WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley recently spoke on his podcast, “Foley is Pod,” about a variety of professional wrestling topics including being a part of WWE Most Wanted Treasures starting April 30th on A&E:
“It is the debut of WWE Most Wanted Treasures, the show that we had to only speculate on. But now that it’s out there and they’re doing the teasers with me and Booker and Lita, and some of the other WWE stars, I can tell you, we just did our final filming last week. I started working on this thing in June and I have not flown this much, and I do travel quite a bit except for the pandemic year where I only did a couple flights. This is the most I’ve traveled since 2001 traveling around the country, retrieving these items.
“Some people are like, okay, I can make money off this. Some people are in it for the transactions. Other people just love it. They love it. So we do our very best, we never force anybody, and one of the things I like about the show is that nothing is guaranteed. There was literally, I won’t tell you which guest I was with because I don’t want to tip my hat as to which episode it is, but we were getting, ‘No no, no’, and me and the other WWE Superstar were about two steps from the bottom of the stairs. Then across the foyer out of the house we heard, ‘Wait a minute.’ We turned around, and in the three seconds, we turned around and in those seconds, the wife had convinced the husband to let it go. So not only were they financially compensated in a very fair way, but it makes for good TV.”
“Everyone involved in this thing feels really good about it. We’ve got a crew that was just unbelievable. We all got along. Everything was harmonious and we feel like that’s going to be on the screen. So the one rough cut I saw, the DX episode, it’s really good, and if the others are up to that standard, we feel like It’s going to be a very good show that has a chance to reach out to the non-wrestling fans, or even the dormant wrestling fans, because in a lot of cases, were retrieving things that are 20 or 30 years old and sometimes going back to Gorgeous George in that era. It’s pretty cool and I feel good that I can finally speak about it. I feel like it’s a show that wrestling fans did enjoy the first season and they’ll enjoy this one as well. It’s next Sunday night, April 30th, on A&E.”
Foley also discussed having fire involved in some of his matches during his career:
“I never liked the fire. I did it. I never felt comfortable with it.”
Two things he would not have done in his career:
“So I could have done things that were healthier, but then I’m not the guy who got to the dance. You know, those were the things that brought me there. I wish I had not dropped elbows on the concrete in non-televised matches and used it less on TV also, and I wish I’d brought up the hand because here was no correlation to me between guys who blocked or did not block chair shots and guys who got over big time, because the guys who were the biggest stars in the business did block the chairs, and no one thought any less of them.”
You can listen to the complete podcast below:
(h/t toWrestlingNews.cofor the transcription)
