The plan in Foley's mind was to shoot 12-13 vignettes to hype him up as a huge face seeking revenge for a devastating injury. Then he received a phone call. According to his book, the powers that be had decided that "One thing we know is that these vignettes need comedy. We can't run so many of these without comedy or else the fans will get tired of them". Despite his protests that there was nothing funny about being powerbombed onto the concrete and sustaining serious injuries, the brass had spoken. When they sent him the scripts, he knew that it was hot hot hot garbage.

Most of the videos aren't on youtube that I can find. So this will be explained using both Foley's book and a breakdown of the angle from elsewhere.

Our hero's tale begins with a reporter named Catherine White searching for the whereabouts of Cactus Jack. Her first trek takes her to a mental institution where some actor does a terrible Jack Nicholson One Flew Over impression. Cleveland. Jack's definitely in Cleveland. So off we go to Cleveland! #2 starts with this:



It turns out our good friend Swampy - yes, Swampy - is a homeless man. He leads us into an area where many homeless are gathered around Cactus Jack, who has befriended them. As we lean in close we can hear Cactus giving them advice.


You see, Cactus Jack believes that he is NOT Cactus Jack. He believes he is a sailor who had drifted ashore. He doesn't this Cactus Jack you speak of! For you see, Cactus Jack has ... AMNESIA.

A little amnesia won't stop our babyface from showing how good of a guy he is though! In the next episode of the series, Captain Jack convinces our friend Swampy to get a job instead of drinking himself to death or something as well as fixing little kids bicycles.

Catherine White didn't major in communications for nothing though. She sees it as her duty to remind Cactus Jack who he really is. To do this, she enlists his wife Colette and his son Dewey to come down to Cleveland and snap him out of it. The uh, only problem? WCW decided his wife was too hot for him. So they hired a more ... homely ... person to play his wife. That's right, the company decided his real life wife was too hot for him and therefore wouldn't be something the audience would believe. You know. In this segment about him having amnesia, believing he's a ship captain, fixing bicycles, and living among the homeless. Colette's attractiveness would be the thing to make it impossible to suspend disbelief.


and this new woman upsets Captain Jack's current girlfriend: Bang Bang.


So Colette and Dewey run away in tears. What's next for our heroic seafaring repair man? What can possible snap him out of his amnesia and remind him that he's a WCW superstar DAMMIT and he needs to go get revenge on Big Van Vader? What other trick is up the sleeve of ace reporter Catherine White?

We don't know. They pulled the plug on this disaster at this point. They just had Cactus Jack run in during a PPV back to normal.

As for the big money payoff with Vader? Well that never happened either. They fought in a house show once or something upon his return before doing different things for a while.



WCW took an angle that was hot and turned it into a joke. Literally. Worse than that, they took someone that risked serious injuries by taking a powerbomb onto concrete and turned his plight into a joke. I'll finish this off with a quote from Foley's book on his thoughts about how WCW handled this: