One particular moment from that match that stands out in Foley’s mind is grabbing a fan’s camera and shattering it over Vader’s head. Foley then looked out into the crowd and noticing that he was being cheered.

“And I remember vividly thinking to myself, ‘This is the best moment of my career, because I’ve never been this high before. And also the saddest, because I’ll never get to this level again,'” Foley said. “Luckily, I was wrong with that second assertion. But it was the biggest match of my life, and it was up there in my top ten for a long time.”

The history between Vader, real name Leon White, and Foley spans years of working together in WCW and WWE, with their last match coming as a tag team in July 1997 against Mosh and Thrasher. White was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2022 after passing away in 2018.

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