Dory Funk, Jr., a larger-than-life character in the rings in Amarillo and later, the world, continues to be one in real life as he turned 85 on Tuesday, Feb. 3, in his home at Ocala, Florida. The ...

I got a big kick out of a recent social media post by the inimitable Dirty Dutch Mantell. The Dutchman had run across a photo of a match he had years earlier with former NWA world champion Dory Funk ...

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Dory Funk Jr. is penciled in to return to the ring at 83 years of age for Atsushi Onita's Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling in Japan. The infamous hardcore promotion is due to hold a memorial show for ...

Two professional wrestling greats were in Marion County this weekend. WWE Hall of Famers Jerry “The King” Lawler and “The Mouth of the South” Jimmy Hart stopped in Belleview on Saturday, making ...

Editor's note: Portions of this story are being reprinted with permission of the Ocala Gazette and the article's author, Susan Smiley-Height. Dory Funk, Jr., a larger-than-life character in the rings ...