WWE Raw (TV Series)

Show Your Appreciation (2000)

Mick Foley: Cactus Jack

Quotes 

• Triple H : What I propose, Cactus Jack, is that one more time, you and me. At No Way Out, one more time. But this is it! Your last shot at me, your last shot at the WWF title. And Cactus, you can have any type of match you want. Just... there will be no two-by-fours wrapped in razor sharp barbed wire. There will be no sharp, metallic objects. There will be no thumbtacks. There will not be any of your sadistic toys. We will have a match, plain and simple.

  Cactus Jack : Let me get this straight: you want me in a match, but it cannot involve two-by-fours wrapped in barbed wire. You want me in a match, but it cannot involve thumbtacks. You want me in a match, but it cannot involve sharp, metallic objects.

  Triple H : Congratulations, your brain does still work.

  Cactus Jack : Well, let me ask you this: you throw all those toys out of the picture, and I can have any other match I damn well desire?

  Triple H : Yes.

  Cactus Jack : Doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun, Triple H, but I'll tell you what: no barbed wire, no thumbtacks, no metallic objects... you leave me with only one choice.

  [pause] 

  Cactus Jack : Hell in the Cell!

  [the audience pops] 

• Michael Cole : Cactus, not withstanding, in 20 days at No Way Out, you have the match of your career... well, it's actually the match *for* your career. You meet Triple H, Hell in a Cell, with the World Wrestling Federation title and your career on the line. But tonight, you go into a 5-on-2 situation against Triple H, X-Pac, and the four men who stabbed you in the back.

  Cactus Jack : In 20 days, Michael Cole, do not make a mistake, don't make a mistake tonight, and that mistake is don't count Cactus Jack out. I WAS NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE HERE! 15 years ago, they said, "Mick Foley, you're too slow. You're too ugly. You're not big enough, you're not strong enough", and for 15 years, I've been proving people wrong. And you expect Triple H and four ingrates to stand in my way? I was fully prepared to go one-on-five. I didn't ask for the Rock's help, he volunteered it, but I'm not stupid enough to turn it down! So the question is, will it be enough, and my answer is it's going to have to be. Because I will get through tonight. I will get through Hell in a Cell, and I will go on to WrestleMania, because it's meant to be. Bang, bang!

• Triple H : Hell in the Cell? All right, Hell in the Cell. You got a deal. But one stipulation.

  Cactus Jack : You name it.

  Triple H : I will go through Hell in the Cell with you, but I want your career on the line. If I beat you in Hell in the Cell, you are finished! You retire, your career is over! And that means you, Mick Foley, which includes Dude Love, which includes Mankind, which includes Cactus Jack. You are finished! You are done! It is over!

  Cactus Jack : So, you want my career? You want my career? Well, let's talk about my career for just a minute. Do you know what I have done, Triple H, in my career? I have DONE IT ALL! Three-time WWF Champion. Eight-time WWF Tag Team Champion. The original Hardcore Champion. And the King of the Japanese Death Match. So I tell you once again, Triple H, you want my career? I have done it all, except for one thing. In 15 years that I have dedicated my life to this sport, there is only one thing that keeps me awake at night, and that is I have never main-evented a WrestleMania in my life. So, you want my career? I'm going to add one more stipulation. If I win... *WHEN* I win at Hell in the Cell, you put your title on the line. Because if I can't beat you, I don't deserve... no, no, no! If I can't beat you, I DO NOT *WANT* to wrestle ever again! But when I do, you look at me and make damn sure you understand. There will be no ridiculous stipulations, no title defenses, THAT'S IT! I win, I go to WrestleMania and you sit home. I win, I take on the winner of the Big Show and the Rock. In the greatest show in our industry. You accept my stipulation, then you're damn right I will put my entire 15-year career on the line!

  Triple H : Cactus Jack, at No Way Out, Hell in the Cell, you will face the Game, and if you win, you will go to WrestleMania the World Wrestling Federation Champion, the main event. But if I win, I will end your 15-year career! I will end your career and it will be over!

  [starting to walk down the ramp] 

  Triple H : Cactus Jack, you have 20... about 20 days left in your glorious 15-year career. Because at Hell in the Cell, I will finish what I've started. At Hell in the Cell, Cactus Jack, I will end it for you. But, Cactus, I take what I want when I want it, and right now, I want a piece of your ass.

  [climbing onto the ring apron, to the Radicalz] 

  Triple H : Now, the four of you have got two choices. you can either get your asses out of this ring and save yourselves a beating, or you can show your appreciation to the man that gave you the opportunity.

  [getting into the ring] 

  Triple H : To the man that gave you your contracts.

  [the Radicalz jump Cactus, and X-Pac joins in; after a Bronco Buster from X-Pac, Benoit hits Cactus with a diving headbutt from the top rope] 

  Triple H : Cactus, that is the beginning of the end. 20 days; count them, relish them, because in 20 days, it is the end.

  [hitting Cactus with the microphone, he then delivers a Pedigree as an exclamation point]