Mick Foley's WrestleMania Matches - Ranked From Worst To Best

4. Vs. Triple H Vs. The Rock Vs. Big Show - WrestleMania 2000

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The first WrestleMania of the new millennium saw Mick Foley make his one and only appearance in the main event of wrestling's biggest show. For most this would come with a great deal of celebration and adulation, but Foley's appearance leaves something of a confused, mixed taste in the mouth.

You see, he had been retired a month earlier by Triple H. Now of course, this is professional wrestling and the word 'retirement' rarely has any meaning, but most tend to leave it longer than a month before returning to the ring. This cheap feeling was exacerbated by the overriding belief that Foley was in the match for the benefit or the McMahon family and wrestling's constant obsession with symmetry. Foley allowed Linda to get involved, and suddenly there was a McMahon in every corner.

All of which sounds like an argument against Foley being in a WrestleMania main event, a claim that could not be further from the truth. Out of the four men involved, nobody deserved it more than Mick Foley, and he was a performer that professional wrestling !*$% well needed in a WrestleMania main event. It's just a shame that it came in these circumstances.

The match itself was a lot of fun, with Triple H retaining the title due to McMahon shenanigans. Has anyone used the term McMahonigans to describe that yet?

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.