WWE Rivals (TV Series)

Triple H vs. Mick Foley (2022)

Mark Calaway: Undertaker - WWE Hall of Famer

Quotes 

• Self - WWE Hall of Famer : If you were looking for the polar opposite of Hunter Hearst Helmsley, look no further than Mankind. When I debuted in 1996 as Mankind, that character was kind of a tortured soul along the lines of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

  Undertaker - WWE Hall of Famer : Mankind was demented. There were no limits to what he would do to himself to inflict pain on his opponent. He was just maniacal. I remember having a match with him; he was legit pulling his own hair out. I remember him taking a stick and jabbing it in his leg over and over and over again. I mean, that's just another level of dedication to making a character viable. It was nuts. But you believed him.

  Self - WWE Analyst : Those of us familiar with who this guy was knew that he had lived in existence as Cactus Jack before he got to WWE. The scars on his body from his life as Cactus Jack was very real. Then he does this interview on TV.

  Cody Rhodes - WWE Superstar : The death match stuff, that got Cactus into the game, perhaps, but the sit-down interview with Jim Ross, th-that actually got him into the end zone.

  Kevin Nash - WWE Hall of Famer : The Jim Ross thing really touched base 'cause that was something that... you know, I remember watching it. And, to me, it was like, when they showed his senior-year picture, that... that looks like anybody.

  Self - Host : Yeah.

  Kevin Nash - WWE Hall of Famer : Yeah. And now we've got... we-we've got this... this heap of humanity that's pulling his hair out. I mean, like, what torturous life has this soul had?

  Self - WWE Hall of Famer : I'm not sure I've ever been that on as I was that night as I brought this character to life and created an enormous amount of empathy just by being 100% honest.

  Beth Phoenix - WWE Hall of Famer : We got to know Mrs. Foley's baby boy. We got to know... we got to see the home footage of Mick jumping off his garage onto a mattress. And all of us were doing the same thing off of our couches, you know?

  Paul Heyman - WWE Manager : It felt intimate, and it struck a chord, and it endeared Mick Foley to a worldwide audience.

  Self - WWE Hall of Famer : We can be a line of work that everyone knows is entertainment, but you can still connect and-and-and be a character that resonates with people where they go, "I understand that. I get that."

  Kevin Owens - WWE Superstar : Once he started breaking out of that shell of the original Mankind character, he was different than everybody else because he was a lot more like the people watching than everybody else in the ring with him.

  Self - WWE Hall of Famer : As soon as I did these interviews, without actually turning in a classic way, I didn't apologize for my misgivings, I was just the same guy, and every single week, more and more people were cheering me. I don't think a change has ever come about that organically.

  Cody Rhodes - WWE Superstar : He didn't fit, but he made himself fit. And it makes for a great rivalry when you have someone who doesn't fit against the most "I fit" guy there is in a Triple H.

• Triple H - WWE Hall of Famer : [recounting his and Mick's street fight]  Going into that sequence at the end, and we both want it to be great and we're willing to do anything to make it great.

  Self - WWE Hall of Famer : Mr. McMahon came into the dressing room and said, "No thumbtacks." And as soon as he walked out the door, Hunter turned to me and said, "You already put them under the ring, right?" I said, "Yeah, yeah. I got it covered."

  [a clip of Cactus kicking out of the Pedigree, Triple H's finishing move, is shown] 

  Self - WWE Hall of Famer : When I kicked out, I mean, the roar was deafening. I hadn't received reactions like that, and that has a lot to do with the guy I'm in the ring with.

  Triple H - WWE Hall of Famer : [clips of him winning the match are shown]  That match was a bona fide main event-making match for the both of us.

  Self - WWE Hall of Famer : That was up there in the top five for sure of my entire career.

  Undertaker - WWE Hall of Famer : It added ten layers to the Triple H character, because he had survived Cactus Jack.

  Triple H - WWE Hall of Famer : He really put the... the stamp on me of being a guy that could hang with anybody in... in a... in a physicality standpoint.