10 Wrestlers Who Probably Had A Death Wish

For those of us who grew up through the 1990s, Mick Foley was most probably the one who introduced us to the art of death-defying insanity bumps. My first introduction to Foley was as Mankind in the WWF, and initially it seemed that the one thing he had over all the other wrestlers was that he had no problem getting well and truly beaten up.

In many ways, Foley bumped like he had a death wish because it was how he thought he could stand out in the weird world of professional wrestling, and he was right. He wasn't a hulking bodybuilder, but he wasn't a smaller sleek technical master or high-flyer either. Foley was as close to an 'ordinary guy' as you're going to get in wrestling.

The thing that is often forgotten with Foley and his crazy bumps is that that is exactly what they were, bumps. When The Undertaker hurled him off the top of Hell in a Cell way back when the crowd responded with an almighty gasp, but going into the match that was always going to happen. Watch the bump back; Foley lands as only a professional wrestler would land in such a situation.

Still, this doesn't (or at least shouldn't) dampen the sheer insanity of it all. Whether it was getting thrown off of cages, smashed in the head repeatedly by chairs or getting speared through flaming tables, Mick Foley made wrestling with a death-wish an art form.