The legendary Terry Funk recently commented on the WWE vs AEW Wednesday night wars on an episode of the 2-Man Power Trip podcast. According to Funk, wrestling fans are clamoring for change but Vince McMahon just won’t give it to them.
“What it is is the inability to change. It is an inability to do it and impossibility,” Funk said on the podcast. “That is the truth because you become attached to people, you become inept and that not only includes your wrestlers but it includes your creators. They become attached to them and they become stagnant, they become old and they become repetitious. The water is getting dirty and they better filter it.”
“I think that you can’t turn sh*t into a great meal. You can’t put whatever you want into there but that is what Vince is doing. He has become repetitious, he has become stagnant, and some of his stuff is totally overbearing and that is just a matter of truth. Now you’ve got a fresh flower coming up right behind you.”
Funk continued to say that Vince McMahon sees his performers as actors rather than pro-wrestlers.
“He can change but he can’t change his characters. That is the thing that wrestling is, we are who we are. Even when we are established we are not actors. We are wrestlers. That is his fault because he feels we are actors. I am not an actor and never was an actor in my entire life.”
The full interview can be heard in the player below:
Terry Funk on AEW
Funk also commented on AEW’s success so far.
“They (AEW) beat them (WWE) right out of the gate on how many people watching. That is not good, that is wonderful. It’s curiosity and they have to understand that and they have to be prepared to produce a better show than what they did that first week and second week and continue on getting better and better and better. That is what they have to have, they have to have that attitude and that belief that they can do it.”
