Mick Foley knows all too well that sometimes storylines on social media can hit a little too close to home.
WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley was recently a guest on Busted Open Radio with Dave LeGreca and Mark Henry to talk about a variety of subjects. When discussing AEW’s Jon Moxley, Foley recalled the storyline he and Moxley would do together in WWE back in 2012 that legitimately made him angry.
“Hunter asked me; he said, ‘Hey, you’re on social media, right?’ I said, ‘Yeah, yeah.’ At that time, I had about 250,000 followers. I am not sure if I was on Facebook yet,” Mick Foley stated. “He said, ‘we want to do this grassroots thing to get steam solely on the internet at first.’ This angle with Moxley, it required me to go to some dark places. The problem was, I couldn’t get out of them. It wasn’t like when I would go cut the cane Dewey promo in the basement of Paul E’s cameraman while his mom was doing the ironing and my wife and two kids are at a park two blocks away, and I would come out of there fresh as a daisy, and I am ready to go. When I would get into the storyline, I couldn’t get out. It was like this cloud.
“I don’t want to be overly dramatic, but it was around me all the time, and it was affecting me. Especially when I saw Moxley writing about my children. So, I come up to him at a TV taping with Dusty. I asked Dusty if he would come up with me, just so I could talk to him. I said, ‘Hey man, whatever you do, please stop mentioning my children.’ He thinks it’s an angle, whereas I am 100% asking him as a father not to mention my children. He reads it as, turn the volume up on Foley’s children. So the next tweet that comes out is even worse, more foreboding for the future of my family.
“Now I text him and say, ‘Hey man, I was not joking,’ and I think okay, now it’s over. The next tweet is even worse. I am blowing a gasket every day, I am cutting more F-bombs in front of the family than they have ever heard in the entirety of their lives. I am so angry at this guy.” (H/T: Wrestling Inc.)
It turns out that Jon Moxley didn’t have any phone signal at the time while he was traveling overseas in the UK and didn’t get Mick Foley’s text messages. When he returned stateside, he called Foley up and apologized, thinking that what occurred backstage when they initially spoke to one another in front of the boys was a work, and the two buried the hatchet after that. It was all one big misunderstanding.
The storyline was eventually dropped altogether because Foley couldn’t get medically cleared to wrestle the match.
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