10 Huge Bust-Ups Between Wrestlers And Bookers
2. Mick Foley Vs. Ric Flair
Mick Foley savaged Ric Flair's stint as WCW booker in his first autobiography because he felt he was typecast in his role as hardcore masochist - but he played that role perfectly.
Cactus Jack somehow conspired to enhance even Vader's aura in their awesome video nasty of a series, and gave his body to Sting in 1992 in a white-hot squelcher at Beach Blast. Foley was the perfect opponent for so many wrestling superstars, and was so proficient in such a valuable role that he was never himself considered top-level material. Worse still, Foley's painstaking efforts were undermined with a disastrous late-seasons character arc in which WCW refused to adapt the loss of his ear into a storyline and sold another gruesome injury with a comedic plot.
Flair fired back in his own book by referring to Foley as a "glorified stuntman" and compared his fundamental in-ring ability to that of Brutus Beefcake. That must have hurt more than losing the ear, and it did; Foley took it so personally that, eventually, the men came to blows at a RAW taping years later. It was separated, and wrestling being wrestling, they worked a worked shoot out of it in 2006.
Who was in the right?
Given what Foley put himself through in his time - especially in contrast to what the "real" stars would not years later - it would be too fair to Flair to not put Foley over, particularly since he put the butts in the seats by 1999.