Mick Foley is known for his Hardcore Legend persona and iconic characters like Mankind and Dude Love in WWE. He left a lasting mark on professional wrestling with his dedication in the ring. All the while, Mrs. Foley’s Baby Boy never stopped loving Christmas.

While Mick Foley gained fame through death matches as Cactus Jack in Japan, WCW, and ECW, his WWE roles are perhaps the most memorable. He took on a variety of faces for WWE, and continues as a positive light in the pro wrestling business to this day.

Mick Foley Is Coming To Town

Mick Foley is also good at surprising fans, as the WWE Hall of Famer made an unanticipated appearance at the ICW No Holds Barred event. He was dressed as Santa Claus, and attacked fellow wrestler John Wayne Murdoch, delivering a double-arm DDT and a barbed wire back. The match concluded with Tara Zep securing the victory.

I have no words pic.twitter.com/1M8LjqpGli

— Steven (@OaklandRovers) December 17, 2023

Mick Foley’s Current WWE Status

Foley’s occasional appearances and unexpected in-ring moments continue to keep fans intrigued. He remains connected to the wrestling world, so you truly never know when he will show up next.

In 2019, Mick Foley made his latest appearance on WWE television, and he also featured on Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Sessions show in 2021 on Peacock. In 2022, Foley ventured into the podcasting world with “Foley is Pod,” a weekly show with Conrad Thompson, reflecting on his extensive wrestling career. Although he hasn’t been actively competing in the ring, he remains vocal about his perspectives on various aspects of the wrestling industry.

We will keep a close eye on Mick Foley’s whereabouts to see if he surprises any more fans at indie shows. He can do as he pleases at this point in his career, as he continues spreading his own brand of holiday cheer wherever he goes.

Mick Foley is beloved by fans all over, and his Foley Is Pod show is still a very popular program. Foley is also making stand-up comedy dates all over the country, and you may check out his latest tour schedule here.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Noah Mark is back with his the latest installment of “The YES! & The NO! of WWE RAW.” Comment below and tell us if you agree with this week’s picks.

Complete WWE RAW Results (12/23)

WWE RAW (12/23)

Here are some quick thoughts about this weeks edition of Christmas Raw. Did you watch it?

The WWE Diva’s are awesome to look at. Not so awesome to watch wrestle.

12-diva’s Jingle Bells Match: The tag team division has been completely turned around.  At one point it seemed like there was barely a tag team division. AJ Lee is the best women’s wrestler on the roster, why aren’t we seeing her in great matches. I guess I know why, because of Total Diva’s.  That doesn’t mean there can’t be great woman’s wrestling.  NO!

John Cena, CM Punk, and Big E. Langston victorious to end Christmas Raw

CM Punk John Cena & Big E Langston vs The Shield I enjoyed the match, Cena, Punk and Big E all out there. The end seemed silly though. Why would there suddenly be a disqualification, because the two illegal Shield members saved themselves from being pinned by Big E? It doesn’t make sense, but still the match was better than the Good Santa vs Bad Santa, which I thought for sure would close the show. Therefore it gets a YES!

The USOS vs The Prime Time Players:  The match was fun to watch.  Good tag team action YES!|

The USO’s and The Prime Time Players all celebrate after the match. Barf

The USOS & Prime Time Players Curtain Call Before the match Darren Young mistakenly refer to Austin Texas as Houston, to get some sort of heel heat, I didn’t have a problem with this. I did have a problem with after the match, The USO’s and The Prime Time Players all doing the Millions of Dollars dance. Here’s why I have an issue with it.  This is starting to become a thing, with Superstars hugging after the match, we saw it a few weeks ago with the Michael Strahan, Miz, Titus O’neil segment. We saw it with Big Show, Rey Mysterio and The Rhodes. Forget about ruthless aggression, these guys are all becoming wimps! It’s OKAY for two fan favorites to dislike each other, and not hug at the end. I’m not saying they need to attack each other after the match… but I’m hoping it’s just a lighthearted Christmas episode thing, and not a growing trend. Although with the recent article of WWE shopping their television shows to TV Network’s including Disney. We might see everyone hug at the end of matches in the future. NO!

“Bad Santa’ full of Christmas Cupcakes

Good Santa Vs Bad Santa: It is what it is I guess. Mark Henry playing the good Santa, Damien Sandow playing the bad Santa with produced backstage segments contrasting the two. The announcers played it up as you would have expected. The whole concept is silly. Bah Humbug! NO!

Live Announcing: I would say it was a good thing that Michael Cole and JBL announced the show live from Stanford CT. (They had pre-recorded cut-in’s from the arena, but voiced most of Raw Live) it gave it a fresh feel, JBL made some topical references as he eluded to on twitter. The Batista announcement which clearly wasn’t scheduled for the show originally was added in, and the live commentary allowed for reaction from JB and Cole. Did you miss Jerry “The King” Lawler? I did not. YES!

@NEIL_MALONE @WWE @GoToBermuda pre taped? Not sure u noticed, our commentary was live. The Romo reference should have given that away.

— John Layfield (@JCLayfield) December 24, 2013

“Santa Claus is an Illegal Immigrant” – Zeb Colter

The Real Americans vs Los Matadores: Another good tag team match on Raw. We saw the Antonio Cesaro swing, which if you haven’t’ seen live is an awesome thing to watch. With all the tag teams in the WWE, I think the WrestleMania pre-show match should involve all the tag-teams that one make it to the PPV. Perhaps the winner can face the champions.  YES!

RAW OVERALL: NO! Call me scrooge if you will, but the over cheesy holiday wrestling show, should go on Smackdown!  I think Raw looses it’s coolness by being lame. If Disney pony’s up the cash this could be what you see on RAW every week so get used to it! There was some good action on the show which I enjoyed, no real progression of WWE story lines but the big announcement of The Animal Batista, which was awesome to see. 

– The official WWE website is currently running a poll asking fans who has the better beard — Daniel Bryan or Santa Claus. At last check, Bryan was winning the poll with 65 percent of the vote.

– Former WWE and WCW Superstar Diamond Dallas Page has added the following holiday video from his “Accountability Crib” to his official YouTube channel:

– WWE Hall Of Famer Jim Ross recently shared his thoughts regarding the rumors of Shawn Michaels coming out of retirement to wrestle another match, and whether or not that would offend The Undertaker, who “sent him into retirement” by beating him at WrestleMania. JR noted, “I don’t think HBK is returning to the ring as a wrestler. If he did it would be at WrestleMania and I’d like to see him wrestle Daniel Bryan or CM Punk. Taker wouldn’t be offended whatsoever.”

– Stephanie McMahon recently tweeted the following photo from the WWE Holiday party that was held in Stamford, Connecticut on Wednesday night.

Thanks to the @WWE families who came to the holiday party to celebrate! And thank u to those who made it happen! pic.twitter.com/ZYXNhXdVBX

— Stephanie McMahon (@StephMcMahon) December 18, 2013

– WWE Hall Of Famer Mick Foley will be dressing up as Santa Claus to take photos with fans on Friday from 4pm until 6:30pm at Finishing Touch Photo in Setauket. Foley asked that fans please don’t bring merchandise for him to autogrpah as this is strictly a photo session. For more information, visit FinishingTouchPhoto.com.

– WWE Diva and Total Divas star Naomi’s interview with JET Magazine has officially been released. Fans interested in checking out the interview can do so online at JETMag.com.