39 Facts About Terry Gordy

Terry Gordy appeared in Japan with All Japan Pro Wrestling as one-half of The Miracle Violence Connection.

Terry Gordy held many championships throughout the course of his career, including the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship, AJPW World Tag Team Championship, WCW World Tag Team Championship, NWA World Tag Team Championship, UWF Heavyweight Championship and SMW Heavyweight Championship.

Terry Gordy was posthumously inducted into the Wrestling Observer, Professional Wrestling, and WWE Hall of Fame.

Terry Gordy left behind three children: Amber Gordy, Miranda Gordy, and Ray Gordy.

Terry Gordy was a standout high school football and baseball player at Rossville High School, but dropped out of high school following his freshman year.

In early 1979, Terry Gordy began wrestling under his real name and formed the Fabulous Freebirds with Michael Hayes, with Buddy Roberts later added to the group.

One match on the Saturday night WTBS Georgia Championship Wrestling show saw the Freebirds take on the Junkyard Dog and Ted DiBiase; toward the end of the match, Terry Gordy gave DiBiase 4 consecutive piledrivers, which led to DiBiase being taken away in an ambulance.

Michael and Terry Gordy then had a falling out, which led to them feuding against each other.

Terry Gordy's action incited a riot among the fans in attendance.

At one point, Terry Gordy was one half of the WCCW American Tag Team Champions.

Seventeen months later, Terry Gordy made his debut for AJPW in August 1983.

Terry Gordy was immediately paired with Stan Hansen and took part in Terry Funk's first retirement match on August 31,1983.

In 1984, Terry Gordy returned to AJPW with his Fabulous Freebird teammates Michael Hayes and Buddy Roberts.

Two months later, Terry Gordy received a chance to win the PWF Heavyweight title, then held by Riki Choshu, but he lost by disqualification.

Terry Gordy took Bill Irwin as his partner for the 1989 World's Strongest Tag Determination League, but the pairing didn't work, as they placed seventh with six points.

In February 1990, Terry Gordy teamed up with Steve Williams as The Miracle Violence Connection.

Three months later, Terry Gordy became a double champion with five belts, as Terry Gordy defeated Jumbo Tsuruta for the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship.

Terry Gordy rebounded a month later, defeating Hansen to regain the Triple Crown for the second time, but two days later, he and Williams lost the World Tag Team titles to Tsuruta and The Great Kabuki.

Terry Gordy's condition was so grim that AJPW officials were prepared to announce his death.

Terry Gordy returned a month later but never received another shot at the Triple Crown.

Terry Gordy returned to AJPW for a single tour in July 1994 before leaving the company after more than a decade.

In 1986, when the Freebirds were in Universal Wrestling Federation, the former Mid South Wrestling, Terry Gordy became the first person to win the UWF Heavyweight Championship and held it for six months, before losing it via forfeit to the One Man Gang, after an angle the same night in which Terry Gordy was injured in an auto accident by "Dr Death" Steve Williams, whom he feuded with.

In 1989, Terry Gordy helped Hayes reform the Freebirds, with Jimmy Garvin, in the NWA, which became World Championship Wrestling in 1991.

Terry Gordy started working for United States Wrestling Association.

In February 1992, Terry Gordy debuted for Smoky Mountain Wrestling, defeating Tommy Angel, but by the time the match aired, he had left for WCW.

Terry Gordy had worked for the International Wrestling Association of Japan promotion, wrestling deathmatches.

Terry Gordy lost, but went on to team up with Tommy Dreamer and later reunite with "Dr Death" Steve Williams to wrestle The Eliminators.

Terry Gordy wrestled Bam Bam Bigelow at Ultimate Jeopardy in what was billed as the second ever "Battle Of The Bam Bams", which he lost due to outside interference from The Eliminators.

Terry Gordy had a brief run in the WWF as The Executioner in 1996 and 1997, where he teamed up with Mankind, both managed by Paul Bearer, and feuded with The Undertaker.

Terry Gordy made his TV debut at the In Your House pay-per-view Buried Alive on October 20,1996, where he interfered in The Undertaker's Buried Alive match with Mankind, hitting the Undertaker with a shovel and burying him with the help of Mankind and several other wrestlers.

However, at In Your House 12: It's Time on December 15, The Undertaker defeated The Executioner in an Armageddon Rules match, and Terry Gordy left the promotion in January 1997.

On February 21,1998, Terry Gordy teamed with Dan Severn in a losing effort to Doug Gilbert and Dutch Mantel at the Eddie Gilbert Memorial Show for IWA Mid-South.

Terry Gordy would reunite with Hayes as they fought Glen Kulka and JR Smooth to a no contest for Power Pro Wrestling on May 28,1999.

Terry Gordy wrestled his last match, returning to IWA Japan on February 4,2001, with Shoichi Ichimiya, Tomohiro Ishii, Yukihide Ueno, and Yuji Kito, defeating Doug Gilbert, TJ Shinjuku, Ultra Sebun, Takashi Uwano and Keizo Mastuda.

Terry Gordy has two daughters and a son, Ray Terry Gordy, and the latter wrestled for WWE as "Jesse" and "Slam Master J" before his release in 2010.

Terry Gordy's nephew is Richard Aslinger, who competed for All Japan Pro Wrestling as Richard Slinger.

Terry Gordy was known for his "high octane, southern lifestyle" outside of the ring.

Terry Gordy was found dead in his home in Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee on July 16,2001, after suffering a heart attack caused by a blood clot.

Various wrestlers including Fabulous Freebirds cohort Michael Hayes and former tag team partner Stan Hansen praised Terry Gordy for being one of the best workers they ever worked with.