Mick Foley Explains Why He Never Fixed His Teeth, Lex Luger Thought He'd Be Fired From WCW

03/07/2025 07:01 PM

During a recent appearance on Monopoly Events’ For The Love Of Wrestling convention, WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley commented on losing his teeth in his 1998 King of the Ring match against The Undertaker.

You can check out some highlights from the interview below:

On not getting the teeth replaced: "The reason I don't replace the teeth, even though they look terrible, is they are a reminder of that night. So I don't have a house full of wrestling memorabilia because all I have to do is get up in the morning and smile in the mirror and I remember exactly what I did for a living because of that match."

On what he went through in the bout: "If that same type of thing happened today, the match would be stopped, and that's like the smart thing and the wise thing, but that wasn't what we did back in 1998, and I'm kind of lucky it wasn't because so much of the appeal is trying to watch two human beings continue a wrestling match when one of them is no longer conscious."

On the first episode of WCW Nitro, Lex Luger made a shocking appearance and he believed he was going to be fired for breaking character.

While speaking with Chris Van Vliet on the “Insight” podcast, Luger discussed his WCW debut. He said,

"We hit it off because I went nose to nose with him on the first Monday Nitro," Luger said (per Fightful). "I thought I was going to get fired. My wife goes, 'What do you mean?' 'I got nose to nose with Hogan and we went to a commercial break. I broke character and smiled at him.' I had never been around Hogan in the ring. He goes, 'Brother, wipe that smile off your face or I'll knock it off.' 'We're in commercial break.' 'I don't care. Don't ever break character. Wipe that smile off your face right now or I'll knock it off.'"

Luger continued, "I tried to chase after him down the hall after, he wouldn't talk to me. I went up to him next week, before we wrestled on TV and I said, 'Man, I'm so sorry.' I thought I was being unprofessional. I knew we were on commercial break, I was being a heel and smirking. 'You were 100% right. Please accept my apology.' After that, we were totally cool. He accepted my apology and we were always cool with each other."

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