Mick Foley Posts Lengthy Blog Reacting to WWE Payback, The Fatal Four Way Main Event, Cena vs Rusev, Ziggler and More

WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley has posted a lengthy blog on Facebook reacting to last night’s WWE Payback PPV, and you can check out an excerpt below:

I’m really not looking for any controversy here, but I think our current generation of wrestling fans can get a little bit jaded sometimes. As some of you may know, I’m closing in on 50, so I grew up in an era where it wa s extremely rare to see a good, competitive match on the old WWF broadcasts that aired at midnight on Saturdays, after the horse-racing from Yonkers. Every once in a while, we’d get a moment of greatness, like Rocky Johnson and Tony Atlas defeating The Wild Samoans in December 1983, but for the most part the programming I grew up on were a series of one-sided squash matches, designed to make stars look good, without much emphasis on the overall quality of the matches.

Things are different now. We expect not only several good, competitive wrestling matches a week, but coherent story-lines, and character development that is seldom accomplished with just a string of lopsided victories. I really think that we have gotten so used to good wrestling on such a regular basis – in WWE, NXT, TNA, ROH, NJPW, the Indys. etc., that we’ve just kind of become jaded.

I watched much of ‪#‎WWEPayback‬ like the jaded fan I’m sometimes guilty of being. I wished Ziggler and Sheamus had gone longer, and I wished ‪#‎WWE‬had shown some extreme close-ups of the nasty gash on the Zig-Zag man’s head. I even caught myself using the phrase “back in my day” in front of my son. I chose not to focus on how John Cena – WWE Universe and Rusev were working their butts off, and instead focused on why referee Mike Chioda (not sure if I spelled that right…I’ve only known him for 19 years) was asking “do you wanna quit” instead of allowing the wrestlers to control the microphone as they/we had in every classic ‪#‎Iquit‬ match I can remember – from Flair/Funk to Magnum/Tully to Cena/JBL, to a couple of the ones that I was involved with. Like so many of us, tweeting about the matches we kinda/sorta watch has become just as important as actually watching.