Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley who is a former three times WWE World champion recently talked about the original idea behind his ring name and also revealed what ring name he was about to get at first.
Mick Foley had been one of the biggest names not only in WWE but in the world of professional wrestling. He had been working as a professional wrestler since the 1980s and he worked in different professional wrestling promotions and he played different gimmicks as well. But the name he was mostly been addressed as was Jack Foley during that time.
Mick Foley Reveals What Ring Name He Was Given At First
He made his debut as Mankind in WWE for the first time in 1996. During the time WWE was going through a big change. When the Attitude Era started in 1997, he was never been the big project of Vince McMahon to be the next big thing in WWE. But he actually became one of the biggest attractions of the Attitude Era in a very short amount of time.
After his Hell in a Cell match against the Undertaker from King of the Ring 1998, he started to gain his ultimate Fame. Soon he became one of the most popular stars of WWE and that was mostly because of his hardcore style of wrestling. He is a legend of professional wrestling and in 2013 he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Mick Foley who is a former three times WWE World champion recently spoke on his Foley is Pod podcast where he talked about the original idea behind his ring name and also revealed what ring name he was about to get at first. He said;
“Vince said, ‘In this business, we’ve had crushers, we’ve had destroyers, we’ve had executioner’s, but we’ve never had a mutilator.’ He gets that bass in his voice, ‘Mutilator, that’s what you are.’ Then he gives me the name Mason.”
“He alludes to the Manson name but tells me that we can’t go there, and I don’t want to go there. I was very uncomfortable with being Cactus Jack Manson. I did it because I really had no other choice. I felt Mason the Mutilator is one of the worst things I’ve ever heard. It sounds to me like something that would be in a bootleg version of an old Fish card game. It just sounds awful.”
“He said, ‘What do you think?’ I said, ‘I like it a lot, but what if.’ Those were the three biggest words. ‘But what if instead of being Mason the Mutilator, I was Mankind the Mutilator?’ He says, ‘I don’t think I understand it.’ I said, ‘This way when they’re talking about the future of mankind and the destruction of mankind, it means two different things. You know, it’s talking about me and the people’, and he’s writing all this stuff down on a yellow legal pad.”
Quotes via WrestlingNews.co