Mick Foley had crazy plans for a potential second Hell in a Cell with The Undertaker.
The Hell in a Cell match between Mankind and Undertaker in 1998 will forever be one of the matches that both men are known for. Of course, both men have talked openly about the spots that would see Mick come flying off the top of the cell, intentionally, and the unintentional spot where he fell through the cage well before he was supposed to.
Believe it or not, Mick Foley was open to trying to top that with another Hell in a Cell match with The Undertaker over a decade later.
Speaking on his inaugural podcast, Foley is Pod, Mick Foley revealed that he did have one spot in mind for a potential Hell in a Cell match around 2009 or 2010 which would have seen Mick Foley come crashing through the cell and through the ring with The Undertaker on top of him.
“Okay, so keep the gimmick cell in mind. This was around 2009- 2010 I was thinking, if I had come back to WWE at 250 [pounds] and hadn't had head injuries, maybe I would have pushed for that,” Foley said. “But, I came back heavy and just wasn't in the cards. I took the same bump I took with Big Show at WrestleMania 1999. I took the same bump with [Vader] but we did it on the wooden ramp.
There's no magic,” he continued. “If there's a trick there's a secret to it is you just gotta keep your bodies tight, because if he hits and there's a three-inch gap and then I could break every rib in my body. There's no telling what damage we would've done. I thought if Undertaker and I went up there and then, you know, this is an iconic scene Undertaker and Foley back up on top of the cell. Here comes the Mandible Claw, Mr. Socko. Here I am up on Undertaker's back. But instead of just dropping backward, he's doing it from 16 feet, maybe 20 by that point. The key is we got to be tight and the key is we're going to go right through that freaking ring to just and there'll be something underneath it. Not on the surface. I don't know how — I wanted it to look more realistic. Then, when that first hand, whoever it was, comes up out of there —I don't know how you finish from there. Or maybe that's just the end of it, you know, but that was the big bump.”
Of course, Mick Foley says even if they did get clearance, he doesn't think he could ask the Undertaker to do that as he also has a family of his own.
“There's no margin for error. There's you know, even though Undertaker would be on top of me, I don't know if I could do that to a guy with a family. That’s so dangerous on his behalf to and clearly, I would have been facing a very high risk of serious injury, too. I still believe I could have done it and it would have been the greatest bump in the history of professional wrestling.”
Mick Foley was always ready to give back to the audience.
"Instead of just dropping backwards, he's doing it from 16 feet."@RealMickFoley talks about the bump he had in mind if there had been Hell in a Cell 2 against The Undertaker.
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Undertaker was also always willing to get back to the audience and said as much in his Hall of Fame speech in 2022. However, he did not mention Mick Foley. This is something that does not bother Mick, who said that if he's not bothered by it, fans are not allowed to be either. Learn more here.
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