Mick Foley

So I'm pulling up a house show from June the 19th.

And yeah, you've got Austin and Mankind on that one.

Triple H and D'Lo Brown, Shamrock and Owen Hart, Bradshaw and Mark Merrow, the double count out that you said from Kane and Undertaker, Jarrett and Blackman.

So does Blackman wrestle? No, it's Shamrock, isn't it? Yeah, and opening with Papi Chulo, Taka Michinoku versus Too Much, Mark Henry facing Scub.

To Raw we go.

June 22nd, 1998.

We get a recap of last week's Raw and the shenanigans inside the Hell in a Cell match between Austin, Undertaker, Mankind and Kane.

Paul Bearer getting a kicking at the hands of the Undertaker.

Austin says, why would I have to wait until No Mercy when I can go back to my truck and run him over again and again and again like a speed bump? And then Foley says, because you'll go to jail.

Well, hold on.

If you're like, you can't do that, you'll get arrested.

And I just don't, you know, that thing is just clunky and it just never went like anywhere.

Cause then you have like the rock having to like explain, Oh, he did it for me, but it's still got that same clunkiness in it.

You know, frankly, I think it should have been like Foley or something, something hugely dynamic.

But yeah, what do you do when he's like, I don't want to do that because I'm on this pace and I want to be a Santa Claus thing.

You know what I mean? What have you, you know?

Did

you ever see when Undertaker threw Mick Foley through the cage? He threw him like the hell in the cell and he landed 20 feet.

Yeah.

And so he was just talking about it.

Yeah, he's done hardcore matches before.

He's dove through fire tables with Mick Foley.

Like, he's not alien to this sort of thing.

And we did get a Death Riders vs Shane Taylor promotions intergender fun match.

It's like irrelevant.

Like I can't think of a New Age Outlaws match to save my life The only one I can come up with is the dumpster match they had at WrestleMania with Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie AKA Harry Funk and like I don't remember that match although anybody remembers that is them putting Mick Foley and Harry Funk in a dumpster and pushing off the stage that wasn't even part of that match that was part of the setup for the match and

Yeah, so the New Age Outlaws are basically just a, what's the word I'm looking for, a synopsis, really, of the Attitude Era in general.

Everything is about your entrance, your promos, and what you do after and before the match, and the actual bell-to-bell action doesn't really matter.

3-14.

And then we've got Ken Shamrock, Mankind, and The Rock versus Kane, The Undertaker, in a three-on-two handicap match for 12 minutes and 51 seconds.

Joseph,

break it down.

Austin arrives to the arena in a Miller truck, and he attacks Vince, then is arrested by all the cops.

After Vince says neither Kane or Taker lived up to their end of the deal, they will have to fight each other at Judgment Day for the WWF Championship, and that Austin will be the special guest referee since he can't keep out of their business.

He then says Taker and Kane will be in a handicap tag match versus Ken Shamrock, Mankind, and The Rock.

He then calls them both handicapped, and I'm not joking, and Taker pulls Vince back and tells him to watch his ass because if he disrespects either of them again, he will end up handicapped himself.

Yeah, he's done hardcore matches before.

He's dove through fire tables with Mick Foley.

Like, he's not alien to this sort of thing.

And we did get a Death Riders versus Shane Taylor promotions intergender for match.

If we're in wrestling, we're talking wrestling.

Back in the 90s, it was his wrestler, Mick Foley, took a lot of chances, right? So Lamar is not going to take chances to the point where he's risking his health.

I think that's how he's thinking.

If he's hurt, he's going to say, okay, I'm hurt.

So they get bought out by the USWA, the United States Wrestling Association.

And Mick Foley tells a story about whenever they took down the letters of the WCCW and put up the USWA logo.

letters that people cheered because it was like washing away uh so all this tragedy that had occurred

yeah it's very interesting to me