Mick Foley: Difference between revisions

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* [[Alter Ego Acting]]: The "Faces of Foley"

* [[Always Someone Better]]: In ''Have a Nice Day!'', Foley frequently mentions that Marc Mero (now considered a very forgettable wrestler) always managed to have more money and more favor with management for a large part of Foley's career in WCW and the WWF. The situation eventually reversed quite a lot...

* [[Big Eater]]: Has spent many a night on the road at 24-hour fast food joints, however that also meant he wasn't abusing drugs like many other wrestlers, as told in his latest book.

** This caused him to have a frame stable enough to survive the big bumps he has taken.

** And for plain ol' Mick Foley: "Right here! In [city name]!" *goofy grin and thumbs up*

* [[Charm Point]]: His missing teeth, well, for his wife, she was unsettled when he started wearing fake ones for Dude Love.

* [[Cool Mask]]: As Mankind.

* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: Is the main subject of the WWF side of the business in the 1999 documentary ''Beyond The Mat'', chronicling his life in the company from 1997-early 1999, including unseen footage of him in the aftermath of his famous matches with [[The Undertaker]] (guess which one) and [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]] (the I Quit Match at the 1999 Royal Rumble, which caused his wife and kids to cry at ringside and leave due to the viciousness of the match)

** Noted multiple times in ''Have A Nice Day'' how Christina Ricci (or as he refers to her, [[The Addams Family|Wednesday Addams]]) had [[She's All Grown Up|filled out in the chest region.]] Keep in mind Ricci was around 18 when Foley was writing the book.

* [[Determinator]]: Oh yeah.

** For example, in the infamous [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Hell in a Cell match]] at ''King of the Ring '98'', Foley was thrown off of a twenty-foot-tall steel chain link cell and through an announcer table. The fall was so devastating that he sustained a concussion, spinal damage, a dislocated shoulder and internal bleeding. The EMTs squeezed in to put him on a stretcher and wheel him away, but, you see, ''this is the part of the match that was '''planned''''' (well the fall part, not the injuries part). Mick got up off the stretcher and climbed his way back up the cell (''faster than before his fall!'') to resume the match. After some more fighting, Undertaker performed his signature choke-slam... which accidentally sent Foley ''through'' the chain link cell to the plywood ring below, a steel chair following close behind to smash his teeth out of his mouth. (You can see a little white speck in his nose on close-ups; ''that's his tooth''.) Foley was completely knocked out, nearly died, and has no memory of the next few hours...''but he got back up and resumed the match,'' finally ending it after taking two hard falls onto ''frigging thumbtacks''. And ''then,'' simply because he refused to be stretchered out ''twice,'' he got up and walked back up the ramp to a standing ovation.

*** And ''then'' he came out to interfere in the main event, a First Blood match between [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]] and [[Wrestler/Kane|Kane]], because that's how the storyline was written and he wasn't going to let a little thing like ''massive physical trauma and internal bleeding'' keep him from doing his job. (Of course, this was kind of a '''massive''' anticlimax, so you won't really see it in his career's highlight reels.)

* [[Fail O'Suckyname]]: Narrowly averted for the Mankind persona, as Mick recounted in his first autobiography. Vince initially pitched the character as "Mason the Mutilator", a name that Mick thought was absolutely dreadful. Mick countered by suggesting "Mankind the Mutilator", explaining that with that name, he could talk about "the evils of Mankind" and the audience would never quite know whether he was talking about himself, or them. Vince not only adopted the idea, but dropped the "Mutilator" part of the name, leaving Mick as, simply, Mankind.

* [[Finger-Poke of Doom]]: This happened on the night he won his first WWF Heavyweight championship. [[Mick Foley]] did indeed put a lot of butts in seats.

** Foley also ''wrote'' all of his books and, unlike many athletes, does not use a ghostwriter (he actually was given one on his first book, but was unsatisfied with his work). He proudly notes in the introduction to ''Have A Nice Day!'' that he wrote the over 700-page manuscript for it in longhand (mostly because his typewriter broke). Also, his publisher was surprised by how ''[[Doorstopper|long]]'' it was - they were expecting under 150 pages.

** He opens his first book by recalling spending a double-digit-hour plane ride home working on his manuscript longhand. He was so bleary-eyed and punchy from working hard on it that, upon arrival, his wife asked him repeatedly if he had been doing drugs.

* [[Honorary Uncle]]: [[Paul Bearer]] was Mankind's honorary uncle after betraying [[The Undertaker]] and managing Mankind instead.

** In a related play on the trope, for a short period Mankind considered [[Goldust]] his honorary ''mother''.

** One of the greatest moments of his career was when he did a TitanTron segment as both Mankind and Dude Love, while [[Triple H]] watched, confused, in the ring. When Foley announced that Cactus Jack was back, [[Triple H]] looked scared out of his ''mind.'' ''That's'' how you put someone over.

* [[Troubled Fetal Position]]: As Mankind, he'd curl up at the corner of a ring before a match, rocking back and forth and letting out pig-like squeals.

** [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: During the infamously bad "Lost in Cleveland" skits, an actress was used to play Foley's wife because the bookers felt people wouldn't buy Cactus Jack's wife being that hot. Colette(his actual wife) didn't think that was funny.

* [[Unnecessary Roughness]]: At the 1999 ''Royal Rumble'' event, Foley took '''ten unprotected chair shots to the head''' during his "I Quit" Match with [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]]. The Rock wasn't supposed to keep on hitting him, and Mick himself classified the match as "having gotten away" from both of them; i.e. they both got caught up in the drama and neither was willing to end it before the scheduled finish. The Rock didn't apologize to Foley for his actions, and this later became a bitter sticking point on Foley's part, though he said that when he eventually confronted The Rock about it, The Rock thought that he ''had'' checked on Foley after the match, and was very upset upon realizing he hadn't.

** It's easy to see why Rock would think he apologized; in ''Beyond the Mat'', there's footage of Rocky and Mick having a good-natured talk backstage after the match for several minutes.

** [[Joey Styles]] even interviewed Mick on WWE.com recently. The shilling of the book might be because some of the book is reportedly about Foley's time as a commentator on ''[[Smack Down]]!'' and Vince very much likes Mick's writing style.

*** Which is funny because Mick left his post as SD commentator because he very much ''didn't'' like [[Vince McMahon]]'s [[Stop Helping Me!|hands-on approach to directing the commentators through the headset.]]

** Still no e-book release for ''Have a Nice Day!'', though, at least, not one that I've seen.

{{quote|Bob Holly was actually disqualified for his lack of ingenuity. I mean, why use a common, ordinary word like 'cock', when I could tell Al to 'go fish for my one-eyed, purple-headed, blue-veined trouser trout' instead?}}

** Next year, he managed to get into the main event by getting in a FOUR Way Match with The Rock, [[Triple H]], and [[The Big Show]].

** The street fight the following year at [[Wrestlemania]] X-Seven was supposed Mick vs. [[Vince McMahon]], as revenge for Mick's firing at the hands of Vince. Mick didn't feel confident enough in himself to do the match so the angle went to [[Shane McMahon]] and Mick acted as special guest ref instead.

** Terry Funk. They frequently had matches against each other, and even when things got personal, they didn't last that long before teaming up again.

* [[You Bastard]]: The Anti-Hardcore promos in ECW.

 

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