Dreamer added, “He’s the toughest man I ever was in the ring with. Like I saw him do things at my age and older that you cannot possibly — I would say to him, this was later on in our conversations, ‘How the hell did you do it?’ He said, ‘I did it because I loved it,’ and it just meant everything to me.”

Bully Ray also weighed in and reflected on how Funk brought credibility to ECW at a time when they needed it most.

“Terry Funk gave credibility to a company that lacked it at the time,” Ray said. “It was just this dirty pro wrestling company that was acting like the wild west, and here comes Terry Funk and basically said that, ‘I like this company, this is a company that I want to work for. This is a locker room that I want to be a part of,’ and instantly put us on the map. I think we will all forever be grateful for that. As a performer, there was no better.”

Lance Storm, Triple H, Frankie Kazarian, and many others have shared their Terry Funk stories. Kevin Owens also went as far as to say that Funk was “the absolute best of us.”

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