WWE Smackdown! (TV Series)

The Only Thing He Could Do (2000)

Mick Foley: Commissioner Mick Foley

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• Commissioner Mick Foley : Well, I guess everybody can see, by the looks of things, I've got something important to say here tonight, and I have a feeling that not many of you are going to like it, least of all me. But I want you to understand is that Stone Cold Steve Austin...

  [he's interrupted by Austin's music, and the crowd erupts as he comes out to the ring] 

  'Stone Cold' Steve Austin : I got one question, I just want to know if you found the coward that ran me over at Survivor Series.

  Commissioner Mick Foley : Let me explain something first...

  'Stone Cold' Steve Austin : It's a yes or no question.

  Commissioner Mick Foley : Well, Steve, I'm trying to explain...

  'Stone Cold' Steve Austin : It's a yes or no question. Did you find the man or not?

  Commissioner Mick Foley : No, Steve Austin, I did not.

  'Stone Cold' Steve Austin : No, okay, well... if you didn't find the man who ran me over, I can tell by the mealy-mouthed jackasses you got surrounding the ring you've got something really important to say, so why don't you just go ahead and spit it out?

• Commissioner Mick Foley : I agreed to take this job under two conditions. One, I was going to have fun doing it. And number two, as a retired wrestler, nobody was going to take their aggressions out on me by putting their hands on me. Now, to be damn honest with you, Steve, I had a good time until you showed up. Now not only is my job not fun, my job sucks. Second, since you got here, you saw fit to put your hands on me; hell, Steve, you didn't just put your hands on me, you embarrassed me, you beat the hell out of me, on national television! So whether you want to believe it or not, maybe you don't trust anybody, but the fact is I have been on your side. I've given you chances, I've been patient, and you have not been cooperative. So you really leave me no choice.

  'Stone Cold' Steve Austin : Let me tell you something about fun, Mick. You wanna talk about fun? Fun for Stone Cold Steve Austin was to come back to this very ring.

  [the crowd cheers] 

  'Stone Cold' Steve Austin : Fun for Stone Cold Steve Austin is finding the man that ran me down and torture him like the dog that he is. And you talk about being a commissioner and gettin' beat up. Jesus Christ, Mick, you're the toughest man I've ever been in the ring with, you got a Stone Cold Stunner because you in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that's as close to an apology as you're gonna get from me. You know, before I got hurt, Mick, I ate, slept, drank the World Wrestling Federation. Since I got taken out, I eat, sleep, and drink revenge. You try walkin' to your mailbox for a solid year, when you ain't workin', them paychecks stop coming, but they'll send all the bills every single day of the week. A man's gotta eat, Mick. I don't think you really understand what I'm saying, so... if you can understand the fact Stone Cold Steve Austin wants his revenge, gimme a hell yeah!

  [the crowd shouts "hell yeah"] 

  'Stone Cold' Steve Austin : And if you can understand a man's gotta eat, gimme a hell yeah!

  [the crowd shouts "hell yeah" again] 

  'Stone Cold' Steve Austin : There's a little brain in this head, Mick; I ain't sayin' it's necessarily a hundred percent, but this is the way I think and this is the way I am, and I ain't gonna change for you or nobody, and there ain't nothin' you can do about it.

  Commissioner Mick Foley : When I headed down to the ring on Monday night, you know what I'm thinking? I'm thinking if there's anybody else interfering in matches, they'd be gone and out of the WWF. And I'm also thinking about 1991 and 1992, Steve Austin and Mick Foley splitting a 20-dollar room to save a few bucks, riding in a little crap-box car to save a few bucks. So I'm thinking maybe I'll just try to save face with the boys, maybe I'll give Steve Austin a little fine, a little slap on the wrist, thinking by this point in your life, you've saved enough money that no amount of fine I give you is gonna mean a damn anyway. But then what you did, Steve, you went and you put your hands on me. And all of a sudden, my decision changed because you left me no other alternative, but starting now, until we find out who ran you over, to suspend you indefinitely!

  'Stone Cold' Steve Austin : Well, then I'm gonna ask you one time, Stone Cold Steve Austin to Mick Foley, to reconsider.

  Commissioner Mick Foley : When I said that you left me no alternative, that was my answer. The answer is no.

  'Stone Cold' Steve Austin : And when you said no, you left Stone Cold Steve Austin no alternative.

  [he gives Mick a Stunner again]