Mick Foley: I Would Estimate Half Of The People That Talk To Me About Hell In A Cell Bump Were Not Born When It Took Place

Mick Foley estimates half the people that talk to him about Hell In A Cell weren’t born when it happened.

At King Of The Ring 1998, The Undertaker and Foley went one on one inside the Hell In A Cell structure in a bout that saw Foley fall from the top of the cage not once, but twice. For Foley, he estimates that half the people that talk to him about the match weren’t born when it happened.

While speaking to Insight With Chris Van Vliet, Mick Foley once again spoke about the Hell In A Cell match he had with The Undertaker.

“Even though it wasn’t the end of my career, it put an exclamation point, and it gave me the moment. There are football players who are known literally for one play. Basketball player Willis Reed, great career. He’s known for playing two minutes in game seven with an injured ligament in his knee. Joe Montana’s career, great, great quarterback. But it’s the catch, I think they just called it a catch. I don’t know if I would have had one of those moments, you know, beating The Rock for the WWE title was a great moment for WWE and for me, but I’m not sure if that would be something that would be passed on to the next generation. That’s what stuns me about the cell is that half of the people who talk to me about it, and this is like, where I don’t write it down, but I would estimate half of the people that talk to me about that match were not born when it took place. There’s even a story I’ll mention from time to time, and I did it on the 20 Years of Hell tour, saying it was really powerful when my wife said my kids wanted to watch the Cell match. I said, ‘How do they even know about the Cell match?’ And she said, ‘Well, kids are talking about it in school.’ I said in preschool? But it’s something that parents have handed down, and it’s the go-to for wrestling fans to show their non-fan friends who don’t understand what it’s about.” 

Elsewhere in the same interview, Foley spoke about his fears. You can read more about that here.