Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley who is a former three times WWE world champion recently looked back at his feed against Randy Orton that took place back in 2003 and 2004. He revealed that he had to convince Orton to spit on his face.
The feud between Randy Orton and Mick Foley started late in 2003 and it went on till April of next year. They presented some of the greatest matches of their career in the feud. Some of the most remembered matches among them took place mostly in 2004. At Royal Rumble they headed one on one and Foley ended up eliminating both himself and Orton.
Mick Foley Remembers His Feud With Randy Orton
At WrestleMania XX, Foley teamed up with his former Tag Team partner The Rock, together they were famously known as the Rock ‘n’ Sock Connection to take on the three men of evolution in a three on two handicap match. Evolution picked up the victory in this match where Orton pinned Foley with the RKO.
On the very next pay per view event which was Backlash, Orton and Foley headed one on one in a Hardcore match and it turned out to be was one of the most brutal matches of their career. Orton won this match too. During this feud there was a number of segments where Orton was seen spitting on the face Foley. The WWE Hall of Famer talked about these particular segments as well.
Mick Foley who is a former three times WWE world champion recently spoke to Throwing Down w/ Renee & Miesha where he looked back at his feed against Randy Orton that took place back in 2003 and 2004. He revealed that he had to convince Orton to spit on his face. He said;
“Back in 2003, I called Vince McMahon with an idea. I said, ‘I’ve got this idea for me and Randy Orton.’ He had a yellow legal pad and he was taking down all these notes. By the time the meeting was over, we had this idea for me and Randy. It was all about me being the first guy to walk away from a match, just to have a crisis of confidence and basically, I guess chicken out would be one expression. Vince didn’t want me to do it.”
“Stephanie called me up and said, ‘We’re gonna have Evolution attack you.’ I said, ‘Why? What happened to me stepping out on the match?’ She said, ‘My dad doesn’t think the fans will ever forgive you.’ I said, ‘Okay, I’m going to call your dad.”
“I called Vince and he said, ‘I think you just worked so hard. I’d hate to have the fans rebel on you that way.’ I said, ‘Vince, you’re a big fan of westerns, right?’ He said, ‘Yeah.’ I said, ‘Go back and watch Shane and tell me how good that movie is if he accepts the challenge the first time, because the entire movie is predicated on this guy finding that deep, dark part of his soul that he thought he left behind.’”
“They went with my idea, but I had to talk Randy into spitting on me on camera. He did not want to do it. Then he finally said, ‘What if I just pretend, like I won’t really spit on you?’ I said, ‘Randy, this is one of the most important moments of your career.
“You need to dig down as deep into your lungs as you can and the people need to see that residue’ Proving he was a gamer, when it came time to do it, you would have never guessed that he was hesitating on that. He just dug it down deep. He launched that loogie and it was hanging all over me and it was awful, but it was exactly what we needed. So I think that that entire storyline was among the very best things that I’ve ever been part of.”
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