6. Vs. Mick Foley
There aren't many things in modern professional wrestling that haven't happened. There are cross-generational dream matches, of course, but for those who performed at the same time pretty much everything has been done. Whether you were WWF or WCW, the eventual takeover and invasion ticked off a lot of dream matches. One that didn't happen, though, was Hulk Hogan vs. Mick Foley. What makes this shocking is that the two spent time in TNA, a company who seemed to thrive on presenting early 90s dream matches two decades late. Hogan vs. Foley never happened, and I'm not entirely sure why. It's difficult to find two more differing performers and although both were wildly successful, that is where the similarities end. Hogan was a bodybuilder with the superman physique, who found himself on top thanks to aesthetics and charisma. Foley was an awkward, pudgy guy who put his body through hell to get noticed. Hogan was intensely protected, bumping very little and very rarely. Foley's career was defined for a long time by the bumps he took. They are the professional wrestling chalk and cheese and it would have made for an interesting match, especially on a big show like WrestleMania but it was not to be. The only time the match could have really happened was in WCW in the mid-90s or WWE in the mid-2000s.
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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.
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