WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley has shared his views on the use of thumbtacks and barbed wire, two weapons that the Hardcore Legend knows plenty about.
Speaking on a recent edition of his “Foley Is Pod” show, the former WWE Champion was asked which was worse to take and spoke about the biggest concerns when taking tacks. He said,
“I don’t want to say [the risk is] very low, but when your biggest concerns are making sure you’re closing eyes if you’re dumb enough to take it face-first, which I was on a couple of occasions, and then you also want the clean tacks, right? For years I thought I had, like, a skin rash that wouldn’t go away no matter what kind of creams I was putting on it. Then I realized it wasn’t a rash, it was hundreds of tiny hole puncture scars that made up something that looked like a rash.”
When talking about barbed wire, Foley said that it’s easier when the wire is around a baseball bat and said barbed wire ring ropes were the worst. He added,
“[Barbed wire] can catch and tear you and change your life in a major way and I think the best example of that is when Sabu got something like what would have been a hundred stitches if he didn’t superglue it himself, and that to me was one of the gutsiest moments in wrestling.”
