Hall Of Famer Not Planning To Cut Ties With WWE Like Mick Foley
Mick Foley may be done with WWE, but another legendary wrestler isn’t interested in saying goodbye to the company.
WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley is a 3-time World Champion considered by many fans to be one of the most beloved wrestlers in the company’s history.
At 60, Foley isn’t regularly part of WWE anymore, but he has been under a WWE Legends contract for many years, just like so many former wrestlers with ties to the company.
Over the past, Mick Foley notified his followers of his decision to disassociate himself from WWE because many people in the company have close ties to the United States President Donald Trump, who was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013, just like Foley.
In a social media post condemning the death of filmmaker Rob Reiner, Trump’s words upset many people, including musician Jack White. Foley wrote a long message on social media sharing his feelings.
PARTING WAYS WITH WWE
While I have been concerned about WWE‘s close relationship with Donald Trump for several months — especially in light of his administration’s ongoing cruel and inhumane treatment of immigrants (and pretty much anyone who “looks like an immigrant”) — reading the President’s incredibly cruel comments in the wake of Rob Reiner’s death is the final straw for me.
I no longer wish to represent a company that coddles a man so seemingly void of compassion as he marches our country towards autocracy. Last night, I informed @WWE talent relations that I would not be making any appearances for the company as long as this man remains in office.
Additionally, I will not be signing a new Legends deal when my current one expires in June. I love WWE, will always treasure my time with them, and I am deeply appreciative for all the opportunities they afforded me. But, in the words of Popeye the sailor, “I stands all I can stands, and I can’t stands no more.”
Kevin Nash Won’t Join Mick Foley Against WWE
Since Mick Foley’s announcement, his good friend and fellow WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross of AEW said that Foley is a valuable asset to WWE and the company should lose sleep over it.
As a 2-time WWE Hall of Famer, Kevin Nash isn’t shy about giving his opinions on just about anything. Nash been critical of Trump in the past, too. However, Nash made it clear on his Kliq This podcast that WWE is like his family to him, which is no surprise since he has been close friends with WWE’s CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque for over 30 years.
“Mick (Foley) was in the news. He bailed, and I was just like, man, I understand it and if that’s how Mick feels, I get it, from Mick’s standpoint.
But for me personally — because I had some people text me like, ‘Are you gonna follow suit?’ I said, ‘Let me explain my position.’ I called a couple people because I’m not gonna f**king text my thought patterns, but I’m like, Paul (Levesque) and I drove up and down the road for a year and a half. Paul was the first of The Kliq to hold T (Nash’s son)… As time goes on, he gets with Steph (McMahon) and I was at their wedding. I was one of Paul’s best men. I was in the wedding.
When I was Diesel, they flew my wife up to New York City and Linda (McMahon) took my wife out for the day… And that was my wife’s first visit to New York City while I was busy doing a commercial and doing some other things. Linda took care of my wife and I’ll forever be grateful for that because my wife was really nervous.
I look at the McMahon-Levesque… I look at them as family. They’re just family to me. Linda knows what my political views are, and I remember we were at Barclays Center, where the Nets play… Her Suburban (truck) was coming out and I walked up to it and security guys, her detail, stopped me. It was priceless — the look she gave me. Like, you f**king liberal, and she just looked at me, she goes, ‘Ah, he’s okay,’ and I went over and I gave her a hug and I asked her how she was doing. She said, ‘Fine.’ It’s like, they’re my Republican family, you know? But they’re family.”
The big man Nash has also defended Triple H in the past, while others have been critical of how The Game is doing as WWE’s boss.