While appearing on a recent episode of Hot Ones, Mick Foley reflected on when he battled Triple H for the WWE Title in a street fight.
During the bout, Foley took a Pedigree where his face landed on a pile of thumbtacks. Foley recalled what crossed his mind when taking the spot. He said,
“It’s the instantaneous risk reward analysis. I think it was a god given gift that would tell me — So, January 2000, just a few blocks away at Madison Square Garden. I remember Mr McMahon saying to me and Triple H, ‘No thumb tacks.’ As soon as Mr. McMahon walked away, Triple H goes, ‘You put them under the ring already?’, and I said, ‘Yeah, I got it taken care of.’ This was one the last matches of my career and so it was a big moment. I just saw that majestic pile, there were five or six thousand tacks, and I thought about the wisdom of taking that pedigree face first into those thumbtacks. I came to the conclusion that, okay, I could lose an eye, but imagine the pop. [laughs].”
