Mick Foley On RAW Promo, Who The Mutual Friend Was That Lost A Loved One, Stephanie Relationship

As noted, Mick Foley noted on social media this week that the story he told about Stephanie McMahon at the WWE Hell In A Cell in 1998 “was 100% true.” He elaborated more on the angle on Facebook, as seen below. He noted that he met Stephanie after the 1998 Hell In A Cell event, and said he saw her with Pat Patterson, who had lost a loved one that evening.

THE McMAHON/FOLEY ERAI was absolutely elated following the opening of Monday Night Raw – an elation that had me looking back on the recent GM opportunity that was presented to me, as well as my extremely positive long-term friendship the woman who presented it to me, Stephanie McMahon.

The initial phone call a few months back caught me completely off guard. I walked downstairs, looked at my daughter Noelle, and said “I was just offered the Raw GM job.”

“Are you going to take it?”, Noelle asked.”I have to”, I said. “Otherwise, I’ll be sitting on the couch, watching someone else do the job, wondering to myself ‘what if.”

There are two things you need to know that factored into my decision to take the GM job.1) It’s really important to me that I not be the guy sitting on my couch, saying “what if”.2) In regard to my time as WWE Commissioner in 2000, I’m going to quote #CruiserweightClassic stand-out Brian Kendrick quoting 80’s hair-band Cinderella, who sang “Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone”. My time as commissioner was one of the best periods of my life, and not doing whatever I needed to do to keep the job for as long as possible was one of the biggest mistakes of my life.I guess I should probably include a third factor:3) I love working with Stephanie McMahon.

In case you’re wondering – the story of the girl with the shy smile/guy with the tooth in his nose is absolutely true. I was flattered that Pat Patterson included the story in his memoir “Accepted”, and it is included in Stephanie’s upcoming …

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