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Mick Foley (Wrestling)
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*car crash*Michael Francis "Mick" Foley, Sr. (born June 7, 1965) is an American actor, author, comedian, voice actor, and professional wrestler in every promotion you could care to name, including WWE, WCW, ECW, Ring of Honor, TNA, SMW, FMW, World Class Championship Wrestling, the CWA in Memphis, Fighting Opera HUSTLE, and All Japan Pro Wrestling, along with many independents. Arguably the biggest star to come out of the Garbage Wrestling circuit, he's often referred to as "The Hardcore Legend", a title he shares with Co-Legend Terry Funk.From 1985–96, he wrestled for various promotions generally under the name Cactus Jack, sometimes tweaked as "Cactus Jack Foley" or "Cactus Jack Manson" (which Mick hated). In the early 90s, "Jack" and Terry were scouted by WCW to be their representatives of Hardcore. The result was the decidedly noncore "Lost in Cleveland" promo, in which an amnesiac Mick washed ashore and believed himself to be a lost mariner. In disgust, Mick left for Philly, leaving behind a severed ear and few prospects.Things began to pick up in 1996, however, when he arrived in WWE and became the Leatherface clone Mankind. In mid-1997, after a four-part semi-shoot interview, Mick reemerged as Dude Love, a character he had conceived as a teenager: the cooler, idealized version who would be able to get the girls that Mick couldn't get himself. Funnily, even this Bizarro Mick was pretty dorky, coming out to faux disco music and wrestling in tie-dye. Thus, the "Three Faces of Foley" gimmick was complete, as Mick would alternate between Jack, Mankind, and Love when needed.Following his retirement from a full-time wrestling after WrestleMania XVI in 2000, Foley has appeared sporadically as a special guest referee on WWE and TNA, as well as a color commentator for the SmackDown brand. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013. At the 2016 brand split between WWE Raw and SmackDown, he was appointed the General Manager of Raw by Stephanie McMahon.In addition to wrestling, Foley is a multiple-time New York Times-bestselling author. His first book, the 1999 autobiography Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks, spans all the way from childhood to his finest moment, burying Rocky with beer kegs. He later wrote a sequel to that book, Foley Is Good: And the Real World Is Faker than Wrestling, picking up during the Attitude Era and the months leading to his retirement. The third and fourth volumes of his saga, The Hardcore Diaries and Countdown To Lockdown, were less well-received. Foley has also written two novels (Tietam Brown and Scooter) and three children's books. He was also the host for both seasons of Robot Wars Extreme Warriors, the US version of UK robot combat show Robot Wars and was the voice of "The Boulder" in Avatar: The Last Airbender.Mick was also one of the subjects of the documentary Beyond the Mat, which follows him at the peak of his career. More recently, he appears in Bloodstained Memoirs, another wrestling documentary.And before you ask, no, he does not practice the art of Kung-Foley."Have a nice trope!": | |
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