WWE Hall of Famer and Monday Night RAW General Manager Mick Foley recently spoke with Rolling Stone to promote his WWE Network reality show ‘Holy Foley’. You can check out some of the highlights here:
On staying in touch with The Rock:
"What's funny is our daughters keep in better touch than we do. Like I'll hear my daughter say, 'The Rock's going to be on Raw today,' and it's a complete secret. 'His daughter just texted me.' I get a message from him every once in awhile. And I've got a great rock and roll Rock story. When I met his girlfriend Lauren, she said, 'You and I have already met. You were at my 13th birthday party. My father is Sib Hashian, the drummer from Boston.' I happened to be with a friend of mine on the way to Fenway Park and he said, 'We just got to stop off at a buddy of mine's house.' So we're forever bound by the fact that the mother of The Rock's child turned 13 with me in attendance."
On his criticisms on women’s wrestling and if he’s made a difference:
"Yeah. I think Mr. McMahon was only shown the negative things I wrote. I don't think they showed him the other 92.5 percent of nice things I was saying. He knew I was critical but it was always constructive criticism, and when I came on board, Stephanie and I agreed that as the big proponents of the women's wrestling evolution that we needed to draft the women very high for Raw, so we drafted Charlotte second and then Sasha Banks sixth. We are really excited about the women's division. Moving forward, it's going to get bigger and better."
On how ‘Holy Foley’ originated and his family’s reaction to having all of the cameras around:
A couple different production companies had the same idea to base a show around my unique friendship and paternal relationship with my daughter. Mr. McMahon saw some footage and thought she really lit up the screen. I think he said something nice about me as well. The truth is, there would be no show without Noelle. We all enjoyed it. It was very natural. I even asked the showrunner in the last week of filming, "Is it just me or did this all go incredibly smooth?" She said the people in the crew were literally telling her it was the most enjoyable thing they ever been part of in 15 years. Oddly, we didn't notice presence of the cameras. Even the kids were really natural. The first episode they were very trepidatious, to use a New York Times best-selling author word, but they really loosened up and the younger kids became really valuable part of the show.
You can check out Foley’s full interview with Rolling Stone here.
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