{"id":2314124,"date":"2026-03-05T16:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2314124"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T16:43:03","slug":"wwe-wrestler-mick-foley-brings-one-man-show-to-new-orleans-entertainment-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wwe-wrestler-mick-foley-brings-one-man-show-to-new-orleans-entertainment-life\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE wrestler Mick Foley brings one-man show to New Orleans | Entertainment\/Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nobody gets out of professional wrestling unscathed, least of all Mick Foley. He spent more than 30 years wrestling and took some of the most memorable bumps in wrestling history. As a result, \u201cEverything kinda hurts,\u201d he said recently by Zoom from Pensacola, Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I remember 21 years ago, I had trouble walking without an anti-inflammatory,\u201d he said. He hasn\u2019t needed one in 15 years, and \u201cnow I actually pass people when I\u2019m walking in the airport,\u201d he said, laughing.<\/p>\n

Foley will visit New Orleans on Monday to tell the stories behind the scar tissue when he brings his \u201c40 Years of Foley\u201d one-man show to Southport Hall. He has a soft spot for New Orleans because during his years in the WWE, he lived in Navarre, Florida.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cNew Orleans was one of the few cities I could drive my family to,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Wrestling legend Mick Foley poses with fans at Alabama Comic Con on Sept. 23, 2023, In Birmingham.<\/p>\n

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Foley has long had a special relationship with his fans. His style came to be known as hardcore, which meant he would go to great lengths to do something fans hadn\u2019t seen before.<\/p>\n

Today, wrestlers take dives from the ring to land on opponents on the floor all the time, but in the early 1990s, no one else jumped from the ring apron to the concrete below to hit an opponent with an elbow drop.<\/p>\n

He has lived with the toll that crashing to the floor nightly takes on a body, and the moves got more extreme from there.<\/p>\n

His signature match is 1998\u2019s \u201cHell in a Cell,\u201d when he faced The Undertaker in a ring enclosed inside a large, chain-link cage. Foley envisioned some extreme moves for that match, including a 16-foot drop off the side of the structure, but he didn\u2019t plan on the ceiling giving way after The Undertaker choke-slammed him on top of it, which meant Foley dropped 20 or so feet to the mat below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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