hey mick hey there what do you think of the place ah it's incredible look at this
what's up man what's going on it's been so long it's been a while right yeah i very first met
mick before i was in wwe i met him in early 93 94 when i first started super green in the business
you know it was mick foley who was willing to help a young guy that was just trying to
find his way in it well when did you guys start realizing that this was stuff that needed to be
archived well we're the caretakers of the business and of all the stuff we have here so much we don't
so we're trying to find those things not because we want to take them away from a collector or
something but if we can take them and then allow the world to enjoy them as opposed to one person
with a collection that it just sits in their nightstand so i'm guessing if i go out looking for
the item myself it carries a little sentimental value carries a little more sentimental value
i believe that if somebody is a mick foley or a cactus jack fan and mick foliar cactus jack comes
looking for something that they might have it's more meaningful yeah and i would think also if
i'm there in person i can authenticate yeah right if you could characterize or capture your career
using artifacts what would you see in your tribute case i see that you have some dude stuff here but
i'd love to see all the characters represented yeah cactus jack we're talking about uh vintage
flannel vest not the one you're wearing not the one i'm wearing one very similar that would be
a real big find and as far as mankind here's the thing we've got a mask you know i made sure that
i shipped the company a mask yes but i'm missing that original shirt the original mankind shirt was
made from leather that's out there somewhere that would be the highest priority item and the other
thing there are a handful of vintage tacos out there and i'd love to be able to track that down
when i debuted as mankind i did not know what my name was oh wow i was given an information
packet that just said mutilator and i come down to the ring i hear mankind but that's how i got
that name that is cool yeah yes here it comes mankind know it is white in the ring mankind's
character is tough to describe it was as if he had just escaped out of the insane asylum he
would wrestle with his demons in his own mind and then project that into the ring there are over 700
pressure points in the human body and during the course of an isolated adolescence
i explored them all i think it's so important to find the original mankind shirt because it's a
piece of history it's a piece of a character who many would have thought would have never made it
in wwe who would never have been able to connect with the audience stand behind me i will yeah
aj how's it going man nice to meet you nice to finally meet you i actually brought a surprise
hope you don't mind you didn't tell me you were bringing me yeah holy holy
if anybody's gonna help me authenticate this uh mick foley merchandise who's better than
mick foley i'll show you where i retire to on the weekends this is this the space
this is serenity down here for me wow
this is like a museum dude i try i'm always adding i need more mannequins i got more stuff i want to
put up so i started watching wrestling as a kid with my father dating back into like the late 80s
and it was these superheroes that are bigger than life on your television screen is really what
drew me into it all this is like sensory overloads there's just so much cool stuff right now part of
the reason i got into collecting was to cherish these items curate them make sure that they
don't go wasted in a box in an attic end up in the garbage which i think a lot of stuff does
this is some amazing stuff here yeah thank you i mean
there it is that's the reason that that looks familiar
there were two of them made but this is the first one a slugfest ensuing right off the bat i went
through a lot of trials and tribulations because my first big matches were with the undertaker
they were really physical matches a lot of exertion and as a result fabric tore quite a
bit that's why i think yeah there's some tearing here yeah because it didn't it wasn't a material
that engaged so the original one is easy to spot because the original is pretty badly torn and
you designed this i just thought celtic cross with an x down below looks kind of mystical or
kind of evil because i was trying something different i didn't want to just be catching
mr mcmahon i only found out years years later the thing was undertaker had uh broken an orbital bone
he wanted to continue working but he had to be protected so they had this gentleman stanley
allen sherman use one of the wwe designs which turned out to be that phantomly opera esque mask
one of the designs mr mcmahon liked but didn't use turned out to be the mankind mask
or a prototype of it yeah so he was looking for someone to fit an idea they already had
so when my name came up mr mcmahon said all right i'll bring him in but i'm covering up his face
and this character brought me to greater heights than i ever dreamed i dreamed big i never dreamed
this big though this has been crazy it's an impressive piece it's one of my favorite pieces
it's one of the first ones i ever got i came across the mankind shirt through another collector
but that was one he wasn't really willing to part with
took me a while to kind of wear him down on it but i made the right offer and
he took it we're wondering if it's time for junior to move out of the basement though
you see how hard i'm staring at it like i can't imagine my life without it i uh
i'm not gonna come down here and just offer you a handful of nothing oh 7 500 oh gosh
i love that idea but i don't think i could do it
huddle over here huddle up okay the mankind shirt is a staple to mick foley's career because
it is the first mick foley character that we see in wwe mankind is what made makfolia the star and
that is all from the time he was wearing that original debut shirt wow in the viewing party
okay all right we have a better offer what if we throw in a foley viewing party in
your basement if you're gonna come here we can watch any pay-per-view any pay-per-view you want i
will come here on my own dime and mr mcmahon buys the wings and pizza all right you got a deal 75.
i mean as long as it's going to be preserved yes oh we're so happy let's go into a good home as
long as you don't lose it in the airport it'll be appreciated that's all that counts is that
this stuff gets the attention it deserves and now i have to fill a new spot in my uh museum
so the hunts on for something new never ends thank you so much my friends yeah no problem