10 Insane WWE Stunts That Were Totally Pointless
9. Punch Drunk
Mick Foley once noted that the steel cage head-shots he absorbed from Chyna during his SummerSlam 1997 battle with Triple H were amongst the most painful of his career. It was thus hard to parse why - a decade later - he'd welcome similar abuse yet again.
Now a heel alongside Edge, Foley was lined up to face his old Philadelphia friends Tommy Dreamer and Terry Funk at WWE's ECW One Night Stand 2006. To this end, he came up with a rather reckless way to present the foes as serious contenders in the build-up.
On an otherwise-moribund 'WWE vs ECW' television special, 'The Funker' landed several legitimately brutal punches under Mick's left eye, opening him up for real. Though the instant blood and bruising added a certain gravitas to Foley's promo in the follow-up segment, his over-familiar addressing of the attack (and the whole show it featured on) was redundant within weeks when WWE grew disinterested with the Extreme rebirth.
Funk was never used in a match by WWE again after the pay-per-view itself, and as a part-timer, Foley's courage generated few replays for posterity once the angle had concluded.