Colt Cabana Says He Had An Idea To Portray Dude Love For A 2008 Angle Involving Mick Foley And Edge

Colt Cabana talks about an idea he had to portray one of the legendary Faces of Foley that would have involved him working with Edge, Curt Hawkins, and Zack Ryder alongside Mick Foley himself. 

Colt Cabana’s time in WWE as Scotty Goldman isn’t looked back on as a star-making performance, and it was ultimately his WWE release would inspire him to take the route that eventually led him to greater success on the independent circuit and as a pioneer of wrestling podcasts. 

That’s not to say that Cabana didn’t have a multitude of pitches for his eventual call-up to the main roster of WWE while he was in developmental. 

Appearing on the Developmentally Speaking podcast, Cabana revealed that during the brief time in 2008 that Edge and Mick Foley interacted with each other, he pitched an idea that would have seen him portray Dude Love and Kizarny (Sinn Bodhi) portray Cactus Jack in a series of three-on-three tag bouts against Edge and his Edgeheads. 

“Oh, my biggest [push], my one that I thought would be the most successful was, Edge and Foley had just returned, so I knew like Foley didn’t want a full-time program, and so I had pitched that six-man series of like Edge and the Edgeheads, which is Hawkins and Ryder, versus me and this was before Kizarny went up. It would be the three Faces of Foley, Mick as Mick, me as Dude Love, and then Kizarny as Cactus Jack,” he said. “My whole pitch was like we’ll wrestle the whole matches. They don’t have to do anything on house shows. We’ll do all the work. They just come in for the hot tag and that way, we still present them as the huge stars, but we’re their crutches.

“I was always sad that I never got to pitch that to Mick,” he adds. “Hawkins and Ryder, they pitched it to Edge before they pitched it to the office, and Edge liked it. So he went to the office and fought for it. Listen, the developmental wrestlers, we pitched everything everywhere, every time, there were so many pitches. “I would say 99% [of them are] not even listened to. So if that had just gotten in Mick’s ear, and I knew Mick, Mick was a friend of mine, I just hadn’t put it in his ear yet, and I think maybe if I had gotten that in his ear, he would have thought about it, but it just went dead and never happened.” 

Cabana ultimately had less than a dozen matches as Scotty Goldman on television but is today contracted to AEW/ROH. 

That was a transitional time in Mick Foley’s career, but he also had some ideas for what more he could do on WWE TV at that time. One pitch included him wrestling The Undertaker in one more Hell in a Cell. Learn more here.

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