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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This book is not for the squeamishThis book is highly recommended for both fans and non-fans alike. If you haven't baught this book yet already, it is strongly advised. This was a new york times best seller and stayed on the top charts for weeks. It is definitly an execellent read for anyone who enjoys autobiographies. Go out and buy it, you won't regret it! No. This is the autobiography of the Hardcore Legend, Mick Foley. Some wrestling fans claim that "Foley is God." You're about to find out why. Mick Foley is a nice man. A family man. He loves his son, Dewey, his daughter, Noelle, and his beautiful wife, Colette. He loves amusement parks, eating ice cream in bed, and watching Nickelodeon. So, how to explain his participation in Japanese Death Matches, which replace the ring ropes with barbed wire, cover the mats with glittering gold thumbtacks, and feature C4 explosives scattered throughout the ring? How to explain the barbed-wire scars that zigzag across his body, the second-degree burn tissue that is a momento of an exploding C4, and the missing ear that was ripped clean off his head during a bout? And how to explain how, after losing his ear, he then continued his match? Here is an intimate glimpse into Mick Foley's mind, his history, his passions, and what some might call his pathology. No ghostwriter. Not "as told to." Straight from the twisted genius behind Cactus Jack, Dude Love, and Mankind- deciphered from 760 pages of manically handwritten notebook paper-comes a tale of blood, sweat, tears, and still more blood. You'll chuckle at Mick's early backyard wrestling antics and homemade wrestling movies. You'll be amazed by the inside scoop on legends in the business like Terry Funk, Harley Race, Abdullah the Butcher, and Ric Flair. You'll squirm as Mick descrobes his incredible risks in the ring and his grisly, mindnumbing injuries. Finally, you will cheer with true admiration as arguably the hardest-working, most dedicated, and most heroic man in sports-emtertainment beats all the odds and takes home the prize he had been told all along he would never, ever get: the World Wrestling Federation Championship belt. MANKINDis one of the three deranged personalities of Mick Foley, onetime World Wrestling Federation Champion. This is his first book."People often talk about wrestling being 'scripted.' Actually nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, guys have a general idea of what they are trying to accomplish, and yes, sometimes guys are given specific lines to say that will be beneficial in drawing money, but the truth is, in my three and a half years with the Federation, I have only done two scripted interviews. JR and I talked briefly on the phone the night before the taping and went over a few ideas, but the entire interview, with the exception of the mandible claw I caught JR at the end with, was completely ad-libbed." "In the ring, meanwhile, Eddie was doing a number on a couple of younger wrestlers, after piledriving the referee. After the match, the strangest occurrence took place as the referee was brought out on a gurney and placed into the ambulance. I was lying in the hall with several holes in me. Eddie had passed out from blood loss and exhaustion, and the referee was rushed to the emergency room for the simple reason he was afraid to tell the EMT people that he was faking it." |
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