Michael Francis "Mick" Foley (innate June 7, 1965) is an American professional wrestler and author. He has wrestled under a names Cactus Jack, Dude Love, Mankind & Mick Foley.

Wrestling career
Foley, world health organization became the sales person matman around 1983, was noted for his hardcore matches, which frequently left him wounded. These injuries involved eight concussions, a portion of his ear existence cheat, & assibilate 300 stitches. When he is self-admittedly does'nt one of a virtually everthing physically-gifted matman of all-instance, Foley gained ill fame for his thoughtful & vivid promos, in-ring persistence, & willingness to put his person on the line for several unsafe spots. He was likewise known for getting deuce-ace distinct gimmicks as the wrestler: Cactus Jack, the maniac & sanguinary American criminal, Humankind, the tortured soul world health organizatiin hid behind the leather mask & inflicted trouble on others to ease his memories of his dark past, & Dude Love, a swingy "hip cat" & frank. Additionally to these, he at times when well wrestled as "Mick Foley."

Foley number 1 wrestled & gained popularity within Japan, World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) as Cactus Jack throughout a mid-to-late 80s and early 90s. Around 1995, he won the IWA Japan King of the Death Match Tournament. He achieved his greatest profits, even so, in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as Humankind, arriving inside 1996 and winning the WWF Championship in an episode of RAW which aired on January 4th, 1999. On the nighttime Foley's title win was to exist as broadcast, WCW announcer Tony Schiavone announced in WCW's competing Monday Nitro that Foley would win his first championship, which WCW knew because a WWF's Raw had been taped previously & Nitro was survive. He so added a sarcastic remark, "That'll put a lot of butts in the seats." As a testament to Foley's popularity, Nielsen ratings showed that over 100,000 viewers switched from either Nitro to Altogether all but immediately, despite a Hogan vs Nash independent event which led to the reformation of the nWo. Foley late stated that he took swell household pride from either this, & "Mick Foley put my butt in this seat" signs were seen around arenas for years later.

One of his best known matches occurred in a period of the WWF King of the Ring PPV in 1998. Foley, within his Humans persona, was wrestling The Undertaker when he was thrown off of the Hell in a Cell cage (which is similar to the steel cage however by using a mesh ceiling likewise) from either Sixteen foot. in everyone's thoughts & landed in an announcing table, which broke his fall. Officials ran down & a match wwhen suspended as Foley was wheeled away in a stretcher, however midway higher a ramp to the back, Foley had higher, determined to prove my point the match. Fallowing climbing back higher a side of a cage to meet a Funeral undertaker, Foley was chokeslammed through the roof of the cage & into the ring beneath, which was non supposed to happen. His costume that nighttime held supplementary cushioning, designed to shield a 1st blow, but non plenty for 2 blows, which mass produced a fall tremendously extra devastating given a angle of impact in Foley, a want of something collapsible to break his fall & that it was not supposed to happen. In additiin, the steel chair followed him down, which landed on his face, knocking out occasionally of his dentition. Foley recalls that it was one of a just days he got ever been knocked unconcious. Inside-ring officials & more WWF personalities come down to the ring within an effort to choose Foley futurity-to. Somehow, he was a cappella to prove my point a match for many extra minutes, including most winning a match fallowing a few moves. Around striking fashion, fallowing winning the upper-hand against a Funeral undertaker, Foley retrieved a favorite "weapon" from either under a ring: drawing pin. He spread a tacks onto a ring mat, so knocked a Mortician hazardously roughly a tacks, prior to a Mortician fought back. Fallowing climbing onto a Funeral undertaker's back performing a lower jawbone claw (designed to knock opponents retired), a Funeral director fell fleetly backwards, slamming Foley's entire tail into a pushpin. Foley just about immeadiately had higher, whilst a Mortician choke-slammed him back into a drawing pin, so finnished off Mick by using a gravestone piledriver to eventually win the match. Each grappler had a standing ovation for the match, & the event is credited for putting Mick Foley on the map. Numerous new matches attempt to replicate a bit of of the spots from either this match.

Inside 1998 Mick Foley was the competitor for the TIME Magazine Man of the Year title, which was to be decided by an on the internet vote. The vast turnout of wrestling fans gave Foley above 50% of the vote. Nevertheless, prior to a final count Period flushed him from either a competition. "I was told that Time magazine did not feel that I had done anything to make me worthy of being man of the year."

Fallowing retiring from either active competition, Foley served when storyline WWE Commissioner and down the road replaced Stone Cold Steve Austin as co-general manager of RAW. He at length tired of the every day-to-day travel & left his good-whale duties to write & spend instance sustaining his personal.

Throughout his career, & under everthing of his assumed name, Foley has proved super popular to his fans, possibly whilst he wrestled as a villain. Foley has universally been accessible to his fans & may spend hanker periods of instance by using the babies signing autographs & posing for pictures. His arduous act is typically credited sustaining helping to re-establish in favor of wrestling's popularity fallowing a steroid and sex scandals of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Aliases
Foley virtually all famously wrestled when Cactus Jack in the independent circuit, at times billed when Cactus Jack Manson in the period of victims early years. He was good Cactus Jack whilst late wrestling inside Smoky Mountain Wrestling, WCW, and ECW, nonetheless. Once he joined a WWF he debuted when a heel gimmic of Humankind inside March 1996, later turning face & becoming Dude Love, his previous teen vary ego then a babyface gimmic of Humans sustaining his "friend" Mr. Socko early 1997, & finaly bringing back Cactus Jack within the match against Hunter Hearst Helmsley in Madison Square Garden on September 22, 1997.

Dude Love number 1 appeared in July 14, 1997 on an episode of Raw Is War. He come to the help of Stone Cold Steve Austwithin in the match against Owen Hart and the British Bulldog. the Dude Love character was actually created by Foley whenever he was a teenager growing up within Long Island, New York. The large fan of in favour wrestling, Dude Love was Foley's wrestling vary ego among his friends, & Foley appeared when a Dude within house flick, portions of which were late shown in WWF television. He admitted that Dude Love was non his favourite character to play. A Dude Love persona was different from either his more characters. Foley go appeared when Dude Love inside 1998.

Lone in captain hicks occasions has Foley wrestled under his have title, the triumph versus Terry Funk in a there are no holds barred lessens count anywhere match in May 4, 1998; versus Triple H, The Rock and The Big Show in a deadly quaternary way elimination match for Triple H's WWE Championship at WrestleMania 2000, being the 2nd human eliminated; a give up loss to Randy Orton in December 2003; as a 21st entrant into a 2004 Royal Rumble match, eliminating himself and Orton; withinside the loss when teaming using Rock in the handicap tag match at WrestleMania XX against Orton, Batista and Ric Flair inside which he was pinned by Orton; and in the Octonary Human Tag Team Match in which Foley, Shawn Michaels, Chris Benoit and Shelton Benjamin defeated Triple H, Ric Flair, Batista and Randy Orton on the April 12,2004 episode of WWE RAW.

Foley's final match up to now wwhen as Cactus Jack over again, losing the street fight for the WWE Intercontinental Championship against defending champ Randy Orton at WWE Backlash 2004.

Foley has mass produced many appearances in the independent promotion Ring of Honor. He number one appeared witharound ROH in September 2004 at Glory by Honor III & cut the promo calling ROH- Ring of Hardcore. Late that nighttime, he come to the help of BJ Whitmer & Dan Maff, spraying the ROH matman by using a fire extinguisher. witharound A period of his period in ROH, he has been required in feuds by owning Ricky Steamboat, Samoa Joe & The Embassay. He processed his go ROH appearance in Saturday, September 17, 2005 at Glory by Honor IV, & was in the corner of AJ Styles. He potty there are no elongated produce appearances inside ROH because of his recently treat by having WWE.

He recently appeared as a colour commentator at WWE's ECW One Night Stand PPV, which aired on 12 June 2005 and is currently within negotiations by owning WWE Creative on the plot line for his go to. It has been announced that he might link to to Altogether in October 3, 2005, which will be a number 1 indicate in USA Network since 2000. Mick did infact are back in the America Network on October 3rd. He come back as a guest on the legendary Pipers Pit, hosted by WWE legand Rowdy Roddy Piper. He was asked once was he coming back to Altogether & upright while he was receiving ready to tell a states a Legend Killer, Randy Orton come to the ring lone to deliver the RKO to two Piper & Mick. Foley is scheduled to become the Favorite Guest on the next Raw's Carlito's Cabana, similar to Piper's Pit, however hosted by Carlito. It was announced that Foley may face Carlito at Taboo Tuesday.

Author
With had good deal in the period of his hanker career, Foley, the graduate of the State University of New York at Cortland in Cortland, New York, developed a want to tell his story two to wrestling fans & non-fans like when he became additional popular in the late-1990s. Throughout virtually all of 1998, Foley wrote out his autobiography, by himself, in complete 800 web sites of cursive (claiming his counterpoint typewriter broke), when opposed to the more comfortable ghostwriter method employed by virtually all celebrities. A promulgated book, Have a Nice Day!, became a vast profits, topping a New York Times' nonfiction best seller listings for many weeks. Several book reviews refused to read his book because it was written by the office matman. Foley followed a book using an additional bestselling autobiography, Foley Is Good (2001), three babies's books, ''Mick Foley's Halloween Hijinx, Mick Foley's Christmas Chaos, & thomas more recently Tales from either Wrescal Lane (2004). Foley has besides written Tietam Brown'' (2003), a coming-of-age nature and severity story aimed at immature adults a lot of which use at times received favorable reviews. Despite his autobiographies attend first in the Western best seller listings, numbers of reviewers however refused to view his novel. Foley's next novel, Scooter, was freed inside August of 2005. Foley's ostensibly improbable emergence when the talented creator has allowed him to begin a freshly career, two as creator, & motivational speaker.

Acting
Foley has processed guest appearances in the TV series Boy Meets World and Good vs. Evil. He as well featured conspicuously in the documentary Beyond the Mat. He was likewise a voice of Gorrath in the pilot episode of Megas XLR (when it was referred to as Anti-intellectual).

In wrestling
Quotes
"Bang Bang Bang, on the door Baby!" "Bang Bang! You're dead!" "Bang Bang!" "Oh, Have Mercy!" "Have a Nice Day!" "...and for the dozens...and dozens of Mankind fans..." (parody of one of The Rock's catchphrases) "...and that is FINAL!" "You know, I can't do this to you but Cactus Jack will" "You know it sure great to be right here, in (whatever city/state he's in)!" "If you smell what the sock is cooking!" (The parody of an additional Rock catch phrase) "Mrs. Foley's baby boy has come back home!"

Previous managers
Skandor Akbar Max Andrews Paul Bearer Mark Curtis Downtown Bruno Robert Fuller Linda McMahon Kevin Sullivan John Tolos

Finishing and signature moves
Mandible Claw / Mr. Socko / Love Handles Double-Arm DDT Running Elbow Drop (from a ring apron to the floor) Pulling Piledriver Cactus Clothesline (Clothesline over a ropes to the floor) Sweet Shin Music (Superkick to shin, a parody of Shawn Michaels' "Sweet Chin Music" superkick to the chin.) Cactus Jack Crack Smash (Diving Somerset Splash) Running knee to opponent sitting in the corner

Signature Weapons
Mr. Socko/Socko (sock puppet) Barbie (barbed wire bat), for instance in fire Thumbtacks (unremarkably backfires)

Championships and accomplishments
World Wrestling Entertainment
3-instance WWF World Heavyweight Champion 1-period WWF Hardcore Champion (first ever; awarded by Vince McMahon) 8-instance WWF World Tag Team Champion (with Stone Cold Steve Austin once, Chainsaw Charlie once, Kane twice, Al Snow once and The Rock 3 times) World Championship Wrestling
1-period WCW World Tag Team Champion (with Kevin Sullivan) Extreme Championship Wrestling
2-period ECW World Tag Team Champion (with Mikey Whipwreck) Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI ranked him # 46 of the better Five hundred singles grappler in the "PWI Years" inside 2003. Foley won 3 PWI Awards. He won Virtually all Inspirational witharound 1993 & Match of the Season in 1998 (vs. Undertaker "Hell In a Cell") & 1999 (vs. The Rock). World Class Wrestling Association
2-period WCWA Tag Team Champion (with Scott Braddock & Gary Young) 1-instance WCWA Light Heavyweight Champion Other Titles
1-period CWA Tag Team Champion (by having Gary Young) 1-period MCW Northerly Western Heavyweight Champion 1-period IWA Tag Team Champion (sustaining Tracy Smothers) (in Japan) 1-period King of Demise Match Winner 1-period GLCW Heavyweight Champion 1-period ACW Universal Television Champion 1-period NAW Heavyweight Champion 1-instance OMW N Western Heavyweight Champion 1-period Mid-South Heavyweight Champion 1-period NWL Heavyweight Champion 1-period Steel City Wrestling Tag Team Champion (by owning The Blue Meanie)

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