Mick Foley
Superstar Stats
Mick Foley
Height
6’2”
Weight
287
lbsHometown
Long Island, N.Y.
Signature Move
Mandible Claw; Double Arm DDT
Career Highlights
WWE Champion; World Tag Team Champion; Hardcore Champion; WWE Commissioner; SmackDown commentator; 2013 WWE Hall of Fame Inductee; Raw General Manager
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Mick Foley: Bio
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Today, he goes by the name on his birth certificate, but Mrs. Foley’s Baby Boy became one of WWE’s most unlikely success stories under the guise of three distinct personas — the unpredictable Cactus Jack, the demented hippy known as Dude Love and everyone’s favorite mental patient, Mankind. These “three faces of Foley” were dangerously unique, but all shared a common trait — a willingness to always go one step too far.
Inspired to become a Superstar after watching Jimmy Snuka leap from the top of a steel cage in Madison Square Garden, Mick Foley adopted Superfly’s fearlessness when he entered the ring himself. As Cactus Jack, he earned a fan following not for winning matches, but for surviving them. In a bout against the punishing Big Van Vader in Germany, Foley’s ear was torn off. In Japan, he suffered third-degree burns in an exploding ring. Still, no matter what he suffered through, Foley kept fighting back.
When he came to WWE in 1996, he turned into Mankind, a deranged miscreant who lurked in boiler rooms and shoved his fingers down opponents’ throats. Under the leather mask of this maniac, Foley lived through sports-entertainment’s most shocking moment when he was thrown off the top of the Hell in a Cell by The Undertaker. The unforgettable image of Foley’s body artlessly plummeting to the ground below defined not only his career, but WWE’s “Attitude Era” as a whole.