British Bulldogs Vs Foley/Thornton ’86
Poor Mick couldn’t eat solid food for several days after this match. This could be his first televised match as well
Poor Mick couldn’t eat solid food for several days after this match. This could be his first televised match as well
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draconian45
August 21st, 2010 at 7:48 pm
1Meeting Foley and seeing what a nice guy he is, I really feel sorry for him in this match. This was fucked up.
angelinaramon
August 21st, 2010 at 8:27 pm
2I read about this match in Foley’s book. He said he was sore as hell for a long time after this.
acc2001
August 21st, 2010 at 8:59 pm
3@subfighter316 You’re talking about Jacques Rougeau here. Jacques mentioned in an TV interview in Canada last fall that it was indeed an act of revenge on the Bulldogs. He also said that Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart were also part of the original attack on the Rougeau Brothers with the Bulldogs. To my knowledge, Jacques Rougeau never expressed any remorse over beating up Dynamite Kid that badly since he believes that the Rougeaus “had to stand up for themselves”.
Rayla840
August 21st, 2010 at 9:04 pm
4@DarthGiorgio 1. Where does he go dead weight on them? 2. So, if you’re a rookie, you should get the shit kicked outta ya? Especially when he is doing as wrestlers say “giving his body to them”. 3. The idea of these squash matches is for the jobber to make the star look good, which he was doing. I honestly have no problem with anything in this match, except that Dynamite was too stiff with what is supposed to be a clothesline….not a forearm to the mouth
DarthGiorgio
August 21st, 2010 at 9:38 pm
5I don’t blame both of them going stiff on Foley. 1, he was a rookie. 2, he was going dead weight on them. 3, he was out of shape and green and couldn’t work.
Ben123planes
August 21st, 2010 at 10:31 pm
6This was his first televised match and his second ever match, before the match he asked the bulldogs to do a snap suplex which according to him “nearly took me out of my boots” and the diving headbutt “hurt so much that I could see my eyes crossing on the replay”
elc1960
August 21st, 2010 at 10:46 pm
7This video is available as a “bonus feature” on Mick’s “Greatest Hits & Misses” DVD. The match took place at the Providence Civic Center (now the “Dunkin’ Donuts Center”). That DVD is probably the source material for this post.
KesaGatame5000
August 21st, 2010 at 11:21 pm
8Basically the worst beatdown I’ve ever seen in wwf. It was so precise too.
OldSchoolRasslin
August 21st, 2010 at 11:30 pm
9@SheriffTankStoner
Thornton was finishing up his career at this time, he was 51 years old. He was paid well by WWF, likely more than he earned at any other point in his career. A traditional British style match between he and Dynamite would not have been appreciated by WWF fans of the time, it might have been appreciated in Britain but British wrestlers were earning a couple of hundred pounds a week, compared to the many thousands of dollars that WWF wrestlers were earning at the time.
OldSchoolRasslin
August 22nd, 2010 at 12:07 am
10@Lfdjake91
I doubt anyone knew that, including Foley himself.
subfighter316
August 22nd, 2010 at 12:38 am
11@cymru1991 Well, the Rougeau Brother that attack him with the roll of qaurters aparently did so out of revenge.
cymru1991
August 22nd, 2010 at 1:34 am
12@subfighter316 As much as Dynamite was borderline psychotic at times, I thought that it was the Rougeau brothers that beat him half to death with some brass knuckles after some prank committed by Kurt Hennig was blamed on him. But that of course takes nothing away from the fact he was an extremely stiff wrestler and the years of steroid abuse clearly took its toll on his temprament- that’s why he’s all but penniless now living in a council estate in Golborn. Such a shame
ChrisHominski
August 22nd, 2010 at 2:10 am
13@Derby14 I dunno man Bulldog’s got that unmistakable e.g. “He fell right on his arse!”
ALCOPRO
August 22nd, 2010 at 2:22 am
14I reckon the then WWF should have used Les Thornton as part of the British Bulldogs as a 3 main team as kind of a British version of the Freebirds etc.
Though RIP Davey Boy.
tedder1931
August 22nd, 2010 at 2:47 am
15Rougeau got even with Dynamite when he knocked four of his teeth out with a roll of quarters in his fist.
gilchris112
August 22nd, 2010 at 2:51 am
16anymore videos of Mick as a jobber?
NYGuy322
August 22nd, 2010 at 3:32 am
17@subfighter316
Yeah, I heard about the legend of Dynamite holding a gun to his wife’s head. Apparently he did this several times to her, and everytime the gun would just click, but he would say “one day, it’s gonna be loaded…”. Truly a nutty guy.
andyrooney11
August 22nd, 2010 at 4:26 am
18Huge muscular men in tight clothes wrestling each other in provocative positions…no, I’m not talking about gay porn…that’s wrestling for you. If you want to see a real fight watch street fighting…NOT boxing and not the UFC because most of the time those “fighters” are hugging each other…super gay. I have no problem with gay people…I love your sense of fashion but when I watch a fight I want to see a good clean professional fight…not some guys in tights or two guys hugging each other.
Derby14
August 22nd, 2010 at 4:50 am
19I remember watching this as a 10 year old kid with my dad who was reading a book and occasionally glancing at the TV. He saw the finishing move and I remember him saying “Jesus” based on the way Mick Foley hit the mat.
Derby14
August 22nd, 2010 at 5:45 am
20@ChrisHominski I believe that was actually Captain Lou yelling some words of wisdom from ringside.
ChrisHominski
August 22nd, 2010 at 6:38 am
21Davey Boy yelling “Bridge Up, Bridge up!” 2:06
ChrisHominski
August 22nd, 2010 at 7:24 am
22Thornton was 51 here lol
JimRiga
August 22nd, 2010 at 8:23 am
23@Lfdjake91
Hey! Me too! lol
Lfdjake91
August 22nd, 2010 at 9:20 am
24Funny thing is that here Vince had no idea that in about 10 years this nondescript jobber would be one of his biggest stars.
Lfdjake91
August 22nd, 2010 at 10:13 am
25Foley was not allowed to be announced as “Cactus Jack Foley” because jobbers were not allowed to have gimmicks so he was just called simply Jack Foley here.
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