Name: Why Its Harder to Be a Heel in Wrestling (with Kevin Von Erich)
Uploaded: 2025-04-21T14:45:13.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Its Harder to Be a Heel in Wrestling (with Kevin Von Erich)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-21. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Its Harder to Be a Heel in Wrestling (with Kevin Von Erich)' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-21. Transcript available.

It's interesting that you refer to other wrestlers as like a team or you refer
to it as your team or something.
Is that how you guys thought of y'all's wrestling organization as a team?
Yeah, it was a family business and it was like a team.
It was like, you know, we never were jealous of each other, you know, as to the
real truth to it is, you know,
when my dad and I flipped, when Kerry and me flipped the coin for the world
title,
well, the truth to it was that I had a family and I'm married and I have
children, you know,
and Kerry wanted to be the world champion.
But to be the world champion is a special kind of wrestler to do that and not a
Kerry.
You need somebody that makes the other guy look good.
That's really what it's all about, you know, and Dave could have done that.
And I think Kerry may have, I couldn't have done it, though.
I've been a baby face my whole life, you know, I kiss the babies and I, you
know, do all that stuff.
But the real difficult work in wrestling, the hard stuff is to be a heel.
That's the creative stuff, you know.
And for our listeners that don't know what a heel is.
Well, a heel's the heavy, the bad guy, you know, the Bruiser Brodies and the
Kamalas and the King Kong Bundys, you know.
Why is that the tougher spot to be?
Well, because you're limited for a good guy what you can do, you know.
But a bad guy can do anything and he better do it, too, because it's all about,
you know, it's like you're slaying a dragon.
You know, there's the knight in shining armor and there's the big, ugly dragon.
You know, when I first went out to Atlanta on WTBS out there, I was 19 years
old and, you know, handsome kid, you know, and the hero.
And here comes the big monster to wrestle me.
It's this Terry Gordy.
Yeah, and I found out talking to him, he was 16.
Oh, my God.
He was a teenager all that time.
What the hell?
He is.
Y'all are being damn sex trafficked, you know.
That's crazy, dude.
Yeah.
That's hilarious.
You're both scared of each other.
You're both having to even finish schoolwork.
Well, that's it, you know.
Bring that picture of him up.
I'm sorry to interrupt you, Kevin.
Bring that picture of him up.
Look at that fella, dude.
Yeah.
That's wild, huh?
Yeah, he was something else.
You would have loved him.
Yeah.
I'm telling you, Michael Hayes is a, he's a character, Buddy Calvert, but that
guy was 100% gold inside.
Oh.
He would fight to the death, but he had a heart for little kids and for girls,
and he was just nice.
He was such a good guy, man, but he was a battleship, too.
What, did he pass away?
Yeah, yeah.
What happened to him?
Oh, shoot.
He was, uh, he overdid it on the plane.
He OD'd on a plane, and they had to restart him.
Shoot.
And then something, I believe that his blood will stay away from his brain too
long, and it starved his brain.
I mean, he had some damage.
When he came out of that, then I talked to him, and he just, Kev, I hurt myself,
brother.
I said, no, Terry, you're fine.
He goes, no, I'm not fine, Kev.
See, he could talk to me, but he was real slow.
He didn't have any of this hand-to-eye kind of coordination.
So, it cost him something, huh?
Dang.
But then, I'd always heard that he fell off the jetway getting on a plane one
time, too.
I think he did.
He fell off the jetway drunk, landed on his head, and got back up and got on
the plane and made the show.
So, I thought that was why he was like that, but he said, no, something else,
you know, yeah.
So many guys went through so much, man.
Terry Funk, he's still alive, I believe, isn't he?
Man, I hope so, but I hadn't heard the bad news if he had.
Oh, no, he says he passed away in August.
I love that guy, and Dory, too, so I hope that I.
Terry Funk was, man, he was incredible to watch, wasn't he?
He sure was.
He taught me so much, too.
Me, my brother Dave and I, we're 19, 18 years old, and we're the bad guys.
And Amarillo wrestling Dory and Terry, who are the great, good guys.
You know, they loved them.
And Dory Funk, as well?
And Dory, they're brothers.
And their dad was Dory Funk, Sr.
Okay.
A super badass.
Well, these two were in the ring, and Dave and I, we're just learning, you know,
we're just learning about this.
Dave, pretty good heel, but.
I didn't know what to do, really.
And so we're in the ring, and Dory's telling us everything.
He goes, spit on me, kid.
I said, sir?
He said, spit on me.
So, I spit on him.
And so Dave unloads on Terry, too.
And the crowd went wild.
They hated our guts.
So they beat us, you know, and I get on the mic, and I say, you're in trouble
now.
I'm going to get my daddy.
And so then, oh, they booed me good, you know.
And so I love being a heel, but I just wasn't good at, like, you know, like
Dave was.
You know, Irving Curry.
So that was the real, so that was something that was tough to be a heel.
Yeah, it's a lot harder.
You have to have some creativity about it, you know.
Yeah.
And then you've got to have a personality that you're projecting.
It's got to come from in here, you know.
Right.
And you can't get upset if people don't like you, because you're almost the guy
that people don't like.
Well, Dave and I come back from the ring in Florida one time, and this cow, and
Dave's a bad guy, and so I'm a heel, too.
And so this guy steps up.
You remember people would dip skull, and they'd spit in those cups?
So we sloshed that stuff on us, you know.
And I thought, well, you know, we've been begging them to hate our guts.
Finally, we're there.
And I look, and Dave's running up in the bleachers after the guy.
Kicked his ass up.
Kicked his pants and all.
But so I said, Dave, we worked our butts off to make him hate us.
He goes, Dave was just, you know, you couldn't talk to him.
He was so mad, you know.