8 Ways Wrestlers Secretly Proved They Were The GOAT

8. The Undertaker And Terry Funk Secretly Buy Mick Foley Some Time After That HIAC Fall

As Mick Foley lay completely broken on the mat in the wake of being unexpectedly dumped through the top of Hell in a Cell back at King of the Ring 1998, The Undertaker, Terry Funk, and the rest of the WWE officials who rushed out to check on the Mankind star were all likely fearing the worst.

And while the hardcore legend would eventually - and rather unbelievably - get back to his feet and finish the rest of the hellacious contest in the end, in the immediate aftermath of the dreadful fall the folks taking in the shocking scene in the ring realised they needed to improvise so Foley could be checked on.

As Foley would eventually note in his Mick Foley's Greatest Hits & Misses: A Life in Wrestling DVD (via IMDb), 'Taker and Funk deciding to suddenly get into it was an entirely off-script occurrence.

The two GOATs of the business knew they needed to buy their battered pal some time and try to keep the audience from realising things hadn't gone to plan. So, up Funk went for the mother of all chokeslams, with the pair of sneakers left behind by this painful piece of improv being one of the first things Foley actually remembers seeing post-fall.

It may have only been a few additional seconds these legends bought by adding in another unplanned bump on the spot, but it was just enough time for Foley to regain his bearings before he opted to crazily continue wrestling for a further ten minutes!