10 Wrestlers Who Sacrificed The Most To Become WWE Champion

2. Mick Foley

Mick Foley is not the prototypical professional wrestler and he'll be the first guy to tell you that. His look is not what Vince McMahon envisions when he thinks of the word "superstar" or the idea that people would want to pay money to see him. Foley got his ass kicked for much of his career. He knew he couldn't jump that high, but he knew how to entertain. Sometimes that meant doing things like getting thrown off a fifteen foot high Hell in a Cell through an announce table and then through the cage itself. The man almost died in that match, yet he kept on fighting. Selling a beating was his calling card and he knew that. About six months after that match, he won the WWE Title for the first time on the January 4, 1999 edition of Raw. It's because the fans loved him so much that WWE had to put the gold on him. He truly earned it and that moment with him holding the title in the air while wresting in sweatpants (remember what I said about not looking like a superstar?) is something fans think of so fondly because we know what he put himself through to entertain us. Foley retired as a full-time performer in February 2000 when he was just 34 years old. Okay, so he wrestled other matches later in his career, but it's not like a lot of guys retire as a full-timer at that age. That's the definition of a guy that sacrificed some things in his life to get where he wanted in his career. Maybe he regrets some of it now at 50 years old with a bad limp that is never going away. Then again, he probably wouldn't change that much, either.