Mick Foley‘s Hell in a Cell match against The Undertaker is one of the most iconic matches in wrestling history, but the notion of the match terrified the WWE Hall of Famer.
WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley was a recent guest on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet. When asked if he was scared of anything, Foley admitted that Hell in a Cell as a match type terrified him.
“I’m afraid of a lot of things,” Mick Foley admitted. “I maintain Shane McMahon was fearless. You could say I was courageous. Courage is action in the face of fear. I was terrified of the cell. When I looked down the entirety of Undertaker’s entrance was spent with me thinking, ‘How do I climb down this thing without ruining my career?’
“I couldn’t think of it, and that’s why the match unfolded the way it did. But yeah, when I drive through the Sierra Nevadas, I get really dizzy. Anything with heights, I can’t look over. Even if I’m going up to Lake Arrowhead in the mountains, I can’t look over. I’m really scared. I’m more fearful of many things that people would believe.”
Mick Foley once defied an order from Vince McMahon
While Foley is afraid of many things, Vince McMahon isn’t one of them. Foley told a story about Vince McMahon banning the use of thumb tacks during his match against Triple H at Royal Rumble 2000. Despite that, both men agreed they were going to do it anyway.
“I knew if I turned my head when I landed and closed my eye really tightly, that the chances [were good]. This is the infamous Foley instantaneous risk reward ratio analysis, where, first of all, we weren’t supposed to do the tacks. Mr. McMahon said, no thumb tacks. And as soon as he walks away, Triple H says, ‘Did you put the tacks under the ring?’
“I was like [yeah], so we weren’t sure whether we’re going to do it or not. But then when I kicked out of the pedigree, I don’t think anybody had at that point, maybe the tacks were already out. I’m not sure, but it was like, ‘Yeah, we’re going to go for it’. And I thought to myself, Okay, okay, you could lose an eye, but imagine the pop.
“I just closed my right eye as tightly as I could. Turned my face, and so there was a few sticking in there. But again, trying to compare that risk to the risk of doing a no rope barbed wire match with Terry Funk, you’re going to probably come out better with the tacks than you will with the barbed wire.”
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