Spotlight

How Many Chair Shots Has Mick Foley Taken?

Richard Gray December 25, 2011 WWE News 46 Comments

Today is Christmas so there are not a lot of news updates, however, this video was sent to us by Wrestling News World reader Max Moskal:

WWE has now banned unprotected chair shots to the head. Workers that violate this policy are subject to fines.

FREE Wrestling News App: Dirt Sheet - iPhone | Android | iPad

About The Author

Richard Gray

Richard Gray is the owner and editor of WrestlingNewsWorld.com. Covering the professional wrestling business since 1999, Richard holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from West Virginia University. He is also the owner of Gray Internet Technologies, LLC. and should be contacted with all business matters. You can friend him on Facebook and follow him on Twitter. Email him directly at [email protected].

Dustyn

How festive! I wonder how many chair shots he really has taken in his career.
Dave Barton

Its a wonder it wasn't Foley who went berserk & killed his family instead of Benoit…Chris never took this many direct hits to the skull.
- Don
  
  That's a good thing as Mic is a great guy, I'm sure Chris was also a great guy.. Everyone takes things different than others, some people wouldn't be able to take a couple shots without going coo coo. The skull is different on every human ranging in different thickness. This would make a big difference of how many shots a person can take and how damaging it would be to the persons brain.
- Nick
  
  Foley didn't take steroids.
  - Dave Barton
    
    So you subscribe to the idea that it was roid rage & not brain damage with Benoit?
    
    I’m not gonna debate whether the roids had anything to do with it, but the brain damage was proven. I’m saying that with so many direct chair shots to the head, its a wonder Foley’s brain is still functional. If told a roid-user or a wrestler who took chair shots night after night were to murder his family & kill himself over the course of a weekend, I’d have gone with the potentially brain-damaged wrestler. That’s my opinion, you’re entitled to yours as well.
- jdl
  
  True, but Foley's finisher didn't involve climbing a good five or so feet and then jumping a good three more feet into the air to headbutt people. Whether or not he struck them with his head, he still shook his brain.
Noah

I lost count at 40
- david
  
  58 chair shots to the skull
vivalajady

well all i have to say is mick is one tough guy
Mike L

I lost count after fifty. And I’m not kidding.
XKonn247

I feel horrible saying this, but damn that was funny.
sforester

Notice that was just part 1. I'm willing to guess that Foley's taken over 250 chairshots to the head. LOL
scorpio21

I counted 61
Oldfanmike

That don’t count his days in wccw wcw or others before wwe
marc

i counted 61 in that video but im cure over his career u need to mulitply that number atleast 40 or 50 u got to remember he also wrestled in japan, ecw and wcw too name a few
MonstaHeel 450

So the WWE becomes the NFL… giving away fines like candy to kids for the possible smallest thing. What's next, the "Brady Rule" where ya got to be careful how to handle John Cena? Only the beginning, folks.
MonstaHeel 450

…. not that i condone excessive chairs shots to the head, but what happens after the first or second offense?

Dont forget the chairshots Foley has taken even before WWF/E. WCW and ECW (especially that place. You'll lose count on one month alone.)
Moose666

…and he is STILL an intelligent man and author. People can argue training and "it's fake" all they want, that can't feel good. The people hitting him with chairs aren't accountants, they are large strong people performing for the crowd. Thank you Mick!
Mike

I got tired of counting at about 36ish. He’s one tough SOB
Sheikh330

I counted 62!
redertainment

How does Mick Foley not have the kind of Parkinson's type dementia that Muhammad Ali has?
iamjohnnymcb

so where is orton`s punishment for making cody bleed
Jim

I remember a match Mick had as Mankind, I believe, against The Rock back in the “Attitude Era”. Where Rock handcuffed Mick’s hands behind his back and commenced to hitting him in the head a good 15+ times in a row. I heard an interview where Mick said he was really mad at Rock for that because he wasn’t supposed to hit him anywhere near that many times and that he really couldn’t remember exactly how many shots there were. It was totally brutal…
- Paul
  
  It was at the royal rumble 1999 I think it was like 11 chair shots in one match, foley had a dent in his head after it was brutal. Watch beyond the mat it has alot of detail about that match tpwards the end.
Steve

It appears that the Rock gave him the most chair shots
Jim

Whoops! Guess I should’ve watched the video before I commented. Should’ve known that would be ln there considering it was the single most brutal thing I’ve ever seen in a WWE ring. That includes Mick’s dive off the Cell in Pittsburgh, and I was in attendance for that. Mick is one tough dude that REALLY loved what he did for a living.
Steve

I counted 61
HPK

Awesome !!! Classick intense Mick Foley @ his Hardcore Best !!!
http://idk Jordan

61 times omg!!!!!!!
Scooter

In this nice little video I counted 61 shots! About 6 or 7 of them just from The rock in their infamous “I quit” match at the Royal Rumble! Poor Mick! At least he’s a legend!
Ronnie

61 chair shots
Don

Total of 61 in the Video
Mike F.

61 chairshots, insane
Levi

I counted 61
Mishal

I lost count after the first he ever took.
Chopper

Foley is as hard as a coffin nail!
MPXTheChoice

Does the People's Elbow with the chair on Mick's face count? I mean that both in the sense of this video and in terms of the policy.
Tomas

The very best chairshot i've seen in WWE was delivered by Triple H to Goldberg on RAW in 2003-ish.
- Paul
  
  Think jbl on eddie guerro was one of the best.
fytrfbg

61
Brandon

61 shots! How is this guy not a vegetable right now.
John

TO think that covered only part of Foley's wwe career not even the indy's, wcw, Japan, etc….
@RatedMKD

Well that made for some pretty uncomfortable viewing, if I'm being honest… I doubt I would've managed to watch it all the way through if I hadn't been a little distracted by counting.
nymyzys

I have so much respect for Mick Foley, and this just amplifies it. He is truly one of the toughest men alive.
ease9310

I got tired at counting at 39!
foley

When it comes hardcore there’s no other man for the job…foley is a legend when it comes to pain because of his love for hardcore ppl don’t even try to count u’ll never kno until u ask the man who took e’m all foley the hardcore god