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1
All Information About Mick Foley
2
Early Life
  • Mick Foley Grew Up On Long Island, New York, And
    Tried To Become A Professional Wrestler While He
    Was In College. In The Late 1980S, As Cactus
    Jack, He Started Getting Bigger Gigs, But His
    Love Of Dangerous Stunts Made Him More Likely To
    Get Hurt. Later, Foley Introduced The Characters
    Mankind And Dude Love To Wwe. He Kept Giving Fans
    Thrills And Became A Popular Champion. Outside Of
    The Ring, He Wrote A Book That Became A
    Best-seller And Went On A Comedy Tour.

3
The Beginning
  • Michael Francis Foley was born in Bloomington,
    Indiana, on June 7, 1965. He grew up in the East
    Setauket neighbourhood of Long Island, New York.
    He joined the football, basketball, lacrosse, and
    wrestling teams at Ward Melville High School.
    Kevin James, who later became a comedian and
    actor, was on the wrestling team with him.

4
Want To Become A Professional Wrestler
  • Foley also liked to watch professional wrestling,
    and he and his friends even put on matches that
    they filmed. As a freshman at Cortland State
    University, he hitchhiked to Madison Square
    Garden to see Jimmy Superfly Snuka wrestle
    Magnificent Muraco. It was there that he decided
    he wanted to become a professional wrestler.

5
Early Years Of Wrestling And Cactus Jack
  • When Foley Got A Job As Part Of A Promoters Ring
    Crew, He Was Able To Train With Veteran Wrestler
    Dominic Denucci. During College, He Wrestled In
    Independent Matches On The Weekends. In His First
    Match For World Wrestling Entertainment, He Went
    Up Against The Best Tag-team Team, The British
    Bulldogs, And Got His Jaw Knocked Out.

6
Sports Bigger Promotions
  • Foley eventually got into the role of Cactus
    Jack, an unpredictable outlaw from New Mexico,
    and his willingness to take punishment started
    getting him noticed by the sports bigger
    promotions.

7
Join The Continental Wrestling Association
  • Foley joined the Continental Wrestling
    Association, where he and Gary Young became
    well-known tag-team partners. He then moved to
    World Class Championship Wrestling, where he
    briefly took on the persona of Charles Manson as
    Cactus Jack Manson.
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8
JOIN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
  • When Foley/Cactus joined World Championship
    Wrestling in 1989, Jack had made a name for
    himself as a wrestler who didnt mind getting hit
    with a metal chair or getting slammed to a
    concrete floor. He also worked on developing his
    characters. He perfected a role as a tag-team
    wrestler who didnt work with his partner and
    read books during matches before beating up his
    partner.

9
He Lost His Ear
  • Foley eventually became one of WCWs most popular
    wrestlers, but his increasingly violent and
    dangerous moves in the ring got him in trouble
    with his bosses. In a match against Big Van Vader
    in Munich, Germany, in March 1994, Foley tried a
    hangman trick in which he got his neck caught
    in the ropes and had to pull his right ear off to
    get free.

10
The King Of The Death Match
  • Foley started spending more time in Japan. In
    August 1995, he won the King of the Death Match
    tournament by surviving explosions and getting
    caught in barbed wire. This brought him a new
    level of fame. When he got back to the United
    States, Extreme Championship Wrestling welcomed
    him with open arms. There, he showed off his
    unique ability to tell stories through creative
    promotional interviews that made fun of his
    hardcore reputation.

11
Mankind And Dude Love
  • Foley joined WWE in 1996, the same year that
    Mankind made his debut. Mankind was a crazy
    character who wore a leather mask, lived in a
    boiler room, and killed people by sticking his
    fingers down their throats. Foleys scary persona
    and his ability to do a lot of different things
    made him a great opponent for both popular
    heartthrobs like Shawn Michaels and scary people
    like the Undertaker.

12
Alternate Side
  • But by the summer of 1997, Foley was showing fans
    a different side of himself as Dude Love, a
    fun-loving hippie in tie-dyed t-shirts. Later
    that year, he brought back Cactus Jack and would
    often switch between two or three characters at
    the same event.

13
Match For Hell In A Cell
  • In a match against the Undertaker in June 1998
    known as Hell in a Cell, Foley/Mankind was
    thrown from the top of the 16-foot-high cage onto
    a table, choke-slammed through the cage top, and
    thrown to a thumbtack-covered mat. Some of the
    injuries he got from the show were a broken jaw
    and shoulder, a cut in his mouth that needed 14
    stitches, and a loose tooth that was sticking out
    of his nose.

14
Start Of Comedy
  • Foley took on a new challenge in 2009 when he
    started doing stand-up comedy. He was no longer
    able to fully commit to his full-throttle stunts,
    so he turned his act into more of a story segment
    that riffed on his wild career in pro wrestling.
    Foley has also worked as a crisis counsellor for
    the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network
    (RAINN) for a long time.

15
Personal Life
  • Foley met his wife, Colette, in 1990 on Long
    Island while he was handing out flyers for a
    wrestling event. Dewey, Noelle, Mickey, and
    Hughie are their four kids.
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