Dory Funk jr tells us his opinion

[Guest Duke_The_Dog]

Okay, This is not easy.

 

Best Worker - The crew on Raw do a great job - Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair, Triple H., and Kurt Angle. (Jumbo Tsuruta was a great one also)

 

Best Shooter - I like the collegiate athletes - Kurt Angle, Jack Brisco, Danny Hodge. Right next to them were some I trained with in the garage at the Flying Mare Ranch, Vern Gagne, Bob Geigel, Dory Funk Sr. and Joe Scarpello

 

Best Box Office Attraction - Hulk Hogan and Stone Cold Steve Austin. Amarillo Territory Dory Funk Sr. He drew sellouts with Wayne Martin, Frankie Hill Murdoch, Wayne Martin, Angelo Savoldi, Leroy McGuirk, Lou Thesz, Pat O'Connor, Gory Guerrero, Fritz Von Erich, Bob Cummings, Roger Mackey, Alex Kazaboski, Gene Kiniski and more.

 

Most Spectacular - When you consider he also has such great timeing, I must go with Rob Van Dam. From the old Amarillo Territory, Larry Chane, (Foregive the spelling) There was also an 18 year old kid working there who also trained with me, Johnny Como, later known to wrestling fans as Pedro Morales.

 

Best Babyface - Jack Brisco. I worked over 300 matches with Jack and never had a bad one. In the Amarillo Territory I would say Ricky Romero.

 

Best Heel - Johnny Valentine was an awesome worker and drew money everywhere he went. In the Amarillo Territory and around the world, The Shiek was a hot heel and drew lots of money money. Different styles but both great heels.

 

I guess he is in a class by himself Terry Funk does it all as a landmark babyface in Japan in the 80's and currently good guy / bad guy hardcore specialist who always gives the wrestling fans more than their money's worth.

[Team Angle Pusher 0]

Gene Kiniski...

[tekcop 0]

Gene Kiniski...

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....and?

[Guest Euronymous]

"Best Worker - The crew on Raw do a great job - Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair, Triple H., and Kurt Angle. (Jumbo Tsuruta was a great one also)"

 

Is it just me or does that sound like "Michaels, Flair, HHH and Angle are the best of the best in the history of professional wrestling... oh yeah, and that Jumbo guy was pretty good too, I guess"?

[Guest Zarock]

I'm always suprised by how much love HHH gets from wrestlers. Granted, he seems to put on good-to-great gimmick matches fairly consistantly, but his normal singles matches are generally very...well, plain. Also suprised by the RVD pick.

[cabbageboy 0]

Well, a lot of old timers put on those same plain, vanilla matches that if seen today don't have many highspots or thrills.

 

The RVD doesn't surprise me since I recall he wrestled Dory on that Terry Funk retirement show and I would assume are friendly.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

IIRC, almost all of the ECW alma matter from 1995 through 1997 are friendly with the Funks due to Terry's involvement. If you watch Beyond the Mat, New Jack's almost in tears when Terry announced his retirement at his daughter's wedding (he grabbed Paul E. by the shirt and was visibly shaken).

 

Also, I would doubt Dory's seen a lot of the younger indy workers out there, or even much of the TNA crew. But hey, to each their own.

[Guest Duke_The_Dog]

Jumbo got his start as Tommy Trusuda in Texas for the Funks as well