WWE Attitude Era star Mick Foley reveals why he scrapped plans to return for ‘Deathmatch’ career finale

WWE Attitude Era legend Mick Foley has canceled plans to celebrate his 60th birthday with one final deathmatch to end his career.

The hardcore legend and multiple-time WWE Champion had planned the “bloody” farewell as an incentive to lose weight, but has now abandoned the idea altogether.

Now 58, he was considering a return to the squared circle in time for his milestone birthday celebrations and had already considered AEW star Jon Moxley and indie wrestling sensation Matt Cardona as possible opponents.

Speaking on his Foley is Pod podcast, the veteran initially explained his wish to lose 100 pounds of weight, saying: “(Age) 60 is fast approaching.

“I’m thinking of doing one last match for my sixtieth birthday, a Deathmatch.

“I’m not kidding. I think it would be a great incentive to drop these 100 big projects. I think it could be fun… I think it would be a pretty bloody spectacle.

Such comments left fans with memories of Foley’s glory days in WCW and WWE – the latter where he battled the likes of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Triple H, taking some remarkable punishment along the way.

Hopes of a repeat of scenes like the 1998 Royal Rumble, where Rock demolished him with a brutal beating courtesy of a steel chair, were dashed.

Foley has since revealed that medical issues forced a re-evaluation.

Speaking on YouTube, he explained: “(I) have an update on that last game I was thinking of hosting for my 60th birthday.

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“As some of you know, I had to miss a few weekends of appearances due to dizziness and dizziness.

“After consulting with a few doctors and using my own experience with concussions, the symptoms…they seem to indicate a concussion that I didn’t even know I had.

“I hadn’t done much in the ring, but I had done a little. I had noticed that I was feeling dizzy after one of the workouts, but I thought it would go away.

“So it seems like the wisest decision – and one that is strongly supported by my family – (to) cancel this final game.

“If I can get a concussion from something I’m not even aware of, then some of the things I thought I would do, hoping to do in a big game, wouldn’t be smart.

“So, at the urging of my family and after careful consideration, I have decided that there will be no final match.”

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Foley’s daredevil antics in WWE remain some of the most incredible scenes in industry history, including his 1998 King of the Ring bout against The Undertaker.

Fighting the Deadman atop the Hell in a Cell structure, Foley, then wrestling under the name Mankind, was thrown approximately 20 feet from the top of the cell, crashing through the commentary table below.

Later in the same fight, back on the roof of the cell, Foley fell back onto it.

A loose backboard gave way under the force of a chokeslam from the Undertaker which also saw Foley land on a steel chair for good measure.

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Foley’s WWE career effectively ended in 2000 after his loss to Triple H forced him to “retire”, although sporadic appearances followed thereafter.

In addition to a stint wrestling for TNA, Foley enjoyed one final outing in WWE in 2012 at the Royal Rumble.