Bruce Prichard Recalls Resistance In NWA To Terry Funk Being World Champion

Terry Funk had some of the NWA’s brass during his prime opposed the notion of his World Title run, according to Bruce Prichard. Funk held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship from 1975 to 1977, and Prichard talked on the latest Something To Wrestle With about how the Texas icon’s style led to him having some haters among the old guard in charge of the alliance. You can see some highlights below, per Wrestling Inc:

On resistance to Terry Funk being NWA World Heavyweight Champion: “When Terry Funk was NWA World Heavyweight Champion, the fundamentalists, the old farts that sat in their office smoking cigars and go ‘aw this is wrestling,’ they didn’t want Terry Funk as NWA Champion because they thought he was too crazy. They thought Terry was unreliable. They thought Terry did too much off-the-wall stuff. Terry was doing this stuff long before there was a WWE that emphasized it, so Terry wasn’t doing one thing different here.”

On Funk toning down his antics to fit WWE in the 1980s: “He was Terry Funk and he was on a bigger stage and was able to perform his wares for many more people than he had in the past.”