Harcore Diaries Post

The Hardcore Diaries by Mick Foley is very weird. You'd think that a guy who got thrown of cages and set on fire voluntarily wouldn't be that bright of a man. Well you get the complete opposite. Mick Foley is a 3 time NY Times best selling author with 3 autobiographies. He's no Winston Churchill but he knows his stuff, especially when talking about the prowrestling business. The book is suprisingly well written as Mrs. Foley's Baby Boy tells his stories of the more recent era.

WWE has gone through many eras. These eras have been defined by superstars, moments, matches and more. The eras go as followed:
1.Hulkamania (1980's) Hulk Hogan, Roddy Piper, Sgt. Slaughter, Randy Savage. The era that put wrestling on the map, infulential superstars such as the Hulkster ran wild and made wrestling the phenomena it is.
2.New Generation (Late 80's early 90's) Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Yokozuna, Diesel. This new brand of superstars brought in greatness in all shapes and sizes. A 228 lbs Shawn Michaels to a 505 lbs Yokozuna
3.Attitude Era (Late 90's early 00's) Triple H, Mick Foley, Degeneration X, The Rock, Stone Cold. Wrestlings most popular era. This brought back the @$$ kicking people wanted. You witnessed the emergence of stars like The Rock and Stone Cold in their immortal careers as the two greatest of all time.
4.Ruthless Agression (Early 00's 2007) Edge and Christian, The Hardyz, Y2J, Dudley Boys. This is self explanatory. Wrestling was feeling absolutely ruthless at this exact point and time and whoever could combine body and soul was the top dog.

5. Universe or PG era (2007-present) John Cena, CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, Roman Reigns. This era has later 7 whole years and is difficult to predict what will be ushered in. This era is about the selling of your product. If you get people to buy what your selling, you have become successful.

All the things in each era that makes people great are adjectives describing the greatest superstars ever. Mick Foley is on that list.

The Three Faces of Foley

Mick Foley's illustrious Hall of Fame career wouldn't have come to fruition if it were not for his three personnas. Cactus Jack, Dude Love and Mankind. These three faces were all very different but they were all Mick Foley. You could see how HE played into each character. Here's a look at each character.

Cactus Jack: Cactus Jack was a hardcore brute who took a beating day in and day out. He got smacked with barbed wire bats, his face smashed onto nails, he got the crap kicked out of him daily and then some just for the sake of entertainment. Cactus Jack would bleed like a stuffed pig and then stand up with blood seeping through his teeth and do his traditional "Bang! Bang!"

Dude Love: This is who Mick Foley always wanted to be. When Mick was in highschool, he made a movie for a class and he was featured as the main protagonist, a wrestler named Dude Love. Mick Foley believed that when he would win as Dude Love he'd get all the girls and everyone would love him. Too bad Mick Foley looks like Mick Foley does but that didn't stop him as this tye-dye shirt wearing, self proclaimed "hippest cat in the land" took center stage.

Mankind: No doubt the most famous of Foley's personnas. Mankind brought the humor of Dude Love with the extreme of Cactus Jack and it turned into one of the weirdest wrestlers ever. Mankind took the beatings that were handed to Cactus Jack, but always got up and smiled like Dude Love to say "Have a nice day". Mankind won championships. Mankind was thrown 25 feet through a table. Mankind was lit on fire. Mankind is one of the most popular legends ever.

In the book, you can see all of Foley's personna's in the writing. His silly nature in Dude Love. His pain in Mankind and, in the pictures, his beatings in Cactus Jack.

The Hardcore Diaries

I got a new book over Christmas written by best selling author and WWE legend Mick Foley. Foley had an illustrious career as a sports entertainer and was always one to take big hits and falls for the good of entertainment. He was thrown off a 20 foot cage onto a table. He was tackled through a table that was on fire. He had his face slammed on thumb tacks and nails. Mick Foley was a true player of the game and still continues to make guest appearances on WWE television. The Hardcore Diaries is an auto biography of Foley's life and career and will showcase his travels up the ladder towards greatness as a top notch superstar to an eventual Hall of Famer. 

The way the book looks will let any wrestling fan, such as myself know that it was written by Cactus Jack (one of the many alias' of Mick Foley, others include Mankind and Dude Love). The book looks like a composition book held together with duct tape and paper clips with classic typewriter print. Mick Foley is a best selling author even after taking so many blows to the head throughout the 90s and early 00s. Imagine how smart he'd be without all those bumps.