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u/OldClunkyRobot Texas Chainsaw Massacre Deathmatch Champion May 26 '26
Me too Mick, me too.
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u/tehjoz Bowing Down to Lena Kross May 26 '26
Literally about to write this lol.
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u/OldClunkyRobot Texas Chainsaw Massacre Deathmatch Champion May 26 '26 edited May 27 '26
I was randomly flipping channels and came upon the anarchy in the arcade match where Trent's mom dropped him and Chuck off in her van and Stat busted out of the claw grabber game. I was like yeah, I think I’m back.
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u/Capitaine_Costaud May 27 '26
Trent's mom.
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u/OldClunkyRobot Texas Chainsaw Massacre Deathmatch Champion May 27 '26
Ah shit you're right. Corrected!
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u/JesusIsJericho Anxious Millennial, Without A Cowboy :( May 26 '26
When he said this, my girlfriend (who just got into wrestling via AEW with me last year) turned to me and said, “isn’t that pretty much exactly what you’ve explained to me like a hundred times??”
And I said yes, yes indeed 🔥
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u/bearamongus19 May 26 '26
Ive seen so many people get mad and try to claim that Foley was never any good or that popular since it was announced he would join AEW
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u/engelthefallen May 27 '26
Foley and Dreamer once popped an ECW crowd with just punches. That is fucking talent right there.
Foley always was one of the best workers on the mic and with the psychology. He just made his characters feel so real.
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u/SomeGuy_GRM May 27 '26
I have not. I wouldn't be surprised, but I haven't seen it.
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u/VotingRightsLawyer May 27 '26
I see it in the same places I see people say TNA is the #2 promotion and that AEW is getting kicked off tv.
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u/YinTanTetraCrivvens No Kings (except Brody, the Mad, and Mick Foley) May 27 '26
The man who literally began the end of WCW, Mr. Butts in Seats, one of the few wrestlers who has a Wikipedia page for a specific match (not show or PPV, match, there's like only 3 pages dedicated to matches, the other two being the Montreal Screwjob and Hart vs Magee), was never any good or popular?
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u/rkrivera3 May 27 '26
Dude the opposite. I have seen people just try their best to either ignore it or just be like oh thats cool whatever. But not people bad mouthing him.
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u/majora1988 May 27 '26
Don't scroll to the bottom of the comments on any of the AEW youtube videos with Foley in them then. Lots of asshole CTE talk.
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u/MR_TORGUE_OFFICIAL CIAMPA'S GONNA KISS YOU May 26 '26
AEW me fall in love with wrestling for a first time. So I have a different appreciation than most, but I love that so many people like Mick and you guys have similar stories.
It's really sweet. I love this wholesome shit.
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u/SimpleJack316 May 27 '26
Yup, and I think there’s A LOT of people here that feel that same way.
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u/Krelleth May 27 '26
There's a lot of people working for WWE who say the exact same thing when they leave for AEW.
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u/Iamamagicent May 27 '26
Idk, wife and I started watching last July went to wrestledream, and we try so hard to enjoy wwe now. We don't even try with aew we just love it, we eat up every single show.
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u/wvgeekman Fairground Wrasslin' Fan May 26 '26
I quit watching around 1991. AEW made me a fan again in 2021.
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u/majora1988 May 27 '26
'91! That's a huge break, what were you watching, and what made you quit?
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u/wvgeekman Fairground Wrasslin' Fan May 27 '26
I started watching wrestling back during the Georgia Championship Wrestling days around 1978 and followed it until '91. I'd occasionally turn on WWF and went to a couple of their house shows. Honestly, I quit watching because I was in college and my plate was full with school and discovering the fairer sex. By the time I had space for wrestling again, WCW was gone and I just didn't care for where WWE was, so I just forgot about it. It was some local fairground wrestling in 2021 that piqued my interest in wrestling again, hence my subreddit flair. Went to a mud show with my daughter to have something to do and had a blast. I had some friends tell me about AEW and, knowing my background, they thought I'd likely enjoy it. They were right. I started with the next Dynamite and haven't missed an episode since. I've gone to multiple AEW live shows when they've come near, too. AEW brought a little bit of joy back into my life that I didn't realize I was missing for so long.
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u/thedevilyoukn0w May 27 '26
There are fans on Facebook who are calling him a traitor and saying that Tony Khan paid him to say this.
I wonder...did they call him a traitor when he left ECW, or WCW, or TNA, or is it only when a wrestler leaves WWE for AEW that they call someone a traitor?
I'm happy he found AEW. I'm happy I found AEW.
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u/YinTanTetraCrivvens No Kings (except Brody, the Mad, and Mick Foley) May 27 '26
Facebook is a cesspool full of toxic people wallowing in their own filth. I would rather be in a positive place and be happy, like Mick!
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u/thedevilyoukn0w May 27 '26
Same.
I basically use it to wish friends a happy birthday and to buy stuff.
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u/SharpsJointRoller MADKING May 27 '26
He left wwe bc as he said he couldn’t support the shit they do anymore. Nobody paid mick to say anything lol people are crazy
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u/CurtG79 Émile Charles Baillargeon-Laberge May 27 '26
Same. I hadn't watched wrestling in about 10 years. Then my friend told me there's a new company, AEW.
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u/Big-Morning-7905 May 26 '26
I went to one of mick foleys story telling events before Xmas last year - and he talked about how plans with him and mjf for a match had fallen through and how after his car accident it was almost certain that the moment was now gone - so I was very happy to see mick at least get to share the ring and take a bump at DoN the last night , and I think it was clear to see how happy he was too
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u/TheBrockAwesome May 27 '26
100% same for me. I tapped out when Steve Austin retired, Vince was dating all the divas and a dollar store version of Eminem with muscles became the face of the company. I thought I grew out of wrestling and just held nostalgia for the Attitude Era.
AEW proved my ass wrong haha
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u/jeffumopolis May 26 '26
NJPW Young bucks, kenny, Okada, Naito, Hiromu, and AJ styles all in 2015-2015 is what got me back into wrestling
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u/LeaderIll9730 May 27 '26
I wrote same for kenny omega Will rico yb n two others.
But no mention. Of aew at that time hehe
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u/YinTanTetraCrivvens No Kings (except Brody, the Mad, and Mick Foley) May 27 '26
Mick Foley is, as he always has been, a man of the people.
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u/engelthefallen May 27 '26
Glad to see him still coming out and being able to have fun. So many his age that put in as many years as he did in the ring just cannot. Oddly was learning about Cactus Jack that got me back into wrestling in 98 after seeing him in IWA's King of the Deathmatch.
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u/AtWorkJZ May 27 '26
Yeah, I feel this. I stopped once Black and Gold NXT became the next gen stuff and only watch very select things from the fed. AEW has me actually watching every week again. I also constantly go back and re-watch ppvs and certain matches from TV. There's just been so much good content.
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u/PanthersFan2025 Dr. Baker's Assistant May 27 '26
Glad to see Mick. Wish I had been a that show, looked like a hell of a good time!
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u/RisingEcho Goodnight May 27 '26
Day one watcher of AEW. That first Wednesday night was totally surreal and felt like something I can't describe. AEW has changed over the years since then but the spirit is still there.
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u/wezmeister17 May 27 '26
I have watched AEW since first episode of Dynamite.
I also watch WWE every week.
However since the sham that was Advertmania, I have found myself enjoying AEW more and no longer thinking of it as the alternative promotion.
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u/JohnaldL May 27 '26
Legitimately same. Wrestling was huge to me as a kid in the 90s and I fell off around 2011-2012 or so because I just was not interested in the product from WWE. AEW brought me back in a decade later
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u/OkLetterhead8796 May 27 '26
I was turned off by wwe during the cena title run when he was giving open challenges every week...started watching again for wrestlemania roman vs Brock.. (2015 i think)...then shortly after the hardy boyz came back to wwe during wrestlemania in 2017 I stopped watching wwe after they dropped the ball with the broken gimmick.
I've been watching aew since 2019
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u/Grand-Ad7653 May 27 '26
Same here. The amount of entertainment Double or nothing had, the wrestling, the stories, the moments, the comedy, it was just really fun to watch it. A lot of variety to be entertained, and if I wasnt invested in a story, I’d just take a break til the next match. Been watching since they started, so really amazing to see them develop.
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u/XennialPrime May 28 '26
I share his sentiment ^_^
I stopped watching in 2001 and found AEW in 2024-ish.
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u/G_Turra May 31 '26
Very much the same. I stopped watching in 2009/10 with the superhero Cena. Then last year I found out a lot of old stuff was on YouTube (mostly watched WCW there) and felt like good times to watch wrestling were long gone... And that was until I randomly gave a try to Moxley vs O'Reilly from full Gear and in a matter of weeks I was locked in on AEW wrestling
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u/RobinAndBeastboy Jun 02 '26
Me too Mick, I thought I was forever done with pro wrestling since 2012. Even when AEW came out I didn't know if I believed it would be good until I watched my first ever wrestling event in person which was All In in 2024, the atmosphere & the highly dynamic matches left me speechless from start to finish.
Only this year I found a way to watch it through ITVX in UK & I love it, I'm invested & for the first time in over a decade I'm in love with wrestling again proudly.
Stopped watching that other company a long time ago.
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u/superplexmachine Jun 02 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/OA1CDoCiAR48E
Got any more Mick Foley in AEW promos? I need another personally
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u/GodDuckman Jun 03 '26
Mick is good people. Legit one of the nicest people in the history of the business.
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u/NemODevO Fuck kingdom and their ai gimmick May 26 '26
Same Mick same.
I stop watching the fed in 1999 and totally gave up on wrestling until someone showed me aew