Dorrance Earnest Funk (February 3, 1941 – August 4, 2026), known professionally as Dory Funk Jr., was an American professional wrestler and wrestling trainer. The son of Dory Funk (Dorrance Wilhelm Funk) and brother of Terry Funk, he was the promoter of the Amarillo, Texas-based Western States Sports promotion. Funk held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship once. He is the second-longest reigning NWA World Heavyweight Champion of all time after Lou Thesz. He held the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship once and the CWA World Heavyweight Championship once. He is a 2009 WWE Hall of Fame inductee. He worked for All Japan Pro Wrestling as the Pacific Wrestling Federation (PWF) chairman and ran the Funking Conservatory, a professional wrestling school.
