Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Wednesday, March 7, 2007 at 6:04 AM EST

IGN.com recently conducted an interview with Mick Foley where he talks about his new book "Hardcore Diaries", his favorite match ever, CM Punk and more. Here are some highlights:

On getting away with writing some things in the book:
"At one time, I was really afraid they were going to scrap the whole project, especially when my own personal story started to take a turn for the worse. Luckily for me, Vince McMahon really believed that I should have the right to tell the story as I saw it and literally the only thing he wanted changed was one tiny line that really wasn't important. One line out of everything, and he certainly never gave the criticisms about him a second thought. His feelings are: If that's the way he sees it, that's the way he should write it."

On his match with Edge at WrestleMania 22 last year:
"It was a situation where both guys really felt that they had something to prove. Edge goes out every night, and not just on pay per views, every night Edge goes out there with the intention of stealing the show. I know that he felt like his title run had not been given the respect from the company that it deserved and he was really hell bent on proving that he belonged as a main event guy. In my situation, I had never really had a great Wrestlemania match. I thought, here's a guy I know well, a guy I know who has the same goal in mind, and I think we can do this thing together."

On his favorite match ever with Randy Orton:
"The one with Randy was about ten minutes longer and I was in better shape. Unfortunately when I see the match with Edge, the only thing that goes through my mind is "man, my underwear is really showing". If I could do that all over again I would not have had the wardrobe malfunctions. [laughs] The Randy Orton match is still my favorite followed by my match against Shawn Michaels at Mind Games in '96, not because it was my second best match, but it might have been my personal best performance. Third, I'd take one of my matches I had against Stone Cold in '98. Hold on, did I just list three matches that I lost? I'm the only guy with a greatest hits DVD where I lose almost every match…I think I only won a quarter of the matches. Then again, I'm the only guy whose highlight reel had nothing but me being destroyed."

On recommending CM Punk to WWE:
"Yeah, I think the fact that both Ricky Steamboat and I recommended Punk had a little something to do with him being hired. Obviously you have two completely different guys representing two completely different styles recommending the same guy, and I can anticipate your next question, so yeah, I do think they have dropped the ball with CM Punk."

To check out the full interview, click here.