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WWE legend Mick Foley left spewing blood after ‘simple’ move from The Undertaker-Alistair McGeorge-Entertainment – Metro
The Hardcore Legend isn’t a fan of this move.
Mick Foley has reflected on a particularly painful moment (Picture: WWE)
WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley is known for his daredevil antics in wrestling but it turns out a ‘regular chokeslam’ was enough to leave him ‘spewing blood’ backstage.
The Hardcore Legend, who has been open about his laundry list of injuries over his incredible career, recently reflected on a match from the late 1990s when a simple move took a nasty turn.
Speaking on the Foley Is Pod podcast, he recalled: ‘I remember wrestling The Undertaker in Fayetteville, North Carolina, just a regular chokeslam – which was not the finish, we went a few minutes more – but I can feel this internal bleeding coming up and I finished the last couple of minutes looking like Dizzy Gillespie on a hot trumpet solo, you know?
‘My mouth was just full of internal blood. I made it back to the dressing room…went into the sink and just spewed blood everywhere, just from a simple chokeslam.’
Foley explained that the nature of the move made things ‘difficult’ for the person taking the impact, particularly with the style of rings they were using at the time.
‘The chokeslam was difficult, because unlike say, a suplex, you are absorbing that impact from your shoulders all the way down your lower back, through the buttocks and your feet,’ he said.
The Undertaker and Foley (seen here at Mankind) had some legendary battles (Picture: WWE)
‘A chokeslam, basically, you’re taking all the impact on a small section of your back –- especially in the old WWE rings before they changed them a few months after [Hell in a Cell].’
He added: ‘Just taking a chokeslam, if you land on one side or the other just slightly, you would feel it for a few days.’
Ouch.
Previously, Foley has opened up about the financial and physical impact of his iconic Hell In A Cell match against The Undertaker at King of the Ring 1998, when – performing as Mankind – he got thrown off the structure through a table, and then through the roof of the cell itself.
Speaking in 2020, he exclusively told Metro.co.uk: ‘Oh wow. Yeah, I would say Hell In A Cell – I think it may have shortened my career. It was definitely the point from which I believed in my own mortality, so everything was different following that cell match.
‘I don’t have any regrets – I have some small regrets about things I did later in my career. But no, I don’t regret starting that match on top of the cell.’
However, he’s still paying the price for that decision.
‘Things did not work out like I’d have hoped,’ he admitted. ‘The cell collapsing when I was chokeslammed still has fallout for me! I just paid $425 to remove my bottom flipper – which are false teeth which were knocked out in that cell – and I’ll have to pay $15,000 or so to get those teeth fixed.’
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