10 WWE Superfans That Actually Made It
7. Mick Foley
One of the first occasions of WWE acknowledging the childhood fandom of their roster members, the famous re-tooling of the deranged Mankind in 1997 shone a spotlight on the high-risk hijinks of a young Mick Foley as he played wrestler with his friends in the early 1980s.
Sharing clips of Foley's backyard comedy movies 'The Legend of Frank Foley' and 'The Loved One', WWE fans saw for the first time what would prove to be the two biggest moneymaking attributes in his arsenal - banal comedy and ludicrous risk.
Exposing 'Dude Love' to fans for the very first time, WWE screened Foley's insane roof dive, in which he gracelessly threw himself off the top of his own house through a makeshift table set up outside his front door.
This was tied together with the heartwarming tale of the young Foley hitchhiking to Madison Square Garden, where the sight of Jimmy Snuka flying through the air to land on top of Don Muraco from a Steel Cage was the exact moment he knew he had to become a professional wrestler.
Foley would achieve even greater fame with his own steel structure tumble, which completely redefined stunts in professional wrestling for an entire generation.