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Story in RVA on Mick Foley will keep you in stitches

Chris Graham

MICKsquaredNew York Times’ best-selling author and WWE Champion don’t often go together and when you say someone has earned both of those distinctions multiple times…well, you’re only talking about one person: Mick Foley. For twenty years, Foley won over the world of wrestling with his enigmatic characters (Cactus Jack, Mankind, & Dude Love), his unique sense of humor (the famous 1999 “This Is Your Life” segment with The Rock), and his death-defying stunts (being thrown off a twenty-foot high cage through a table below). He’s one of wrestling’s most beloved and honored superstars of all time and one who has proven himself to be as successful outside of the ring as he was inside of it.

(Excerpt from RVA Magazine: For the rest of the article, click here.)






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Chris Graham is the founder and editor of Augusta Free Press. A 1994 alum of the University of Virginia, Chris is the author and co-author of seven books, including Poverty of Imagination, a memoir published in 2019. For his commentaries on news, sports and politics, go to his YouTube page, TikTok, BlueSky, or subscribe to Substack or his Street Knowledge podcast. Email Chris at [email protected].

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