Cheap Pops

Mick Foley trading his flannel and barbed wire for a comedy club microphone makes sense given that the hardcore wrestling veteran spent decades delivering promos that functioned as sweaty, breathless stand-up routines. Cheap Pops brings his one-man stage show to a theater crowd, focusing on the absurdity of his career inside and outside the ring. The strongest moments rely on his self-awareness, like breaking down the mechanics of a 22-foot elbow drop in WCW only to pivot into a deeply stupid joke about accidentally slapping another wrestler’s ass on the way down.

Filmed at Full Sail Live in Orlando, Florida, the set was produced specifically for the WWE Network in 2015. It arrived just as the platform was experimenting with original non-wrestling programming. Foley’s career was firmly in its legacy phase, two years post-Hall of Fame induction, and the hour leans heavily on nostalgia and inside baseball for wrestling fans. Curiously, the show vanished from the streaming archive later that year due to expiring licensing agreements, turning it into a short-lived piece of wrestling media trivia.