Mick Foley Had Secret Meeting With MJF for Scrapped Retirement Match

WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley planned to have a retirement match last year but ultimately called it off after suffering a concussion. Interestingly enough, Foley has now revealed that he even met with MJF for a potential program that would have led to a retirement match.

While speaking to the Wrestling Classic, Mick Foley revealed that he actually had a secret meeting with MJF to talk about the idea of a retirement match. He noted that MJF had planned out six weeks of storytelling, and Foley said there were a lot of wrestlers interested in doing a final match with him, including deathmatch wrestlers, MJF, and Karrion Kross from WWE.

“Hey, listen. I had a top secret meeting with MJF about the possibility of having one last match with him, and he laid out like six really solid weeks of storytelling. When I put out a feeler about doing a final match, believe me, there was no shortage of guys. It was really from the death match guys to MJF, to Karrion Kross in WWE. There was no shortage of guys who were willing to do that match with me.”

When asked if he and MJF might do something together on screen soon, Foley said it doesn’t look like it will happen. Even then, he really appreciated the meeting. He said it was just two guys from Long Island meeting at a steakhouse, no photos, just a cool moment.

Foley said he didn’t want to share MJF’s ideas since that’s up to him, but he thought they were really good. If they had gone through with it, it could have been a great six-week story.

Foley added that MJF is so talented that he could have helped make Foley better on the mic and helped cover his weaknesses in the ring. Even if the match wasn’t amazing, he thinks they could have made people believe it was.

“Oh man, it doesn’t look like it. It does not look like it, but I was just flattered. It was pretty cool—two Long Island guys meeting at a steakhouse. We didn’t even take a photo of the situation, but it was cool. I mean, I don’t want to tell you—it’s up to him whether he wants to share his ideas—but they were good ideas. And if I could’ve carried it off, it could’ve been a really good six-week program.

And he’s so good and such a great pro that he would’ve lifted my game on the microphone. We probably could’ve found a way to work around my weaknesses in the ring—accentuate the positives. Even if it wasn’t a great match, I bet we could’ve convinced a lot of people it was.”

While a program between MJF and Mick Foley is likely never happening, the idea of a six-week Foley-MJF feud remains a fascinating “what if” for wrestling fans. Regardless, Foley will always have a ton of respect for the Salt of the Earth and that’s never going to change.

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