TSC Evaluation #111: Mick Foley

[mrken12]

Yes because you going to post hate towards Shawn. One word posts about his accomplishments. Not mentioning his was wrestler of year multiple times and match of the year. I’m against the next post.

I'm making the thread just like I made all of the other threads. Stop whining about an internet poll and grow up. I haven't had any complaints about the other threads. I gain nothing from being petty and sabotaging my own thread series.

 

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10. Highly important figure of the attitude era. He also help make hardcore wrestling popular in US.

 

[Tommy Fits]

10/10....An all time great, top 10 of all time. Like someone else said, he doesn't get the respect he deserves because the latter part of his career he whored himself out.

Mic work...10/10, yes the pandering stuff isn't good but IMO, Foley at his best is the best the business has ever seen. And its even more impressive is the fact his best stuff he did it without catchphrases, it was raw emotion. Cane Dewey, anti hardcore stuff, the stuff leading up to the I quit match against Flair, the 97 interview with JR, this should be mandatory viewing for any up and coming wrestler in the business.

Personality...10/10, someone else mentioned it, he got over with not one but 3 totally different gimmicks. If you think about it he eventually got over with 4 gimmicks because he even got over just as Mic Foley. When I was a kid in 96, Mankind legit freaked me out, I truly believe he loved pain.

Ring Work...10/10, now here me out, the point of professional wrestling is to be entertained. Yes Foley was not a ring technician, he was not a Michael's, Guerreo, Benoit, but were we not entertained watching Foley's matches ? Some of the most memorable in ring moments in my wrestling watching are from Foley. And while he may not of been a mat technician, he knew how to tell a story and understood psychology, done guys can do amazing shyt in the ring but have no idea how to tell a story, Foley was a master at this. Even when he was broken down and could be barely move, his matches against Edge at Mania and ONS and the I quit match against Flair we're great matches, they weren't clinics, they were just entertaining matches that told a great story and I wanted to see how they ended.

Also Foley gets bonus points because Foley absolutely fukking made the Rock and HHH. Some times you make a guy and they flame out, the two guys Foley made are two of the most everlasting names in wrestling history. One guy went on to become possibly the biggest action star in Hollywood, and the other is about to run the business in a few years, that's quite the resume

 

[Dat916nigga]

One of my all-time favorite matches. I remember watching it live.

I watched this match again last night and it never gets old

That Pedigree on the thumbtacks

 

[Daystew]

I'm making the thread just like I made all of the other threads. Stop whining about an internet poll and grow up. I haven't had any complaints about the other threads. I gain nothing from being petty and sabotaging my own thread series.

I’ll give you credit, you’ve been fair and unbiased with every poll thus far and I think you’ll do the same with Shawn Michaels (not that my opinion matters).

This isn’t the thread to discuss HBK, but even I was concerned that a guy who many in the industry think is the greatest all around wrestler of alltime will get ridiculous 5/10s or worse because many on this board hate him.

As far as Mick, he’s probably one of the toughest to rank. Goat-tier promo, great gimmicks, memorable matches, sacrificed physical and mental well-being for his career.

But I have a hard time giving him a 10. To me, he’s similar to Jericho. Near perfection at so many things, the epitome of the sport, but hard to put on a Randy Savage level who is basically flawless. I went with 8, but really he’d be like an 8.5-8.8 for me.

 

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[WaveMolecules]

Gave foley a 10

 

[Tommy Fits]

When does the HBK one go up.

 

[mrken12]

When does the HBK one go up.

Wednesday.

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

hes a 9

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Just to drive home how good a promo and versatile a talker he was, let’s take a look at a line he used once:

I will not say them here nor there, I will not say them anywhere. I will not say those words, you twit. I will not, will not say I quit


That’s Mick using a Dr. Seuss line to hype up an I quit match against the rock and he made it work. Please find me someone else who could successfully use a children’s book author type line in a dead serious promo without it bombing disastrously.

 

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