Mick Foley Reveals Scrapped Original Name For Mankind Character

Published: Jun 9, 2022 by SP3 | Last Updated: Jun 9, 2022 by SP3

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Mick Foley Reveals Scrapped Original Name For Mankind Character

WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley has revealed a scrapped original name for the Mankind character.

Mick Foley left his mark with the WWE thanks to his Three Faces of Foley, Cactus Jack, Dude Love and Mankind.

On this week’s edition of Foley Is Pod, the three-time WWE Champion discussed “The Making of Mankind” and talked about various elements of the character.

When bringing up the original name that Vince McMahon wanted to give the character, Foley said:

“Vince said, ‘In this business, we’ve had crushers, we’ve had destroyers, we’ve had executioner’s, but we’ve never had a mutilator.’ He gets that bass in his voice, ‘Mutilator, that’s what you are.’ Then he gives me the name Mason.”

“He alludes to the Manson name but tells me that we can’t go there, and I don’t want to go there. I was very uncomfortable with being Cactus Jack Manson. I did it because I really had no other choice. I felt Mason the Mutilator is one of the worst things I’ve ever heard. It sounds to me like something that would be in a bootleg version of an old Fish card game. It just sounds awful.”

The WWE Hall of Famer continued on to give his response to McMahon about the name, saying:

“He said, ‘What do you think?’ I said, ‘I like it a lot, but what if.’ Those were the three biggest words. ‘But what if instead of being Mason the Mutilator, I was Mankind the Mutilator?’ He says, ‘I don’t think I understand it.’ I said, ‘This way when they’re talking about the future of mankind and the destruction of mankind, it means two different things. You know, it’s talking about me and the people’, and he’s writing all this stuff down on a yellow legal pad.”

Thankfully, Vince McMahon liked Foley’s idea enough to go with his name over his original plan.

Mick Foley recently discussed what it would take for him to return to WWE on last week’s episode of his podcast.

Quotes via Wrestlingnews.co

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