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keevo posted:Seeing a picture of Mick Foley in a wheelchair at Disneyland makes me really sad despite how happy he looks. Here's a pic of him risking his life on the Mine Train to cheer you up then   https://www.facebook.com/RealMickFoley/photos/a.150133228350157.28288.126269440736536/1223566304340172
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keevo posted:Seeing a picture of Mick Foley in a wheelchair at Disneyland makes me really sad despite how happy he looks. He's old and has a lot of injuries. It's probably his bad hips making it hard to walk the miles needed to see a theme park.
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Petit Gregory posted:Here's a pic of him risking his life on the Mine Train to cheer you up then
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Wrestling injuries may take his mobility But they'll never take his smile.
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Shinjobi posted:Wrestling injuries may take his mobility Well, some of it.
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sticklefifer posted:It's weird how much WWE glorifies the Attitude Era but actively avoids anything that made it work, like unstructured scripts, ad-libbing, and fans allowed to have fun. It's easy to ignore what works for the fans when you don't actually give a poo poo if they're enjoying your product or not
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sticklefifer posted:It's weird how much WWE glorifies the Attitude Era but actively avoids anything that made it work, like unstructured scripts, ad-libbing, and fans allowed to have fun. Also chairshots to the head and crotchchops.
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Mr. Squishy posted:Also chairshots to the head and crotchchops. HHH is bringing the chops back
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Marquis de Pyro posted:HHH is bringing the chops back he's just a mark for the Bucks
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Feb 1, 2016 18:01
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There's an anecdote in Foley's first book about cutting a line at a theme park and everybody in the line recognising him and cheering. It's my favourite story about a wrestler.
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Foley's first book is just a fantastic read top to bottom, I haven't gotten around to his others though
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LORD OF BUTT posted:Foley's first book is just a fantastic read top to bottom, I haven't gotten around to his others though The second book, Foley Is Good, is just as great. Hardcore Diaries is eh, and Countdown to Lockdown is terrible.
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sticklefifer posted:It's weird how much WWE glorifies the Attitude Era but actively avoids anything that made it work, like unstructured scripts, ad-libbing, and fans allowed to have fun.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:Foley's first book is just a fantastic read top to bottom, I haven't gotten around to his others though The second one is really good. I never got around to reading the other two. Also, I tweeted at him about how much I enjoyed his first book and he sent me a nice DM, whilst we're on the Mick Foley is a good dude train.
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Hardcore Diaries has some pretty good stuff, but I love when he gets all huffy because Vince won't agree to a 20 minute Raw segment featuring Terry Funk biting Vince's personal areas.
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I genuinely think Foley is the greatest of all time
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a retard posted:The second book, Foley Is Good, is just as great. Hardcore Diaries is eh, and Countdown to Lockdown is terrible. Countdown to Lockdown was about his time in TNA, so it's only natural that it sucks compared to his other work(s).
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ICHIBAHN posted:I genuinely think Foley is the greatest of all time I mean me too, but like that's not mutually exclusive from thinking some of his ideas for the ONS 2006 feud were dumb. The actual matches (Vs Edge at Mania, with Edge vs Funk/Dreamer) were super good though.
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a retard posted:The second book, Foley Is Good, is just as great. Hardcore Diaries is eh, and Countdown to Lockdown is terrible. People always forget the crappy fiction book he wrote, Titeam Brown or something.
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flashy_mcflash posted:People always forget the crappy fiction book he wrote, Titeam Brown or something. I remember tearing through Have a Nice Day and Foley is Good and then picking this up thinking "Mick's a great writer, this is going to be awesome!". It was really, really not.
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projecthalaxy posted:I mean me too, but like that's not mutually exclusive from thinking some of his ideas for the ONS 2006 feud were dumb. Yeah I wasn't arguing with anyone just saying
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flashy_mcflash posted:People always forget the crappy fiction book he wrote, Titeam Brown or something. Really? I never read it but I thought it got good reviews or something.
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I never read it but it's considered an interesting failure at best, he admitted as such in some Slate essay he wrote in response to the Wrestler movie (bullet points: got indie locker rooms right, not enough focus on the salad days of the Ram's career, Mickey Rourke's suplex looks pretty good)
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It's not great, but Tietam Brown is not the worst book ever written. It is definitely very, very weird, though.
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Also like a quarter of foley is good is research foley did to defend the wwf when it was at its raunchiest and under fire seemingly every week so be aware of that. Also be aware that some of his defenses presented are tenuous at best
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The first book was extremely good, the second book was pretty good, and the Hardcore Diaries was Melina-and-Mick fanfiction
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I actually really liked tietam Brown. It wasn't high art, but it was such a bizarre,dark, and interesting book that it really does deserve to be read.
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If you've never listened to the Have a Nice Day audiobook you really should. Mick does accents for all the other people and it's hilarious, he even makes some of the sound people crack up at one point.
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ShootaBoy posted:If you've never listened to the Have a Nice Day audiobook you really should. Mick does accents for all the other people and it's hilarious, he even makes some of the sound people crack up at one point. I gave up on Have a Nice Day after a few chapters but it'd probably be a fun audio book.
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Basic Chunnel posted:The only thing that the WWE could really use from the Attitude Era is highly visible, charismatic characters and established stakes. Everything you list was actually terrible. The booking was mostly terrible. The workrate was even worse. We don't need any of that again. You're right, fans having fun is terrible.
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I have Mick Foley's Christmas Chaos, his kids Christmas book from 1999. It's pretty great and is extremely 1999.
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Basic Chunnel posted:The only thing that the WWE could really use from the Attitude Era is highly visible, charismatic characters and established stakes. Everything you list was actually terrible. The booking was mostly terrible. The workrate was even worse. We don't need any of that again. Giving the performers the latitude to shape their own storylines within broad parameters and organically develop their character's voice is not terrible. If the performer continues to be trash at that, get them a mouthpiece or send them to developmental or make them Dixie's problem.
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projecthalaxy posted:I have Mick Foley's Christmas Chaos, his kids Christmas book from 1999. It's pretty great and is extremely 1999. I have his Halloween one. It's awesome. My copy of Have a nice day is also autographed.
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I liked Tietam Brown enough to bring it with me when I had the chance to meet him. It is good, but so loving weird like most here have said. Never did read Scooter though
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Yeah, Tietam Brown was an odd but interesting read, and it's a book I'm really glad I read, along with Have a Nice Day and Foley is Good. I never read Hardcore Diaries or Countdown to Lockdown, so I'm 3-for-3 on Mick Foley books that I really enjoyed reading. Have a Nice Day I just devoured, it was so great.
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