Mick Foley had an incredible wrestling career and is perhaps most fondly remembered for some of the insane stunts he performed during that time. Sadly, that took a toll on his body and one of the riskiest things he ever did was being thrown from the top of a Hell in a Cell by The Undertaker back in 1998.
During a recent interview, Foley was asked about the match and the impact it had on him at the time and then made a surprising comparison about what it's like for him to now sit down and watch.
"Part of it was that it grew on an organic level. There wasn’t social media so it didn’t trend for three days and then disappear. It traveled by word of mouth. It was brutal but it was also surreal so that it wasn’t difficult to watch in a way like the January 1999 match I had with The Rock was. [Foley took 11 chair shots to the head with his wife and two young children — captured in the critically-acclaimed documentary Beyond The Mat — watching in tears at ringside.] It stands up to repeated viewings. It doesn’t feel like watching a snuff film [laughs]. I sometimes talk at these shows about the element of magic in the air. I think it was alive that night."
Talk then turned to his WWE Championship win in 1999 and joked about playing second fiddle to Stone Cold Steve Austin. "It’s funny that the largest pop I ever received was only the second-largest of that match [Laughs]. Steve’s music had everyone up standing. That was an incredible night."