”I’d like to see a triple threat: Mankind, Dude Love, Cactus Jack. You can do it by way of the cinematic match now, right? Yeah. Man, when I was thinking of having that last match, when I announced that intention, there were no shortage of people from every promotion reaching out to me and one guy I probably would have gone with because he’d clearly done some thinking about it and lined out six great weeks of TV was MJF. We didn’t take a photo together because we didn’t wanna ruin the secret meeting but I heard what he had to say, I really liked it. I had no doubt that he would have pulled it off perfectly. He’s so good and in his prime that he could have worked around my weaknesses and played to my strengths, and I think we could have done something pretty cool. MJF. Final answer. Take that Matt Cardona.”
They could honestly still build a program with Foley and MJF on opposite sides, just put Foley in a mentor role, similar to the pairing of Darby and Sting. Maybe Mick with Sammy? Or Jack Perry (after his current heel run, of course). Then maybe transition to a feud with Lance Archer and Jacob The Snakob, assuming Jake’s health is up for it, a promo battle between them could be legendary.
Now I’m just imagining Jake and Mick having a Pokémon-like battle by pitting their protégés against each other.
“Archer used moonsault. It’s not very effective. Trainer Jake used Full Restore.”