10 Wrestling Championship Reigns That Didn't Fit The Wrestler

4. Terry Funk As WWF Tag Team Champion

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Terry Funk has wrestled in a number of disciplines over his staggering 50+ year career. Emerging as a tag team wrestler with his brother Dory Jr., developing into a singles star as NWA World Heavyweight Champion, before helping to define the hardcore generation with his stints in ECW and IWA Japan.

That latter-day version of Funk is how many wrestling fans today know The Funkster. The legacy of his matches with the likes of Gran Hamada, The Great Sasuke and Mick Foley of explosions, fire, and barbed wire has defined him as the absolute madlad we know and love.

His hardcore reputation followed him throughout the '90s, but after a succession of years trying to remove Foley's organs from his body, Funk returned to the WWF as a partner to Foley's Cactus Jack persona, engaging in a short feud with the New Age Outlaws which culminated in a World Tag Team Championship victory at WrestleMania XIV.

Now before anyone thinks I'm discrediting the works of the Funk Brothers under the banner of "be born earlier", the time between a tag team championship run for Funk was sixteen years. He was a different man to the old school southern style aficionado of the '60s, '70s and' 80s. He was more of a scalping kinda guy now.

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