• Mick Foley Takes Credit For Bray Wyatt & Kevin Owens’ Success
On an episode of his weekly ‘Foley Is Pod’ podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley talked about his biggest influence on the professional wrestling business and changing the way main event pro wrestlers are supposed to look like.
Here’s what Foley had to say about what his most significant contribution was:
“Probably expanding people’s ideas of what a big star could look like. That was probably the biggest.
I think I expanded, opened the door for guys to follow, like Kevin Owens, like Bray Wyatt, who might not have gotten a look as a star. I’d like to think my lasting contribution is that I think I treated people well when I was on top, and that goes back to remembering how I was treated in Memphis.”
After wrestling for many different promotions like World Championship Wrestling (WCW), World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW/later USWA Texas), Eastern Championship Wrestling / Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) & several others, he joined the World Wrestling Federation in 1996 and officially retired in 2000, despite coming out of retirement several times in 2004, 2006, 2007 & 2009.
During his WWF career, Foley wrestled as Mankind, Cactus Jack, Dude Love and as himself, but only won the WWF Championship as Mankind.
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• ON THIS DAY IN WWF HISTORY (December 4, 1982) – WWF Championship Wrestling
On this day in 1982, the World Wrestling Federation aired another episode of their weekly TV show ‘WWF Championship Wrestling’.
This episode was pre-taped at the Agricultural Hall in Allentown, Pennsylvania and featured matches & interviews with several 1982 WWF Wrestling Superstars.
You can find the card below:
Superstar Billy Graham vs. Miguel Felicano
WWF Jr. Heavyweight Champion Tiger Mask vs. Mac Rivera
Don Muraco vs. SD Jones
Salvatore Bellomo vs. Joe Martin
Jimmy Snuka vs. Jose Estrada
The Wild Samoans vs. Eddie Gilbert & Curt Hennig
Big John Studd vs. Eddie Carson
Rocky Johnson vs. Tony Russo
