Foley places Edge’s face headfirst on the cookie sheet, then grabs a chair for the conchairto. Foley comes back with punches, then hits the pulling piledriver for two. Edge pulls out some lighter fluid and sprays it all over Foley’s flannel shirt. Edge rams the back of his head into the steel ramp. Edge pulls a table out from under the ring. I guess that’s why we love him so much, huh? Here’s more proof as Edge chucks him legs first into the steps sending him crashing over those knee first.īack in the ring, Edge with a baseball slide dropkick that sends him out to the floor. This just in: Mick Foley is still insane. Punches on the floor, then a charge but Edge hiptosses him into the steel steps with Foley’s legs and hip hitting the steps. Lita jumps on his back and he charges at Edge with Lita on his back while hitting the Cactus clothesline sending all three to the floor. Edge gets tied up in the ropes while Mick goes under the ring steps to find Barbie the barbed wire baseball bat. Edge’s arm is bleeding as Mick attacks him with the wire. Then we learn why Edge is hurt because Foley’s got the barb wire wrapped around his stomach. Edge starts yelling like he hurt his arm, which proves to be a work as Foley takes off the dark flannel to reveal the red flannel and shirt. Edge goes for the spear and he hits it only two minutes into the match. Baseball slide dropkick into a side crashing into Foley’s face. Now another larger cookie sheet to the head of Foley. Edge gets a forearm on Foley as Lita hands him a cookie sheet. Foley counters, hits a bulldog and hits the Tree of Woe elbow to the head of Edge. The crowd was ready and thirsty for blood.Įdge attacks with the bat. Foley’s out in the darker flannel shirt and a Cactus Jack shirt underneath. Edge is out first with Lita and her cleavage. No countouts, no DQs and falls count anywhere. JR welcomes Joey Styles to the booth to call this match due to his experience in hardcore matches. There was a video package to set up the match.
Here’s my full review of the match plus the analysis, which was written in 2012. The story was strong and they were good performers, so I was expecting a great match. Edge was in the prime of his career at 32 years of age. I think he had a valid point if he was mad.įoley went into the match at 40 years of age and as I said, six years after he retired as a full time wrestler. He might have been mad that he wasn’t in the main event of WrestleMania after the great 2005 he had and winning the WWE Title earlier in the year. I assume he went into this match very motivated to prove that he was a main event performer. Seeing him win the WWE Title earlier in the year was awesome because he was a local guy to me. I had no doubt that he was going to be ready to put on a great match.Īs for Edge, I watched him in the indies before he was WWE. I was really happy to see him back in action six years after he retired. He became a big star because of his hard work, his ability to tell a story on the microphone and in the ring and most importantly of all, his connection with the crowd. For fans that think he was only a guy that fell of roof tops or cages to get attention, you’re wrong.
He looks like a normal guy that just so happens to be ridiculously talented when it comes to that art of professional wrestling.
I think it’s because he’s an “every man” type of guy.
Mick Foley is one of my favorite people in wrestling history. They did a great job of making it feel like a personal rivalry. Foley was really aggressive in the build up to the match as he used weapons like chairs and barb wire baseball bats to show that he was ready. Foley fired back at Edge by noting that Edge had awoken a part of Foley’s past that he had forgotten about.