The Attitude Era was a crazy time for WWE, but Mick Foley wanted to make it even crazier by doing a series of death matches with Terry Funk.
On the latest episode of Foley is Pod, Mick Foley spoke about pitching an idea to WWE about working a best-of-seven death match series with Terry Funk that would have climaxed at WrestleMania.
“Yeah, I kind of wanted to do off-site — I wouldn’t say it was cinematic because it would have been shot like a traditional match, but off-site, that’s what I’m referring to,” Mick Foley said. “And it got ixnayed because we didn’t want to do that kind of violence on pay-per-view at that time. Even though a year later, we would kind of set an unfortunate standard for violence with the I Quit match. But yeah, that did get ixnayed.”
Conrad asked Foley to go into detail about what he had planned for a best-of-seven death match series, and Foley gave his best recollection of the details at the time.
“Man, we’re going back 25 years. I remember the idea for the blow-off, although I had forgotten I had suggested Double Cross Ranch,” Mick Foley said. “I thought it was some exotic island. Although I think FMW did have a couple of exotic islands. I think it was just, best of seven, thumbtacks would be one match, barbed wire, but we could figure out the different stipulations, but it would come down to the seventh deathmatch, which would be Wrestlemania.”
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