GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY! Undertaker threw Mick Foley off a cage 19 years ago today
"Look out. Oh Oh... Good God almighty, good God almighty, they've killed him. As God as my witness, he is broken in half."
That was the legendary call byWWE play-by-play man, Jim Ross, when The Undertaker threw Mick Foley -- then known as Mankind -- off the top of the Hell in a Cell cage during the "King of the Ring" pay-per-view event at the Pittsburgh Civic Center on June 28, 1998.
The WWE had never seen such a thing since Jimmy Snuka jumped off the top of a cage in 1983.
But Snuka jumped INTO the ring. Not onto one of the WWE's favorite props -- the Spanish announcing table.
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Foley has said many times, however, the pain from being thrown off the top of the cage was not the worst thing he experienced in the match against The Undertaker. Later in their match, The Dead Man chokeslammed Foley THROUGH the cage and onto a steel chair.
That moved caused Foley to lose a tooth, that somehow ended up in his nose.
The fun didn't stop there for Foley. He was later chokeslammed onto a bag of thumbtacks.
Good God Almighty, indeed.
Jimmy Traina is a staff writer and podcast host for Sports Illustrated. A 20-year veteran in the industry, he’s been covering the sports media landscape for seven years and writes a daily column, Traina Thoughts. Traina has hosted the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast since 2018, a show known for interviews with some of the most important and powerful people in sports media. He also was the creator and writer of SI’s Hot Clicks feature from 2007 to '13.