Mick Foley Comments on Fan Incident at Recent Comedy Show

WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley is currently doing live comedy shows as part of his #FiftyYearsOfFoley tour.

During his show this past Wednesday at the Empire restaurant in Belfast, “The Hardcore Legend” had an interaction with a possibly intoxicated patron.

The incident came about during the Q&A portion of the show when a fan took offense to Foley saying that he considered Jim Ross to be the best wrestling commentator of all time. Foley would reference this in his latest Facebook post:

NAME YOUR TOP 5 ANNOUNCERS OF ALL-TIME

Last night, the Q&A session at the #FiftyYearsOfFoley show threatened to get ugly, when a lad, with the help of a few too many pints took great exception to my oft-stated stance that #WWEHOF announcer Jim Ross is the best wrestling announcer of all time. He was a little tough to understand…sometimes a few extra pint will do that to a guy. But in the end with great concentration I grasped the point he seemed to be so desperately trying to make: my belief that JR is the greatest Wrestling commentator of all time was downright offensive to him and his earnest belief that the duo of Bobby “The Brain” Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon were the greatest announcers of all time.

I broke the tense standoff the only way I knew how. “Dude”, I said. “These are OPINIONS. They’re not facts. You are entitled to your opinion – and I’m entitled to mine, right?”
Thankfully, the guy calmed down, apologized for creating a disturbance. I shook his hand and headed back to the stage. I heard him call out to me.
“Mick?”
“Yeah?”
“Do you think Eric Bischoff was underrated as an announcer?”
I had him thrown out of the building immediately.

Go ahead – give me your top 5. Play by play, color, heel announcers, etc. They can be from any era, any promotion, any country – American, English, Irish, Japanese – you choose. There are no right or wrong answers. Wait, check that – Don West IS a wrong answer! YOU vote! We’ll do the counting (I have a legit statistics guy helping me) and will post our findings early next week.

Mick Foley has 12 shows remaining on this tour, which concludes in Dublin on November 12. For more information on the tour, and other events relating to Mick Foley, click here.

Editor’s Note

Mick is a funny man, but is also someone who is very friendly. He was professional about the whole situation, while others may have potentially not been.