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Mick Foley Interview Recap

Posted: Mar 26th 2007 By: CMBurnham

Mick Foley was interviewed by Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez on Sunday night's Wrestling Observer Live radio show. Here are the highlights:

- Foley said he was surprised certain parts of his book, "Hardcore Diaries", ending up being published, and wasn't sure if WWE would even push the book or not.

- In the book, Foley rips on Vince McMahon for his mistreatment of Jim Ross and his colon surgery.

- Foley said McMahon got upset when he was told the book was dedicated to him.

- Foley said he feels he broke ties with the fan by turning heel.

- Foley said he feels bad about Test being fired, as Foley makes fun of him in the book.

- Foley said his knee was really in bad shape when he was approached with an idea to work a singles program with Ric Flair.

- Foley said he had envisioned his program with Flair as a trilogy.

- Foley said his book is up to number six on the New York Times best selling list, which Foley said he feels is a good sign people like the book.

- Foley is unsure if he'll be on Raw next week.

- Foley believes Vince dropped the ball with Terry Funk.

- Foley said McMahon berated The Rock and Mick for going long with the "This is your life" Raw segment, and later Vince apologized when the rating came in.

- He said he feels Randy Orton and Triple H got mileage out of beating him.

- Foley said he and Jim Ross did good interviews for the web site, but the company didn't push them.

- Foley said he enjoyed his role as the commissioner, but didn't have to get into a certain state of mind to cut a heart felt promo.

- Foley said that even though it's a wrestling book, there are parts of the book that are heart felt, especially the chapter on the girl in the Philippians.

- He said there were parts of his and Flair's promos that weren't known ahead of time.

- Foley was asked about politics backstage. He said Kane should run for office as a Libertarian.

- He said he knows his lot in life centers around wrestling.