10 Wrestlers Better Off For Having Worked With Mick Foley
7. Mikey Whipwreck
Mikey Whipwreck never should have made it in professional wrestling. He was too small, didn't have the look of a Superstar and got his start as a lowly ring boy. But he could bump and was a master of generating sympathy thanks to the way he sold the offense of his opponent.
Paul Heyman, a master booker and maker of stars, saw the potential in him as a lovable underdog babyface and crafted a persona for him that helped make young Whipwreck one of the most over stars on a roster full of misfits and outcasts.
One such outcast was Mick Foley, fresh off a run in WCW that featured several high-profile matches but was bankrupt of satisfaction, thanks to the politics that kept him from truly achieving greatness.
With name recognition as his greatest contribution to the blossoming ECW promotion, Foley (as Cactus Jack) hand-picked the young Whipwreck to be his tag team partner when Terry Funk left the company.
Together, they defeated Public Enemy to capture the ECW Tag Team Championships and in the process, solidified the lifelong fan as one of the biggest stars in the promotion.
Whipwreck would channel his new-found momentum into a heavyweight championship reign before splitting from Jack in one of the future Hall of Famer's final story arcs with the promotion.
Mikey was already a lovable loser by the time Foley arrived, but it was the seal of approval from the nationally recognised star, the acceptance of him as his tag team partner in a pinch, that helped catapult Whipwreck to moderate stardom.
A stardom he would have never experienced otherwise.