14. Terry Funk Versus Patrick Swayze (Road House, 1989)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeglesB0qDk Any fan of classic 1980s cinema is well-acquainted with Road House, the Patrick Swayze-starring vehicle that managed to combine Eastern philosophy, gratuitous nudity, and the music of Jeff Healey. Unless you've seen the film recently, though, you might have forgotten that Terry Funk played a supporting role in it. As Morgan, a colorful henchman of crooked businessman Brad Wesley, Funk got nose to nose with Swayze's Dalton, but ended up on the wrong end of the skirmishes. In the end, a raid on Wesley's home leads to Dalton dispatching Morgan one final time en route to saving the town of Jasper, Missouri.
Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried.
*Best Crowd of the Year, 2013