Mick Foley and The Undertaker's brutal Hell in a Cell match is now iconic, and broke ground for the entire pro wrestling industry. However, in the years that followed, the WWE Hall of Famer admits that he came to resent the bout and the impact it had on his career.
"I resented being the guy who did the Cell match," he admits in the video below. "It got to the point where I literally felt like Bill Murray in an airing of Groundhog Day that never ends. For 15 years, someone will come up to me at least once a day as if it’s the first time I’d ever been asked, and go, ‘Did it hurt?’ I disliked being the guy known for that one match because there’s other things I wanted to be known for."
There are, of course, plenty of other things Foley is known for (he's a New York Times best-selling author, remember), and it sounds like rewatching the match when his kids asked to see it made him look at it in a different way.
"I watched that match in its entirety for the first time in many years," Foley explains. "Like, we all see the clips. If you have a chance to go back and watch it in its entirety, man. It still packs a wallop, like, it’s heavy. And what I took from it was this incredible dedication to get over the finish line by whatever means it took. And it’s this strange thing. Because obviously things went wrong, didn’t go like we hoped. And you see human beings trying of pick up the pieces, with help from wherever we can get it."
Check out more comments from the WWE Hall of Famer in the video below: