Mick Foley speaks about the last time he interacted with Vince McMahon.
Mick Foley is a man who is very caring for his fellow professional wrestlers. In fact, his most recent interaction with Vince McMahon spawned from a situation where he was angry with WWE for not booking a specific wrestler during the September 10, 2021 episode of Friday Night SmackDown from Madison Square Garden in New York City,
On the inaugural episode of his podcast, Foley is Pod, Mick Foley spoke about being angry with WWE after Zelina Vega’s match was cut from the show. Vega lost her father in the 9/11 tragedy back in 2001.
“The last time I interacted with Vince was when I was really angry about what he did with Thea Trinidad," Foley said. "Zelina Vega didn’t get to work on the [9/11] memorial show. It was also the 20-year Memorial and Zelina lost her dad that day in the towers and I was freaking angry. You know, I was really angry, and I don't know Thea that well, but I've known her since she got in the business. You know, it's just as bright starry-eyed young young lady. I can say what I said to Vince, I think if I say what Vince said to me via text message, that's a betrayal of trust.”
“I love WWE, but deep down if I'm going to have a loyalty to the men and women who do the work, and I believe all of us should have opportunities to succeed after wrestling,” Foley continued. “If you're able to give us a limited run, you know, it's a limited run and it's just the nature of the beast that somebody's going to come in and take your spot. I believe we all have to have the opportunity to take what we've done for the company and do something else with it. So I'm in her favor for Twitch, whatever it might be, whatever it might happen to be. So that's why I alluded to her as being a strong-willed young lady. I said, but I guarantee you, there's a part of her every time September 11 rolls around, that is still that 9 or 10-year-old girl who misses her dad, and Thea got back to me. ‘How did you know? Like, that's exactly how I feel.’ So the reason I'm bringing up the Thea Trinidad situation is that Vince called her and he apologized. He said he had apologized, that day he apologized. I would say that he has made it up to her. So I think Vince deserves a lot of credit for having the capability of changing his mind admitting when he was wrong, but he admits when he was wrong and moves on.”
Thea Trinidad, Zelina Vega, since that day in 2021, has gone on to become the first-ever Queen's Crown Tournament winner and even defended the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship at WrestleMania.
Elsewhere on the podcast, Mick Foley spoke about potentially doing a second Hell in a Cell match with The Undertaker back in the late 2000s. Learn more here.
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