Mick Foley recently talked about a wide range of topics on his Foley is Pod, available via AdFreeShows,
During it, he revealed how Michael Hayes tried to rib Randy Orton into wearing a hockey helmet for their hardcore match at the WWE Backlash 2004 event.
“There was one funny moment backstage where they want Randy to come out wearing a hockey helmet. And Randy says, ‘I don’t know Michael [Hayes], I feel a little funny.’ And Michael yells at him and says ‘Vince wants to see that effing helmet.’ And Randy goes Okay. But then he [Hayes] says ‘I’m just ribbing you.’”
“So he would have looked ridiculous come out. And you couldn’t you could argue that Randy should have planned a better weapon because Randy comes out with the smaller of the two barbed wire weapons. And in my head, it’s that Crocodile Dundee ‘that’s not a knife, this is a knife.’”
“So Randy goes to do his thing and has all the, you know, the authenticity of a wire snake springing out of a salted peanut can and I’d knock that thing out of his hand. And now we’re off to the races with the 26 minutes of mayhem.”
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