Criticism hurts most of the time. While some master the art of taking it positively, there can always be a topic sensitive enough to trigger one’s emotions. It’s completely normal to feel hurt in a situation. And if you needed a real-life example from a WWE star to validate the above-mentioned facts, we’ve got you covered. This one time Mick Foley shared an experience where he felt hurt because of a call-out.
He faced this call out from WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan. It was particularly pertaining to Foley’s weight. Hulk assumed something about Foley that was the complete opposite of what was going on with him. This hurt Foley back in the day.
What did Hulk Hogan assume wrongly about Foley?
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In a past episode of ‘Foley Is Pod’, the former WWE wrestler was recalling this one time Hogan targeted him. In an interview with Michael Landsberg, Hogan was asked whether he wonders about the reason behind Foley’s retirement from wrestling despite being younger than him. Hogan claimed that he worked out in the ongoing week, more than Foley did in the last five years. Little did The Hulkster know that he was plainly assuming things.
Foley confessed in the podcast that he was working out ‘hard’ during that time, but his ‘genetics’ never let him get build an ideal physique. “There’s very little difference in the way I looked when I was working out as hard as I possibly could and when I came back for my comeback matches and basically had given up lifting weights and was doing all cardio… So, you’re hitting all those muscles and even when I came back, I dropped a ton of weight in 2016. It was DDP Yoga and swimming and doing aerobics in the pool that helped me out,” Foley revealed in the podcast how none of this seemed to help him get the ‘ideal’ male physique.
Foley also went ahead to confess his feelings about Hogan’s comments, “Those words stung, man. A criticism hurt me back then in a way that it no longer does.” Although the former wrestler has gotten over the statement now, they are still imprinted in the back of his mind.
This situation is similar to the one that Hulk Hogan faced in his childhood. Although The Hulkster was ‘bullied’ in his childhood, the similarity lies with the sensitive topic. In this case, both the former wrestlers were called out for their ‘heavy weight’.
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In an interview, Hogan once confessed how he was picked on as a kid for being ‘fat’. Everybody from his brother to his neighbors used to tease him regarding his weight. This left a mark on kid Hogan so deep that he couldn’t remove his shirt on the beach until he was 19.
Although he had experienced such a scenario before, Hogan still called out Mick Foley for his weight.
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