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Mick Foley on potentially wrestling for AEW: “I think I have one more last good match in me”

Aaron Rift

WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley made his debut with AEW at the Double or Nothing 2026 Buy-In show. While speaking to Ariel Helwani, Foley addressed the possibility of getting back in the ring one more time for AEW…

“The loss of 100 pounds made my life so much easier. Like, I used to have to stop a couple times just walking up a moderate hill, and now I don’t even realize I’m walking up hills when I do them because I’m, you know, I’m not really getting winded, uh, not like I used to. Um, I don’t know. Um, I think that clearly if I had a match, it would have to be a match that would avoid, uh, trauma to the head. Luckily, there’s a whole lot of me to traumatize below the neck.

So I think, yeah, I think I have one more last good match in me. I just believe it would have to be— all the stars would have to align. It would have to make sense.

And Ariel, honestly, like, maybe that long-term goal of dropping an elbow off a TV truck onto a parked car. I had a serious talk with myself and realized just how much my hip replacement and later a knee replacement changed my life. And I don’t think they’ve got statistics on former knee replacement recipients dropping elbows off of TV trucks to park cars. Like, as a 50-50 chance, it could undo all, all of the good that it brought me.

I don’t know if I’m ready to take that chance, but I find my mind wandering sometimes, coming up with ideas that look better than they hurt, that rate higher on the instantaneous Foley risk-reward ratio analysis. And if I can come up with enough of those type of moves that allow me to, you know, to risk a little bit less while still giving fans a good match, and if I feel like I’m up to it, But maybe a couple years down the road, we will look into that. Stranger things have happened.”

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