It's OK For Lawler to Look Outside, the Day It Will Abide

Jerry Lawler vs. Terry Funk Wildfire Wrestling 10/24/15 - GREAT 

ER: So these two jokers are at it again, now with a median age of 68! The median age of my parents is 64, and they seem like they're old now. So add some time on to that, add punches and broom shots, and you have the worst Thanksgiving possible. Funk and Lawler are insane. Nuts. And this match is pretty much exactly what fans of two loons would expect. Between the two of them they have had one heart attack, have 3 bad knees, and still come off slightly more athletic than I do. I went into this expecting schtick, nice punches, no bumps. I got more than that. In fact Lawler starts with some great punches (you heard it here first!) and Funk takes an awesomely stupid bump to the floor off them. Funk gets dumped through the middle and bumps backwards to the floor without holding onto the ropes. Sheesh. These guys. Back in and Funk throws nasty rights to Lawler's chin, and from here we go into brawl mode. Spill to the floor, and oh shit Lawler appears to brain Funk with a soda can or something metal he found on the floor. It made a great thud so Lawler gave him another for good measure. 

We got a tour of the arena, Funk is like 4 year old me getting dragged out of church for being too noisy: grabbing trashcans, yelling, really making a show of things. Lawler gets a can dumped on his head but in a nice twist on the spot (I assumed Funk was gonna start hitting the trash can) Funk just waits for Lawler to remove the can and is waiting for his peekaboo face with a fist. Funk starts looking around for anything to hit Lawler with, some stage siding, a couple of brooms, and then we get several nasty broom shot exchanges from both men. This is a mean old man fight, and ref Jerry Calhoun knows this, yet keeps getting in the way and therefore must understandably take a haymaker or two from Funk. Lawler sets up a fireball, Funk clearly gets his face lit on fire, ironically gets DQ'd for punching the ref shortly after having his eyebrows singed off. This was pretty crazy for 136 years of crazy going at it. This was like the best possible Gypsy Joe vs. Gypsy Joe, and I eagerly await the match in 2025 where both men sit in folding chairs facing each other, taking turns throwing perfect punches until the time limit expires.

PAS:  Lawler takes a crazy bump to the floor too in this, but of course he does. You forget Lawler is super old too, when even older Terry Funk is taking this kind of beating. I loved the soda can shot, and Funk is so good at winging blind punches, he still comes off as dangerous even though he is as old as Patti LaBelle. Finish was a fine kind of BS finish, with fireball looking pretty cool.  I really like how this was worked as two guys who hate each other, rather then the semi comedy matches Lawler will work with Dutch or Dundee.

COMPLETE AND ACCURATE KING