Foley Attempting Stand Up, At Home with TNA, New Book and MORE
The Miami Herald has an featured article on TNA’s Mick Foley. Foley talks about Improv, an stand up comedy in Hollywood on Aug. 22. Here are few snippets:
Feeling at home with TNA Wrestling:
“I don’t feel like every match coming up is a chance to destroy my legacy,” he said. “I look at it as a way to possibly try out some new things. I used to really dread the possibility of having that bad singles match that people would look at and say, `I really wish he would have stayed retired for good.’
“I don’t want to do the things in the ring too often, no matter how good they turn out, but it is nice to feel inside like every match is an opportunity to impress people and entertain them, instead of depress them.”
“This is the most fun I’ve had in at least 10 years,” he said, “and I’m probably having more fun now than I was even then. I still felt some tension, book related tension, that was not WWE’s fault.
“This is a really good time in my life. I feel like I’m contributing. The schedule is not so grueling that I can’t have a good family life. I feel like the young guys like having me around. When something happens, some kind of circumstance or injury, I’m a credible guy to step in and go to bat.”
Foley then talks about his ninth book release around fall of 2010:
“I have a little chapter titled The Perfect Way To Go, and it’s about my reaction to seeing my 6-year-old son booing me. For quite a while that was his ongoing little rib to his dad, booing me.
“He’s 8 now, and it was just in the last few days here in TNA I looked out and saw him really, really enjoying the matches and getting excited and cheering me on. As nice as it was to be booed by my son, it’s even better having him cheering me on.”
Bobby Lashley joining TNA roster:
“I think it’s huge for TNA to sign Bobby Lashley,” Foley said. “Obviously, Vince McMahon saw his potential, and he really tapped Bobby as his next big superstar. That was well on the way to happening, when they had a falling out, and I think we’ll be able to benefit in a way WWE was not.
“Bobby’s a great a talent, a great guy, and he’s capable of having big matches with the best talent we have.’
Dinner with TNA president Dixie Carter:
“[TNA President] Dixie Carter has been great,” Foley said. “My wife and I had dinner with her, and I mentioned to her during my 12-year association with WWE that my wife and I never dined together with Mr. McMahon. There is a comfort level that was just never there with WWE.
“I’m very happy to be with TNA. I don’t look back at my time with WWE with any bitterness — except I thought they could have done a better job pushing my book in 2006. It was, for the most part, a really, really good place to work, but I have no doubts leaving WWE and heading to TNA was the best move I could have made at that time.” Read the complete interview go here.
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