According to storyline, Terry Funk's teammate at the time, Cactus Jack was fed-up with Stone Cold Steve Austin getting all the spotlight so he told the fans that they would never see him again and "quit". Soon after this Mick Foley would appear as his Dude Love persona once again to take on Dude Love's former partner, Stone Cold Steve Austin at Unforgiven.
So, Terry Funk - formerly billed as "Chainsaw Charlie" with pantyhose on his face around this time - introduced us to his new partner, a wrestler "we all knew" who was also quite "Funk"-y.
His mystery partner turned out to be Too Cold Scorpio, a former wrestler of Extreme Championship Wrestling with Terry Funk. And while Too Cold Scorpio wasn't a protege of Funk's in ECW, Scorpio, like Funk, was not showing his true colors in WWF as he was billed as "Flash Funk", a held-back zoot suit-wearing dance machine right up until this moment.
Another feature of this match includes Funk and Scorpio's opponents, The Quebecers. The Quebecers at this time were mostly used as a preliminary tag team and no longer wore their mountie suits. Also, Pierre still looked like a pirate as he did when he was "Jean-Pierre Lafitte"; eye-patch and all!
The match ends with Too Cold Scorpio giving a perfect 450 splash to Pierre.
Soon after this, Terry Funk took on his former tag team partner, Mick Foley (as himself) in a no holds barred - falls count anywhere match to see if Foley had what it takes to get another shot at Austin's title, all the while Too Cold Scorpio went on to join the J.O.B. Squad and phase out of the company.
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