Between Mankind, Dude Love, and Cactus Jack, Mick Foley has had the pleasure of teaming up with some of the best in the business like Stone Cold Steve Austin, Triple H, and The Rock.
But over a thirty-year career that spanned WCW, ECW, WWE, and TNA, Foley has also been in the corner of some odd characters, and that doesn't just include Al Snow. Some of Foley's partners include his most vicious rivals inside the ring, and others include wrestlers that Foley has been vocal about in a negative way in his books and interviews. Some of these partners did not gel as well as The Rock 'N' Sock Connection, but they had Foley's back when it counted.
10 Jeff Jarrett
When Mick Foley shocked everybody by showing up in TNA, many fans didn't expect him to jump back in the ring. They also wouldn't have guessed that he would tag with Jeff Jarrett, but that's what happened on Impact in March 2009.
A couple of months after his in-ring debut at Genesis, Foley and Jarrett teamed up as TNA Management to face the Main Event Mafia members, Kurt Angle and Sting. Foley would pick up the win after landing a chair shot to Sting, which would set up a confrontation between the two at Lockdown.
9 Johnny B Badd
Anyone who has read Mick Foley's novels might remember some of the comments he made about Marc Mero. Despite having a lengthy career across WCW and WWE, Mero wasn't considered a great worker. Foley even shot down a potential rivalry between the two when they were both in WWE.
It's surprising as both Mero and Foley teamed together at Starrcade 1992. Cactus Jack would tag with Johnny B Badd to take on Van Hammer and Danny Spivey in the opening bout. It was an odd pairing that only happened this one time.
8 Ken Shamrock
Ken Shamrock was billed in WWE as The World's Most Dangerous Man, and Mick Foley was also a dangerous individual, especially as Mankind. Shamrock and Foley would find themselves teaming up often at house shows, with their biggest audience coming at a Madison Square Garden event in 1999, where The Undertaker and Mideon defeated them.
They also appeared on an episode Sunday Night Heat where they lost to DOA. It seemed like an odd pairing but also a missed opportunity to call the team Ankle-Sock.
7 X-Pac
While DX and Mankind had an interesting alliance, it was odd for the members to team with anyone outside of the group. But on an episode of Heat, X-Pac and Mankind would do battle against D-Lo Brown and Ken Shamrock.
The two had good chemistry and played to each other's strengths. X-Pac would dominate by utilizing his speed and land vicious kicks while Mankind would put his body on the line to take out the opposition. It wasn't enough to win the bout, and the team disbanded quickly after.
6 Goldust
Mick Foley and Goldust were two peas in a pod. Both played strange characters in their own unique ways, so seeing the two tag together was the only aspect that didn't seem odd. Mankind and Goldust would team up early on in Foley's WWE career to face The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels at an MSG event.
After losing that battle, they went their separate ways but would reunite on an episode of Shotgun Saturday Night. But instead of Mankind coming out to play, Goldust would have Dude Love in his corner. The two would lose again to Davey Boy Smith and Owen Hart and would part ways again.
5 Tommy Dreamer
Tommy Dreamer and Cactus Jack are two hardcore icons in ECW that can take a chair shot or two when they need to. At Holiday Hell 1994, the two would tag together to face The Sandman and Tommy Cairo. As expected, the match started as an all-in brawl before settling down to become a traditional tag-team bout.
Jack saved Dreamer from losing the contest after he was hit with a piledriver and delivered a DDT to Cairo to pick up the win. The two would team again at some house shows before facing each other one on one in some memorable matches.
4 Stevie Richards
While The Rock 'N' Sock Connection was having some difficulties functioning as a tag team, Mankind would experiment with other partners, and one of them would turn out to be ECW alumni, Stevie Richards. The two battled some familiar faces on RAW in the Dudley Boyz and got off to a good start by beating down Bubba and Devon.
Val Venis would distract Mankind, allowing the Dudleys to make a comeback. Bubba and Devon would eventually land the 3D on Richards to pick up the win.
3 Ahmed Johnson
Another colleague that Mick Foley didn't speak highly of in his book was Ahmed Johnson. Foley didn't seem impressed with Johnson's ability in the ring and made comments about how much money he was earning. Ahmed and Mankind only teamed up once for an episode of Shotgun Saturday Night, where they faced the even stranger team of Hunter Hearst Helmsley and Jerry "The King" Lawler.
All four men were in the King Of The Ring tournament, and the goal for each man was to weaken their opponents so they could advance. While Foley and Johnson would pick up the win, Helmsley would go on to win the tournament at the PPV.
2 Farooq
Farooq and Mankind were two of the hardest hitting competitors in WWE, so it was no surprise they would either end up facing one another or teaming up to punish opponents. Their opportunity came on an episode of RAW in a no-holds-barred tag team match against The Undertaker and Ahmed Johnson.
For ten minutes, all four men brawled with and without weapons. Taker and Mankind caused the majority of the destruction, while Ahmed and Farooq traded punches while the Nation of Domination watched on. Taker finished the battle with a Tombstone on a chair.
1 Hornswoggle
On one of WWE's classic RAW Roulette shows, Hornswoggle spun the wheel, and it landed on Vince's choice. The Chairman agreed to put Hornswoggle into the Royal Rumble if he and his partner could win their match. A local talent would walk down the aisle with Hornswoggle, but Mick Foley would interrupt and take his place.
The duo would take on The Highlanders, and Foley would do all the hard work to beat down his opponents. Mr. Socko would incapacitate one of the Highlanders allowing Hornswoggle to land the Tadpole Splash and pick up the win.