Mick Foley had a WWE Hall of Fame career, and he racked up a ton of stories along the way.
During a recent episode of Foley is Pod, Mick Foley revealed that his wife didn’t receive the best treatment backstage in WWE at first. He recalled the first time that he ever brought his kids backstage to a WWE event, and his wife didn’t feel comfortable with the atmosphere.
“She didn’t feel completely comfortable, and that actually stems back to July of ‘96 when I brought my kids on the road, I think, for the second time. In fairness to WWE, when I brought them to Savannah Georgia, my kids cried for ninety minutes (laughs). I had the talk with them outside, they’re all dressed up, Dewey’s in his tie, Noelle’s in her dress. “You’re gonna be good for Daddy, right?” They went in there and had the fit where the mucus is coming out of the nose and you just can’t stop it.”
“But nonetheless, that had been a few weeks earlier, and now I’m bringing them to New England. I can’t remember if they were in Portland with me; but they were definitely there the next night in Bangor. The agent — and I don’t need to name the agent — may have been overplaying his hand by not allowing my family backstage. And ushered them into a bathroom with what appeared to be an open sewage line. And why I didn’t stand up right then and say “this doesn’t fly,” I don’t know. I was probably thinking, “I’ve only got a few months in this company, I’m getting a push, I don’t want to rock the boat.”
Mick Foley On Foley Is Pod
WWE has changed a lot since 1996, and they have a much different corporate culture as well. Vince McMahon ran the show with an old-school mentality back in the day that simply doesn’t cut it with a modern day mindset.
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