Mick Foley

Michael Francis Mick Foley Sr is an American professional wrestler author comedian actor voice actor and former color commentator He has worked for many wrestling promotions including WWE World Championship Wrestling WCW National Wrestling Alliance NWA Extreme Championship Wrestling ECW and currently Total Nonstop Action Wrestling TNA He is often referred to as The Hardcore Legend a nickname he shares with Terry Funk Throughout his wrestling career Foley has wrestled both under his real name and under various personas most notably Dude Love Cactus Jack and Mankind He was the first ever WWE Hardcore Champion and also a threetime WWE Champion as Mankind He won the WWE World tag team title eight times the ECW World tag team title two times and the WCW World tag team title once Following his retirement from wrestling fulltime Foley appeared occasionally with WWE as a special guest referee and later as a color commentator for the SmackDown brand Upon his departure from the company in 2008 he signed with TNA where he was the storyline majority stock holder of the company There Foley has held the TNA World Heavyweight Championship and the TNA Legends now known as Television Championship In addition to wrestling Foley is a multipletime New York Times bestselling autobiographer He was also a subject of the documentary Beyond the Mat which followed him at the peak of his career More recently he appeared in Bloodstained Memoirs another wrestling documentary