Mick Foley Recalls Terry Funk Putting Him Over In IWA Deathmatch

On the latest edition of Foley Is Pod, WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley spoke about the late Hall of Famer Terry Funk. 

The former WWE Champion recalled how Funk put him over in their King of the Deathmatch bout for IWA at Kawasaki Stadium in Japan on August 20, 1995. Here are the highlights: 

The match: 

“We didn’t talk about the match at all. That’s why if you watch the match … at one point I think it was the most widely-watched bootleg — or just the most widely-watched match on VHS — of all time. It’s probably still up there. It made quite an impact.”

What Funk told him before the match: 

“When Terry and I were getting ready, he just came into my dressing room, looked at me, and goes, ‘You know I wouldn’t do this for many people?’ And he wasn’t talking about putting people over, in general, but what he was about to do for me in Japan. [It] was something he was giving out … he was making me over there.” 

How that match really cemented his status: 

“Terry giving me that [match] really made me. I believe that, to this day, there are plenty of people in Japan, who refer to me as the King of the Death Match.”

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