When Mick Foley was in his prime, he channeled emotion, very real emotion into the interviews he did and he makes the list here mostly for the work he did from 95-97 as he transitioned from Extreme Championship Wrestling to the global stage of the WWE. In some ways, Mick's well documented sacrifices of sleeping in his car during the 400 mile trips he made to Dominic Denucci's school to learn to wrestle were representative of the passion he verbalised with a microphone. In fact, the word sacrifice could be used to describe Foley's entire career, as he risked his body and physical well being for the sake of the performance. It was those risks that fueled much of the frustration that Foley vented in front of an ECW camera in 1995, when he did things from a creative prospect that weren't done before in a wrestling interview. Foley, who would become a best selling author, would explain a story throughout a 7-8 minute promo that would draw the attention of the audience. Foley took exception to the blood thirsty fans of Philadelphia and his resentment allowed he to embark on a series of "anti-hardcore" promos that are still mesmerising nearly two decades after they originally aired. Eventually, Mick shed his maniac persona and he became one of the biggest stars of the "attitude era," but it was the maniac that paved the way for him to become a Hall of Famer.
