WWE Legend Mick Foley Shares Health Update After Impressive Weight Loss

Things are looking up for Mick Foley.

Mick Foley enjoyed a remarkable wrestling career, establishing himself as a legend the world over. His exploits in Japanese death matches are still discussed in reverent tones by fans decades later, while once in WWE, arguably, no one pushed the limits of hardcore wrestling within the company harder.

There’s also the small matter of that fall from the top of Hell In A Cell in 1998.

Unsurprisingly, Foley’s disregard for his own personal safety and desire to go above and beyond every time he stepped in the ring came at a heavy cost. But five months removed from his 60th birthday, things are looking up for the Hardcore Lgend.

During a new interview with Chris Van Vliet, Foley revealed that he lost the best part of 90lbs while getting hip and knee replacements.

“The crazy thing is I’m moving better. I dropped like 90 [pounds]. At one point, I’d gone from 372 to 273, and then I may have taken it too easy for the next four or five months and crept up towards 300, but I think I’m down around 275, and hip and knee replacements, those were game changers.

I remember talking to Kevin Nash and saying, Kevin, something amazing happened to me today. I said I passed somebody in the airport. I was always the guy where people were like, ‘Hey, sir, you move to the side.’ And I was starting to pass people, which didn’t mean I was fast.”

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Expanding further, Mick Foley gave an insight into just how much pain he was in prior to his surgery. He said that although he was hesitant to describe it as “agonizing,” it was certainly “more than severe.”

“I don’t want to over exaggerate the amount of pain I was in, but I think I’ve got a pretty high threshold. So when I say it was, I don’t want to say agonizing, but it was more than severe. If it was not agonizing, it was agonizing at moments.

I would need five minutes to get going after I got off, I stood up out of my seat on a plane, or when I was driving my car, and my kids said that this is what I would do for hours at a time, I punched my right thigh to try to get some feeling in my nerves.”

Foley added that despite originally thinking a lot of his pain was being caused by his back, a specialist discovered that the real culprit was his hip. That same doctor said Foley’s hip was the worst he’d ever seen, and was amazed that the former WWE star could even walk.

“When I went at a friend’s request, who’s a physical therapist, she said, I think that’s your hip. And I was like, but the pains in my lower back. But then she explained something about the piriformis muscle gripping onto the nerve, mimicking sciatica.

And when I went to that doctor, orthopedic guy, and I saw the hip, I wasn’t dismayed, I was actually happy, because I saw, you can fix this. He said, ‘I’ve been doing this for 25 years. It’s the worst hip I’ve ever seen. I don’t know how you’re walking.’

Once I realized there was hope, and then once I had the hip followed by the knee, it was like a new lease on life. Now, if you were to suddenly transform someone else into my current body, sure, they might think it was hell on earth, but compared to how I felt for like, 10-15 years, yeah, I am doing a lot better.”

Mick Foley had hoped to wrestle a retirement match before he turned 60, but his plans were derailed by a concussion in training. It’s since been revealed that he held talks with AEW star MJF regarding the comeback.

H/t to WrestlingNews.Co