Don’t ask Mick Foley to bust your eyebrow open because you’ll likely regret the decision later.
WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley was a recent guest on Hot Ones. When asked if he could explain the technique of busting someone’s eyebrow open, Foley offered a very detailed response and a hilarious story about trying it on Tommy Dreamer.
“You think that’s going to enrich your life if I tell you how?” Mick Foley said with a laugh. “Well, we’re in a better world as far as wrestling goes. But you used to get that all the time. And the most believable and inexplicable to the wrestling cynic would be the busted eyebrow. Now, the problem is, if you just punch somebody hard in the eye, chances are it’s going to swell but not necessarily open up.
“So Robert Fuller, who was known — Tennessee Lee was one of his names in WWE, Colonel Parker in WCW. He was a third-generation wrestler. He taught me it’s cut it punching down. It’s like, bam. So it’s not boom; it’s BOOM! You catch it at an angle. And there were old-school guys who were specialists in it. So I was one of the last of my generation to be a willing participant in what is a terrible practice.
‘Would you please stop punching me!’
“The upside is yes, it’s believable. The downside, you could go blind. Then in an ECW match against a guy named Tommy Dreamer. Tommy inaccurately believed that having been the participant in some of these hard ways made me an expert in giving them, which I was not. And he wanted me to open him up hardway, so he wanted to go through the things that I’ve gone through. And long story short, after about six punches missed and hit everywhere on his face except his eyebrow.
“I don’t care how tough you are, you get punched in the nose, it’s gonna bring tears to your eyes, right? After about five haymakers that land anywhere, and I’m trying to go down. They’re not actually haymakers; they are short punches. But still, I’m hitting them below the eye, and I’m hitting him in the nose and the forehead, and there’s welts on his head, and he finally looked up at me through tears in his eyes and goes, ‘Would you please stop punching me!'”
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