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Don’t be shy about shooting those over – the more, the merrier. Hey, ya wanna banner? Donny from Allentown is also known as Mr. Bang Bang: Is it a safe bet to say that Mick Foley, who was Cactus Jack at the time, was made and noticed after his WCW Beach Blast 1992 match with Sting? Did that specific match make him? I don’t think I would agree with that statement.
Unlike some other wrestlers, I don’t see Mick Foley as having one match or one program that “made” him. I feel like he built his reputation over time, incrementally advancing up professional wrestling’s pecking order, though there was one opponent that finally got him over the finish line, and it wasn’t the Stinger. Really, even before he had that 1992 match with Sting, he was catching the eyes of early tape traders and newsletter readers for his over the top bumps in places like the Dallas branch of the USWA and the Herb Abrams UWF.
Heck, the 1991-1992 run in WCW that included the Sting feud wasn’t even his first stint with that company, as he’d previously been there in 1990 hanging out with Abdullah the Butcher. Yes, his match with Sting did take h.
