WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley recently appeared on an episode of the YouTube series Hot Ones, where he talked about a number of topics including the Street Fight he had with Triple H at Royal Rumble 2000.
Foley said, “It’s the instantaneous risk reward analysis. I think it was a god given gift that would tell me — So, January 2000, just a few blocks away at Madison Square Garden. I remember Mr McMahon saying to me and Triple H, ‘No thumb tacks.’ As soon as Mr. McMahon walked away, Triple H goes, ‘You put them under the ring already?’, and I said, ‘Yeah, I got it taken care of.’ This was one the last matches of my career and so it was a big moment. I just saw that majestic pile, there were five or six thousand tacks, and I thought about the wisdom of taking that pedigree face first into those thumbtacks. I came to the conclusion that, okay, I could lose an eye, but imagine the pop.”
You can check out Foley’s comments in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
