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The Last Man Standing Match is basically a variation of a match that both of these men are very familiar with. A staple of 60's and 70's wrestling, especially in Texas which was Funk's home, and a place Thesz visited frequently.
The Texas Death Match.
The only real difference between this match, and the one they're both used to? In a Texas Death match, you first have to pin your opponent or make them submit before the 10 count starts. Here you just have to knock your opponent down to start it. So honestly, the match that both Thesz and Funk fought a bunch of times over the years was probably tougher than this one.
Funk was good in them. Won some. Lost some.
Thesz... I couldn't find a record of him ever losing one. Closest I found was a curfew draw with Fritz Von Erich, which likely was just done by Thesz as a political favor.
The building manager isn't shutting the lights off for this one though, so there's no favors happening this time.
I next looked up Thesz's history with the Funks, because he did travel to Amarillo a fair bit. I was hoping to find out that these guys had actually had this match before, but unfortunately not.
Thesz did fight the Funk's a fair bit though. Also teamed with Terry's dad a few times, and his brother a couple of times too.
Thesz beat Terry's dad every time they got in the ring together.
Thesz beat Terry's brother almost every time they fought, only ever losing to him later in his career, when Dory was at his peak and Thesz was in his 50's.
Thesz fought Terry the least, but they did have 2 matches. Neither is very comparable here.
In 1969 in St. Louis, when Funk was coming up in the business and Thesz was on his way down after competing for decades (he was in his early 50's, Funk was 25). Thesz defeated Funk. A little telling here, because Thesz was past his NWA champion time by then, and Funk getting a match like that in St. Louis was a big deal for him. Him still not going over Thesz despite it being an optimal time to have someone like Thesz really make Funk by lying down for him... is probably the biggest indicator of how this should go between them.
The second time they fought was in 1975. Thesz was almost 60. Funk would win the NWA title only a few months after this match. Funk won that one.
Considering their history with each other. Their history in this type of a match. And for the hardcore fans who worship Terry Funk today, if they could consider the fact that in all of his crazy, insane, hardcore matches... Funk more times than not would put his opponent over at the end of it...
considering all that, there really is only one way to go here.
The man who the US Army asked to teach them how to fight in World War II is the man who should and would win this match.
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