10 Wrestlers Better Off For Having Worked With Mick Foley

10. The Nasty Boys

The Nasty Boys had plenty of exposure by the time they returned to WCW in 1993. They had previously competed for the company and found success in both the AWA and WWE.

As nasty as their demeanour may have been, though, Knobbs and Sags were still lacking that one series of matches that demonstrated just how violent and vile they could be.

Enter Mick Foley, under the guise of Cactus Jack. With partner Maxx Payne, he waged war with The Nasty Boys at April 1994's Spring Stampede. It was a wild and chaotic Chicago Street Fight with tag team gold at stake, a brilliant match that helped Sags and Knobbs entrench themselves in the heart of the tag team division.

The rematch a month later at Slamboree improved upon the instant classic that was the original, a phenomenal match that captivated the Philadelphia fans with its sheer violence and unforgiving brutality.

Jack teamed with Kevin Sullivan on that night, winning the tag titles in a feel good moment, but it was the Nasty Boys who were better off for having worked with Foley. Never really the strongest wrestlers from an in-ring perspective, the series opened the eyes of management to the quality brawls the team thrived in.

Against Harlem Heat and Public Enemy, they would become cornerstones of the tag division by working those same brawling-type matches.

More importantly, they would gain acceptance from a WCW audience who, previously, only remembered them for getting their asses kicked by the Steiner Brothers some four years earlier.