Mick Foley On Why Mankind Wouldn't Have Happened Without The Undertaker

Since I saw Undertaker's gift as Frasier Crane and it's him at the piano, but it's slight with Undertaker's layers of rock on a laughing face, the temptation was real to show it to him, but I didn't, but I chose what it was. Like, okay, the cucumber thing, like, what's that all about? and he just said that I once had an incident with cucumber when he was a child. I thought I didn't even want to know, that's enough anyway, so cucumbers aside and I like it because you look and The Undertaker has something in common: they both failed in WCW, they were both underutilized and they eventually went to WTF and they came back as stars, but he's in the W, if he's fighting these atrocious people like King Kong Bundy, he just looks like a giant fat egg and a t-shirt.

The giant Gonzales here stood seven feet tall. I didn't

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the physicality there to give you forty-seven seven feet and seven inches tall, yeah, and then in 1986, you entered the WWF and you debuted the day after WrestleMania, but the day before you go to the WWF and start your show. with the Undertaker, you go to Disneyland, you talk about that 24 hour period, he doesn't do that, yeah, when I joined WWE and got him, you know, free of me. I briefly touch on some things that may

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been covered before and 20 years of help, but I think something that's important to know is that he wasn't supposed to be a star in WWE.

You know, he had it in good faith. McMahon wasn't a fan of mine at all and I think the direct quote was that Cactus Jack never set foot inside a WWE ring, so like Mick Foley I walked in like humanity and it was still just a concession to Jim Ross. Bruce Prichard told me that he was about four years ago Jr. He would mention my name in every booking to know the potential talent of him and finally mr. McMahon in the fall of 1995 slammed his hand on a table and said, "Okay, I'll bring him in but I'll cover his face," and it wasn't until yesterday that I saw someone wearing a 1996 Royal Rumble t-shirt that I remembered.

The only reason I was allowed in, so I guess he was going to bring me in, but he was expecting a look in a way that could cover my face in style. The

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in one of many cases showed enormous strength when he practiced the orbital bulb bone working with Mabel instead of taking time off like a normal human being would. He worked with a fractured orbital bone. They didn't want to put him under the hockey mask. You know, they wanted something fancier for him, so they had it. The creative team came up with some prototypes for some masks and they ended up wearing it almost like a Phantom of the Opera type of mask.

One of the prototypes they didn't use was Mr. McMahon liked the mask that ended up becoming the mask of humanity, so not only would I not have gotten my chance in WWE if it hadn't been for Undertaker and I hadn't been paired with Undertaker for that initial run, he could be in any number of places. but there's no way I'm here in Glasgow, Scotland, like 23 years after the fact, oh, and I have to believe I was a huge fan when I saw this character's debut in 1990, like I knew on some level, yeah, this is the same type.

They used to travel with them they used to live in whose parents' house I stayed in Houston, but in another sense it was like this was something completely new, as it was for me, he is the best character-driven artist that the wrestling business free I have ever seen and I only use this phrase in the most positive sense when I say that I marked, you know, that suspension of disbelief is of the utmost importance and professional wrestling made it as easy to do it as if I had come running to the television when the Undertaker was at the point I mentioned this to Kenny.

I didn't when his six year stint I would only see him once and that time he showed you how in character they were the Undertaker and Paul Bearer actually rode in a hearse for two years as a souped up hearse and I'm on tour doing shows independents and I see this one hearse going down a road like McDonald's, that's the person working the window and a hearse appears with the Undertaker in it and I literally got out of my car and started chasing him like I was a 12 year old girl years and it was Justin Bieber, so I guess it's me, you know?

I got the call and went to visit Mr. McMahon, he pitched this idea for a character, you know. I wondered why they would choose to cover my facial features. I thought it was a selling point. He managed to lie and make me believe that something was possible and I really applied my power, I'll tell you what he told me as if he were fortunately someone and creatively he told me that the name they had discovered for me was the mutilator, the mutilator to the point that we are going to Disney when I when I showed up at WrestleMania 96 I had a packet of information that said I was a mutilator, so Mr.

McMahon sees me now, it's the third time we've met, and he says, do you know your name? and I lied. I said no and he is dedicated to this business. We have had crushers. We have had destroyers. We have had executioners. But. we've never had a butyl with her, that's what you are and then he gave me the name Mason Mason, the mutilator is instant death in this business, okay, I guess in defense of mr. McMahon, it was actually Mason the mutilator's experience, but I, uh, he says, what do you think? And this is where it pays to be tactical.

I went, I liked it, I liked it a lot, but what if instead of the mace in the mutilator there was humanity? the mutilator mr. McMahon had a yellow legal pad and he took no, I'm not sure I understand, I said that way, we have a double meaning, we're talking about the future of humanity, the destruction of humanity, and I was throwing all these ideas at him because in the moment I arrived at Wiv. He was eleven and a half years old to travel the country and the world and I had enough confidence that I could stand up to this larger than life billionaire and feel like he had something to do. offer, but until I showed up, you know, until I had my debut, they gave me that package that said mutilator.

I didn't know what they were going to do. I debuted that day after WrestleMania. I heard Howard Finkles' voice say, "it's coming, oh thank God, there's no mutilator then." The mute who ends the game was Bob Holly, soft piano music comes in because he had told Mr. McMahon who wanted to be the first person to have a separate set of executions, ik and said, "Okay, why did I say that because I imagined this character as feeling complete only after he had caused human suffering and wrote it down, it took everything my He took every one of my suggestions, he took, but I didn't know if he would accept any of them, but the thing about Disneyland is that I got the right package and now they have WrestleMania for a week, you know six seven days ago denim is probably three. or four days and I look at my sheet and there's nothing on it, there's absolutely no activity, I mean, while I just changed my room into the bunk beds, so I have plenty of space for activities and my stepbrothers, freaks out there and I'm just looking out the window of the Hilton Anaheim I'm just watching Disneyland for four days and it's finally Poynting WrestleMania I thought there are worse things a guy could do on the road I went to Disneyland without his kids so I did it.

I went and honestly the only people who knew me were like those hardcore WCW fans who would remember Cactus Jack. I showed up the next day and they bought me a Leon White Vader which remains the biggest stain on the WT hall of fame that Leon White is not included in it. I don't know how that happens, but WWE will occupy the room at WrestleMania at SummerSlam when you make media appearances, they will occupy the room, but you are you. You're responsible for your own incidentals, so in five days in a Hilton hotel room I racked up less than fifty dollars in expenses, plus a couple of room service meals.

You know, I have protein bars and stuff like that. Leon says can you just put my stuff away and I look at Leon's receipt, it's two thousand six hundred dollars in that same five day period and I know we're short term lodgings, you know, Road Road mates because he likes to live. on a certain level that I don't. you know, and we got there. Jerry Brisco takes me aside and says: you know what you can do to the Undertaker. I told him I can drop an elbow off a TV truck and Briscoe says we know you like to do some strange things, there may come a time when we ask you to do one of those strange things, but until then we ask you to Don't do any of that weird stuff, so I ran in when he was fighting JBL, who was under Justin Hawk Bradshaw at the time I came in. man interfered, my heart was pounding, you know, I have this mask and it made it very difficult for me to breathe.

I had fought with baba Holly, I hated it, you know, I went to a pay phone, no one had cell phones at the time and I was complaining and crying to my wife. Maybe I have to, but I can do it for three or four weeks, so let me be Cactus Jack again, but maybe this is like I have to go back to '91 when I jumped out of a gift box and a tax like this. They are the two most important moments of my career: attacking Sting, attacking Undertaker and man, you know you go all out, you know it's like Mr.

Miyagi said: you stand on the side of the road, you're fine, you stay in the other, you're fine, getting the middle, they crush you like a grape, so you either fully commit 100% to that character or you don't. everything and I committed, you know, an

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committed not only to his character but also to mine, and we, you know, had an impact that night to the point where Diamond Dallas paid, called Eric Bischoff and He said, brother, that will attract you.