Mick Foley Regrets Not Having Long-Term Feud With WWE Legend
Mick Foley wishes he had a meaningful feud with a legendary WWE Hall of Famer.
During his legendary career, WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley had legendary rivalries with some of the best wrestlers ever, such as “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, The Rock, The Undertaker, Triple H, Edge, and Randy Orton, among others.
There are also wrestlers who were in the same era of wrestling as Foley who never really got a chance to wrestle him or feud with him. Part of the reason for that is because Foley retired as a full-time wrestler in 2000 when he was just 35 years old, and that was due to a lot of injuries. Foley did come back and wrestled many more times in WWE and TNA, but not on a full-time basis.
In a recent interview on the Two-Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast, Mick Foley recalled wrestling WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart on Shotgun Saturday Night many years ago.
“I don’t know if I’ve seen that or if I have, it was 25 years ago. What made that one interesting is that Bret is one of the best. I mean, he’s ‘The Best There is, The Best There was, and The Best There Ever Will Be.’ The cool thing about that is, he was so good that it’s not interpreted as a joke or braggadocio. He has those type of qualifications.
He asked me if there’s anything I wanted to do, and I just said, ‘Bret, the idea of this show is it’s really rough around the edges, why don’t we just have a rough match? Just go out there and see what happens.’ Aside from me, I believe, messing up a Neckbreaker it was, it was a really good match.”
Mick Foley Wishes He Had A Proper Feud With Bret Hart In WWE
Since Mick Foley joined WWE in early 1996, he shared a locker room with Bret Hart for nearly two years before Bret memorably left the company at Survivor Series 1997. Had Bret stayed for a few more years, he likely would have had a high-profile feud with Foley.
As he reflected on his career, Foley expressed disappointment about not having that special rivalry with the Hitman.
“I will say one of the biggest disappointments in my career is that I did not have a chance to wrestle either Bret or Shawn (Michaels).
Shawn and I had our, you know, our first singles match ever at Mind Games. It was one for the record books or one for the sake of history. But it wasn’t a hot feud. It was like a cold match, and then we never got the chance to do it on the grandest stage of them all. But I wish I’d been given that opportunity, or to wrestle The Undertaker at WrestleMania.”
The Mick Foley match with Shawn Michaels was a classic battle at the 1996 WWE Mind Games PPV when Michaels was the WWE Champion. It’s a feud that Michaels called the most underrated rivalry of his career.