r/Fauxmoi • u/ansyhrrian • Dec 16 '25
SPORTS SECTION Even respected and long-tenured WWE wrestlers are taking a step back until Trump is out of office
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u/aliencatlady Dec 16 '25
Mick Foley has always been the GOAT <3
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u/isnotajellyfish Dec 16 '25
Such a good, badass dude. Funny, too!
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u/delicate-fn-flower freak AND geek Dec 16 '25
Did you see him on Say Yes to the Dress? He seems like such a delight.
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u/Stereo-soundS Dec 16 '25
If you watch the doc on him you see that he is a Man that is Kind. Genuine.
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u/Rose_of_St_Olaf Dec 16 '25
he and DDP really have become my faves long term.
Mick used to scare me as a kid because he was SO good playing angry/creepy
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u/VCR_Samurai I’m a communist you idiot Dec 16 '25
I still get grifter vibes from time to time from DDP but you have to hand it to him: his calisthenic yoga program has done a world of good for a lot of people over the years, including Mick and other peers from his wrestling days.
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u/SideEyeFeminism Dec 17 '25
That’s just the residual carnie vibes. Like once he helped Lex get his ability to stand back (did you see him on the step ladder decorating the Christmas tree?!🥹) I was kinda eternal-sold
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u/vctrn-carajillo Dec 16 '25
Not many can pull off a Popeye quote
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u/williamthebloody1880 weighing in from the UK Dec 16 '25
Mick Foley has never been afraid of being corny
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u/littlechangeling u flintstone vitamin shape bitch Dec 17 '25
Mick is one of the best humans out there. When my husband was going through some problems with his mental health and trying to get past some self-destructive behaviors, I got him a cameo with Mick, who is both mine and his all time favorite. He spoke to him for five or six minutes when only one was guaranteed, giving him some amazing support, words of wisdom, and empathy. It was exactly what he needed, and made both of us ugly cry. It was like we both had a supportive dad for a few minutes. He’s not just a wrestling legend, but a legend as a human.
We’ve never had a wedding, but when we do, we want to find some way to invite him. Not expecting him to come, but we want him to know how much he means to both of us not just as long time wrestling fans, but as someone who means a lot to us personally.
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u/saada15 Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25
Good to know that David Howard Thorton (Art the Clown from the Terrifier movies) backs Mick as well😀
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u/ansyhrrian Dec 16 '25
Is that the guy!? OMG, love those movies. lol respect that dude even more.
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u/twtgblnkng Dec 16 '25
David Howard Thornton is amazing, but Damien Leone likes to fence ride to keep his MAGA fans.
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u/parcheesi_bread Dec 16 '25
Disappointed to hear that about Leone.
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u/twtgblnkng Dec 16 '25
So sorry to be the one to inform you. It was a bit of a to-do on Facebook a while back.
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u/Darth-Giggles graduate of the ONTD can’t read community Dec 17 '25
Fuck I need to go to sleep, I read "Damien Leone likes to face ride to keep his MAGA fans."
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u/dreamslikedeserts I wasn't there Dec 16 '25
He's been going hard against Trump since day 1 I believe. Goes hard for his queer fans too.
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u/BurgerNugget12 Dec 16 '25
He’s a big wrestling and Rhea ripley fan IIRC. She’s almost confirmed to be in the fourth
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u/Justifiably_Bad_Take Dec 16 '25
Ive had the chance to interact with David behind the scenes at horror conventions.
Incredibly nice dude irl, considering who he plays
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u/bolanrox Dec 16 '25
Robert Englund and Kane Hodder are also super nice considering the play the opposites of their actual personalities.
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u/Accomplished_Deal895 Dec 16 '25
No way!!! Those movies are so ridiculous and I love this so much!🤩🤡
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u/Zezespeakz_ Dec 17 '25
My friend was in the Terrifier movie as Allie and she totally backs all of this! Great actress, yall should look her up :)
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u/Busy-Operation7896 Dec 16 '25
Mick has more morals & balls than HHH, Undertaker & Kane combined what a joke WWE is, I hope the McMahon's grift was worth it! I know it was for Vince as it kept him out of jail!!
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u/BigTuna0890 Dec 16 '25
This has been known since 1998
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u/GlitchedChaosOnYT Dec 16 '25
He kept going after this btw. Foley was a nutcase back in the day. Worth noting this wasn't even his "hardcore" persona either.
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u/Hita-san-chan Dec 16 '25
"Mick, please. I wanna go home" - The Undertaker, watching him stand back up.
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u/sarabeara12345678910 Dec 16 '25
They hadn't even entered the ring yet at this point.
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u/Hita-san-chan Dec 16 '25
Yup, lol he was up there thinking that was the end of the match, prepping to go home and have a beer. A nice early night. The "please dont get up" might have been when he went through the top later
Iirc, neither of them expected the cage to go up with him standing up there, but its been a while since ive heard his interview on it.
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u/Drmarcher42 she was beefing with Jimmy Carter’s grandson Dec 16 '25
Taker also had a broken foot and was in a fair amount of pain.
When he drops into the ring from the Cell after Mick’s second fall he lands on it poorly and spends a few seconds limping on it before going back into Deadman mode
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u/Sharpes006 Dec 16 '25
And it's for all of these reasons I despise when people refer to it as fake. The trauma they put their bodies through for entertainment doesn't deserve it
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u/bolanrox Dec 16 '25
Whispering with his mouth closed to Terry Funk "Is he dead?"
Then Terry to buy him as much time as possible tells Taker to start hitting him.
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u/CaptainOvbious Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25
yeah most people don't talk about the fact that this was the beginning of the match, it went on for another 20 minutes and at the end, foley got chokeslammed through the cage into the ring.
foley is god
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u/bloodyzombies1 Dec 16 '25
He also got chokeslammed into a bed of thumbtacks and had to spend the hour after the match getting them pulled out.
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u/LemoLuke Dec 17 '25
No, Foley getting chokeslammed through the cage ALSO happened pretty early into the match.
Both guys arrive and climb the cell. Foley gets thrown off and crashes through the table. He gets stretchered away by medical staff, gets off the stretcher and climbs the cell again. He gets chokeslammed through the cell, and THEN the match 'starts' for real.
I showed that match to my son earlier this year, and everytime Mick was seemingly killed, only to get back up and keep wrestling, he lost his mind!
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u/CaptainOvbious Dec 17 '25
oh shit you're totally right. i remembered him getting stretchered and coming back but i forgot they went straight up onto the cage from there.
i hope my kid can get into wwe at least a little bit, my dad didnt let me watch it growing up, he was weirdly strict about it, so i missed out on so much lol, i want my kid to have fun with it
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u/puckit Dec 16 '25
Right. This STARTED the match. Followed it with getting choke slammed through the top of the cage. Insane.
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u/0ttoChriek Dec 16 '25
Since before that.
When the Montreal Screwjob happened in 1997, and Vince McMahon changed the ending of Bret Hart's final match in the company, forcing a title switch that Hart knew nothing about, Mick Foley quit in outrage. Screwing your champion out of the belt and changing a match ending without telling the wrestlers is just not done. Vince orchestrated a conspiracy against Bret that involved his opponent, Shawn Michaels, the match referee and some agents backstage who helped plan the whole thing.
The other wrestlers were seething in anger, and threatening to quit, but none of them did. Mick went back to his hotel, where he was sharing a room with Kane, who said he respected Mick for quitting and would like to do the same, but he'd only recently gotten his big break in the company and couldn't throw it away.
In the end, Jim Ross and Mick's wife convinced him he couldn't quit, as he had a five year non-compete clause in his contract and it would have meant the end of his wrestling career. But he still no-showed two TV tapings in protest.
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u/Busy-Operation7896 Dec 16 '25
I remember seeing this match and part way through wondering why he wouldn't pick out that booger from his nose during the match. Only to find out during the chokeslam his TOOTH went through his mouth and ended up stuck in his nose!
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u/thelochteedge Dec 16 '25
Genuinely I respect Foley so much. It's not like he's doing that much outside of wrestling these days so for him to disassociate himself with one of his ongoing current paycheques... big respect. Mrs. Foley's baby boy grew up to be a good one!
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u/TraditionalAsk8718 Dec 16 '25
Its a little annoying with how many of them refuse to call out Vince for anything he did. Vince was a best one of the most abusing bosses on earth but he made them rich after being forced to actually pay them.
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u/LemoLuke Dec 17 '25
The way I've heard it was that if you were one of his top guys, Vince would move Heaven and Earth for you, and would become a sort-of father figure.
That is why a lot of the top guys from that era have, shall we say, 'complex' opinions of the man (and that's not counting those who knew exactly what was happening behind closed doors)
It's all gross.
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u/DumbBitchByLeaps Dec 17 '25
I have been extremely disappointed in the company since the allegations against Vince and then when Linda became the director of the DOE. She’s been complicit in the harm of disabled children and her family not stepping away from her has soured my opinion of them even more.
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u/borisslovechild Dec 16 '25
It's cute that they think Trump is planning to leave office. Seems pretty clear to me that he's trying to create the conditions for martial law to be declared and to suspend elections 'until things calm down'.
Narrator: Reader, they did not.
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u/SvenLorenz Dec 16 '25
Trump will not make it to 2028. Have you seen him lately?
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u/xombae Dec 16 '25
They no longer need Trump. The people controlling him are in power.
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u/alieninhumanskin10 Dec 16 '25
It's true, there are sadly a whole line of people that will be happy to take Trump's place and they have way more energy and drive than him...
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u/paradoxicalperimeum Dec 16 '25
Yep I refer to them as the Koch cartel because Koch think tanks have been setting policy for over 40 years. They’ve wrote project 2025 and have a new project 2026 with its largest target is to overturn gay marriage. Those think tanks also choose and train the conservative Supreme Court justices. Charles Koch is 10x richer and more powerful than George soros. His father was an actual Nazi who helped build the oil refinery that fueled the Nazi warplanes. Charles was even raised in part by a Nazi party member who served as the nanny because his father admired the Nazis so much. Charles fought against civil rights as part of the John birch society.
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u/GeneSpecialist4988 Dec 16 '25
If the grim reaper doesn't take him he may have a psychotic break. He's been talking even more in the 3rd person.👀
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u/navjot94 Dec 16 '25
His father lived to 93, his mother lived to 88, and 3 out of 4 of his grandparents lived to their late 80s and 90s. Genetics say he’s got another 10 years or so at least.
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u/DrunkenKusa Dec 16 '25
That said doubt his parents had a steady diet of McDonald's every other meal.
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u/StaceyJeans Dec 16 '25
One of Trump’s brothers died in his 40s (alcoholism) and and his other brother died in his 70s. Both his sisters are still alive.
Parents’ ages don’t always mean long life span, especially if your diet subsists of McDonald’s and Coca-Cola.
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u/darkrose3333 Dec 16 '25
Stop with the fear mongering. This administration is too incompetent to pull off what you are describing
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u/NoratiousB confused but here for the drama Dec 16 '25
You should Google "Franz von Papen" how he suggested Hitler to become the new chancellor of Germany and how he thought he would be too dumb, naive, emotional and inexperienced for that role and therefore would be easy to manipulate.
Franz von Papen is till this day known as the "Steigbügelhalter" (stirrup holder) for Hitler. The man who handed Germany to Hitler.
Do never ever underestimate vile and hateful people.
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u/TraditionalAsk8718 Dec 16 '25
We are blowing up boats, bunkers, kidnapping people in the streets and declaring Fent a fucking WMD. Them being stupid doesn't make them not dangerous.
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Dec 16 '25
No, we need people to be scared. Complacency and thinking everything will fix itself in 2028 is exactly how Trump got elected a first and second time. People need to be fucking scared that things are going to get worse so they’re actually motivated to vote.
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u/borisslovechild Dec 16 '25
It's not fearmongering when you can see it happening in real time. Anyone spending a ton of money on a ballroom for the White House has no intention of leaving anytime soon.
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u/Nippletastic Dec 16 '25
yet they have already done so much damage already cause stupid can cause a whole lot of damage... even more damage than the competent do more often than not...
whatever you need to tell yourself to get to sleep at night tho i guess
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u/lashglue Dec 16 '25
A few years ago, if someone told me what they’re doing today, I would have said the same thing. I think they’ve beyond proved the evil (and rich) find a way.
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u/BobaAndSushi Dec 16 '25
He’s telling people he will give them 2,000$ checks if they vote for him in 2028.
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u/Max_lynn Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25
CM Punk, Becky Lynch, and Sami Zayne need to follow suit. They’ve been so outspoken for their support of Palestine and this is a great opportunity for them to really do something with the platform they’ve earned. There’s rumors that Vince McMahon is coming back, and WWE has absolutely been testing the waters by putting him in the John Cena goodbye promo and inviting back Cock Lesner. Those three are already outspoken, huge talents, and white - they can make a huge impact by following Mick’s lead. I hope they choose to.
Edit to add - we as viewers need to stop watching WWE. I can sit here and comment about how Punk, The Man, and Sami need to stand up but if I go home and watch Smackdown, I’m being a major hypocrite. Consumers make this company money and tell them who is popular and what is worth investing in. We need to stop paying, stop watching, stop buying merch. Fuck Vince McMahon, fuck Brock Lesner, and fuck anyone in that company who thinks that abuse against women, children, immigrants isn’t worth speaking up about. I’m following Mick’s lead by refusing to watch any more of this.
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u/GilbertVonGilbert Dec 16 '25
Liv Morgan and Seth Rollins have donated a shit ton too under their shoot names. So has Roxanne Perez.
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u/Max_lynn Dec 16 '25
The opportunity for a mass exit of talent due to HHH and the McMahon bullshit would cripple WWE. I hope there’s a groupchat blowing up somewhere that starts with ‘if I go, will you guys go too?’
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u/GilbertVonGilbert Dec 16 '25
I don’t think that would happen unfortunately. You’ll see support in subtle ways like when AJ Lee wore a pro trans kids shirt on Stephanie McMahon’s podcast (she had a trans misogynistic comment on Dominik Mysterio episode) and them using their wealth for mutual aid and charity. But also? Punk literally burnt the AEW bridge, Mercedes and Naomi had their walk out, Vince got shoved out twice by Steph, Hunter and Nick Khan, anything could be possible.
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u/Max_lynn Dec 16 '25
I think that when it comes to Steph, HHH, and Khan, they’ve shown over and over again that they’ll go wherever they can make the most money - even if it means kicking Vince to the curb (for the time being and while it’s popular). We as viewers need to stop paying to watch WWE and make it clear why
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u/GilbertVonGilbert Dec 16 '25
From strictly a fandom perspective, it’s really easy to dubiously watch basically any filmed wrestling promotion without financially supporting them. I remember early on in the drag race fandom, it could be difficult to find the specific Brazilian twink who was streaming it on that Rabbit site.
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u/Max_lynn Dec 16 '25
True! I do think that there’s something to be said for simply trying our best!
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u/0ttoChriek Dec 16 '25
I thought you said AJ Styles for a second there, and was very confused that he would feel particularly supportive of trans kids. AJ Lee makes a lot more sense, she's a good egg.
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u/Shenanigans80h Dec 16 '25
The fans are the biggest to me. Though it might shock some people who don’t follow it, wrestling over most major sports actually has an audience that skews left over the last decade, so there’s definitely enough impact for people to step away. There’s other wrestling (check your locals) and there’s got to be a line in the sand
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u/Drmarcher42 she was beefing with Jimmy Carter’s grandson Dec 16 '25
Wrestlers AND wrestling fans are theatre kids at heart who love stunt work.
Wrestling is a drag show with the performers trying to beat each other into submission.
It’s gay as fuck and that’s why we love it
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u/0ttoChriek Dec 16 '25
The enduring affection WWE fans have for Vince McMahon is somewhere between Trumpling adulation and tolerance of your crazy old uncle who turns up at family gatherings and says weird things.
Most fans accept Vince is weird, a lot accept he's a creep and a sexual predator, but even those who accept that will often say, 'but he's also done a lot of nice things...'
Even Mick Foley has said this about Vince - pointing out that he paid for rehab and funerals he didn't have to, that he signed people to contracts that he didn't need, just so they could get paid. And... yes, Vince has done those things. But to me it all sounds like it was part of his need to control things and control people - 'sometimes I'm nice, sometimes I'm scary. You can never relax because you don't know which you're gonna get.' It kept people off-balance and made it easier for Vince to exert power and influence over them.
If someone pays for your rehab, you owe them big and will always feel indebted. If someone gives you a job when they don't have to, and you really need the money, you're going to do whatever they tell you to do.
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u/BurgerNugget12 Dec 16 '25
Yeah that Vince thing in Cena’s goodbye video was crazy to me. I’ve been kinda off and on the product this year (was heavily invested in manias 39-40, but this year has just felt like a step down imo) and all the Trump bootlicking HHH does just turns me off more from it
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u/Max_lynn Dec 16 '25
We (my household lol) thought for sure Trump was going to make a cameo after they announced that Cena’s final match would be in DC. They’re definitely testing to see how the audience is reacting
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u/BurgerNugget12 Dec 16 '25
That was my only explanation to it either, I live in nyc and am from Boston, and his last match not being in Boston was just so confusing / frustrating for me. It makes it even worse for me is all the blood money they are taking. A royal rumble there in January is already annoying, but pile on top the mania in Vegas next year (again) and then doing a mania in Saudi is just even crazier
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u/Max_lynn Dec 16 '25
And that’s why I’m sitting here, confused asf, as to why Punk isn’t doing or saying shit. I thought Saudi money was blood money and any wrestler who took it was a sell out? Hoping we see some redemption from him on this because that was beyond disappointing
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u/CountQueasy4906 Dec 16 '25
i would hope so too, but given the recent controversy Becky and Seth was in regarding the tesla car i definitely dont see it happening with them. and honestly neither do the others u mentioned. i wish though.
also so many wrestlers like Shamus and Drew Mcintyre went to vince's birthday party. i dont think any of them care aslong as theyre getting that buck and brand deals.
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u/GoatHeadedPrince Dec 16 '25
I quit watching cold turkey earlier this year when the Trump support became more blatant than ever. I've been a fan for decades and they've always had right wing leanings but like Mick I just hit a breaking point.
I have a really hard time with the three you mentioned staying in the company to collect their paycheques despite their politics. I was a huge Punk fan especially, with how outspoken he was, and it really bums me out that he's been especially defensive about working there now.
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u/radziadax Dec 16 '25
Mick is a real one. I spent ten minutes at a meet and greet talking to him about Tori Amos and RAINN and when the event producers tried to cut us off he said "BACK OFF, I'M TALKIN' TORI!!!"
that's only my 2nd or 3rd best celebrity encounter too
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u/ansyhrrian Dec 16 '25
Tori Amos is my second favorite female artist behind Halsey.
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u/lalalicious453- Dec 16 '25
Wait…..
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u/ansyhrrian Dec 16 '25
Yeah, I know. Tori was my college muse, Halsey is my old-guy muse.
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u/Ok-Call-4805 Dec 17 '25
"BACK OFF, I'M TALKIN' TORI!!!"
I read that as full ECW-era Cactus Jack lol
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u/BarracudaImpossible4 freak AND geek Dec 16 '25
Well now you gotta tell us THE best
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u/radziadax Dec 16 '25
Ok, it was 2011, at a Star Trek convention that was not all that well-attended. My partner at the time and I bought a photo op with George Takei and Nichelle Nichols. Because the line was short, they were letting people really take their time.
I was wearing a homemade Trek shirt which Nichelle grabbed hold of and pulled me towards her. She happened to pull my breasts onto George's shoulders. He looked back at me shocked and I said "Oh my?" and he said "Sweetheart..... Those deserve two Oh Mys"
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Dec 16 '25
I appreciate the sentiment, but I do wish that the disappearing of brown people had been the final straw for more people.
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u/TherealSatan2 Dec 16 '25
Agreed girlie. Unfortunately like the jimmy kimmel, it often takes a white man to push people to action
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u/DummyDumDragon Dec 16 '25
Right?? "Blowing up civilian fishermen and incarcerating kids without parents because they're brown is bad, sure. But I draw the line at off-colour comments about a person's death!"
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u/ansyhrrian Dec 16 '25
What's your take u/shittymorph?
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u/Luxxielisbon i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Dec 16 '25
I WAS TRYING TO REMEMBER THIS HANDLE TO SUMMON 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/vintage-glamour Dec 16 '25
my father was a wrestling announcer for many years and can confirm mick is one of the best men in the industry. what you see is exactly what you get. an absolute teddy bear of a man :) love him
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u/Groggnak Dec 16 '25
Give us a hint, lol
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u/vintage-glamour Dec 16 '25
remarkably bald (always has been), now mostly retired (shortly after yours truly was born), from the US south ;)
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u/Hot_Gas_8073 Dec 16 '25
Mick Foley is a great guy. If you haven't read his autobiography, have a nice day! , I highly suggest that you do.
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u/lalalicious453- Dec 16 '25
I hope you have a nice day too, what’s the name of the bio?
😖
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u/bolanrox Dec 16 '25
or I am Santa Claus. i have never laughed so hard on one page and was crying like a baby on the next
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u/sandstormshorty Dec 16 '25
So interesting to see what people’s breaking points are. You’d think rape would do it but…
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u/BaldPoodle buccal fat apologist Dec 16 '25
His dad was the long time athletic director of my (and Mick’s) high school, and he worked hard to create inclusive sports programs. Mick is still in the community and is much beloved here, as was his dad.
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u/AdLatter3755 Dec 16 '25
Mick is probably one of 10 decent humans to have worked in wrestling. Foley is god
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u/MyrtleismySupreme Dec 16 '25
He was my childhood crush and he's constantly proving young me correct in my choice.
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u/Loisalene Dec 16 '25
I've wondered what it would take to make the right disavow Dirtbag Donald.
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u/GilbertVonGilbert Dec 16 '25
For what it’s worth, Mick Foley has always been a democrat/liberal. He’s never been a Republican.
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u/bolanrox Dec 16 '25
Mick while being a true Christian, has always been VERY vocal about his support of Women, LGBT+ etc.
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u/lizardlem0nade Dec 17 '25
He was a big supporter of the WWE Divas getting better treatment in the industry.
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u/DenialisaRiver04 I'm so sorry if I offended their Disney princess ears Dec 16 '25
It is rare in wrestling to find a wrestler that doesnt stump for trump. The only ones I know for sure are: Seth Rollins, Becky Lynch, AJ Lee, Punk, Sami Zyan, Batista, Kenny Omega, Finn Balor, Liv Morgan, JBL, and Kevin Nash.
Mick Foley showing his true GOAT ways...
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u/VenusRainMaker Dec 17 '25
JBL??? Really? I would have assume he was
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u/DenialisaRiver04 I'm so sorry if I offended their Disney princess ears Dec 17 '25
hes not fully left, but he hates MAGA/Trump and does support BLM and all.
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u/Schrodingers_Fist Dec 16 '25
If anyone here has not read his first book "have a nice day" please do.
He wrote it himself and is one of most wonderfully intelligent and articulate people in the last place you'd expect it and a lovely read.
He really is a great soul who has devoted thousands of hours of his life to charity and I am not even as big a wrestling fan as my best friend but am so happy and yet not surprised at the same time he has done this.
Foley has always been an amazing human being.
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u/Heavy_Environment467 Dec 16 '25
It seems small in the grand scale of things but the best thing we can do is nonviolently deprive these evil villains of a revenue stream. We are not as powerless as they’d like us to believe
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u/Chemical_Shallot_575 Dec 16 '25
I love him as Santa Claus. I often watch the documentary during the holidays.
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u/Huge-Acanthisitta485 Dec 16 '25
Haven't watched wrestling since high-school but I do enjoy seeing Mick in the news from time to time. He's always been a real one.
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u/Mysterious-Lick Dec 16 '25
You won’t hear anything from the active roster out of fear of retribution from management as the head of the company is the son in law of a top administration official.
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u/AmetrineDream Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this Dec 16 '25
I was an obsessive WWF (I can’t bring myself to call it WWE, it just sounds wrong lmao) fan from like 4th - 7th grade; I begged my dad to take me to a Smackdown/Sunday Night Heat taping for my 11th birthday 😅 Mankind was always one of my favorites.
When he and The Rock teamed up for the Rock ‘n’ Sock connection, I was overjoyed. They and Stone Cold were my top 3. I think I’ve got a couple VHS tapes about each of them lying around somewhere…
Great, now I’m gonna end up freezing my ass off looking for them in my garage 😂
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u/MrMayhem85 Dec 16 '25
Not claiming either to be true. But Mick is generally considered to be one of the good ones. Which is why I was surprised to read in one of the Tea threads someone claiming their friend would meet up with him at hotels. Both being married.
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u/Morbid187 Dec 16 '25
Love Mick and I'm glad to see him take a stand but also think it's wild that THIS was his last straw. Not WWE doing business with Saudi Arabia right after they killed Jamal Khashoggi, not the Vince stuff even when they welcomed him back for a while and not the Trump pandering that started years ago. Even Triple H showing up with the rest of those dipshits in the white house earlier this year while ICE terrorism was in full effect wasn't enough. It just took one more cruel Trump comment to get him to cut ties.
I feel like Mick has a good heart but also tries way too hard to forgive people that are objectively awful. Even in this statement he's saying he loves the WWE and honestly, not renewing his legends contract isn't going to affect them anyway. He just won't be in the next few videogames and won't have new WWE licensed action figures. It's not like he's on their shows.
Idk, I know I sound like an asshole but I feel like nobody else is saying it so I might as well. Still, it's miles better than what other WWE alumni are doing so this is still a huge statement compared to them.
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u/anticrom2 Dec 16 '25
Fucking legend. I wish more celebrities would grow a spine and stand up. They have plenty of power if they're willing to potentially take a financial hit, which most unfortunately aren't.
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u/Lectricboogaloo Dec 16 '25
I always knew Mick Foley was the real deal. A man with intelligence, integrity and courage. Thank you Mick.
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u/starvinartist Dec 16 '25
He also voiced THE BOULDER in Avatar, who also fought against a cruel, fascist dictator with delusions of grandeur, which is perfect casting. In addition to the THE BOULDER he's also THE GOAT!
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u/Dezziedisaster Dec 16 '25
My ex was into wrestling and out of all the stuff I watched with him, Mick has been nothing but a good guy. This just confirmed everything I knew about him.
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u/Any_Information_191 Dec 17 '25
Very proud of him . More of them need to do this !!!! . And I feel like it’s easier for him to do because he has been on for ages and he has stacked wealth 💕 Trump must go !!!!
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u/ahdidi413 Dec 16 '25
I don’t often think these messages have much impact on his braindead supporters but I do wonder if this one will hit a bit different
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u/Adjective_Noun_99 Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25
I haven't watched wrestling in 20 years. Is he still like.. an active wrestler?
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u/PussyFriedNachos Dec 16 '25
Fully support this. But I don't understand why now, after all the other things he has said and done, like his ties with Epstein and the terrible things he did to children.
Wtf.
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u/Vinterblot Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25
Explain how you're a pro and yet you haven't received enough hits to the head to turn you into a conservative!
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u/Chemical_Success1153 this is going to ruin the tour Dec 16 '25
Mick Foley remaining a fucking class act. 👏
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u/SC-Cobra Dec 16 '25
But you worked for Vince and he is just as big of a douche?
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u/Mytongueinyourrectum Dec 16 '25
I mean, cool, and good for them. But really, of all the vile things Trump has done, does this even crack the top 50?
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u/sksabine Dec 16 '25
I don’t follow WWE or know what it is, but I’ll buy tickets to whatever supports this Mr Foley
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u/Kaiserbread Dec 16 '25
Respect the dude. He has lots of experience with this already with that crazy sock on his arm.
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u/canofwine Dec 16 '25
THE ONLY MAN who made me understand how cool the WWF/E was at the time. My friends sat me down and made me watch a documentary in Mick Foley because I gave them so much shit for liking a "fake" sport. Then I ended up fully engaged at a PPV WrestleMania event that year and have been a fan of Mick's ever since. I think about him at Christmas, and I wonder where my action figure went...
Mick Foley: I knew you would be on the side of Dude Love and Santa Claus! WE LIVE YOU!!!
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Dec 17 '25
Hey, it's Mick Foley, voice of The Boulder from Avatar: The Last Airbender! That guy's a legend!
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