During the final farewell edition of his “Foley Is Pod” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley recalled hitting Sheamus at WrestleMania 32, his tag team handicap match at WrestleMania 20, where he teamed up with The Rock against Evolution’s Randy Orton, Ric Flair, and Batista, and more.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On his WrestleMania 32 handicap match: “The idea of playing it safe and playing not to lose, nobody succeeds by playing not to lose. It’s the worst way to compete at anything. I should’ve put it out there and I should’ve taken my swings. It was good, I’ve heard it was good, but I’ve not watched it in its entirety, because I don’t want to watch something that I know I didn’t put everything I had into.”
On his WrestleMania 32 moment with Sheamus: “I’m on the no-touch list, so I can hit them, they can’t hit me. Sheamus comes up to me … right before he goes out for his match and goes, ‘I want you to hit me as hard as you can in the head, fella.’ And I said, ‘I think I can make it look good without doing that.’ And he looks me right in the eye and goes, ‘As hard as you can. As hard as you can.’”
On how many times he hit Sheamus: “I hit Sheamus as hard as I could 28 times. He was okay two minutes later, and I can still point to the spot eight years later where my forearm [hurts].”
