YMMV / Terry Funk

• Americans Hate Tingle: Loathed in Puerto Rico, even after he took to garbage wrestling, which usually gets over big there.
• Badass Decay: By the time Terry arrived in WCW for what was his final run as a full time wrestler before spending the next fifteen plus years as "semi-retired", his best days were well and truly behind him. Decades of injuries had completely destroyed his knees, meaning he could only walk in a slow, bow legged waddle and he couldn't really hit actual moves anymore, relying almost exclusively on weapons. It didn't help that he was pitted against much younger and mobile opponents who in reality could wrestle circles around him.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Oh, boy, do the Japanese love this guy.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "FOREVER!....FOREVER!"
  • The sheer number of times that he's "retired" and then come back soon after is probably one of the oldest running jokes among wrestling fans.
  • "Should've taken the money!"^note His confession in the Forever Hardcore documentary that he regretted not doing WWE's 2005 "One Night Stand" PPV (and its paycheck) in favor of the independent "Hardcore Homecoming" show has become a memetic phrase, particularly with the OSW Review hosts.
• Nightmare Fuel: His Barbed Wire Rope Match against Sabu at ECW's Born to be Wired event, even though Sabu's gash-in-the-arm was more notable than what Terry suffered. Paul Heyman didn't want anybody in ECW trying another Barbed Wire Rope match because he didn't think it could be topped and didn't want to see anybody else try, but Shane Douglas booked a Barbed Wire Three-Way-Dance between Sabu, Funk, and himself for Hardcore Homecoming - and it was just as disturbingly brilliant as the original.
• Tear Jerker:
  • His first retirement in 1983 in Japan. "FOREVER! FOREVER!" Even with the subversion of this trope with future "retirements", some fans do get teary when seeing that moment replayed.
  • On his shoot interview with Jim Cornette, he mentions being uneasy with breaking Kayfabe even after all these years. Jim remarks, "That horse has left the barn though, Terry." Funk responds with, "I'd love to go out and rope him and bring it back."
• Values Dissonance: The Funks versus the Briscos, who were Native Americans, although they didn't Cosplay their heritage. Having a feud that's essentially a Professional Wrestling version of Cowboys and Indians, even without the costumes, wouldn't make it to air in the 21st century. The feud was started around a little before or after the 1973 Academy Awards where Marlon Brando refused his Best Actor Oscar for The Godfather to protest the American film and television industry's treatment of the Native Americans, as well as the 1973 Wounded Knee incident.