{"id":36535,"date":"2016-12-19T13:31:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T19:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=36535"},"modified":"2016-12-19T13:31:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T19:31:02","slug":"interview-highlights-tommy-dreamer-says-ecw-didnt-go-away-drinking-undertaker-tobacco-spit-heyman-screwing-didnt-air-ecw-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/12\/19\/interview-highlights-tommy-dreamer-says-ecw-didnt-go-away-drinking-undertaker-tobacco-spit-heyman-screwing-didnt-air-ecw-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Highlights: Tommy Dreamer says ECW didn&#8217;t have to go away, drinking Undertaker tobacco spit, Heyman screwing him over, what didn&#8217;t air on ECW Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-496670625\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>The following are highlights of a Tommy Dreamer interview submitted to PWTorch by &#8220;Under the Mat Radio.&#8221; Dreamer discusses his passion for the fans, what WWE Hall of Famer snubbed him when he was young, the House of Hardcore, and so much more! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/underthematradio\/2016\/12\/14\/under-the-mat-radio-hardcore-dreamer\">FULL AUDIO LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022Dreamer on drinking Undertaker&#8217;s tobacco spit:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cYeah it was gross, it was real, I got $7,000 to do it and I got to wrestle the Undertaker three or four times. So I think anyone might do the same. Yeah, that was rough and it was LIVE. The Scaffold Match back in the day was pretty crazy (for three reasons). One,\u00a0Sandman made it. Two, I\u2019m scared of heights. Three, Brian Lee choked me with the electrical power (cable) from the entire building and after the match the guy told us\u00a0that he is not sure how we were not electrocuted to death on the top of that scaffold. The scaffold swayed. I\u2019ve done a lot of crazy things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022On what was cut from ECW Special on WWE Network:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThat was an edited version first of all. That was the first time we\u2019ve (he along with Paul Heyman, The Dudleys, and Taz) all been together since ECW One Night Stand 2005. I\u2019ve said it before, Paul (Heyman) has screwed me over many times more than anybody ever has, but we\u2019ve had it out but Paul deserves all the credit in the world. It was the best times in people\u2019s lives and I\u2019ve said it myself I learned a lot about the person I am and why I am what I am. I experienced loss. A lot of people tell me what ECW meant to them,\u00a0but ECW didn\u2019t have to go away, but it did. It was like a death to me. One day you\u2019re on top of the world and then next you\u2019re unemployed.\u00a0 The ending I can tell you was different. We ended up fighting [laughs] because Paul started bringing up Brock Lesnar and I said, &#8220;Who cares about Brock Lesnar? I\u2019ll fight him foreal, I\u2019ll fight him in UFC or WWE who gives a shit.&#8221; Then Devon said, &#8220;Yeah, Paul, how you going to do that?&#8221; Then Paul starting to keep trying to rap it up and go back to Brock when they said, &#8220;Uhh guys, you can wrap this up whenever you\u2019d like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tommy also discussed James Ellsworth, what\u00a0it was like when he first saw Dusty Rhodes, how Raw recently was a bunch of filler besides the main event, what crazy stunt three fans did for him on TV, and much more in this 45-minute interview:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/underthematradio\/2016\/12\/14\/under-the-mat-radio-hardcore-dreamer\">FULL AUDIO LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT HIGHLIGHTS OF WADE KELLER&#8217;S INTERVIEW WITH NICK ALDIS:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/12\/02\/exclusive-qa-former-tna-world-champion-magnus-talks-thoughts-state-tna-loss-uk-tv-dixie-carter-leadership\/\">EXCLUSIVE Q&amp;A: Former TNA World Champion Magnus talks about his thoughts on state of TNA, loss of UK TV, Dixie Carter leadership<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-820714377\"><div id=\"pwtor-1220985638\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The following are highlights of a Tommy Dreamer interview submitted to PWTorch by &#8220;Under the Mat Radio.&#8221; Dreamer discusses his passion for the fans, what WWE Hall of Famer snubbed him when he was young, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/12\/19\/interview-highlights-tommy-dreamer-says-ecw-didnt-go-away-drinking-undertaker-tobacco-spit-heyman-screwing-didnt-air-ecw-special\/\" title=\"Interview Highlights: Tommy Dreamer says ECW didn&#8217;t have to go away, drinking Undertaker tobacco spit, Heyman screwing him over, what didn&#8217;t air on ECW Special\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4247],"tags":[152,198,288,158,337],"class_list":["post-36535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-interview-highlights","tag-ecw","tag-paul-heyman","tag-taz","tag-tommy-dreamer","tag-undertaker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/02\/ECWlogo.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36536,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36535\/revisions\/36536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}