Tommy Dreamer recently took to “Busted Open Radio” to discuss a variety of topics, including Terry Funk’s involvement in ECW.
The “Innovator of Violence” opined on The Funker’s impact on the wrestling business as a whole, his arrival in ECW giving the promotion validity, and more.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On Terry Funk’s arrival in ECW: “When he came to ECW, he gave ECW validity. Like Chris Jericho did for AEW when he stepped up to that podium [at AEW’s first press conference], here’s the face that every wrestling fan knows, and [saying] ‘This is the company that I’m gonna attach my wagon to and help carry it along. All of his famous death matches that he did in Japan with Mick Foley, his famous retirement in All Japan, all the things he has done.”
On Funk’s impact on wrestling: “I would tell him this all the time: I hated him as a kid. Hated him. Why? Because Dusty Rhodes was my hero. But I realized, when I got into the industry, just how good he was. So you don’t realize it until you got ‘smartened up.’ Now, we’re at least smartened up to his greatness. You get all these bits and pieces [of] stories about him, and you’re just like ‘Whoa.’ All these little things. And his mind was just insane for wrestling, and I cannot say enough great things about an individual.”
