5 of Mick Foley's Most Disgustingly Ultra-Violent Matches

If you think pro wrestling is fake you don't know Mick Foley. A man who has sustained so many injuries that he is missing an ear and can't bend his back far enough to tie his shoes. Mick Foley made his living putting his body on the line more than almost any other person alive. He also writes children's books. Today we have for you a list of 5 of his matches that will turn your stomach sideways due to the violence inflicted on a fellow human being. Viewer discretion is advised and you have been warned.

1. Mick Foley vs The Rock - I Quit Match

The point of an I Quit Match is to beat your opponent until they quit. It is inherently a violent match. In this match Mick Foley (as Mankind) takes on Dwayne The Rock Johnson in one of these matches. The Rock had a reputation of being a pretty boy who played it safe. In this match The Rock showed he wasn't afraid to take some punishment. Worse than that he showed he can dish it out delivering multiple chair shots to Mick Foley's head with no protection, bending the chair in the process.

The worst part of this match is that Mick Foley's family was sitting at ringside including both of his children. The documentary Beyond The Mat (where the picture above comes from) shows his Foley's daughter screaming in fear that her father was dying. Mick Foley actually hated The Rock for over a decade after this match because he didn't remember The Rock coming to check on him afterwards. Mick Foley had a concussion and just didn't remember it. In fact "Stone Cold" Steve Austin had to inform Mick that The Rock was the first wrestler to see him after and stayed with him longer than anyone outside of Mick's family. Mick's concussion was so bad he just didn't remember anything after the match. Seriously, those chair shots are brutal and the reason that all wrestling companies banned chair shots to the head. Not just WWE.

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2. Cactus Jack vs Randy Orton

Randy Orton is a 3rd generation wrestler and the opposite of Mick Foley. Randy Orton was another wrestler who suffered from the pretty boy label. How do you shake that? Put him in a match with Mick Foley. A No Holds Barred Match. Similar to a regular match but this time there are no banned moves and anything goes.

There were no vicious chairshots to the head in this match. Instead Mick had decided to trade in chairs for thumbtacks and barbed wire bats as well as barbed wire covered boards. Needless to say Randy Orton also got rid of his pretty boy label. Mick proved that he could still go in the ring despite people begging him not to.

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3.  Mick Foley vs Edge - Hardcore Match

Edge did not have a pretty boy label. Edge had made his name in TLC matches. Matches featuring tables, ladders and chairs. Edge was in fact one of the innovators of this match. Edge had a label of The Rated R Superstar. Edge retired early due to injuries sustained throughout his career. The storyline reasons of how this match came about don't matter. What matters is Mick Foley felt that he never had a true Wrestlemania moment. A moment when he truly became an immortal star. Despite all of his championships and being one of the most recognizable wrestlers ever.

Edge decided to give Foley that match. The match featured baseball bats, flaming tables, barbed wire and anything else you can think of. Again, pay attention to the unprotected head shots. Mick wanted to leave it all on the floor for the fans and was most likely fined for it, since he was the reason shots to the head with weapons were banned. Mick Foley spent a good portion of the match with barbed wire wrapped around his body. Edge received a cut on his arm from that wire. At one point in the match Mick Foley is hit in the testicles with a barbed wire baseball bat and then speared from the ring to the floor through a flaming table in the process while already bloodied. After the match a bloodies Foley whispered as simple thank you to Edge.

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4.  Mankind vs The Undertaker - Hell in a Cell

This is the match that made Foley and The Undertaker legends. I don't need much description here. It's a bad match. It's legendary because it showed just how far Foley would go to please the fans. Getting off a stretcher to finish the match despite EMTs. Going through the top of the cell to the ring. Going from the top of the cell to the floor and through an announce table in the process. It's just Foley being Foley


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5. Mick Foley vs Vader 

This is probably the least known match on the list but it is one that had a lasting effect on Foley. Sure injuries from other matches add up. However a young Mick Foley lost an ear in this match. I don't have any thing to add. It's less bloody and brutal than the others but he actually lost part of his body in this match.

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