There are those matches that stick with us no matter where we are or what we’re going, and this day in wrestling history has it all.
Halloween Havoc was one of WCW’s greatest stages for historic events, and in this case it showcased one of the best hard hitting matches in the event’s history on October 24, 1993.
Vader was one of the more dominate tough guys in the sport. To put it in perspective, in a match against Stan Hanson his eye was knocked out and Vader plugged it back in. Seriously.
But like Mick Foley, he was a kind and gentle person outside of the ring.
For Mick Foley as Cactus Jack, it ended up being his favorite WCW match. He was at a crossroads in his career at this point and he was looking for a reason or excuse to leave the business.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWF2r0TR-ls
Highs and lows
Foley’s talked and written about his career in depth and what this match meant to him in retrospective and at that point in his life.
Special thanks to @awrestlinghistorian for the following excerpt.
“Battling the 400-pound colossus known as Vader at Halloween Havoc. Man, that was a brutal and bloody affair; hard fought, a Pay-Per-View main event to be proud of. I found myself comparing my life, what I’d gained, what I’d lost during the near sixteen years since then.
“In a way, it could have felt like returning in front of a smaller crowd in a far different type of match was a setback, a step down. After all, there were five or six thousand fans on hand that night in ’93, compared to maybe a thousand two nights ago. I gave that Havoc match almost everything I had, including a sickening bump on the wooden entrance ramp that I literally hoped would end my career. A career-ending injury would have meant a $120,000 payoff from my Lloyd’s of London disability policy, enabling me to bail out on a business I’d grown tired of and frustrated with, and that I really thought offered me little hope for the future.
“At one point in the match, after hitting @BigVanVader with a fan’s camera and looking at the crowd, setting off a wave of reaction, I sensed that I was simultaneously seeing the highest and the lowest points of my career. The highest because I had never been able to command that type of reaction before. The lowest because I felt like I’d never hit that high again.” – Mick Foley, Countdown To Lockdown book.
We have to admit we’re glad Foley found a rebirth of sorts in the WWE a few years after this. Seeing the different faces and creative side of him was an awesome experience and led to plenty more this day in wrestling history moments.
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