Tag: Mick Foley

The two WWE legends have similar politics, but Kevin Nash doesn’t have any plans to cut ties with the company like Mick Foley did.

Last week, Foley announced that he is parting ways with WWE due to the association the promotion has with President Donald Trump. Foley said he will not be renewing his WWE Legends contract when it comes due next summer, and he will not be making any appearances as a representative for WWE while Trump is still in office. The final straw for Foley was how Trump reacted to the death of director Rob Reiner — with Foley calling Trump’s comments “incredibly cruel.”

Nash reacted to Foley’s decision on the latest episode of his Kliq This podcast, saying he understands where Foley is coming from but will not be making the same decision himself.

“I understand it. And if that’s how Mick feels, it’s like, I get it from Mick’s standpoint,” Nash said. “But for me personally — because I had some people text me like, ‘Are you going to follow suit?’ I’m like, well, I said, ‘Let me explain my position.'”

Nash detailed how Paul “Triple H” Levesque and Linda McMahon have been like family to him over the years. When Nash’s son Tristen was born, Levesque was the first person from the Kliq to hold him. In the 1990s, Linda McMahon was great to Nash’s wife when they spent a day together in New York City. Linda knows Nash does not agree with her politically, but that does not cause issues when they see each other.

“I look at the McMahon/Levesque, I look at them as family,” Nash said. “Like, that’s it. They’re just family to me… they’re my Republican family, you know?”

Nash said he knows Levesque’s position on the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition is a huge honor to him because of how passionate Levesque is about fitness. And while Linda might be a member of Trump’s cabinet, other members of the administration did not have the same reaction to Reiner’s death that Trump did. Nash said, instead of being outraged by what Trump said, he personally was bored by it.

“I understand Mick’s, ‘This is all I can stand, because I can’t stand no more.’ I understand that,” Nash said. “I was more of a, ‘Could you f*cking grab another hold? Boring.’ You know, that’s kind of the way I looked at it. Like, f*ck, dude, boring. It doesn’t work anymore.”

Aside from his closeness with the McMahon/Levesque family, Nash said he is able to differentiate WWE as a company from the disagreements he has with Trump.

“Because my deal is with the WWE. My deal isn’t with MAGA. My deal isn’t with Trump,” Nash said. “And I don’t see those sensibilities coming through my television screen when I watch Netflix and when I watch Raw and when I watch the Saturday Night’s Main Event.”

Nash said, if Foley feels his decision did some good, he applauds him for it. But Nash believes more harm is done by giving Trump the reaction that he wants.

“What am I supposed to do? I’m going to give up revenue? I’m going to give up revenue, for what?,” Nash said.

Mick Foley feels like he has a new lease on life with how much his mobility has improved.

The 60-year-old Hardcore Legend appeared on a new episode of Insight with Chris Van Vliet, discussing how his quality of life has increased due to weight loss and hip and knee replacements. Foley called the two operations “game changers” for much of a difference they’ve made.

“Well, the crazy thing is I’m moving better,” Foley said. “I dropped like 90 [pounds], at one point I had gone from 372 to 273. And then I may have taken it too easy for the next four or five months and crept up towards 300. But I think I’m down around 275.

“And the hip and knee replacements, those were game changers. I remember talking to Kevin Nash and saying, ‘Kevin, something amazing happened to me today.’ He said, ‘What’s that?’ I said, ‘I passed somebody in the airport.’ I was always the guy, people are like, ‘Hey, sir, can you move to the side?’ And I was starting to pass people — which didn’t mean I was fast. And I don’t want to over exaggerate the amount of pain I was in, but I think I’ve got a pretty high threshold. So when I say it was — I don’t want to say agonizing, but it was more than severe. If it was not agonizing, it was agonizing at moments.”

Foley said he got his hip checked out at the request of a friend who is a physical therapist. When he saw the orthopedic doctor, Foley was told that his hip was the worst the doctor has ever seen. The doctor didn’t know how Foley was able to walk, but finding out what the issue was and knowing it could be fixed gave Foley hope.

“And once I realized there was hope, and then once I had the hip followed by the knee, it was like a new lease on life,” Foley said.

Now that his hip and knee have been replaced, Foley’s body is still worse off than most people who haven’t taken his level of damage — but he feels so much better than he did 10-15 years ago.

“If you were to suddenly transform someone else into my current body, they might think it was hell on earth,” Foley said. “But compared to how I felt for like 10-15 years, yeah, I am doing a lot better.”

A WWE Hall of Famer, Foley has not competed in the ring since his appearance in the 2012 Royal Rumble. He had been planning to come out of retirement for one last death match in celebration of his 60th birthday — but Foley called off those plans last year after suffering a concussion while doing light training.

Foley is not competing in the ring, but he’s staying busy on the convention circuit, even telling Van Vliet that he’s on the road more now than during his wrestling days. He’s been doing a “40 Years of Foley” tour of one-man shows this year celebrating the anniversary of his debut.

At 60 years old, Mick Foley feels like he’s able to move around better than he did when he was 45.

The Hardcore Legend was honored at the 2025 Cauliflower Alley Club Reunion this August, where he was presented with the “Iron” Mike Mazurki Award. Foley spoke with the Kayfabe Friends Wrestling Podcast at the event and gave an update on how he’s feeling physically.

“Not too bad all things considered,” Foley said about his health. “I don’t have to wonder when I wake up what I did for a living. You know, I’m sore. But I’m not as sore as I thought I’d be. And I’m actually, thanks to the hip and knee replacement, then, you know, I did lose 99 pounds. I’ve gained some of it back on, but I’m still walking better than I was 15 years ago, I would say. I actually once in a while pass people in the airport when I’m walking. So I’m doing better than I thought I’d be doing.”

Foley had been planning to come out of retirement for one last death match in celebration of his 60th birthday, but he scrapped those plans last year after suffering a concussion during light training. He sustained another concussion this April while thankfully walking away mostly unscathed from a scary looking car wreck.

Cauliflower Alley Club is a charity organization that financially assists wrestlers who have fallen on hard times, and Foley said it’s a cause that he is happy to help support.

“I think if you would have polled a lot of the guys in the business, you know, the old-timers, as to how I’d be doing at age 60 — I don’t think they’d tell you that I would be getting around as well as I am,” he said. “So I feel really fortunate. I feel like I want to give back.”

The Mike Mazurki Award “celebrates individuals who have transcended the squared circle, achieving notable success in multiple fields and bringing widespread recognition and respect to professional wrestling through their crossover achievements.”

“I’m so grateful because I know my style wasn’t for everybody, but somehow I’ve been accepted and respected by different generations,” Foley said about the honor. “And I’m really grateful for that. You know, that I can walk around at age 60 — I wear a title belt as a fanny pack as of a week ago. And I get to walk around in sweatpants and no socks because people out there made that a reality for me. Not only by supporting me when I was wrestling, but in conventions and doing my thing on the one-man shows. The older I get, the more grateful I’ve become.”

Mick Foley believes WWE is well-positioned for years to come with the level of talent that exists in the company.

The Hardcore Legend was a guest at GalaxyCon in San Jose, California this past weekend. To promote the appearance, he was interviewed by The Finish with Kor & Tor of KRON News. They asked Foley if there’s one match in particular that impressed him recently.

“Well, I was impressed with so many of the SummerSlam matches,” he responded. “Cody [Rhodes] and [John] Cena, I think really delivered the goods. And I think what ‘Mami’ is doing — Rhea Ripley — is sensational. I love that Becky Lynch is back, so I think WWE is looking at some really good days. They’ve really done a great job getting their talent ready for the main stage, and that pays off in the end.”

The Rhodes vs. Cena street fight headlined night two of SummerSlam on August 3 with Rhodes defeating Cena to become the new WWE Champion.

When asked about the amount of hardcore matches that exist today, Foley said he believes WWE has found a good balance of presenting stipulation bouts while not overdoing them.

“Well, I don’t think WWE does a lot of stipulation matches. It’s easy to just have a card loaded up with stipulation matches, but after a while they kind of lose their importance,” he said. “I think WWE does a good job of making the special matches special, not overdoing it. There’s no formula. Nobody hands you a textbook when you come in telling you the correct number of stipulation versus traditional matches.

“Even though I made my name doing the wild stuff, I still for the most part had traditional — I mean, they were wild traditional matches, but I enjoyed those as well. But no question about it, if I had the chance to do an anything goes, falls count anywhere, [in] Japan we messed around with barbed wire and a bunch of things that I wouldn’t suggest anybody play around with. But in the end, it comes down to whether or not you can have good matches with just about anybody, in any style.”

It’s been more than 13 years since Foley, now 60 years old, last wrestled. He had been planning to come out of retirement for one last deathmatch in celebration of his 60th birthday, but he called off those plans after suffering a concussion during light training.

Foley has been focusing on his health, including losing a significant amount of weight. He suffered another concussion in a car accident this April but was lucky the situation wasn’t worse considering how scary the wreck looked.