Terry Funk, Pro Wrestling Legend, Dead at 79

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00:00 You know it's with great pride that I wear this world's heavyweight championship around

00:05 my waist.

00:06 Wrestling legend Terry Funk has died.

00:10 No cause of death details have been shared.

00:13 But his Twitter account revealed last month he was enduring multiple health issues.

00:18 According to McFoley, Terry's daughter Brandi confirmed the news.

00:22 ETs reached out for the same.

00:24 Terry was 79 years old.

00:26 Terry Funk's daughter Brandi confirmed the news.

00:36 Now the wrestling world mourns Terry on social media with Ric Flair calling him a "great

00:42 wrestler, entertainer, unbelievably fearless, and a great friend."

00:46 And Foley, who Terry inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2013, he writes in his Instagram

00:55 tribute, "Terry was my mentor, my idol, and one of my closest friends.

01:01 He was the greatest wrestler I ever saw."

01:03 I've been in the profession for so many years and to still be around and the reason I am

01:09 around a great deal of it is because of McFoley.

01:14 Terry himself was added to the Hall of Fame four years earlier, where the WWE honored

01:19 his decades-spanning career in the family business.

01:49 [music]

01:56 [MUSIC]