Top 9 WWE Promos | Mankind Sits Down With Jim Ross (Raw 1997)

Top 9 WWE Promos | Mankind Sits Down With Jim Ross (Raw 1997)

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In this SOUND OFF RETRO clip from episode 468 (11/6/2016), Solomonster concludes his countdown of the Top 9 Promos in WWE History. If promos are meant to promote, then nobody did a better job of that for their character than Mankind in a series of sit down interviews conducted by Jim Ross that aired on Raw for three straight weeks in 1997 discussing the three faces of Foley. It was the first real human look into the man behind the mask, a masterful performance and #1 in the countdown.

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24 Comments

  1. I like the one where they did a 5 part interview with the undertaker it's like a worked shoot in character

  2. Damn shame That none of these promos come from today's era. I wish they would let these guys off the leesh more

  6. I remember this promo, I started dying when he brought up how he never went to prom and how he wanted to be like HBK or something like that lmao

  7. Mick was great with his promos. Not even Punk could surpass the promos of Mick Foley. And Solomon, I really hope you do a list of the best promos in wrestling in the future. Not just from wwe.

  8. Ross also did the interview with hhh a couple years later. That was a solid interview also. Ross was great at these.

  9. I'm gonna put it like this as to why Foley is THE greatest promo guy of all time…

    I said this once and I'll say it again. You can look at wrestlers like Rock and Dusty as the Biggie and Pac/Beatles and Rolling Stones of wrestling promos, but Foley is what we'd call a Big L or a Nas/Led Zeppelin or a Jimi Hendrix, just on a whole different level when it came to the technique. His promos, especially when he was emotional, were so god damn eloquent and smooth with storytelling and facial expressions, he could've been a serious actor if he tried. Listening to him speak was like listening to book cassette videos narrate a novel for you. I still remember his '06 promo build for SummerSlam as a heel. Had the whole crowd silent. He could be funny one minute, serious the next, angry afterwards, he'd cry on cue. All with 3 different characters… Just… A one of a kind freak of nature.

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