Mick Foley did a live show with Inside The Ropes and was asked about the angle he was supposed to have with Jon Moxley down in NXT back in 2012. Foley talks about how some of the stuff was hard to internalize for him, but a case of miscommunication led it to Mick calling things off initially before putting it back on.
“And then I saw Dean say something about how his goal was to see me crippled and have my children have to move out of the house and it affected me. And I wanted to talk to him and he was a weird kind of dude. Like to this day I don’t know if he was working a gimmick or not, you know? So I asked The American Dream, I asked Dusty, if he could help me talk to Dean. And so Dean’s hanging out by the ring and I walk over and I go, ‘Hey, Dean can I talk to you?’ And I’ve got The American Dream by my side and Dean bails out over the guardrail and he literally starts to run away into the seats. And I was like, ‘Dean! I just want to talk to you!’ And turns around and he’s like looking. He’s like looking, he’s like timid like a mouse, you know but also like a psychopath, I was like, ‘Listen man, you can say anything you want about me, but please leave my family out of it, alright, okay?’ Nods his head and then the next day I see that he’s pouring gasoline on the fire, talking more about my children, even worse and I was like, I call him up and I leave him a message, I was like, ‘Hey man, I told you to knock that off. I told you ‘heavy’ – leave my kids out of it!’ And the next day it gets even worse.”
Foley then talks how the situation piled up until he called a WWE Talent Relations executive to call off the whole angle. Foley continues:
“And I get a phone call from Dean like three days later. I haven’t talked to him in two weeks and it turns out – he’d been on a tour of the U.K. and hadn’t received any of my messages. And he called me up and he’s like forlorn, he’s like, ‘Man, first of all I want you to know, like I respect you as much as anyone in the business. When you told me in front of the boys to not mention your family, I thought you were working an angle! So he thought in a sense that I was like, ‘Hey, give me some more of that family stuff.’ And it was like this huge misunderstanding and like, ‘Alright, alright, okay.’ Call talent relations, ‘Alright we’re on again!’
(Transcription credit should go to @DominicDeAngelo of WrestleZone)
Ultimately, Foley couldn’t do the angle because he failed WWE’s impact test so the WWE doctor and Mick’s independent doctor got together to agree that Foley should never wrestle again. You can watch the full clip below:
Mick Foley shares with us why his feud with Dean Ambrose (Jon Moxley) didn’t end up happening back in 2012, the original idea for the angle and the interesting build that they had come up with that got a little lost in translation between the two.
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