Posted September 7, 201015 yr comment_5455413 I will grant you that I am a huge Terry Funk mark, but this is a really fucking awesome match. It's basically three parts. First part is Funk getting his ass kicked and he really gets his ass kicked. Sabu beats the hell out of him with plunder shots, drags him all over the place, et. This goes on for a fairly substantial period of time to the point that I actually thought this might be a lame "Funk gets ass kicked and wins with roll up" type thing. Instead Funk just snaps and starts smashing chairs all over Sabu. He does the awesome neckbreaker onto seated chairs spot and some other cool shit. Then they go to third segment which is a series of really well done momentum swings with each guy looking like he might come out on top. Lots of big spots in here including a great spot where Funk narrowly avoids a table legdrop. Funk kicking out of the triple jump moonsault was also a legit "holy shit" moment at least for me as I don't remember a lot of people doing that at the time. Finishing run is awesome as Funk hits a piledriver and a powerbomb for a great nearfall. Then he goes for another but Sabu ranas out and goes to the top for a legdrop but Funk moves and finishes him off with a nasty powerbomb into really sick cradle pinning combo for the three. Pretty amazing that Funk could have two matches of this quality playing completely different roles against opponents as different as Douglas and Sabu at this point in his career.
November 5, 201014 yr comment_5458016 Terry Funk v. Sabu Easy Nomination - FanCam 8-8-97 - In contrast to the Douglas match, they start off working in the ring hooking each other in hammerlocks and headlocks to wrestle for control. Terry finally throws Sabu out of the ring and we get a Terry Funk brawl outside. Man, Sabu is really destroying Terry with the chair with some inventive, some stale spots. Ooh, nasty neckbreaker on the chair from Terry. The biggest gripe is that chairshots mean nothing but I excuse it for matches like Awesome-Tanaka and I can excuse it here. This should have been on my Funk set.
November 15, 201014 yr comment_5458352 ECW World Heavyweight Title: Terry Funk © vs. "Homicidal, Suicidal, & Genocidal" Sabu (8/8/97) This was a very well structured match which was really rare in ECW and these two had such great chemistry that they could have a good match easily but this was more than that as it was a pretty great match. Nothing was too overdone and it told a great story as Sabu wasn't spotfest Sabu but he was violent kickass Sabu who mixed in his spots with a lot of moves and strikes. Funk was great selling and when he made his comeback he showed tons of fire leading to a really compelling finish. This was a fantastic match and a slam dunk nomination.
