The Bullet is of course Bob Armstrong under a hood. Pre-match Funk "give him a chance" to quit and come kiss Cornette's feet, then goes haywire and throws a bunch of chairs in the ring, runs in and slaps Bullet a bunch before getting tossed to the floor. Funk takes over with some stiff punches and atomic drops Armstrong into a chair on the floor before pelting him with it. Terry targets the neck with a serious of nasty shots including a ddt, his awesome neckbreaker (does anyone have a better neckbreaker?) and a then a ddt through a table which strangely results in the Bullet taking over and whipping Terry around for the first fall. Funk ends up hitting Bullet's leg from behind to set up the toehold..and Bullet fights him off and gets Funk reeling and takes the second fall. Funk is hilarious in between falls tossing shit around, almost putting Corny in a toehold on the floor, et. Funk ends up taking over with chairshots and he has a huge pile of chairs in the ring. Funk ends up moonsaulting Bullet on the pile of chairs for a fall. Bullet barely makes it up and then goes for a piledriver which Bob reverse and then DDT's Funk on the chairs for the finish. I thought Funk was awesome in this, but I did not like how weak he was made to look in "his match." Still more than good enough to pass on, but the post-match beatdown should have translated more in the match itself.

I thought this was solid with Funk doing everything in this bout. Their were some odd choices like Funk's DDT to Armstrong through a table resulted in Armstrong taking over. I'm not a fan of TX Death Matches but I liked this one. It goes to show how being a good promo, good booking, having charisma can result in being a good draw. Albeit on SMW circuit. Solid Nomination.

Texas Death Match: The Bullet vs. Terry Funk (2/13/94)

 

Funk coming out to the The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly theme was great. Funk is out of control before the match starts as he is all over ringside waiting for Bullet. Funk telling Bullet to quit and kiss Corny's feet was hilarious then he flips out and throws chairs in the ring before just beating the Bullet's ass from pillar to post including an awesome DDT through the ringside table which Bullet basically no sold before smashing Funk's head into the table. Bullet then uses this to pound Funk to earn the 1st fall. Funk would fight back to use the spinning toehold but Bullet is superhuman here just firing away on Funk to take the 2nd fall. Bullet sends Funk to the floor where Funk goes nuts and starts throwing chairs in the ring where he just bashed Bullet numerous times before hitting a moonsault to win the 3rd fall. This was great stuff here. Bullet would answer the call in the 4th fall as he just planted Funk with a DDT on the chairs laying the ring to win the fall. Both men then struggle to get up with Bullet getting up at 9 and Funk falling flat on his face to end the match. Dory would join Terry and Corny after the match to destroy Bullet and drug him over to kiss Corny's feet but the babyfaces would finally come out to make the save. This was great stuff as you had Funk being Funk and Bullet being fun playing Dusty Rhodes. Easy nomination.