Tara Zep comments on her friendship with Mick Foley.
Tara is an independent wrestler based out of Canada who has a penchant for deathmatches. While she hasn't had many, at ICW No Holds Barred 56 in December of last year, Tara took on John Wayne Murdoch in a deathmatch. During the bout, Mick Foley would make a run in to help Zep, Santa costume and all.
While speaking to Fightful's Corey Brennan in a recent interview, Tara provided background details on how his appearance at ICW came about.
"So a little history on that, a little background. A good friend of mine does a little bit of his PR stuff. He does his Instagram and stuff like that and helps him with just a lot of different things that he needs media-wise. He introduced me to Mick a couple of years ago at a GCW show. Mick was like, it's cool to meet you. I was either just starting training or actually, it was just before I started training and I told him I was really into deathmatches and hardcore wrestling and I was going to maybe pursue that. He kind of thought I was like crazy and, why would this girl, this girl does not look like somebody who should be doing death matches or looks like they are, would be interested in them. So we kind of like occasionally messaged on like Instagram or whatever. Then I started training and my friend Casey, he told Mick that I was training, whatever. Skip to I have my first deathmatch and I hit up Mick and I was like, hey, this is happening finally. He was just like, oh, my God, like, cool. OK. Then a couple of days later, he got back to me and he's like, so I decided that I'm going to be it wasn't it wasn't that I want to be involved. He's like, I'm going to be involved. He wanted to be there for it. He wanted to be involved in the match and he wanted to like do a little something in the match as well. It was also coming up to like Christmas time. So it was kind of cool that we could like plan it like, you know, just before Christmas, he could do a Santa gimmick. He did, um, some fundraising too, while we were there, it was, it was really cool. We keep in contact and, if I have questions, he helps me out and a little bit of a mentor in my career. So and, you know, gives me a lot of advice that obviously is probably the best advice you could get from anyone."
Zep would defeat John Wayne Murdoch in her match thanks to the assistance of Foley.
Elsewhere in Tara's interview with Fightful, she reflected on making her Ring Of Honor debut. You can read more about that here.
