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00:30He was 300 pounds, and when he picked you upside down and dropped you on your head, you were pretty much done.
00:38Cordy's career skyrocketed as part of the fabulous Freebirds, a tag team trio that revolutionized the business with their in-ring theatrics and total commitment to their rock and roll lifestyle.
00:50Once the jack started flowing, the birds were ready to party with anyone or fight anyone.
00:56Do it to big boys now!
00:58They believe they are rock stars, so they act like rock stars.
01:03Cordy's no-holds-barred style would take him around the world, but also accelerate his self-destructive behavior.
01:11Terry was his own man. Terry did his own thing.
01:13The lifestyle that he led, he could have died a hundred different ways.
01:17You can go from being on top of the world and have it all taken from you in a moment.
01:24Until a flight on a routine trip to Japan would drastically alter his career and the man himself.
01:31Even though he came back, he didn't come back as a wrestler and he didn't come back as Terry.
01:35He was never the same. Never even remotely the same.
01:48Guys, first match, five minutes.
01:51My name gets me noticed.
01:53Like, oh, another second gen, Terry Gordy's daughter.
01:56I am Miranda Gordy, and Terry Bam Bam Gordy is my father.
02:07They expect me to be just as good as him, and that's just not the case.
02:15So that's caused a little bit of pressure on me that I have got to fill those boots.
02:20Gordy called him in. What a close line.
02:24Those are some big shoes to fill.
02:28Oh, the boot comes off. Gordy smashing on Bruce or Brody's head.
02:32My name is Ray Gordy, and I am the son of Terry Bam Bam Gordy.
02:37People would remember me as one half of Jesse and Festus and Slam Master Jay.
02:45The reason I didn't use my father's name in WWE is simply because I didn't feel that I could live up to it.
02:54Terry Gordy is fixing the best move.
02:57He told me one time that once you learn how this business works, you'll never want to do anything else.
03:04Here's Gordy from the ropes.
03:06And that was his mindset. He never seen himself doing anything else.
03:11Terry Gordy.
03:12Born in Rossville, Georgia, Terry Gordy is barely a teenager when he gets his start in the wrestling business.
03:22I have some early stuff of my dad, and that is a report card. It looks like a couple of Fs.
03:30Those days he was absent, he was on the road.
03:34This picture.
03:35Yeah.
03:35That is a very young Terry Gordy.
03:3940 pounds, Terry Meeker.
03:41Because of Terry's size and his eagerness, by the time he was 14 years old, he was wrestling on television.
03:50I'm Jim Cornette. I've been involved in a variety of ways in professional wrestling over the last 40-something years.
03:55I first met Terry. He was 16 years old. He was already a professional wrestler and had been for a couple of years at that point.
04:03You could use the word prodigy. You could use the word natural.
04:07Whatever it was, he had it.
04:09He's getting a couple of licks in.
04:11He was a prodigy, but that doesn't mean he didn't work hard and study the game.
04:16My name is Mick Foley. I am a three-time WWE champion, and I am sometimes known as the hardcore legend.
04:26What he lacked in traditional schooling, he picked up with an education on the road, second to none.
04:33This young lad here is going to, I think, become a superstar. He has all of the makings.
04:38When you started getting the full Terry Gordy, not only the physical aspect, but the verbal, he was an all-around performer.
04:44There was almost nobody that could touch him.
04:46Brother, get your sister, get your daddy, get them all around the TV.
04:51Because you think now I witnessed something.
04:53When Terry was in Mississippi, he met a guy named Michael Hayes.
04:58There it is, Michael Hayes.
05:00Michael was a natural talker. You hand Michael a microphone, and he could go on forever.
05:04When you want to talk to a lady, you say, hey, baby, why don't you put on some Teddy Pendergrass?
05:09Close the door. Let me do what I want to do, because all I want to do is what you want me to.
05:19His mama must have had a hard time with him.
05:21I am Jimmy Jam Garvin, and I am a member of the fabulous Freebirds WWE Hall of Famer, and it's still not my fault.
05:29It's not my fault!
05:30Michael and Terry, I mean, they were just both live wires.
05:34Terry would almost know what Michael's thinking, you know, before Michael even said it, and vice versa.
05:38They were just tight.
05:40You've got Michael Hayes, who would come out, and he would piss people off.
05:45As always, a big conflict.
05:47He would talk himself right into the corner.
05:49But then, behind his back, you've got Terry Gordy.
05:54Here comes Gordy!
05:56As a team, they were just unmatched.
06:01They just were like soulmates as far as friends go.
06:07Michael was a big fan, as every Southerner was in those days in the 70s, of the band Leonard Skinner.
06:13Michael had the idea, what about if we called ourselves the Freebirds?
06:18Monday night in Memphis, at the Mid-South Coliseum, I was a photographer at ringside, and all of a sudden, over the PA system, here comes Freebird.
06:35And then out comes Terry and Michael, these silver robes flowing everywhere, and they're doing a slow-motion strut to match the beat of Freebird.
06:47There you hear the music of the panel of Freebirds, Terry Gordy and Michael Hayes.
06:54This was back in the day, where if you went to an arena event, the bell rang, and the wrestlers walked to the ring, and they got introduced.
07:01There was no music.
07:04And I said, you know, I think this might catch on.
07:07The Freebirds soon join Mid-South Wrestling, where promoter Bill Watts pairs them up with Buddy Roberts, converting the tag team into a trio.
07:18You got the Freebirds' attention, and that just might be your downfall.
07:23Buddy was the veteran.
07:24Michael was the promo.
07:26Terry was the physical enforcer.
07:27Watch that hand.
07:28Bite the dust.
07:29And that three-man combination made one of the most legendary tag teams in the history of wrestling.
07:36Together, they were bigger than the sum of their parts.
07:40And I think it's important to point out that this was not a case of lightning striking once.
07:45They got over everywhere they went.
07:48The Fabulous Freebirds are winners of the buck.
07:57The Fabulous Freebirds got through with a victory.
08:00Welcome back to the wild and wonderful Freebirds.
08:06Ah, a new walk.
08:08Then they had the natural three-on-three rivalry with the Von Erich boys in Dallas.
08:14Deep in the heart of Texas, world-class championship wrestling is dominated by the three eldest sons of promoter Fritz Von Erich, David, Carey, and Kevin.
08:25The Von Erich boys were already popular, but the Von Erich boys had never been tested.
08:32We wanted badasses, and that's who the Freebirds were.
08:35Backbreaker across the knee of Michael Hayes.
08:38I'm Kevin Von Erich, and for years I've battled the Freebirds.
08:43They were legitimate, rough guys, you know, and they didn't have any apologies for anybody.
08:49Oh, that fella hit the deck.
08:51But we had a common goal.
08:53We wanted to put the best wrestling match we could in that ring, and so it was just a marriage made in heaven.
09:00Here comes Kevin!
09:01Wrestling in the mid-80s in Dallas was the top of the game.
09:07We were selling out every venue, everywhere, every night.
09:11But the magic really hit when the Freebirds came.
09:14I'm talking about them Von Erichs.
09:16They don't stick their nose in the Freebirds business.
09:20My name's David Manning.
09:21I was the promoter, booker, and referee for world-class championship wrestling.
09:25The Von Erichs were like the good cowboy, and here was three guys that were obnoxious, rude to the fans.
09:33Well, let me tell you something, Texas.
09:36There ain't no place that I would rather be than in Georgia right now.
09:41Kevin referred to them as filth.
09:43Michael Hayes is bringing the flag.
09:45Terry and Michael come to the ring.
09:47They've got Dixie flying, and they're talking about Texas, and it just burned me up.
09:52And so I grabbed the mic, and I said, you got everybody in the world thinking this is a war between Texas and Georgia, and this is not.
09:58This is a war between decency and filth.
10:01There was so much love for the Von Erichs, but there was total hate for Michael, Terry, and Buddy.
10:06Go home, Freebirds! Go home, Freebirds!
10:09They could get a ton of heat because of the way they acted, the things they said, the things they did.
10:15What about your friend right here for him? What you think about it?
10:18I didn't want my dad to get beat up, but I was still a fan of the Von Erichs.
10:24And it looks like a barroom brawl.
10:27Who didn't love the Von Erichs?
10:28Only a boring good lady.
10:30Some of the guys who didn't like the Von Erichs because their girlfriends liked them,
10:35they're saying, well, look at these shit-kicking, Jack Daniels-drinking, flag-waving Southern assholes.
10:41So they started getting in the Freebird camp.
10:46I think the Freebirds were the original Cool Heels.
10:50Far more often, they were the cooler of the two teams in the ring.
10:56For the next two and a half years in every city in Texas, it was the Freebirds against the Von Erichs.
11:02I'm going to take him out.
11:07I want Terry Gordian.
11:08I don't want to just beat him.
11:10I want to hurt him.
11:11They'll take Terry across the ring.
11:13They main-evented in Texas Stadium, for God's sake.
11:17It was the most magic three-on-three combination.
11:20Perfect time, perfect place, perfect setup, perfect participants.
11:24And they drew nothing but money for two years.
11:27What we had created in the ring was phenomenal.
11:32Anybody would want that.
11:33But then when you got out of the ring, you had all the other problems, though, that came with the birds.
11:37They were trouble looking for trouble.
11:40You know, they just raised hell.
11:44They'd drink all night, and then they'd get in the ring, and they'd sweat all them booze out.
11:51They always told me that the best cure for a hangover was wrestling.
11:56Yeah.
11:57Terry's temperament was, like, so even, till we drank.
12:03My parents were at a bar, and a man was hitting on my mom.
12:08My dad became very enraged, and there was a bar fight.
12:13The cops went to restrain my dad to calm him down, which I think did the opposite.
12:21It was like you had taken a hammer about this big around and hit the hood of the car, and knocked dents in it, where he had headbutted it.
12:41He was kind of a real, spoiled kid.
12:44You know, that's Terry.
12:45He did stuff like that.
12:46Terry Gordy was not going to back up from anybody, nor was there anybody walking that was really going to make him back up.
12:53Do you think there was a point where, like, it got a little bit out of control as far as, like, the partying, or that's just the way it was in the 80s and early 90s?
13:01It is.
13:01I mean, if you look back at it today, from today's perspective, it got out of control at the very beginning.
13:06You know, having people throw different things at you, like, here, take a shot, y'all are awesome, or here, you know, take this for your pain so you can sleep, or here, take this so you can stay up and drive eight hours to the next show.
13:21I don't know exactly when the evolution happened from smoking marijuana, drinking booze, to more of a pill problem.
13:36Despite their wild reputation, in 1984, Terry Gordy and the Fabulous Freebirds catch the attention of Vince McMahon and the World Wrestling Federation.
13:51Was it a week? Did that last a week?
13:54They were in the meeting with Vince, hungover, still partially inebriated.
14:01Terry fell asleep.
14:02And that didn't get over with Vince too good.
14:09That was the only time that the Freebirds ever worked for the WWF.
14:14After wrestling a handful of matches, the Freebirds flame out at the WWF.
14:20But Terry has a chance to take his career in a new direction.
14:24That is my dad and Bruiser Brody.
14:29It's in Japan.
14:29My dad got the opportunity to go work in Japan.
14:34The Japanese wrestling is very different from what it is over here.
14:40When you get the Freebirds and more glitz and glamour, they see that and they're really not interested.
14:47They were more interested in Terry Gordy by himself.
14:50The monster American, the Abdullah the Butchers, or the Bruiser Brodies, or the Stan Hansons, or Terry Gordy.
15:02These giant guys that were just crazy and beat up everybody in their path.
15:07They became the darlings of the Japanese wrestling fan.
15:10And that's the kind of atmosphere that Terry could flourish in.
15:17He loved the hard, physical style associated with Japan.
15:23And that's why he became one of the biggest and best stars to ever cross the ocean and work there.
15:32It takes a big toll physically, with the injuries.
15:41Putting your body through that, every bump is like a mild car wreck.
15:46I knew that he was having knee problems.
15:49One of my big concerns was my dad wasn't going to blow out his knees.
15:54He tore both of his ACLs.
16:00He was going to Japan six months a year, working as a main event star over there at a high level, with no ACL in either knee.
16:08He had to have double knee surgery.
16:10But the doctor told him he had to take the weight off.
16:14So he contacted Richard Simmons.
16:17Yeah!
16:17This huge 6'5 man, just, you know, jazzercise, whatever Richard Simmons did.
16:26Come on, Terry, you got this.
16:29Terry was like 300, 320, and then he pared down to like maybe 265, something like that.
16:36And then you see the more athletic, built-up, Harry Gordy.
16:39You can absolutely blame that on Richard Simmons.
16:42Now, leaner and more powerful, and working in a physical style that plays to his strengths, Terry's performance in the ring reaches new heights.
16:53Terry Gordy versus Misawa.
16:54Oh.
16:55June 1st, 1991.
16:57Yeah.
16:57In my opinion, that's one of the top five matches of all time.
17:01The Japanese crowd, traditionally, they will ooh and ah.
17:06This match, they tore the house now.
17:12Terry Gordy was a master of his craft.
17:18People look at him, and they see this big monster doing all these power moves.
17:22But if you really watch, you'll see the little things that he done in the ring that people just don't do.
17:31Even down to the chin lock in this match, he's actually using his fingers to try to pry fingers away.
17:38And this is a work, but that little bit just adds so much more.
17:46Terry was a guy who made everything he did mean something.
17:50And when he threw a punch, brother, it was a thing of beauty.
17:53It was so animated.
17:55It connected.
17:56It looked great.
17:58He was just simply one of the best.
18:00He was the first American ever to win the Triple Crown Championship.
18:04He was the top guy in Japan at that time.
18:09It's great to be alive, and it's great to be number one in Japan.
18:14In Japan, Terry starts working with Dr. Death's Steve Williams in a tag team known for their brutality, the Miracle Violence Connection.
18:23If the aliens landed tomorrow, and you had to pick two human beings to represent Earth in a fight to the death, pick Terry Gordy and Dr. Death's Steve Williams.
18:39Look at the strength of Dr. Death.
18:41They brought that Japanese style over to the U.S.
18:44In my opinion, they may be the best tag team in the world today.
18:51They're not resting up in between Japanese tours.
18:54They're taking on these very physical matches on a very regular basis.
19:00Terry and Doc did a lot of tours together.
19:03So to keep the Free Bird thing going, they needed to replace Terry when he was gone, and that's what I did.
19:09We're not following no rules that we don't want to follow.
19:12Terry, when he wasn't in Japan, he would join us.
19:15That's a very heavy schedule.
19:17I honestly believe that it was too much.
19:21I mean, really, it was just part of life.
19:23Like, he would just be gone for a long time, and it was like a treat almost when he would be home.
19:31Miranda, smile.
19:33Life at one point was really good.
19:35We did normal family things.
19:38He took us skating.
19:40He taught me how to fish and ride a bike.
19:42All the dad stuff.
19:43He did that for us when he could.
19:45But it just wasn't a lot, unfortunately.
19:49Yeah, he hated to be separated from his family, man.
19:52My name is Richard A. Slinger.
19:54I went under the ring name of Richard Slinger in Japan.
19:58Trained and lived over there.
19:59I'm the nephew of Terry Gordy.
20:01He would talk to me about being over there in Japan.
20:06He said I would go into a state of deep, dark, miserable depression.
20:11I know it wore on him.
20:12He looked tired.
20:15I know he missed being home, and he missed his own mom, and he missed his kids, and he missed his wife.
20:22Being on the road 360 days a year, that wears on you.
20:27You live in hotels, airplanes, rental cars.
20:34It's just constant go.
20:36Your mind never really has time to reset, to relax, to say, okay, where am I at in this life?
20:43A lot of times in those days, especially the well-seasoned travelers to Japan, they would take whatever pills that they took so they could sleep, and when they woke up, they'd be in Japan.
20:58The drugs can be seen as a necessary evil when you're going from time zone to time zone, when you're expected to be at your best on a nightly basis, when you feel far from your best, when you're worn down.
21:12And it is a very short step from use as needed to use as liked.
21:22While on a tour with Steve Williams, Terry suffers his first serious overdose.
21:29First time, he dropped on me, accumulated too many pills.
21:35It was halcyon.
21:36We went out that night, and he just dropped it, and I didn't see PR, and ambulance took him.
21:42He was in the hospital.
21:43He didn't remember what happened.
21:45When they brought me in, I had to refresh in his mind, tell him what he'd done, and this and that.
21:50I tried to straighten him up from there, but Terry Gore, he had a problem with drugs.
21:55There's going to be a time where your body tells you, where your mind tells you that you need to stop, and I really believe that during that time, my dad was at that point.
22:10It's a tough business.
22:11You know, it's a heartless business.
22:15Set to return to Japan, Terry boards a flight that will change his life forever.
22:20Terry's accumulated so many pills that I'm having to push him with a wheelchair.
22:29He's out, you know, he's out, so.
22:3230 minutes before a plane lands, I look at him, and he's dying on me.
22:43Before a flight to Japan, Terry Gordy consumes an excessive amount of muscle relaxers.
22:48Dr. Death's Steve Williams notices Terry has stopped breathing.
22:54He's dying on me.
22:55I mean, he's turned blue, and he's sucking barely any air, like he was about to swallow his tongue.
23:03I used to be able to knock him back loose if I slapped him a couple times in the face.
23:08It would kick him out of it, you know?
23:10Just like if you put somebody in sleep, if you hit him in the back, he'll knock him back out of it.
23:14Well, I did it, and he wouldn't come back alive.
23:18So right then, I knew he was dying.
23:24The stewardess got up, man, and they was all freaking out.
23:28And I was giving him CPR to keep him alive, to keep that heart going.
23:34And as soon as we land, the ambulance was right there.
23:37I had to get him off the plane, get him in the ambulance, and get him to the hospital.
23:44They just started emergency procedures.
23:47And what little bit of Japanese I spoke and what little bit of English they spoke, we were able to communicate about Terry's condition.
23:54The biggest fear that I might be losing my uncle Terry, you know, in there.
24:00He was in a coma for a couple days.
24:03I remember being right there by him pretty much the whole time, camping out beside his bed.
24:11When he woke up, he started calling my name, Richard.
24:14Richard.
24:15I was like, yeah, I'm here.
24:17I'm here, I'm here.
24:18Eventually, he was able to be maneuvered between me and the nurse into a wheelchair to go to the shower.
24:29You know, maybe a little bit of cold water.
24:33He might show that he still has the feeling.
24:38And he did.
24:39His face grimaced a little bit whenever I sprayed him with cold water.
24:43And I was like, you know, we might have some luck here of getting him back to normal.
24:49They called my stepmother, and she flew over to be with him.
24:54And she got him home, and my mother was there to greet him.
24:59And she said that was a heartbreaker to see him coming off the airplane in a wheelchair.
25:06He couldn't really carry on that much of a conversation.
25:11He was very quiet.
25:15There was an obvious difference.
25:19He had lost a lot of his motor skills.
25:25He was very slow to react.
25:29He had to relearn a lot of things.
25:32He had some permanent physical and mental damage from that.
25:39And he wasn't the same person anymore.
25:43Whatever happened, oxygen to the brain, he was unconscious too long, whatever all that medical hoo-hai is, it erased something in his brain.
25:53There's this local promoter.
25:55He was kind enough to give us the key.
25:57And we was training within a couple of weeks of me coming back from that tour.
26:02Ironic, you know, somebody training me, here I am.
26:08I'm teaching my uncle, you know, this is how it goes.
26:11Remember?
26:12Remember?
26:12Remember, there was progress.
26:15And we were all hoping that he would just miraculously kick out at some point.
26:25And it would all come back to him and he would be Terry Gordy again.
26:28During the last year of Smoky Mountain Wrestling, we heard that he had started wrestling little independent shows.
26:37And I said, if Terry is anywhere back and anywhere near what he needs to be, my God, if we could get him up here, that'd be great.
26:46So I made the arrangements to have him come in.
26:49And I have added another member to Cornette's Militia!
26:55Terry Gordy.
26:56Everybody in the locker room in Smoky Mountain had known him for years and liked him and was wanting to help.
27:02But he couldn't do a promo anymore.
27:06And I'm coming to show you, boy, that I'm going to take that title and I'm going to take it.
27:12And there ain't nothing you or your old lady can do about it.
27:15And we kept thinking, it'll come back to him or he's taking steps.
27:21But he'd just walk up to you.
27:23And he'd just stand there.
27:24Then you'd look, oh, oh, Terry, do you need something?
27:27Yeah, uh, Jim, I was just wondering if you'd like me to do the powerbomb.
27:35Yes, Terry, if you'd like to, please.
27:38And there is Gordy, sets him up for that powerbomb.
27:41Because he had been such a great wrestler and he could still do these moves.
27:48And it was the same frame.
27:51But there wasn't any life in it.
27:55It was going through the motions.
27:58But the face, the expression, the intent, everything that makes you a personality, it just was gone.
28:06Because he wasn't there anymore.
28:10That was gone.
28:12Despite a challenging rehabilitation, Terry stages a comeback culminating in a legendary match against Cactus Jack at IWA's now infamous King of the Deathmatch tournament.
28:23You've become the King of the Deathmatch by kicking out of all the moves.
28:28Terry and I are going to face in the first round of what was known at the time as the Kawasaki Dream Match tournament.
28:36It's gone down in lore as being the King of the Deathmatch tournament.
28:39Three, two, one.
28:42One of the holes in his game since the accident on the plane was the punches were no longer there.
28:51And out of concern for his reputation, I said, Terry, I said, you're a legend here.
28:56I said, you've got to really bring those punches.
29:00To his credit, I didn't have to tell him that more than once.
29:03I've read letters that said Terry Gordy was the King of the Deathmatch.
29:10And all that happened after the accident.
29:13So I can only imagine full Terry Gordy having a deathmatch.
29:21We did pretty good.
29:24And it resulted in what may have been the greatest post-match interview of Terry's career.
29:31Shit.
29:31I felt like maybe we pushed the hands of time back just a little bit.
29:45But it was not meant to be.
29:53Despite an impressive performance at King of the Deathmatch,
29:56it's clear that Terry Gordy's overdose has changed him.
29:59I think that he continued to wrestle after the accident is because that's all he knew.
30:07That's all he ever did.
30:09He wasn't a cashier for a grocery store and then started wrestling.
30:13Like, he wrestled.
30:14There were a lot of people rooting for my dad.
30:18Terry Bam Bam Gordy, who has been pronounced critically dead twice, is making a comeback!
30:26He could work through a match.
30:28It just wasn't the same.
30:30I'm sure that was the hope that maybe if they just kept at it that he would eventually come to it.
30:38But it just, it was never there.
30:41You can see it even in pictures.
30:43In his eyes, he was full of life.
30:45And then you look at pictures after the coma and he looks like a deer in headlights.
30:51Terry Gordy, probably one of the greatest tag team wrestlers of all time and of course a legendary heel
30:56and the member of the Fabulous Freebird group.
30:58Probably the greatest heel trio in the business.
31:00In 1998, Terry agrees to film an interview out of character.
31:05And for the first time, fans at home are able to see for themselves the change in his cognitive capabilities.
31:12I've seen parts of the shoot interview, the emotions when I first saw that.
31:18I was enraged, a little embarrassed.
31:24Do you have any good road stories?
31:27Uh, yeah man, there's a bunch in the area.
31:32What are some of that stick out in your mind?
31:33Seeing your dad like that, he couldn't remember a lot of stuff from the past.
31:43Uh, the coma took a lot of his memories away.
31:46But in that, they're just hounding him for all these questions and...
31:50as his daughter, you just want them to leave him alone.
31:54Now why was your stay, uh, so short in WCW?
31:58Was it Japan? You wanted to go back to Japan maybe?
32:00Oh yeah, yeah, I think so.
32:02As Terry attempts to get back into the spotlight,
32:09his long-time friend, Freebird Michael Hayes, convinces the WWF to add Terry to their roster.
32:18Vince put him under a hood as the executioner.
32:21Of course, when I was a kid, I'm like, oh, why would they do that?
32:25And really, it was to protect him, and I'm glad they did.
32:28It was a good respect move on the part of WWE.
32:33They didn't want to destroy Terry Gordy by putting him on TV as Terry Gordy and him not being Terry Gordy.
32:47Michael Hayes was able to get him in with Terry as a menacing, foreboding executioner.
32:53With me and Paul Bearer, we became kind of like a faction.
32:57As soon as mankind is buried alive, the Undertaker, his hand will be raised by the official.
33:05Then the executioner came, a friend in need, a friend in deed.
33:09Coming.
33:10Oh, man!
33:14Part of what made Terry's character so intriguing is that he was like a man-child.
33:19He breaks in at age 14 years old.
33:22He is a child among men, but at the same time, he's a man among men.
33:27When he gets to WWE, there's still the ways of a child.
33:32And that's not the way to succeed in a main event with the Undertaker.
33:37Off the rope, scoops him up.
33:39What's he gonna do with him?
33:40Slams him down.
33:41It was pretty sad, man.
33:42Pretty sad to watch.
33:43My Uncle Terry, he was once at his prime.
33:48And from doing that to, you know, not hitting on all cylinders, you know, it was pretty sad.
33:55And I'm sure all the people that looked up to him and that he helped along the way in his career were just, I don't know how else to describe it, but heartbreaking.
34:04Just looking at someone that is like a superhero to you and just seeing, I don't want to say helpless, but he wasn't the same person.
34:16An Undertaker had to say, it won't work.
34:19And the executor has been executed.
34:22Everybody loved him, but, you know, he wasn't there anymore.
34:27It's also a bit sad to overhear a conversation he had with a woman on an airplane where she goes to take some medication and he goes, got any extraes?
34:42She gave him a couple pills.
34:44So he was at a point where he was taking anything, regardless of whether he knew what it was.
34:53We would be worried because he would go from being completely coherent to obviously under the influence of something seemingly within minutes.
35:03And so he had reached a pretty dangerous point.
35:12It's hard for me to say because I looked up to him and I will always appreciate the kindness he showed me when he was on top of the world and I was breaking in.
35:24But, you know, we've got to be adults out there on the road.
35:29We look out for each other, but you also have to look out for yourself.
35:33We would have to, on a few occasions, try to track him down when he was not in his hotel room.
35:40I think it was about the third time that Paul Bearer and I were searching the roads and making drives and calling his name.
35:50We realized that this, this was not going to be a long-term team.
36:03When Terry's short-lived stint in the WWF comes to an end, he finds himself back on the indie circuit.
36:10It's hard to grasp as a kid what that was to see the downfall of him being on top to, to doing little independent shows around Tennessee and Georgia.
36:23I was at those indie shows.
36:25As a kid, it was fun, but looking back at that, um, it's really sad.
36:33I think the last time I saw Terry was at an independent wrestling show.
36:38During intermission, Terry's daughter was taking Polaroids of Terry and the fans in the ring.
36:45And there were only about two people who made that trip into the ring.
36:50Seeing literal minutes go by with no one on that line, no one getting into the ring, just struck me as being extraordinarily sad.
37:01And I'm over in a different part of the building at a table and I'm signing autographs feeling guilty, saying they should be on that line.
37:09That's the line they should be.
37:11There's the real superstar.
37:14There was part of me that wanted to get out there in the ring, grab that microphone and start yelling at people, trying to knock some sense into them.
37:25Don't you understand, this is a legend.
37:27He's here in your midst and you can see him.
37:29You can get a photo taken with him.
37:31And, uh, times had changed.
37:35As his wrestling career winds down, Terry redirects his focus and embraces what matters to him most.
37:46During this time, he was home.
37:51I got to see my dad more than I had ever seen him in my entire life.
38:01I look back on that and as rough of a time as that was for him and our family, it was the time of my life where I got to know my dad and become really great friends with him.
38:22We would see each other every single weekend.
38:25I'd go pick him up.
38:27I'd take him to the gym.
38:29We'd work out.
38:30I'd take him home.
38:32It was probably the best years of my life getting to hang out with my dad and really getting to talk to him and getting to know the person that he really was.
38:43I'm really thankful for that time that he wasn't on the road.
38:49That he was at home.
38:51Because, yeah, we became best friends.
38:54We really did.
38:55Do you have anything you want to say to your fans out there that are watching this video?
38:59Oh, yeah, I'm just, uh, yeah, I'm really, really sorry, you know, that, uh,
39:04I'm sorry about going to Japan, you know, and the whole den and stuff, you know.
39:19He was actually doing a show and he asked me to go do the show with him.
39:26And, uh, we were actually going to tag that night and I couldn't go.
39:37Next day, I get a call from my cousin, Richard, and his exact words were, Ray, get down on your knees and start praying because your dad is on this mountain and he stopped breathing.
39:55After wrestling an indie match the previous night, Terry is found unresponsive at his home in Saudi Daisy, Tennessee.
40:15I got in a car as soon as I could and traveled to his home.
40:20I was there before emergency services.
40:23It was one of the boys that stayed with Terry the night before.
40:26He was doing the CPR.
40:27And while he was doing chest compressions, I was, I still hate knowing this, but Terry was already gone.
40:34And I was trying to bring him back by, you know, slapping him in the face because I remember Doc telling me that's what he did to bring him back.
40:41And I thought, you know, maybe this is one last thing I can resort to, to, you know, bring Terry back.
40:50There was a police officer standing in front of the door, guarding the door and wouldn't let anybody in.
40:57I put my hands on the police officer and told him he was going to let me in that door.
41:01And that's when Richard grabbed me and told me that he was gone.
41:06My mom knew that there was an emergency and they said to get to my granny's quickly.
41:11And I just hear my mom scream, no.
41:16She had to tell us that he had passed.
41:20On July 16th, 2001, Terry Gordy dies of congestive heart failure caused by a blood clot.
41:29He is only 40 years old.
41:34Of all the stuff that my dad did and the lifestyle that he led and all the partying that he did,
41:43it's amazing that it wasn't an OD.
41:47It wasn't anything like that.
41:50Maybe his legacy is you can't push yourself too hard.
41:53You can't take shit you're not supposed to take.
41:55You can't do shit you're not supposed to do over and over on a regular basis.
42:00Whoa, that's cold.
42:03If you sat Terry down, if he was here right now and said,
42:05Hey, Terry, you think maybe if we tell this story,
42:08it'll make some of the other guys stay away from it?
42:11He probably would say, Yeah, go ahead and tell it.
42:13He wouldn't be worried about whether he looked good or not,
42:16but if he could help somebody else.
42:19You know, it's just such a tragedy.
42:22I mean, the wrestling lost not only one of the best workers ever,
42:27but he was a good guy.
42:30Why did Terry Gordy touch so many people's lives?
42:32Well, with the wrestling fans, it was easy because he was great.
42:35He was great at what he did. He was exciting to watch.
42:39If you like wrestling, he did it better than almost anybody else in it.
42:42I'm not claiming to be the best wrestler in the world.
42:47But you know something, world champion, this right here does button.
42:54Terry Gordy is a surprise.
42:56He will never be forgotten.
42:58He contributed so much to this business, more than people realize.
43:05Already putting on a clinic here.
43:06What I've gotten most out of wrestling is how much people just really love my dad.
43:19So if I walk away with just that, it's been a very healing experience.
43:25But his influence can be seen almost every week on television.
43:31Whether it's the hyper-realistic but theatrically enjoyable punches he threw.
43:37Or somebody winding up a clothesline before throwing it hard.
43:42Any time you see any variation of a powerbomb,
43:46that's Terry Gordy.
43:49Don't it feel good sitting up here?
43:51I mean up at top.
43:53Looking down at everything.
43:55Don't it feel good?
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