Mick Foley recently appeared on Talk Is Jericho, and he mentioned how Y2J said in his book that people look like ants while on top of the Hell In A Cell structure. Performers are incredibly high off the ground while standing on the huge cage, and Foley took his, what is now infamous, bump off the Hell In A Cell at the 1998 King Of The Ring.
Mick actually took two unforgettable bumps off the cell that night, and wrestlers who have ever taken a bump in a WWE ring give more respect to the second fall Foley took; which is when he fell through the cell and went crashing to the mat below.
"I told a couple of the biggest lies of my life that day," Foley told Y2J as he remembered that historic night. "You know people have speculated that I knew the cage was gonna break the second time and the truth is that's way too dangerous going through the cage on a chokeslam like that. It was supposed to tear. The big bump, the only thing is I had this image of being stuffed down a rabbit hole, it would give a little bit and then Taker was gonna push me down that hole and the big visual to me was I was gonna be hanging upside down. You know my arms are flailing and this and then the bump itself, it's just I gotta be able to rotate, land on my hands and knees. Maybe a little riskier you know your wrist, your knee but nothing real major and I got approval for that and then I said, 'hey what if I came off the top?' and Vince said: 'Absolutely not.'"
"I went into sell-mode and I went, 'if I'm gonna drop an elbow off there and someone's gonna move you would probably -- I didn't say probably, 'you would let me do that, right?' You know it's leading the question and he goes, 'I guess.' I said, 'it's the same thing I'm in total control' and then Taker looked at me and said, 'you've been up there right?'"
"I said, 'absolutely' and both he and Vince said, 'you feel comfortable?' I said, 'yeah absolutely.' The truth was if I had gone on top of that cell... no way."
The Hardcore Legend said he didn't remember large chunks of the match until much later on. He did remember when Vince McMahon came up to him after the show and said, "you have no idea how much I appreciate what you have just done for this company but I never wanna see anything like that again."