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Post by mcstoklasa on Feb 23, 2024 14:13:46 GMT -5
Mankind in an attempt to cheer up Mr McMahon brings along a bunch of gifts to the hospital Vince was staying in. The most notable was the sock puppet, Mr Socko, which was actually Al Snow's suggestion.
Apparently on the next show Foley showed up to, Russo rushed up to him asking if he had the sock. "I guess" Foley said. Russo explained there was loads of Socko signs out in the crowd.
So what was an afterthought became a pretty good gimmick for Foley, who just so happened to jam his fingers down opponents throat for a finisher.
Was Socko used straight away with the Mandible Claw? I wonder if Mick cottoned, no pun intended, on to the fact that he could use the sock in conjunction with the claw straight away.
I've been looking to watch the attitude era segments in order of Mankind sucking up to Vince and calling him dad but it's not that easy to find stuff in irder on thr network.
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Post by thegame415 on Feb 24, 2024 0:38:28 GMT -5
Not positive, but I want to say he takes off his shoe and uses the sock on Raw the next week.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 24, 2024 0:54:45 GMT -5
As memory serves, he was wrestling Mark Henry, Henry had injured Foley's ankle, so Mankind took his boot off "to reduce the swelling", took his sock off and used it for the mandible claw.
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Post by chrom on Feb 24, 2024 10:11:16 GMT -5
People weren't passing out from the hold, they were passing out from how bad the sock smelled
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Post by Aceorton on Feb 24, 2024 10:16:59 GMT -5
As memory serves, he was wrestling Mark Henry, Henry had injured Foley's ankle, so Mankind took his boot off "to reduce the swelling", took his sock off and used it for the mandible claw. Imagine poor Mark Henry being told that finish in the back an hour before the show. |
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Feb 24, 2024 16:15:03 GMT -5
People weren't passing out from the hold, they were passing out from how bad the sock smelled  |
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Post by CMWaters on Feb 24, 2024 16:21:43 GMT -5
As memory serves, he was wrestling Mark Henry, Henry had injured Foley's ankle, so Mankind took his boot off "to reduce the swelling", took his sock off and used it for the mandible claw. Imagine poor Mark Henry being told that finish in the back an hour before the show. Considering the contract he had at the time I don't think he minded THAT much. |
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Post by Ludwig Kaiser’s Walk on Feb 26, 2024 0:44:02 GMT -5
Imagine poor Mark Henry being told that finish in the back an hour before the show. Considering the contract he had at the time I don't think he minded THAT much. I was going to comment on how much better that was than some of the other stuff that they had him doing at the time too. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Feb 26, 2024 0:51:57 GMT -5
Considering the contract he had at the time I don't think he minded THAT much. I was going to comment on how much better that was than some of the other stuff that they had him doing at the time too. trying to get him to quite... but dude was a trooper through out no matter what they did to him, |
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Post by sarkerpolseng on Feb 26, 2024 17:04:29 GMT -5
Mankind/Mick Foley and all of his gimmicks are difficult to explain to non-casual fans.
Them: "Wait. That guy who was a hippy before. Now he is wearing a dress shirt and tie, sweat pants, sneakers, a mask, and puts a sock on his hand before putting his fingers in his their mouth?"
Me: "Well, you see......"
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Feb 26, 2024 19:40:25 GMT -5
Mankind/Mick Foley and all of his gimmicks are difficult to explain to non-casual fans. Them: "Wait. That guy who was a hippy before. Now he is wearing a dress shirt and tie, sweat pants, sneakers, a mask, and puts a sock on his hand before putting his fingers in his their mouth?" Me: "Well, you see......" Imagine trying to explain why him peeling off a mask and a shirt and calling himself Cactus Jack made Triple H near shit himself in fear. Love that promo. Chills every time I see it. |
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Post by Ganon83 on Feb 26, 2024 19:47:18 GMT -5
Foley wrote that part of it too was that they went from having no Socko signs the week they did the angle, to some Socko signs at house shows that weekend, to just a ton of them at Raw the next week. A sweatsock got more over than 90% of the roster did
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Feb 27, 2024 0:26:31 GMT -5
I remember going to one of those late 90s wrestling shows with fake versions of WWF wrestlers. There was a fake Kane, who was about 6 foot tall, an Undertaker whose tattoos were drawn on and started to run once he began sweating a minute into the match.
One of them was a fake Mankind who bizarrely fought a fake Headbanger. Anyway, he did the "pull his boot off and pop the sock on thing" to the Fake Headbanger and then, gave the sock to a kid in the audience.
So some kid went home proudly cluthing a filthy, sweaty sock given to him by some no-name schmuck of an indy wrestler pretending to be Mankind. Very weird. I wonder if he's still got it.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Feb 27, 2024 3:19:50 GMT -5
As memory serves, he was wrestling Mark Henry, Henry had injured Foley's ankle, so Mankind took his boot off "to reduce the swelling", took his sock off and used it for the mandible claw. Imagine poor Mark Henry being told that finish in the back an hour before the show. Mark got lucky. Every subsequent person got Mick's ball sweat in their mouth |
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Feb 27, 2024 4:19:17 GMT -5
Out of the two sweatsocks in the late 90s, Mr Socko was more over than Jose Lothario
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Post by Aceorton on Feb 27, 2024 11:38:02 GMT -5
Imagine poor Mark Henry being told that finish in the back an hour before the show. Mark got lucky. Every subsequent person got Mick's ball sweat in their mouth Hoo. [wipes tear] That got me pretty good. |
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Feb 27, 2024 18:41:17 GMT -5
Mankind/Mick Foley and all of his gimmicks are difficult to explain to non-casual fans. Them: "Wait. That guy who was a hippy before. Now he is wearing a dress shirt and tie, sweat pants, sneakers, a mask, and puts a sock on his hand before putting his fingers in his their mouth?" Me: "Well, you see......" Imagine trying to explain how Mankind went from "creepy guy in a mask who terrorized Undertaker" to "loveable underdog babyface who uses his funny sock puppet to choke out his opponents". |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Feb 28, 2024 4:29:40 GMT -5
King Devitt I see you liking my post about Mick Foley's ball sweat, I know we've discovered being disgusting about dude wrestlers before, I see you.
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Post by King Devitt on Feb 28, 2024 5:09:58 GMT -5
King Devitt I see you liking my post about Mick Foley's ball sweat, I know we've discovered being disgusting about dude wrestlers before, I see you. HEY! I'm over here trying to hide in the bushes and be a good lad. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Feb 28, 2024 5:26:03 GMT -5
King Devitt I see you liking my post about Mick Foley's ball sweat, I know we've discovered being disgusting about dude wrestlers before, I see you. HEY! I'm over here trying to hide in the bushes and be a good lad. A gunslinger can always recognise another gunslinger |
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