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00:31He was 300 pounds, and when he picked you upside down and dropped you on your head, you were pretty
00:37much done.
00:38Cordy's career skyrocketed as part of the fabulous Freebirds, a tag team trio that revolutionized the business with their in
00:46-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.
01:10Terry 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.
01:23Until 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.
01:48You guys, first match, five minutes.
01:51My name gets me noticed.
01:53Like, oh, another second gen, Terry Gordy's daughter.
01:56Miranda Gordy!
02:02I am Miranda Gordy, and Terry Bam Bam Gordy is my father.
02:09They 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.
02:24Those are some big shoes to fill.
02:28Oh, the boot comes off. Gordy smashing on Brocer 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
02:53up to it.
02:54Terry Gordy is fixing the best move.
02:56He 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.
03:07He never seen himself doing anything else.
03:11Terry Gordy!
03:16Born 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
03:29Fs.
03:30Those days he was absent, he was on the road.
03:33This picture, yeah, that is a very young Terry Gordy.
03:42Because 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.
03:56I first met Terry, he was 16 years old, he was already a professional wrestler, and had been for a
04:00couple 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.
04:10He 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
04:24legend.
04:25What 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
04:43-around performer.
04:44There was almost nobody that could touch him.
04:47Brother, get your sister, get your daddy, get them all around the TV.
04:51Because you fix now I witness something.
04:53When Terry was in Mississippi, he met a guy named Michael Hayes.
04:58There it is, Michael Hayes.
04:59Michael 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,
05:12because 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
05:27still 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.
05:45There's always a big conflict.
05:47He would talk himself right into the corner.
05:49But then behind his back, you've got Terry Gordy.
05:54And time's Gordy!
05:56As a team, they were just unmatched.
06:01They just were like soulmates as far as friends go.
06:06Michael 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 call ourselves the Freebirds?
06:20Monday night in Memphis, at the Mid-South Coliseum, I was a photographer at ringside, and all of a sudden,
06:27over 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
06:45match the beat of Freebird.
06:48There you hear the music in the family 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
07:00walked to the ring, and they got introduced.
07:01There was no music.
07:04And I said, you know, I think this might catch on.
07:08The Freebirds soon join Mid-South Wrestling, where promoter Bill Watts pairs them up with Buddy Roberts, converting the tag
07:15team into a trio.
07:17You got the Freebirds' attention, and that just might be your downfall.
07:22Buddy was the veteran, Michael was the promo, Terry was the physical enforcer.
07:27Watch that hand, bite the dust!
07:30And 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.
07:44They 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 moonwalk.
08:08Entonces, tuvieron la natural 3-on-3 rivalidad con los Von Erich Boys en Dallas.
08:15Deep en el corazón de Texas, el campeonato de campeonato mundial es dominado por los tres
08:20eldest hijos de promotor Fritz Von Erich, David, Carey, y Kevin.
08:25Los Von Erich Boys eran muy popular, pero los Von Erich Boys nunca han sido testados.
08:31Nos queríamos badasses, y eso es lo que los Freebirds eran.
08:35El backbreaker across the knee de Michael Hayes.
08:38Soy Kevin Von Erich, y por años he battó los Freebirds.
08:43Ellos eran legítima, rúfos, y no tenía ninguna apóloga para nadie.
08:49Oh, que chico hit la deck.
08:51Pero teníamos un objetivo común.
08:53Queríamos poner el mejor partido de la carrera que podamos en ese ring,
08:57y así fue simplemente un marido en el cielo.
08:59Aquí viene Kevin.
09:02¡Gracias!
09:03Wrestling 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.
09:27And 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,
09:54you've got everybody in the world thinking this is a war between Texas and Georgia,
09:57and this is not.
09:58This is a war between decency and filth.
10:00There was so much love for the Von Erichs, but there was total hate for Michael, Terry, and Buddy.
10:06Go home, Freelance! Go home, Freelance!
10:09They could get a ton of heat because of the way they acted, the things they said, the things they
10:14did.
10:15What about your friend right here, boy? 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.
10:26Who didn't love the Von Erichs?
10:31Some 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.
10:42So 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
11:02Erichs.
11:02I'm going to take it!
11:04Get him out!
11:07I want Terry Gordian.
11:09I 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.
11:29What 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
11:36birds.
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 that 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.
12:23He beat up a cop car with his hands cuffed behind his back.
12:32It was like you had taken a hammer about this big around and hit the hood of the car
12:38and knocked dents in it where he had headbutted it.
12:42He was kind of a real, spoiled kid.
12:45You know, that's Terry.
12:45He did stuff like that.
12:47Terry Gordy was not going to back up from anybody, nor was there anybody walking that was really going to
12:52make him back up.
12:54Do you think there was a point where, like, it got a little bit out of control as far as,
12:58like, the partying,
12:58or 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
13:06beginning.
13:08You know, having people throw different things at you, like, here, take a shot, y'all are awesome,
13:13or here, you know, take this for your pain so you can sleep, or here, take this so you can
13:19stay up and drive eight hours to the next show.
13:21I don't know exactly when, um, the evolution happened from smoking marijuana, drinking booze, to more of a, um, a
13:33pill problem.
13:41Despite their wild reputation, in 1984, Terry Gordy and the fabulous Freebirds catch the attention of Vince McMahon
13:49and 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, and 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.
14:28It's in Japan.
14:31My dad got the opportunity to go work in Japan.
14:34The Japanese wrestling is very different from what it is over here.
14:39When 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.
14:53The monster American, the Abdullah the Butchers, or the Bruiser Brodies, or the Stan Hansons, or Terry Gordy.
15:01These giant guys that were just crazy and beat up everybody in their path, they became the darlings of the
15:09Japanese wrestling fan.
15:10And that's the kind of atmosphere that Terry could flourish in.
15:16He 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.
15:36It takes a big toll physically with the injuries.
15:41Putting your body through that, every bump is like a mild car wreck.
15:45I knew that he was having knee problems.
15:49One of my big concerns was my dad wasn't going to blow out his knees.
15:56He 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
16:05level 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!
16:18Right?
16:19This huge 6'5 man just, you know, jazzercise, whatever Richard Simmons did.
16:26Come on, Terry, you got this.
16:28Yeah.
16:29Terry was like 300, 320, and then he pared down to like maybe 265, something like that.
16:36And you see the more athletic built up, Terry Gordy.
16:39You can absolutely blame that on Richard Simmons.
16:43Now, leaner and more powerful and working in a physical style that plays to his strengths, Terry's performance in the
16:50ring reaches new heights.
16:52Terry Gordy versus Misawa.
16:54Oh.
16:55June 1st, 1991.
16:56Yeah.
16:57In my opinion, that's one of the top five matches of all time.
17:01The Japanese crowd, traditionally, they will ooo and aah.
17:06This match, they tore the house now.
17:13Hi-ya!
17:15Terry 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
17:30do.
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.
17:45Terry 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.
18:13In Japan, Terry starts working with Dr. Death's Steve Williams in a tag team known for their brutality, the Miracle
18:22Violence Connection.
18:23Double close line!
18:24If the aliens landed tomorrow, and you had to pick two human beings to represent Earth in a fight to
18:33the death,
18:36pick 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.
19:02So to keep the Free Bird thing going, they needed to replace Terry when he was gone.
19:08And 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
19:29be home.
19:31Miranda, smile!
19:32Life 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.
20:02He 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
20:21his wife.
20:22Being on the road 360 days a year, that wears on you.
20:27You live in hotels, airplanes, rental cars.
20:33It's just constant go.
20:36So your mind never really has time to reset, to relax, to say, okay, where am I at in this
20:43life?
20:44A lot of times in those days, especially the well-seasoned travelers to Japan,
20:50they would take whatever pills that they took so they could sleep.
20:56And 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.
21:06When you're expected to be at your best on a nightly basis, when you feel far from your best, when
21:11you're worn down.
21:13And 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, but it was halcyon.
21:36We went out that night and he just dropped it and I didn't CPR 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
21:50that.
21:50I tried to straighten him up from there.
21:52But 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
22:02stop.
22:03And I really believe that during that time, my dad was at that point.
22:09It's a tough business, you know, it's a heartless business.
22:15Set to return to Japan, Terry boards a flight that will change his life forever.
22:21Terry's accumulated so many pills that I'm having to push him with a wheelchair.
22:29He's out, you know, he's out.
22:31So 30 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.
22:49Dr. Death's Steve Williams notices Terry has stopped breathing.
22:53He's dying on me.
22:55I mean, he's turned blue and he's sucking barely any air and like he was about to swallow his tongue.
23:02And I used to be able to knock him back loose if I slapped him a couple of times in
23:08the face or kick him out of it.
23:09You know, just like if you put somebody asleep, you hit him in the back and he'll knock him back
23:13out of it.
23:15Well, I did it and he wouldn't come back alive.
23:20So right then I knew he was dying.
23:24Stewardess got up, man.
23:25They was all freaking out.
23:28No, I was giving him CPR to keep him alive, to keep that heart going.
23:34As soon as we landed, the ambulance was right there.
23:38I 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,
23:51we were able to communicate about Terry's condition.
23:55The biggest fear that I might be losing my uncle Terry, you know, in there.
24:01He was in a coma for a couple of days.
24:05I 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'm like, yeah, I'm here.
24:17I'm here, I'm here.
24:20Eventually, 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.
24:33And he 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.
24:44And 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.
24:53And 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.
25:16There 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.
25:40He wasn't the same person anymore.
25:43Whatever happened, oxygen to the brain, he was unconscious too long.
25:47Whatever all that medical hoo-hah is, it erased something in his brain.
25:53There's this local promoter.
25:55He was kind enough to give us the key.
25:58And we were training within a couple of weeks of me coming back from that tour.
26:04Ironic, you know, somebody's training me.
26:07Here I am.
26:08I'm teaching my uncle.
26:09You know, this is how it goes.
26:11Remember?
26:11Remember?
26:13There was progress.
26:16And we were all hoping that he would just miraculously kick out at some point.
26:25And it would all come back to him.
26:27And he would be Terry Gordy again.
26:31During the last year of Smoky Mountain Wrestling, we heard that he had started wrestling little independent shows.
26:36And I said, if Terry is anywhere back and anywhere near what he needs to be, my God, if we
26:44could get him up here, that'd be great.
26:46So I made the arrangements to have him come in.
26:56Everybody in the locker room in Smoky Mountain had known him for years and liked him and was wanting to
27:01help.
27:01But there was, 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, but 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, Jim, I was just wondering if you'd like me to do the powerbomb.
27:35Yes, Terry, if you'd like to, please.
27:37And 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, but there wasn't any life in it.
27:55It was going through the motions, but the face, the expression, the intent, everything that makes you a personality, it
28:05just was gone.
28:07Because 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
28:21King 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
28:33Kawasaki Dream Match tournament.
28:35It's gone down in lore as being the King of the Deathmatch tournament.
28:39Three, two, one.
28:44One 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.
29:05I've read letters that said Terry Gordy was the King of the Deathmatch.
29:11And all that happened after the accident.
29:13So I can only imagine full Terry Gordy having a Deathmatch.
29:22We did pretty good.
29:24And it resulted in what may have been the greatest post-match interview of Terry's career.
29:31Shit.
29:37I 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, it's clear that Terry Gordy's overdose has changed him.
30:00I 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!
30:25He could work through a match.
30:28It just wasn't the same.
30:31I'm sure that was the hope that maybe if they just kept at it that he would eventually come to
30:38it, but it just, it was never there.
30:41You can see it even in pictures, in his eyes, he was full of life, and then you look at
30:47pictures after the coma, and he looks like a deer in headlights.
30:52Terry Gordy, probably one of the greatest tag team wrestlers of all time, and of course, a legendary heel and
30:57the member of the Fabulous Freebird group.
30:58Probably the greatest heel trio in the business.
31:01In 1998, Terry agrees to film an interview out of character, and for the first time, fans at home are
31:08able 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?
31:27Yeah, man, there's a bunch in there.
31:32What are some of that stick out in your mind?
31:39Seeing your dad like that, he couldn't remember a lot of stuff from the past.
31:44The coma took a lot of his memories away.
31:46But in that, they're just hounding him for all these questions, and as his daughter, you just want them to
31:53leave him alone.
31:54Now, why was your stay so short in WCW?
31:59Was it Japan? You wanted to go back to Japan, maybe?
32:01Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think so.
32:06As Terry attempts to get back into the spotlight, his longtime friend, Freebird, Michael Hayes, convinces the WWF to add
32:14Terry to their roster.
32:19Vince put him under a hood as the executioner.
32:22Of course, when I was a kid, I'm like, oh, why would they do that?
32:26And really, it was to protect him, and I'm glad they did.
32:29It was a good respect move on the part of WWE.
32:34They didn't want to destroy Terry Gordy by putting him on TV as Terry Gordy and him not being Terry
32:47Gordy.
32:47Michael Hayes was able to get him in with Terry as a menacing, foreboding executioner.
32:54With me and Paul Bearer, we became kind of like a faction.
32:58As soon as mankind is buried alive, the Undertaker.
33:03His hand will be raised by the official.
33:06Then the executioner came, friend in need, a friend in deed.
33:10Coming.
33:11Oh, man!
33:14Part of what made Terry's character so intriguing is that he was like a man-child.
33:20He breaks in at age 14 years old.
33:23He is a child among men, but at the same time, he's a man among men.
33:28When he gets to WWE, there's still the ways of a child, and that's not the way to succeed in
33:36a main event with the Undertaker.
33:38Off the rope, scoops him up.
33:40What's he going to do with him?
33:41Slams him down.
33:42It was pretty sad, man.
33:43Pretty sad to watch.
33:45My Uncle Terry, he was once at his prime.
33:49And from doing that to not hitting on all cylinders, it was pretty sad.
33:56And I'm sure all the people that looked up to him and that he helped along the way in his
34:00career were just, I don't know how else to describe it, but heartbreaking.
34:05Just looking at someone that is like a superhero to you and just seeing, I don't want to say helpless,
34:13but he wasn't the same person.
34:16An Undertaker had to say, it won't work.
34:20And the executioner has been executed.
34:24Everybody loved him, but, you know, he wasn't there anymore.
34:28It's also a bit sad to overhear a conversation he had with a woman on an airplane where she goes
34:37to take some medication.
34:38And he goes, got any extraes?
34:43She gave him a couple pills.
34:45So he was at a point where he was taking anything, regardless of whether he knew what it was.
34:54We would be worried because he would go from being completely coherent to obviously under the influence of something seemingly
35:01within minutes.
35:05And 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
35:19showed me when he was on top of the world and I was breaking in.
35:25But, 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.
35:35We would have to, on a few occasions, try to track him down when he was not in his hotel
35:40room.
35:41I think it was about the third time that Paul Bearer and I were searching the roads and making drives
35:48and calling his name.
36:04When 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
36:18doing little independent shows around Tennessee and Georgia.
36:23I was at those indie shows.
36:26As a kid, it was fun, but looking back at that, it's really sad.
36:33I think the last time I saw Terry was at an independent wrestling show.
36:39During intermission, Terry's daughter was taking Polaroids of Terry and the fans in the ring.
36:47And there were only about two people who made that trip into the ring.
36:52Seeing literal minutes go by with no one on that line, no one getting into the ring, just struck me
36:59as being extraordinarily sad.
37:02And I'm over in a different part of the building at a table, and I'm signing autographs, feeling guilty, saying
37:08they should be on that line.
37:10That's the line they should be.
37:12There's the real superstar.
37:15There was part of me that wanted to get out there in the ring, grab that microphone, and start yelling
37:22at people, trying to knock some sense into them.
37:25Don't you understand, this is a legend.
37:28He's here in your midst, and you can see him.
37:30You can get a photo taken with him.
37:33And times had changed.
37:38As his wrestling career winds down, Terry redirects his focus and embraces what matters to him most.
37:47During this time, he was home.
37:52I got to see my dad more than I had ever seen him in my entire life.
38:02I look back on that, and as rough of a time as that was for him and our family, it
38:13was the time of my life where I got to know my dad and become really great friends with him.
38:23We would see each other every single weekend.
38:26I'd go pick him up, I'd take him to the gym, we'd work out, I'd take him home.
38:34It was probably the best years of my life, getting to hang out with my dad and really getting to
38:40talk to him and getting to know the person that he really was.
38:44I'm really thankful for that time that he wasn't on the road, that he was at home, because, yeah, we
38:54became best friends.
38:55We really did.
38:57Do you have anything you want to say to your fans out there that are watching this video?
39:00I'm just, yeah, I'm really, really sorry, you know, that, uh, heck, I don't know.
39:12Sorry about going to Japan, you know, and Oden and stuff, you know.
39:19He was actually doing a show, and he asked me to go do the show with him, and we were
39:29actually going to tag that night, and I couldn't go.
39:36So, next day, I get a call from my cousin Richard, and his exact words were,
39:47Ray, get down on your knees and start praying, because your dad is on this mountain, and he stopped breathing.
40:08After wrestling an indie match the previous night, Terry is found unresponsive at his home in Saudi Daisy, Tennessee.
40:15I got in the car as soon as I could and traveled to his home.
40:21I was there before emergency services.
40:24It's one of the boys that stayed with Terry the night before.
40:27He was doing the CPR, and while he was doing chest compressions, I was, I still hate knowing this, but
40:34Terry was already gone,
40:35and I was trying to bring him back by, you know, slapping him in the face, because I remember Doc
40:40telling me that's what he did to bring him back,
40:42and I thought, you know, maybe this is one last thing I can resort to, to, you know, bring Terry
40:49back.
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,
41:12and I just hear my mom scream, no.
41:17She had to tell us that he had passed.
41:21On July 16, 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
41:43did,
41:44it'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.
41:54You can't take shit you're not supposed to take.
41:56You can't do shit you're not supposed to do over and over on a regular basis.
42:01Whoa, that's cold.
42:03If you sat Terry down, if he was here right now, and said,
42:06Hey, Terry, you think maybe if we tell this story, it'll make some of the other guys stay away from
42:11it?
42:12He probably would say, Yeah, go ahead and tell it.
42:14He wouldn't be worried about whether he looked good or not, but if he could help somebody else.
42:20You 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?
42:33Well, with the wrestling fans, it was easy, because he was great.
42:36He was great at what he did.
42:37He was exciting to watch.
42:40If you like wrestling, he did it better than almost anybody else in it.
42:43I'm not claiming to be the best wrestler in the world.
42:48But you know something, world champion, this right here does.
42:55Terry Gordy is a surprise.
42:58He will never be forgotten.
42:59He contributed so much to this business, more than people realize.
43:06Gordy putting on a clinic here.
43:14What I've gotten most out of wrestling is how much people just really loved my dad.
43:20So if I walk away with just that, it's been a very healing experience.
43:26But his influence can be seen almost every week on television.
43:31Whether it's the hyper-realistic but theatrically enjoyable punches he threw,
43:38or somebody winding up a clothesline before throwing it hard,
43:43any time you see any variation of a powerbomb,
43:48that's Terry Gordy.
43:49Don't it feel good sitting up here?
43:52I mean, up at top, looking down at everything.
43:55Don't it feel good?
43:56Don't it feel good.
43:59Don't it feel good.
44:00Don't it feel good.
44:01Don't it feel good.
44:02Don't it feel good.
44:02Don't it feel good.
44:02Don't it feel good.
44:02Don't it feel good.
44:03Don't it feel good.
44:05Don't it feel good.
44:05Don't it feel good.
44:05Gracias.
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