While the different versions of Bray Wyatt’s character in WWE could be attributed to many performers of the past, there were undoubtedly glimpses of Mick Foley mixed in there, as well as the likes of Terry Funk and The Undertaker. With the eerie cadence of his promos and his unmatched mannerisms from bell to bell, Wyatt was able to make fans feel something that few others in history have been able to achieve.

Foley recounted two distinct moments he shared with Wyatt during various stages of his iconic career, including the story of passing down his famous Mandible claw finisher.

“When he was at TV, he told me that he’d been working on something and he’d been doing these promos in a rocking chair and he alluded to the promo I cut on Randy Orton … I only did it once and it’s there for the taking. It made me so proud to see him in that rocking chair and that I may have influenced that in some way,” Foley said.

“I think the biggest thing for me in Bray’s career was Paul Heyman calling me up and saying, ‘Cactus, we’d like to give Bray Wyatt the Mandible claw.’ And I said, ‘I love it,’ and then he said, ‘We’d like you to take it’ … I loved that even more. Every once in a while after a big match, he would pull me aside and point out the match where he got an idea from,” said the Hall of Famer.

Foley last appeared on WWE programming alongside Wyatt four years ago in the aforementioned segment, which saw The Fiend adopt the Mandible Claw and give the move to the former three-time world champ, before placing it on countless other superstars in the years to come.