Mick Foley talks chair shots to the head.
Over the past two decades, unprotected chair shots to the head have been effectively banned in many major promotions aside from a few out-of-the-box occasions here and there.
Before the gradual ban, there were a number of instances where major stars took many chair shots to the head. For example, Mick Foley took eleven seperate shots to the head during his match with The Rock at Royal Rumble 1999.
In a new interview with the No Contest Wrestling Podcast, Foley stated that he's glad that chair shots to the head are largely gone from wrestling.
“I’m glad that chair shots to the head are gone. I mean, you see them once in a great while, but you will never — and hopefully there’s no one doing this on the independents. You’ll never see a match like the one I had with The Rock with the 11 shots, that was definitely overkill. I’m glad. That was tough."
Foley then recalled watching the match with a group of fans recently.
“That’s wasn’t a fun watch. I actually did a watch along with some fans to celebrate whatever anniversary we just passed on that. It was actually a fun match up until the chairs. There was a lot of good dialogue on the microphone, Rock of course with the humor. It was really going well and then that ending was just a little much.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Foley recalled refusing to take a chair shot on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' in 2003. Check out his full comments here.
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