Ric Flair and Mick Foley having a blood-bath "last man standing" match on regular TV (NON main event, 30 minutes into the show) might be the most TNA thing I've ever heard.
Ironically, the best thing that came out of Mick's TNA run was that it literally is what led to his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame. Mick has admitted that WWE (all on its own accord) promoting his 2010 book Countdown to Lockdown on WWE programming while he was still with TNA is what made Foley decide that whenever he'd eventually be asked to be inducted he'd accept, as prior to that he was thinking he'd always decline since he still harbored bad feelings from how his last run ended.
@pendafen7405 Huge Al SNOW fan and he's definitely due more admiration/respect than he gets...but mentioning him in the same vein as Foley is too much
Mick Foley may have struggled as a Raw General Manager but he will always be The Boulder to me. I guess him working alongside The Rock allowed him to do a good impression of him for Avatar.
While I immediately recognized Foley's voice in Avatar it took me longer than I want to admit to figure out the joke of him playing someone named, "The Boulder."
It becomes doubly funny for me because Hogan was once called Terry Boulder, I dont think any of Hulk was in the character (its definitly more a send up of The Rock) aside from being a large jacked guy (i nearly said Jacked Dude their ....witch is hillarious given who im talking about) but i still find that fact funny none the less 😂
You can’t blame Mick for leaving WWE. He literally risked his life on several PPVs just to help the company and they didn’t even book him for his hometown show.
I love Foley. When I was going through one of the worst periods of my life, trying to get sober and dealing with the deaths of several close friends, I'd put on the audio book of Have A Nice Day that he narrated to keep my mind off my thoughts when I went to bed. I think it's entirely possible Mick Foley saved my life, and I've never even met the dude.
The one thing I really liked was the smiley face wrapped in barb wire. I was so pumped. Then came his "debut" and a couple of weeks later I went: Right. TNA.
As someone who grew up watching TNA at this time, I can say Mick Foley's time in the company wasn't bad enough to stain his legacy but no where near the lengths of his work in the WWE or elsewhere. That said, his bouts with Sting, Flair and Abyss where really good especially for someone with Foley's history of injuries...Plus he can say that the last title he ever won in his career was the TNA World Title...Soo that's something
While Foley was well past his prime at the point of his TNA run, after everything he put his body through for us, I still kind of enjoyed seeing him get one last world title and run at the top of a promotion, and getting his main event cage match against Sting.
I remember Spoony, during his time reviewing TNA, once remarked that Foley's run there involved his on-screen persona decaying from the beloved Human Muppet he used to be, to being "dangerously-incapable-of-surviving-on-his-own stupid", and I think that really sums it up well.
@@TheSuckoShow Honestly, most TNA employees really do give it their all and bust their ass. It's not clear why it never pays off or ends well, but I don't believe it's the fault of the talent.
I highly recommend talking about British Bootcamp. It was like their version of Tough Enough but only in the UK. It was how Rockstar Spud aka Drake Maverick got to TNA
Tbh I always felt no promotion ever went far enough to explain or even hint just *why* Raven had so much power over others, enough to start cults. Yes, he was sadistic and lacked empathy and had size & strength, but he still wasn't the biggest guy nor an actual demon monster like some other characters. So how did he get inside his followers' heads? We the audience needed to see him manipulate, loveb0mb and terrorise his acolytes more.
@@messykid1234 sure, he was very charismatic. Not moreso than say a Bray Wyatt (rip), though, a character who as well as hypnosis and seduction, also had actual devil powers at his fingers. So there's that.
@@messykid1234 you sound really certain for someone who doesn't know me from a can of paint. At least you have confidence, we can say that if nothing else.
Mick Foley Is Kinda Like a Wrestling Folk hero he's a legend and well respected In his community the day the Grim Reaper comes for him will a very sad day Indeed
He's also a folk hero in the sense of he's almost mythical. The fact that he's still alive and can walk after what he did. Hes like Paul bunyon or something
I recall reading that Mick had a little feud with Samoa Joe in ROH where he always teased returning to the ring to fight him but never did. Wish him and Joe actually had a one-on-one match in TNA.
Mick Foley is truly the toughest S.O.B on the planet. For Mick to put his body through hell, when he was young, is one thing. But to do it while past his prime is astonishing. Much respect to Mick Foley. Mrs. Foley's baby boy.
Except TNA was good unlike AEW which is ROH with money. Now they own ROH ironically. And WCW did the same thing. WWE started with guys from other companies. So it's silly to focus on how the guys were in WWE. Everyone was in WWE just like everyone was in NWA or WCW. smh
@@I_Am_The_Social_Reject AEW was considered good until Vince McMahon got fired and then people had no reason to see WWE fail anymore. Fans crave schaudenfrede
I love Mick far too much to look down poorly on this. I marked whenever he was on. God bless him for entertaining and inspiring me my entire adult life.
Dream match if it was 90s Japan Foley. That'd been incredible. Abyss had some crap booking but he was my monster. I was too young to experience Kane taker mandkind I was 1 when kotr 98 happened but abyss was my guy. At 10 that sting Abyss feud was mind blowing. Shout-out to Graves at clash when piper hit the big boss slam "to the Abyss" his theme is still one of my favorites.
21:56 In hindsight, they missed on an opportunity by not having Hardcore Justice filmed at the 2300/New Alhambra/former ECW arena. Guess it would have clashed with Shane Douglas' ECW tribute shows Whelp, at least they started going there further into the 2010's and still go there sometimes recently!
Ideas for October Brotober: reviewing ppvs of the russo era of wcw with him present or not or also reviewing the episode where he won the world title with a top 8 best ideas and worst ideas Brocktober: reviewing ppvs we're lesnar participated or was the main event with a top 8 of his best moments and other one with his worst ones
If nothing else, Foley's time in TNA gave me my favourite promo in wrestling when he interviewed Cactus Jack. I remember watching that and believing I was seeing two people interact through the body of one person. I still go back and watch it from time to time. And, knowing next to nothing about Cactus Jack, it instantly let me know, "Oh, this man is dangerous".
Side note: It feels kinda grim that Daffney got concussed and not that long after, the incident with Rosie Lottalove happened, especially how it all eventually ended for her.😢
You are really on these TNA videos bro! Keep it up, one of my other fave youtubers used to also make a lot of TNA content, glad to hear your takes on some of it as well. So with that you should do one on No job Rob in TNA as well if you haven't.
Favourite part of the build to hogan with foley was him trying to get a meeting with Dixie Carter , failing to find her, finding vince Russo and Ed Ferrara instead and asking them to write a segment where he gets to talk to Dixie
Foley was just one in a laundry list of ex-WWE guys that would come into TNA and immediately be given a belt. All it did was enforce the notion that WWE guys were better than any homegrown TNA guys.
And despite still watching WWE, it’s why I stopped watching TNA. It was fine for someone like Jeff Hardy or Christian to come in and show why they should get the top belt because WWE was never going to at the time and those guys had something to prove, but when all these former world champions kept coming in to take that top spot, it put a sour taste in my mouth. For all its faults, WWE in the Ruthless Aggression Era was pushing younger talents, homegrown guys, or guys who were never given a chance in WCW and worked their way to the top. The only exception was probably Undertaker, but he was wrestling the best matches of his entire career at the time and his world title runs were elevating younger guys like Batista and Edge.
Genuine question: how do you do these types of videos? Like damn the work you must put to follow someone’s journey and turns it into a concise and digestible content is very very difficult.. 👏 ❤
I can explain the weird lighting at Hardcore Justice. It made the TNA ring canvas look more like the ECW ring canvas, which was blue. But that's just a theory.....a WRESTLING theory!
I don't get why they couldn't just keep a white canvas and maybe put a Hardcore Justice logo on it though. Really late in ECW they were using a white canvas (Guilty as Charged 2001) and WWE even kept that going for One Night Stand 2005. It just looks silly with the blue light. At least their heart was in the right place on that one though lol
Ashamed to say that when I was a kid just barely discovering wrestling... this is how I was introduced to Mick Foley. I saw him pop up on the screen, fans started cheering and I was like, "Uh..."
I was 14 when mick joined TNA. I was aware of micks past from some old DVDs I’d rented, and seeing him on WWE in matches with edge and orton but that was about it. Him wrestling in TNA was actually a treat for me
Me too. Just looked pathetic. Save for a few choice segments (The Flair and Lethal segment) and Rob Van Dam coming in, I absolutely hated everything about TNA Wrestling in 2010.
I ❤Mick Foley. At a convention we had a nice conversation about the great hero from Minneapolis Big OG Floyd since I had a shirt with the gentle giant on 🎉
I believe Foley has mentioned in recent years that while his run in TNA wasn't what he expected, he can appreciate it for what it was. Not the worst thing a former WWE star ĥas said about their time in TNA
@@scottaznavourian3720Mick has went through possibly the most head trauma/bodily harm in the history of sports (let alone wrestling) and is still one of the most amazing and universally loved people ever with no real controversies ever
@@scottaznavourian3720 That's why I don't buy it was CTE. Foley copped 11 chair shots to the head by the Rock at RR 99 yet doesn't murder his family. CTE is just an excuse to excuse bad behaviour by sports people, and an excuse to sue.
I thought his run was fun. He put in a lot of work into everything during that time. The passion in those promos against flair and sting. His weight loss. He didn't have to put in that much effort, especially for a low level watched show, but he worked his ass off. I think it was a success and countdown to lockdown, while not on par with the first two (hardcore diaries is different stylistically), was a fun read. Kudos to Foley for his TNA run.
His TNA run was actually one of my favorite memories. He was hilarious as champion. Acting like the the title was his baby. Loved his surprise win against Sting. Especially in a cage match. So props for that. God I miss TNA. And no, it's not still around. Just in name. Also him and JB were comedy gold. I still remember his odd references to Tori Amos
I think it's still Mick Foley's last one on one match ever, that one with Ric Flair. One week later I met him at a book signing at the one Barnes and Noble with a Chik fil A in front of it that I know of in the Orlando area, wearing a WWE Kurt Angle T-shirt, and I have no idea how it came up but my sister said something like "Kurt Angle _should_ retire" and I recall seeing a flash of a dirty or confused look from Mick, and it was afterwards that it hit me that he might have been thinking, "If you think that KURT should retire, does that mean _I_ should _be_ retired?" I think I said "well at least we should never see him for free anymore". Anyway I know Mick had tag matches and Royal Rumble appearances after that but then the doctors outright refused to clear him ever again so that was that.
I fweel a video on the TNA Legends title is in order. It showed up when the MEM was around, and I really don't even remember how it disappeared, as eventually there's only so much of Russo's booking you can stand to watch.
But I have one question: Why did Mick Foley refer to Abyss as Chris? Do the fans know about Abyss' real name being Chris Park? Did Russo tell Foley to say Abyss' real name? If you're gonna mention a masked wrestler by name, I feel that you should only call them by their wrestler's name and not their real name.
@@ricardonb6375 Years before Mick came into TNA, back when Abyss had Father James Mitchell as his manager (and during the time James was abusing Abyss), James would be the one to reveal that his real name was Chris Park, and that James was his father
Considering their history in two of the greatest tag teams of all time with their respective brothers, it was kind of a cool idea to team Scott and Booker up.
Ric Flair and Mick Foley having a blood-bath "last man standing" match on regular TV (NON main event, 30 minutes into the show) might be the most TNA thing I've ever heard.
Yeah now that was fuckin amazing.
Sounds like someone else I know 😂
@@452syajowtAEW's resident balding plumber.
@@quentinkaasa47 You and your kind suck Hard.
Ironically, the best thing that came out of Mick's TNA run was that it literally is what led to his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame. Mick has admitted that WWE (all on its own accord) promoting his 2010 book Countdown to Lockdown on WWE programming while he was still with TNA is what made Foley decide that whenever he'd eventually be asked to be inducted he'd accept, as prior to that he was thinking he'd always decline since he still harbored bad feelings from how his last run ended.
How did his last run end?
Rare WWE W
@@lancergt1000First section of the video
Yeah,we all believe he would have turned it down.🙄
@@user-fe8gx3ie5vWWE has plenty Ws when it comes to their talent. Plenty Ls too no doubt but those overshadow the Ws
"Stop chanting those letters you're gonna get us sued!" Al Snow & Head never disappoint
Al imo needs his due as much as the likes of Foley, idk why he's so slept on
@@pendafen7405 people don't get it
Not true, Head has disappointed me in the past. Stupid sharp teeth.
Yep either by pretending to be light in the cranial region or being far beyond the intelligence level that you expect from his sorta character
@pendafen7405 Huge Al SNOW fan and he's definitely due more admiration/respect than he gets...but mentioning him in the same vein as Foley is too much
Mick Foley may have struggled as a Raw General Manager but he will always be The Boulder to me. I guess him working alongside The Rock allowed him to do a good impression of him for Avatar.
The boulder agrees with this comment
The Boulder feels conflicted about watching his favorite wrestler destroy his body for cheap pops.
While I immediately recognized Foley's voice in Avatar it took me longer than I want to admit to figure out the joke of him playing someone named, "The Boulder."
It becomes doubly funny for me because Hogan was once called Terry Boulder,
I dont think any of Hulk was in the character (its definitly more a send up of The Rock) aside from being a large jacked guy (i nearly said Jacked Dude their ....witch is hillarious given who im talking about) but i still find that fact funny none the less 😂
@@TonySpike And then, when teaming with Terry Boulder, Brutus Beefcake was Eddie Boulder
You can’t blame Mick for leaving WWE. He literally risked his life on several PPVs just to help the company and they didn’t even book him for his hometown show.
So?they gave him a crap ton of money
Sure he’s well within his rights to feel a certain way but that’s business brother
That was how Mick FIRST run with WWE ended. Zane's talking about how Mick's SECOND run came to an end resulted in him going over to TNA.
Like the best example of capitalism and workers ever
Wwe marks getting mixed up
I love Foley. When I was going through one of the worst periods of my life, trying to get sober and dealing with the deaths of several close friends, I'd put on the audio book of Have A Nice Day that he narrated to keep my mind off my thoughts when I went to bed.
I think it's entirely possible Mick Foley saved my life, and I've never even met the dude.
He didn't save your life. You did.
Been through something similar, it gets tough, glad you made it through. Keep on keeping on bro
@user-fe8gx3ie5v Foley definitely assisted 👍
Thanks for sharing man. Glad to hear you kicked out and I hope you're still working on top. 💪
The one thing I really liked was the smiley face wrapped in barb wire. I was so pumped. Then came his "debut" and a couple of weeks later I went: Right. TNA.
The smiley face in wire is such a cool icon for a guy like Mick, because it sums up his personality and character so succinctly.
Favortite thing Mick did in TNA for me was when he beat up Sting to Curry Man and Shark Boy's entrance themes.
😭😭😭
For me, it was when he decked Bubba the Love Sponge. Granted, both men said it was planned and that it was an accident that BTLS got hit for real...
Brian: "A pre-taped message from The Micker."
Me *walks away*: ... "who in the hell is 'The Micker?"
1:43 For some reason I can imagine Vince yelling the word "obscenities" in their ears
"OBSCENITIES!! SAY 'OBSCENITIES' DAMMIT! OBSCENITIIIIIIIIES..!"
Thats good shit Pal
16:20
Taz summed up Mick's TNA run perfectly.
As someone who grew up watching TNA at this time, I can say Mick Foley's time in the company wasn't bad enough to stain his legacy but no where near the lengths of his work in the WWE or elsewhere.
That said, his bouts with Sting, Flair and Abyss where really good especially for someone with Foley's history of injuries...Plus he can say that the last title he ever won in his career was the TNA World Title...Soo that's something
While Foley was well past his prime at the point of his TNA run, after everything he put his body through for us, I still kind of enjoyed seeing him get one last world title and run at the top of a promotion, and getting his main event cage match against Sting.
I liked the Lockdown match.
That one comment really sums it up brilliantly.
I remember Spoony, during his time reviewing TNA, once remarked that Foley's run there involved his on-screen persona decaying from the beloved Human Muppet he used to be, to being "dangerously-incapable-of-surviving-on-his-own stupid", and I think that really sums it up well.
Man, the wrestling review era of Spoony was a great time in hindsight.
That sums up Spoony himself even more! 😆
@@quentinkaasa47Spoony, Towlie
Mick foley interviewing cactus jack is one of the best promos ever for me
🎶ALL HANDS ON THE WHEELS🎶
That lyric in his TNA theme summed it up perfectly.
Bang
Bang😊
Mic: "I am happy to be getting my TNA run getting the spotlight RIGHT HERE ON WRESTLING WITH WREGRET!" 😃 👍
*pops*
Foley! Foley!
Cheap pop
19:15
Iconic line from Lou Ferrigno
Eh, close enough
*"...and the crowd went mild."* Yep, that's TNA 😅
Was never a fulltime TNA viewer but my basic impression is I've never seen a roster work so hard for so little
@@TheSuckoShow Honestly, most TNA employees really do give it their all and bust their ass. It's not clear why it never pays off or ends well, but I don't believe it's the fault of the talent.
Al Snow is hilarious "stop chanting those letters you're gonna get us sued" lol 😂
I highly recommend talking about British Bootcamp. It was like their version of Tough Enough but only in the UK. It was how Rockstar Spud aka Drake Maverick got to TNA
Raven throwing fireballs makes more sense than it ought to.
Tbh I always felt no promotion ever went far enough to explain or even hint just *why* Raven had so much power over others, enough to start cults. Yes, he was sadistic and lacked empathy and had size & strength, but he still wasn't the biggest guy nor an actual demon monster like some other characters. So how did he get inside his followers' heads? We the audience needed to see him manipulate, loveb0mb and terrorise his acolytes more.
@@pendafen7405have you heard his promos? Duh, lol
@@messykid1234 sure, he was very charismatic. Not moreso than say a Bray Wyatt (rip), though, a character who as well as hypnosis and seduction, also had actual devil powers at his fingers. So there's that.
@@pendafen7405 I think you just don’t understand how real cults work lol.
@@messykid1234 you sound really certain for someone who doesn't know me from a can of paint. At least you have confidence, we can say that if nothing else.
I introduced my best friend to wrestling with Eddie and Foley so I’m sending him this video immediately.
Mick Foley Is Kinda Like a Wrestling Folk hero he's a legend and well respected In his community the day the Grim Reaper comes for him will a very sad day Indeed
Everyone will claim they are a Foley fan that day
@@KidTonyGamingis there anyone who isn’t?
It seems like no one really has anything bad to say about him.
@@KidTonyGamingAnd thats a problem how?
Foley seems like the type that shockingly ends up living to be 117.
He's also a folk hero in the sense of he's almost mythical. The fact that he's still alive and can walk after what he did. Hes like Paul bunyon or something
This video deserves an award for its exceptional storytelling.
I recall reading that Mick had a little feud with Samoa Joe in ROH where he always teased returning to the ring to fight him but never did. Wish him and Joe actually had a one-on-one match in TNA.
Which gave us, in my opinion, one of the weirdest ROH matches: Samoa Joe vs. Kikutaro (as Kikatasu Jack)
Mick Foley is truly the toughest S.O.B on the planet. For Mick to put his body through hell, when he was young, is one thing. But to do it while past his prime is astonishing. Much respect to Mick Foley. Mrs. Foley's baby boy.
TNA, where WWE wrestlers went after they "retire" or get fired.
Great video and subject.
And now AEW has adopted that tactic
Except TNA was good unlike AEW which is ROH with money. Now they own ROH ironically. And WCW did the same thing. WWE started with guys from other companies. So it's silly to focus on how the guys were in WWE. Everyone was in WWE just like everyone was in NWA or WCW. smh
@@I_Am_The_Social_Reject AEW was considered good until Vince McMahon got fired and then people had no reason to see WWE fail anymore.
Fans crave schaudenfrede
His promos with Sting and Ric Flair were almost worth it.
I’m definitely one of a few that remember fondly on Mick Foley run in TNA
Loved that little subtle joke about Bischoffs hair piece😂😂
Mick lives about an hour from me and always hits up Knobles a super fun theme park in PA!!
I remember Mick foley's TNA run glad brian is covering his TNA run the formation of the main event mafia was awesome.
Mick Foley was apart of that TNA Riot in 2009
That was so cool
I love Mick far too much to look down poorly on this. I marked whenever he was on. God bless him for entertaining and inspiring me my entire adult life.
Dream match if it was 90s Japan Foley. That'd been incredible. Abyss had some crap booking but he was my monster. I was too young to experience Kane taker mandkind I was 1 when kotr 98 happened but abyss was my guy. At 10 that sting Abyss feud was mind blowing. Shout-out to Graves at clash when piper hit the big boss slam "to the Abyss" his theme is still one of my favorites.
Sometimes I forget Mick Foley was with TNA.
Overall, it’s likely for the best.
@@libertychip526 Yeah it is.
I think Mick wants to forget he was with TNA as well.
“WHEN I DIE IT’LL BE HERE OR ON TOP OF A WILD WOMAN!!!” *WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!* 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Red Green and Mick Foley are the reason I love wearing red flannel shirts
Ayyyy I see a Canadian or northern statemen
if the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
@@miguelnewmexico8641 keep your stick on the ice
remember im pulling for you we are all in this together
I@@miguelnewmexico8641 If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you hardcore
When hogan came in, tna had 6 authority figures. Each one booking matches and major decisions.
Foley, hogan, Jarrett, Dixie, bischoff, and angle
Don't forget that Russo was the head booker of TNA at that time
Channel just keeps getting better and better! Brian has the perfect blend of insight and humor
glad to see that promo against sting getting the respect it deserves. some damn good mic work.
Great work, Brian. Keeping the hot streak going! I could definitely get used to these themed months.
I popped when I saw his tna debut. Then immediately was like, wait.... what is he gonna do? What CAN he do?
It's a testament to how much wrestling means to Mick Foley that even when he wasn't trying he could still generate a reaction.
the search on 2009 TH-cam to find a clean rip of his theme after his debut took years off of my life 😂
One of my favorite promos of mick Foley when he got heel heat by cutting promo on himself
13:20 iirc Sting wasn't supposed to tap out,, but was supposed to be pinned via muscle buster. He forgot the finish and went with being submitted.
Okay the Lou Ferrigno bit got a pop out of me. Straight up.
21:56 In hindsight, they missed on an opportunity by not having Hardcore Justice filmed at the 2300/New Alhambra/former ECW arena. Guess it would have clashed with Shane Douglas' ECW tribute shows
Whelp, at least they started going there further into the 2010's and still go there sometimes recently!
Speaking of Douglas, when Tommy Dreamer announced Hardcore Justice 2010, someone in the crowd shouted "No Shane Douglas!"
TNA is like if 2000 WCW was a whole company
That's literally (but not literally) AEW.
New sweatsuit?
Heel turn confirmed
Ideas for October
Brotober: reviewing ppvs of the russo era of wcw with him present or not or also reviewing the episode where he won the world title with a top 8 best ideas and worst ideas
Brocktober: reviewing ppvs we're lesnar participated or was the main event with a top 8 of his best moments and other one with his worst ones
Followed up by HAKtember, a moth dedicated to Sandman's tenure in WCW.
How about Proct-ober: an entire month of the gimmicks and or characters that WWE insisted on shoving up our asses despite them never being over?
If nothing else, Foley's time in TNA gave me my favourite promo in wrestling when he interviewed Cactus Jack. I remember watching that and believing I was seeing two people interact through the body of one person. I still go back and watch it from time to time. And, knowing next to nothing about Cactus Jack, it instantly let me know, "Oh, this man is dangerous".
Taz on commentary: I don't know what just happened but in a weird way it was kinda cool 😂🤣😂🤣
June is my birthday month and, with your content, it's been the best birthday month I've had so far. Thanks for all you do❤
He literally did what WWE guys do now in AEW! Have a nice well paid vacation!
I think the Borash / Foley portrait is the best part of Mick’s entire sorry stay there.
Curry Man for the 2025 WWE Hall of Fame!
He's hot, he's spicy!
Side note: It feels kinda grim that Daffney got concussed and not that long after, the incident with Rosie Lottalove happened, especially how it all eventually ended for her.😢
You are really on these TNA videos bro! Keep it up, one of my other fave youtubers used to also make a lot of TNA content, glad to hear your takes on some of it as well. So with that you should do one on No job Rob in TNA as well if you haven't.
Favourite part of the build to hogan with foley was him trying to get a meeting with Dixie Carter , failing to find her, finding vince Russo and Ed Ferrara instead and asking them to write a segment where he gets to talk to Dixie
I enjoyed Foley on TNA television and with this video I appreciate it even more now. Very solid run and tons of fun moments
Yo hearing the old intro brought back some good memories. Havent kept up with your channel like i used to but that was pretty cool.
20:43 LMFAO that was cold 🤣
Brian, thank you. I was having a Finger Poke of Doom type of day until you posted this. Rock on, bro! Thank you!
These videos are some of the best you do Brian, keep up the good work.
The best moment of his TNA run was punching Bubba the Love Sponge.
I remembered Mick Foley's Run in TNA
Foley was just one in a laundry list of ex-WWE guys that would come into TNA and immediately be given a belt. All it did was enforce the notion that WWE guys were better than any homegrown TNA guys.
And despite still watching WWE, it’s why I stopped watching TNA. It was fine for someone like Jeff Hardy or Christian to come in and show why they should get the top belt because WWE was never going to at the time and those guys had something to prove, but when all these former world champions kept coming in to take that top spot, it put a sour taste in my mouth.
For all its faults, WWE in the Ruthless Aggression Era was pushing younger talents, homegrown guys, or guys who were never given a chance in WCW and worked their way to the top. The only exception was probably Undertaker, but he was wrestling the best matches of his entire career at the time and his world title runs were elevating younger guys like Batista and Edge.
WCW had that problem too where they would act like guys who came over from WWF were superhuman
@@killergrooves2438 So what do you think of Cody being the top guy, when he was from the competition?
Mick Foley and Sting working together again awesome seeing it
Well I say my favorite Foley TNA moment is when he punched Bubba the Love Sponge and broke his nose. He had that coming
I remember seeing that Rocky Balboa cutout clip on TH-cam as a kid, and even then, I was confused as hell.
Genuine question: how do you do these types of videos? Like damn the work you must put to follow someone’s journey and turns it into a concise and digestible content is very very difficult.. 👏 ❤
I can explain the weird lighting at Hardcore Justice. It made the TNA ring canvas look more like the ECW ring canvas, which was blue. But that's just a theory.....a WRESTLING theory!
MatPat’s new career confirmed
I don't get why they couldn't just keep a white canvas and maybe put a Hardcore Justice logo on it though. Really late in ECW they were using a white canvas (Guilty as Charged 2001) and WWE even kept that going for One Night Stand 2005.
It just looks silly with the blue light. At least their heart was in the right place on that one though lol
The sock gag was fantastic
Brian... was that the "special sock" ? another awesome vid my dude. have a nice day.
Ashamed to say that when I was a kid just barely discovering wrestling... this is how I was introduced to Mick Foley. I saw him pop up on the screen, fans started cheering and I was like, "Uh..."
I was 14 when mick joined TNA. I was aware of micks past from some old DVDs I’d rented, and seeing him on WWE in matches with edge and orton but that was about it. Him wrestling in TNA was actually a treat for me
Finishing 'Hardcore Diaries' the same day as Lockdown 09 was quite the experience
Man I remember seeing that episode of Tommy dreamer crying about the spirit of ECW 😂
Me too. Just looked pathetic.
Save for a few choice segments (The Flair and Lethal segment) and Rob Van Dam coming in, I absolutely hated everything about TNA Wrestling in 2010.
And when he returned to WWE he barely made it to WWE 12 dlc and gave us cena this is your life
I ❤Mick Foley. At a convention we had a nice conversation about the great hero from Minneapolis Big OG Floyd since I had a shirt with the gentle giant on 🎉
I believe Foley has mentioned in recent years that while his run in TNA wasn't what he expected, he can appreciate it for what it was.
Not the worst thing a former WWE star ĥas said about their time in TNA
Mick Foley may not live long, but he will live forever!
Given what hes done to his own brain he's already lived longer then most. And didnt murder his own family either.
@@scottaznavourian3720Mick has went through possibly the most head trauma/bodily harm in the history of sports (let alone wrestling) and is still one of the most amazing and universally loved people ever with no real controversies ever
@@scottaznavourian3720 That's why I don't buy it was CTE.
Foley copped 11 chair shots to the head by the Rock at RR 99 yet doesn't murder his family.
CTE is just an excuse to excuse bad behaviour by sports people, and an excuse to sue.
I thought his run was fun. He put in a lot of work into everything during that time. The passion in those promos against flair and sting. His weight loss. He didn't have to put in that much effort, especially for a low level watched show, but he worked his ass off. I think it was a success and countdown to lockdown, while not on par with the first two (hardcore diaries is different stylistically), was a fun read. Kudos to Foley for his TNA run.
He beat Stallone cardboard so that's W
Rest in peace Daphne. She was a billion times better than what she was given in WCW and TNA.
I always looked forward to The Turkey Bowl in TNA
His TNA run was actually one of my favorite memories. He was hilarious as champion. Acting like the the title was his baby. Loved his surprise win against Sting. Especially in a cage match. So props for that. God I miss TNA. And no, it's not still around. Just in name. Also him and JB were comedy gold. I still remember his odd references to Tori Amos
Fun fact: excluding DQ's and Draws Mick Foley has never successfully defended a world title
I think it's still Mick Foley's last one on one match ever, that one with Ric Flair. One week later I met him at a book signing at the one Barnes and Noble with a Chik fil A in front of it that I know of in the Orlando area, wearing a WWE Kurt Angle T-shirt, and I have no idea how it came up but my sister said something like "Kurt Angle _should_ retire" and I recall seeing a flash of a dirty or confused look from Mick, and it was afterwards that it hit me that he might have been thinking, "If you think that KURT should retire, does that mean _I_ should _be_ retired?" I think I said "well at least we should never see him for free anymore". Anyway I know Mick had tag matches and Royal Rumble appearances after that but then the doctors outright refused to clear him ever again so that was that.
I fweel a video on the TNA Legends title is in order.
It showed up when the MEM was around, and I really don't even remember how it disappeared, as eventually there's only so much of Russo's booking you can stand to watch.
That was some perfect timing on that last line.
You really are a wrestling historian. I love watching Vids like this that explain so much. Keep up the amazing work
I can't get over Jarrett drinking in the bar wearing a BloodRayne beanie.
I just posted this too haha
His rivalry with Abyss is always my favorite from his run in TNA. "It was YOU, Chris!" lives rent free in my head
But I have one question: Why did Mick Foley refer to Abyss as Chris? Do the fans know about Abyss' real name being Chris Park? Did Russo tell Foley to say Abyss' real name? If you're gonna mention a masked wrestler by name, I feel that you should only call them by their wrestler's name and not their real name.
@@ricardonb6375 Years before Mick came into TNA, back when Abyss had Father James Mitchell as his manager (and during the time James was abusing Abyss), James would be the one to reveal that his real name was Chris Park, and that James was his father
@@vanillabeam5400 Forgot about that moment
That Marge Simpson cutaway was fantastic editing. That got a big laugh from me!
Considering their history in two of the greatest tag teams of all time with their respective brothers, it was kind of a cool idea to team Scott and Booker up.
Ahh damnit, can only get to 11 minutes, now i gotta wait a year until osw finish their tna arc about this era 😭