The Top 10 WWE Underdogs Of All Time 1

1: Mick Foley

Mankind. Cactus Jack. Dude Love. The Hardcore Legend. No matter what you call him, Mick Foley is the biggest underdog in wrestling. He had most everything going against him. He wasn’t that big, his physique was doughy at best, and his ring technique wasn’t the best. Even he wonders why people like his earlier matches so much, as he considers them to just be “stunt shows”.

He went from promotion to promotion; Japan, Mexico, ECW, WCW, WWE – there wasn’t a place on Earth he didn’t wrestle. Eventually making it to WWE as Mankind, he played a demented, tortured soul-like character, but there was something about him that worked with fans.

The character was lightened up a bit, and Foley’s real personality was allowed to come out. Also, thanks to early internet, his back catalogue was becoming more widely known. The fans respected him, and in a case of right place right time, he was going to be given a title shot at a taped event, which WCW purposefully leaked on their own competing show as a jab at not only WWE, but Foley.

It turned out a lot of people wanted to see that, and hundreds of thousands of people switched over to watch Mick Foley finally accomplish his childhood dream. He’d gone from backyard wrestler, to NY Times Bestseller, to World Champion, and gave his entire body to the business he loved while no one expected him to succeed. There needs to be a Mick Foley movie ASAP.


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