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Terry Funk talks about ECW, ROH today and TNA

Posted: Aug 25th 2010 By: CMBurnham

Please feel free to run this story if you wish, it would be greatly appreciated if you could. We recently sat down with Terry Funk for a 30 minute interview on Tuesday night and I have attached some quotes & links to the interview for your readers if you so wish to run the story.

Thank you for your time,
Jeff Peck

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On the state of wrestling:

?Wrestling should always be an extension of his own personality. I think that actors aren?t wrestlers and wrestlers aren?t actors, wrestlers are wrestlers. I?m not really fond of the much control that they put on their product as they do in New York [WWE], I think the individuals should be given a bit more control and be able to be themselves a bit more then the characters that they do. I feel ROH accomplishes that.?

On the end of ECW:

?They forgot what was meant by the word Extreme just be evolving. Extreme at first was a bunch of guys busting their asses to give you the best they were physically capable of doing and it wasn?t with garbage lids, pails and other stuff?they went the other way at the end and I think that was the wrong road to travel?we all have to have our extreme matches but you have to build it on a foundation and that up there [ECW] was built on a foundation.?

On if he was asked to be at TNA HardCore Justice:

?Well I think that they knew I wasn?t gonna go, you know I made the statement before that I?m not going down there?I don?t want to go down there and if I wanted to go I?d call em up and tell em? I wanted to be there?it wouldn?t be bad if they made the gesture but they knew I wouldn?t go. Nor did I want to be in the ring at that time, so what am I going to be some idiot at ringside? Oh look there?s Terry Funk and look at how old he is now.?

Terry also tells us his thoughts on Vince McMahon, Jim Cornette, Ring of Honor wrestling, an altercation with a promoter who tried to sue him and more in a great 30 minute interview with the wrestling legend himself!

You can download the entire interview right now by going to www.wheelhouseradio.com and clicking on ?podcasts.?

The Wheelhouse airs live every Sunday ? Thursday @ 8pm ET/5pm PT on www.blogtalkradio.com/thewheelhouse with replays Monday - Friday @ 8am ET/5am PT on www.errorfm.com

*Terry Funk will be appearing at ROH Glory by Honor IX in New York City, NY at the Manhattan Center on September 11th signing autographs prior to the IPPV. For more info visit www.rohwrestling.com

Tags: Terry Funk, WWE, ECW, TNA, Jim Cornette