Mick Foley ‘probably’ would have chosen MJF as opponent for final match

When he was planning to come out of retirement for one final match, Mick Foley considered MJF being his opponent.

Foley announced earlier this year that he was considering having one last match for his 60th birthday in 2025. But Foley called off those plans after suffering a concussion while only doing light training. During an appearance at Nickel City Comic Con this summer, Foley stated that — if he had gone through with the idea — he probably would have chosen MJF as his opponent.

“When I was thinking of having that last match, I’ll tell ya what — when I announced that intention, there was no shortage of people from every promotion reaching out to me. And one guy I probably would have gone with because he’d clearly done some thinking about it and lined out six great weeks of TV was MJF,” Foley said. “We didn’t take a photo together because we didn’t want to like ruin the secret meeting, but I heard what he had to say, I really liked it. I had no doubt that he would have pulled it off perfectly. He’s so good and in his prime that he could have worked around my weaknesses and played to my strengths. And I think we could have done something pretty cool. MJF. Final answer.”

Foley had been considering having one last match as a way to motivate himself to lose weight. It would have had a Death Match stipulation. When he first brought up the idea, Foley mentioned Matt Cardona and Jon Moxley as potential opponents.

If Foley did have the match, it would have been his first time wrestling since appearing in WWE Royal Rumble 2012. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013.

Foley said at Nickel City Comic Con that having a hip replacement in 2017 has helped improve his quality of life. He didn’t want to risk that by wrestling again.