When Mick Foley returned to work as the Raw General Manager in 2016 the WWE landscape was different than how he remembered it. The former WWE Champion would often work with Stephanie McMahon, but he quickly realized that he wasn’t going to have much in the way of creative input.
During a recent episode of Foley Is Pod the Hall of Famer discussed his run as Raw General Manager and he noted that at one point he and Stephanie McMahon decided to go against Vince’s idea and record a promo their way.
“Going back to, this is fall of 2016, I think. So I’ve just taken over this role of General Manager for RAW with Stephanie as the Commissioner and my boss. No one has mentioned anything about the fact that Triple H interfered with the match, costing … I can’t remember what title. I thought, we have to have some kind of friction here or else I’m just in a corner in my second week on the job. It’s me against her.”
“I got maybe ten percent of what I wanted out of Vince. Then Stephanie and I went and cut the promo our own way. It was a lot of tension. We are overriding Vince’s edict. We cut the promo. He sees us cutting the promo, he goes “what the hell is going on here?” Stephanie goes “dad, Mick and I did this just to see what happened. We’d like you to take a look at it.” And it was about a three minute segment. He looked at it after, seemed like an eternity, nodded his head and went, “we’ll do it your way.” As soon as he turned the corner, we hugged. We were just so happy that we had stood up for ourselves.”
H/T 411Mania.com
