10 Wrestlers Who Can HONESTLY Be Labelled A Genius
8. Mick Foley
The strangest part of Mick Foley's 'Foley Is Good' isn't the stories of brutal, concussive head trauma, but the idea that he thought he was in decline in the year before his (non)retirement.
Foley, paranoid, felt he was an embarrassment, that his peers were secretly upset at the prospect of working a performer who had lost his ability to make them look halfway decent. The exact opposite was true: for a significant stretch of time, up to and including his hobbling twilight years, there is no other performer in the industry an aspiring main event act wished to step foot in the ring with.
Ironically, for a man with most of his right ear missing, Foley was a master of balance.
His unhinged, sadistic rapid-fire punches meshed perfectly with his demented, masochistic bumping and willingness to absorb brutal punishment, the effect of which saw several wrestling stars ascend to Super status. Mick Foley made talents look like stars (Randy Orton), comedians look like killers (The Rock), ring generals look like Gods of war (Triple H) and animals look like monsters (Vader).
Foley was so crucial to Triple H's headliner run that the Game is always a little too reluctant to acknowledge it, lest it form part of the narrative.
That says it all.