Mick Foley: I Tell Performers If They Feel Like They’re The Main Event, Go Out There And Prove It
Mick Foley gives his personal philosophy on “headlining” pay-per-views.
The structure of a card for a WWE event and what goes on last is sometimes the subject of a huge debate. Sometimes the match slated to go on last can never outshine another match on the card. For example, at WrestleMania 18, The Rock and Hulk Hogan stole the show but Chris Jericho vs. Triple H went on last.
Mick Foley is one performer who has regularly been the guy to steal the show without being in the last match on a card. Now, Mick Foley is sharing why his spot on any particular card never bothered him and how he feels performers should prove to themselves that they are the main event, even if they do not go on last.
“Well, you want to steal the show,” Mick Foley said on the latest Foley is Pod while talking about his WWE Championship match against The Undertaker at Revenge of the Taker in 1997. “For the life of me, I can’t remember what Bret Hart and Steve Austin did on that ‘Revenge of the Taker’ show because they made such an incredible impression a month earlier at Mania. So no, I’m not gonna bite into that, Conrad. I’m not going to. I still tell people, ‘You determine for yourself what the main event is. If you feel like you’re the main event, go out there and prove it. Steal the show.”
In June of 1998, Mick Foley and The Undertaker would once again steal the show without being the last match on the card at King of the Ring inside of Hell in a Cell. You can read some of The Undertaker’s comments on that historic match at this link.
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