10 Wrestlers Who Got Pissed Off At Critics
5. Mick Foley
Mick Foley, a sensitive individual, was dismayed at Dave Meltzer's reporting of his TNA run.
Foley was an all-time in-ring great. He had a preternatural ability (and yes, a deranged willingness) to make his opponent look like a monster: in a hypothetical list of the 10 best matches of the Attitude Era proper, 1998-2001, Foley's name appears more times than even Steve Austin, the Rock, and Triple H. He worked better matches with them than they often worked between themselves.
But even he himself admitted, in the twilight of his full-time WWF run, that he was frightened of becoming the guy that the guys in the back didn't want to work with - a sobering admission, given that was his unreal forte. A decade later, he mounted another more or less full schedule to decidedly less acclaim in TNA. Meltzer criticised Foley for failing to put TNA over as an alternative, accusing him of reinforcing its perception as a second-rate promotion. Foley in response penned a 4,442-word denial on TNA's website. It made for sad and deluded reading.
Mick Foley, a sensitive individual, is also a shameless self-publicist individual, and buried the hatchet with Meltzer on Observer Radio under the proviso that he could flog some books.
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