WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley recently appeared on the No-Contest Wrestling podcast, where he discussed several topics, including the decline of direct chair shots to the head in wrestling.
Foley said, “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.”
On watching his I Quit Match with The Rock at WWE Royal Rumble 1999 again 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.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
