 9th, 1965
Background: Trained by Dory Funk, Sr.
Ring Attire: Blue trunks

Promotion History: All Japan (1972 to 1990)
Tournaments Won: World's Strongest Tag Team League (1977, 1979, and 1982)
Major Puroresu Titles Held: NWA International Tag Team Championship (Three Times)

Pictures:
- The Funks in 1974
- Entering the ring
- Posed color backstage photo, unknown date

Biggest Matches:
- December 7th, 1971 vs. Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki (title win)
- October 9th, 1973 vs. Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta (title challenge)
- December 15th, 1977 vs. Abdullah The Butcher and The Sheik (tournament win)
- December 13th, 1982 vs. Stan Hansen & Bruiser Brody (tournament win)
- August 31st, 1983 vs. Stan Hansen and Terry Gordy (Terry Funk Retirement)

Career Highlights:

The Funks were one of the few brothers can be considered a life-long tag team, as they started teaming in Texas soon after their debuts and had their last match as a tag team in 2005, over 40 years later. During that run, they had a very successful All Japan run from the early 70s through the late 80s. Together the Funks would win the NWA International Tag Team Championship on three different occasions, the first time in 1971 and the last time in 1973. They would have an even greater success in the Real World Tag League, which was All Japan's premiere tag team tournament. In 1977, the first year of the tournament, they defeated Abdullah The Butcher and The Sheik to win the tournament. In 1979 they edged out Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta to win the tournament and in 1982 they topped Bruiser Brody and Stan Hansen to win it for the third time. After no longer teaming in All Japan after 1990, on October 8th, 2001 they teamed in New Japan but lost to Bob Backlund and Tatsumi Fujinami.


Back to Legends