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Post by mrbananagrabber on May 18, 2023 19:45:15 GMT -5
Specifically, Wrestlemania.
“Did you know Tommy Dreamer originally planned to show up at Wrestlemania 17 to gun down Paul Heyman and then Kill Himself. He changed his mind after getting a call from JR.
Paul Heyman, who I thought me and him were super tight, he screwed me over big time. He was in the WWE, the whole time. I had turned down hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to WCW. And now was unemployed.
“I went from a $750,000 offer, and Paul Heyman crying to me, that if I leave ECW, it will go out of business. Meanwhile, he was getting a paycheck from WWE. I don’t begrudge him, but then I did.
“I was depressed as depressed can be. I had women, I had fame, I had everything and yet it was the worst time of my life.”
At WrestleMania, I was gonna hop the rail and I was gonna whack Paul in the back of the head right at the announce table, then I was gonna whack myself. The ultimate martyr, I was gonna hit my pose crack, boom, pull the trigger. Because I was that insane.
“First, they’d think it as an angle until I shot him. I was so severely depressed and so mental with rage, I needed help. That help came from a phone call from Jim Ross.
“In my head, I was like ‘I would become infamous.’ I’m glad I didn’t do it. But when that phone call came from Jim Ross.
“‘Hey Tommy it’s Jim Ross, just want to let you know, we are still thinking about you, we are gonna get it done, just got to hang tight. Thank you'”. - Tommy Dreamer
Just…holy shit, Tommy. So glad he’s in a better place now. Damn.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on May 18, 2023 21:13:25 GMT -5
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JoDaNa1281
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Post by JoDaNa1281 on May 18, 2023 21:19:50 GMT -5
I was actually gonna say the same thing. |
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Post by Mozenrath on May 18, 2023 21:53:46 GMT -5
Sometimes, you grab the banana, and sometimes, the banana grabs you. |
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Post by Dave the Dave on May 18, 2023 22:29:07 GMT -5
My buddy just sent me a link on this story today so I must’ve popped back up somewhere.
It’s a wild story. If it’s not Ben half true, god damn. Paul is absolutely a slimeball but Tommy was off the deep end there.
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Post by tirtefaa on May 18, 2023 22:38:54 GMT -5
Based off of what I've seen and heard from him, I don't know if Tommy Dreamer is the stupidest guy in professional wrestling history, but he's certainly in the running.
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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on May 19, 2023 0:33:21 GMT -5
Based off of what I've seen and heard from him, I don't know if Tommy Dreamer is the stupidest guy in professional wrestling history, but he's certainly in the running. He might have just joined The Biggest Idiot's Ever Clunb after reading this |
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Post by Mozenrath on May 19, 2023 1:05:48 GMT -5
Addressing the story, having someone exploit you and then get away with it so brazenly had to be absolutely infuriating, especially if he was already a father by then, but the level of detail put into his plan, I'd hope some of this was him exaggerating for the sake of a story. Then again, I saw how much of a tool he came across as on Dark Side of the Ring, so maybe he's just like this.
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Post by David-Arquette was in WCW 2000 on May 19, 2023 3:57:24 GMT -5
Paul definitely deserved something. Not being shot in the head, but at least a damn good kicking.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on May 19, 2023 4:35:08 GMT -5
Made all the more ironic with the original OP being "Not sure if this has been shared before or not" lol |
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Post by Mozenrath on May 19, 2023 4:45:12 GMT -5
Paul definitely deserved something. Not being shot in the head, but at least a damn good kicking. It's kind of wild that Paul got his jaw broken by Lawler, intentionally by Lawler's own admission, but it wasn't really related to any of the stuff that he did that you'd figure would have gotten his ass beat. |
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Post by evilone on May 19, 2023 5:03:47 GMT -5
And that's why you should never ever be friends with your boss no matter what unless you are being payed with significant stock options, but then you are partners.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on May 19, 2023 6:41:11 GMT -5
Saw this and thought "why'd someone resurrect this old thread?"
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Post by sdoyle7798 on May 19, 2023 9:03:23 GMT -5
Made all the more ironic with the original OP being "Not sure if this has been shared before or not" lol He may just not remembered that he posted, or remembered, but thought he posted it to a different board. Then when he saw the story pop up again (someone else here said it was making the rounds again), he may have thought "Oh yea, I remember hearing about that. I wonder what FAN would think of it." |
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on May 19, 2023 9:23:48 GMT -5
Didn't Dreamer want to do a story where he actually got shot by a sniper in the ring but in a way to not kill him (hopefully) and Funk just muttered My dad got shot and it killed his territory or something like that
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Post by wildojinx on May 19, 2023 10:01:26 GMT -5
Something tells me that security would have taken him out before anything serious would have happened, at least once they saw him pull out the gun .
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Post by Renslayer on May 19, 2023 10:09:37 GMT -5
wtf
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on May 19, 2023 10:25:10 GMT -5
Hell, Gronk couldn't even hop the rail, Dreamer had no chance.
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Post by Jindrak Mark on May 19, 2023 11:21:15 GMT -5
It's a really messed up thing to think about but wrestling history would be so different if he really was successful with this plan.
Arguably the greatest PPV of all time is now the most infamous event in wrestling history. Wrestlers/fans in the building who witnessed it could be traumatized for life. Rather than be constantly celebrated with seemingly every promotion doing reunion shows the ECW brand is now something no one really wants to even mention. Do Brock and Roman have the careers they have with no Heyman?
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Post by 67 more on May 19, 2023 11:51:50 GMT -5
Hell, Gronk couldn't even hop the rail, Dreamer had no chance. Dreamer would probably ask someone to atomic drop him onto the rail, it seems to be the only thing he does with guardrails |
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