During a recent guest appearance on YouTube’s Maven channel, wrestling icon Mick Foley discussed the use of microphones as tools of drama in wrestling, emphasizing that they are effective at generating audience reactions without causing actual harm to wrestlers.
Additionally, Foley expressed his insights on various wrestling weapons and their resultant levels of pain when used on opponents. He stated,
“There really is a way to get the noise where there is contact, but most of that contact is made elsewhere. If you can hit someone’s head hard here [with your forearm], then that microphone is still going to make that sound, still going to thump, and it’s so much better than if you just had the microphone, because this way you get the big wind up. It’s the way you use it, but if it’s done correctly, you should bear — there are going to be plenty of other situations where you’re going to suffer, for your art, but the microphone should not be one of those.”
On July 29, the new behind-the-scenes documentary series, WWE: Unreal, will debut on Netflix, giving viewers an inside look into the wrestling scriptwriting process.
Jake Roberts, hosting his “The Snake Pit” podcast, shared his forthright views on WWE: Unreal, expressing his skepticism,
“Like everything else, they make money with it, might as well do that too. I think it’s foolish. I don’t think that product will ever warrant enough money being made as for the damage it’ll do.”
In other news, during Jeff Jarrett’s “My World” podcast, Jarrett strongly suggested that Sean Waltman deserves to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as an individual talent.
At the moment, Waltman is only recognized for his association with the group inductions of D-Generation X and the New World Order. Expressing high regard for Waltman, Jarrett stated,
“I’m going to be way, way biased… It’s a no-brainer. You look at the Lightning Kid at a young age, his matches with Jerry Lynn. You can call it the X Division, before X-Division, or Junior Heavyweight, or Flyweight, or however you want to say that. But in his earliest of days, coming on the scene, he was turning heads and making headlines as, truly, a kid. Then, when you look at his entry point into the WWF as the 1-2-3 Kid, and the huge upset he had over Razor Ramon…
“When you kind of think of a trailblazer, somebody who broke the mold, positioned it in a unique way, that 1-2-3 Kid upset can happen anywhere. He battled some demons, like all of us do in life, but he kept rolling. You look at when he showed up on Nitro, that piece of the puzzle in the nWo, named him Syxx. He was the sixth member. Then, him going back [to WWE], there is a lot of moments that Kid was a part of. So if you know your history, it is absolutely no disrespect to anybody that’s currently in the Hall of Fame, but, my gosh, without question.”