Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks

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Mick Foley is a nice man, a family man who loves amusement parks and eating ice cream in bed. So how to provide an explanation for those Japanese death matches in rings with explosives, golden thumbtacks and barbed wire instead of rope? The second one-degree burn tissue? And the missing ear that was once ripped off all through a bout-in which he kept fighting? Here is an intimate glimpse into Mick Foley’s mind, his history, his work and what some might call his pathology. Now with a bonus chapter summarizing the past 15 months-from his experience as a bestselling creator through his parting thoughts before his final match. A tale of blood, sweat, tears and more blood-all in his own words-straight from the twisted genius in the back of Cactus Jack, Dude Love, and Mankind.

Frankly, this literary critic didn’t expect Mick Foley’s memoir of his life as Mankind (and his other wrestling personas, Cactus Jack and Dude Love) to hit No. 1 on Amazon.com’s hardcover nonfiction bestseller list in its first literary bout. The cover is cluttered and confusing, and do we in point of fact need 500-plus pages of Foley’s boasts? Yes. Foley gives his all for his calling, and he burns to tell his adventures. Take the famous tale of how he lost most of his ear (the bloody result is depicted in the 16-page color-photo section). It was once in his 1994 bouts with Vader (Leon White): once you have a broken nose, a dislocated jaw, and 21 stitches in the first match, Foley did his “hangman” routine, wherein he catches his neck between The second one and third ropes and spins them into a twist. “The end result is the illusion of a man being hanged by his neck at the same time as his body kicks and writhes in an attempt to get out… the man in truth is hanging by his neck and the body in point of fact does kick and writhe in an attempt to get out.” Unfortunately, in the prior match, Too Cold Scorpio had had the officials tighten the ropes, so Foley tore off his ear to avoid death by strangulation, like “a fox that chews off its paw to escape a trap.” Foley also wrestles on 10,000-thumbtack mats with barbwire ropes and C-4 explosives, and earns the ultimate compliment: “The fans in point of fact like the way you bleed.” Many fans also like the way his gory story reads. –Tim Appelo

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