Mick Foley Shares His Thoughts On Death Match Wrestling
Mick Foley is no complete stranger to the harmful side of professional wrestling. A wrestler does not make the label “Hardcore Legend” by avoiding the more violent elements of the sport. The previous Cactus Jack spoke on his Foley is Pod podcast just recently about death match wrestling, and how harmful it can be.
Utilizing light tubes in matches: “I do not like light tubes since they do not rate high up on the Foley Instantaneous Risk/Reward Ratio Analysis. There is a capacity for fans to get hurt, and I do not like that. It’s unforeseeable. And I saw what it did to Undertaker when we utilized light tubes in 1996, in the Boiler Room brawl. It got in and provided him an awful infection; possibly, if he didn’t have much better medical attention, it might have been a truly bad mark on his profession or completion of his profession.”
How severely Nick Gage got injured throughout a death match: “I believe Nick Gage needed to be resuscitated. He bled out, y’ understand? He needed to be restored from the dead. I believe everyone needs to look out. I do think these are consenting grownups; it’s not something kids need to be imitating or doing.”
If there’s a much easier method to get a crowd response: “Some of the important things that got the most significant pops when I was doing the wild matches are the simplest and least most likely to cause genuine injuries. I disagreed when my own home town paper tore me apart for the ‘violence’ I utilized, consisting of salad tongs to the genitalia. I keep in mind phoning the editor and stating, can you indicate one event in reality where somebody has been hurt with salad tongs? You wish to point that out to me? And yet you might get a beast pop, one that would simply last a 15-20 2nd pop, depending upon which member of the Nation [of Domination] wanted to run in location and offer it. If you had an excellent heel like The Rock, who would run in location, and circle the ring, you’ve offered everyone a fantastic view at the goings on. No one’s getting hurt.”
Why he likes cheese graters as a weapon: “Incorporating a few of the enjoyable things, like a cheese grater. Has there ever been an instrument of damage simpler to feign than the cheese grater? If you’re actually using pressure, and truly dicing somebody’s head? You’re doing something incorrect.”