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Torch Newsletter Subscriber John Catsiroumpas of London, Ontario
sent in the following summary of Mick Foley on TSN's Off the Record
yesterday.

Mick Foley was a guest on TSN's Off the Record, hosted by Michael
Landsberg. Here's a rundown of what went down in this thirty minute
interview.

- Landsberg welcomed him to the show saying that of all the guests
he's ever had on the show (thousands of them), Mick is the most
universally loved.

- Foley said his 2003 return was done to help his book. Originally
he wanted to come back around Summerslam, but then he heard about
the Hell in a Cell match at Bad Blood. When he heard about the HIAC
match from a fan, he gave Vince a call and felt the angle was
already there.

- Landsberg asked about the bumps he took on Raw before. Foley said
they hurt a bit more than normal since it's been a while. Foley said
he's been riding a bike (Landsberg laughs, but Mick assures him he's
serious) to keep in shape, but the morning after bumping on Raw he
was hurting.

- When asked about injuries, Foley said he'll have chronic neck and
knee injuries that will probably hurt him for the rest of his life.
Thinks he can come back now and then.

- Landsberg asked if he'd return on a regular basis or semi regular.
Foley said semi regular seems likely. He said he tells Vince about
the children's books he's already written about WWE wrestlers that
he feels could be marketable even to kids who don't like wrestling
that much. He said he'll probably have a match, but he doesn't know
for sure. He said he saw a billboard in the New York area promoting
WrestleMania XX and got goose bumps thinking about the possibility
of working there in his hometown at the biggest show ever.

- After Landsberg followed up on that topic, he said that coming
back for WMXX is likely since it's such a big show. Might be back
before that against Randy Orton as long as they can think of
something good to build to it.

- Landsberg played a clip of Hulk Hogan on his show, around when his
book came out, saying, "I've probably trained more in the last week
than Mick Foley has in the last 30 years." Mick would give his
reaction after the break.

Commercial

- Landsberg plugged his book again as they returned.

- Other words from Hogan included: "I went ahead while Foley has
been eating cheeseburgers."

- Mick said it bothered him. Those comments are very painful. To her
him say that is damaging. He mentioned that maybe Hogan resented him
because Hogan's book only reached #13 on the New York Times
bestseller list while Foley's books were #1 and on the charts for
over 20 weeks. He'd like to think Hogan thinks more of him. He said
Hogan's comment is a lie. Just ask The Rock, Steve Austin or Shawn
Michaels when they went in the ring for 27 minutes in 1996 (in
reference to their Mind Games match, which Mick has called his best
ever). For Hogan to say that is a "lie and cruel."

- In what had to be the highlight of the interview, Mick said that
if they wrestled each other Hogan would be like a whiny female porno
star who complained about the other person working too hard and too
fast. Said Hogan was a great entertainer, but weak in the ring. He's
not taking anything away from what he has done, but he's
disappointed that Hogan would say that. Said he gave it all
physically while Hogan achieved his accomplishments in other ways.

- Mick said Hogan has done something right. When asked if he was mad
when he first heard about this a few months ago, Mick said that he
was at first. Then, like the wrestler that he is, he thought about
how they could make money off of it. He said he regrets never
working with Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan and Bruiser Brody. Obviously he
can't wrestle Brody since he has passed on. He said Flair probably
has some animosity towards him due to the things Mick wrote about
him in his book. Said Hogan's comments could lead to something since
it genuinely bothered him.

- Landsberg asked if that would translate into a more physical match
if they had one. Mick laughs, saying, "Have you seen Hogan wrestle?"
They joke about how Hogan's style wouldn't hurt him.

- Landsberg talks about how Hogan always had to be carried. Mick
agrees, but he had entertaining matches. He points to Hogan/Vince
at 'Mania. Entertaining match, but not technically good.

- To wrap up the segment, Foley said the comment has angered him. He
joked about making money with him, but he's genuinely upset by the
comment.

Commercial

- Landsberg mentions Foley's love of sports, pointing out that he's
wearing a baseball shirt while mentioning his next book would be
about baseball. They talk about the NFL, specifically guys passing
out in training camp. Foley said that in the '50s they didn't allow
water. He said when he played football they'd only get one water
break in a two hour practice. He doesn't know how to cure the
problem. Landsberg mentioned wrestling dying, but Foley said there's
a difference between guys dying out on the field and wrestlers dying
in a hotel room. He mentioned how the WWE helps out guys with
problems, using Regal and Guerrero as examples.

- Landsberg asked him about his own use of medication to succeed.
Foley said he didn't need medication. He only took it when he felt
he was hurting really bad. He said his opinion of really bad is
different than other guys because some people can take more pain
than others. He said he took some pain medication in his last year
of actively wrestling because of the toll it took on his body.

Commercial

- Foley admitted that writing the book was a gamble because it was
hard to do. Took him a year to learn how to do it, then to write all
his ideas out. Foley said there is darkness in the book, but there's
a light at the end of the tunnel. They compared that to his
wrestling characters.

- Foley started writing the book in late August 2001, just before
the World Trade Center was attacked, so the book may be more somber
due to the attacks.

- Foley said the narrator was based on him. He said the wrestling
business helped him with characters. Landsberg remarked that the
main character in the book was kind of like a wrestler in front of a
big wrestling crowd. Mick agreed.

- Foley said there were many tough guys in wrestling, especially
when Austin started to take off, so he figured there was room for a
nice guy to step in there. Turned out he was right.

- Landsberg ends the show by saying that you owe it to Mick to buy
his book because he poured his heart and soul into it.