Mick Foley knows an in-ring return will never happen – but the WWE legend still has his creative juices flowing.
The Hall of Famer has revealed he’d love to bring back his iconic Cactus Jack alter ego for a storyline with Matt Cardona after seeing what the IMPACT Wrestling star has been able to achieve in GCW.
He exclusively told Metro.co.uk: ‘Oh, can you imagine the heat that Cardona would have if Cactus Jack came back for one last match? I can’t do it – I’m just saying, imagine! That’d be great.’
Gamechanger Wrestling has build up a reputation in a similar vein to the iconic Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) promotion did in its heyday, blending brutal deathmatches and high quality in-ring action with great storytelling and a passionate fanbase.
Having come through that environment, Foley is well played to comment on the company’s rise, and he was delighted to be part of it at their NAME NAME show where he helped hype up the title match between Jon Moxley and Nick Gage.
‘It was a really great experience with me because the people there, they feel like that promotion is there for them. And that’s part of the secret,’ he smiled.
‘There’s all different types of wrestling out there for all different types of fans, and then you find a product that caters to fans who really take their wrestling seriously – I tell you, GCW’s a great show!
‘Mox versus Gage is gonna get the lion’s share of the attention, but the rest of the card was solid to spectacular! There were a lot of risks being taken, but no one was going the death match route until the very end.’
Foley is a big advocate of variety in wrestling, but he noted that Moxley and Gage in particular have taken the torch from himself and Terry Funk and ‘ran a couple of laps’.
‘Who am I to tell someone their style of wrestling is wrong? I had the type of stuff that I enjoyed watching. I can appreciate lucha [libre], for example, but it wasn’t what I wanted to do,’ he admitted. ‘I like the wild matches and these guys have taken that torch that Funk and I lit, and ran a couple of laps on their own with it.’
On a personal level, the special was special too as Foley received a heroes welcome from the GCW faithful, and it meant a lot to him – although he wishes his family had made the trip with him.
‘[My kids] took a little break [from wrestling], and now they’re watching a few different programmes, a few different promotions. Three of my children were going to go to the Game Changer show, except my daughter’s got that sensitivity to noises and bright lights and we thought, ah, probably not the best place to go.
‘Her dad’s pop alone would have set her back months on her healing journey,’ he said. ‘It was great, it was one of the best responded I’ve ever received – I certainly wasn’t expecting that!
‘So much so that I said I wished my 20 year old could be there, so he posted a photo of him as Nick Gage, and then my 18 year old posted a photo of him as Nick Gage with the pizza cutter!’
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