Terry Funk: A Good Role Model

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rry funk was born on June 30, 1944 at Canyon, Texas; he was one the great wrestler in WWF history. He started out his career in 1965, working in his fathers Dory Funk Sr’s promotion in Amarillo, Texas. He won the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) world heavy weight championship in 1969 by defeating Jack Brisco, He also introduce hardcore wrestling style, where wrestlers are allowed to use weapon on their opponents, and make them bleed until they give up. Terry Funk may or may not be a good role model for kids, because wrestling is a violent game, which might not be a good thing for kids to watch, and they also use lot of swearing or bad words to their opponent in the ring, but he also be a good role model, because he achieved all his goals, and his hard work full filled all his dream. Therefore, Terry Funk is a good wrestler but not a good role model for kids.…show more content…
Wrestling is a violent game, specially for kids, because in hardcore matched they use all kind of weapon like steel chairs, ladder, table, light tube, barbed wire, fire and many more things to beat their opponent. “In the rematch, I also got busted open doing a hard way f or Paul. I ended up getting 18 stitches” (pg#70, terry Funk; More Than Just Hardcore). This quotation explains that how violent the wrestling game is, where they have to beat their opponent until they start bleeding, and they all ended up getting stitches all our their body. In conclusion, Terry Funk can not be a good role model for kids, because he would encourage kids to act like him, which is not a good thing to

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