Mick Foley Says Dwayne Johnson ‘Wouldn’t Have Let’ Him Pull This Move During “SNL” Hosting Gig If He’d Asked Permission

WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley said his appearance on a 2000 episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Dwayne Johnson was “incredible” — but he did do one thing he didn’t warn his friend and fellow wrestler about.

On the Monday, Jan. 19 episode of Pod Meets World — a Boy Meets World rewatch podcast hosted by Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle — Foley, 60, recounted his time on the sketch comedy show.

One skit in the March 18, 2000, episode of the show had Johnson playing the part of “Nicotrel” — a man who beats people up as a way to get them to quit smoking. At the end of the sketch, some of his fellow wrestlers — Foley, Triple H and Big Show — also joined in. And that’s when Foley broke out one of his signature wrestling moves, the People’s Elbow, on cast member Chris Parnell.

“Somebody asked me when I dropped ‘the People’s Elbow’ on one of the cast members, he said, ‘I’m surprised Rock let you do that when he saw it in rehearsal,’ ” laughed Foley. “I said, ‘I didn’t do that in rehearsal.’ … He wouldn’t have let me do it.”

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Foley added that the wrestlers “all had a great time” on the show, saying that he “grew up loving” Saturday Night Live — but due to his wrestling schedule, he wasn’t familiar with the cast mates at the time.

“The cast could not have been nicer, but I wasn’t that aware of who they were because they hadn’t hit reruns yet … they weren’t on syndication,” Foley said, adding: “Everyone I met was really nice to me. I wish I’d been more aware, But unless they’d been on the show for more than four years, I probably had not seen them.”

Foley added that the “key takeaway” from being on hand during Johnson’s first time hosting SNL was that “I could see The Rock’s future expanding as the show was going on.”

“He just crushed it. I mean, he crushed it. He really nailed every one of his skits,” Foley added.

Johnson is now among the celebrity hosts who are members of SNL‘s Five-Timers Club, a.k.a. those who’ve hosted the show five times or more.

Foley, meanwhile, recently announced he was severing ties with the WWE over its “close relationship” with President Donald Trump.

Foley announced he was “parting ways” with the professional wrestling company in a post on social media on Tuesday, Dec. 16, which said Trump’s inflammatory comments in the wake of director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Reiner’s murders were the “final straw.”