Flashback Audio: Mick Foley Talks Liking The PG Era, If Austin & Rock Would Be Stars Today

Above is audio from an interview WrestlingINC.com conducted with Mick Foley regarding a variety of topics, including his work during WWE's Attitude Era. We are posting interesting clips and stories from our interviews to our YouTube channel, so please take a moment to subscribe to our YouTube channel at youtube.com/WrestlingINC1.

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Asked what he believed are the most significant differences between the Attitude Era and the product offered during the current "PG Era," Foley noted the innovation that blossomed during the mid to late 1990s.

"Obviously, it was a lot different," Foley said. We were trying things that had never been done. We had a lot of guys that were kind of peaking at the same time. Guys who had kind of been around and been cutting promos and kind of hitting their stride simultaneously." Foley indicated that performers and writers pushed limits during the Attitude Ear but that an approach like that is bound to run its course.

"I'm glad they decided to step back and decided to go PG," he said. "Every once in a while, when they bring in a more harder-hitting element, it really connects."

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Foley also discussed his former coworkers The Rock and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, sharing that he thought they'd become stars even if they were working in the current era.

"I think it's like baseball. People say, 'Could the hitters of that era have competed with the pitchers who throw harder with more variations?' I think the best people always find a way to survive and thrive."

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