30 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 has been posthumously inducted into the Wrestling Observer, Professional Wrestling, and WWE Hall of Fame.

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.

One match on the Saturday night WTBS Georgia Championship Wrestling show saw the Freebirds take on the Junkyard Dog and Ted DiBiase, where towards 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 a feud against each other.

In 1982, the Freebirds went to World Class Championship Wrestling and had a feud with the Von Erichs, which kicked off when Terry Gordy slammed the cage door on Kerry during his cage match on March 15 at WCCW Star Wars against Ric Flair, where Michael Hayes served as the special guest referee, inciting a riot among fans attending.

Terry Gordy was at one time one half of the WCCW American Tag Team Champions.

Terry Gordy teamed with Stan Hansen beginning in 1983 in All Japan Pro Wrestling.

Terry Gordy later teamed with Steve Williams as The Miracle Violence Connection.

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 to reform the Freebirds, with Jimmy Garvin, in the NWA, which became World Championship Wrestling in 1991.

Terry Gordy returned to action later that year, but never received a shot at the Triple Crown again or possessed the skills he once had.

In 1994, Terry Gordy had a small reunion with Hayes and Garvin as the Freebirds in the Global Wrestling Federation where he and Garvin won the GWF Tag Team Titles.

Terry Gordy started working for United States Wrestling Association.

Terry Gordy returned to USWA in 1995, where he teamed with Tracy Smothers.

In 1995, Terry Gordy worked for Smoky Mountain Wrestling, teaming with Tommy Rich as the Militia.

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

Terry Gordy lost, but went on to team up with Tommy Dreamer and later to 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 Undertaker with a shovel and burying him with the help of Mankind and several other wrestlers.

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 had two daughters and a son, Ray Terry Gordy, who wrestled for WWE as "Jesse" and "Slam Master J" before being released 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 by his girlfriend at 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.