Funk did not adhere to the instructions, and if Prichard’s memory serves him right, Funk — in his pre-match promo — referred to Vince McMahon as a “Yankee bastard” and Jim Ross as an “Oklahoma son of a b***h” before turning around and telling Hart, “Your mother’s a whore.”

Prichard proceeded to blame Funk for several networks dropping WWE’s Saturday night show, which, as a syndicated telecast, aired on multiple channels across the country. “When people say, ‘Bruce, whatever happened to that show “Shotgun Saturday Night?” I say, Terry Funk.’ So yeah, we got thrown off the air — for those comments. I think we had a goddamn in there, we had everything I asked him not to do.”

“And there’s one point in the match [against Hart] where they had the big troughs of beer, on ice, and at one point, he [Funk] grabs me and put me in it. I didn’t have a change of clothes.” Prichard was frozen, in a manner of speaking, and as he tried to compose himself, he still remembers “a bunch of drunk Cowboys” doing some line dancing and singing country tunes. Suffice it to say, Funk’s brief WWE return in January 1997 lasted all of one weekend as he returned to ECW at the subsequent “Crossing The Line Again” event. Funk would eventually return to WWE in December 1997 as a new masked character called Chainsaw Charlie.