Mick Foley refused to take a chair shot on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'.
In 2003, Mick Foley appeared a guest co-host on five episodes of 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'. This was a part of Kimmel's run of shows where he brought in various names to co-host like Snoop Doog, Deion Sanders, Travis Barker, and Kermit The Flog.
While speaking with O'Shea Jackson Jr. and TJ Jefferson on a new episode of the No-Contest Wrestling Podcast, Foley recalled refusing to take a chair shot on the show.
“It was actually on The Jimmy Kimmel Show. Back when he had co-hosts for the week, he explained to me that it was tough to book guests because you didn’t know which co-host were going to work with you. I knew from wrestling that it is Jimmy’s show, I’m here to help him, I’m not here to overshadow Jimmy Kimmel on The Jimmy Kimmel Show, not that I could if I wanted to anyway. But, there were other people who didn’t know that. They would talk over the guests and it was pretty hard to book people. They wanted me taking a chair shot with a gimmick chair. The problem was the edges of the chair weren’t gimmicks, like the lip. The lip is usually what does the damage. He goes, ‘No, it’s not going to hurt’ and I go, ‘What if he hits me with this part?’ He goes, ‘What do you mean?’ I go, ‘It’ll split me open like a can of sardines on your show. Does he have any experience doing this?’ ‘No.’ I said, ‘I can’t do it.’”
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