10 Wrestlers Who Were Wrongly Judged On ONE Match

3. Mick Foley Is Only Good For Big Bumps

Mordecai Hardcore Holly Great American Bash 2004
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Ask 100 wrestling fans to name one Mick Foley match and 99 (if not 100) will recall his blistering Hell In A Cell epic with The Undertaker at King Of The Ring 1998. If pressed for another, those same folks might remember a similar HIAC effort opposite Triple H at No Way Out 2000, and a few hardcores might mention something about Vader.

That's all Mick was good for, right? Big bumps? Wrong.

Foley is constantly judged on the 'Taker bumps. Few stop to think back to classic matches he had with Shawn Michaels (IYH: Mind Games in 1996), Sting (WCW Beach Blast 1992) or Steve Austin (Over The Edge 1998). Yes, Mick loved a dramatic stunt, but he was a much more capable wrestler than most give him credit for.

Even Vince McMahon was lured into this line of thinking years before HIAC. He told Jim Ross that Foley, as Cactus Jack, wasn't up to snuff and would break his heart if he hired him for the WWF. The Vin-man got that one wrong, eh?

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