Wasn't the only iconic moment in the match either
2 of the best calls I've ever heard in pro wrestling. Foley that crazy bastard.
2 of the best calls I've ever heard in pro wrestling. Foley that crazy bastard.
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On this day 20 years ago, Undertaker threw Mankind off of the top of Hell in a Cell
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There's an argument to be made that getting thrown off of the cell wasn't even the toughest bump he took during that match because at least there he had a table to break the fall. The chokeslam through the cage actually knocked him unconscious for a few minutes.
The way the officials congregate as a mass of the statement "holy shit" in humanoid form as Foley crashes through the roof and the speed that they dive into the ring is a heck of a sight.
What people forget is the absolutely horrid double spots were actually in the beginning of the match! They went on to continue wrestling after all of that shit. Foley is truly inhuman when it comes to his pain threshold.
Attitude Era man, they don't do this anymore obviously, it took almost 10 years for people to get on top of the cage again.
what people REALLY forget is that about 30 minutes after this match ends, a near death foley does a RUN IN during the main event.
Vince probably sat down with him like "Hey pal.... how you feeling?"
"WELL I THINK I'VE SUFFERED 3 CONCUSSIONS VINCE"
"ahahahahaha that's great! So we're still gonna need you do to the run in during the main event pal, see you out there."
Vince probably sat down with him like "Hey pal.... how you feeling?"
"WELL I THINK I'VE SUFFERED 3 CONCUSSIONS VINCE"
"ahahahahaha that's great! So we're still gonna need you do to the run in during the main event pal, see you out there."
A co-worker of mine (whose last name is ironically Foley lol) was a wrestler in the local circuits, and he showed me how to do a few moves and we'd sometimes ad-lib a a short fight to break up a boring work day. Shit's is not to be taken lightly.
I never really got wrestling, used to do the whole "it's fake is sucks" shit, and this guy really helped me appreciate it.
The match where Kane sets himself on fire too. Also, Taker/Mankind only had a week or a two build. ONLY 1-2 RAWS BUILT UP THIS MATCH!
Different match. The match you're thinking of is the I Quit match against The Rock where Rock hit Foley in the head with a chair about 47 times
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Screwjob
this is what kicked off the attitude era? what even is wrestling
this is what kicked off the attitude era? what even is wrestling
These matches all happen now but lost all its luster because they've run them into the ground.
Foley is a crazed dude and did everything to make his opponent look amazing.
How do you figure? He became huge because of Mr Socko and the storylines with him vs The Rock and the McMahons. This was totally unnecessary.
IIRC, Taker was working this match with a broken foot, which hampered some of his mobility.
Yep, when he drops down from the top of the Cell you see him hobble on it. One of the reasons Foley wanted to do a big bump as he knew they couldn't do a great match (and couldnt follow the HBK/Taker HIAC) so wanted to do something else so people didn't notice. Crazy match.
Does anyone know if you can buy this on Blu Ray or Dvd? I'd like to have this permanently. One of my all time favorite matches.
I'm not sure if it's out on any physical media but you can definitely watch it from your home or mobile device on the WWE Network for the affordable price of
Still the most brutal thing I have seen in 30 years of watching wrestling.
Montreal Screwjob is an amazing rabbit hole to go down if you want to see the many layers that go into pro wrestling and its participants. Watch Bret Hart's "Wrestling With Shadows" doc as well, it goes behind the scenes the day of Montreal.
I don't believe it but I still love the theory that Montreal was a big work. If true, that'd put the entire thing even further into the realm of craziness.
Yes and had zero to do with this match. It was pointless. He was still a heel for months afterwards.
I'm pretty sure Foley is on the record for saying that the reason the spots in this match happened was because he thought his career and momentum were starting to flounder and needed to do something to basically grab everyone's attention, and that it worked.
If you really want to go down a crazy rabbit hole, imagine how much different WWF and WCW would have been if Vince sided with Bret instead of Shawn. In that alternate timeline Bret probably goes on to have a long career and Owen Hart is probably still alive.
Shawn would have probably jumped to WCW if he didn't get main event push after that, and you kinda wonder how he would have been part of the the nWo and how he would have fit into all of that. Either it could have gone remarkably well for Shawn and WCW, or it could have exaccerbated the problems the company started having in '98 and '99. Shawn also got clean while in WWF, while WCW seemed to have a reputation that was worse than WWF at that point. You kinda wonder whether Shawn would have gone down the Scott Hall path or if he would have cleaned himself up like he did in the end in WWF.
On the flipside, Bret's career doesn't go down the shitter, he never gets the concussion from Goldberg, never has the stroke, retires as the greatest wrestler of all time without the 15+ years of antipathy between him and WWF. But who knows.
Ha, he actually says the opposite.
Opens "Have a Nice Day" book.
Mick Foley said:
fairly certain this is maybe one of only two or three wrestling ppvs i ever watched live as a kid and seeing this broke my brain
IIRC, i think his Greatest Hits and Misses DVD corrects this assumption by saying it was actually a broken piece of table. I could be wrong, though. Haven't seen it in a looooong time.
That's actually been addressed. Officials and medical staff did not want Foley going back out but he absolutely insisted on doing so.
Side note: While this may be the most spectacular and infamous thing foley has done the actual thing that is the hardest to watch these days is the 11 count them 11 unprotected chair shots to the head that he took from The Rock during their Royal Rumble match at the 99' Royal Rumble.
Not even an argument. If he'd taken the normal chokeslam bump he'd be dead.
I think the video makes it pretty obvious. What's the appeal of any shit on TV you watch?