So often, WrestleMania matches are about one athlete demonstrating to themselves, the audience and their opponent something. This was not the case in a Hardcore match in 2006, when Edge and Mick Foley faced off.
The Hardcore Legend has been searching for the WrestleMania moment that has eluded his entire career. The Rated R Celebrity was seeking a stage on which to show that he was a talent at the main event level. Together, those determined performers created an engrossing war of attrition which, given the storyline that accompanied it, was appropriately violent and beautifully barbaric.
Foley stepped up to the occasion, recognizing the match ‘s significance and its impact on his legacy. Blade suffered a brutal beating to the face with a side suplex on a mound of thumbtacks and a baseball barbed wire.
In the end it was the interference of Lita, a flaming table and a death-defying spear that proved the downfall of Foley.
Edge limped up the ramp, seeping blood into his eye, firmly establishing his place as a bona fide headliner. Meanwhile Foley lay at the ringside, basking in the crowd’s reaction, realizing that he had achieved his goal even in defeat.
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