WWE legend Mick Foley has suffered a concussion and feels lucky to still be ‘walking around’ after a horror car crash.
The 59-year-old Hall of Famer has shared a photo of himself posing next to his car which looks totally wrecked with the front destroyed and windscreen smashed.
‘TOUGH DAY FOR MICK,’ he wrote in a brief statement on Facebook alongside the picture. ‘I have no idea how I am still walking around after this accident.’
He added: ‘I’m in the hospital now, and I’m sore from my knees to my neck, including a minor concussion.’
Foley posed next to the wreckage on a field, with a fire engine visible in the background.
It’s not yet known exactly how the crash happened, or if anyone else was involved.
Foley, who hasn’t wrestled in over a decade since the 2012 Royal Rumble, has been open about the lasting impact of his daredevil style in the ring.
The so-called Hardcore Legend is famous for putting his health on the line countless times in the name of entertaining the fans, and he suffered numerous concussions throughout his career.
His daughter Noelle recently admitted she always hated his I Quit Match with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, and watching it was so traumatic that her brain has simply blocked out any memories of seeing her dad wrestle.
‘I don’t have one singular memory of my dad ever wrestling. Part of me thinks because it was traumatic to me,’ she said on Dark Side of the Ring.
‘How could these 11 shots change my dad’s health? If you were to get 11 head shots, a normal person probably could have died. it’s sickening, honestly.’
She also referenced the impact of CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) – which is believed to be linked to repeated head injuries and can lead to dementia – and admitted her family doesn’t ‘really know’ what her father’s future looks like.
Mick confessed he’s ‘worried’ about how much his health could deteriorate as a result of the punishment he put himself through.
‘If you’re wondering if I’m worried about that – yeah, yeah, yeah, really worried. Every day I worry about that,’ he said. ‘The fallout from what I’ve done – honestly, I don’t see a way out of it.’
However, he is determined to keep trying improve his mental capacity and maintain his health.
‘I’m gonna fight it. I’m gonna try to be someone who continues to get sharper as they get older,’ he added.
A few years ago, Mick insisted despite not having any regrets about his and Undertaker’s infamous and brutal 1998 Hell In A Cell match, it ‘shortened’ his career and made him ‘believe in his own mortality’.
He also noted the financial impact of the injuries he suffered, as he has still been playing thousands to get his teeth fixed.
Speaking to Metro at the time he said: ‘The cell collapsing when I was chokeslammed still has fallout for me!
‘I just paid $425 to remove my bottom flipper – which are false teeth which were knocked out in that cell – and I’ll have to pay $15,000 or so to get those teeth fixed.’
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