Mick Foley - Tales From Wrestling Past: A Live Comedy Review

To Madison Square Garden And Back Again

Mick Foley Foley really left no stone un-turned, covering his entire career with bits and pieces of insight and reflection that were more heartwarming than humorous. He began his show talking about his early days, trying to figure out how to get by with no real physical presence, no genetic prowess to speak of. Instead he longed for a middle ground, somewhere between the brawling style of Bruiser Brody and the technical savvy of The Dynamite Kid. Foley described how his dreams took him from his childhood backyard and into the legendary Madison Square Garden where he got to see his idol, Superfly Jimmy Snuka, jump from the top of the steel cage and on towards victory. Foley said that by the end of that night he felt like he was part of a family, and he knew that professional wrestling, from that point on, was what he wanted to do with his life. And so Foley's show went on, with discussions about Vince McMahon and how Foley himself left the company in 2008 under some duress due to Mr. McMahon himself, only to return and become a Hall of Famer, inducted inside the very arena just earlier this year, where his journey had began all those years ago. Foley also touched on his innate and uncanny ability to navigate nearly every match or promo scenario with a tactic he termed The Risk/Reward Ratio, which is exactly how it sounds: is the risk of what he was about to do worth the payoff? This came into play several times during the routine, as well as various unrelated jabs towards his long time friend Al Snow, and Foley's occasional impression of Terry Funk. All in all, it was a fantastic journey to take with Mick as our guide, for just over an hour, as we looked at life through his eyes and a professional wrestling career that was most certainly a legendary one for the ages.
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