Dory Funk Jr.
| Dory Funk Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Dorrance Earnest Funk |
| Born | (1941-02-03) February 3, 1941[1][2][3] Hammond, Indiana, U.S. |
| Residence | Ocala, Florida, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Jimmie Funk (m. 1960; div. 1983) Marti Funk (m. 1989) |
| Children | 5 |
| Family | Dory Funk (father) Terry Funk (brother) |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Dory Funk Jr.[4] Hoss Funk[4] The Long Tall Texan The Mass Outlaw |
| Billed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)[4] |
| Billed weight | 250 Ibs (113 kg) |
| Billed from | The Double Cross Ranch[4] |
| Trained by | Dory Funk[4][5] Ricky Romero[6] Pedro Morales[6] |
| Debut | 1963 |
Dorrance Earnest Funk (born February 3, 1941)[2][5] is an American professional wrestler and wrestling trainer. He is the son of Dory Funk and brother of Terry Funk, and was the promoter of the Amarillo, Texas-based Western States Sports promotion. He is credited with the invention of the Texas cloverleaf submission hold and runs the Funking Conservatory, a professional wrestling school.
Funk held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship once. He is the fifth-longest reigning NWA World Heavyweight Champion of all time, holding it for over four years. He also held the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship once and the CWA World Heavyweight Championship once. He is a 2009 WWE Hall of Fame inductee. He is working for All Japan Pro Wrestling as the Pacific Wrestling Federation (PWF) chairman.
Contents
1 Professional wrestling career
1.1 Training
1.2 National Wrestling Alliance
1.3 Later years
2 Personal life
3 Championships and accomplishments
4 References
5 External links
Professional wrestling career
Training
Funk's career in professional wrestling began in 1963 just after a college football career with West Texas State University (now West Texas A&M University), culminating in a 15 to 14 victory over Ohio University in the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas. Funk's first match was a victory over Don Fargo in Amarillo, Texas. West Texas State University All American Jerry Logan was in Funk's corner and Fargo's brother, Jim, was in his corner. Funk was supported by the whole West Texas State University football team and the Tascosa High School amateur wrestling team. He was doing his student teaching as coach of the Tascosa High wrestling team under coach James Kyle.[citation needed]
National Wrestling Alliance
Ring introductions as Funk (background, facing camera) prepares to defend the NWA World Heavyweight Championship
Funk started in his father's Amarillo, Texas-based Western States Sports promotion and fought Harley Race, Iron Mike DiBiase and Wild Bull Curry. He demonstrated a rugged hard-hitting style that gained attention. He would eventually move on to Florida, Missouri and Japan where his skills improved as he used uppercut forearm smashes, a variety of suplexes and leglocks. Funk won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship from Gene Kiniski on February 11, 1969 [7] in Tampa, Florida with a spinning toe hold and remained NWA World Champion for the next four and a half years, which is the second-longest uninterrupted reign of any NWA World Champion[4] (Lou Thesz held the NWA world title from November 27, 1949, to March 15, 1956). Dory and Terry are the only brothers in history to each hold the title.[8] Funk finally lost the NWA World Championship on May 24, 1973 after a hurried recovery from a pickup truck accident on his father's Flying Mare Ranch in West Texas. Dory was forced into the ring in Kansas City, losing the belt to Harley Race.[9] Race held the title only a few months before dropping it to Brisco. In truth his father told the NWA board of directors that he didn't want Dory Jr. to lose to fellow face Jack Brisco, so Race was given the nod instead. He performed regularly throughout the NWA, particularly in the Mid-Atlantic and Ontario as a heel, Georgia, Florida and Central States regions, through the 1970s and early 1980s. In Toronto he fought Ric Flair for the NWA championship. In 1984, he and his brother Terry competed in a tag team match against Bruiser Brody and Stan Hansen that later received a 5-star rating by Dave Meltzer.[citation needed] As well they had a series of matches against Abdullah the Butcher and The Sheik. In Tokyo they were placed against each other in a tournament and Dory won the match.
In 1986, Dory (given the nickname "Hoss") made his WWF debut in a team alongside his brother Terry. The brothers performed at WrestleMania 2 defeating the Junkyard Dog and Tito Santana. Terry left the WWF shortly after WrestleMania, but Dory remained, mostly tagging with storyline brother Jimmy Jack Funk, who in truth had no relation to the Funk family. He made an appearance for WCW at the Slamboree 1993: A Legends Reunion Pay-Per-View, wrestling Nick Bockwinkel to a time limit draw. He also made a single appearance with the WWF as a participant in the 1996 Royal Rumble.[4]
Later years
Funk is now the Coach of the Funking Conservatory Professional Wrestling School in Ocala, Florida and teaches the Dory Funk Method of Professional Wrestling. Dory's students included Jeff Hardy,[4]Matt Hardy,[4]Christian Cage, Lita, Kurt Angle, Mickie James,[4]Edge,[4]Ted DiBiase and Test. His wife Marti runs BANG TV in which Dory`s matches are featured. On March 1, 2008, Funk and Nishimura defeated Genichiro Tenryu and Masanobu Fuchi in Funk's retirement match via spinning toe hold.[10]
On the February 16, 2009 episode of Raw, it was announced that Dory along with his brother Terry would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2009 by Dusty Rhodes. On the April 1, 2010 edition of TNA Today, Funk appeared on the show to have an interview with Jeremy Borash.[citation needed]
On October 27, 2013, Funk returned to All Japan Pro Wrestling, teaming with Terry in a tag team match, where they wrestled Masanobu Fuchi and Osamu Nishimura to a twenty-minute time limit draw.[11] Funk was then announced as the new Pacific Wrestling Federation (PWF) chairman.[12][13] Funk returned to All Japan on July 27, 2014, teaming with Osamu Nishimura and Yutaka Yoshie in a six-man tag team match, where they defeated Masanobu Fuchi, Takao Omori and Último Dragón, with Funk submitting Fuchi for the win.[14] Funk's next match with All Japan took place on May 31, 2015, when he and Nishimura wrestled Fuchi and Yoshiaki Fujiwara to a twenty-minute time limit draw.[15] The day before at age 74 he teamed with old student Tenryu and Nosawa Rongai for Tenryu Project to beat Kohei Suwama, Hikaru Sato and Atsushi Aoki. He returned to All Japan the next month to team with Fuchi and Ultimo Dragon to beat his student Nishimura, Masao Inoue and Soma Takao.
Personal life
Dory married his first wife, Jimmie, on June 8, 1960.[16] Together, they have three children: Dory III, Adam Dirk, and Penny. They also have five grandchildren. They later separated and were officially divorced on July 6, 1983. Dory III went into medicine and now practices out of Colorado. Dory IV is now training to be a wrestler under Dory Jr. In 1980, Dory met his second and current wife, Marti; the couple married in 1989. He has two children.[citation needed]
Championships and accomplishments
Dory and Terry Funk at the 2009 WWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
All Japan Pro Wrestling
NWA International Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
World's Strongest Tag Determination League (1977, 1979, 1982) - with Terry Funk
- NWA International Heavyweight Championship Tournament (1981)[17]
- World's Strongest Tag Determination League Technical Award (1977) - with Terry Funk[18]
- World's Strongest Tag Determination League Teamplay Award (1980) – with Terry Funk[19]
- World's Strongest Tag Determination League Distinguished Service Medal Award (1984) - with Terry Funk[20]
- World's Strongest Tag Determination League Skill Award (1985) - with Giant Baba [21]
- World's Strongest Tag Determination League Technique Award (1986) – with Terry Funk[22]
- World's Strongest Tag Determination League Technique Award (1987) – with Terry Funk[23]
- World's Strongest Tag Determination League Excellent Team Award (1990) - with Terry Funk[24]
- World's Strongest Tag Determination League Teamwork Award (1991) - with Al Perez[25]
Cauliflower Alley Club
- Other honoree (1998)
Championship Wrestling from Florida
NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship (4 times)
NWA Florida Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Terry Funk
NWA Florida Television Championship (2 times)
NWA International Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
NWA North American Tag Team Championship (Florida version) (2 times) - with Terry Funk (1) and David Von Erich (1)
Continental Wrestling Association
CWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
- Class of 2011
Georgia Championship Wrestling
NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Terry Funk- NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship Tournament (1978) - with Terry Funk
International Championship Wrestling
ICW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[26]
Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
National Wrestling Alliance
NWA Hall of Fame (Class of 2006)
NWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
NWA Hollywood Wrestling
NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
NWA International Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Terry Funk
NWA World Tag Team Championship (Los Angeles Version) (1 time) - with Terry Funk
New England Wrestling Alliance
- NEWA North American Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI Match of the Year (1973) vs. Harley Race on May 24
- PWI Match of the Year (1974) vs. Jack Brisco on January 27
Stanley Weston Award (2014)[27]
- PWI ranked him #147 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1994[28]
- PWI ranked him #149 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003[29]
- PWI ranked him #9 of the top 100 tag teams of the "PWI Years" with Terry Funk in 2003[29]
Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
- Class of 2005
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- Stanley Weston Achievement Award
Southwest Championship Wrestling
SCW Southwest Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
SCW World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Terry Funk
St. Louis Wrestling Hall of Fame
- Class of 2008
St. Louis Wrestling Club
NWA Missouri Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Stampede Wrestling
NWA International Tag Team Championship (Calgary version) (1 time) - with Larry Lane
Stampede Wrestling Hall of Fame [30]
Tokyo Sports
Match of the Year Award (1980) with Terry Funk vs. Giant Baba and Jumbo Tsuruta on December 11[31]
Western States Sports
NWA Brass Knuckles Championship (Amarillo version) (2 times)
NWA International Tag Team Championship (2 times) - with Terry Funk
NWA North American Heavyweight Championship (Amarillo version) (1 time)
NWA Western States Tag Team Championship (6 times) - with Ricky Romero (2), The Super Destroyer (2), Ray Candy (1), and Larry Lane (1)
NWA World Tag Team Championship (Texas Version) (2 times) - with Terry Funk
World Wrestling Council
WWC Puerto Rico Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
WWC World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Terry Funk
World Wrestling Entertainment
WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2009)
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)
Other titles
- New York Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
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