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Throughout his wrestling career, Foley wrestled for many different promotions both under his real name and under various personas (which are known collectively as the "Three Faces of Foley" - [[The Berserker|Cactus Jack]], [[Psychopathic Manchild|Mankind]], and [[New Age Retro Hippie|Dude Love]]) and, frequently since about 2001, as just plain Mick Foley. He was the first ever WWF Hardcore Champion, and he also became a three-time WWF Champion (as Mankind), an eight-time WWF Tag Team Champion, a two-time ECW World Tag Team Champion, a one-time WCW World Tag Team Champion, a one-time TNA Legends Champion and a one-time TNA World Champion. Following his retirement from a full-time wrestling schedule, Foley appeared occasionally with WWE as a special guest referee and, later, a color commentator for the ''SmackDown'' brand. Upon his departure from the company in 2008, he signed with TNA, returning to a semi-regular schedule. He then left TNA in June 2011, and has since appeared back on WWE television, albeit less frequently.

** And if not human, the fans seem to have a pretty good idea what he might be. A commong sign for Mick simply states "[[Memetic Mutation|Foley is God.]]"

* [[Arch Enemy]]: [[The Undertaker]] and [[Triple H]].

* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Jimmy Snuka's epic leap off of a steel cage inspired Foley to eventually enter the industry.

* {{spoiler| [[Badass Santa]]: He's has took on this role while Christmas.}} [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2rP-qJQLuQ Check out this clip].

{{quote|I have a feeling that a year from now, I'm going to have to look in the mirror and admit in my heart that I sold out...I sold out the Garden, I sold out the Coliseum, I sold out every damn arena in this country!}}

* [[The Berserker]]: Cactus Jack.

* [[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.

** Comparable to Hell in a Cell was Foley's participation in the IWA Japan King of the Deathmatch Tournament in 1995. During his first match, he got opened up hardway with a punch from Terry Gordy, then took a powerbomb into a bed of thumbtacks, and still came back to win the match. Next match, he bumped on a barbed-wire covered board ''and'' a bed of nails before winning. Finally, in the grand finale, he and Terry Funk proceeded to destroy each other in a Barbed Wire Rope, Exploding C4, and Time Bomb Match. What made the match even more brutal was that one of the gimmicks (the ring was supposed to be enveloped by massive explosions at the 10 minute mark) failed horribly, forcing Foley and Funk to take insanely dangerous bumps to save the match. In the end, after three brutal matches, Foley pinned Funk and became IWA Japan's King of the Deathmatch.

* [[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.

** 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.

** In his second book, Foley admits both did wrong in the scenario but he was more in the wrong. Once The Rock was made aware of the situation, he apologized immediately. Foley was aware of the slight for several months but let it simmer unknown and lead him into bitterness (mostly as fuel for a [[Face Heel Turn]] during the Rock 'n' Sock Connection days against the Rock that never materialized.)

** [[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.]]

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