Title History
WWF World Champion(2)
Won from the Rock at Halftime Heat tapings in a "I Quit" rematch on 1/26/99; lost to the Rock on 2/15/99 in a Ladder Match on RAW
WWF World Champion
Won from the Rock at RAW TV tapings on 12/29/98; lost to the Rock on 1/25/99 in a "I Quit" match at the Royal Rumble
WWF Hardcore Champion
Awarded title by Mr. McMahon on 11/2/98; lost to the Big Boss Man in a Ladder Match
WWF World Tag Team Champion (4) (with Kane)
Won from Steve Austin and the Undertaker on 8/10/98; lost the belts to New Age Outlaws ("Bad Ass" Billy Gunn and "Road Dog" Jesse James)
WWF World Tag Team Champion (3) (with Kane)
Won from the New Age Outlaws ("Bad Ass" Billy Gunn and "Road Dog" Jesse James) on 7/15/98; Lost to "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and the Undertaker on 7/26/98
WWF World Tag Team Champion (2) (with Chainsaw Charlie as the Hardcore Legends)
Won from the New Age Outlaws ("Bad Ass" Billy Gunn and "Road Dog" Jesse James) on 3/29/98; Titles held up on 3/30/98 because the wrong dumpster was used to win the match; Lost rematch.
WWF World Tag Team Champion (with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin)
Defeated Owen Hart and Davey-Boy Smith on 7/14/97; Vacated on 9/7/97 when Steve Austin is unable to defend
ECW World Tag Team Champion (2) (with Mikey Whipreck)
Won from 2 Cold Scorpio in Sandman when Mikey Whipreck defeats Scorpio in a singles matches where the tag titles are on the line. When Whipreck wins, Cactus Jack appoints himself Whipreck's partner; Lost to The Eliminators (Saturn and Kronus) on 2/3/96
ECW Tag Team Champion (with Mikey Whipreck)
Won from Public Enemy on 8/27/94. Given 'World Title' status the same night; Lost to Public Enemy on 11/5/94
WCW World Tag Team Champion (with Kevin Sullivan)
Won from the Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Saggs) on 5/22/94; Lost to Pretty Wonderful ("Pretty" Paul Roma and "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndoff) on 7/17/94
WCWA/USWA World Tag Team Champion (2) (with Scott Braddock)
Won from Jeff Jarrett and Matt Borne on 8/4/89; Lost to Jeff Jarrett and Matt Borne on 8/11/89
WCWA World Tag Team Champion (with Super Zodiac II)
Won from Jeff Jarrett and Kerry Von Erich on 5/19/89; Lost to Jeff Jarrett and Mil Mascaras on 6/9/89
CWA World Tag Team Champion (with Gary Young)
Defeated Bill Dundee and Todd Morton for the vacant titles on 10/23/88; Lost to Robert Fuller and Jimmy Golden on 2/25/89
Wrestling History
1985
Entered wrestling in the independents as Cactus Jack… Wrestled briefly in the WWF as Jack Foley
1988
Wrestling in the CWA as Cactus Jack Foley… Won the vacant World tag titles with Gary Young by defeating Bill Dundee and Todd Morton
1989
Lost the CWA World tag titles to Robert Fuller and Jimmy Golden in February… Moved to the World Class area as Cactus Jack Mansen… Won the tag titles along with Super Zodiac II from Jeff Jarrett and Kerry Von Erich… Lost the titles to Jarrett and Mascaras on 6/9/89… Teamed with Scott Braddock to take the tag titles from Jarrett and Matt Borne, holding the titles for only a few days before Jarrett and Borne took the titles back.
1990
Entered WCW as Cactus Jack Mansen… Began his WCW career jobbing to the likes of Mil Mascaras and Norman the Lunatic… Usually brought novels to the ring, most commonly, "The Road Less Traveled".
1991
Feuded with Van Hammer at the end of the year.
1992
Defeated Van Hammer in a Falls-Count-Anywhere match in January… Lost a Falls-Count-Anywhere match to WCW Champ Sting in June… Got another shot at the WCW title against Ron Simmons in September, but again came up short
1993
Beat Johnny B. Badd in January, and Paul Orndorff in a Falls-Count-Anywhere match in February… Fueded with WCW champ Vader in April, beating him by DQ. Cactus required stitches after the first match… Cactus was defeated two weeks later in their second match, and put out for several months after being nearly paralyzed… Was defeated by WCW champ Vader in August, and again in a strap match in October… Began teaming with Maxx Payne at the end of the year
1994
Maxx Payne and Cactus Jack beat the Nasty Boys in January… After the Nasty Boys won the titles, Payne and Jack faced them again in February, beating them by DQ… Lost his right ear, and nearly had the left one ripped of, in a match with Vader in Germany in March… In their third meeting in April in a Chicago Street Fight, the Nasty Boys came out on top…Began wrestling in ECW in May… Teamed with Kevin Sullivan in May to take the tag titles from the Nasty Boys… Lost the WCW tag titles to Pretty Wonderful in July, and began feuding with former partner Kevin Sullivan. In August, battled Terry Funk to a no contest in ECW… Jack and Mikey Whipwreck took the tag titles from Public Enemy in August… Lost a loser-leaves-WCW match in September, and went to full-time wrestling in ECW… Lost the tag titles back to public enemy in November… Teamed with Kevin Sullivan in November to beat the Public Enemy by DQ… Allied himself with Tommy Dreamer; the duo wrestled the Sandman and Tommy Cairo in December
1995
Beat Sandman in a Texas Death match in February… Teamed with Shane Douglas to lose to Terry Funk and the Sandman in March… Defeated Terry Funk in an "Anything Goes" Match in April… Faced and lost to ECW champ the Sandman in matches in May, June, and July... Teamed with Dean Malenko and 2 Cold Scorpio against Eddie Guerrerro and the Steiners in August… Teamed with Raven at November to Remember, losing to Terry Funk and Tommy Dreamer… Mikey Whipreck beat 2 Cold Scorpio in a singles match for the tag titles, and Jack appointed himself Whipreck's partner
1996
Lost the titles to Shane Douglas and Tommy Dreamer in January… Lost to Shane Douglas in February… Defeated former partner Tommy Whipreck in March… Entered the WWF as Mankind, Mick Foley's emotionally wounded inner-child, and immediately challenged the Undertaker… Lost to the Undertaker in their initial encounter in April… TAFKA Goldust and Marlena sided with Mankind… Caused the Undertaker to lose casket matches to Goldust in June and July… The Undertaker lost a boiler room brawl to Mankind when Paul Bearer turned on Undertaker to manage Mankind… Mankind battled WWF IC champ Shawn Michaels in September, and was disqualified… Undertaker beat Mankind in a Buried Alive match in October… Mankind and Shawn Michaels met again in December, and Mankind came out on the losing end.
1997
Mankind was teamed with Paul Bearer's other man, Vader… Vader and Mankind met Owen Hart and Davey-Boy Smith at Wrestlemania, and were defeated because of problems getting along… When the Undertaker won the World title, Paul Bearer sent Mankind after him again to try to bring him under Paul's control. Mankind lost the match in April, and Paul dropped Mankind. Mankind didn't understand why "Uncle Paul" wouldn't talk to him anymore… Mankind went to the finals of King of the Ring, and lost to Hunter Hearst Helmsley… Helmsley and Mankind met again in July, and wrestled to a double-countout… "Stone Cold" Steve Austin needed a tag partner for a match against Owen Hart and Davey-Boy Smith for the vacant tag titles. Mankind began wearing a "Pick Me Steve" sign… Mankind rescued Austin from a Hart Foundation attack. Austin agreed to let Mankind be his partner. But then, Austin put the Stone Cold Stunner on Mankind, and told him "Don't trust anybody", and that he didn't want a freak as a tag partner… The following week, Austin was wrestling alone for the tag titles, when Foley in sunglasses and tye-dye appeared. Foley told him that he didn't blame him for rejecting Mankind, but Austin never said anything about "Dude Love". Dude Love and Austin won the titles, and Austin accepted Dude Love… At Summerslam, Mankind met Helmsley in a cage match. Partway through the match, Mankind took off his mask, and pulled off his shirt to reveal tye-dye underneath, making the transition to Dude Love to win the match… Steve Austin was injured at SummerSlam, and Dude Love and Austin had to surrender the titles… Dude Love and Helmsley were to have a falls-count-anywhere match in October, but Dude Love said that falls-count-anywhere wasn't his "bag", and offered the match to Mankind. Mankind appreciated the offer, but suggested the person that would love a falls-count-anywhere match was Cactus Jack. Cactus Jack returned after a year-and-a-half absence to a victory over Hunter Hearst Helmsley… Mankind challenged Kain at Survivor Series, but was not able to overcome him… Cactus Jack met the New Age Outlaws in one-on-one matches in December, but kept getting double-teamed by the duo.
1998
Cactus Jack brought in Terry Funk as Chainsaw Charlie to help him out with the New Age Outlaws… Mankind, Dude Love, and Cactus Jack all competed in the Royal Rumble… In February, the "Hardcore Legends" met in a one-on-one match to decide who was "King of the Hardcores". Partway through the match, Jack dropped an elbow on Charlie who was in a dumpster. The Outlaws tied the dumpster shut and pushed it off of a ten foot stage, sending the Legends to the hospital… At Wrestlemania, the Legends took the belts from the Outlaws in a dumpster match… The titles were held up the next night because the wrong dumpster was used to win the match. The rematch in a cage was won by the Outlaws, with the help of their newly revealed Degeneration X teammates…. Cactus Jack came out the following week to announce that he was bitter that when the Legends were being pounded, that the crowd was chanting Steve Austin. When the crowd did not apologize, Foley announced that it would be a long time before the fans saw Cactus Jack again… Dude Love appeared the following week to interrupt a match between Steve Austin and Vince McMahon. Dude Love tried to put the mandible claw on McMahon, and then attacked Steve Austin, who had one hand tied behind his back for the match with McMahon… Dude Love beat Austin by DQ in a match a couple of weeks later when Austin was disqualified for smacking McMahon in the head with a chair… McMahon had apparently promised that Dude Love would wear the belt one way or another, and Dude became bitter with both McMahon and Austin when TAFKA Goldust got a title match the next night. Goldust became angry and shed his gimmick a couple of weeks later, and targeted Dude for vengeance… The following week, Dude stripped himself of all gimmicks and declared that from then on he would just be Mick Foley. McMahon offered Foley the #1 contender spot if he could "rip out his best friends heart and hand it to him." Foley defeated his partner Terry Funk, officially dissolving their relationship, and then accepted the Dude Love persona again… Dude Love became the model employee that Austin refused to be. For this second title shot, this time at In Your House: Over The Edge, the deck was completely stacked against Austin. McMahon was the special guest referee, and his "lieutenants" Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco were the ring announcer and timekeeper, respectively. Austin won this match as well, after Dude blasted McMahon with a chairshot. After this defeat, Foley was told that "his services were no longer needed" by McMahon, but this turned out to be a ruse. Mick's longtime nemesis, the Undertaker demanded a WWF title shot on this same Raw. McMahon told him that he could earn one by defeating his brother, Kane. During this match, Mick made his return, but this time as MANKIND, costing Undertaker the loss. Soon after this, a Hell in the Cell match was set between Undertaker and Mankind for King of the Ring. 2 weeks prior to King of the Ring, a tag team battle royal to determine the top contenders to the WWF tag titles was won by Mankind and his new ally Kane. At King of the Ring, Mick put on what may have been the best match of his career, with some of the most hardcore bumps he's taken in his WWF tenure thus far. Early on, he was thrown from the TOP of the Cell, through the Spanish announcers' table!!! Amazingly, he was still alive after this, and ended up back on top of the cage again, where he was chokeslammed THROUGH THE ROOF. Later in the match, thumbtacks were brought into the ring, and Foley was backdropped and chokeslammed on them, ala IWA. Foley was eventually tombstoned and pinned, but the mere fact that he LIVED was amazing. Althought Foley was alive he sustained some major injuries. He had a concussion, dislocated ribs, a dislocated shoulder and jaw, (his jaw was put back in place while he was unconscience) approximately 15 stitches under his lip, and deep tissue injury, which is very painful according to Mick (i'll take his word on it). Apparently when the Undertaker chokeslamed him through the top of the cage he blanked out and was so for the remainder of the match. According to Mick the after match converstion he had with the Undertaker went something like this "Did I use tacks in that match?" Foley refused to go to the hospital because he wanted to be involved with the Austin, Kane match. Finally they took him to a Pittsburgh hospital for medical attention. Amazingly Foley was at RAW the next day, but not in competition. Once again Foley showed how dedicated he is to this sport we call Professional Wrestling. Mick went on to be the Hardcore Champion and then he won the WWF Championship belt on RAW.