For many, Mick Foley is known as “Hardcore legend”. At WWE Backlash 2004, however, the veteran apparently met his match when a 24 -year -old Randy Orton defeated him in a bloody hardcore match for the intercontinental championship.
“My favorite match that I have ever struggled was against Randy Orton in 2004,” Foley told “For the love of the struggle.” “Anything that seemed to click and you could simply feel even during the match that Randy’s trajectory has changed in a hurry.
“It took me all day to go home because Edmonton is far from Long Island. There was a flight time, a luggage period, and when I got home,` `raw ” was already lit even if I took the flight to red eyes. As soon as they announced Randy Orton, the reaction was so different from what I would never be.
In 2004, Foley was already a legend accomplished in the struggle sector. Meanwhile, a young Orton was impatient to prove himself as a legitimate interpreter, apart from his last name. Thanks to an landing backwards first on thumb threads, a RKO on a barbed wire bat and its possible victory, Orton managed to achieve it, and a defense of the successful title, during the backlash. Quick advance until 2025, Orton is now a world champion 14 times, dragging behind John Cena and “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair for the biggest title in the history of WWE.
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