Basic Information About Mick Foley
Category | Athletes βΊ Wrestlers |
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Professions | Writer, Novelist, Wrestler, Comedian, Actor, Voice Actor, Author |
Net worth | $14,000,000 |
Date of birth | 1965-06-07 (59 years old) |
Place of birth | Bloomington |
Nationality | United States of America |
Curiosities and Trademarks | Wrestling moves "Mandible Claw" and "Double Arm DDT" Wrestling moves: Cactus Clothesline (a clothesline that sends both Foley and his opponent over the top rope), Pulling Piledriver (pulls his opponent's tights to piledrive them) and an Elbow Drop from the ring apron to the opponent on the outside of the ring. As the character Mankind, Foley uses a sock puppet called "Mr. Socko" to use for the Mandible Claw As Cactus Jack, Foley uses a barbed wire wrapped bat as a weapon Finishing move: Mandible Claw/Mr Socko/Love Handle (Mandible Claw Nerve Hold) Trademark move: Cactus Elbow (Running Elbow Drop from the ring apron to the floor) Trademark move: Double Arm DDT Trademark move: Mr Socko (Testicular Claw) Trademark move: Spinning Sidewinder Suplex Trademark move: Stump-puller Piledriver (Texas Piledriver with bent opponent) Trademark move: Sweet Shin Music (Superkick to the shin, mimicking Shawn Michaels' finishing move Sweet Chin Music) Signature weapon: Thumbtacks Signature weapon: Barbie (Baseball Bat wrapped in Barbed Wire) Missing front teeth Jokes poking fun at Al Snow, Test, and the Mean Street Posse Known for his affable, gregarious and good-natured personality offscreen Long curly hair and his beard Known for his ability to take extraordinary amounts of physical punishment, even by wrestling standards, and still continue with matches |
Spouse | Collette Foley - (24 AprilΒ 1992 - present)Β (4 children) |
Gender | Male |
Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
Social Media | βοΈ Wikipedia βοΈ IMDb |
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What Movie Awards did Mick Foley win?
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Mick Foley roles
Movie / Series | Role |
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The Peanut Butter Falcon | Jacob |
12 Hour Shift | Nicholas |
30 Rock | Mankind 1 episode, 2012 |
Avatar: The Last Airbender | The Boulder 2 episodes, 2006-2007 |
Saturday Night Live | Self (uncredited) unknown episodes |
Dark Side of the Ring | Self / ... 2 episodes, 2019-2020 |
WWE Monday Night RAW | Mankind / ... 330 episodes, 1996-2019 |
Svengoolie | Self / ... 3 episodes, 2014-2016 |
Boy Meets World | Mankind 1 episode, 1999 |
Celebrity Deathmatch | Mankind / ... 3 episodes, 2000-2002 |
The Daily Show | Self / ... 5 episodes, 2009-2014 |
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Self 1 episode, 2001 |
Now and Again | Charlie 1 episode, 2000 |
Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self / ... 2 episodes, 1999-2000 |
Mick Foley's Quotes
- Have a nice day!
- Bang Bang!" Owwwwww, have mercy!
- I'm gonna make your ass the world's largest pin cushion!
- "I know this may not sound cool, but Dewey and Noelle, this one's for you! Daddio did it!" (After winning his first WWF World Championship)
- [To Randy Orton, about how Foley and Dwayne Johnson (aka The Rock) lost to the team of Orton, Ric Flair and Dave Bautista (aka Batista)] "I'm very impressed that, in a three-on-two situation, you can defeat a Hollywood movie star and a writer of children's books".
Interesting Facts about Mick Foley
- On August 20, 1995, he won the IWA King of the Death Match tournament in Japan by defeating Terry Funk in an exploding ring match. He later ended up winning the WWF tag team titles with him.
- Former WWF World, Tag Team & Hardcore champion, WCW Tag Team champion & ECW Tag Team champion
- Has won tag team titles with Kane (WWF) The Rock (WWF), Mikey Whipreck (ECW), Al Snow (WWF), Kevin Sullivan (WCW) & Steve Austin (WWF)
- Retired from pro wrestling on February 27, 2000, after losing to "Hunter Hearst Helmsley" in a Hell in a Cell cage match, but returned for one night only two months later to participate in the main event of WrestleMania 2000.
- Some of his other injuries include: A broken jaw, fractured left shoulder, broken right wrist, a broken toe, two broken noses, second degree burns and a total of over 300 stitches all over his body. 1998: In an intensely brutal Hell in a Cell match vs The Undertaker, Foley had, his shoulder and jaw dislocated and a tooth knocked into his nose.
- March 16, 1994: Foley lost 2/3 of his right ear in a match against Vader (Leon White) in Munich, Germany.
- Children: Dewey, Noelle, Hewey and Michael Jr. (b. January 2001)
- Apparently, Mankind's sock puppet friend, "Mr. Socko", was WWF superstar Al Snow's idea.
- Along with partner Al Snow, won the tag team titles from the New Age Outlaws on November 5, 1999, and held the title for 3 days. Is one of the shortest title reigns ever recorded.
- The first ever WWF Hardcore Champion.
- Became commissioner of the WWF on June 26, 2000, after Shawn Michaels gave up the job.
- Attended college at, and played lacrosse for SUNY Cortland.
- First wrestler to appear on Howard Stern's radio show.
- Was inspired to become a wrestler after hitchhiking to Madison Square Garden to see a cage match between Jimmy Snuka and Don Muraco.
- His appointment to the position of WWF Commisioner occurred in Worcester MA, at the same arena where he won his first-ever WWF Heavyweight Championship several years before.
- Though officially retired from professional wrestling, Foley is still involved in "wrestling" (in a way), as host of the mechanical "wrestling" show Robot Wars, on TNN.
- The last time his children Dewey and Noelle saw their father perform live was during an exceptionally brutal PPV match between Foley and The Rock (the match was featured in Beyond the Mat (1999), during which Foley was handcuffed and he was subjected to eleven consecutive chair shots to the head. The kids were in the front row with their mother and were shown to be shaken. They haven't attended a live show since.
- Two of his 4 books have been #1 on the New York Times Best-Sellers List "Have a Nice Day!: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks" and "Foley IsGood: And the Real World Is Faker Than Wrestling". His 2 children's books are holiday books - "Mick Foley's Christmas Chaos" and "Mick Foley's Halloween Hijinx". He is also the author of "Scooter", a novel published in 2005.
- Wrestled Vader (Leon White) the night he had his ear ripped off in Germany.
- The WWF originally wanted the mouthpiece of his Mankind mask to resemble the mask Hannibal Lecter wore in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), complete with bars across the mouth.
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